Transcripts For BBCNEWS Breakfast 20200414

Extends his countrys lockdown to mid may and admits his government has made mistakes. Good morning questions over the governments economic support schemes. Labour wants daily updates on take up as its revealed less than 2 of businesses have successfully received loans. A turnaround at tottenham as they reverse their decision to use their governments Job Retention scheme and agree to pay all their staff their full salaries. Good morning. Its a cold and frosty start to the day today but for many hours we are looking at a dry day some sunshine. There are areas of cloud around though, and i will tell you where they are at 6 27am. A very good morning. Its tuesday the 14th of april. Our top story for you there have been outbreaks of covid i9 at more than 2,000 care homes in england, the department of health has confirmed. The news comes as scientific advisers for the government are due to meet later to review the impact of the uks lockdown measures. Ministers have already said its unlikely there will be any change to restrictions in the next week. Keith doyle has the story. The faces of two dedicated nhs nurses, their lives lost while helping others. Melujean ballesteros, originally from the philippines, died at the London Hospital where she worked. Her son said she loved herjob. She loved her work as a nurse. This woman, who was 68, refused to retire during the crisis. She spent 50 years as a nurse after arriving from trinidad. She died on saturday. Her family said she was a nurse until the end. The latest figures show the number of people who died in hospital with covid i9 rose by 717 in the last 24 hour period, bringing the total number to 11,329. That figure does not include deaths in care homes and the community. Figures due to be released later from the office of National Statistics will give an indication of the number of lives lost there. At this care home run by care uk in durham, 13 residents have died after showing symptoms of coronavirus. The government said there have been outbreaks of coronavirus at over 2,000 care homes in england. Care home operators say better access to protective equipment and testing is vital. Id like our teams to have access to testing. That is now beginning to happen. But id also like our residents to have access to testing. At the moment, the only people who get tested out of care homes are people who go into hospitals, and they are then tested when they get there. We have very large numbers of people in care homes who are passing away who are exhibiting covid 19 symptoms, but who arent being classified as having the coronavirus because they havent been tested. Over the easter weekend, the overwhelming majority of people stayed at home, according to the government, whose scientific advisors will meet later to review the lockdown. At yesterdays downing street briefing, the indications were that decision to keep it in place has already been taken. If we let up now, the virus will only take full advantage, it will spread faster and it will kill more people. If we refuse to give in to it, if we keep up this Incredible Team effort, we will beat this virus and we will come through this national test. So, with the lockdown set to continue, it will be the numbers levelling or dropping that will bring changes. Each of those numbers a life lost and a family grieving. Keith doyle, bbc news. Lets get the latest from our Political Correspondent helen catt in westminster for us now. Helen, on the issue of care homes, the government has some very tough decisions to make this week . Yes, this issue has come into attention in recent days. We have the number of people dying in hospitals, but we dont have the statistics at the people in care homes. In a sense, though, the big decision of this week has in effect already been made, hasnt it . And thatis already been made, hasnt it . And that is those lockdown restrictions was not dominic raab saying he doesnt expect those to change this week and Nicola Sturgeon has said the same in scotland last week. The Welsh Government saying there lockdown restrictions would stay in place, too. While those were the impact of them will be reviewed by the Scientific Group later, it is unlikely they will change. So you may think how long are they likely to stay in place . Well, the government does have to review them by law every three weeks. But downing street said that doesnt mean it automatically extend them for three weeks. The government said they would not look to lift them until we are past the peak of the virus. Dominic raab said yesterday we arent there yet and the chief scientific adviser, patrick valence also suggest they also expect to see the death toll go up for the next few days before plateauing for some weeks. So i think it is likely they will be with us for some weeks yet. Helen, thank you very much for the moment. Well be talking to the work and pensions secretary, Therese Coffey, at 7 30am. All sorts of issues but care homes are certainly one of them. The french president Emmanuel Macron has extended the coronavirus lockdown for another four weeks until may the 11th. He said the current restrictions had slowed the virus but not beaten it, and accepted that the lockdown had been especially tough for poorer families without the benefit of spacious homes and good internet connections. Were we ready for this crisis . Well, clearly not enough stop we stood up to it. In the next four weeks, the rules put in place by the government have to be respected, to be successful, they must not be reinforced or lightened, but they should be completely put in place. The Italian Government is beginning a gradual relaxation of restrictions today, allowing a limited number of shops and businesses to open. Thats despite italy recording more than 20,000 coronavirus deaths in total second only to the United States. Lets speak with our europe correspondent, jean mackenzie, whos in rome. And how much difference with this make . Well, in reality, very little. It isa make . Well, in reality, very little. It is a very small number of shops, a very select number of shops being allowed to reopen today. Shops, shops selling baby clothes, stationery shops, and even some regions have decided to opt out. Really, the lockdown is continuing here for another three weeks. Factories and businesses have been putting a lot of pressure on the government to allow them to restart but ultimately the government felt it was too soon. It has a it will look to see if there is a way of reopening some factories in this three week period, but really it is going to depend on the recovery. Because, although yesterday did record now 20,000 deaths from this virus, and the number of daily doubts jumped up again. Virus, and the number of daily doubtsjumped up again. Its virus, and the number of daily doubts jumped up again. Its a reminder the recovery here is very slow. In fact, reminder the recovery here is very slow. Infact, italy reminder the recovery here is very slow. In fact, italy has actually increased restrictions on people coming into the country now, so you can only travel into the country for Worker Health reasons. You have to have your temperature ta ken Worker Health reasons. You have to have your temperature taken before you get on plane and anyone arriving has to go into quarantine regardless of whether they have symptoms or not. Italy is trying to protect itself from the rest of the world. As you said earlier, macron has extended the lockdown still may 11, france has been seen behind italy but ahead of the uk until may 11, but ahead of the uk until may 11, but it seems the way out of the lockdown is slow. President trump has said he is calling the shots as to when the us will start to ease lockdown restrictions after some state governors suggested they would have the final say. 0ur north america editorjon sopel asked mr trump how his plan to restart the economy would work. Can i ask you, mr president , if you could sketch for us what reopening the economy looks like . Do you think it will be everything open . We have some of the biggest from every business on this council. We are actually setting up a number of different councils, or committees, i guess you could call them, and we have a lot of smart people. I think they will give us some also good advice. But we want to be very, very safe. At the same time we have to get our country. I understand that, mr president. Do you think there is a possibility, then, that what you will do is open it incrementally . Will people go back to restaurants, concerts . I think eventually they will do that and i think we will boom, i think it is going to go quickly. People want to go back to work. The stock market, to think the stock market is at the level that is now, with all this country has done. Look at the european union, how decimated they are. You want to reopen borders so they are. You want to reopen borders so people from the uk and europe and enter . Well, i am going to have to ta ke enter . Well, i am going to have to take a look. I wouldnt say italy is doing great right now and i wouldnt say spain is doing great right now. We just heard france say spain is doing great right now. Wejust heard france is say spain is doing great right now. We just heard france is extending its state inside order, right, they had extended it. I havejust seen that. And for a short period of time. But no, when they are back we wa nt to time. But no, when they are back we want to do it very quickly but we wa nt to want to do it very quickly but we want to make sure everything is good. No, right now, we have a very, we had a very strong ban and we are going to give it that way until they heal. Weeks . Months . I can tell you that. We have to see how they do. France went for another two weeks, we have to see. You talked about this being the most difficult decision you are going to have to take, about whether to reopen the economy. I wonder how much it weighs on your mind, the thought that if there is a second wave, you have reopened the economy and you might have to shut things down again . M doesnt stop and i hope that wont happen. I really hope that wont happen. I really hope that wont happen. It does way on my mind. That was President Trump holding a news conference. A Second World War veteran who is walking laps of his garden to raise money for the nhs has now raised well over £750,000 and counting it isa it is a story we have been following for a while. Captain tom moore, who is 99 years old and recovering from a hip operation, and explained he was aiming to raise a £1,000 for the Health Service. He has done much more. Since then, his efforts have attracted global support. Imean, i mean, extraordinary amounts of money. And we are speaking to tom just after 8 30am here on bbc brea kfast. Just after 8 30am here on bbc breakfast. And i think there was a post on social media, getting the address of the local post office to sand birthday cards to tom to send. Can you imagine how many birthday cards he is going to get . So many congratulations to him. We will be speaking to him at 8 30am. It may be the middle of the easter holidays, but across the uk hundreds of schools remain open for the children of key workers. 0ur correspondent tomos morgan has spent the day with some pupils in cardiff to see how theyre getting on. My my name is penelope and my mum works for the nhs and health people. My name is william. My dad is a dentist and my mum works for the nhs. My name is harriet and my mum worked in the nhs as a medical secretary and my dad works for the council. Easter holidays here in cardiff, is one of the welsh capitals largest areas where several students share one school during social distancing measures. Stuck you are taking all precautions necessary to keep eve ryo ne precautions necessary to keep everyone safe, dividing the children between opposite ends of the school. Its been very different, thats for sure. We are very much now not a school, it is childcare provision and we are focusing on the wellbeing of the children and caring and supporting them in this really difficult time. Werejust supporting them in this really difficult time. Were just happy we can do our bit to support the pa rents can do our bit to support the parents and they can continue to carry out jobs parents and they can continue to carry outjobs and essential services. Usually there are over 500 pupils here in this primary school, but this week, six different schools are using it as a hub, there have been no more than 30 pupils coming here per day, meaning empty classrooms are a common site. Teachers are here sent us this footage. Its a hub for three schools in the local authority. It is open seven days a week, seven hours a day, aiming to be as flexible as possible for those pa rents flexible as possible for those parents that need childcare during this time. In wales, 400 hubs will remain open over the easter break and less than 1 of all School Children here can use them if required. So, how have the children in cardiff been enjoying the holidays . Its fun, but its also quite weird because its stuff we wouldnt normally do. We have been doing a lot of things outdoors like we have made kites stop last week, one child tested positive at the school and has been self isolating, but no other child or adult who has shown any symptoms. We think so up in the airat shown any symptoms. We think so up in the air at the moment, hubs will remain open for as long as they are needed, and those heading in every day are having more fun now than regular time. Tomos morgan, bbc news, cardiff. Lets take a look at todays front pages. another 3 weeks of lockdown is the headline in the times. The paper says the announcement will be made by the government on thursday. Theres also a picture of a five month old baby called amanda, who was discharged from hospital after treatment for the virus. The guardian claims the uk missed Three Chances to join an eu scheme to bulk buy protective kit for nhs staff. The government has previously said it did not receive an invitation to the scheme, the paper adds. The suns front page carries a thank you message from englands chief nursing officer. Ruth may says families who stayed at home during the easter weekend made a real difference in helping to save lives. And online, metro readers have been sharing pictures of some of their less than perfect lockdown bakes. Lets take a look. Heres a picture of some bread baked by kelly hevel. Im guessing it is sourdough. Looks like a massive cockroach. There is a sourdough craze going on at the moment. This is banana bread baked by hend amry she tags it her shame and says it tastes even worse than it looks. I dont think you can have a bad ba na na i dont think you can have a bad banana bread. And kat posted this picture of her banana and egg pancakes. Im glad you told me it was a pancake. Her verdict not great. I havejoined i have joined the sourdough craze. Ifi i have joined the sourdough craze. If i knew we were posting pictures, i would have put up one of mine. The crust was good. But the rest of it . Not that good. In our house we have started he eating more toasty s. Lots of people have got the machine out. We are conquering them every day. Cheese and beans is number one at the minute in our house. Really . You have to be careful with beans, dont use too many and they have to be positioned correctly otherwise theres a spillage. Can you send in some recipes . Someone is shouting in my year, fish fingers and marmalade on toast, jonathan, who is editing the programme today. The coronavirus has brought many activities to a grinding halt over the last few weeks. But, sadly, not fly tipping. Illegal dumping of waste has been increasing since many recycling centres were closed down to avoid spreading covid 19. Thats according to the creators of a new app which tracks fly tipping, as Duncan Kennedy reports. Just look at the state of this. 0ne infuriated reaction to fly tipping. And this is what people have done stop right its the voice of honour pottle outside the London Midland Railway club she helps run in wolverhampton, bearing witness to this deluge of detritus. The clubs own cctv shows some of the actual dumping taking place. 0ut comes a sofa, then other chunks of furniture. What would your message to these people be . If you dont wa nt to these people be . If you dont want that messing your garden, dont make somebody elses a mess. It is unfair. Stop fly tipping, youre a disgrace. This pile is in hampshire. Ever since councils closed waste sites for covid 19, Illegal Dumping has escalated. A new app logs fly tipping around britain. Its creator says cases have soared. Weve seen a massive increase in fly tipping, over 50 nationwide. Weve seen a massive increase in fly tipping, over50 nationwide. Some areas including london are well over 70 . Weve seen thousands of extra reports coming through each week right now. Just three miles away, yet another site. Here, the hills are awash with the horrors of more rubbish. Lots of people are walking in the last thing they want is to find a whole pile of rubbish thats been dumped. What many ordinary householders dont realise is even if they pay someone dont realise is even if they pay someone else to take away rubbish like this, its they themselves that will face a fine if rubbish can be traced. That can rise to thousands of pounds, with a maximum of £50,000 being payable. And concerned citizen filmed this from his flat. Disgusting but whether it is birmingham or burnley, no wonder residents are angry when they see this. I think itsjust angry when they see this. I think its just laziness because you could store it at home until all this is over. Disgusting, dont know how people sleep at night. Councils and say they had to close official waste sites to protect workers and the public, and they say the rise in fly tipping is unacceptable. We understand people want to potentially spend the time they are self isolating clearing out their homes, but the message really from councils is very clear please dont flight it. Backin flight it. Back in wolverhampton, donna surveys her eyesore with a message if you dare, carry on. And a warning. Well get you, without a shadow of a doubt. Duncan kennedy, bbc news. Farmers often bear the brunt of fly tipping as they have a legal duty to clear up waste thats dumped on their land. Werejoined now from liverpool by cereal farmer 0lly harrison. How bad is fly tipping on your land . Its just been getting worse. Its a lwa ys its just been getting worse. Its always bad in the spring because people generally have a spring clean and Easter Bank Holiday is always the favourite for fly tipping, but recently with the lockdown and people having more time on their hands and whatever, it has really ramped up and with the tip closed thats a massive problem as well. 0bviously theres the legal duty of you getting rid of that, so your costs and time goes up as well trying to get a skip or whatever to clear that . Thats right. To be fair, our costs are all the time to stop fly tipping all year round, blocking gates off with concrete bollards and all sorts of things. This is a gateway that has been blocked for fly tipping from the last few days, so we will have to move that. If it is that side of the gate, it is the councils problem. What is in that pile of rubbish . An old bed, some sort of. Lets have a look, i will move the camera down, old bed, kitchen units, locks, carpet, cardboard, anything you dont want. That is one bit of it, theres plenty. 