They call it a minor breach. Its day one of new covid 19 tracking systems in both england and scotland thousands of contact tracers are ready to go. A risk they take daily. The black, asian and minority ethnic nhs staff who are more likely to catch the virus than others our special report. Youre, like, oh, my god, was i careful enough . Am i getting it today . Will i get it tomorrow . Its very real. A date for your diary the premier League Season will re start on the 17th ofjune with two fixtures including man city vs arsenal. And coming up on bbc news. Fewer scrums, shorter rucks, just some of the ideas from world rugby, as the sport works out how it can possibly restart amid coronavirus. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. In the last hour, the Prime Minister has outlined the latest stage in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown in england. Speaking at the daily downing street briefing, borisjohnson said the partial relaxation was possible because there had been a sustained and consistent fall in the daily death rate. Earlier in the day, first minister Nicola Sturgeon outlined the first phase in easing scotlands lockdown. Well have more on that later. In england, the changes come into effect on monday. Up to six people will be able to meet that could be in your back garden or the local park. Youll still have to stay two metres apart and remember, its got to be outdoors. Meanwhile, Durham Police have issued a statement saying the Prime Ministers chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, might have broken lockdown rules when he drove to barnard castle. They described it as a minor breach of the regulations. Now, the latest uk death toll is now 37,837 with 377 reported in the last 2a hours. Heres our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. What will it look like on the other side . The reflections of our new reality are slowly starting to appear. A different life after lockdown, as the rules begin to relax. The Prime Minister made it official today, the next phase in england is on the way. official today, the next phase in england is on the way. I cannot and will not throwaway all the gains we have made together, and so the changes we are making our limited and cautious. Its thanks to the caution we have shown so far that all five tests are being met. That means from monday, as long as you keep your distance, some freedom will return. We will allow up to six people to meet outside, provided those from different households continue strictly to observe social distancing rules. These changes mean that friends and family can start to meet their loved ones, perhaps seeing both parents at once or both grandparents at once. And i know that for many people, this will be a long awaited and joyful moment. Weve been following one family in wolverhampton since the start of the restrictions. Today, at a picnic, they sat apart from grandma in the park. But from monday, the web call with the cousins can take place in real life. It is great news, we are really looking forward to welcome friends and family back into the garden, or be unable to see them in the park. Ultimately we are still really cautious. But the limits are all too realforjames really cautious. But the limits are all too real forjames ohara. Really cautious. But the limits are all too realforjames ohara. His pub fell silent two months ago. He does not know when or perhaps if his business will be back. The Great British pub, one of the really good institutions within this country, is genuinely at risk. In terms of what the future holds, it is really difficult to say. As you can tell, empty shelves, an empty pub. Its been like this for two months, just over. Now it is a question of how long can we survive with the doors closed . This is not a click your fingers moment when suddenly things will snap back to normal. By moving safely into a different looking world depends on all of us still respecting the governments keep your distance rules, but could that be more complicated after the last few torrid days . There was an outcry when it was revealed that the Prime Ministers top adviser travelled from london to durham and made a 60 mile separate journey out of lockdown to the town of barnard castle. Police said today they would have told Dominic Cummings to go back to his family home, if they had stopped him that day, concluding there might have been a minor breach of the rules. 0ne there might have been a minor breach of the rules. One of your most senior team, if they were not paying proper attention to the rules, why should anyone else . And to the doctors, if i may, is that the kind of example that you want them to follow . Durham police said that they we re follow . Durham police said that they were going to take no action, and that the matter was closed, and i intend to draw a line under the matter. Youve asked chris and patrick, but i am going to interpose myself if i may and protect them from what i think would be an unfair and unnecessary attempt to ask a political question. Very, very important that our medical officers and scientific advisers do not get dragged into what i think most people will recognise is fundamentally a political argument. But the pressure on the Prime Minister wont disappear. Nobody should be stopped from answering questions from journalists. But it is the Prime Minister here who is in issue. Hes been too weak throughout this whole episode. He should have acted swiftly. If i have been