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The head of hmrc, how it will work, when businesses will see their cash. Watford are set to become the Third Premier League club to agree wage deferrals because of the coronavirus pandemic. Youll never walk alone. As if raising £26 million wasnt astonishin enough, captain tom moores Charity Single with michael ball and an nhs choir is on course to top the charts. Good morning. Today dry and sunny with a spot of rain across the south west of england and the Channel Islands and a cool westerly wind. Its monday the 20th of april. Our top story after a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. An organisation representing hospital bosses says ministers should stop making promises they cant keep. John mcmanus reports. Its the issue that wont go away. Can the government guarantee the safety of both nhs and care workers by providing them with enough supplies of personal protective equipment, ppe . Despite initial assurances that there was enough ppe to go around, ministers have since admitted that in england that hasnt always been the case and there were fears that essential supplies would run out over the weekend. This consignment ppe arrived at Glasgow Prestwick airport from china on saturday. But a flight on sunday containing supplies from turkey, destined for the nhs in england, never made it to the uk. It was supposed to contain 400,000 badly needed hospital gowns. The British Medical Association has described the delay as a matter of life and death. And the organisation representing nhs trusts says promises about individual consignments arent always fulfilled. Bitter experience over the last few weeks has demonstrated that, because of the erratic nature of the supply, you cant really count on gowns being ready to be distributed to the frontline until theyve actually arrived in this country, youve opened up the boxes and checked that actually they are the gowns they say they were and the numbers that are meant to be there. Across the uk, more than 16,000 people have now died in hospital from coronavirus. Thats up by 596 on the previous 2a hours and its the smallest rise in nearly two weeks, but it doesnt include deaths in care homes. 0ne industry body has estimated they run into thousands. Across the country, the lockdown continues. Today would have been the first day back at school for most pupils after easter. At sundays downing street press c0 nfe re nce the education secretary poured cold water on the newspaper reported that schools in england would reopen in the middle of next month. I want nothing more to see schools back, get them back to normal, make sure that children are sat around learning and experiencing the joy of being at school. But i cant give you a date. Meanwhile, evidence that the hard work and skill of nhs staff is paying off. The first patient to be successfully treated at the new nightingale facility in london was able to transfer to another hospital as his condition had improved. Applause. Applause for him, but for the government the questions about its response to the pandemic continue. John mcmanus, bbc news. Downing street has rejected a report in the sunday times that borisjohnson and his team dragged theirfeet in the run up to the outbreak. Lets go to to our political correspondent, iain watson, who joins us from westminster. Many might not have seen the government response . It is a very detailed response. The sunday times made serious allegations that effectively the government had ignored dire warnings on the spread of the virus and missed five weeks at the beginning of the year in preparing their response. The government lost no time in preparing the response to the allegations saying it contained a number of falsehoods. For example, one of the claims they wanted to knock on the head quite quickly was the idea that the Prime Minister was missing in action in the five meetings of the Emergency Committee, cobra in january but it is far more relevant for the secretary of health to chair the meeting and discussed the crisis in the january seven with the Prime Minister and had begun to put in place to tell operations. They also argued it is ridiculous the spread of the virus came to britain because the minister was in charge rather than the Prime Minister. We were sending some protective equipment to china but that was at the height of their crisis and they are reciprocating. They say things will be made in advance. Preparations. But it is not about what the government did right or wrong in the past few months but what it is doing now, for example the delivery of the consignment of protective equipment from turkey, for example, and what more they are doing to meet demands for hospitals. Thank you very much and we will be speaking to the culture secretary 0liver down at 7 30am stop 0liver dowden, at around 7. 30. Tens of thousands of temporary mortuary spaces have been prepared across the uk in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Ministers have described it as a precaution rather than a prediction, and say they hope the extra capacity of around 30,000 spaces wont be needed. In the last hour, new zealands Prime Minister has said the countrys lockdown will start to ease from next week. It means some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will stay in place. We can speak now to our correspondent, shaimaa khalil, who is in sydney for us. The lockdown in new zealand has been one of the strictest if not the strictest self isolation measures in the world. Schools and businesses we re the world. Schools and businesses were close, and people were told to stay home to break the circle of transmission. This lockdown was meant to be lifted later this week but was extended to night on a monday. And if a student relaxed rules, a partial opening of the schools will take place, a partial opening of businesses but no direct contact with customers but the Prime Minister has said this was not a return to normality even though the movement, the restriction of movement, the restriction of movement is going to bec, people will be able to extend the circle of movement, she urge people to stay home and save lives and to work from home and save lives and to work from home where they can. The lockdown has really paid off for new zealand because it happened in strict matter and ina because it happened in strict matter and in a timely manner, a key, which has enabled services to ramp up testing and contact tracings which they still want to keep going. The premise that has been praised for the way she is handle this, notjust in new zealand but really keeping empathetic messages saying, be strong, be kind and urging new zealanders to keep up the work they have started four weeks ago. Thank you very much for keeping us up to date. An aggressive Antibody Testing campaign is to begin in new york next week to see how many people have had the virus. The state accounts for nearly half of the 40,000 deaths from coronavirus across the united states, but Officials Say the outbreak is now on the descent. In other parts of the us, hundreds of people gathered for new anti lockdown demonstrations. In denver, protestors the State Capitol to demand the end to colorados shutdown. As protesters clogged streets with cars, healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood in the road in counterprotest. Scientists around the world are working hard to find an effective treatment for covid i9, but its a long process that could take many months or even years. Here in the uk, a team is already carrying out some human trials, with a technique which uses the blood from survivors to treat those who are ill. 0ur science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle explains. Its a race to save lives, and in the hunt for new treatments, blood may hold the key. The nhs is reaching out to people who have recovered from covid i9. Their blood contains antibodies, which are produced by the immune system and destroy the virus. The hope is to start a Clinical Trial to see if these antibodies can help patients who are currently ill. Scientists have welcomed the move but say the uk has been too slow. In terms of the uk, i think there are many aspects of this pandemic we will look back on and say, i wonder why we didnt move a little bit faster . My hope would be that, within two weeks, we would see the first patients in the uk treated with convalescent plasma, having jumped over the various hurdles that need to bejumped in order to clear the path to do this. The technology for this treatment is straightforward. Someone whos had coronavirus needs to have fully recovered. Their blood is then collected and the red and white blood cells are removed. Whats left behind is called plasma, and this contains the antibodies theyve built up while fighting the virus. This is then given to someone who has covid i9. The hope is that the donors antibodies could help the patient to attack the virus. 0ne persons plasma can be given to up to three other people. Plasma therapy isnt new. Plasma therapy wont be a magic bullet, and scientists still need to assess how effective it is. But, with no current treatments for covid i9, this could help until a vaccine is found. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. At least 16 people, including a policewoman, have been shot dead by a gunman in canada. The suspect dressed as a Police Officer during a 12 hour rampage. Its thought to be one of the deadliest Mass Shootings in the countrys history. Matt graveling has more. Dressed as a Police Officer, he posed as a protector, even driving around in a marked car. But instead, 51 year old Gabriel Wortman took a gun and started killing innocent people. His 12 hour rampage began on saturday night, leaving bodies at a number of different locations across nova scotia. Police first became aware of the shootings after reports of firearms being used. Tragically, one of those sent to help became a victim of the attack. Its with tremendous sadness that i share with you that weve lost constable heidi stevenson, a 23 year veteran of the force, who was killed this morning while responding to an active shooter incident. Heidi answered the call of duty and lost her life while protecting those she served. Police were first called to a residence in the rural town of portapique. They located several casualties, but not the suspect, Gabriel Wortman. An overnight search for wortman led police to a number of areas, including some where structures were on fire. They asked people to stay indoors, posted the gunmans believed location online and said he may be wearing a Royal Canadian mounted police uniform, despite not being employed by the service. The canadian Prime Minister began his regular briefing on coronavirus to focus on the shooting. Before we get started, i want to touch briefly on the unfolding events in portapique, nova scotia. I know weve been watching this on the news. My hearts go out to everyone affected in what is a terrible situation. I want to thank the police for their hard work and people for cooperating with authorities. Police said the suspect was driving what appeared to be a police car before changing to another vehicle. On twitter, they notified people of the cars registration. And then, just before midday on sunday, police informed people that following a car chase, Gabriel Wortman was dead. They added, as his victims were killed across nova scotia, authorities were still trying to establish the final death toll. Matt graveling, bbc news. The duke and duchess of sussex have told four of britains most popular newspapers that theyre ending all cooperation with them. The couple have sent a letter to the sun, the mail, the mirror and the express saying they will no longer engage with them because of what they feel has been unfair and inaccurate treatment. Heres our media correspondent, david sillito. It is no secret that duke and duchess of sussex have had a difficult relationship with large pa rt difficult relationship with large part of the press. They have already withdrawn from the royal rotor system. And having now stepped back from royal duties, this letter lays out the new rules of engagement. They will no longer deal in any way with the mail, the sun, the mirror and the express newspapers. This is, they says, not a blanket policy as they says, not a blanket policy as they will continue to work with a White Variety of media but it means they will be in their words, zero engagement with papers accused of distorted, false and invasive coverage. The statement comes before a schedule hearing at the duchess of success ongoing case against associated newspapers, the daily mailand mail on associated newspapers, the daily mail and mail on line. David sillito, bbc news. After raising more than £26 million for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden, captain tom is now on course for another remarkable achievement. Youll never walk alone. After first performing with michael ball on our programme last week, their version of youll never walk alone, together with an nhs choir, is now on course to top the uk singles chart. Nearly 36,000copies have been sold in 48 hours. Lets take a look at how the charts it puts captain toms single ahead of popstars the weekend and drake. Well know by friday whether it makes it to number one. It is just incredible. It isjust incredible. We will know by friday whether it makes it to number one. And heres a look at the live funraising total for captain toms walk for the nhs. Its now standing at more than £26. 4 million. Remember, it was a good friday when he first appeared on deviously brea kfast he first appeared on deviously breakfast and his target was £1000. I know you have been part of that, everybody watching on breakfast and thank you. We have to stop reading out the numbers because they go like that. Amazing. Well done. For many pupils and students, today should have been the start of a new school term. Instead, millions of parents are once again getting to grips with homeschooling. So, what can we do to make sure children get the right education . Breakfasts john maguire has been finding out. It is back to school but not as we know it. Our children are fred and lara. It is a learning curve for us. It is tough. Every day is a school day for you and the children . Absolutely. We are learning. Dad and mum have been juggling absolutely. We are learning. Dad and mum have beenjuggling running a business, a household and a home school. How have you found it . Harder . It is really hard. It is not just the teaching. It is the juggfing just the teaching. It is the juggling of work and life with that. And obviously the boys think we are off school and we can do what we want, lay around and watch telly date but they are not to be off school so we have to teach them. Many children of key workers have remained at school over the easter holidays are today may not prove that different. For the staff, keeping school of varying ages engaged in simulated is a challenge. We started off focusing on the childrens well being we started off focusing on the child rens well being and we started off focusing on the childrens well being and their social and emotional Mental Health. Lots of activities, as we move forward , lots of activities, as we move forward, the staff are planning weeks, linking it to more curriculum based projects. But too much feeder play, loose work and the children need to benefit from a close structure. Only once the skills reopened will start have a chance to assess the impact. It is feared children from disadvantaged progress will be affected most so a clear plan to catch up. We know that nothing can compensate for those relationships between teachers and their pupils so, again, planning from when school happens and how the catch up will be achieved. Technology and resources can help like never before. Today, the bbc is enhancing its on line educational content and, when the school bell is ring once again, whenever that be, we are not just ring once again, whenever that be, we are notjust getting back to school but also back to normality. Lets take a look at todays front pages. The daily mail reports that some hospitals could run out of protective gowns today, and that some doctors are now warning they will stop treating coronavirus patients in a bid to protect their own lives. Meanwhile, the times quotes the governments chief scientific advisor, sir patrick vallance, who has warned that a vaccine could take time. Sorry that is so tiny for you. After 7am, well be speaking to one of the Oxford University researchers looking for a vaccine. And the duke and duchess of sussex have told some uk tabloids that they will no longer work with them. Prince harry and meghan accused the outlets of running stories that are distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason. They sent letters to the sun, daily mail, the mirror and the express. And now for something more heartwarming a taxi driver in spain, who has been taking patients to their local Hospital Free of charge, was met with a standing ovation when he turned up to the main entrance. Staff clapped and then handed him an envelope full of money as a thank you for his help. Go on social media and have a watch, you know when you cry ugly, i guarantee you add ugly cry because it is just beautiful. Guarantee you add ugly cry because it isjust beautiful. It is adorable. So david attenborough, an interview with andrew barr yesterday and he was talking about the environment. A lovely interview about realising what an incredibly wonderful life he has a lead and telling us all about our environment 01 telling us all about our environment or the animals and then he was asked at the end what is it we could all do and he said stop all waste stop not just plastic, stop do and he said stop all waste stop notjust plastic, stop waste of any kind, stop wasting power, food, do not waste. This is a precious world, celebrate and cherish. We showed you some of the front pages. Pubs could remain close until christmas in a devastating blow to the industry. Michael gove said locus could be the last to reopen after the covid 19 lockdown. Frontpage which would concern a number of people. And yesterday, the start tribute to virus heroes organised by lady gaga. The Rolling Stones. Was that your favourite . I loved how they popped up. No drum kit so he used various thinkers. We have all played the drums on the saucepan and pots but not the man from the Rolling Stones so one not the man