0ver dont want. That is one bit of it, theres plenty. Over here, there rubble thats been here for a few weeks. It isnt quite in our way but it is still in the countryside. Weve got some branches over here. Where are we . Where are we. Here we go. Some branches there. Weve got. Are you still there . Hopefully you can still hear us, 0lly, we have lost the picture for the moment. We understand you have managed to track down somebody. Not themselves but someone whos rubbish turned up on yourfarm, what happened . They were mortified turned up happened . They were mortified turned up in one of our gateways, but u nfortu nately up in one of our gateways, but unfortunately the problem falls on them. With the technology weve got these days, we have traced the person who tipped it but they have been forwarded because they have paid to get the rubbish taken away and not realising they werent licensed to do itand realising they werent licensed to do it and didnt dispose of it correctly. Whats the message from you this morning . You are at the end of this fly tipping problem, whats the message for others getting rid of their rubbish . Is it making sure the person youre giving it to is reputable . Make sure they have a waste carriers license registered with the environment agency, you can check that online, and make sure you get a duty of care transfer note to make sure you have given them the ca re of make sure you have given them the care of that rubbish they will dispose of it correctly and therefore if it gets into a place like this then it will go back to you but you wont get fined. Giving wasted two people that arent licensed it can full back on your toes. 0lly, you said at the start that normally at this time of year you get quite a bit dumped, but is it worse now because tips arent open . Definitely, we would often get it a few times a week, it has got bad, i find several a day. We have blocks of tyres filled with old concrete to block as many gateways as we can, especially at this time of year, but because of the wet weather, weve had barriers moved and thats let fly tippers in. Aside from the fly tipping, which is keeping you very busy, how has lockdown affect you and the family . Honestly it is business as usual, we are self isolating and keeping going. We have been extremely busy because of the wet weather since lastjune. It has been easier because theres been less traffic for us to move around in on the roads. Im lucky i can move outside and work. It is nice to people outside, everyone is smiling, nice to see them out and about. If you have a cv, but farmer camera operator because youve been brilliant to talk to, thank you. 0lly harrison from liverpool near his farm. Interesting what he says about people smiling and waving, because when you walk orjog past people, people have stopped making eye contact. Iam wary contact. I am wary ofjoggers, i got sweated on last week by someone going past me, so im giving them a wide berth. What about eye contact . When they start coming towards me, i am off let me know about whats going on in your area, people over two metres away say hello. I say hello but i make sure i dont get sweated on. We had to celebrate easter within social distancing rules this year but yesterday i asked you to tell me how you celebrated, these are some of them. This is lorraine porter. Lorraine porter sent in this one of her little easter bunny bellamina the schnauzer who was busy delivering easter eggs. Rebecca gibson dressed as the easter bunny for her son mason and walked around their village waving at all the children observing social distancing of course. Heres aunty dot in her home made Easter Bonnet sent in by corrine kelly. And look at this deanna lloyd sent this photo of her wonderful easter day lunch left on her doorstep by her kind neighbour cathy. And finally, heres 0scar the cockapoo sitting down to his very own lunch sent in by beth harrold. So many things we are doing differently. This is inside the times, two actors, they live opposite each other in london. They have begun to perform shakespeares greatest works by shouting lines from their windows. How long would it be before you ask them to pipe down . I think it would be nice. Cultural apparently, to the sceptics out there, the success has prompted the players to make it a weekly variety show for residents. Weekly variety show for residentslj will weekly variety show for residents. will take it once a week talking about the dog enjoying the food, this is the mail, a spanish food, this is the mail, a spanish food writer has had a right old at british sauces, they hate hd source, unsophisticated, bra nston british sauces, they hate hd source, unsophisticated, branston pickle is for drunks, unsophisticated, branston pickle is fordrunks, mint unsophisticated, branston pickle is for drunks, mint sauce is used to disguise the advanced age of the lamb eaten in the uk. The only two sources we have in the uk that come out well are piccalilli and bread sauce. Everything else is disgraceful apparently. sauce. Everything else is disgraceful apparently. I love bread sauce. What is your best one . Bread sauce. What is your best one . Bread sauce. What is yours . I like gravy mustard, sophisticated palate as im getting older carol, the weather, from what youve got, looks lovely . It is for some, yes good morning. If you were in your garden over the weekend or exercising outside, look at the difference between Easter Sunday and easter monday. Manston on Easter Sunday, 24, feeling warm, nine yesterday, feeling quite cold. A cold start, currently in southern scotla nd a cold start, currently in southern scotland and north east england around 5 or 6, so some frost. Quite a bit of frost in many parts of the uk but as louise pointed out, a sunny day for most. As ever, some exceptions. High pressure is dominating, everything is moving around clockwise, so more cloud in the south east and also the north of scotland and here it is pretty breezy with spots of rain on and off through the day, especially in shetland. The cloud in the south east quarter will break up through the day and sunshine will come through. Hazy in southern scotland, southern scotland and Northern Ireland and some coming south through the afternoon. Eight in the north to 14 in the south today, but somewhere in north east scotla nd today, but somewhere in north east scotland could get to 16 and along the south east coastline, feeling cool the south east coastline, feeling cool. If youre taking your permitted exercise here today, wrap up permitted exercise here today, wrap up warm. Through the evening and overnight, cloud in the north, still quite windy here. Clear skies for much of the rest of the country, so another cold night with patry mist and fog and low cloud forming in Northern Ireland and southern scotla nd Northern Ireland and southern scotland patchy. Many around freezing or not to far from it, except from the north west under the cloud where we have got the breeze. That will be with us tomorrow, thicker cloud, giving the odd spot here and there, quite breezy. Where we lose the mist and fog in the south, dry and sunny for most and thats reflected in the temperatures, 17 or 18 the top temperatures, 17 or 18 the top temperatures, 11 under the cloud in the north west. 0n temperatures, 11 under the cloud in the north west. On thursday, this cold front slipping south, cooler air behind it, anotherfront from the south west. For most, quite a warm day on thursday. This front from the south west bringing heavy showers, south west england, south wales potentially too across the midlands. These are the temperatures, 20 or possibly 22. Quite a change in the last few days in. Thank you. Youre watching brea kfast in. Thank you. Youre watching breakfast with dan and louise. In a moment we will bring you up to some of the main stories but also whats happening later today . First met captain tom moore on friday when he was aiming to raise £1000 for the we first met captain tom moore on good friday, when he was aiming to raise £1,000 for the nhs by walking laps of his garden. Today his total stands at close to £800,000. Not bad for a weekends work. Well be catching up with tom at 8. 30am. You know the green goddess. Now heres the skipping sikh. Thats what 73 year old Rajinder Singh calls himself as he helps us to banish the self isolation blues. Rajinder will be on the show in around 15 minutes. Also this morning. They performed alongside Ariana Grande in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing. Now this choir is singing a message of thanks to nhs staff caring for victims of coronavirus. Well be hearing from them before nine. Good morning, heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. Elderly people who have died with coronavirus in Nursing Homes have been airbushed out of the official death toll, thats according to senior figures in the Care Industry. Outbreaks of the virus have now been detected at more than 2,000 care homes in england. 13 residents at one home in County Durham have died, along with nine others at a specialist dementia home in nottinghamshire. A spokesperson from the department of health and social care said the government was determined to give the sector the support it needs. A group of scientists which advises the government will meet today to review the uk lockdown and whether it is working. The experts will look at the numbers of people dying, and admissions to intensive care. Theirfindings will be presented to the cabinet. The first secretary, dominic raab, has already said the social distancing measures will remain in place for now. The french president Emmanuel Macron has extended the coronavirus lockdown for another four weeks until may the 11th. He said the current restrictions had slowed the virus but not beaten it, and accepted that the lockdown had been especially tough for poorer families without the benefit of spacious homes and good internet connections. The indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also announced a lockdown extension today. The entire population of more than a billion people has been living under severe restrictions for the past three weeks and theyll now be in place for another three weeks, until may 3rd. The world bank has slashed its predictions of Indian Economic growth this year from 5 down to 1. 5 . Time now to get some answers to your coronavirus questions. Werejoined by the gp, doctor aisha awan. Good morning, thanks forjoining us. Give us an indication first of all, how are things for you and what kind of things are using patients present with . A whole host of things, im doing a lot of remote consultations say video consultations and telephone consultations. Im dealing with a number of concerns and queries about people who are relatively well with coronavirus, people who are deteriorating with coronavirus, whose oxygen levels we need to keep an eye who might need to get on to nhs111, to a hot clinic, which is where people with covid 19 or coronavirus are assessed. And people with Underlying Health conditions like heart conditions. They are on medication, they have Mental Health problems, they have Mental Health problems, they are maintaining their health and maintaining their health conditions. People are still breaking bones and cutting themselves and having problems that require accident and emergency for suturing or x ray say those things are still coming in. From what im hearing from my patients, my nhs collea g u es hearing from my patients, my nhs colleagues are doing an amazing job to stay on top of them and mitigating any risk that patients going to hospital might be facing. So many questions, those people who have Ongoing Health issues, how do you continue treating them, is it all by video and phone consultation . It is working by video and by phone. A lot of things are medication reviews, other queries about, im feeling this way, normally i would see the hospital consultant but i cannot get in touch, and anything thatis cannot get in touch, and anything that is not urgent, they cant deal with. So gps are dealing with a lot of that stuff, it is challenging a different way of working, obviously a lot of us are isolated at home so we dont have the normal team around us. We dont have the normal team around us. But we have been able to utilise a lot of new technology to stay in touch with colleagues, there is a lot of sharing of information between doctors and other Health Professionals and that helping us stay on top of it. He mentioned people being concerned about going to hospital, what would you say . You mentioned that. to hospital, what would you say . You mentioned that. I think it is very important particularly if you are elderly or you have other health problems, if you are unwell and injure yourself, please do not delay getting help particularly if it is an emergency. You will be safe in hospital. Yes, there are risks, if you are isolating and you dont have coronavirus. But actually what is worse is if you delay getting medical attention for something that is serious. Just an example, i was speaking to a patient a couple of days ago who had a very nasty fall at home and she was really anxious, she was elderly, she didnt want to go into hospital, and when she finally did, her shoulder was in a really bad way. Its very important and im so glad that she went in. We cannot take those risks. This is particularly important for Young Children. Parents are delaying taking unwell children into hospital so what we see is children at a much later stage of an illness. Its not related to coronavirus, this is the unintended consequence of people avoiding going to hospitalfor serious issues. Im glad a lot of the other stuff isnt going. But for serious issues, call your gp for advice and if it is getting bad, if it isa advice and if it is getting bad, if it is a serious condition, make sure that you seek medical attention. Thats a really important message. Some questions from viewers, janet, we mentioned yesterday in that Government News conference, they talked about wearing face masks, not saying that that is the case. For example, she says, if we were asked to wear masks, how many would i need a day for them to be effective . cannot tell you. We are struggling with equipment ourselves. So i dont know where patients are going to get equipment and facemasks from. I, like everybody else, are seeing loads of videos online about people making the massive t shirts and other things. The procurement of masks if the general population is going to wear them, the government would have to deal with that. For ppe equipment or medical and health equipment, people on the front line working in care settings of patients who might be positive or trying to protect our patients, its a different kettle of fish. I dont think im best placed to answer that question but i presuming if you are going out, that they would expect you to wear a mask and the rest of the time continue self isolating within your home. Peter says, should we wear gloves in supermarkets . Ill be honest, i have been wearing gloves in supermarkets, mainly because i have two very Young Children and i worry about passing things onto other people. Although im meticulous about washing hands, im meticulous about washing hands, im still wearing them. You dont have to do, if you have good hand hygiene. And a lot of supermarkets have alcohol wipes out, they have got washing stations where they have got washing stations where they have got some kitchen roll and some alcohol sanitiser, so you can wipe down the top of your trolley. I think those are sensible things that you can be doing. Gloves are an additional layer of protection, if you take them off before you touch your steering wheel. I think we are all becoming very conscious about the number of times we touch things since this has started. Wear gloves if you want to, its not a necessity. What kind of gloves to wear, and you dispose of them before you get in your car . Yes, put them on in the car, as soon as im getting out, wash my hands before i getting out, wash my hands before i get home, put some sanitiser on to protect me but also to protect other people because im still relatively low risk for this. Wash my hands, put my gloves on in the car, to my shop and then before i leave i dispose of them. I will then use hand sanitiser and drive home. Thats whats happening at the moment. There isnt a hard and fast rule but there isnt enough that we know about this but hand washing is the main thing if you want to protect yourself and make sure that you dont touch your face a particularly around your nose and mouth and your eyes. One last question from linda, my teenage son lost his sense of smell two weeks ago, is it likely to be coronavirus . No one else has symptoms. There is some anecdotal stuff saying that people with coronavirus are losing their sense of smell. And it is anecdotal, but ive had enough of it to start thinking that potentially there is a link here. But there is a lot of stuff were learning about this. I suspect that it probably is coronavirus, because there isnt anything else that i have heard of in the recent past does this. So, yes, potentially he has it but were still waiting to get robust evidence to say it is definitely one of the symptoms. Really great to have a chat, thank you so much for talking to us this morning and taking those questions. Some really fascinating information. If youre watching for the first time ina if youre watching for the first time in a while, we always speak to agpat time in a while, we always speak to a gp at 6 30am every morning so if you have any questions, thats a great time to send them through. Send us an e mail, we get through as many as we can every day. Lets catch up with the sport, and a bit ofa u turn . Yes, a turn around at tottenham. The premier league club have decided against using the public money to pay for their furloughed staff and will instead pay all their staff salaries in full. They announced that not too long ago. This comes a week after liverpool reversed their initial decision use the government scheme too. Spurs chairman daniel levy said the club listened to their supporters and that only the board will now take a pay cut. They also announced that their stadium will become a drive through Testing Centre for nhs staff and their families, becoming the First Premier League ground to be used for testing. A change of heart from spurs. Southampton have agreed to take a pay deferral, they were the First Premier League first team to do so. They continue to pay their non playing staff full salaries. James ward prowse says the decision shows what the club is all about. We wanted to make a good, mature, calculated decision on what was needed. And, you know, it wasnt done for, well done, youre the first club to do it, it was done out of thinking ahead and thinking, you know, whats best for the club and the community. The head of italian football is looking to restart the season and calling for top flight players to be tested for coronavirus at the beginning of next month. But italian football journalist mina rzouki says its not realistic to talk about football returning just yet, but she expects important decisions regarding the rest of the serie a season to be made in the next few weeks. We know that the lockdown will last through till about may 3rd. And so what some of the clubs are hoping for, and i say some because there are others who oppose this decision entirely, what they are hoping for is that they can resume training on may 4th, and then kick home serie a and start again on 31st of may. Back to pay cuts and this time its Scottish Rugby who have asked players earning over £50,000 a year to take a ten to 25 deduction. Chief executive mark dodson will take a 30 cut as the organisation looks to furlough around three quarters of their staff. Last month they announced a raft of wage defferals but those have now been turned into cuts. You can see the financial problems are you can see the financial problems a re really you can see the financial problems are really starting to bite for Scottish Rugby there. In a terribly difficult situation. Thank you very much, see you in the next hour. It is approaching quarter to seven now. Labour has called for Greater Transparency of the governments measures to support workers and businesses this morning. It comes after it was revealed less than 2 of businesses have successfully received much needed loans. Ninas got more on this. Good morning. Thats right. Just over a month has passed since the chancellor rishi sunak got up in parliament and delivered what was dubbed the coronavirus budget. The