Brazils coronavirus death toll has risen to more than 16,000, with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. On sunday, the mayor of brazils biggest city sao paulo warned the Health System was close to collapse. Earlier we spoke to doctor Marcelo Kalichsztein whos working on coronavirus intensive care wards in rio, and asked him how brazil is coping with the rapid rise in cases. We know that social distancing is important to secure our Health System against the effect of the coronavirus in hospital admission. But brazil is a very poor country and some people need to work on a daily basis to bring money home. Its a very difficult decision to make. Of course, we cooperating with the social distancing. I asked my parents and my patients to stay home, dont go out but we know that for some people and some part of the population it is impossible and brazilian people used to be a happy people but we are changing a lot, the way of living. Dr paulo lotufo is a professor of medicine, specialising in epidemiology at the university of sao paulo. We can see the numbers of cases rising. We have seen warnings about the capacity at the healthcare about the capacity at the healthca re system about the capacity at the Healthcare System and the sharp end there, and yet people dont seem to be obeying the lockdown. What is happening with the lockdown . In brazil, it is partial, it is not working as in other countries, so working as in other countries, so you have social isolation, thatis so you have social isolation, that is partial, and most problems in brazil is against the coronavirus and against the federal government. The president Jair Bolsonaro federal government. The president Jair Bolsonaro is fighting against the national Health System. He fired the minister of health and he is denying the pandemic. To date, hejoined denying the pandemic. To date, he joined today, denying the pandemic. To date, hejoined today, hejoined supporters in front of the president ial palace to get them to fight against social isolation. What effect do you think that is having . It is a contradiction between the determination of the governors of the states who are doing a very good job. In sao paulo, they are providing good social isolation. That is one point. The second point is that the federal government is not releasing the Financial Support the poor for people so for them it is very difficult to keep social isolation without Financial Support that was approved by the house and the senate. What effect this is having on the Healthcare System at the moment . Is it close to capacity . How worried are you . Yeah. In other cities, the amazon rainforest, it is catastrophic. There is no beds for people who need care. The same for other cities and rio dejaneiro same for other cities and Rio De Janeiro is the same for other cities and rio dejaneiro is the same situation. Here in sao paulo the demand is very high. The main hospital now has 2052 beds which with people under artificial ventilation for the artificial ventilation for the a few other Community Hospitals for people. But we suppose that in the next ten days, you do not have more conditions to keep all the actual situation to support the people who need critical care. Thank you very much for talking us through the grim situation there. We appreciate your time. The uk government says its confident children and teachers will be safe under its plans for schools this in england to open to more pupils next month. Cabinet Office Minister michael gove said while it was impossible to completely eliminate the risk of contracting coronavirus it was extremely unlikely that a school would be the source of an outbreak. The number of daily deaths in the uk dropped to 170 the lowest since the day after the lockdown began though there is generally a lag in the reporting of deaths at the weekend. Vicki young reports. Could this be what primary schools in england look like in a fortnights time . In denmark, pupils are put into small groups with one teacher and kept apart. Its a model the governments suggesting here, but many teachers and parents want to know whether its safe. None of us, none of us can guarantee that anyone will be entirely free, unless effectively theyre perpetually imprisoned in their own home. And therefore, what we need to do is to make sure that people are as safe as possible, and in any widespread understanding of the word, schooling for a limited number of children with social distancing is a safe environment. But some councils, like liverpool and hartlepool, say earlyjune is too soon to reopen the gates. Labour wants more information. What gavin needs to do, the education secretary, is publish the science to why theyre making the decision theyre making now, and ensure there is a testing and tracing which he promised yesterday that on the first ofjune that would be available, but at the moment weve not seen any evidence that they can provide that, they havent got the staff in place they said they needed to have the tracing, so testing and tracing and isolation is really important to tracking the virus. Schools in wales wont reopen on the first ofjune and may not restart at all before the summer in scotland or Northern Ireland. Some parents think england should take the same approach. Valerie brooker lives in surrey and has two daughters. She thinks its too soon to go back to school. My youngest bronwen, she has asthma, shes on two inhalers. Charlotte, she has full on learning difficulties, and she has had pneumonia when she was five years old. I dont want her getting a second bout of pneumonia. Its just not viable, i dont want bronwen unknowingly coming home and passing the virus. She might be a carrier. Children rarely become seriously ill from coronavirus. Less is known about how they might transmit it. Teaching unions have quizzed government scientists, and some are reassured. Critically, are teachers and other staff in schools at greater risk than if they were returning to other professions . And that was the key bit of information they are not at greater risk as teachers and other people in school, and for me that was a very significant moment in allowing us to be able to say, lets start planning even more carefully to open our schools, which were already open, to more pupils and more students. It will be huge logistical challenge, but the government believes schools can