from the Rolling Stones so one of the highlights. They have raised an astonishing amount of money as well. I thank you to anybody who worked on the frontline. They were aiming to raise a million and they were close to that. I love to look at some of their homes. Oh, my goodness, one of the joyful things to see inside eltonjohns home and his a grand piano. Do you reckon he had that outside or did he carefully remove it . I was obsessing about how it had been filmed. It is ridiculous. Looking at the wallpaper and all the rest of it. I read another article yesterday saying now people are panicking about their books, and having blank walls so that people dontjudge them for their books. Or review of them for their books. Or review of the dogs, or something. Them for their books. Or review of the dogs, orsomething. It them for their books. Or review of the dogs, or something. It was to watch. The lockdown has meant weve all had to find new ways of doing things, including visiting the gp. Doctors say theyve been carrying out more video consultations online, which limits the number of patients arriving at the surgery and helps keep staff safe. Lorna gordon reports. Are you having any difficulty breathing at the moment . Has that beena dry breathing at the moment . Has that been a dry cough . Aberdeens covid 19 immunity assessment hub, doctors making decisions about who needs urgent care. So i need to get you to the accident and emergency for some further tests. Patients who are referred here after calling 111 with suspected symptoms can be sent straight to hospital or us to come into the hubs red zone where they are examined in person. Every contact is a risk and it is a risk that works both ways we know that people can have minimal symptoms it on. And we really try to have them in the building for as short a time as possible. So what i want you to do now is i want you to press the tip of yourfinger. Do now is i want you to press the tip of your finger. The ability to assess patients over video link is working well in this new clinical environment. You might see that somebody is in bed, they have got the ship pulled up over them, they are the ship pulled up over them, they a re clearly the ship pulled up over them, they are clearly shared, shivering or they are breathing very fast, so there are lots of good visual cues, which are actually, along with a good history, one of the main ways we decide who needs admission or not. In less than a month, the number of weekly video consultations across scotland has risen from just across scotland has risen from just a few hundred to many thousands, as well as Covid Community assessment centres, it is also being used by gps and the General Hospital consultations. The technology being used in scotland is called near me, it enables patients to have a secure video appointment from their home from wherever it is convenient. We are invited into a virtual waiting room and then connected to your gp. It is also helping older doctors or those with medical conditions keep working. Well, it is safer. You know, it is safer for patients and it is safer for clinicians. I have spoken to quite a few colleagues who have retired or are coming back in and they are really happy to contribute but if they can do a lot of work remotely, then they are much more comfortable with that. And some practices are actually saying to their older doctors, you know, we would really want you to carry on working, but we want you to be safe. And technology is helping to do that. Review appointments will never replace face to face consultations entirely, but what might have seemed daunting to some is, with this accelerated rollout, becoming an important tool in our Health Service and in this fight against coronavirus. And the point they keep making over and overagain, and the point they keep making over and over again, doctors, and the point they keep making over and overagain, doctors, is and the point they keep making over and over again, doctors, is that if you need to speak to somebody, you can of course still do that, and it is very important that people do do that. Exactly, and give them a ring. That is not the best advice, but i think if you give them a ring then they can help you out from that point. That is what i am sort of thing. Lets give carol a ring. As usual, that looks gorgeous. Good morning, everybody. Look at that sky. For many of us today were going to have blue skies. It is going to have blue skies. It is going to have blue skies. It is going to be dry and sunny but you will notice the breeze. It is a keen easterly and it is a chilly one as well, particularly so if you are along this north sea coastline. Just one look at those isobars tells you gusty plus we have a weather front not too far away from the Channel Islands in the south west of england, so you are going to see it bit more cloud and some spots of rain today. But it will start to pull away through the course of the day. We have some cloud across parts of wales, northern england, parts of scotland. That will tend to disperse quite quickly this morning and then we are looking at a lot of sunshine. And after a cold start, temperatures picking up. These are the average wind speeds. Gusts will be higher than that. For some of us, particularly further south, were looking at 35 or possibly 40 mph. Now, the reason we have got the north sea temperatures on is because the north sea is still cold and that is quite a strong c track. So the wind coming across the north sea is picking up some of that coolness and it is going to have an impact on the temperatures in the east sea track. It will feel cooler along that north sea coastline that will do as you come in. The further north you are across england and wales the hyatt further west you are across england and wales higher the temperature. 19 in cardiff on 16 in glasgow. 0vernight, it looks very much like the weather front across france is going to take another swipe at the Channel Islands and the south west of england, bringing in some more rain. There will still be some more rain. There will still be some cloud around, similar places to the note just some cloud around, similar places to the notejust gone, east pennines, parts of southern scotland, and it is going to be a cold night in parts of scotla nd is going to be a cold night in parts of scotland and northern england, cold enough for a touch of frost. Further south we shouldnt have those issues. Then into tomorrow, well, we see the cloud in the rain across the south west and the Channel Islands pull away to the west, and again it is going to be another dry and sunny day, but still that risk, keen easterly wind is with us. So it still is going to ta ke with us. So it still is going to take the edge of the temperatures down this north sea coastline. Move further west at the template as will be higher. As we move from wednesday into thursday, the High Pressure thatis into thursday, the High Pressure that is dominating our weather sta rts that is dominating our weather starts to weaken. The highs of a stud to open out. That means it is not going to be as windy. And, with less of a wind, it is not going to feel as cold. For the first part of the week. On thursday, in some parts it could be the warmest day of the week, some parts hitting 24 or 25 in the london area. 16 in inverness, 16 in londonderry, 22 in abergavenny, and 23 in oxford. But the trend as we go beyond that is for it to cool down. On sunday there is a chance that we could well see some widespread rain. But of course, sunday is a long way off. So in summary, sunday is a long way off. So in summary, this week is dry and sunny but we do have that risk easterly wind until the middle of the week, making it feel that it cooler. Thank you, see you later. You are watching brea kfast you, see you later. You are watching breakfast with louise and dan. It is just coming up to 6 30am. Coming up later in the programme, it is the 80s cult classic that has made an unlikely comeback. Richard e grant will be here to tell us about reprising with nell and i to keep us entertained during the lockdown. And hes the weatherman whos taken the internet by storm after peforming the bbc news theme tune at the end of his forecast. Now he wants you to get involved too, hell tell us morejust before nine. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. After a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. An organisation representing hospital bosses says ministers should stop making promises they cant keep. The department of health said it was working round the clock to give staff the equipment they needed. New zealands Prime Minister has said the countrys lockdown will start to ease from next week. At a press conference, Jacinda Ardern said some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will still apply, with people told to stay home where possible. An aggressive Antibody Testing campaign is to begin in new york next week to see how many people have had the virus and showing signs of immunity. The state accounts for nearly half of the 40,000 deaths from coronavirus across the united states, but Officials Say the outbreak is now slowing. Its time now to put some of your questions to a gp. Joining us today from cheshire is dr fari ahmad. Thank you very much for spending a bit of time with thank you very much for spending a bit of time with us thank you very much for spending a bit of time with us this thank you very much for spending a bit of time with us this morning. Cani bit of time with us this morning. Can i ask you first of all about ppe, that is our lead story, potentially some is running out, what is a situation that you and your colleagues find yourselves in . So, this has kind of been our battle for the world. Community services are understandably not top of the pile when it comes to distributing ppe. So for us as a group of practices, we actually ended up trying to buy the stuff, but our orders got dispatched elsewhere and we struggled. We ended up putting an appeal to our patients and asking if they had anything we could use, we have been overwhelmed, we have had amazing officer, people have made visors, schools have given us goggles, we are using rain ponchos which are quite good, you are covered and you can dispose of it. We have been very lucky overall. We may not be doing standard ppe but we have been able to get stuff. Not just us, our community nurses, care homes, it has been an issue but we have managed. So using rainjacket and goggles that you have been donated, and home made visors, have you had a delivery not come through for a while or have you not heard anything for weeks . No, we have, it has come through, we have certainly had but what we have been supplied with hasnt quite matched what we needed. And also, its notjust us as gps, it has been our colleagues who work in the community, our district nurses who have to go out into peoples homes to see them and give them treatments, our colleagues who work in care homes. It has just been, everybody has needed things. So we have been very lucky, very lucky, that we have had such a great response. Lots of questions today about hay fever, and some official guidance devising people not to confuse hay fever with the symptoms of covid 19. If thats something that people are talking to you about . I think most people who have hay fever will recognise it when it comes again. Some of the symptoms do cross over, runny nose, possibly, some people get a car. I think if you have had it before, get a coffee. I think if you have had it before, you will recognise it. For people who have a new symptom, that could need working through. If you dont have a temperature or a cough, if you just have a sneeze, runny eyes or nose, that is more likely to be hay fever. You can buy at he the counter if your symptoms get better, it is not likely to be coronavirus. What will happen to our immune systems in normal life . Will we have reduced immunity when travelling on public transport and the high street, after coming out of isolation . You shouldnt do, if you encounter virus, you can get an immunity which is built up, so that should still be there. Lots of people are talking about, whether this is just about people watch the news and they think, i cannot go to my gp because if i havent got coronavirus symptoms, they will be swamped. If someone has an issue and they need to see the doctor, whats they need to see the doctor, whats the best thing to do, and what sort of people are using active practice to have things unconnected to the virus . Normal illnesses are still going on, they have not said, we will leave you alone while you deal with this. Some of them we do need to see people for. And the hospitals have been telling us they have seen a drop in the number of children they are seeing, so they have asked us they are seeing, so they have asked us to make sure we they are seeing, so they have asked us to make sure we are they are seeing, so they have asked us to make sure we are reviewing them. People with heart attacks and chest pains who normally would be rushed through, they are not seeing as many. The number of people who could potentially have cancer, and we need to run them through tests, they are not saying the volume of that that they did before. One of the worries is that all of these people with these conditions are still having them, but then they will present a little bit later, people would be more advanced and they would be more ill. So most gps have got websites and you can access things through online, consultations or we were talking about video consultations earlier, you can see and talk to your gp. It is useful, sometimes, if any of your conditions could be that, dontjust ignore it. I hope that is your cat who has just wandered in through the window he or she . Whats his name . Its a hey, its elvis. Elvis is in the building, dr fari ahmad he will be demanding breakfast in a minute that was some light relief. There you go, elvis what a relief sally can talk about sport. How on earth am i going to follow a cat called elvis . Its not going to happen morning, everybody, monday morning, lets bring you up to date with the sports news, hope you are all 0k. Watford are set to become the Third Premier League club to agree wage deferrals with their First Team Squad due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to the players, watfords Senior Management and executives are also expected to take deferrals. They join southampton and west ham who agreed to defer part of their salaries earlier this month. Theres trouble brewing lower down the domestic footballing pyramid at the moment. The National League board recommended clubs vote to end their normal season but the way the votes are split is causing concern for some teams. All 24 clubs from the National League each have a vote, while the National League north and National League south only get four votes each. Chester are one of those teams chasing promotion from the National League north. Talk about, sort of, degrading our level of football. Two leagues, the north and the south, by giving us less say than what the National League gets, again, is baffling. Surely if you have got that many clubs, you include every single one of them. That way you get a broader view and scope of what people want. But, as i said, were left with zero clarity on how four club vote works from our league. Adam peaty will be a father by the time he defends his 0lympic title next year after confirming he and girlfriend are expecting their first child. In a post via his Instagram Account the 50m and 100m breaststroke world record holder said he was over the moon but also criticised the Sun Newspaper for revealing the news and details about their private life without contacting him first. There cant be too many better teachers for learning to ride a bike than Sir Chris Hoy the six time 0lympic gold medallist has been here putting his kids through their paces on a makeshift track. He posted this video on twitter with the caption team sprint training lockd own style. Who needs velodrome when you have got that . A bit of chalk, a bit of outside space next to his house, those bends are quite tight, a bit ofa those bends are quite tight, a bit of a challenge School Sports day, and you are taking on chris hoy on a bike can you imagine . No chance. That is adorable, thank you. Havent you dragged him into a thing you are doing . And also you, havent i . Its the cycling challenge. Please explain. It is the big night in, the bbcs big night, so to support that, the big bike in, i want to do that, everybody at home, on their bikes. Dan hasjoined in, im going to do 100 miles, how many will you do . As many as i had can come in the most i have ever cycled in my life is 20 minutes. I might have to make a donation, not for every minute that you do, but every mile. Sir chris hoy isjoining in . You do, but every mile. Sir chris hoy is joining in . Hopefully, he could probably do 100 miles in about two hours were entering our fifth week of lockdown, and by now many of us have found various ways to keep ourselves occupied at home. But for some of the most vulnerable, the change to everyday life has been a real worry. Transplant patient mark coates has found himself home alone, after his wife and child moved out to help protect him from coronavirus. Breakfasts Graham Satchell has been catching up with him. Robotic whirring. This is what a month of lockdown has done to mark coates. Beep, beep morning, ladies. What have you been doing in the back garden with your sons toys . Well, he has particular toy, a digger. I was going up and down the garden, with the sound effects, the best i can, pretending to work. Mark had a kidney transplant 20 years ago. He is one of the 1. 