the Prime Minister, i would have sacked Dominic Cummings. We have now effectively wasted a week when we should have been concentrating on the safety of what comes next. Political drama pales next to the loss of so many and the true effects on the country that are emerging piece by piece. And we can talk to Laura Kuenssberg now, who is in westminster. Laura, we heard the Prime Minister quoting the Durham Police in trying to bring this whole cummings affair, if i can call it that, to a close is it . Cummings affair, if i can call it that, to a close is it . Well, you can see from the press conference that the Prime Minister now doesnt wa nt to that the Prime Minister now doesnt want to touch this with a bargepole, he just wants to move on and forget about the episode. Durham police, though, did say that if they had found mrcummings on though, did say that if they had found mr cummings on thatjourney to the town of barnard castle, that they would have told him to go home. It is also important to note that what they didnt say was that there was a problem with his initial trip from london up to his family property in durham to get childcare. They said there might have been a minor breach, but on that central allegation, they didnt say that he had done anything wrong. And in downing street, they are desperately hoping that politicians and members of the public, despite the huge outrage, are starting to tire of this issue, as it has been carrying on for such a long time. But opposition politicians have got the bit between their teeth, they dont wa nt to bit between their teeth, they dont want to let this drop. Many tory mps are still really cross about it behind the scenes. And i think that in the longer term, downing street hopes it will not be a problem, but it has really opened up some fractures in terms of their own party, and many people watching tonight might still be pretty cross about it. And laura, in your report, you pointed out that this easing of the lockdown, it still needs public co operation . The lockdown, it still needs public cooperation . It does, and thats why what we were just talking about is so important. For the next phase to work, the vast majority of us have to put our faith in the government. And i think inside government, there is an acute awareness that there were some issues at the beginning of this, despite huge levels of public compliance, the government had problems, whether it was over having enough kit for medics, whether it was over increasing testing quickly enough, whether it was over, of course, the terrible death toll that there has been. And i think theyre acutely conscious that this next, much more complicated phase, of moving out of the lockdown, is absolutely vital to try to get right. But remember, weve inched out of this. The next week will be maybe moving out of it a few feet. The final emergence from lockdown into Something Else will be a journey of many miles. Laura, thank you very much. Not being able to see loved ones has been one of the toughest parts of the nine week lockdown. So, how do people feel about todays announcement, and the changes to their lives as lockdown is eased . 0ur north of england correspondent danny savage has been talking to people in harrogate. In the open spaces of harrogate today, sunbathers were keeping their distance from each other. But very soon, pairs of people may grow into groups of six. People will really appreciate that, families, people having business meetings, yeah, thats really good. I think people do have to bear in mind, if it is six, that they stick to six and dont take advantage of it. Week after week after week, without being able to communicate with people and meet up with friends and so on nearby. So, yes, ithink it meet up with friends and so on nearby. So, yes, i think it is an excellent idea. Social distancing is still at the heart of easing restrictions. In england, partially reopening primary schools and open oui reopening primary schools and open our markets from monday could be good for town centres. And you can good for town centres. And you can go and see your dentist from the 8th ofjune. People, though, still want reassurance. The thought of opening full time again, gosh, who is going to look after the children . And they are going back to school, but then, doi are going back to school, but then, do i feel like i want them to go back to school just yet . Do do i feel like i want them to go back to schooljust yet . Do i send them back in september . Is it too soon . So my mindset is all over the place, what is the right decision . The thing is, what people will emerge to see here will be rather different than before lockdown. Shops which were here before have gone, leaving those left worried. We shouldnt have empty spaces, it is a premium shopping street, you wouldnt expect to see empty spaces on bond street, and you shouldnt hear. Nobody wants a neighbour that isa hear. Nobody wants a neighbour that is a boarded up shop, it is not good for business at all, it does not inspire confidence in the visitor. As frustration, too. This hotel has been accommodating key workers throughout lockdown. But the sun trap your garden will still have to remain closed. I would say, boris, trust us those that can prove they can do it safely, like weve done for the last 9 10 weeks, give us a chance of. We are edging out of lockdown, but for some people and businesses, things are still moving too slowly. Danny savage, bbc news, harrogate. As i