be made extremely safe, and with scientists warning that we could be living with this virus for a long time, they think it would be very damaging to keep children out of the classroom indefinitely. Vicki young, bbc news, westminster. A Canadian Military display jet has crashed in a residential area in british columbia. One person has died and another is in hospital. The plane was part of the Canadian Forces snowbirds, a special Flight Demonstration Team doing a Cross Country tour to salute canadians working to fight the coronavirus. It went down shortly after take off from Kamloops Airport and burst into flames. One person ejected from the plane and landed by parachute on a roof. Data coming in earlier from japan shows that the worlds third latest economy has slipped into recession in the first quarter, putting it on course for its worst postwar slump as the coronavirus takes a heavy toll. The bbcs mariko 0i is following the story from singapore. Good to see you. What is the data showing . It did but the data showing . It did but the data which came around an hour ago confirming that japan data which came around an hour ago confirming thatjapan is in what is defined as a technical recession. In the first three months of this year, the economy shrank by just months of this year, the economy shrank byjust under 196. In economy shrank byjust under i . In the previous quarter, the Fourth Quarter of 1 . In the previous quarter, the Fourth Quarter of 2019, it also contracted by about 2 . For two consecutive quarters of a falling gdp, for two consecutive quarters of afalling gdp,japan for two consecutive quarters of a falling gdp, japan is now in a falling gdp, japan is now in a recession. The data this morning wasnt actually as bad as some economists had feared but there are worries that because the state of emergency only kicked in in april, the following quarters gdp would be falling even sharper and thatis be falling even sharper and that is why we are seeing some reaction in japans that is why we are seeing some reaction injapans stock market as well. Lets look a bit further forward, market as well. Lets look a bit furtherforward, then. Market as well. Lets look a bit further forward, then. How long could it take forjapan specifically of course, but other countries in the region, to start an upward curve and try and claw themselves out of this . That is the big question but if you look at the data closely, something that has been affected the most is private consumption. Basically people are not spending money and especially after the state of emergency was declared, because people were forced to stay at home so they wont spending as much money either. In the labour market, we are seeing somejob losses in the labour market, we are seeing some job losses and bankruptcies but were not saying as a dire figure as we saw example in the United States so the jobless rate in japan is expected to hit about 496 japan is expected to hit about 4 but not as high as what we are expecting in the United States, but at the same time, if you look at smaller businesses, they are really struggling and of course just last october, the government has raised the sales tax to 10 and that had already affected peoples spending power so that is why the economy is really struggling. But the country has lifted the majority of the state of emergency so people are now going back to work and starting to spend money. Is that going to help the economy . That is the big question. At the same time, the stimulus package worth 1. 1 trillion, ats 20 of japans gdp, package worth 1. 1 trillion, ats 20 ofjapans gdp, one of the biggest in the world, but people are complaining they havent received a cash handout, that it is too bureaucratic, you have to fill out 20 pages of documents to get the support from the government, so there are some concerns that the help thats been offered might not be enough to support the economy. Thanks so much. Lets get some of the days other news. India has extended its lockdown until the end of the month. However, some restrictions have been eased. 0ffices can open with staggered business hours. And shops have been allowed to open with a limit on customers. There have been more than 90,000 cases and almost 2,900 deaths in india. Healthcare workers in belgium turned their back on the Prime Minister as she visited a hospital. Sophie wilmes arrived by car at the saint Peter Hospital in brussels on saturday. Some staff turned away to show what they thought of the governments handling of the pandemic. New york state Governor Andrew Cuomo has undergone a covid 19 test live on tv. Mr cuomo said he wanted to show how quick and easy the process is. A doctor dressed in full ppe conducted the nasal swab test. The governor said he didnt experience pain or discomfort. He told new yorkers theres no reason why you should not get tested. india has extended its coronavirus lockdown stay with us on bbc news, still to come from the philippines the story of how one womans lockdown art turned into a fundraiser for people in need. This morning, an Indian Airforce plane carrying mr gandhis body landed in delhi. The president of india walked to the plane to solemnly witness mr gandhis final return from the political battlefield. Ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. In doing so, it has become the first country in the world to approve the change in a national referendum. It was a remarkable climax to what was surely the most extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer. It has been a peaceful funeral demonstration so far, but suddenly the police are teargassing the crowd. We dont know why. The prelaunch ritual is well established here. Helen was said to be in good spirits, butjust a little apprehensive. In the last hour, east timor has become the worlds newest nation. It was a bloody start for a poor country, and the challenges ahead are daunting. But for now, at least, it is time to celebrate. This is bbc news, the latest headlines the mayor of brazils biggest city sao paulo has warned that its Health System is close to collapse because of the impact of coronavirus. He called on residents to start respecting social distancing. The British Government insists that its safe to start a phased reopening of schools in england from the beginning of next month. Health ministers from around the world are meeting online for the