5 Million People across the country who has been told he has to completely isolate. There we go, bit full. Ive been on my own from the 19th of march. My wife leah and son 0akley moved out on the 19th because my wife is a home carer. Really hard, isnt it, not seeing your wife and your son, your son is so young. Yeah, hes three. Hell be four injuly. Oh, there we are. Hiya. Hello, 0akley how are you . Are you all right . Hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya are you being good . Hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya 0akley, i miss you. I miss you and i love you. I love you 0akley and marks wife leah have moved in with leahs mum. Am i allowed to ask you this question, are you missing mark . Laughter. Er. I ask her every day. Do you want me to pretend . Yeah, really missing him. Theyre making the best of it but it has been tough, particularly for 0akley. He wakes up in the morning saying he misses daddy, why cant he see daddy, he loves his daddy. Unfortunately, that is just the sacrifice weve had to make to protect other people in a vulnerable situation in harrogate. Leah is a home carer. She could have isolated with mark but was determined to keep working. A lot of people in our community who have no family, no neighbours that help, apart from the carer is coming to help to do their shopping, we all need to help each other, keep each other safe. And hopefully, if we do carry on doing this, this virus will, will not be able to spread any more. 0h, here he is, look, the legend that is. Mark relies on his dad brian for food and medicine, immunosuppressants, so his body doesnt reject his new kidney. Marks dad, a life saver in more ways than one. 0h, brilliant, youre a good egg, arent you . You just wear me out. Youre just superfit, arent you . Was it a difficult decision to decide to give you a kidney to your son . Not at all. It was a daunting time but i didnt think twice about it. Well, mark, hes been through a lot, hes an absolute soldier, really, hes a tough cookie. And if he has to go into hospital with this covid thing, and to go into hospital, youve got to be poorly, it could be the end. And thats how serious it is. I cant thank him enough. Not all superheroes wear capes, its true. Bang on it, oakley. So this is the heartbreaking reality for so many in britain today. Contact through a window. Hiya, 0akley hopefully its only going to be months. And then its a lifetime ahead. So, it shouldnt be a great deal. Yeah, youll get through this . Ill get through this. Without a doubt. Ive always been a positive person, and i will continue to be positive. People making tough decisions but also making the best of it. Thank you for taking part in pieces like that to give us an idea of what life is like. Two years before anyone had heard of covid 19, Public Health expert devi sridha predicted that a virus mightjump from animals to humans in china and spread quickly to become a pandemic. As the uk enters its fifth week in lockdown, the government is defending accusations that it didnt take on board advice from experts and missed opportunities to lessen the impact of the crisis. Devi sridha joins us this morning from edinburgh. That morning to you. Thank you for joining us. When did you first start really worrying about this virus . |j think it was in earlyjanuary. I had just got back from the University Holidays and colleagues of mine were very concerned about this emerging group of cluster cases in wuhan of respiratory infection. It was not confirmed human to human but it was likely happening and numbers were increasing. My anxiety levels were quite high from early to mid january as we learned more and more about this virus and about the disease it causes, which can be quite severe. You made your thoughts known committee put that out didnt you . Do you think it was ignored or what do you think happened . do you think it was ignored or what do you think happened . I am not sure. Within the Global Health community, we knew it was huge. Where my mind went to was mers or sars. Containment is imperative that thatis sars. Containment is imperative that that is the approach countries with experience of the coronavirus have done. Ifear this virus has kind of been underestimated because containment was lifted quite early and it was seen to spread throughout the population, which is quite a risky thing to do. Lets talk about here in the uk and what happened. There was a quote from you in the sunday times yesterday. Do you think m ista kes sunday times yesterday. Do you think mistakes were made . Definitely. Every country has made a mistake. It isa every country has made a mistake. It is a very difficult virus to contain. I wish governments, including our own, with throughout their hands and say, yes, we a mistake. We did not order any enough ppe and we did not have enough diagnostic capacity. We are trying our best to find a way through. I am an academic and i prefer people being straightforward. None of us are perfect, people make mistakes. It is best for people to make a mistake for people to admit they made a mistake and then we can move forward. What do you think this message . First of all, about containment. We do not know if people can be reinfected, we do not know how immunity lasts. We do not know how immunity lasts. We do not know how immunity lasts. We do not know how it attacked so many organs in the body. Keeping numbers low should have been at the front of everybodys mines, instead of trying to find a more clever way out and letting it go through the population. The second one regarding Health Workers and the health workforce, when doctors wear aunt covid 19 was, they were not offered testing or adequate ppe. When doctors. We can see doctors beginning to ease restrictions. What is the safe way out of all of this in your view . There are three ways. Lift restrictions and let the virus go and thousands will die. The second is where you can be in cycles of lockdown and release, which is what we are seeing in other countries. This is the delicate balance between capacity of Health Services and how that virus spreads. As soon as daily deaths are creeping up as soon as daily deaths are creeping up again and hospital admissions going up, there will be another lockdown. The only real way out to lift restrictions without having to immediately put them in his work towards a test, trace, isolate strategy, which is to test widely. You need to be testing about 100 people for each case, that is half a million tests a day. It means tracing who they had been in contact with, particularly in the previous week. You can have presymptomatic transmission. But those people into quarantine. It is not perfect but it is much better than what we are doing now, which is quarantining eve ryo ne doing now, which is quarantining everyone in society. Presumably that means a huge amount of Testing Capacity is needed. This is essential for outbreaks. Testing is not the solution, it is not a silver bullet. Without Testing Capacity, thatis bullet. Without Testing Capacity, that is your bottleneck that is why we cannot go out and test all those with minor symptoms and we struggle to test, for a while, even nhs staff will essential workers. If you want to know whether virus is and how wide a problem it is, you had to test. I am glad to see we are building up. Hopefully, if we ever go through this again, lessons will be land. There will be positives coming out of this and one of them is you need to build diagnostic capacity very quickly. Thank you. Fascinating stuff. When the government promised to step in and pay 80 of the wages of anyone at risk of losing theirjob because of the coronavirus crisis, lots of questions were asked about how it would all work. Can we answer them . Today the scheme opens and nina is looking into the details. Nina . Admit it, a month ago you had no idea what the word, furlough meant, did you . But we got to grips with it very quickly when the Job Retention scheme was announced. That was an incredible promise from the chancellor well pay most of your staffs wages, as long as you make sure they have a job to come back to when this is over. This has never, ever happened before. It is monumental in scale. The scheme was conceived under pressure; designed in 48 hours, with just a month to iron out the plan. And injust over an hour it will go live. How should it work . Well, the government will cover 80 of workers salaries up to the value of £2,500. Employers can choose to top up the remaining 20 . From sam today, employers can apply online for a grant not a loan so it wont need to be repaid, to cover the wages. Hmrc say that money will be with them in days. We dont know how many businesses will apply. Two million have been contacted we do know some big names will be using the scheme; British Airways to mcdonalds. The british chambers of commerce think about half of all firms will take part. That means more than 8 million uk workers could end up on furlough, costing the uk government more than £40 billion over the first three months. But is it enough . On friday, the chancellor extended the scheme until the end of june after loads of pressure from business. But many weve spoken to are really worried that things wont simply bounce back to normal comejuly those working in hospitality and travel for example. This is derek who runs a travel company. We invest hundreds of thousands of pounds on training staff, sending them on educational so make sure they are knowledgeable about places that we sell. It would have been heartbreaking to lose those people. Following them has been a godsend so we can keep our Team Together make sure we are ready to come back stronger in future. Furloughing. Evenjun stronger in future. Furloughing. Even jun may not stronger in future. Furloughing. Evenjun may not be soon enough. The travel industry will continue to face difficult times. What about those who are not covered by this pa rt those who are not covered by this part of the scheme . We said this game will be extended to include those who were on the payroll by the 19th of march. Some people were left disappointed to find they were working for company but were not on the payroll. Even if you are being furloughed, when will you get paid, well the system buckle under the pressure . The stakes are incredibly high. The very survival of some businesses depends on their scheme working. We will be talking to the boss of hmrc, who is responsible for rolling out the scheme in about an hour. If you have any questions, do get in touch and we will do our best to get through them. A lot of people will be fascinated. Really important. You can get in touch by e mail and on social media. Its time now for another gentle work out routine from diana moran, better known as the green goddess. Well, good morning, everybody. How are you all bearing up in this extended time indoors . It is very difficult, isnt it . Nevertheless, weve got to keep cheerful. Today, im going to be looking at our bones. It is essential to keep strong bones. If we have weak bones, we can fall and break wrists, spine and hips. So lets just think about those areas today. Im just going to do some easy things, such as with bottles, two bottles. All im doing isjust opening my hands, grasping the bottles. It could be oranges, it could be cans of beer. You just grasp away and roll the wrist and strengthen the wrist. Maybe turn it other ways as well. Its just a simple way of strengthening your wrists. And then, heres another very simple way. Just your hands, arms up, fingertips touching and literally just press your palms together. Press together. This could make all the difference when you fall and you get whats called a colles fracture a fracture of the wrist. Jolly painful, i know ive done it myself. Fell in an ice rink. Should have known better. With a load of 50 year old friends at that time. Find yourself either a tea towel or maybe a bath towel and lets just work the spine. Thats it. 0ver you go. As long as weve got enough vitamin d, which we do get from the sunshine or from other sources as well, added calcium thats the Dairy Products in our bones respond and get stronger. Just drop that down behind you. Werejust going to pull up and down. Its putting the body, the bones. Through an unusual movement. If there are enough of those vitamins and minerals, the calcium and the vitamin d, the bones respond and they get a bit stronger. Lets just get over to the other side as well and that will be the end of our work out today. And dont forget, keep fit and carry on. We are doing our very best to carry on. It looks like beautiful sunrise. A beautiful, hazy sunshine. This one was from forfar in scotland. Many of us this morning will have started off with a beautiful sunrise. Many off with a beautiful sunrise. Many of us will have blue skies. There is a brisk easterly wind which will ta ke a brisk easterly wind which will take the edge off the temperatures. A weather front is coming up from france producing cloud in the Channel Islands and the south west of england. That will tend to move away through the course of the day. After a cold start when temperatures will pick up quite clean. In cardiff we are looking at 19 degrees. It will feel cold along the north sea coastline. Further north, any cloud this morning will evaporate and we are looking at blue skies from top to toe. Temperatures ranging from ten in lerwick to 19 in cardiff. Still, dont forget in a cold along the north sea coastline. This evening and overnight we will still have a brisk wind. There will be thick cloud in the Channel Islands and the south west of england. Whether cloud is broken in parts of the highlands and parts of north east england we could well see a touch of frost. Elsewhere there wont be any issues. Cloud around rather like this morning. Any cloud and rain left in West Cornwall and the Channel Islands will move away, leaving behind a lot of dry weather. Still keen went and still feeling cool if you are exposed to that. The winds will be lighter. We are looking at a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine and it will feel better as a result and it will not feel as cold. Temperatures ranging from 11 in lerwick to 22 in cardiff. More cloud out towards the west but most of us staying dry. The headlines coming up next. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today. More warnings from hospitals in england over shortages of ppe. A number say supplies of gowns are critically low. A much needed delivery of equipment from turkey has been delayed. The government hits back at claims it was slow to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, saying its working day and night to support the nhs. A big day for business as the government begins paying workers wages. The long awaited Job Retention scheme opens today. Ill ask the man whos rolling out the scheme, the head of hmrc, how it will work, when businesses will see their cash. As if raising £26 million wasnt astonishing enough, captain tom moores Charity Single with michael ball and an nhs choir is on course to top the charts. Its monday the 20th of april. Our top story. After a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. An organisation representing hospital bosses says ministers should stop making promises they cant keep. John mcmanus reports. Its the issue that wont go away. Can the government guarantee the safety of both nhs and care workers by providing them with enough supplies of personal protective equipment, ppe . Despite initial assurances that there was enough ppe to go around, ministers have since admitted that in england that hasnt always been the case and there were fears that essential supplies would run out over the weekend. This consignment ppe arrived at Glasgow Prestwick airport from china on saturday. But a flight on sunday containing supplies from turkey, destined for the nhs in england, never made it to the uk. It was supposed to contain 400,000 badly needed hospital gowns. The British Medical Association has described the delay as a matter of life and death. And the organisation representing nhs trusts says promises about individual consignments arent always fulfilled. Bitter experience over the last few weeks has demonstrated that, because of the erratic nature of the supply, you cant really count on gowns being ready to be distributed to the front line until theyve actually arrived in this country, youve opened up the boxes and checked that actually they are the gowns they say they were and the numbers that are meant to be there. Across the uk, more than 16,000 people have now died in hospital from coronavirus. Thats up by 596 on the previous 24 hours and its the smallest rise in nearly two weeks, but it doesnt include deaths in care homes. 0ne industry body has estimated they run into thousands. Across the country, the lockdown continues. Today would have been the first day back at school for most pupils after easter. At sundays downing street press conference the education secretary poured cold water on the newspaper reported that schools in england would reopen in the middle of next month. I want nothing more to see schools back, get them back to normal, make sure that children are sat around learning and experiencing the joy of being at school. But i cant give you a date. Meanwhile, evidence that the hard work and skill of nhs staff is paying off. The first patient to be successfully treated at the new nightingale facility in london was able to transfer to another hospital as his condition had improved. Applause. Applause for him, but for the government the questions about its response to the pandemic continue. John mcmanus, bbc news. Downing street has rejected a report in the sunday times that borisjohnson and his team dragged theirfeet in the run up to the outbreak. Lets go to to our political correspiondent, iain watson, who joins us from westminster. Good morning. There was a response from the government, some pretty strong allegations in the sunday times yesterday . Thats right, the government is very sensitive to some of the allegations made in the sunday times that in effect, they had ignored dire warnings about the spread of the virus and in effect had missed five weeks responding to the virus early on in the year. They haveissued the virus early on in the year. They have issued a five page rebuttal of the sunday times allegations. This says, for example, when the sunday times says the Prime Minister missed five meetings of the emergency meeting cobra, meeting they five meetings of the emergency meeting they said the cobra meetings are best chaired by the relevant secretary of state and the Health Secretary of state and the Health Secretary was chairing the meeting is at the that they were increasing preparations, not ignoring it, back injanuary, preparations, not ignoring it, back in january, the preparations, not ignoring it, back injanuary, the Prime Minister was informed on the 7th of january about the scale of the potential infection and by the 30th of january they had started to ramp up the supply of protective equipment. They also say in response to an allegation that they had sent some of britains protective equipment to china, that china has since repaid that by giving us around 12 million pieces of protective equipment in return. I think what they want to do is to stop this idea that politically, they were somehow sleeping on the job. But i think really, today, tomorrow when Parliament Resumes in westminster, a lot of the questions are not going to be so much about what the government did or didnt do in the past few months, but what they are doing now, whereas the protective equipment that was supposed to be coming from turkey, what are they doing to ramp up testing to meet 100,000 tests per day by the end of the month . There will still be Big Questions for the government but they wanted to extinguish as quickly as possible this idea that they had somehow let the virus come here without making preparations early enough. We will be asking questions about then and now it later on. Well be speaking to the culture secretary, 0liver dowden, at around 7. 