problem has been that very few of them are getting them. We understand 4300 out of all the businesses who have made enquiries have got their cash. Labour are calling for more transparency. What does that mean . Lets ask the shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds who joins us from her home in 0xfordshire. What does that look like . We really think that government needs to be publishing the statistics around these different programmes. We need to know how many applications have been made, how have men successfully awarded. This is critical because huge numbers of business are under unprecedented stress, we also see large numbers of people worried about theirjobs. We need to know whether the right systems are in place and unless we have the data we cannot do that, we cannot identify where they need to change if we do not have that information. Uk finance who represent their banks will give weekly updates from wednesday, the local Government Authority that oversee the grants given out, they are giving weekly updates, universal updates are being given. Why over the workload from outstretched government departments, are we asking for daily updates. Outstretched government departments, are we asking for daily updatesm is because those departments have been overstretched and not when receiving the resources that they need that we need to be able to see the preview of their work. In terms of the loan scheme. Wife are daily . Specifically because we have two weeks as people watching this well know, if we are going to have any chance of these schemes to work correctly before the next payday. U nless correctly before the next payday. Unless they are sorted out soon, then we could have a deeper impact on our economy than which has already occurred. The loan scheme, we have men asking for that data for a long time and this is the government has make responsibility to be showing whether these schemes are working or not. I am concerned about the very low take up of that loa n about the very low take up of that loan scheme. As you mentioned it was uk finance that provided those statistics eventually, it was not government. Given the significance of the moment we are in economically, we need to have more information then we have had so far. They would argue that daily updates would mean a lot more work on the chancellor has been agile, he has amended these schemes, he has banned banks from asking small firms to provide guarantees and the British Chamber of commerce is saying that chancellor is listening and adjusting. Do you accept this as monumental in scale and that teething problems are inevitable . We absolutely except that this is an unprecedented package. Indeed we pushed our many elements of it, not least the job protection scheme and the loan scheme as well as the self employed scheme. I am pleased that they are in place but often there has needed to be changes made and they have come in and obviously we have supported the chancellor in doing that, i am not diminishing the huge workload he has and civil serva nts huge workload he has and Civil Servants have at this moment. But we really do need to know whether these programmes and working and getting to the people that they need to ensure order. And actually groups like the federation for Small Businesses have said we do need to have that data, we do need to know and we need to know more quickly than has occurred until now whether these programmes are working. This is about having a constructive relationship with government which we have had throughout but making sure that the support that is needed gets to business who read it right now. We are hearing it is working for lots of businesses, a Sandwich Company in your constituency has said it gives them breathing space. We know this has been more successful where governments have underwritten 100 of the loan instead of 80 . With labour endorse that . We suggested that as one option in terms of altering the loan scheme in terms of driving up the number of businesses who are benefiting from it. The shadow secretary of state for business has suggested five different areas that government should be looking at. Really critical to this is understanding what has been going on over time without loan scheme. At one point it was suggested that there was a big, a large number of applications waiting to be crunched through over the easter weekend. Has that happened . Through over the easter weekend. Has that happened . Is that going on . We do not know because we do not have that fine grained information. Do not know because we do not have that finegrained information. Would labour guarantee 100 of the loan . We would look to learn from other countries as well as that kind of guarantee. That is one option we have set out to government to consider but we need to have their data to know what it is that is holding up, particularly the loans programme, from making the impact it has made in other countries. If you look at switzerland, very large numbers of loans are being dispersed compared to the situation in uk. So there is a blockage there and we need to have their data where we can identify where that all is. In switzerland the government does take on 100 of the loan. Lots of businesses at the moment are saying that the furlough scheme is going to run out in may. Doesnt need to be automatically from today . On the swiss scheme it is not the only difference between the two systems. 0n the furlough scheme, we have said to government that it needs to look at this very carefully. It needs to provide businesses with certainty as well as employees, that is critical. We know there are a lot of employees who are not covered by the scheme because it was not covered quickly enough. Now the government needs to provide a clear plan for its future and if it cannot do that yet at least indicating what the principles are that will drive its Decision Making in relation to the furlough scheme. We know it is unprecedented and large. Uptake in some parts of the economy has been large but in others it has not. But we need the government to be charting the way forward for this and to be open and transparent about it. You work with national government, your partner works with local government, you have two small children, how are you coping with the current restrictions must mark like everyone else, i am really lucky because we live and an ex Council House that is roomy and we have got space. We have a garden as well. I feel sorry for people who are in confined circumstances who are in confined circumstances who are still having to work and trying to look after kids in a small space. We are fine and i feel for people who are not in that kind of a situation. Thank you. We spoke to the treasury, they told us they are working hard to be transparent at every juncture when they are working hard to be transparent at everyjuncture when they are getting the schemes up and running. If you wa nt to the schemes up and running. If you want to know about any more there is lots of detail on the government website. If youre trying to stay fit but also stay at home, you might want to try a form of exercise thats long been favoured by many top athletes and, famously, by boxers, skipping. And we know just the man to teach you. This is Rajinder Singh, who is 73 and from heathrow. He calls himself the skipping sikh and hes been creating online fitness tutorials to keep us all happy and active while were stuck at home. We can talk to rajinder now. Hejoins us from his home with his daughter, min kaur. Thank you very much for talking to us. Thank you very much for talking to us. Lovely to see this morning. Rajinder, how did you first get into skipping . My father was in the army and when i was very young, he said get a rope and tie skipping and look after yourself. And that is why i have had the habit since then to do exercise. I do one minute of skipping and one minute of rest. I have got so many things in my shed. You can do exercise with anything. You can do exercise with anything. You hold it and do exercise and help others if you can. I am looking at you skipping, you look incredibly fit. Anyone who has tried skipping will know it is really tiring. What is your advice to people who want to keep it like you . The special situation like this, we are like to go outside and do exercise. But in an emergency you can do skipping inside and outside, in your garden. And you can keep fit and just no problem. When you learn it, dont give up. Exercise, going outside running and compared with skipping, skipping is more stamina than running outside. That is why i would say to everybody, try your best, do exercise, get anything to hold and start doing exercise. There is no excuse whatsoever. Good advice. Min kaur, has your dad influenced you to skip and what sort of influence as a having on others in the Community Around him as well . Yeah, he has had around him as well . Yeah, he has had a huge influence on me from a young age. I have tried to keep up with them and failed completely in skipping and running. In terms of the community he has gone viral. People said, the did not know this is my dad. Please make him do more video so he can put them online and we can take part. He is notjust influencing the elders, it is the younger community who are saying they would like to get involved and like to skip. I have had people contact me from all over the world saying i am going to get up and we are going to take part in their skipping challenge. It is so basic and you can do it at home. You start with small jumps. He and you can do it at home. You start with smalljumps. He has had massive influence on the community. Everyone loves him. Brilliant. Listen, tell me as well it was an important day in the seat calendar yesterday. How did you celebrate . Sikh celebration. We have everything online, so we have some organisation offering meditations and prayers and talks about the celebrations. My dad is bringing exercises now which we are then publishing out line as well, so make it fun and interactive so we well, so make it fun and interactive so we still get to celebrate it but we are doing it from home and still together which is a beautiful thing together which is a beautiful thing to do. Rajinder, we are seeing pictures of you doing body building with what i assume is a full watering can in the garden. It is great to see you using so many things around the house. Have you done some exercise already, have you already skipped for the day are doing it later on . I did at a quarter past three this morning. I pray and then exercise. Then lay down for a while and wait until you people want to interview me, so i am here ready. And i am ready again when i wake up and i will go outside and do exercise and feed the birds as well and looking after other people as well. I do charity, i do park run, i do everything. I dont sit around. Can i check with your daughter, does he wake you up at three oclock in the morning . No. He tries to be quiet in the house and he never tells anyone that he gets up he never tells anyone that he gets up that early in the morning. It has been me that has been the driver, get out there. We definitely need smiles on our faces at this time. The new mr motivator, i think. You are both brilliant. You have inspired me. I have got a skipping rope and i will go home and try and skip later on today. Thank you both so skip later on today. Thank you both so much. I was asked to bring a skipping rope into day. I have got one behind us here, so you can have a go. It is full length. Lets catch up with what is going on with the weather. So many people looking at the weather from so many people looking at the weatherfrom inside so many people looking at the weather from inside their houses. I love these pictures as well. It isa it is a cold start to the day and a frosty one for many of us as well, last night temperatures fell as low as 5 6. For most of us it is going to be dry with sunny spells. High pressure is firmly in charge of our weather, moves around it in a clockwise direction. Cloud in scotla nd clockwise direction. Cloud in scotland and some breezy conditions. We have got some cloud this morning across the south eastern quarter of england through the day that will break up and we will see some sunshine. Patchy cloud in south west england, the midlands and wales, Northern England and much of scotla nd Northern England and much of scotland away from the north west clearer skies. We are still looking at high cloud in parts of and Northern Ireland and Northern England, so your sunshine today is likely to be hazy and through the day some of it will push down in wales and the midlands. Still hazy sunshine, temperatures up to 13 degrees. Luckily we could see 16 degrees. Luckily we could see 16 degrees. This evening and overnight, we will see clear skies once again, a cold night for many of us, patchy mist and fog for northern in mind in southern scotland and we have a weather front in the north of scotland, still breezy and cloudy with the odd spot of rain. Not as cold. In stornoway that temperature will be 8 degrees. In towns and cities we are looking at one, 4 degrees. For wednesday, we lose the mist and fog and we have a fair bit of sunshine once again, a lot of dry weather. A week cold front producing all this cloud in northern scotland, the odd spot of rain and drizzle as well and here it will be windy. Temperatures between nine in lerwick, 17 or 18 as we push towards london and cardiff. For a thursday, a chilly start to the day and a frosty start, still this cloud across the north of scotland, a cold front we see colour conditions behind it and we have another front coming from the south west introducing some showers, some of which will be heavy and thundering probably getting to the midlands. Temperatures could get up to 22. Headlines are coming up next. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. 0ur headlines today. Care homes at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic as the government reveals more than 2000 homes in england have cases. We have very large numbers of people in care homes who are passing away who are exhibiting covid 19 symptoms but who arent being classified as having the coronavirus because they havent been tested. A review of the lockdown measures in the coming days but the foreign secretary says therell be no early relaxation of the restrictions. Frances president macron extends his countrys lockdown to mid may and admits his government has made mistakes. Questions over the governments economic support schemes. Labour wants daily updates on take up as its revealed less than 2 of businesses have successfully received much needed loans. A turnaround at tottenham as they reverse their decision to use the governments Job Retention scheme and agree to pay all their staff their full salaries. 0ur favourite guest of recent days, captain tom moore was aiming to raise £1,000 for the nhs by walking laps of his garden. This morning hes well on the way to £1 million, we have an update. Its tuesday the 14th of april. Our top story. There have been outbreaks of covid 19 at more than 2000 care homes in england, the department of health has confirmed. The news comes as scientific advisers for the government are due to meet later to review the impact of the uks lockdown measures. Ministers have already said its unlikely there will be any change to restrictions in the next week. Keith doyle has the latest. The faces of two dedicated nhs nurses. Their lives lost while helping others. Melujean ballesteros, originally from the philippines, died at the London Hospital where she worked. Her son said she loved herjob. She loved her work as a nurse. Raheema sidarni, who was 68, refused to retire during the crisis. She spent 50 years as a nurse after arriving from trinidad. She died on saturday. Her family said she was a nurse until the end. The latest figures show the number of people who died in hospital with covid 19 rose by 717 in the last 24 hour period. Bringing the total number to 11,329. That figure does not include deaths in care homes and the community. Figures due to be released later from the office of National Statistics will give an indication of the number of lives lost there. At this care home run by care uk in durham, 13 residents have died after showing symptoms of coronavirus. The government said there have been outbreaks of coronavirus at over 2000 care homes in england. Care home operators say better access to protective equipment and testing is vital. Id like our teams to have access to testing, that is now beginning to happen. But id also like our residents to have access to testing. At the moment, the only people who get tested out of care homes are people who go into hospitals. And they are then tested when they get there. We have very large numbers of people in care homes who are passing away who are exhibiting covid 19 symptoms, but who arent being classified as having the coronavirus because they havent been tested. Over the easter weekend, the overwhelming majority of people stayed at home according to the government whose scientific advisers will meet later to review the lockdown. At yesterdays downing street briefing, the indications were that decision to keep it in place has already been taken. If we let up now, the virus will only take full advantage, it will spread faster and it will kill more people. If we refuse to give into it, if we keep up this Incredible Team effort, we will beat this virus and we will come through this national test. So, with the lockdown set to continue, it will be the numbers levelling or dropping that will bring changes. Each of those numbers a life lost and a family grieving. Keith doyle, bbc news. Lets get the latest from our Political Correspondent helen catt in westminster now. So much concern about whats going on in care homes, and also about looking at this review of lockdown, really important decisions to make this week . Yes, there are. The chief medical officer chris whitty has previously said that the care homes to present a challenge and there is increasing political pressure to get a much clearer idea of what is happening in social care. Labours shadow social care minister liz kendall wants the government to publish the daily figures for people who have died in care homes with coronavirus. We dont have that at the moment, the moment we get numbers from people who have died in hospital only so it is certainly on the political agenda. The most immediate decision the government has to relate this week relates on trying to stop the spread in the wider community, that is keeping those lockdown measures in place. That has effectively already been taken, dominic raab, Nicola Sturgeon in scotland has said there would be no change, the Welsh Government has said the same. Scientists will look at the data later today but we arent expecting it to be lifted this week. You might be thinking, how long are these measures going to be in place . The government has to review them by law every three weeks, downing street says that doesnt necessarily mean they will be extended in blocks of three weeks. But the government says they will not be relaxed until we are beyond the peak of the virus. It seems that we are not yet there and their medical experts say that sadly they do expect the number of people dying to go up in the next few weeks. A very sobering, thank you very much. The french president Emmanuel Macron has extended the coronavirus lockdown for another four weeks until may 11th. He said the current restrictions had slowed the virus but not beaten it, and accepted that the lockdown had been especially tough for poorerfamilies without the benefit of spacious homes and good internet connections. Translation were we ready for this crisis . Well, clearly not enough. But we stood up to it. In the next four weeks, the rules put in place by parliament have to be respected. Theyre shown to be successful, they will not be reinforced or lightened but they should be completely put into place. President trump has said he is calling the shots as to