said earlier, scotland is also easing its lockdown measures from tomorrow. First minister Nicola Sturgeon said it follows what she called a sustained downward trend in the spread of the virus. The new rules cover some outdoor activities. These include sunbathing, golf and fishing. Members of two households will be able to meet outdoors for a picnic or a barbecue in groups of up to eight people. And Garden Centres and drive through takeaways can re open. These measures amount to the first of four phases in scotlands plan to re open the country. With more, heres our scotland editor, sarah smith. Scotland is taking some cautious steps out of lockdown. A sunny weekend will see people allowed to meet up with those from one other household. Up to eight people gathering in total as long as they are outside and two metres apart. These greater freedoms go alongside a new Contact Tracing system, test and protect. Everyone with possible coronavirus symptoms is urged to book a test. If the result is positive, all their recent close contacts will be traced and told to self isolate for two weeks. Test and protect relies heavily on public cooperation. It only works if everybody sticks to the rules, so Public Confidence in the system is essential. A significant coronavirus outbreak happened at a nike conference in this Edinburgh Hotel in late february, when track and trace was government policy. There is controversy over why some people who came close to the nike delegates were never contacted. Ten of them spent over an hour in this shop being fitted for kilts. The manager, who was in very close contact with those delegates, later developed flu like symptoms and she is angry she was never contacted and told she could be at risk. I would have self isolated, i wouldnt have spent time with my elderly dad, my fiances mother. I wouldnt have gone to the Retirement Party i went to. So are you worried you endangered other people because you didnt know you were at risk . Yes. Yeah. Questions persist about that conference as Nicola Sturgeon introduces a new testing regime. In order that people can try to have full confidence in your test and protect regime, can you tell us, have you changed the guidelines for who will be contacted after someone has tested positive for coronavirus . The definition of a contact for test and protect is threefold. Firstly it will be members of your household. Secondly, face to face contact which gregor went into detail about on tuesday in terms of what that means and thirdly, if you have been within two metres of somebody for a period of 15 minutes or more. Has that been a change to the guidance . We will go into that face to face contact in much more detail so there is a full understanding with the contact tracers as to what is meant by that. People in scotland are being asked to comply with test and protect. There is no legal requirement to do so but the government says it will only work if everybody plays their part. Sara smith, bbc news, glasgow. Englands test and trace system was also launched today with thousands of tracers ready to track down those who have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the coronavirus. As in scotland, the idea is to move towards a more targeted approach to tackling the outbreak. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, has the latest. For millions of people, a scheme in place today might make a big difference to their lives, though they dont know it yet. Potentially they could be told they have met up with someone recently who now has the virus and they will have to self isolate for two weeks even if they are not ill. They could find out through an e mail or text or phone call and then be asked to get in touch with the nhs. From now on, if you are told you have been exposed to an infected person, you must self isolate for 14 days. They will hear that from contact tracers. 25,000 of them will do the job in england and as their task began, they received a video message from the health secretary, matt hancock. We cant do any of this without you and working together we are part of one big Team Delivering the service. In the days and weeks ahead, the advice you give and the support you offer will make a difference to the lives of everybody you speak to. New contact tracers have been signed up and trained and they will work with health professionals, some of whom already have experience talking to patients with infectious diseases, and then trying to find out who they may recently have met up with. We are very used to going through a detailed account of your movements over the last seven, nine days. We use diaries, we use cues, days of the week, what the weather was like, to help people remember. We are very used to doing that and we will continue do that, so i think this is doable. But one contact tracer, who wanted to remain anonymous, told us she couldnt log on to the system and so couldnt start today. I was told that system was not even yet ready to start. The guy told me that so far they had a start date for next monday but not before that. At that moment i already thought, well, that is quite disappointing. Other contact tracers also struggled to log in this morning. The department of health acknowledged there had been problems but said these were being rapidly resolved. The system has been formally launched today but it is not yet clear how many people have so far been contacted. Officials have acknowledged it may take a week or two for the system to be working at its full capacity. Hugh pym, bbc news. And if you want more information on the tracing systems that have been put in place and how they affect you, you can find more information at bbc. Co. Uk News Coronavirus and click on the links. The Financial Times today reported that the uk has suffered the second highest rate of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic after spain, when compared to other countries where comparable data exists. 