30. New zealands Prime Minister has said the countrys lockdown will start to ease from next week. At a press conference, Jacinda Ardern said some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will still apply, with people told to stay home where possible. Because we believed that decisive action, going hard and going early, gave us the very best chance of stamping out the virus. And it has. We have done what very few countries have been able to do. We have stopped a wave of devastation. Lockdown measures have also been relaxed in germany, with small shops and some schools allowed to re open today. The German Authorities announced last week that the outbreak was under control. Lets go to berlin now and our correspondent, jenny hill. Good morning. Tell us what has changed and how they got this under control . Lets start with what is changing as of this morning, as you say, small shop scan reopen and some children, some shop scan reopen, and some children, mainly older children who have got exams, can go back to school, but you still cannot go out and gets together with your friends and bars and missions will remain closed for the foreseeable future. There are some reasonable differences in how each of the 16 german states are implementing the relaxation of the measures, but overall the byword is caution. As you say, the German Authorities announced last week that they think that they have got the situation under control, their early strategy of early mass testing as well as that effective lockdown appears to have paid off. But they are very concerned about what might happen next, with Angela Merkel describing the situation as an interim, fragile success. Those authorities know that they are seeing a rise in the number of deaths, they are also seeing a rise in the number of Health Care Workers being affected. As they take these first tentative few steps out of these restrictions, they are also strongly recommending that people where face masks in shops and public transport, and they are increasing the number of tests they can do. There is no capacity for 730,000 tests per week. There is now capacity for 730,000 tests per week. An aggressive Antibody Testing campaign is to begin in new york next week to see how many people have had the virus and show signs of immunity. The state accounts for nearly half of the 40,000 deaths from coronavirus across the united states, but Officials Say the outbreak is now slowing. In other parts of the us, hundreds of people gathered for anti lockdown demonstrations. In colorado, protestors blocked the streets with cars, while Health Care Workers in scrubs and face masks stood in the road in counterprotest. At least 16 people, including a policewoman, have been shot dead by a gunman in canada. The suspect dressed as a Police Officer during a 12 hour rampage. Its thought to be one of the deadliest Mass Shootings in the countrys history. Matt graveling has more. Dressed as a Police Officer, he posed as a protector, even driving around in a marked car. But instead, 51 year old Gabriel Wortman took a gun and started killing innocent people. His 12 hour rampage began on saturday night, leaving bodies at a number of different locations across nova scotia. Police first became aware of the shootings after reports of firearms being used. Tragically, one of those sent to help became a victim of the attack. Its with tremendous sadness that i share with you that weve lost constable heidi stevenson, a 23 year veteran of the force, who was killed this morning while responding to an active shooter incident. Heidi answered the call of duty and lost her life while protecting those she served. Police were first called to a residence in the rural town of portapique. They located several casualties, but not the suspect, Gabriel Wortman. An overnight search for wortman led police to a number of areas, including some where structures were on fire. They asked people to stay indoors, posted the gunmans believed location online and said he may be wearing a Royal Canadian mounted police uniform, despite not being employed by the service. The canadian Prime Minister began his regular briefing on coronavirus to focus on the shooting. Before we get started, i want to touch briefly on the unfolding events in portapique, nova scotia. I know weve been watching this on the news. My hearts go out to everyone affected in what is a terrible situation. I want to thank the police for their hard work and people for cooperating with authorities. Police said the suspect was driving what appeared to be a police car before changing to another vehicle. On twitter, they notified people of the cars registration. And then, just before midday on sunday, police informed people that following a car chase, Gabriel Wortman was dead. They added, as his victims were killed across nova scotia, authorities were still trying to establish the final death toll. Matt graveling, bbc news. That is a horrible story. The duke and duchess of sussex have told four of britains most popular newspapers that theyre ending all cooperation with them. The couple have sent a letter to the sun, the mail, the mirror and the express saying they will no longer engage with them because of what they feel has been unfair and inaccurate treatment. A bit of an update on captain tom. After raising more than £26 million for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden, captain tom is now on course for another remarkable achievement. Youll never walk alone apologies for interrupting them there after first performing with michael ball on our programme last week, their version of youll never walk alone, together with an nhs choir, is now on course to top the uk singles chart. Nearly 36,000 copies have been sold in 48 hours. Lets take a look at the charts. It puts captain toms single ahead of the weeknd and drake. Well know by friday whether he makes it to number one. I think ithinki i think i know what my gas will be what my guess would be and heres a look at the live funraising total for captain toms walk for the nhs. Its now standing at just under £26 million. We said that on good friday, when he first appeared on bbc breakfast, the target was £1000. He has captured the hearts of the nation scientists around the world are working hard to find an effective vaccine for covid 19, but its a long process that could take many months or even years. Here in the uk, a team from Oxford University hope to begin Clinical Trials as early as this week. We can speak now to professor sarah gilbert, who is leading the project. Thank you so much for talking to us this morning. We get so many comments and questions every day on bbc breakfast and many of them are about a vaccine. How confident are you that it will work . Well, we have used this Vaccine Technology before, we have seen it performed very well so we think it is the best thing to use it so that is where we are making the vaccine the way we are. We think it gives us the better chance. But we have to test it, we have to test it in people, to look at the vaccines safety and look at the immune response we get and see if it protects people against the coronavirus. Unfortunately we are under a lot of time pressure now because we need to be testing the virus at a time when there is still virus at a time when there is still virus circulating in the community, so we need to go as quickly as possible so we are hoping to start at the end of this week, not next week. This week you will hopefully be beginning their tests. Give us an idea of the timescale and how much you are bringing it forward to try and find a vaccine for coronavirus . We started working on this on the 11th of january when the sequence was first released. In under four months we will be in clinical development. Underfour months we will be in clinical development. Under four months from first knowing the viruses out there. Normally you would look at five yea rs normally you would look at five years to get it to that stage. Normally, you would be doing things in sequence, you would have a look at work in the lab and you would start to slowly prepare for clinical you how to prepare manufacturing of the vaccine. All of that is happening in parallel. We cannot miss out steps. In order to have a safe and effective vaccine we have to go through all the normal steps. We hope to save as much time as possible by doing things in parallel with each other instead of one after each other and working with regulatory authorities to work out how much we can accelerate this whilst still getting within the international guidelines. He managed to get to this stage in four months, one would say it is amazing. How can you make sure it is safe . We have not missed anything out. All of the careful, controlled manufacturing of the vaccine, all of that is being done. Normally you would do a piece of work they get results, apply for funding and then move onto another piece of work. That is not happening. We are doing everything at risk. It means we start paying for work before we know the first pa rt for work before we know the first part has been successful because we dont want to waste time by having to wait and get funding to do the next pa rt to wait and get funding to do the next part of the web only when we know the first part has been successful. That is why we are able to go faster. It does mean we have missed out any of the steps to ensure the safety of the vaccine. The type of vaccine remake has been used in Clinical Trials before. We can make this work to make vaccines against lots of different diseases. We had done 12 Clinical Trials of vaccines made in the same way. We have seen strong immune vaccines made in the same way. We have seen strong immune responses and that is why we chose to go in this way to make this vaccine. And that is why we chose to go in this way to make this vaccinelj and that is why we chose to go in this way to make this vaccine. I am sure you have seen comments this way to make this vaccine. I am sure you have seen comments from the chief scientific adviser. I will just remind viewers of that. He said all vaccines are long shots and not all vaccines are long shots and not a certainty that this man is in charge of the task force for developing a vaccine. Is that pouring cold water on the work you are doing . I do not think to rattle. This is not the only vaccine. We support the idea we think multiple vaccines can be successful. There are 140 different vaccines in development and not all of them will be successful by any means. It is about applying experience and knowledge of Vaccine Development to work out the most likely strategy to get a successful vaccine that is safe and get there quickly and that is what we have done. We want to work with Vaccine Developers to share information about immune response we get and try to understand if other vaccines will also be successful. I think there will be more than one. That is what i was going to ask you. Teams of scientists all over the world are trying to develop something. How much collaboration is there . As i understand it, 0xford much collaboration is there . As i understand it, Oxford University is not looking to make any money from this but there might be a financial element from it as well. In some cases, companies are trying to use technology. They are not necessarily looking to make money out of the pandemic that it would still be good for them if theyre Vaccine Technology is shown to work because it then helps them with their business for making other vaccines. I think that is part of the reason people are keen to work. It is not all about making money out of the vaccine but it is about finding the best vaccines that really have high efficacy, long lasting immunity is what we would like to see from one dose of the vaccine ideally and not multiple doses. This effort is being coordinated by the who bringing all the Vaccine Developers together to share information. That should help accelerate the process. Two more questions. How many strains of covid 19 to rethink our out there . Will one vaccine cover them all . There are some very small differences between viruses. It is possible to use the small differences to track the passage of a virus through a population. The amount of difference is really very small. We have previously worked on a vaccine against another coronavirus, mers, and we have shown antibodies developed in Clinical Trials, this has been tested against all the different strains we could find any neutralised all of them. The changes in the viva sequence we re the changes in the viva sequence were not a problem. A final question, this is something we get asked quite a bit. If there were to bea asked quite a bit. If there were to be a vaccine, lets say months down the line, which you need to be vaccinated for this every year or would it be once and it will work . We dont know that. The first thing is to have a vaccine at work settle and then look at how long immunity lasts for. We have been hearing about antibody test, picking up people who have been infected and sometimes describing theirs as being immune. We do not know how long that immunity lasts for. I suspected younger adults, may be under the age of 55, it will not need to be an annual vaccination, maybe it will for older people. Thank you so much for older people. Thank you so much for your time. Some fascinating a nswe rs. For your time. Some fascinating answers. Hopefully has answered some of your questions. I am fascinating to see normally a process that will ta ke to see normally a process that will take five years to get to this point, they are there in four months. When tony trueman was rushed to hospital with coronavirus, he was told that Underlying Health conditions meant that he couldnt be put on a ventilator. Fearing the worst, he called his wife so they could say their goodbyes. Amazingly, after spending ten days in hospital, tony is back home and recovering well. We can speak to him and his wife, emma, who are in birmingham this morning. Good morning to you. Good to see you. Tony, youll have to face mask around your neck for a reason. Just explain to us why. As you have. This morning i had a slight, tickly cough and it is just a precaution. This morning i had a slight, tickly cough and it isjust a precaution. I am glad it is precautionary. You got ill quite quickly and he had Underlying Health problems. Tell us what is going on. I have problems with my heart, i am a diabetes type numeric tea. A few other problems. I had been under the weather with a virus. Diabetes type two. Had been under the weather with a virus. Diabetes type two. When did you become particularly worried about him . He had had a very High Temperature for about seven days and it was not getting better. He was getting worse. So i found 111 and the ambulance got here really quickly. They sort of sad, his temperature is very high, his breathing is not good, he had an erratic heartbeat and they took him into hospital there and then. Was it right on that first night in hospital you are thinking, im not seeing the other side of this . hospital you are thinking, im not seeing the other side of this . I was not compass mentis by then. Emma knows more about the first few days in hospital. Ifind it difficult to remember because it was so fragmented. I had just little snaps of things happening around me. You are at home, unable to have a conversation with him. What were conversations with doctors like . Conversation with him. What were conversations with doctors like . M was difficult, not easy, that is for sure. I spoke to tony on the telephone that he was very breathless. 