when the us will start to ease lockdown restrictions after some state governors suggested they would have the final word. At a white house briefing, he insisted his strategy to tackle coronavirus was working. His comments came as the governors of ten us states, nine of them democrats, agreed to co ordinate the re opening of their economies. Russian president Vladimir Putin has said the military could be deployed to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak, after the number of cases there rose sharply. Lets speak with our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg. So give us an idea ofjust how bad the situation is there. Well, there has been a definite change of tone here. Not long ago, the message from the kremlin was, everything is under control, just under three weeks ago the kremlin was saying de facto there is no epidemic here. Yesterday, president putin said the situation is changing daily, and not for the better. Yesterday, russia registered its largest daily increase in coronavirus cases. Up by more than 2500 to more than 18,000. Those figures are relatively low when you compare them to the uk, spain on the United States but there are questions about the quality and the coverage of testing, and also the coverage of testing, and also the moscow mayor recently said that the moscow mayor recently said that the russian capital is in the foothills of this pandemic, in other words, the peak is a long way away. So there is concern that the figures are going to rise for a long time to come. Already there are reports that the Health Service in moscow is coming and elvis strain with hospital beds coming under enormous strain with hospital beds filling up fast and there were reports of long queues of amenities ata reports of long queues of amenities at a hot ambulances at a hospital on the edge of moscow treating coronavirus patients. From the very start of the coronavirus outbreak, government ministers have said they will follow the latest scientific advice and that theyll continue to do so when deciding how and when to ease the lockdown restrictions. Much of that advice will come from the Scientific Advisory group for emergencies which was co chaired by sir gordon duff during the swine flu pandemic. Hejoins us now from oxford, along with the economist and author, linda yueh who is in london. Good morning to both of you. Thank you very much for spending some time with us this morning. We will come to you first of all if we could, sir gordon. About the discussions that will be going on at the moment, what sort of detail and what will the nature of those discussions be in the coming days . The sage will be looking at. Evidence and information that can be gathered, thats relevant. Im afraid were having a few issues with your line, we will try and re establish things to make sure we can hear you a little bit more. Lets come to you instead, linda, you are looking at the fine balance between the restrictions we currently have in place and making sure the damage to the economy is not irreparable, so what is that balance they are trying to make sure they are getting right . That is certainly what the government will be discussing this week. Probably something to bear in mind asa week. Probably something to bear in mind as a principle is we need to do all that is necessary to protect people and this is first and foremost a health pandemic. What you can do on the economy side to ensure that once it is over, people are still employed, the self employed have support, and importantly viable businesses who are employers are still going. Thats going to be the calculus the government will be undertaking which is, have they given enough support to make sure that once this pandemic is over, the economy can get back on its feet as much as possible . In the short term, we should expect quite a significant economic hits. Its interesting that the number of businesses who are applying for loans and for this government scheme, the furlough scheme, was more than they thought, how significant is that . Quite significant. I think what it is showing is, we dont know the extent of the economic, the economy contracting so the estimates are Something Like double digit declines in output in the second quarter, which is april to june. In output in the second quarter, which is april tojune. We shouldnt be too surprised because it is a sudden stop to Economic Activity so the fact that there are lots of businesses who have applied for loans, some concern that the processing is a bit slow, and the Job Retention scheme which is intended to subsidise employers to keep workers, the massive take up tells us we havent faced anything like this in a century and we dont know the extent of the economic impact. These measures, iwould stress, will help and we should not worry too much about the take up for them. We will try sir gordon again, hopefully the technology will allow you to answer the question. You were talking about the Decision Making process . Talking about the Decision Making process . Yes. All of the relevant science. From this country, but from other sources, will be taken into account. Are very thorough discussion, and get to a clear picture. Im afraid we have lost you again. Sorry about that. We cannot really hear hardly any of your answer whatsoever. Lets go back to linda. I was going to ask both of you, it was about comparisons to issues we have had in the past and the financial problems, the past and the financial problems, the austerity measures that we have had in place for many years because of the last financial crisis. Do you think we might see a repeat of that . We will likely see a fairly large amount of deficit, that means the government are willing to finance this. I dont necessarily think that this. I dont necessarily think that this will mean we have a decade of austerity and a slow recovery, because it is fundamentally quite different. Different to what happened ten years ago. I think we have learned some lessons and the choices will be different. The other thing to stress was, at this point, it isa thing to stress was, at this point, it is a global pandemic. Almost every country in the world, and i say almost because the International Monetary fund has literally said pretty much every country in the world of the 189 they cover is facing a massive Economic Contraction which will require a lot of spending and borrowing. So everyone is in the same position in that sense. So long as the focus is getting the pandemic under control, that will help the economy eventually get back so long as people are protected and employers are supported. In that sense, i dont think we will have the fast rebound but we certainly shouldnt have, fingers crossed, the kind of banking crisis, austerity, long drawn out recovery that we had from ten years ago. Because every country is in the same position, i think we should worry less about that side of the spending at this point. Good to talk to you, thank you so much. Appreciate that you have tried to communicate with us, sir gordon, sorry about the technology, it doesnt always work. If youve been watching breakfast over the last few days, youll already know about captain tom moore. Hes the Second World War veteran on a mission to raise money for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden before he turns 100 at the end of this month. When we first met tom on good friday, his fund raising target was £1,000. Right now his tally stands at well over three quarters of a million pounds. Lets take a look back at whats been a very productive weekend. Lovely story coming up. A 99 year old war veteran has decided to walk 100 lengths of his back garden. He wants to raise money for the nhs. Its been four days since captain tom moore first appeared on bbc breakfast with his message for the country. Tomorrow is a good day. And it was. In just 24 hours, he raised a staggering £70,000. His aim to help those on the front line saw support and cash pour in from around the world. The reason im doing is because of the service that i have personally got from the national Health Service, and for the super nurses who are always so kind and patient. A feeling that has been echoed by many. Thanks, captain tom and from one veteran to another, a message of support. Captain moore, just wanted to say a huge congratulations, half a million pounds, wow, a huge amount of money. What a way to celebrate your hundredth birthday, and what an example to other veterans. It will do so much to help those on the front line of the nhs. As well as encouragement from a familiar face and fundraiser of his generation. Youve done a very, very good job. And im very pleased for you. Carry on, youre doing a good job. Carry on, old boy. As the total continues to grow with every step, tom knows he has the country cheering him on. So many of you have given so generously towards this. The money raised by captain tom will go towards helping front line nhs staff to fight covid 19. Lets speak to two of them now to see how and where it might best be spent. Tom dolphin is an intensive care doctor and david smith is an a e nurse. They both work in hospitals in london. Thank you for speaking with us. David, i know you are in the middle ofa david, i know you are in the middle of a night shift. What has the shift ben like . Good morning. It has been 0k. Had its challenges but it is the end of the night so i am looking forward to going home. You say challenges, what particular challenges, what particular challenges this night . Just the acuity of their patients. We have had to pull out all of the stops. We have found a lot of the patients are sick during this time, so we are having to pool our resources to make sure that they are getting the best ca re sure that they are getting the best care ina sure that they are getting the best care in a timely fashion. Tom, how are you and your colleagues coping . Everyone is pulling together. It is extraordinary the last couple of weeks everyone in the nhs has turned around their way the nhs is structured and do things. Everyone is keen to get things sorted out so we can get ready for patients as they start coming in. The support of they start coming in. The support of the public has been really helpful as well, the clapping for carers and all the things we have been seeing on social media, it is good to see they are willing as on. And we have talked so much about personal protective equipment. What is your experience . My own hospital is not too bad. We have as much ppe as we need at the moment but it does feel like we are looking for the next delivery. What the bma has seen over the past few weeks, we have seen members contacting us with anxiety that they are not getting their personal protective equipment they need. They are being asked to see patients without the equipment and that puts them at risk. We know doctors and nurses have died already. We have other doctors and ca re already. We have other doctors and care professionals in intensive care now because they have been infected. How does this affect you now, how much impact does it have on you that you have to wear this it makes it physically difficult. It is uncomfortable to wear, especially the tight fitting facemasks. You can stay in their ppe and still concentrate and still be able to function, it is important to have enough so you function, it is important to have enough so you can function, it is important to have enough so you can have a break and rehydrate enough so you can have a break and re hydrate and then enough so you can have a break and rehydrate and then put enough onto go back in again and that is difficult if you have not got enough because you are staying in longer. David, is that your experience. That example of people staying in because people dont come out and change. Yes and no. In my particular trust, ican yes and no. In my particular trust, i can maybe speak with the highest regard because we have got some excellent leaders and reusable facemasks so we have our own personal ones that have been approved and we use all the time. U nfortu nately approved and we use all the time. Unfortunately it doesnt alleviate, at my nose is incredibly sore now but it gives me the protection i need so that means i do not need to keep reducing, reusing the equipment that we have. But i have heard from my colleagues, i got a call before this to find out what other Emergency Departments were experiencing. Some like mine are very well stocked and in others they do not seem to. The do not court that advice from other countries. It isa that advice from other countries. It is a hit and miss situation. David, i noticed when you are off camera, you are sipping water. Is it another issue for you, keeping yourselves well . All my goodness. I realised i had not had a break since one oclock. There was the sheer volume of patients, i just oclock. There was the sheer volume of patients, ijust need to drink some water otherwise i will. Yes, i was sipping the water. Do not let us interrupt you in your hydration. Tom, ican us interrupt you in your hydration. Tom, i can see when david was saying that, you are nodding in agreement. Is it the way it affects you as well . Everyone is working hard at the moment. We have changed the way we deliver services. People are working in areas they do not normally work in, and the sense of helping patients is very much there and people are pushing themselves very hard. I was going to ask you as well david, you gave us an insight to know what it is like on ship, seeing a lot of patience and struggling to do the basics like drink enough water. What about the morale of those you are working with, seeing those increased cases, seeing people who are ill and hearing about fatalities, notjust in your own trust that elsewhere across the uk as well, how are you keeping each other going at a time like this . I think we are just drawing on our inner strength really. We just try to have fun and we have got a message within the department, one of the science is be kind always. Just essentially ensuring that my colleagues and both are nurses and doctors, it is important you have a break. I was looking after a couple of sick patients and i sent them over brea kfast. Patients and i sent them over breakfast. The trust are giving out free food in the canteen and we are getting an incredible amount of food and it is helping to keep the morale really kind of. To see the appreciation from the public is helping us. Can i ask one more question about a e, you are both on the front line but you see so much going on in a e, are there other people who have not got coronavirus more reluctant to see you . There is that. We have noticed a significant decrease in the football into the department. But as the government have been saying, it is important that if you have got a condition that if you have got a condition that you are concerned about whether that you are concerned about whether thatis that you are concerned about whether that is chest pain or shortness of breath, it is important you attend the Emergency Department because it is up to us to diagnose the condition. To see if it is something severe condition. To see if it is something severe or condition. To see if it is something severe or just condition. To see if it is something severe orjust indigestion for example with chest pain. We have noticed a drop off but we are what we are seeing is the sickest patients coming to as. Essentially we have got more time for them because there isnt as many sort of, you know other presentations that we may normally get. I think people are anxious, they are concerned that they be contracted in the department. Tom, i want to come back to you. David has been talking about what it is like to keep morale going asa team. What it is like to keep morale going as a team. You talked earlier about the response to the clap for a kid as we see on a thursday. What are fridays like, do you notice a lift in peoples spirits because of that encouragement and the outpouring of love throughout the United Kingdom for the nhs . On the first night that it happened, the whatsapp activity was phenomenal. Everyone was sending videos from their own streets and out of their own windows that they had their neighbours clapping and had their neighbours clapping and had gone to film with themselves. Everyone in the department were showing their videos, it made a big difference to how everyone feels about things. We are still going to work, we are still in the hospital. To be able to see people out there willing is on, the people want us to succeed and people are behind us makes a huge difference and that has been shared and bounced everyone in the department and on social media. That does make an lot of difference, yes. David, do you get emotional when you hear the clapping . The other day, the housemates and my neighbours knew that we were nhs personnel and it was phenomenal the amount of support. I should admit it on national tv, i shed a tear. It was amazing, it was phenomenal. It makes me proud to work in this profession and work for an an incredible service. I am sure people are shedding a tear with you saying that. Thank you so much. Thank you for your incredible work and thank you for spending their time talking to us. No need to apologise. David, what time do you finish your shift today . 830. Thank you so much. And absolutely wonderful to hear from them as well. Telling you what it is really like stock you hear about all that clap for carers that we cover on the programme and people are taking part in that. When you hear the difference it makes to them going in on a friday and they talk about it and the influence it has on them. Morale is so important at the moment. 28 minutes past seven at the moment. 28 minutes past seven at the moment. What is happening with the weather . For many of us it is going to be a beautiful day, in exeter the sun is out. But it is cold and frosty. Not all of us having a dry day, the air around high pressure, we have more cloud in the south east and more cloud in the south east and more cloud across the north and west of scotland. The weather front close by, it is producing spots of rain, nothing too heavy. More especially across shetland. It will be windy today. The cloud in the south east will break and so by the afternoon we will see sunny skies here as well. Hazy sunshine with high cloud in Northern England, pushing south into the midlands and wales through the afternoon. But it will be sunny at times and it will still be pleasant, not as windy as yesterday. Temperatures, eight in lerwick too has a 14 in cardiff. Although we could see a 16 somewhere across north east scotland. During this overnight we will see clear skies and a cold night over in rural areas. Northern ireland, southern scotland, patchy mist and fog and low cloud. We still have thicker cloud across the north of scotland, breezy for you with the odd splash of rain. Not as cold, temperature seven, eight. In the clear skies it will be cold with some frost. Tomorrow, we start off with the mist and fog lifting, any frost or lift and fog lifting, any frost or lift and for much of england, wales, parts of Northern Ireland and parts of scotla nd parts of Northern Ireland and parts of scotland we will see sunshine. The weather front is where there is producing all this cloud in the north and it has the opposite effect. Cooler in the north west with highs of 11. In the south, 17, 18 even 19 degrees. Here is a cold front was cooler air behind it, moving into thursday, a new weather front coming up from the bay of biscay. That will produce heavy showers, some of which could be thundery. South west england, in three parts of wales and the midlands. Still all this cloud in the north but it will be quite warm. If you are away from both these areas, looking at 22 in the south east back ten in aberdeen. Youre watching breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. The coronavirus outbreak is already having a major impact on businesses and jobs in the uk. In the last four weeks the government has received 1. 