59,527 more deaths than usual have been registered since the week ending 20th march, indicating that the virus has killed 891 people per million. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh is here. A lot of numbers there but it all boils down to this concept of excess deaths. What does that mean . That means the number of people who die in addition to what you would normally expect. It is one of the best ways of making international comparisons. If we look at a uk death rate chart, there is a grey line that will appear and that is the average number of deaths for the first five months of the year over the past five years. If we bring on ina red the past five years. If we bring on in a red line 2020, you can see a massive peak from mid march, in a red line 2020, you can see a massive peakfrom mid march, peaking in mid april, and that equates to a 65 excess, so nearly two thirds increase in the number of deaths you would expect. But it doesnt tell the full story. This pandemic isnt over yet and we may get a second wave, we may get a third so we cant draw final conclusions for may be a year or two but if we then compared the uks excess deaths this year to other countries, we can see that it is higher than almost all except for spain and higher than italy which had a very bad outbreak, and it seems there is some correlation between how quickly countries took steps to impose lockdown is like germany which had a very low death rate and how low they were able to keep those figures. The government says it is far too early to draw conclusions. I want to take you back to the downing street briefing and the chief medical officer, he struck a cautious note about this letter are figure. It is the infection rate, the number of people on average that each infected passes on covid and you have to keep that below one to have a shrinking epidemic. He said it is currently between 0. 7 and 0. 9. He said still close to one, not a lot of room for manoeuvre. Hospital numbers with Covid Patients are falling but it is estimated that fewer than seven in 100 people in england have had coronavirus, so most people are still susceptible. All this week weve been reporting from one of the hospitals hardest hit by the coronavirus. In tonights report from the Royal London Hospital in east london, clive myrie meets the black and minority ethnic staff playing a crucial part in trying to save lives. Many of them face a higher risk of becoming seriously ill if they catch the disease. The front line of the war on coronavirus is everywhere. The trenches are in the mundane. 0n the floor of a corridor. On a door handle. In the shake of anothers hand. This man is proud he is waging war on the virus. A ten year veteran of the cleaning staff at the Royal London Hospital. He is at work as london wakes and blackbirds sing. All of us cannot be doctors. Someone has to be a doctor, someone has to be a nurse and somebody has to be a domestic. So im proud of what i am here. Because altogether you are helping to save lives. Yeah, all of us come together and then we save more lives. Its a selflessness much admired in this pandemic. Those choosing to do what others wouldnt. And so many of the nurses and doctors and consultants, as well as cleaners, the helping hands guiding us through this storm, are black, asian and minority ethnic. Somewhere deep down, my heart skipped a little entering the Royal London Hospitals covid wards. Because studies suggest those from the bame community are being affected by the virus disproportionately and are almost twice as likely to die from infection than those who are white. Why is unclear. We had permission from all the patients, all their families, to film. I was nervous. Until i came here and my manager told me we are all going to have training. So as soon as we had the training, everything was fine, i wasnt scared any more, i wasnt panicking any more. And we clean to reduce the infection, so if i dont come, it will spread more. When it comes to bame nhs staff, proximity to the virus through close contact with infected patients is a disproportionate feature of many of their roles in the health service. Some argue the nhs needs to examine staff deployment policies for structural racism. Where certain workers are retained in lower paid roles. But for most nurses and doctors, white or black, given the correct protection, where else would you want to be if not cushioning a patients pain . Because when all the fancy labels are stripped away, yourjob is. How are you feeling . To care. Listen to irene from uganda. A Nursing Student who we filmed on her very first day on a covid ward. She has the perpetual anxiety of every single nurse or doctor, no matter how experienced, working in that environment with the virus so close. You are like, oh, my god, was i careful enough . Am i getting it today . Will i get it tomorrow . Its very real, yeah but you have to keep strong. I always tell myself someone has got to treat people. I mean, if it were my relatives, i would want someone to care for them, so