0n telephone that he was very breathless. On that thursday, the day after he had gone into hospital, he said that i do not think i will make this. We were talking about that. It was incredibly difficult, really ha rd. That. It was incredibly difficult, really hard. He sort of sad, i am really hard. He sort of sad, i am really sorry, i dont want to leave you like this and that was the conversation that we had. It was difficult, really hard. conversation that we had. It was difficult, really hard. I can imagine. But was a brutal conversation. Can you remember how ha rd conversation. Can you remember how hard it was to have that conversation at the time . hard it was to have that conversation at the time . I can remember parts, i can remember saying what i wanted to happen with my ashes but i cannot remember most of the conversation. You will have to give her a hug on national telly. It is really upsetting. These were desperate times and you have come out the other side of it but it has a huge impact on you, doesnt it . Out the other side of it but it has a huge impact on you, doesnt mm was really ha rd a huge impact on you, doesnt mm was really hard that he has come through the other side, thankfully. What were the staff in the hospital like . Absolutely brilliant. I cannot thank them enough. They were good, really good. So tough what they have got to do. Some of the things that tony saw on the ward, it is really hard. I do not know how they will copein hard. I do not know how they will cope in the future but at the moment they are exhausted, thinking of nothing but work. Having gone through what you experience attorney telling you they did not think he would make it, what is it like to have him back at home and to have come through the other side of the virus . Amazing. I am so grateful he is here. I neverthought virus . Amazing. I am so grateful he is here. I never thought when he we nt is here. I never thought when he went to that day that he was going to be coming home again. I am so grateful that he is here. It has been overwhelming. We have had so much support as well. Tonys family, my family. So much on social media as well. Just so many people rallying around. It has been amazing that we have managed to come through the other side and that i have got ten here because i really did not think i was going to have him here. It is wonderful to see that. How are you feeling . You must be feeling exhausted, for starters . you feeling . You must be feeling exhausted, for starters . I was very wea k exhausted, for starters . I was very weak when i came out. Iam i am getting my strength back now. I have been doing walks up and down the landing to build up energy. When you are better, what would you most to do . Wash my car. Maybe you really love doing it but i am sure we can get somebody to wash your car for you. I take it to their car wash i press the buttons. I am glad emma explains, taking it to the car wash. That is a bit different. I do not think the car washes open. Sorry, im going to make you cough. I do apologise. Thank you so much to give usa apologise. Thank you so much to give us a bit of cheer this morning. Thank you for giving emma ahad as well. That is lovely to see our national telly. A hug. Wonderful to see that he is ok. Heres carol with a look at this mornings weather. For most of us it will be a sunny day. If you like your sky is blue, you are in for a treat. Parts of wales, the pennines and southern scotla nd wales, the pennines and southern scotland will have cloud. That will melt away. You can see all the sunshine we are expecting. The exception is across the Channel Islands and the south west of england where we will see spots of rain, which will be the way through the day. A lot of dry weather along the day. A lot of dry weather along the north sea coastline. In the wind it will feel particularly cold. Temperatures in lerwick from ten to highs of 19 temperatures in lerwick from ten to highs of19 in temperatures in lerwick from ten to highs of 19 in cardiff. It will feel colder than these temperatures suggest along the north sea coastline. Still a lot of clear skies. The weather front from france will bring in more cloud and spots of rain to the Channel Islands. It will be cold enough for a touch of frost in sheltered glands of england. I thrust across wales, the pennines and southern scotland. That will burn away quite quickly. A frost. For the Channel Islands and the south west of england where we have had cloud and spots of rain, it will move away and it will brighten up will move away and it will brighten upfor will move away and it will brighten up for you as well. Temperatures similarto up for you as well. Temperatures similar to today, 11 to 15 in the east. The highest temperatures in the west by 16 in belfast and 17 in glasgow and 19 in cardiff. A lot of sunshine on offer. Any mist and fog will burn away. The winds will not be as strong. It will not feel as cold over the next couple of days along the east coast. Temperatures 11 to 16. The top temperature likely to be in cardiff at 22 degrees. Into thursday, you can see the area of ploughed into wales, northern ireland, the north west of england, kicking out at times to produce the odd shower. For the rest of the uk a lot a blue sky once again. In the lighter wins it will feel quite pleasa nt lighter wins it will feel quite pleasant if you are stepping out for exercise. Area of cloud. We are looking at 13 towards stornoway. Thank you. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0rganisations representing nhs bosses have criticised the government, after a delivery of personal protective equipment was delayed. The consignment, which included 400,000 badly needed gowns, was expected to arrive from turkey yesterday. Lets speak now to the culture secretary, 0liver dowden, whojoins us from hertfordshire. Thank you forjoining us. Lets particularly talk about these gowns that were meant to be arriving, they we re that were meant to be arriving, they were promised to be arriving from turkey, where are they . We are very hopeful that later today, that flight hopeful that later today, that flight will take off and we will get those gowns. Those gowns form part ofa those gowns. Those gowns form part of a much wider effort on protective equipment, there has been over a billion pieces of protective equipment delivered so far, and not just from turkey, we are procuring this, 25 million gowns have been secured from china and we will be getting there as shortly as well. The problem is, i suppose, you say these 400,000 gals are arriving, you make a promise and it doesnt happen, then people have concerns. 400,000 happen, then people have concerns. 400,000 gowns. I appreciate those concerns, we are working very hard to resolve it, there have been challenges at the turkish end. I dont want to start making more promises but i understand that the flight promises but i understand that the flight will take off this morning and those will be delivered, this afternoon, sorry. Our lead story this morning is some hospitals saying ppe, particularly gowns at the moment, their levels is critically low, how has this been allowed to happen . critically low, how has this been allowed to happen . I think it is worth having some context around this. If you think about it, to begin with, it was only hospital that required protective equipment, 233 hospitals, we are now trying to deliver this to 58,000 institutions. We have delivered over a billion pieces of protective equipment and we are both ramping up in the way that i described and working through the challenges of getting that to all the different institutions. The supplies from turkey form part of it, there will be suppliers from china and elsewhere. All countries are facing the challenge, this is a Global Health emergency. All countries are trying to secure the equipment they need to the Health Service. So we are working in a competitive Global Environment in terms of securing this equipment as well. In the meantime, there are nurses and doctors, care workers on the front line who are really concerned that they have not got what they need. Yes, and i very much understand and appreciate those concerns, thats why the government has a singular efforts to get the supplies to where they are needed. Why also on friday the nhs issued clinical guidance to help guide in terms of the allocation of that equipment. I expect this flight is to be coming later today and we are procuring from around the world to be getting the nhs needs and indeed other institutions. When do you think we will get to the point where we do not hear continual concerns about ppe, the government will have this sorted . Well, as im sure you appreciate, there have been different stages, the current consent are around gowns, there have been concerned in the past around protective eye equipment which we dealt with, and there have been concerns around ventilators, we have ensured that ventilation capacity has always been ahead of what is needed by the nhs. In a situation like this where we have an unprecedented Global Health crisis, the government is working to ove rco m e the government is working to overcome each challenge as it arises. We have worked at pace to deal the challenges, you saw how we built the nhs nightingale hospital, thanks to the huge squad of nhs workers and army workers, we got that built in nine days. These are unprecedented times but we are working hard to deal with each issue as it arises. Are you taking advantage of the fact that, some companies have pulled up the bbc saying, we can help, are you having conversations with businesses . Every single offer of help is being taken very seriously, triage and dealt with so when it is coming in, we work tim see if we can make use of a surprise. I would urge any company to feel that they have not had a response from government or who have capacity to continue to come forward , capacity to continue to come forward, we are working with Companies Across the board to make sure we take advantage both of our domestic capability, although clearly those manufacturers have to manufacture to an appropriate standard for the nhs, and we are seeking to get resources from across the globe. All countries are facing this crisis, and they are also trying to secure those resources as well. Im sure you will have read the article in the sunday times yesterday, as many people did, with a lot of different points it made. 0ne a lot of different points it made. One of the things it talked about was borisjohnson not being at cobra meetings, why not . Well, i used to work for a Prime Minister, david cameron, i was the minister responsible for cobra for the civil to contingency secretariat. It is perfectly normal for other ministers, appropriate secretary of state, to chair cobra. It is a committee which coordinate action across government, so committee which coordinate action across government, so at the early stages, that was chaired by the Health Secretary, that is what you would expect. That does not mean the Prime Ministers not engaged. The Prime Minister was being briefed on an hourly and daily basis, took a very close personal interest in this and clearly as the crisis progressed, he took over chairing it and that is the normal course of events. You have referred to it as and present an unprecedented situation, would it have been better if he was there earlier . If you look at the global response, the World Health Organization only declared it a pandemic in march. This is a new disease, our understanding of it was evolving rapidly, it continues to evolve. In those early stages, it was appropriate for the Health Secretary to chair the relevant cobra committee. This is what previous governments have done, and what we have done in other crisis situations, it is the normal course of events and as it ramped up, the Prime Minister took over chairing. In the early days, he was very much engaged with it, i can assure you of that. We have been speaking to one of the scientists who was quoted in that article and she said that keeping numbers low in the short term should have been at the front of everybody pozmack mines, instead of everybody pozmack mines, instead of trying to find a different out. Everybodys minds. Do you accept m ista kes everybodys minds. Do you accept mistakes were made . everybodys minds. Do you accept mistakes were made . I dont accept that characterisation, im afraid i didnt hear the comments of the person in question. In the early stages we pursued a track and trace policy, whereby we were trying to find out who had the virus and who they had been in contact with, and minimise its spread. Ultimately in common with almost every country around the world, we were not able to contain it, the spread. But we followed the path you would expect in that situation. Michael gove admitted yesterday, im sure you saw the interview with him with andrew marr, that mistakes had been made, all governments make mistakes, what could have been better done . Of course, when we are dealing with an unprecedented crisis like this, we are not going to have a perfect 2020 hindsight vision on this. Of course we will need to look back and see the things that we could have done differently. But i think right now, people would not be expecting us to look back over the past few months, they would expect us to focus on this crisis on a day to day basis. We said we would review all of the lessons we need to learn from this, and we need to learn the lessons globally as the foreign secretary said on friday. But those are issues for another day. Right now, said on friday. But those are issues foranother day. Right now, our focus continues to be dealing with this crisis. One of the newspapers this crisis. One of the newspapers this morning saying that pubs could be shut till christmas, whats your ta ke be shut till christmas, whats your take on that . Well, that is pure speculation. We have set out a fivefold test, of things that have to be met before we can consider easing the lockdown, we will review it again in three weeks. Once we have got that evidence, if we see that we are making progress, then we will determine the appropriate steps to take. Its far too early to be speculating on timetables like that. With regard to Mass Gatherings or gatherings of a large amount of people, do you think it will be the last thing that you will be looking at, for example . Well, you would not expect us to commit Mass Gatherings again asa expect us to commit Mass Gatherings again as a first stage, commit Mass Gatherings, but it will not be helpful to speculate we might do. The simple reason that the evidence is continuing to evolve. Once we have the evidence, we will take appropriate measures in response to the evidence, review it in three weeks and based as we always have done, based on the facts and scientific evidence, we will take appropriate measures. I understand completely, believe me, like all of your viewers, and im sure like you, we are all desperate to end this lockdown. But we need to do it in a sensible way because the worst thing that we can possibly do is to prematurely ease the restrictions and then find a second peak and have to go back to square one again, potentially with even more canyon measures. I would ask you what other think keir starmer suggesting a minutes silence, or supporting suggestions for a minutes silence next week for nhs workers who died, would you support it . next week for nhs workers who died, would you support it . I think it is a very good idea, and we are looking into it. As culture secretary, have responsibility for ceremonials and things like silences and we are actively looking into it, i think its a good idea. So it could be an official minutes silence in some ways . Official minutes silence in some ways . I think it could be. But we will make an announcement on that at an appropriate time. Appreciate your time, thank you. We will talk about Something Else to do with the government here, their fellow scheme, with nina, in a moment. The following scheme. Lots of people going back to home schooling today. I have some words of encouragement from a teacher. I dont know if he saw this. If you are worried about what you are doing with your children, this teacher says, dear parents, dont stress about school work. In september, i will get your children back on track. I am a teacher and thats my superpower. What i cannot fix is social, Emotional Trauma that prevents the brain from learning so right now i just prevents the brain from learning so right now ijust need you to share your calm, your strength and share your calm, your strength and share your laughter with your children. No kids are ahead, no kids are behind, your children are exactly where they need to be. With love, all the teachers on planet earth. Also, if you want help, because i know it is really tough, we are talking about bbc bitesize, lessons welling up from today, we are talking about it later. Dani dyer is teaching history, Sergio Aguero is teaching spanish, i think professor cox is teaching science danny dyer is teaching science danny dyer is teaching history. I havejust seen nina doa teaching history. I havejust seen nina do a mad dash across the newsroom , nina do a mad dash across the newsroom, brive, nina, its ok i dont know what you are talking about the government announced the government retention scheme a month ago, for the first time ever, they will pay 80 of the salary of wages, so will pay 80 of the salary of wages, so that they will still be there after the lockdown comes down. The scheme goes live in 17 minutes. The man in charge, jim harra, chief executive of her majestys revenue and customs, better known as hmrc, joins me now. Many businesses have told us they will not survive if this does not work, kneel on telford says, how can you promise that you will have the cash with businesses within 60 days when you have not taken anything like this on before . Good morning. We are very confident that the system and it goes live at 8am will work, and we have testing it at volume. Of course, there is a limit to the capacity of the system so if every employer tries to use it at a table, some will be asked to queue or come back later, tried to use it at 8am, it doesnt mean the system has crashed, itjust means it is full up. Employers can claim any time between now and wednesday and we will have the money in their bank account by the 30th of april. You sound extremely confident about an undertaking of this scale, can we get a cast iron guarantee from you that the system is robust enough to cope and by wednesday, anybody who wa nts to cope and by wednesday, anybody who wants to apply with the right information will be happy . wants to apply with the right information will be happy . I am confident it will cope with the number of claims, it is also simple to use. A small number of employers have used it already tested and those claims have gone through, we have tested up to 450 claims per hourin have tested up to 450 claims per hour in the testing environment. I 450,000 hour in the testing environment. I 450,000 claims per hour in the testing environment. I am confident, if you use it, if your pay royal date is the 30th of april, you can claim before wednesday and we will get the body into account. David owns a pub in great yarmouth, he says he has had to furlough his staff and he wants to backdate the payments to much, usually he pays them weekly, will he get a lump sum for three months . If he puts his claim in online today, he can backdate it to the date when the employees were furloughed and we will pay back claim in full. Furloughed and we will pay back claim infull. He furloughed and we will pay back claim in full. He can also claim for the next payroll date that is due. One employer, who is providing services that have been reduced because of the coronavirus crisis. The wording in orderfor her to apply for this money is her business has been severely affected. She is worried she will not get the cash. What does she have to do to prove it . If she has had to furlough employees, there is no problem. We know the vast majority of businesses have been impacted and any employer, who has had to send employees home on paid leave will be able to claim under this scheme. Is a now a worry it leaves the system open to fraud . Surely this calls for proportionate safeguards. A man from the capd has said it is almost impossible to put checks and balances in place. It is wide open to ghost employees, isnt it . We have had to balance getting the scheme up and running as fast as we can