4 million claims for universal credit, thats an eight fold increase on normal times. Lets speak now to the work and pensions secretary, Therese Coffey. Shejoins us live she joins us live from suffolk. Thank you for your time this morning. Can we talk about your area of expertise to start with, employment . The latest figures showing the number of people applying for universal credit has risen tenfold. How is the system dealing with what is Unprecedented Demand at the moment . Our it systems have stood up to the challenge, we have stood up to the challenge, we have been working daily since the start of this to make sure we can build the capacity but we have also directed a lot of Civil Servants to make sure we can process claims so that people can get the Financial Support that they need quickly. For those people who dont want to wait the amount of time that we would normally pay universal credit, they have been able to get an advance of the money so they can get cash up front if that is what they need. Can you give us up to date figures for the number of people who are claiming universal credit at the moment . Its about 1. 4 Million People and 200,000 people have also claimed other more historic benefits like jobseekers allowance or employment support allowance. Are you worried about those people contacting us this morning saying that they are fearful of falling through the gaps, are not receiving the support they need at the moment . They should be able to get that support. We did have a huge number of phone calls early on, even vodafone could not cope with the number of phone calls we were getting at that time. I can assure people that we have streamlined and redirected our processes so that we are calling them rather than people needing to wait on the phone in order to make any necessary connections. Im confident that the system is working, im confident that people will start to get their money next weekend also, anybody who is asking for advances has been able to get it in the last few weeks. In terms of government estimates, if you look at the furlough employment scheme, it is thought there will be three times more people applying for that than initial cost estimates. How is that figure so poorly estimated in the first place, what was the reasoning behind that . The chancellor has not put figures on the amount of people eligible for this scheme. The point is that we wa nted this scheme. The point is that we wanted to make sure that employers could keep a link with employees, andindeed could keep a link with employees, and indeed people who they had already made redundant early on, they could take back onto the books. We did that by hmrc designing a scheme which meant anybody who was on the payroll at the end of february could be paid and the government would pay for that cost. I think it is more a case of, trying to make sure that once the economy fully reopens, that businesses are ina good fully reopens, that businesses are in a good place to get going again without having gone through the cost of redundancy, but also the cost of recruiting again. In terms of the economy getting going again, what is it like when you are having those discussions in cabinet about having to strike that balance between protecting the uk from coronavirus, but also trying to make sure that the economy doesnt take such a huge hit that it would take such a long time to recover . How is that balance being struck . 0ur time to recover . How is that balance being struck . Our primary purpose of the Government Strategy is to make sure that we save lives, to protect the nhs by not being overwhelmed. We are now in a place for the nhs has more capacity in Critical Care beds which is very welcome. We have a lwa ys which is very welcome. We have always continued for people to keep working and work from home where they can, if they cannot work from home, they could still go to work u nless home, they could still go to work unless they are in places where we had set for other reasons, like theatres, cinemas, restaurants, that that was not an appropriate place to keep businesses running. We want to make sure that if people go to work, that they work safely with social distancing rigorously enforced. We also want to stress that we have kept schools open, particularly for key workers, to make sure that if that sort of issue is not a reason why people cannot continue to work on the front line in the key Public Sector services, and more broadly, we are continuing to encourage people to keep working where they can people to keep working where they ca n safely. People to keep working where they can safely. I dont know if you saw the address from the french president Emmanuel Macron yesterday, i think it is the third time he has addressed the french public. He said, in terms of readiness of the crisis, he asked himself that question, where we ready . Clearly not ready enough, lets be honest, events revealed weaknesses and efficiencies. Do you think the same is true of what has happened in the uk . Things like ppe, we had stocks and they were not necessarily being distributed, now we have a very effective delivery mechanism, getting that round, right around our Clinical Care settings. But also we have seen happening to about hospices and care homes, about 8 million items. We continue to need to increase our Domestic Production of key ppe measures, whether that be counts, i know burberry have started doing that, also the visors, also things like sanitiser. We have had many distilleries repurchasing alcohol to be able to make hand sanitiser. So we are very much focusing on making sure that we have a supply chain in this country but we have also been buying supplies from abroad. With respect, thats not what i ask you, i asked you whether there should be an admission in this country that we will not well prepared in this country that we will not well prepa red enough. In this country that we will not well prepared enough. in this country that we will not wellprepared enough. I think that wellprepared enough. I think that we have as a nation got a significant plan for things like pandemic flu outbreaks. We have reached aspects of that more quickly than perhaps would have been originally modelled. But i think that we have responded well. We were continuing to make sure that we can keep going for several months in terms of the response that we believe will be necessary in order to really beat coronavirus, but in the meantime, we continue to work on a variety of things, whether it be testing, whether it be aspects of distribution and ppe, but the key thing is about making sure we stop the transmission of virus which is why we are so pleased people have responded to the lockdown, stopped going out and that is critical to make sure we continue to limit the spread of the virus. Sake of clarity, you are entirely happy with the governments level of preparedness . I think we are recently well prepared, we continue to develop things by sorting out the distribution of ppe, that wasnt working initially and we have now got that fixed. We will continue to make sure that we work on other matters where it is not flowing as quickly as it could be, so things like ramping up the capability of doing many more tests, that sort of thing is continuing to use the private industry as well as the nhs to make sure we do that. That capacity is growing but it is not at the highest level at which the Health Secretary would like it but we are making sure we get there. Im not sure im going to get an answer to that question is. I want to talk to that question is. I want to talk to you about care homes. to that question is. I want to talk to you about care homes. I think i did answer you, i think we are well prepared lead. Did answer you, i think we are well prepared lead. I asked did answer you, i think we are well prepared lead. Iasked you did answer you, i think we are well prepared lead. I asked you three times whether you would admit whether there was a lack of preparedness from the garment and i dont think you answered on any occasion. What i said is that i think we have been welcomed prepared and where they have been deficiencies, we have sought to address them and we recognise that there are still some gaps in aspects like our capacity to test 100,000 people which is the target set by the Health Secretary but we are working with the nhs to reach that capacity. Id like to talk about ca re capacity. Id like to talk about care homes. We learned yesterday that 13 residents at a County Durham ca re that 13 residents at a County Durham care home have died after displaying symptoms of coronavirus. Are you being open enough about the situation at care homes as a government . The Daily Briefing reports the sad death of people in clinical settings in hospital and thatis clinical settings in hospital and that is done because we can accurately and quickly access that data. 0na accurately and quickly access that data. On a weekly basis the office for National Statistics is collating the registered deaths across the country which will show where people have sadly died due to coronavirus as certified by a doctor in the death certificate. That information is open, it is being updated weekly and it is one of the reasons why we will support care homes as we have done with the delivery of ppe to a number of those around the country. But of course, we want to make sure that social care is working alongside the nhs, thats why we have given some extra funding to councils to help with that. But also some of the delivery of equipment necessary to do it as well as testing starting. Im sure that more testing starting. Im sure that more testing would be sought by the care homes, but were making sure we are prioritising testing clinical need. 0n the show yesterday, we were speaking to the chief executive of another care Home Organisation who are talking about, you mentioned ppe, that his staff were not receiving adequate ppe all being tested. The suggestion from some is on social care, the government is failing care homes, what is your response . Understandably the priority of the government has been people who need hospital treatment, that has been the focus, but it doesnt mean that other people are being left behind. But people are dying in care homes. Indeed, thats why testing is available in care homes, thats why we have been delivering ppe to that. Care home providers are also able to access ppe equipment from wholesalers who are not discriminating between social care and local nhs care. We will continue to make sure that they are part of the aspect of delivery network. Understandably we are prioritising hospitals and Community Health but also making sure that through our local government distribution of supplies, care homes can also approach that as well. Just before we let you go, i wanted to talk to you about testing because he mentioned that alongside the other large issue of ppe. The latest figures show that 18,000 people in the uk are being tested per day for coronavirus. It wasnt that long ago that the Health Secretary was saying that the Health Secretary was saying that the Health Secretary was saying that the target was 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month. By my reckoning, that is 16 days to get more than fivefold increase in the number of tests being done daily. At what point are you going to be able to say, we were wrong with that prediction, it cannot happen . The target set by the Health Secretary, said by the government, is designed to bring more people into the testing capacity. We have started to open up many more laps around the country, and indeed many more drive through centres which focus on clinical staff and their households to make sure that we can test those people accordingly, at 42,000 tests have been done in that scenario. But can you get to 100,000 by the end of the month . Im confident we can, thats why the Health Secretary ona can, thats why the Health Secretary on a daily basis supported by his ministerial team, have been working with the industry to make sure that we can open up that capacity. A lot of these tests continue needing to be done through a way of swabs as we have at the moment and so the supplies of the necessary products to do that has also been stepped up through our procurement channels to make sure we can reach that capacity of 100,000 per day. Thank you very much for your time, Therese Coffey, hope you have a good day, thank you. Lets have a look at the sporting world. A u turn at spurs . Yes, Tottenham Hotspur, the eighth Richest Football Club in the world. Not that long ago they announced they would furlough a round fire half of their 550 nonplaying staff and other nonplaying employees would be taking a 20 pay cut. But then they also announced an annual revenue of £460 million. The premier league club have decided against using public money to pay for their furloughed staff and will instead pay all their staff salaries in full. In no small part this has been thanks to the Tottenham Supporters clu b thanks to the Tottenham Supporters club who have been passing on the fans feelings to the board over the last few days, they said it was simply not the right thing to do for the club, didnt look like the right thing to do. This comes a week after liverpool reversed their initial decision use the government scheme too. But they do still need to find savings. A couple of ideas that have been suggested this morning, the head coach, joe is a jose mourinho, could be asked to take a temporary pay cut. The first team could be asked to take a wage deferral, lots of clubs having similar discussions to that. One positive note i should tell you, totte n ha m positive note i should tell you, Tottenham Hotspur have that fantastic and beautiful new stadium, it has been announced that the nhs will be using the stadium to test staff. That will be being put to good use. And we believe that the away dressing room will be turned into a maternity date unit so pregnant women who do not want to go into hospitals or who are unable to go into clinics for their scans will not need to go there if they live in the local area, they can go and have scans and checkups in a designated area in that brand new stadium and keep away from hospitals which is very reassuring for lots of women in that situation. A bit of positivity for you. It isa it is a quarter to eight now. Labour has called for Greater Transparency of the governments measures to support workers and businesses this morning. It comes after it was revealed less than 2 of businesses have successfully received much needed loans. Ninas got more on this. Good morning. Thats right. I cant believe its just over a month since rishi sunak delivered his budget. It included a whole raft of measures and was followed up less than 10 days later by even more cash to help businesses and individuals whose finances are being disrupted by this crisis. So where are we on some of the big schemes . The big one was the Coronavirus Business interruption loan scheme. In simple terms it means businesses can apply to the banks for a loan to help them get through any loss of revenue they might be facing. The government guarantees 80 of the loan meaning, in theory, that the banks are more willing to lend. 300,000 businesses had enquired about the sheme as of good friday but the business secretary revealed at the weekend thatjust 4,200 had got their hands on any cash. So is there a blockage and why . Labour are asking for daily updates from the treasury on how many are applying and how many are being successful. Earlier i spoke with the shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds. We really think that government needs to be actually publishing the statistics around these different programmes. We need to know how many applications have been made, how many have been then successfully awarded. And, you know, this is really critical because right now huge numbers of business are under unprecedented stress. We also see very large numbers of people worried about theirjobs. We need to know whether the right systems are in place and unless we have the data, we cant do that. We cant identify where they need to change every dont have that information. So thats loans but there are also grants being offered to businesses via local councils. Well the local Government Authority which represents councils in england say in the space of a week theyve have already paid £1bn to about 100,000 businesses. Small shops and cafes among those that have got access to that cash. Then there is theJob Retention scheme. 0r furloughing as it has become known. That is where companies that might have been forced to lay people off agree to keep them on with the government offering to pay 80 of peoples salaries. This scheme is not up and running yet but the government promises it will be by the end of this month. And it sadly doesnt help everyone. If you started in yourjob after the 28th of february then you miss out or you are self employed then there is another, more complicated, scheme coming soon. That is not happening until the end of the month either. In the meantime and for many other people the only option is to fall back on the benefits system this morning the work and pensions sec Therese Coffey confirmed there have been 1. 4 million more applications forjob seekers allowance and universal credit. She stressed the system can cope. There are still people that fall through the cracks though despite all the systems and schemes in place. Thats why labour wants this daily reporting. The treasury told us weve worked hard to be transparent at every juncture while we get these schemes up and running, and we are committed to keeping the public updated on our work and ensuring information is shared as promptly and frequently as possible. There is lots of information on the government website on these schemes. Have a look. Thank you very much indeed. It may be the middle of the easter holidays but across the uk hundreds of schools remain open for the children of key workers. 