whos annual World Health Assembly. With the virus having killed at 300,000 people across the globe, questions will be asked about how the pandemic spread so quickly. The chinese authorities didnt allow the who to send in their experts to the country until february despite notfiying them of the outbreak at the start of january. Our Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar reports. The World Health Organization is facing immense pressure over its handling of the covid 19 pandemic, with the us president leading the charge against the agency. The us is the whos biggest single donor, but last month, President Trump withdrew funding and launched a blistering attack on both the who and china. Had the who done itsjob, to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground, and to call out chinas lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source, with very little death. The who did get teams into china to work alongside chinese officials injanuary and february, and says since it was first alerted to the outbreak, china has shared crucial information, which has helped other countries prepare. Founded in 19118, the World Health Organizations goal, both then and now, is ensuring the highest attainable level of health for all people. It works on a wide range of life saving programmes, from mass vaccination campaigns to sounding the alarm when International Health emergencies hit. But it is just an advisory body. It doesnt have the power to enforce or compel countries to share information. Now, at this years World Health Assembly, there are calls to give the agency more powers, with who inspectors able to go into countries at the start of outbreaks and carry out independent investigations. The big challenge with outbreaks is that no country wants to have one, every country wants to deny its there, and every country wants to play down deaths. Right now, countries are required to notify. If theres some emerging pathogen in their country, theyre supposed to notify the who within 2a hours to this. So this would be an extension of that, to actually have whos International Mission investigate the origins of this. Representatives from 194 countries who are meeting virtually this year, will also consider calls from the eu, the uk, australia, new zealand and others for an International Review of the Global Response to the pandemic. Another thorny issue at the meeting is likely to be around taiwan, which has been praised for a very successful response to the pandemic, but is banned from attending because china and the un doesnt recognise it as an independent state. There will also be renewed calls for equal access to vaccines against covid 19, once they are developed, for all nations, rich and poor. Ahead of the whos two day World Health Assembly session, more than 140 World Leaders and experts have written an open letter demanding a coordinated global effort to tackle covid 19. They are calling for a peoples vaccine which if developed will be made available to all people, in all countries, free of charge. Lets get more now from professor adam kamrad scott who specialises in Global Health security at Sydney University in australia. Good to speak to you. Lets start with the idea of this vaccine then. If a vaccine is made and it is successful, what are the chances do you think of it being free to everyone . This is going to be a significant challenge for the international community. Firstly, we obviously need to get the vaccine candidate and make sure that it vaccine candidate and make sure thatitis vaccine candidate and make sure that it is safe and focus before it is manufactured on a larger scale. And vaccination programmes are rolled out. Importantly, programmes are rolled out. Importa ntly, even the programmes are rolled out. Importantly, even the elements just around being able to upscale the vaccine manufacturing capacity is going to be quite a challenge. In the event we are able to piggyback onto elements like the influenza vaccine manufacturing, we could potentially up to a billion doses produced per annum but that requires only a vaccine that requires only a vaccine that needs only a single dose to confer immunity. In the event that you have to have two doses, then you obviously need to have that capacity. Influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity is one of the worlds largest. If there is Different Technology that is required then our ability to globally manufacture this vaccine is going to face a number of constraints. Thats a fairly bleak picture because of course, a vaccine bleak picture because of course, a vaccine isnt guaranteed to occur at off, evenif guaranteed to occur at off, even if it does, youre saying it will have considerable problems. This look at the slightly broader issue of International Cooperation against this pandemic. How do you rate it so far . Today, u nfortu nately, you rate it so far . Today, unfortunately, weve seen most countries effectively look inward. Thats understandable, every country has focused on their own National Epidemic and have tried to control that, as well as try to save lives, but well as try to save lives, but we havent seen, until really the last few weeks, any sort of moves towards multilateral, global cooperation. And Co Ordination as well. That has been something that has been really liking today. Hopefully what were starting to see now is the emergence of that approach because obviously its not just what a single country does to control a National Epidemic, its also entirely contingent on what other countries do as well so we need that level of Co Ordination and multilateral cooperation. Given your scepticism about what has happened so far, are you optimistic at all about anything that can come out of this two day meeting now, and could you be realistic about what you think will come out . |j really do hope that we will see a new global consensus emerged andi a new global consensus emerged and i think there is prospects for that. 0bviously, theres a lot of attention around the vaccine side of things. 