and making sure the vast majority of genuine claimants get money when they need it with also the responsibility to protect the exchequer from the responsibility to protect the exchequerfrom fraud. The responsibility to protect the exchequer from fraud. When a claim is received, first of all you had to be an authenticated employer with a pay as you earn scheme and you had to have employees previously reported to us. We will be doing some checks between the six working days of receiving the claim and putting money into an employees bank account. I believe we have received the right proportionate balance from honest genuine claimants and protecting the exchequer. Why you are certain public money will be protected . I am setting hmrc is on top of fraud risks. We understand them and we know this scheme will be attractive to fraudsters. I believe we have the balance right in protecting the exchequer against that. My map at the big question this week that we have had so many people get in touch about this, and kevin summed it up with this, i paid tax and National Insurance all my life. I changed jobs in march but i have done nothing wrong and i have missed out on being furloughed, cant this be changed . I appreciate that. We want to help as many people as possible. We need to make sure there are safeguards in the system that we are paying money out correctly. The chancellor last week announced an extension of the scheme. Anyone employed by the 19th of march, the day before he announced the scheme and had been reported to us on pay as you earn, will be able to benefit. Whenever some people will have been caught out. Any news on whether there will be an extension to that . I am afraid it is the case that this scheme will not help eve ryo ne that this scheme will not help everyone who might possibly need help. The scheme is the way it is and has been launched today. There is help available. Universal credits and tax credits have been made more generous. That is disappointing for those workers. Thank you in this incredibly busy time. £40 billion for the first three months expected in the budget. You think you had a busy day at home, keeping kids entertained, think about staff at hmrc. We have had so many e mails and questions coming through this morning. We will make sure we look through as many of those as we can. For many pupils and students, today should have been the start of a new school term. Instead, millions of parents are once again getting to grips with homeschooling. So what can we do to make sure children get the right education . Breakfasts john maguire has been finding out. It is back to school but not as we know it. Hi, im nat. Im dan. Our children are. Fred. And noah. And how has home schooling been going for you . It is tough. It is a learning curve for us. Every day is a school day notjust for the children but for you as well . Absolutely. Yeah, some things are taught differently so we are learning. Mr and mrs reynalds or dad and mum, really, have beenjuggling running a business, a household and a home school. How have you found it . Harder than youd thought or what . It is really hard. It is notjust the teaching. It is the juggling of work and life with that. Yeah. And obviously the boys they think we are off school and we can do what we want, lay around and watch telly all day but they are not supposed to be off school so we have to teach them. Many children of key workers have remained at school over the easter holidays so today may not prove that different. For the staff at these hub schools, keeping children of varying ages engaged and simulated is a challenge. We started off with a summer camp, focusing on the childrens well being and their social emotional and Mental Health. Lots of fun activities, lots of arts and craft. As we move forward, the staff are planning their weeks, linking into the childrens interests and more curriculum based work. But the children need that structure too much free play, too much loose work the children dont benefit from that they need that close structure. Only once schools reopen will staff have a chance to assess the impact of their pupils progress. It is feared children from disadvantaged backgrounds will be affected most so a clear plan to catch up. We know that nothing can compensate for those relationships between teachers and their pupils so, again, planning for when schools reopen and how that catch up is going to be achieved. For those able to take advantage, technology and resources can help like never before. Today, the bbc is enhancing its online educational content and, when the school bells do ring once again, whenever that may be, it will mean we are notjust getting back to school but also back to normality. John maguire, bbc news. Lets speak now to the presenter gethinjones, whos helping to launch the new bbc Bitesize Daily Service later this morning. And joining us from london is mum josephina, who is home schooling her two children cara and leia. It really is an amazing amount of resources out there. Give us a run through some of the things available to parents. It is massive. It has been put together in the last four weeks with teachers and partners as well. The school bell goes at nine oclock this morning. Lots of stuff on the bbc iplayer and a red button and online as well. Basically, we start today at nine oclock with an hour of Primary School lessons and then an hour of secondary School Lessons later in the week. It is all cut down into 20 minute segments, covering everything from five to seven year olds at 9am today. The amount of information and the amount of stuff online and on the bbc iplayer is huge and hopefully it will help parents, who have had to become parents and teachers overnight. We will come to some of the amazing parents later. Tell me, how is mummy as a teacher . She is a great teacher but not as good as my teacher because she taught me all my times tables up to 12 and my mum only knows them up to six. times tables up to 12 and my mum only knows them up to six. I think i got to eight. Mum is doing 0k. How did a teacher is she . The she is a really good teacher. did a teacher is she . The she is a really good teacher. I have thumbs up really good teacher. I have thumbs up here. You take it quite seriously. You have a schedule, is that how it works for you . We were told earlier on that they need structure. We try to combine a timetable with things that they enjoy, things that they need to learn. I try to limit screen time till afternoons only. They do not have screen time all day at school either, so we invested in workbooks that they can work independently with and with myself working from home and my husband as well. I think we are figuring it out. You can tell us about some of the teachers who have lined up today. Sergio aguero, danny dyer. Straightaway you are in theirsergio danny dyer. Straightaway you are in their Sergio Aguero. He is doing some counting in spanish. Brian cox will be looking at the solar system. Dr he will be doing some lessons. Ed balls is doing a few things on economics and politics and Sir David Attenborough will be studying the ocean, the mapping of the world and actually how animals looked as well. There is also stuff like that collapse. Russell kane, rachel riley, there is a lot going on. It is funny josephine mention structure. That it all my friends with are saying as well. It is having somewhere to go. It a complimentary service. There are also things like teacher talks, where you can go and ask questions if you are struggling a bit in terms of what the curriculum is doing at the moment. It is like a huge service to help while children are schooling at home. Today you can get back to school with the girls. Presumably if you are working, there are times when you need then to be working on their own. Absolutely. My husband is also working from home, so husband is also working from home, so he can take over when i am on Conference Calls and things. In the holidays we did not stop. We worked on basic comprehension, using the workbooks. From today, hopefully, fingers crossed, they can understand what to do and do a little bit more independently. I think day by day we will just independently. I think day by day we willjust build on that really. independently. I think day by day we willjust build on that really. I am looking at your timetable. It looks fantastic really. These are difficult times for everybody. Presumably you miss playing with your friends a presumably you miss playing with yourfriends a bit, do presumably you miss playing with your friends a bit, do you . presumably you miss playing with your friends a bit, do you . I do, yes, but i get to facetime then. Whenever that is important as well, to try and keep them in touch with their friends. This morning we have a zoom core with one of the parents to do spellings every day with a bunch of other children in both yea rs. Bunch of other children in both years. A teacher friend bunch of other children in both years. A teacherfriend of mine bunch of other children in both years. A teacher friend of mine does guided reading for about 14 hours my daughters classmates every tuesdays and thursdays, which is giving a teacher one service we rely on and need and also she gets to see her friends and work in a classroom like environment. All the parents are like environment. All the parents a re really like environment. All the parents are really pulling together and trying to help wherever we can. It is amazing. It seems you have a very good system. The Virtual School bell rings at nine and there is so much stuff online to see many parents who might bea stuff online to see many parents who might be a bit daunted this morning. It isa might be a bit daunted this morning. It is a massively enhanced service on the bbc. A lot of people may be lacking a bit of structure. There is a bit of help online. There are 150 new lessons on the bbc bitesize website. Thank you. Learning about the oceans with Sir David Attenborough, i am the oceans with Sir David Attenborough, iam in. Heres carol with a look at this mornings weather. It isa it is a beautiful picture. Today will be dry and sunny but there is a brisk breeze. We have High Pressure in charge of the weather. The wind coming around it of a cold north sea where the isobars are close together. There is a weather front producing figure clad across the Channel Islands and South West England. You can expect some spots of rain before it leaves away. The sun will soon burn the cloud away. All of us will be looking at blue skies. There will be gusty winds. If you are taking exercise down the north sea coastline, these are the temperatures, pretty low. Quite a long sea track. The wind picking up the and bringing it to our shores. Although we had ten to 13 degrees as maximum temperatures, it will feel colder in the winter. Temperatures a little bit higher, 16 in glasgow and 19 in cardiff. Still some clear skies and brisk winds. It looks like a weather front is coming back across the Channel Islands and South West England, bringing more cloud and rain. Holding up uncharted glens of scotland, in the north east and sheltered parts of england for a touch of frost. There will be ploughed in very similar places to where we had this morning, across wales, the pennines and southern scotland. That will lift rapidly and burn away. The rain across the south west moving away, still a brisk wind and still feeling cool in the wind. The headlines next. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Edges 8 01. Our headlines today more warnings from hospitals in england over shortages of ppe a number say supplies of gowns are critically low. A much needed delivery of equipment from turkey has been delayed. The government hits back at claims it was slow to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, saying its working day and night to support the nhs. And youll never walk alone as if raising £26 million wasnt astonishing enough, captain tom moores Charity Single with michael ball and an nhs choir is on course to top the charts. Good morning. Its monday the 20th of april. Our top story after a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. In the last half hour, the culture secretary has told breakfast that he hopes the cargo will arrive today. John mcmanus reports. Its the issue that wont go away. Can the government guarantee the safety of both nhs and care workers by providing them with enough supplies of personal protective equipment, ppe . Despite initial assurances that there was enough ppe to go round, ministers have since admitted that in england that hasnt always been the case and there were fears that essential supplies would run out over the weekend. This consignment of ppe arrived at Glasgow Prestwick airport from china on saturday. But a flight on sunday containing supplies from turkey, destined for the nhs in england, never made it to the uk. Its supposed to contain 400,000 badly needed hospital gowns. The British Medical Association has described the delay as a matter of life and death. And the organisation representing nhs trusts says promises about individual consignments arent always fulfilled. Bitter experience over the last few weeks has demonstrated that because of the erratic nature of the supply, you cant really count on gowns being ready to be distributed to the front line until theyve actually arrived in this country, youve opened up the boxes and checked that actually they are the gowns they say were and the numbers that are meant to be there. The bbc has heard concerns that some companies have had their offers to manufacture ppe ignored. The government says it does need their help. Every single offer of help is being taken very seriously. So when it comes in we are working to resolve with them if theyre we can make use of those supplies. I would urge any companies that feel they have not had a response from government and have that capacity continue to come forward. We are working with Companies Across the board. Across the uk, more than 16,000 people have now died in hospital from coronavirus. Thats up by 596 on the previous 24 hours and is the smallest rise in nearly two weeks, but it doesnt include deaths in the care homes. One industry body has estimated they run into thousands. Meanwhile, evidence the hard work and skill of nhs staff is paying off. The first patient to be successfully treated at the new nightingale facility in london was able to transfer to another hospital, as his condition had improved. Applause. Applause for him but for the government, the questions about its response to the pandemic continue. John mcmanus, bbc news. Downing street has rejected a report in the sunday times that borisjohnson and his team dragged theirfeet in the run up to the outbreak. Lets go to our political correspondent, iain watson, who joins us from westminster. They have gone through it point by point, this criticism from the sunday times . Yes, they are very sensitive to accusations that somehow the Prime Minister in particular was sleeping on the job, that he ignored the dire warnings early on in this crisis. That also they hadnt ta ken early on in this crisis. That also they hadnt taken the spread of the virus seriously enough. A5 page rebuttal issued by the department of health. One of the key accusations by the sunday times was the Prime Minister had missed five meetings of the Emergency Committee cobra earlier in the air. They are saying is quite normalfor earlier in the air. They are saying is quite normal for secretaries of state, not the Prime Minister, to chair those meetings, that is what matt hancock did. He did talk to the Prime Minister about the crisis as early as the 7th of january and they we re early as the 7th of january and they were trying to ramp up this controversial area they were discussing, the supply of protective equipment from the 30th of january. So simply because the Prime Minister wasnt present at some meetings, they say it is ridiculous that this in some way would have any influence over the spread of the virus to the uk. A very strong response from the government. I think what they are trying to extinguish early on is this narrative growing that in some way they hadnt taken this seriously, where as some other countries did. There are still Big Questions for them to answer about what they could be doing from now on, going forward. Will it be that there is enough ppe, can they ramp up there is enough ppe, can they ramp up testing to 100,000 a day like they promise . Are they taking those offers from manufacturers to get more ppe being taken up . We spoke to the culture secretary a bit earlier and he talked about the possibility ofa and he talked about the possibility of a minutes silence for the nhs . Yes, an idea put forward by Health Unions and supported by the labour leader keir starmer. He said he was sympathetic to that and he would have a role in commemorations. We might getan have a role in commemorations. We might get an official minutes silence for those on the front line, the nhs workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus since this crisis took place. He also had some encouraging news on the ppe issue as well. He suggested this flight from turkey, the delayed ppe, 400,000 protective gowns, could actually ta ke protective gowns, could actually take place this afternoon. That those supplies could be on their way and there would be more supplies from china, he suggested. A little less forthcoming on when the lockdown might end, he said it would be driven by the science and didnt comment on the questions over it with Mass Gatherings for the last things to be instituted and if pubs might open before the end of the year . You called it pure speculation. Iain, thank you very much. New zealands Prime Minister has said the countrys lockdown will start to ease from next week. Jacinda ardern said some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will still apply, with people told to stay home where possible. Because we believe that decisive action, going hard and going early, gave us the very best chance of stamping out the virus. And it has. We have done what very few countries have been able to do we have stopped a wave of devastation. Lockdown measures have also been relaxed in germany, with small shops and some schools allowed to re open today. More than 4000 people have died in the country. Last week, German Authorities announced that the outbreak was under control. An aggressive Antibody Testing campaign is to begin in new york next