0ur correspondent tomos morgan has spent the day with some pupils in cardiff to see how theyre getting on. My name is penelope and my mum works for the nhs and helps people. My name is william. My dad is a dentist and my mum works for the nhs. My name is harriet and my mum works in the nhs as a medical secretary and my dad works for the council. Easter holidays here in cardiff. Its one of the welsh capitals largest areas, where several students share one school during social distancing measures. You are taking all precautions necessary to keep everyone safe, dividing the children between opposite ends of the school. Its been very different, thats for sure. We are very much now not a school, it is childcare provision and we are focusing on the wellbeing of the children and caring and supporting them in this really difficult time. Were just happy we can do our bit to support the parents and they can continue to carry outjobs and essential services. Usually there are over 500 pupils here in this primary school, but this week, six different schools are using it as a hub, there have been no more than 30 pupils coming here per day, meaning empty classrooms are a common sight. Teachers are here sent us this footage. Its a hub for three schools in the local authority. It is open seven days a week, seven hours a day, aiming to be as flexible as possible for those parents that need childcare during this time. In wales, 400 hubs will remain open over the easter break and less than 1 of all School Children here can use them if required. So, how have the children in cardiff been enjoying the holidays . Its fun, but its also quite weird because its stuff we wouldnt normally do. Weve been doing a lot of things outdoors, like we have made kites. Last week, one child tested positive at Llanishen Fach and has been self isolating, but no other child or adult at the school has shown any symptoms. With things so up in the air at the moment, hubs will remain open for as long as they are needed, and those heading in every day are having more fun now than regular term time. Tomos morgan, bbc news, cardiff. It is great to see so many teachers still doing an amazing job at the moment, particularly over the easter weekend as well. Thank you for getting in touch with us. A mars bar toasty is. I know it will offend some people, but it is tasty. I might try it later. We have been talking about captain tom. He is doing this walk before his 100 laps before his 100th birthday. £819,000 he has raised. He started off trying to raise £1000. £15,000 this morning. We talked about it half an hour ago. It is staggering. It is going to Nhs Charities. Were all having plenty of nights in at the moment, whether we like it or not. So how about spicing one of them up with some Live Entertainment from the likes of peter kay, Catherine Tate and gary barlow . Theyre just a few of the artists taking part in bbc 0nes the big night in next thursday. Its a joint effort by children in need and comic relief to raise funds for those worst affected by the coronavirus and matt baker is one of its hosts. Hejoins us now from his home to tell us more. Lovely to talk to you. Hearing about the Fundraising Efforts of captain tom, he is fast approaching £1 million. The pressure is on, matt. What can you produce . Of course donations are welcome but this is not a big old charity due to raise loads of money, this is to raise awareness. As loads of money, this is to raise awareness. As you loads of money, this is to raise awareness. As you say, comic relief and children in need are coming together. I think supporters of children in need and those who have donated in the past would really hope that we will be there for those Vulnerable People who really need that support right now. So this is going to be like you say the big night in. This will be huge, so many people have got in contact with as saying they want to be part of their snake. Myself, lenny henry ended Davina Mccall will start things off at seven oclock on the 23rd of april and then Paddy Mcguinness and zoe ball willjoin lenny april and then Paddy Mcguinness and zoe ball will join lenny for the second half. The generosity that is going on across the uk and big Old Community like one big Old Community like one big Old Community coming together. We have to ta ke Community Coming together. We have to take some positives over the last few weeks. I love seeing inside peoples comes. Will you be presenting from your homes . How it will work is myself, lenny and divina will be in the one show studio. We are going to be therefore a base there, sitting at the correct distance apart as everyone is doing at the moment. We will key into peoples houses, gary barlow, peter k. Catherine tate and david tennant, they are going to be doing a sketch. We are into the home schooling thing at the moment. Who knows what that is going to look like. So many people getting in contact saying we wa nt to people getting in contact saying we want to do this. That is the wonderful thing about it. We are not sure how this will go. Nights like this normally take months to plan and we are doing this in a matter of weeks. This is the flavour of it, do what you can, when you can, offer what you can, when you can, offer what you can, when you can, offer what you can. There are a lot of creative people out there who at the moment do not have an audience. I see gary barlow has been doing these crooner sessions. Lots of people have been trying to get things out there, this is a perfect opportunity to collate things together. M there, this is a perfect opportunity to collate things together. It is there for everyone to sit in, it is on for two hours. We will be open with what happens. I want to be surprised with what is coming in and what we are seeing. Going to peoples houses is fantastic. People turning their cameras around seeing where they live, we are all in this together. I think that seems to be the flavour of the night. Whatever money we can raise, and if people are there and they want to give something, then we will give it to the vulnerable who need it right now. Sitting on the board of children in need, we have Emergency Fund that goes to the most Vulnerable People. Charity is in desperate need that moment. Calming relief will be supporting the elderly, Domestic Abuse has been on the news as well. Comic relief. The money will go down 50 50, comic relief and children in need and we will work it from there. What we know about the Great British public, they are incredibly generous. We have seen what has been going on this week with captain tom moore. I have been looking, so many donations coming infor have been looking, so many donations coming in for him. People giving what they can. It is incredible. And it is time. As soon as you acknowledge what is going on and point out where help is needed, it is not just point out where help is needed, it is notjust money, sometimes it is offering that you may have something at home which might be helpful to someone at home which might be helpful to someone else, or if you can do some volunteering in an area you have not thought about, and the nhs as well. We will be acknowledging all the wonderful work everyone is doing to keep us safe. We are all in it together and we are going to have a big old night in and we will see what comes of it a week on thursday. It will be great. I am doing football focus in my house. I have arranged my book to make them look more intelligent. Have you done the same . I have had so many chefs on the one show, one of the perks as you get a cookery book. So this is a bank of kind of. It is an archive of cookbooks from the one show. Yes, it is the end of our kitchen. would love to know how many of those you have looked at and cooked from. Lovely to talk to you and hope it goes well next week. We will all be watching. Really good to hear from him. Lets hear what has been having with the weather. Temperatures have really dropped. Especially between sunday and monday. It is a cold day, you can see the frost in the Scottish Borders and it is notjust in the borders, many of us waking up toa in the borders, many of us waking up to a frosty start and clear skies. A fair bit of sunshine. There is an exception to clear skies. High pressure dominating our weather, the weather back in and around it moving ina weather back in and around it moving in a clockwise direction. We have a fair bit of cloud and with a weather front not far away from the north of scotland, we are looking at spots of rain. This cloud and the south east will break through the day. You can see it extending through southern counties into the south west, sunshine will come through and a lot of dry weather to start the day, a fair bit of sunshine albeit cold. We have high cloud across parts of scotland, Northern England and Northern England turning the sunshine hazy. You will have some sunshine, it will be hazy than at the moment. Temperatures, eight in lerwick to 14 in cardiff but we could stick out 16 in scotland. Under clear skies for england and wales, a cold night. Pockets of frost. Mitch mist and fog in southern scotland and cloudy with the odd spot of rain and windy across the north of scotland but ye are not as cold. Temperatures holding up to 8 degrees. For the rest of us between one and four degrees. Tomorrow we start with mist and fog, it will lift and for england and wales a lot of dry weather and a lot of sunshine. Northern ireland, not a bad day. We have a week cold front across the north of scotland and that is producing a fair bit of cloud and also some splashes of rain or drizzle. More especially in the far north. Temperatures on thursday, nine in lerwick to 17, 18 as we push further south. I will have more weather in about half an hour. But the headlines are next. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. 0ur headlines today care homes at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic as the government reveals more than 2,000 homes in england have cases. We have very large numbers of people in care homes who are passing away who are exhibiting covid 19 symptoms but who arent being classified as having the coronavirus because they havent been tested. A review of the lockdown measures in the coming days but the foreign secretary says therell be no early relaxation of the restrictions. Frances president macron extends his countrys lockdown to mid may and admits his government has made mistakes. Illegal dumping of waste is on the rise with all the tips shut we meet the campaigners trying to stamp it out. Its unfair. Stop fly tipping. Youre a disgrace. 0ur favourite guest of recent days captain tom moore was aiming to raise £1,000 for the nhs by walking laps of his garden. This morning hes well on the way to a million well catch up with him. Its tuesday the 14th of april. Our top story there have been outbreaks of covid 19 at more than 2,000 care homes in england, the department of health has confirmed. The news comes as scientific advisers for the government are due to meet later to review the impact of the uks lockdown measures. Ministers have already said its unlikely there will be any change to restrictions in the next week. Keith doyle has the latest. The faces of two dedicated nhs nurses. Their lives lost while helping others. Melujean ballesteros, originally from the philippines, died at the London Hospital where she worked. Her son said she loved herjob. She loved her work as a nurse. Raheema sidarni, who was 68, refused to retire during the crisis. She spent 50 years as a nurse after arriving from trinidad. She died on saturday. Her family said she was a nurse until the end. The latest figures show the number of people who died in hospital with covid 19 rose by 717 in the last 24 hour period. Bringing the total number to 11,329. That figure does not include deaths in care homes and the community. Figures due to be released later from the office of National Statistics will give an indication of the number of lives lost there. At this care home run by care uk in durham, 13 residents have died after showing symptoms of coronavirus. The government said there have been outbreaks of coronavirus at over 2000 care homes in england. Care home operators say better access to protective equipment and testing is vital. Id like our teams to have access to testing, that is now beginning to happen. But id also like our residents to have access to testing. At the moment, the only people who get tested out of care homes are people who go into hospitals. And they are then tested when they get there. We have very large numbers of people in care homes who are passing away who are exhibiting covid 19 symptoms, but who arent being classified as having the coronavirus because they havent been tested. Over the easter weekend, the overwhelming majority of people stayed at home, according to the government, whose scientific advisers will meet later to review the lockdown. At yesterdays downing street briefing, the indications were that decision to keep it in place has already been taken. If we let up now, the virus will only take full advantage, it will spread faster and it will kill more people. If we refuse to give into it, if we keep up this Incredible Team effort, we will beat this virus and we will come through this national test. So, with the lockdown set to continue, it will be the numbers levelling or dropping that will bring changes. Each of those numbers a life lost and a family grieving. Keith doyle, bbc news. Lets get the latest from our Political Correspondent helen catt in westminster now. Good to see you, helen. We spoke to the work and pensions minister Therese Coffey today, there are all sorts of important subjects for the government to issue no address this week, care homes is one, lockdown, where would you like to start . Lets start with care homes. The governments scientific and medical advisers have said they are a particular problem and the rate of infection is higher in care homes than the wider community. There is increase political pressure to get a sense of pride what is happening in social care. Labours shadow social ca re social care. Labours shadow social care minister liz kendall once the government to produce daily figures of people who had died in care homes from coronavirus, at the moment they come out weakly, theres daily thing is we get are for people who have died in hospital. Those daily figures we get. That has risen above 11,000 in total, we heard that yesterday. There are questions being asked about the governments more general strategy, whether they were prepared enough in the early stages of the pandemic. This was put to work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey earlier. Just for clarity, you are entirely happy with the governments level of preparedness . I think we are reasonably well prepared, i think we continue to develop other things, sorting out the distribution of ppe, that was not working initially, we now have that fixed and will continue to make sure we that fixed and will continue to make sure we work on other matters where it is not flowing as quickly as it could be. Things like ramping up the capability, doing much more testing, that sort of thing is continuing to use the private industry as well as the nhs to make sure we do that and that capacity is growing, but not at the highest level which the Health Secretary would like yet, but we are making excellent progress towards getting there. So that as a flavour of some of the issues the government is still dealing with. The next biggest most immediate decision to make it on the lockdown restrictions, about keeping them in place for all others, effectively that has already been taken. The scientists will look at the data on the impact later but dominic raab yesterday said it is unlikely they will change, Nicola Sturgeon has had the same in scotland and the Welsh Government has said the same in wales. We are not expecting any change in those, which are designed to keep the infection rate in the community down. Thank you very much, helen. The french president Emmanuel Macron has extended the coronavirus lockdown for another four weeks until may the 11th. He said the current restrictions had slowed the virus but not beaten it, and accepted that the lockdown had been especially tough for poorerfamilies without the benefit of spacious homes and good internet connections. Translation were we ready for this crisis . Well, clearly not enough. But we stood up to it. In the next four weeks, the rules put in place by parliament have to be respected. Theyre shown to be successful, they will not be reinforced or lightened but they should be completely put into place. That is the picture from france this morning. The indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended his countrys lockdown until may 3rd although he said some essential Economic Activity may be allowed from next monday. The entire population of more than a billion people has been living under severe restrictions for the past three weeks. The world bank has slashed its predictions of Indian Economic growth this year from 5 down to 1. 5 . President trump has said he is calling the shots as to when the us will start to ease lockdown restrictions after some state governors suggested they would have the final word. At a white house briefing, he insisted his strategy to tackle coronavirus was working. His comments came as the governors of ten us states nine of them democrats agreed to co ordinate the re opening of their economies. The president of the United States calls the shots. If we werent here for the states, you would have had a problem in this country like youve never seen before. We were here to back them up and weve more than backed them up, we did a job that nobody ever thought was possible. Its a decision for the president of the United States. Now, that being said, were going to work with the states, because its very important. The daily death toll of coronavirus victims has been particularly grim over the last few days and the first secretary dominic raab has warned that were still not past the peak of the disease. Yesterday, another 717 people were confirmed to have died in hospital in the uk with covid 19. It brings the total number of deaths to more than 11,000. Of course, what the statistics dont reveal are the human stories behind the figures. One of those who died was anne blythe, who was just 58 years old. Lets speak now to her daughter candice, who joins us from her home in essex. Thank you so much for talking to us, andi thank you so much for talking to us, and i so sorry about what happened to your mum. Do you want to tell us a bit about her . Thats ok. Yeah, my mum was my best friend. She was kind, funny, glamorous, clumsy, all those who knew her. Everyone that knew us knew we were two peas in a pod and img was devastated that she has gone. We are seeing a lovely picture of her now. I know that you celebrated mothers day early, what had she been doing . Yes, because i work part time in a little bar so i was working on mothers day, so the weekend of the 14th i picked up one of my older sisters, louise, who u nfortu nately of my older sisters, louise, who unfortunately is disabled, and i didnt tell mum, so i surprised her on the saturday and we went head to a resta u ra nt on the saturday and we went head to a restaurant and then on the sunday we did in early mothers day, i cooked us all dinner and we had a lovely weekend, just the three others at home. That must have been a wonderful surprise for her and, in some ways, a lovely memory you too . Yeah, because my mum was also classed as disabled, she had a really bad back, it was quite hard having louise home a lot, so we had not had her home since christmas so i thought it would be a really nice surprise for her. 0bviously i thought it would be a really nice surprise for her. Obviously we had seen surprise for her. Obviously we had seen her, we visit her every other weekend and take her out for dinner but she had not been home, i thought it would be a really nice surprise for mum and the three others had a lovely time. That is lovely to hear, and she became ill shortly after that, did she . On the monday she was just tired, we both thought it was because of having louise home, because of having louise home, because we had to bathe her, she cant do anything much for herself. She was tired the monday and tuesday, the 16th and 17th, but then her throat started to hurt around the 18th but we called 111, we took their advice, paracetamol, plenty the 18th but we called 111, we took theiradvice, paracetamol, plenty of fluids, rest. She was always saying then i am not going to hospital, i am just going to get over it, just thought it was like a flu, it would come out of her eventually. She was like, i willjust rest, we rested for ten days. Which is absolutely what you should be doing. And then she took a turn for the worst . She did actually feel better the following week, she was getting up everyday, i was helping dave her, we posted the first clap on the thursday and she stood up. On friday the 27th she said im really tired, ijust want the 27th she said im really tired, i just want to spend the day the 27th she said im really tired, ijust want to spend the day in bed. Isaid, 0k, ijust want to spend the day in bed. I said, ok, you ijust want to spend the day in bed. Isaid, ok, you do ijust want to spend the day in bed. I said, ok, you do that, she had been getting up everyday, i said, you just need to rest. She didnt wa nt to you just need to rest. She didnt want to teach, i was trying to get her to drink at least and she said i am so her to drink at least and she said i am so tired, ijust want to sleep, so am so tired, ijust want to sleep, so she did. She was a bit of friday night, i was a little bit worried about her that she was still talking, she was fine, she said i just need to sleep and i will feel better tomorrow and i was like, 0k, you just sleep. 