0ther issues weve during the 2000 and 9h1n1 pandemic as well, such as indemnifying donated vaccines, which is going to be a tricky issue to short out. Governments are concerned that they havent been involved in manufacturing vaccines, what happens in the event, it has an adverse reaction of people die. There are questions around indemnity as well as other issues associated with the vaccine, but in terms of the World Health Assembly itself, i think what was seen from the documents produced so far is that there is obviously that big desire to see countries come together. The fact that we have a number of countries sponsoring the investigation which is being proposed, as well as looking at what new powers conceivably the who may be granted in the future, is an important consideration. Hopefully we will see some positive outcomes out of the assembly. We will see over the next couple of days. Thank you very much, adam, for your time. Thank you. Weve heard fantastic stories of those in lockdown taking up new hobbies or coming up with ingenious ways to raise money for worthwhile causes. 0ne holidaymaker in the philippines is using her love of art to fundraise for food packages and other essential items for Rural Communities there. Jasmine barcelona was in the philippines, where her family is from, when travel restrictions came into place. She immediately took up her paintbrush and painted this image of a Guardian Angel nurse which she has then turned into postcards that have helped her raise more than 6,000 for those in need. Jasmine is spending lockdown in santa catalina. She gave us more details about the thinking behind her idea. Started doing it mainly with food, fish, beans, rice, coffee, sugar, and a few suites for the kids as well. On our deliveries, we saw that there we re deliveries, we saw that there were a lot of people, especially children, who didnt have lip flops or underwear, real basics. In the next round, we started to find the flops to include in the packages as well. How has the country been affected by coronavirus . In manila, as a lot of you have probably seen, it is very strict and it is a lot more stringent than here in the rural areas. Im sure youve seen the articles of what is going on in manila. Here, weve just relaxed from in House Community quarantine to general quarantine. So you can move around the island and go to the main city on certain days of the week which is about an hour and a half away from here. Generally, people under 20 and over 60 cant leave the house. 0ne over 60 cant leave the house. One person per household gets a quarantine mask to go and buy food and medical supplies. That was jasmine barcelona there. A reminder of our top story the seller. Brazils coronavirus death toll has risen to more than 16,000 with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. 0n in terms of confirmed infections. On sunday, the meier of brazils biggest city of sao paulo want the Health System was close to collapse. You can get me on twitter at any time. I am Lewis Vaughan jones and this is bbc news. Goodbye. Hello. There is some wet weather and some warm weather in this weather forecast. First, most of the wet weather will be found across the northern half of the uk. Further south, itll be largely dry, and quite widely itll become very warm for a time around the middle of the week. The end of the week will feel a bit different. Itll be cooler, windier and more unsettled for all of us. Now, you can see frontal systems which will be pushing across Northern Areas over the next few days, bringing cloud. Yes, this cloud producing some outbreaks of rain, but it is to the south of those frontal systems that things will turn increasingly warm and increasingly sunny for just about all of us by wednesday. But, as far as monday goes, some rain to start off across northern scotland. That will increasingly become confined to the northern isles. The north of the mainland will brighten up, with some sunshine. We will see quite a lot of cloud persisting across southern scotland, north west england and Northern Ireland. Patchy rain here, which could become heavier from the west into the afternoon. Further south, some spells of hazy sunshine. It will be a breezy day, quite a windy one, actually, across northern scotland. But as far as the temperatures go, well, 18 degrees in aberdeen, 17 in belfast, but a high of 24 across some parts of south east england. Now, as we go through monday night into the early part of tuesday, well see more splashes of rain at times across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Some clear spells further south, but look at those overnight temperatures 11,12 degrees the minimum values for some. So a very mild start to tuesday morning. Again we see a lot of cloud across Northern Areas, with some patchy rain at times. Its likely to be quite misty and murky for some of these western coasts, as well. Further south and further east, thats where we see the best of the sunshine and, once again, the highest of the temperatures. 25 degrees looks likely in london by this stage. Now, as we move into wednesday, High Pressure firmly in charge for the middle of the week, these frontal systems being held at bay for the time being. So i think wednesday is going to be the sunniest day of the week, even Northern Ireland and scotland brightening up by this stage. The exception shetland here. Youll hold onto a lot of cloud, some splashes of rain, temperatures topping out at around 9 degrees. Further south, though, a high of 27 degrees is possible. Now, things do change for the end of the week. We could see some thunderstorms breaking out on thursday. It turns windy for all of us on friday, with some rain at times, and by this stage itll feel a bit cooler. This is bbc news, the headlines the mayor of brazils largest city, sao paulo, says the Health System is close to collapse as demand grows for Emergency Hospital beds to deal with covid 19. He said the citys Public Hospitals had reached 90 capacity. Almost 3,000 people have died in the region from coronavirus. The uk government has insisted that primary schools in england will be safe when some pupils return at the beginning ofjune. But a leading minister acknowledged that risk could not be eliminated. Teaching unions have safety concerns, in particular over how teachers and children can maintain social distancing. Official figures from japan show that the worlds Third Largest economy has gone into recession. As a result of the coronavirus crisis, the country is on course for its worst economic slump since the Second World War as a result. The government has already announced a trillion dollar stimulus package
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