week to see how many people have had the virus and show signs of immunity. The state accounts for nearly half of the 40,000 deaths from coronavirus across the united states, but Officials Say the outbreak is now slowing. In other parts of the us, hundreds of people gathered for anti lockdown demonstrations. In colorado, protestors blocked the streets with cars, while healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood in the road in counterprotest. At least 16 people, including a policewoman, have been shot dead by a gunman in canada. The suspect dressed as a Police Officer during a 12 hour rampage. Its thought to be one of the deadliest Mass Shootings in the countrys history. Matt graveling has more. Dressed as a Police Officer, he posed as a protector even driving around in a marked car. But instead, 51 year old Gabriel Wortman took a gun and started killing innocent people. Siren. His 12 hour rampage began on saturday night, leaving bodies at a number of different locations across nova scotia. Police first became aware of the shootings after reports of firearms being used. Tragically, one of those sent to help became a victim of the attack. Its with tremendous sadness that i share with you that we have lost constable heidi stevenson, a 23 year veteran of the force, who was killed this morning while responding to an active shooter incident. Heidi answered the call of duty and lost her life while protecting those she served. Police were first called to a residence in the rural town of portapique. They located several casualties, but not the suspect, Gabriel Wortman. An overnight search for wortman led police to a number of areas, including some where structures were on fire. They asked people to stay indoors, posted the gunmans believed location online and said he may be wearing a Royal Canadian mounted police uniform, despite not being employed by the service. The canadian Prime Minister began his regular briefing on coronavirus to focus on the shooting. Before we get started, i want to touch briefly on the unfolding events in portapique, nova scotia. I know weve been watching this on the news. My hearts go out to everyone affected in what is a terrible situation. I want to thank the police for their hard work and people for cooperating with authorities. Police said the suspect was driving what appeared to be a police car before changing to another vehicle. On twitter, they notified people of the cars registration. And then, just before midday on sunday, police informed people that following a car chase, Gabriel Wortman was dead. They added, as his victims were killed across nova scotia, authorities were still trying to establish the final death toll. Matt graveling, bbc news. The duke and duchess of sussex have told four of britains most popular newspapers that theyre ending all cooperation with them. The couple have sent a letter to the sun, the mail, the mirror and the express saying they will no longer engage with them because of what they feel has been unfair and inaccurate treatment. The number of people who have died in hospital with coronavirus in the uk has now reached more than 16,000. Among them are many doctors, nurses and other vital nhs staff working on the front line. The government says 43 nhs staff are confirmed to have died, but its thought that number could be higher. Families, co workers and patients have been paying tribute to those who have lost their lives heres just a few of them. Pregnant nurse, Mary Agyapong died a week after testing positive for covid 19. Her baby daughter was delivered successfully and the hospital said she was doing very well. A colleague said she had devoted her life to the nhs as a nurse. Dr Edmond Adedeji worked in the Emergency Department of Great Western hospital in swindon. His family said, he died doing a job he loved, serving others before himself. Mother of three, aimee orourke, was a nurse working on an acute medical unit. She died on the 2nd of april. Her colleagues described her as a kind and caring nurse who had a really special relationship with her patients and colleagues. Dr alfa saadu returned from retirement to work at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in hertfordshire. His son said he was a very passionate man, who cared about saving people. The family had suggested he should go to hospital after he began to show symptoms, but said that dr saadu did not want to take up a hospital bed because others would need it. Some beautiful tributes paid there. We can speak now to ben wood, whose grandmother, Margaret Tapley died in the early hours of yesterday morning. She was a dedicated nurse, who was still working at the age of 84. Benjoins us from telford this morning. A very good morning to you, thank you so much forjoining us. What an incredible lady, still working. Tell us what she was up to. She worked in a Community Hospital. Shed been working for the nhs for over years. She was one of a kind, really. She had such a drive and energy that was beyond anyone ive ever met and ever known. She always put others before herself and wanted to do the best for herfamily, herself and wanted to do the best for her family, her friends, herself and wanted to do the best for herfamily, herfriends, her collea g u es for herfamily, herfriends, her colleagues and her patients, as well. And also animals that needed help seem to find their way to her as well i can see her with various different. There was a cat there. It is quite something to be working at that age but she was so passionate, she wanted to do it, did she . Yes. She had dedicated her life to nursing. She started later on when herfamily to nursing. She started later on when her family had to nursing. She started later on when herfamily had grown up and had spent three nights a week, usually, doing night shifts, which is an incredible feat in itself. She was just such an amazing individual. We are alla just such an amazing individual. We are all a bit at a loss but so proud of everything that she has done and achieved through life. She was a lwa ys achieved through life. She was always very quick. She was always proud of her children and grandchildren and very quick to let us know how proud she was of us. She was also so humble about what she did and just saw it as her doing a job, doing her duty. We are seeing lovely pictures of her with various grandchildren, as well. What about when you were growing up, did you study did she introduce you to her work . When we were growing up, we often went and stayed down with my grandparents in the school holidays. She would take us into the Community Hospital where she worked, up Community Hospital where she worked, up until her death, and we would meet patients. My brother is inspired to be a nurse. He works in a e as well. He is a nurse at this time because of what he saw when he was younger, as well. So she had a real influence, what a great thing to have done. We know that rip margaret was trending on twitter yesterday. How does that make you feel . It was. We have always known that she was special. She was amazing to us. But it is a great comfort to see so many kind words from colleagues, from people within the community that she touched and people that didnt know her, who are recognising how amazing she is and was. Yes. It must be deeply shocking for you, as well, that this happened at this time as well . Yes, like i said, shes always had such a drive and energy. She always said she would outlive us all because she just kept on going. If she wanted to do something, she would make sure it would get done. She was 84 and she still had an awful lot of life left in her. It is an awful tragedy that it has been cut short. There are discussions at the moment and it seems to be gathering force, that there might be a minutes silence held for people from the nhs who have died during coronavirus and thatis have died during coronavirus and that is presumably something you would love to see . Absolutely. It would love to see . Absolutely. It would be really nice to acknowledge that. I mean, we are on the street every thursday clapping and paying tribute to those that are doing the job but it would also be quite poignant, i think, job but it would also be quite poignant, ithink, to job but it would also be quite poignant, i think, to mark those that arent around to see that and to mark their loss, as well. You make a very good point. Ben wood, thank you for talking to us about your amazing grandmother. What a lovely tribute to an amazing woman. Joining us now from northumberland is bethany pearson. Her father steven was a Mental Health nurse. He died last thursday after developing symptoms of coronavirus. Thank you so much for talking to us at what i am sure is a difficult time for you and your family, what sort of person was your dad mark and ifind sort of person was your dad mark and i find myself smiling sort of person was your dad mark and ifind myself smiling every sort of person was your dad mark and i find myself smiling every time sort of person was your dad mark and ifind myself smiling every time i talk about him because he truly was the most amazing person. The most amazing dad. He was our biggest supporter. He was mine and my sisters biggest cheerleader. He did absolutely everything and more for us. We couldnt have asked for a more caring, selfless person to be ourdad. More caring, selfless person to be our dad. And tell us what happened last week your dad died at home, is that right . Yes, he died at home on easter monday. So which he had. He came home on good friday and he was tired and he was a bit shivery. He sort of just took tired and he was a bit shivery. He sort ofjust took himself tired and he was a bit shivery. He sort of just took himself to tired and he was a bit shivery. He sort ofjust took himself to bed. He woke up on saturday morning and said he was going to ring his boss because he was due into work and say that he wasnt going to come in. That even on the saturday morning hed said its probablyjust the flu im fine, dont worry about me. By the sunday, we got the positive result and on the monday morning we woke up and he was not there any more. 0, bethany. What was it like living in the house at that time . He was obviously trying to play down what was happening and didnt know what was happening and didnt know what he was going through but were you isolating from him, were you able to talk to him in that time . We sort of talk to him through the bedroom door, opened the door. My mum, for the first time in as long as ive been alive, they were in the same house, they werent sleeping in the same bed because my dad had a lwa ys the same bed because my dad had always said. He was so caring by nature and he said even if there was a tiny, tiny chance that our slot hadnt caught it yet, then he had to hold onto that and he had to make sure that we didnt get it. So even in his last days, he was making sure we we re in his last days, he was making sure we were 0k. In his last days, he was making sure we were ok. Of course, anyone who has been through what you have been through will know there are so many sort of practical things you then need to sort out after somebody who you love so dearly dies. How hard is it to organise, for example, a funeral at a time like this when everything is in lockdown . Funeral at a time like this when everything is in lockdown7m funeral at a time like this when everything is in lockdown . It is the ha rd est everything is in lockdown . It is the hardest thing. It makes the grief so much harder because there are so many things that you cant do. Weve been told eight people at his funeral and weve had such an outpouring of support from the community, from his friends, from his colleagues, from people who love us so his colleagues, from people who love us so dearly. And we would have wa nted us so dearly. And we would have wanted them to be there and they cant. I mean, weve been told there isa cant. I mean, weve been told there is a lack of funeral flowers and things like that. Just things behind the scenes you wouldnt automatically think of are so much harder in the circumstances. Automatically think of are so much harder in the circumstancesm automatically think of are so much harder in the circumstances. It is amazing to hear you speak so clearly, having been through what youve been through in the last few weeks. How much of an impact as this had a you personally and the rest of the family, it must be devastating at the moment . We are absolutely devastated. I think the only saving grace at the minute as it doesnt feel real to us. We are just in com plete feel real to us. We are just in complete and utter shock. So i can speak about it and i can do this now, get his name out, let his legacy be that he saved lives in life and will save lives and deaths and hopefully once the dust settles, ican begin and hopefully once the dust settles, i can begin to grieve properly. would love to give you the opportunity to speak a little bit this morning. You have talked about your dad but how would you like him to be remembered . Just as a hero. He was a hero through and through and eve ryo ne was a hero through and through and everyone who works for the nhs are heroes. He didnt see it, he was so selfless. He honestly didnt understand what an incredible man he was. I mean, his whole team, the triage team are absolutely phenomenal. They are changing lives every single day. And i want his legacy to be that he was a part of that. He really did choose that he changed the world. For that, we are the proudest we could ever be. When you see people clapping and cheering and playing instruments for all those front line workers who are putting their lives on the line every single thursday night, i wonder whether that will be particularly poignant for you now . Yeah, we were out on thursday night at the street were out giving us all their support. Wejust at the street were out giving us all their support. We just burst into tea rs their support. We just burst into tears because. He never would have been life wanted someone to clap for him because he didnt see himself as important enough, but we went out there and were making as much noise as we could. It really does make a difference, that he saddled the support. I think that support is really what is getting us through. That he had all that support. Bethany, a privileged talking to you this morning. Thank you for sharing what you are going through, im sure thatis what you are going through, im sure that is important for our viewers. You do him proud, bethany, thank you. Bethany pearson and she lost her dad, Stephen Pearson last thursday. He was a Mental Health nurse. I dont know how people do some of the things. Some of those interviews this morning, incredible. Thank you to bethany and everyone who has spoken to us in the last few weeks. We know it is tough but we appreciate it as well. Were entering our fifth week of lockdown, and by now many of us have found various ways to keep ourselves occupied at home. But for some of the most vulnerable, the change to everyday life has been a real worry. Transplant patient mark coates has found himself home alone, after his wife and child moved out to help protect him from coronavirus. Breakfasts Graham Satchell has been catching up with him. Imitates robotic whirring. This is what a month of lockdown has done to mark coates. Beep, beep morning, ladies. What have you been doing in the back garden with your sons toys . Well, he has particular toy, a digger. I was going up and down the garden, with the sound effects, the best i can, pretending to work. Mark had a kidney transplant 20 years ago. Hes one of the 1. 5 Million People across the country whos been told he has to completely isolate. There we go, bit full. Ive been on my own from the 19th of march. My wife leah and son oakley moved out on the 19th because my wife is a home carer. Really hard, isnt it, not seeing your wife and your son . Your son is so young. Yeah, hes three. Hell be four injuly. Dad hiya. Hello, oakley how are you . Are you all right . Hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya are you being good . Hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya oakley, i miss you. I miss you and i love you. I love you oakley and marks wife leah have moved in with leahs mum. Am i allowed to ask you this question, are you missing mark . Mark laughs. Er. I ask her every day. Do you want me to pretend . yeah, really missing him. Theyre making the best of it but it has been tough, particularly for oakley. My little boy wakes up on a morning saying he misses daddy, why cant he see daddy, he loves his daddy. Unfortunately, thats just the sacrifice weve had to make to protect other people in a vulnerable situation in harrogate. Leah is a home carer. She couldve isolated with mark but was determined to keep working. A lot of people in our community who have no family, no neighbours that help, apart from the carers coming to help to do their shopping, we all need to help each other, keep each other safe. And, hopefully, if we do carry on doing this, this virus will. Will not be able to spread any more. 0h, here he is, look, the legend that is. Mark relies on his dad brian for food and medicine, immunosuppressants, so his body doesnt reject his new kidney. Marks dad, a life saver in more ways than one. 0h, brilliant, youre a good egg, arent you . You just wear me out. Youre just super fit was it a difficult decision to decide to give your kidney to your son . Not at all. It was a daunting time but i didnt think twice about it. Well, mark, hes been through a lot, hes an absolute soldier, really, hes a tough cookie. And if he has to go into hospital with this covid thing, and to go into hospital, youve got to be poorly, it could be the end. And thats how serious it is. I cant thank him enough. Not all superheroes wear capes its true. Bang on it, oaks. So, this is the heartbreaking reality for so many in britain today. Contact through a window. Hiya, oakley hopefully, its only going to be months. And then its a lifetime ahead. So, it shouldnt be a great deal. Yeah, youll get through this . Ill get through this. Without a doubt. Ive always been a positive person, and i will continue to be positive. I tell you what, hes got some skills there are lots of people making tough decisions at the moment but very good on that scooter. Making incredible use of the things theyve got, good on him. I hope it continues to be ok. Heres carol with a look at this mornings weather. Look at that, what a beautiful little robin. Gorgeous, and some lovely blossom as well, lovely spring scene sent in by one of our weather watchers from derbyshire. For many today, dry and sunny day with almost wall to wall blue skies. Quite a keen breeze, though. You can see why. High pressure is in charge of our weather. The wind and air around ina of our weather. The wind and air around in a clockwise direction coming nine of a cold north sea. Also a weather front across parts of the Channel Islands and South West England and that means you will see more cloud today, with some spots of rainfora time more cloud today, with some spots of rain for a time before it moves away in the afternoon for is that we have had them early cloud which is continuing to burn away. For most, a sunny day, a brisk wind, gusts of wind in land as much as may be 35 40 miles an hour. These are the average wind speeds but in exposed coasts and on the hills, they will be higher than that. We have the north sea temperatures on this chart because it is still cold and there isa because it is still cold and there is a long sea track this wind is following. It is picking up some of the coldness from the north sea and bringing it to our shores. The temperature is about 10 13 but it will feel colder than that because of the easterly wind. Although it will be gusty as we pulled by the west, temperatures are a little higher. 