0n the saturday more i went to check on her and thats when i noticed things were not good. Her lips had started to go blue and her skin and her body was already and blotchy but she was saying she was cold, i was wrapping her up. Her body was all red and blotchy. I did the 111 online questionnaire, i thought it would be quicker than phoning because i know they are really busy and it said call 999, so idid, that really busy and it said call 999, so i did, that is when things all started to happen. I am really conscious i dont want to make you more upset, so please only tell you what you want to talk about, if you see what i mean. When did you know she actually had coronavirus . She was taken in on saturday, the 28th, the paramedic said we cant take you in because only children were having one parent, there were no visitors to the hospital. They took her in, they did the swab, they confirmed it on wednesday the 1st of april. When she was taken in on the saturday they decided on saturday night to put her on a ventilator. She was already sedated by the time we found out she had corona, she was sedated for five days. I am so sorry. Presumably you are at home and you have to be alone . Yes, she went in over two weeks ago so i have had my two weeks quarantine, loads of people have been so kind and getting me shopping and asking me if i need bates, now i had done my two weeks quarantine, if i need to go out, which i dont yet, i can. It has been hard because nobody was allowed infor been hard because nobody was allowed in for two weeks, i was in the house all by myself and ive still got her mothers day cards hanging up, i just cant bring myself to take them down. I am so sorry. What are your plans now . She wanted to go to las vegas for his 60th birthday . Yes, so my eldest sister and me have been in contact constantly, obviously, we cant see our other sister louise, everything is very upsetting right now. We have said we will still go to las vegas for his 60th, for her, i had never been to america and no had mum, we will still do it for her. When lockdown is over we will have a big celebration of her life, because obviously nobody can come to the funeral and we cant have a wake. So we just said when this is over, hopefully soon for everybodys say, we will have a big celebration of her life. Absolutely. So you will go and do that. We know people are really taking these measures seriously and staying at home, there isa seriously and staying at home, there is a really message from what has happened to you . Is a really message from what has happened to you . Yeah. Obviously if you had to go to the shops, fine, just go buy yourself, make sure you wash your hands, keep yourself clea n. Wash your hands, keep yourself clean. You are allowed your one daily walk. But dont go. If you dont need to see people, just stay in if you can. I admit, i was going a bit stir crazy being stuck indoors, even these two weeks, luckily i have a garden, but ijust vacated just not worth it. I will never see my mum again, i would rather not see the outside again. My rather not see the outside again. My mum is only 58. It wasnt her time. I dont think people really understand it. That is why i did my very first video, i wanted to go it out though, nobody has seen the families and how much this is suffering. The news and saying over 11,000 people are going through this, this is the worst paid in the world is not worth 30. The worst pain in the world. And this, thank you so much. I wish i could hold your hand, but i cant. Candice, thank you so much. Thank you for talking to is it really difficult times. Thank you. Ijust talking to is it really difficult times. Thank you. I just want to thank the nhs central buy work, they are working so hard, until the front liners, thank you. Ijust wa nt to front liners, thank you. Ijust want to thank the nhs for their work. Wow, some people are having some really tough times. Thank you to candice. Not being able to give people a hug or hold by hand is really tough when you hear stories like that. But really important that we do not. Thank you, candice. As weve been hearing this morning, care homes are facing a particularly difficult challenge from coronavirus the full scale of which is only just becoming clear. Last month we spoke to mike westmore, who runs four care homes, about the restrictions he has introduced to protect his residents. We came to the conclusion that wed cut the visitors down dramatically. Unfortunately, that has to include families and friends. Its really tough, because it does impinge on the quality of our residents lives. Id much rather kick myself in a couple of weeks time for overreacting then kick myself for, you know, not doing anything and, you know, having dreadful consequences as a result. This is life and death stuff. Mike westmore joins us now from gloucestershire along with martin green, who is chief executive of care england, which represents independent care homes. He joins us from london. Thank you very much to you both for talking to us. We expect to get some numbers of fatalities in care homes, up numbers of fatalities in care homes, up to date numbers, a bit later. Martin, give us an idea of how your ca re martin, give us an idea of how your care homes have tried to adapt to the way they are looking after people at the moment . the way they are looking after people at the moment . I think it has been a really difficult time for ca re been a really difficult time for care homes, as mike said it has been particularly difficult because residents have been without contact from families, but i want to really pay tribute to the amazing staff in ca re pay tribute to the amazing staff in care homes who have done so much to try to support their residents. Tragically, of course, many are now dealing with the consequences of having residents who had died, and i think we should not underestimate the fact that this has a big impact not only on the relatives of those people but also the staff who have been caring for them. Martin, can you give it yourfigures been caring for them. Martin, can you give it your figures about how many people you think have been affected by coronavirus in the care homes you know about . There are thousands of people, sadly, who have notion symptoms and also, sadly, thousands of people who had died. Who have now shown symptoms. 0ne thousands of people who had died. Who have now shown symptoms. One of the challenges as there has not been universal testing. We had to get testing for residents in care homes but also for the staff so we know the scale of this pandemic. We need testing so we can make sure that people are supported appropriately and have the right level of ppe for the staff, so the testing issue is really important. We had to get testing right, and when we do, we will have clear statistics, when we get the statistics we will know the scale of this. Unfortunately we have been working a bit blind at the moment because i have not been daily statistics, as there are in the nhs, andl statistics, as there are in the nhs, and i really want to see statistics for care homes and, indeed, the community, i want to see those delivered in exactly the same way the nhs is having statistics delivered, which is on a daily basis. It could be worrying statistics, if you look at the report from the London School of economics which shows that italy, spain, france, ireland and belgium, between 42 and 57 of deaths have been happening in care homes, it could be a very large number by the end of this crisis. Mike, lets come to you. As we understand it, you put measures in place quite early in your ca re measures in place quite early in your care homes. What did you think could happen and why did you take those steps earlier than many others . I think it was fairly obvious to us from day one that if this virus got into one of the homes, it could be catastrophic. I dont think the care homes were really looked into until we got a fairly long way into this process. Now it seems to be hitting the headlines but it would always have been the case, so i had been trying to instill in our staff that if it gets into your home, one of your homes, it will spread like wildfire. It was always going to be a catastrophe for care homes and, indeed, for domiciliary care, because we have a Domiciliary Care Agency as well and they have their own problems to overcome. You make the point, these are unique environments in some ways where the ca re environments in some ways where the care you environments in some ways where the ca re you are environments in some ways where the care you are giving people, you have to be up close and personal to help them . Exactly, it is all in the word, it is their home. It is not a hospital environment, it is these peoples homes. That is why the decision to restrict their access to loved ones and family were so hard. But it has proved to be the right decision. We have locked it down even more, the football in the homes is very reduced, staff change their clothes when they come to work now. The footfall in the homes its very reduced. We take staff temperatures when they come to work. The staff in the homes and domiciliary care have been fantastic, they are really carrying the can because there is not much i can do, only try to provide them with what they need. Because they dont want to be there, either. They need to be just left alone to get on with our work. Because they dont wa nt with our work. Because they dont want me to be there. The minister we spoke to about an hour ago, as we mentioned to them, there are people dying everyday in care homes. We quoted 13 people dying at one care home in County Durham. When you hear those figures, what impact does it have on you, who work in the industry . It has an enormous impact andl industry . It has an enormous impact and i think we should recognise the emotional impact on staff. We should also recognise, as mike said, people who live in care homes are probably in the most high risk groups, they have several health conditions, so everybody in a care home is in that high group, which is why we are really trying to make sure that when the virus gets into care homes we try to isolate people effectively. Ca re try to isolate people effectively. Care homes are really practised at dealing with contagious diseases, every year we deal with things like the seasonal flu, the narrow virus, and we had to make sure that the staff have the requisite ppe so they can really deliver that Infection Control approach within care services. But i dont underestimate the enormous challenge for staff or, indeed, the enormous emotional problems of having people that you have cared for dying, and recognising that, we have to make sure recognising that, we have to make sure everybody is supported. Mike, presumably that is echoed in your environment . The staff will obviously be affected by this . Absolutely. They are living and working with the residents every day. They are very much emotionally involved. You cant do the job day. They are very much emotionally involved. You cant do thejob if you are not. And just you to rate what was just said, ppe is vitally important. We are fortunate we have only had two cases we are aware of that have affected us, one in domiciliary care and one in the home. It brings me onto another point, we need clear guidance as to when we can bring these people back to homes from hospital. It is not really clear at the moment when it is safe to bring them back into the home, they represent a threat to all the other residents. 0nce home, they represent a threat to all the other residents. Once you start using the ppe, it really goes quickly. You can go through lots and lots in a very short time. In fairness, corn will have been great, where our homes are, they are fully on board with where our homes are, they are fully on boa rd with it where our homes are, they are fully on board with it now. Unfairness, cornwall have been great. In fairness. There has been an understandable focus on the nhs for quite a few weeks. Both of you have worked in the care home industry, do you feel that has not been much attention on care homes and at least thatis attention on care homes and at least that is changing . We seem to have been the poor relation in this. Now when the extent of some of the problems in the care homes is coming home, and the amount of deaths, we are beginning to be listened to and our cases are right apply now in the minds of the public. As it should be. As i say, hopefully after this the whole Care Industry will go up a level and peoples expectations for the great work they are doing. I keep going on about domiciliary care and the homes, because they work very much together. I appreciate that. Thank you very much for talking to us, my quest more and martin green. Very good to get your perspective. We should also say thank you for all the messages, comments and questions you are sending. I know many of you were really impacted by louises interview about 15 minutes ago with candice, who lost her mum. We understand people get upset, we have given her a call back to make sure she is ok. You might have been watching over the last three or four days, captain tom moores is going to be here. Look, he is ready for us. We will speak to him and his daughter in a couple of minutes. £840,000 is where the giving is at the moment. When we first mentioned this morning it was about 700 and something, the money is pouring in. And carol has a lovely view for us. That is an amazing figure. It is a chilly and frosty start but it will be dry for most of us, with sunny spells. I say most, we have a weak weather front draped across the north of scotland, producing some cloud and rain. It is windy here as well. The south east of england is seeing afair well. The south east of england is seeing a fair bit of clout, that will break up through the day, allowing sunny skies to develop. After the blue skies this morning, hyclate will develop across parts of scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England, turning sunshine hazy, we will see that extend through wales and the midlands as well, so hazy sunshine by the edge of the afternoon. Temperatures eight in lerwick to 13 or 14 in cardiff, possibly 16 in some places. This evening and overnight we still have a weak weather front producing some cloud, still windy in the north. Come south, clearer skies. The temperature will away, cold enough for frost, particularly in temperature will away, cold enough forfrost, particularly in rural areas. We will see patchy low cloud and mistand areas. We will see patchy low cloud and mist and fog form across Northern Ireland and since gotten later, that should lift quite readily tomorrow, and for england, wales and parts of Northern Ireland, southern and eastern scotland, we will see some sunshine. Dont forget, we have a weak cold front across the north of scotland Still Producing a rabbit of cloud, some spots of rain and it is breezy here. Michael Still Producing a bet of clout. Nine in lerwick to heights of 18 or 19 as we push towards the south. Youre watching breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. If youve been watching breakfast over the last few days, youll already know about captain tom moore. Hes the Second World War veteran on a mission to raise money for the nhs, by walking 100 laps of his garden before he turns 100 at the end of this month. When we first met tom on good friday, his fund raising target was a thousand pounds. This morning his tally stands at £850,000, and counting. Before we speak to tom, lets take a look back at whats been a very productive weekend. Lovely story coming up. A 99 year old war veteran has decided to walk 100 lengths of his back garden. He wants to raise money for the nhs. Good morning. Its been four days since captain tom moore first appeared on bbc breakfast with his message for the country. Tomorrow is a good day. And it was. In just 24 hours he raised a staggering £70,000. His aim to help those on the front line saw support and cash pour in from around the world. Im doing it because of the service that i have personally got from the national Health Service and from the superb nurses who are always so kind and patient. A feeling thats been echoed by many. Thanks captain tom thank you captain tom and from one veteran to another, a message of support. Captain moore, ijust wanted to say a huge congratulations. Half a million pounds, wow, a huge amount of money. And what a way to celebrate your 100th birthday, what an example to other veterans. It will do so much to help those on the front line of the nhs. As well as encouragement from a familiar face and fundraiser of his generation. You done a very, very, very good job. And im very pleased for you. Carry on, youre doing a good job. Carry on, old boy. As the total continues to grow, with every step tom knows he has the country cheering him on. When louisa started that introduction it was around 850,000. The total a few seconds ago is 871,000. Captain tom moore and his daughter hannah join us 871,000. Captain tom moore and his daughter hannahjoin us now. Thank you for spending some time with us on breakfast. Captain tom, £871,000, what an amazing response in the last few days . It certainly is. Almost unbelievable, isnt it . When you think of who it is for, all those brave and super doctors and nurses we have got. I think they deserve every penny. I hope we get some more with that too. I think you will lots of people on breakfast are big fa ns lots of people on breakfast are big fans of yours. Were you walking over the weekend . How has it been going . We re the weekend . How has it been going . Were you walking over the weekend . Yes, every day im doing about ten, what i call a lap of the house. I do ten each day so that eventually i will get to 100. And after that i could continue and do some more. As long as these super nurses are getting some more money, because they deserve every penny that is coming. Captain tom, can you tell us, when you think about the millions of people watching you now, those hundreds of thousands who have given money, who have watched you, who are wanting to support you, who are hoping you get to do these hundred laps in your garden by the time you get to 100, how does that make you feel, thinking about that at this morning . How does it make you think that so many millions of people are watching you and cheering you on . I think its absolutely fabulous. Its almost like being in. So much is going on. Ill get some benefit out of it because i really am pleased to be doing this and are serving for our nurses and our doctors and all the people in the national Health Service who are. Inaudible. I think you just said they put their lives on the line, which i know you did as well. Hannah, you must be incredibly proud . 