that kind of thing keeps me going. Does the virus know a victim is black or white . Of course not, but social factors like income and wealth and education affect the quality of the health of all of us. As such, poorer black and ethnic minority communities may be more vulnerable. But there are other tragedies lurking in this pandemic. For some who have proudly called this country home but whose hearts belong to a foreign field. In this morgue we came across two bodies. Two women. One from west africa and one from north africa. They called britain home. But now there is a purgatory, a final torment because one of the covid victims wanted a burial in the soil of her birth. But the closed border means her body is sat here for two months. In this mosque, two more bodies shielded by the flags of turkey and northern cyprus. And there are more bodies outside piling up in shipping containers. Weve been to the royal london a few times to pick up some of our Community Members that have passed from the virus. Im waiting for it to hit me. At the moment i cant afford to break down. Its painful. Its too personal, its close, you know. It doesnt get any closer when you have been growing up in your community and you find yourself having to do the last journey for them, understanding the pain that the families are going through. Its. Its trauma. Its trauma on every level. Its painful. Grieving delayed is grieving denied. This is a shared fight to overcome a shared pain. And its belief in our shared humanity that will get us through. 0n tomorrow evenings programme, music to soothe in our troubled times. This is the one time i need to stand up and do myjob. This is the one time i absolutely have to be there. And what happens to the nhs when the clapping stops . Clive myrie, bbc news. Lets take a look at some of todays other news. Budget Airline Easyjet has said it will cut around 11,500 jobs as it struggles with a collapse in air travel caused by the pandemic. Around 30 of the total workforce is expected to be cut. The Pilots Union Balpa describes the move as an ill considered, knee jerk reaction. Nissans factory in sunderland is to remain open as the car maker carries out a global restructuring. The factory, which employs around 7,000 people, will restart production injune. However, the firm will close its factory in barcelona, prompting protests at the spanish plant. Hundreds of mourners have been gathering at funerals in Northern Ireland during the lockdown, in what police have called a blatant breach of the restrictions. Officers say these actions put communities at risk, while there are warnings of a second spike in infections. Heres our ireland correspondent, emma va rdy. This was the final farewell to a father and grandfather in belfast at the weekend. Conducted outside the family home by their local priest, who had urged mourners to socially distance. Theres a long tradition in ireland of people who would want to gather at the home. 0bviously our clergy going into those situations, if there are large crowds, that is putting them at risk and it is putting the family at risk, and our clergy would make that known to families before they arrived. Funeral directors say theyve tried to work with families to keep within the guidelines, which say there should be a maximum of ten people, but much rather gatherings have continued. This, for a former sinn fein councillor who died during the lockdown. The Northern Ireland people still want to do it, thats our culture. You know . And Funeral Directors are in a position that is unimaginable. Some of them are put under duress and, you no, they end up doing things that theyre not comfortable doing. And thats unfortunate, we dont want that. Word of god, creator of the earth, to which jim now returns. Police say theyve been monitoring ceremonies, including this one for a former ira prisoner, held earlier this month. The whole purpose of the Health Protection measures is that we dont have more funerals than we need to have. And it is therefore disappointing in those circumstances that people blatantly disregard the guidance and regulations as they exist for attending at funerals. And were seeing this happen across communities and across Northern Ireland. There are times where we have sought reassurances from people as to the arrangements and found that at times, those reassurances have then been broken. The large gatherings have drawn criticism here. They are in stark contrast to other funerals held at empty grave sides, because loved ones have had to stay away. Last month, we told the story of tom best, isolating and unable to attend the funeral of his wife. Heartbreaking, just heartbreaking. Many people have been making big personal sacrifices to abide by the current rules, and yet hundreds of people are continuing to gather here in large crowds for some funerals . Clearly, they shouldnt be gathering, only up to ten people should be attending those funerals, and files will be sent to the Public Prosecution service. Theres no space for that. We need everybody to abide by the rules. Theres not different sets of rules for different people. Police in Northern Ireland say theyll continue trying to engage with families before large gatherings take place. But for some communities, in grief, it may be unlikely to have much effect. Emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. Chinas parliament has backed a new security bill for hong kong, which would make it a crime to undermine beijings authority