0h, hannah, you must be incredibly proud . Oh, no iam going to hannah, you must be incredibly proud . Oh, no i am going to ask you again, hannah. You must be incredibly proud . We are going to try and get that micro lets try a third time. And i, we will try one more time because we do have a special guest we would like to introduce to you both. Louise was talking about how proud you must feel this morning about what your dad has been doing. What we are going to do, we are going to speak to. He was talking about how proud he was of these people putting their lives on the line. Lets find out about where that extraordinary amount of money is going. Were joined now by ellie 0rton. Shes the chief executive of Nhs Charities together, which represents all the charities which support the Health Service. Ellies in warwick. You must be staggered by this amount of money . I think you must be staggered by this amount of money . I think i absolutely join the rest of the country in being truly inspired and profoundly humbled by captain tom and what he has achieved. He is an example of service at its very best. That service at its very best. That service he obviously shown throughout his entire life, particularly the Second World War, but again now wanting to give back to the amazing nhs staff, the doctors, nurses, the cleaners, the porters, the receptionist, all of them. Soa porters, the receptionist, all of them. So a huge thank you from us personally, from me personally, my very small team, Nhs Charities together. I know it would be a huge thank you avi half of all of the nhs as well. When we get him back, and his daughter hannah, we will get you to thank him live on breakfast. That original total of £1000, that would have been money well spent. Where will you be spending the 871,000, and probably more now as we are speaking to captain tom this morning . Where will that money go . Captain tom is now a national fundraiser, and he is part of our National Appeal. The National Appeal is to do three things. When we started the appeal three weeks ago we we re ve ry started the appeal three weeks ago we were very much started the appeal three weeks ago we were very much concentrating on that immediate relief and support of nhs staff and volunteers who were on the front line, and that is going to support with well being the front line, and that is going to support with well being packs, with re st support with well being packs, with rest and Recuperation Centre is being set up, wobble rooms, as they are being called locally, so staff and volunteers can get some space from the front line of caring and have a bit of rest and recuperation and just a bit of space for themselves. Also, Electronic Devices for patients to communicate to their friends and family when they are isolated. That was our immediate appeal. We did really well with that. So we extended it after we had spoken to people on the front line, and extended dad so that Nhs Charities can also support their vital care partnerships and health partnerships, so that patients cant leave hospital safely and quickly and remain or stay out of hospital. So being able to resource local volu nta ry so being able to resource local voluntary sector, care sector around them. And then thirdly, its really important that we think of the Long Term Care and restoration of the Mental Health of our care workers and our nhs staff. So that is the third vital part of our National Appeal. I mean, it is absolutely amazing. We are still trying to get in touch with him. We need we may not be able to get in touch with him. But lets all cross your fingers. Touch with him. But lets all cross yourfingers. When we touch with him. But lets all cross your fingers. When we can finally meet each other etc, are you going to go and see him . What do you want to go and see him . What do you want to do . Id love to. Once lockdown is over, the moment it is important we stay at home and stay safe, that is vitally important to supporting the nhs, but id love to take a stroll with anna and captain tom, and take a stroll together so we can personally thank him for all that he is doing. Because he is an inspiration. An absolute inspiration to the rest of us. So we want him to get to the million now, his new target. That would be amazing. What he is also inspiring others to fund raise or to donate, and to say thank you because these are vital funds on top of that core nhs money. Ellie, the good news is we now have captain tom and hannah back. Captain tom and hannah, is likely to meet ellie, who is one of those responsible for spending all this money, using it across the nhs that you have been raising. Ellie would like to speak to you this morning, captain tom. Ellie, what is your message to captain tom and hannah will relay if you cant hear . Captain tom, i want to relate a massive thank you to you and your lovely daughter for everything that you are doing to support this national campaign. You are a true inspiration and profoundly humbling to all of us the level of service that you have had throughout your life, and that is just demonstrated in what you are doing now. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for being an inspiration and a role model. And lets get you to that million. It lets also get other people doing the same, fundraising and following your example so that we can say thank you, give back and support our beloved nhs workers, the doctors, the nurses, the cleaners, the porters, the receptionist, the volunteers, the health workers. So from me to you, thank you very much. Thank you, ellie. Ijust relay that message. Ellie is responsible for spending some of the money that you are raising and she wants to say profoundly thank you for this incredible job you have done in helping all levels of the nhs. She just couldnt thank you enough. You have been an inspiration. We are trying to trend other people to walk with you. She says from the bottom of her heart, thank you. Thats very kind of you to say that because really i think what we are doing is marvellous. And all the help that you are giving us too is enormous and very, very useful. Thank you very much. Cani very much. Can i pick it up that question i try to ask you a few times . You must be really proud of your dad . Oh, i think we are almost beyond words. Its really interesting with the scope of the english language we still feel unable to express number one, our thanks to the nation and our pride. I think we are immensely proud and immensely humbled. And yes, we proud and immensely humbled. And yes, we are proud and immensely humbled. And yes, we are living in this incredible journey. And were just trying to do the very we can for everyone who is donating. We are trying to update the twitter feed so there is interesting content, so people can see the person they are investing in. And i, i wonder if you could ask your dad this morning, because you look back at the life that he has led, all those years of service, im sure that our viewers watching, seeing a picture of him in active service at the moment on our screens, im sure that the many people watching this morning who are inspired by what he has done would be interested to know what captain toms messages to all those who may be at home struggling to get through the Current Crisis . So all these people are watching you and inspired by your journey. Whats people are watching you and inspired by yourjourney. Whats your message to all these people looking to you for inspiration and hope and some positivity in these quite dark times . What is your message to them . I think we must all carry on and remember that things will get better, they will get much better. We have had problems before. We have ove rco m e we have had problems before. We have overcome them. We shall all overcome the same thing again. Thank you very much. It is such a pleasure. What are you going to be doing for the birthday celebrations . It is not long away. No, its lots of pressure, i can tell you we were planning this big party. Now its just going to be the five of us. So yes, we just going to be the five of us. So yes, we are a just going to be the five of us. So yes, we are a little bit busy at the moment as you can imagine but we will be planning it. We are trying to bring you an update on the money this morning. But you know what . The page where people are donating has actually crashed there are so many people trying to give money this morning, which is great news. We will give an update on bbc breakfast micra. Ellie, to come back to you, it is amazing, isnt it . Yes, inspired by captain tom and hannah, but the generosity of people to support an incredible cause like this. There are things we are bad in the uk but there are also things that we are really good at and can encourage us this morning . Absolutely. As a nation we absolutely love the nhs. We have massive respect and gratitude. And this is absolutely highlighted because of the crisis that we are in. And the sacrifice and the service that those front line staff are giving. And we are just astounded. We launched our National Appealjust over three astounded. We launched our National Appeal just over three weeks astounded. We launched our National Appealjust over three weeks ago. With off line donations and commitments we are at £40 million in three weeks. And thatjust is because the country loves the nhs. And once to say thank you and wants to thank wants to give back and wants to support. That is from everybody from captain tom, walking his garden ten times a day, through to all the people who have supported him and donated, through to the people who are doing covid 19 cuts and cutting their hair, to people who have run five k, donated £5 and nominated others to do the same throughout the whole country. Please keep going, please keep giving. Lets just ask that question. Captain tom, are you going to keep going today . What are your plans . Are you going to keep going with your walking, even when you have hit 100 lengths of the driveway . Yes, as soon as 100 lengths of the driveway . Yes, as soon as i have done 100, then i shall start off looking to do another hundred. Whether i can manage that i dont know, but i will certainly try. I hope that people continue giving to the national Health Service whilst im walking. And i certainly hope to do another hundred. Listen, its been such a pleasure to talk to you. Especially captain tom, you are an inspiration to us all. Thank you very much indeed. And ellie, thank you. The website is currently not working because of the sheer volume of traffic, but do keep trying because they will be a moment today that you will be able to get on there. You can find details on both our twitter handle and captain toms as well. would love captain tom to be able to see all the messages. Deb says, within minutes ive gone from sobbing after watching an interview with a bereaved daughter, who has lost her mum to coronavirus, to feeling uplifted by captain tom, raising money for the nhs. Amazing interviews. Deb, thank you for that message and all those other people inspired by what captain tom has done. Lets speak to two other people watching that, hopefully. We are joined people watching that, hopefully. We arejoined by the people watching that, hopefully. We are joined by the mayor of Greater Manchester, andy burnham, and andy street, the mayor of the west midlands. Andy burnham, you probably are to captain tom. He is an inspiration. He is brilliant. Very ha rd inspiration. He is brilliant. Very hard to follow that an inspiration to all of us. Whats the situation like in Greater Manchester . There are things going . As well as they could be expected to be going. The new Nightingale Hospital starts to receive patients today. Obviously that will have capacity to the nhs. Add capacity. The reports coming out of our social care system are worrying. Ive tried to be constructive throughout this and i will carry on doing this. I want to offer Solutions Rather than criticism, but i would want to be more assertive with the government of this morning and say, we urgently need a stronger support package for social care, more testing, more help with staffing and crucially, more protective equipment. In effect it needs to be treated as part of the national Health Service to help us get through this. And that is certainly the call i am hearing coming through our social care syste m coming through our social care system here in Greater Manchester. Andy street, the same question to you, really. You have the highest number of cases of deaths outside of london in the west midlands. How services coping there . So, i suppose i could say similar to andy burnham, really. We a re i could say similar to andy burnham, really. We are in a challenging position. The numbers dont lie. We probably shouldnt be surprised by that. It is the second biggest urban area and we knew we were quite early through the curve. Our services are managing really well. Particularly our hospitals. They have capacity, they prepared brilliantly and they have the insurance of the Nightingale Hospital open here as well. When you think of good stories, actually, just as you have been covering with captain tom, the way everyone came together, civilians as well, to get the hospital ready has been a heart warming, pride giving moment in the west midlands. So much to be proud of. Andy street, you are running john lewis in 2008, 2009, when they have the economic crisis. What about the impact on your economy and the rest of the economy . This will be a long lasting effect, wont it . So its very clear, its a very serious impact, and the longer it goes on the more serious it would get. It will get. Withjohn lewis we felt the pain of it at the time. The real problem there was that the economy had got overheated. The credit was not available before the grass and it took us a long time to come out of that crash. Crash. What we have to pray for this time as the course of decline is very steep. Hopefully we can revamp from that relatively quickly because the authority the economy was in reasonably good health before this happened. That is why all these ideas about freezing the economy are the right policy prescriptions at the right policy prescriptions at the moment. Andy burnham, to come back to you, you have seen it in Greater Manchester, the Community Come together in difficult times over the years, particularly after the arena bomb. Have you seen that strength of Community Spirit as well to encourage not only yourself but others who live in the area . Oh, without a doubt, dan. As strong as i have ever felt it. People going the extra mile to support their neighbours, their communities. Obviously people in our Public Services working so hard, as andy street rightly said, the work that has gone into get this new nightingale facility up and running, amazing. The reports ive heard of people working over the weekend. In the most trying times we often see are country at its best. And i think we are again seeing that right now. I want to echo andy streets point about the right policy is now to help the economy bounce back. It is important the message gets out to businesses to pay their staff during this. I encourage the government to get that funding out so businesses can bounce back. The businesses are stepping forward too to help the wide open effort. That is fantastic to see as well. What sort of things have been going on with to businesses in manchester . One is our Gin Companies are making hand sanitiser, which has been much appreciated by Greater Manchester police. We have got many rallying around our call to support homeless people. We have got over 600 people who were previously sleeping rough or hotels in Greater Manchester. As somebody who leads the Greater Manchester mays charity, tim heatley is running the Business Community to get funding to help people while staying in those hotels. There are so many more examples i would give to your of businesses putting themselves out there for the wider good and that very much is the Greater Manchester spirit and we are seeing that again. Andy street, from your point of view another businesses have been helping, havent they . Yes, fantastic. Two lovely examples. Big household names from the west midlands. Jaguar land rover offering vehicles, actually providing food, trips. Lovely as well, they are using their 3d printing to make visors. Cadburys, at their bournville plant, another icon of birmingham business, are turning their production over to ppe as well. Some of the household names have put their hand into this. Just like last week we did a quality business across the region to step forward. We had 70 responses in a couple of days. They are stepping up. I loved that chocolate makers and gin makers are helping thank so much. Chocolate and gin, what a brea kfast so many of us are finding our own way to say thank you to nhs and front line workers at the moment, from displaying banners to volunteering time, donating supplies or even making protective gear. Now a choirfrom manchester, which sang with Ariana Grande following the Manchester Arena attack, have recorded a special performance to show their appreciation. Well speak to them in a moment. First, here they are with ariana back in 2017. Cos what weve got is worth fighting for cos you are, you were my everything till we were nothing and its taken me a lot to say now that youre gone, my heart is missing something so its time to push my pride away you are, you are you are my everything. Cheering you are, you are, you are such a memorable moment. Still very moving watching that. Now members of the manchester contemporary youth choir have recorded their own version of the classic song lean on me, in tribute to nhs workers. Choirmaster dan mchyer and singer shaunna burnsjoin us now. Morning to you both. Thank you so much forjoining us. I know you were there on that day with Ariana Grande. It must be emotional even thinking about it, isnt it . Yeah, it really is. Ive not listened to that clip for a long time, so all the emotions came running back. Dan, you conducted the choir on that day. A really emotional day. Why did you wa nt to a really emotional day. Why did you want to get involved with supporting the nhs particularly . Yeah, its a day i will never forget. Music is so powerful. Obviously it is a worldwide language. During times like this we are all stuck inside and we need some positivity sometimes. As a musician that you sometimes. As a musician that you sometimes feel there is not a lot you can do. People are working really hard. The only thing we can do is try to send some positivity in some way. And do what we love and share. Lets have a little listen to this song. We mentioned it was a bill with his classic. This is lean on me. Sometimes in our lives we all have pain we all have sorrow but if we are wise we know that theres always tomorrow lean on me when youre not strong and ill be your friend ill help you carry on its absolutely beautiful. I can see you watching it with a critical eye. How important is it to be able to sing that with the rest of the choir . Its really important. I think no more than ever Everyone Needs someone to talk to, and we all needs someone to talk to, and we all need someone to lean on, as the song says. Its really important that anyone dealing isolated or alone, evenif anyone dealing isolated or alone, even if they are not nhs staff workers, they can go and listen to that song. See our faces and hopefully it brings you some sort of ivy hopefully it brings you some sort of joy and company. Dan, we spoke to the actor Vicky Mcclure last week on the actor Vicky Mcclure last week on the show. She said one thing helping her through at the moment is the power of music, and the importance of music. That is helping a lot of people through at the moment, isnt it . Yes. I think at times generally art and sport isnt really appreciated. Inaudible. All of these things are helping us get through the situation we are in. Its good for your well being get through the situation we are in. Its good for your well being and your Mental Health. Inaudible. Dan, a little bit difficult to hear you. I want to ask you one more question. It is beautiful. Dan is probably the one to a nswer beautiful. Dan is probably the one to answer this. How do you coordinate that . Dan sent us all the parts. We recorded them separately. And then we send them all to our friend jamie henry and he added it altogether. But it altogether. M friend jamie henry and he added it altogether. But it altogether. It is quite a pull together, dan, isnt it . Technologically i would imagine you look back on it and you must be very proud to have got all that happening . Yeah, it is not easy to pull together. Its the closest we can actually get to singing together and being together. Im really glad with what we got in the end. Its our way of trying to spread some positivity. It is about coming together and show some positivity. Its beautiful. It is wonderful. Thank you both very much. That is it from breakfast today. We are back tomorrow at six but we have an update. Captain tom . £945,000. And i better not a lot is down to you. You are amazing. Thank you for watching us and thank you for all the support. See you tomorrow. Bye bye. Hi, good morning. Im victoria derbyshire, welcome to bbc news. Lets bring you the latest headlines. The government confirms coronavirus outbreaks at more than 2000 care homes in england as Charities Warn many older people are being airbrushed out of official death figures. 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