19, for example, in cardiff. As we had on through the evening and overnight, it looks like our weather fronts will take another swipe, having moved away, across the Channel Islands and South West England, introducing thicker cloud and some spots of rain. We could see and some spots of rain. We could see a touch of frost in the north East Highlands and parts of north east england. We will see cloud forming where we had it this morning, east wales, the pennines, parts of southern scotland. Tomorrow, that will also burn away quite rapidly. The other thing that will happen tomorrow, our weather front will continue to drag its cloud and rain away from the south west and the Channel Islands, so it will brighten up Channel Islands, so it will brighten upforyou. Channel islands, so it will brighten up for you. Most of us tomorrow, blue skies, still the brisk wind and inland top temperature tomorrow up to 19 or20. As inland top temperature tomorrow up to 19 or 20. As we move into wednesday and thursday, our High Pressure starts to decline. Look out the isobars become much wider spaced apart. So not going to be as windy and that does mean that it will not feel as cold. As we move into thursday, some places hitting 24 or 25 in the south east. Look at the trend, it will turn cooler and there is the risk on sunday that we could see some widespread rain but still a lot to play for. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Organisations representing nhs bosses have criticised the government, after a delivery of personal protective equipment was delayed. The consignment, which included 400,000 badly needed gowns, was expected to arrive from turkey yesterday. Chris hopson is the chief executive of nhs providers and joins us from london. Good morning, thank you for talking to us live on the programme this morning. I dont know if you saw our earlier interview, and the comments that it will come from turkey. Has that it will come from turkey. Has that detracted from other important issues . I think it is an illustration of the dangers on focusing on a particular consignment. We know from bitter experience over the last few weeks that you can only guarantee that gowns will reach the front line when they actually land on uk soil, the boxers have actually been opened and checked, and they have been safety tested. Last week there was meant to bea tested. Last week there was meant to be a consignment of 200,000 gowns arriving from china but only 20,000 arrived. We know there have been insta nces arrived. We know there have been instances where consignments have failed safety tests, where you have opened the boxes, you have had masks, not gowns. Let us only really talk about supplies that we know definitely are capable of delivering at the front line. The other observation is 400,000 gowns obviously would be welcome if and when they arrive, but the nhs when it is at full tilt is probably getting through 150,000 a day. What we need to get to is from the current hand to mouth approach to where sustainable supplies consistently and reliably arrive, thatis consistently and reliably arrive, that is what our trust leaders and the staff on the front line need. Listening to you, i imagine that is pa rt listening to you, i imagine that is part of the difficulty, not only what you need, but when you receive them and you are not sure what you have ordered or what you require. We need to recognise there is a global shortage of this personal protection equipment. Every single nation on earth is currently chasing these gowns. A very good example, and this might be one of the reasons why there is a problem with the turkish consignment, is governments are putting export bans on gowns which have been manufactured within their country because they know everybody will need very large amounts. There is also a question about the whole point the way this is meant to work is there is a National Pandemic stock reserved. When a pandemic hits, you will order lots of gowns and other items but they will take time to come through. One question is was the stock correctly configured. I know this might seem strange, but our trust report with the exception of gowns, all the other items of ppe, gloves, aprons, surgical masks, the higher protection masks, they are saying those supplies are now running effectively. That is good news. I suppose it does depend where in the country you are. We speak to some people who do have the correct equipment but we spoke toagp the correct equipment but we spoke to a gp money who said they hadnt got anything and they borrowing gowns, change raincoats into surgical gowns, they are asking patients to make things for them, or give them stuff they wont be using because they arent at work. The Deputy Director of phe said we need to stop considering these items asa need to stop considering these items as a homogenous whole, and trusts. Most items that i needed are arriving at one particular trust i am in contact with. The 40,000 gp practices, care homes, hospices, it is much more complicated to deliver these items to these organisations compared to the 217 hospitals, community Mental Health trusts i represent, and National Leaders who are responsible for delivering these items, they say it is much more complicated to deliver to those 40,000 organisations. It does not surprise me you will still find gps, ca re surprise me you will still find gps, care homes, Nursing Homes saying, we are short of ppe items. National leaders say they are doing everything they can but it is taking time to overcome that complex set of delivering to 40,000 different organisations. Members of my own family working in intensive care units, the conversation is about the best care they can give, and about ppe. How much anxiety is there. You are getting feedback from, about that equipment . We know from talking to trust leaders we represent this is incredibly important for understandable reasons, and the staff are anxious about ensuring they have the right equipment which is why trust leaders are doing everything they can to ensure these supplies are available. A couple of examples, when trusts start to run short of the highest protection repellent gowns, they are saying, can we launder what i meant to be single use gowns. One trust said if they put those gowns at a 60 degrees wash, they do get disinfected, but after three washes, they no longer remain fluid repellent. One trust manage to secure 2,000 gowns from a vet supply company. Another trust i spoke to yesterday based in a University Town have persuaded the university to give up their lab coats. This is hand to mouth which is why we need to get to a more sustainable supply. What i want to assure you is trust leaders, nothing is more important than ensuring the right amount of kit is provided, and they will move heaven and earth to ensure that happens for every member of staff. Chris hopson, thank you. The chief executive of nhs providers speaking to us from london. When vera beeley was taken into hospital and diagnosed with coronavirus at the age of 102 her family said they feared the worst. Veras continuing her recovery at her care home in sheffield. Her grandson ian is here. Look at those pictures, they are quite something. Good morning. Absolutely amazing. It was touch and go for a while. It is lovely to see her up and about again. What symptoms did she have . You must have feared the worst with her being over 100 years old. She started with a cough last sunday. We took her into hospital last sunday morning. She was assessed. Like you say, you fear the worst obviously because of her age. We had conversations with the co nsulta nt we had conversations with the consultant and by tuesday her Blood Pressure was low and they were saying it depended how she fared during the week. By thursday, she was ringing saying she would be home by friday which was great news. And members of the family managed to glimpse herfrom and members of the family managed to glimpse her from a and members of the family managed to glimpse herfrom a far and members of the family managed to glimpse her from a far distance. My glimpse her from a far distance. My aunt hilda lives not far from the ca re my aunt hilda lives not far from the care home, my mum phoned her. She nipped up. Nobody had seen herfor four weeks because everything has beenin four weeks because everything has been in lockdown with the care home. She seems like a character, give us an insight. She is. I cant say on National Television some of the things she has done she has always been a character, the life and soul of the party, she loves a party. She loves to sing. The ironic thing is her favourite to songs are, you never walk alone, and we will meet again, which are topping the charts. She will be missing you all. Four weeks since you have seen her. That is right. My mum and dad, and auntie, would see her all the time. That was the wrong thing, we didnt wa nt that was the wrong thing, we didnt want her to be alone. We have heard stories this morning of people having difficult conversations, loved ones passing away. It must be so loved ones passing away. It must be so hard. That was the worrying thing for me that she would be alone. But she has got through it. Fingers crossed she is fine. Seeing pictures of her coming out of the northern General Hospital. The corridor lined with people clapping her. Have you plans for a family get together once this is all over . The last time we spoke to her, she is 103 in november. She wants another party for her next party birthday. Hopefully by then, things will be back to normal. We will be planning that sooner rather than later. It is wonderful to hear from you, thank you very much indeed for coming to chat to us today. Make sure you send us a video of you singing from that party. Not a problem. Thank you. Let us hope we get back to those days of parties sometime in the future. Some good news. It launched the film career of one of the uks biggest stars, now the 80s cult classic withnail and i has made something of a comeback. Richard e grant has been creating special isolation episodes for fans online, by quoting famous lines from the film on a daily basis. Well be speaking to richard in a moment. First heres a reminder of the original, from 1987. Are you the farmer . Shut up, ill deal with this. Weve gone on holiday by mistake. Were in the cottage here. Are you the farmer . Stop saying, withnail. I want you to take one deep breath and fill this bag. Are you refusing to fill this bag . I most certainly am. Im placing you under arrest. Dont be ridiculous, i havent done anything. Look here, my cousins a qc. Get in the back of the van that is the only bit we could play from the film it has made us laugh. Good morning to you, lovely to see you. Your backdrop has one, what a fantastic sideboard that is, brilliant what was lovely was watching that clip and seeing your face. We remember it with fondness, that film, clearly, you do as well. I have lifelong friendships from it. It gave me a new career and best friends with the writer and director. In terms of the legacy of a film like that, i am sure apparently the Prime Minister was watching while he was recuperating in hospital. People arejust enjoying it was recuperating in hospital. People are just enjoying it again. I think because there are people out of work, apart from people on the front line, it is bizarre to me how so front line, it is bizarre to me how so many of the lines of that script seem so many of the lines of that script seem apt to the situation we are in now. Somebody asked me to post on twitter and instagram a line from the film. It snowballed from there. There are followers on my social media that expect me to do a line every day, they come up with suggestions. Shall we have a look, for those of you who havent seen it. Youve got soup. Why dont i get any soup . I am sitting down to enjoy my holiday. What an absolute twaddle it looks like its providing you with as well. It is. Just because it is the only script i have learned that i have ever remembered even though it was 33 years ago. And people quote it at me on 33 years ago. And people quote it at meona 33 years ago. And people quote it at me on a daily basis. I can be walking around. So come it has stuck in my memory. Ifind the walking around. So come it has stuck in my memory. I find the lines very funny. Massively a lot of other people do as well. Is it therapeutic to do this, then . For everybody, actually, notjust you. Yes, i have had various people say that they have come out of the doldrums because these things have cheered them up, whatever it takes. Doing a national service. There are legitimate concerns about the industry you work in, theatre closures, we have been speaking to a number of people, the question is not only the situation now but how long it will go on for. Who knows. None of us know. How long isa who knows. None of us know. How long is a piece of string, we have no idea. My feeling is you have to make the best of it, the best of the time you have. The weather is gorgeous. As an actor, sometimes, actors have breaks between work, dont they. Do you think you are uniquely placed to be able to cope with it, perhaps . It is certainly part and part of this profession that you have great stretches of time where you are not employed at all. I know from many of my friends, they have said, this doesnt really feel that different except you cant go anywhere. But there is the odd joke, why dont actors opened their curtains in the morning, it is so they have something to do in the afternoon we all know that feeling now. We all know that feeling now. We will be able to see you on something, tell us about dispatches from elsewhere which starts at the end of this month. It isa end of this month. It is a ten part series, and it is based on a documentary about a cult that happened in San Francisco ten yea rs that happened in San Francisco ten years ago in which the puppet master guru who i play basically controls through media and various forms peoples lives. And the four main characters go on this quest to find out what is going on. I watched a scientology documentary, those evangelical people on television in america, to get into the mindset of somebody who is trying to control other people. In the meantime, all of us are doing various things. Are you watching telly, what are you up are you watching telly, what are you . I are you watching telly, what are you up to . I am doing everything everybody is doing, playing scrabble, i am lucky here with my wife and me do an enormous amount of gardening and cooking and walking. All that stuff. And yakking. Scrabble, have you managed to get rid of all seven letters at once yet . My letters at once yet . My wife has done that twice. Very competitive. I think you get a 50 points bonus. You do. What is going on with withnail and isolation, will you do one today . People make suggestions. I feel like a human jukebox, one today . People make suggestions. Ifeel like a humanjukebox, press the button and i will do it. You will get lots of messages. Wonderful to see you. Thank you. Thank you for keeping us entertained. And for one of the best sideboards, marvellous. You can see richard in dispatches from elsewhere which starts on april 29th, on the amc uk channel. Withnail and isolation can be seen on richards twitter account. It has cheered me up. After raising more than £26 million for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden, captain tom is now on course for another remarkable achievement. After first performing with michael ball on our programme last week, their version of youll never walk alone is now on course to top the uk singles chart. Lets take a listen. Though your dreams be tossed and blown walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and youll never walk alone youll never walk alone. Such an incredible story. Lets take a look at the charts it puts captain toms single ahead of the weekend and drake. Who would have thought itjust a week ago. Well find out on friday if it makes the number one spot here. Around the world, it has reached number one in cyprus, number three in new zealand, and has entered the top ten in countries as far and wide as finland and kenya. Lets speak now to Chuck Adolphy who is the Breakfast Show presenter for British Forces radio in cyprus. Where is the single right now with you . It is the top of the chart here. Incredible after if you days, it has gone down a storm here. Around the world as well. But particularly because . There are two large british communities here, the military community, and a Large Expat Community as well. It has been a big story, we broadcast to forces around the world. One of our big shows last week, we played the song, the response to that was next level, i have never seen anything like it since starting here. Everyone is loving it. There is a packed affinity with the military. I cant see it stopping anytime soon. It is great you got to speak to him. When we have talked to him on this programme and on other shows, he is so programme and on other shows, he is so humble. It is amazing to think this tiny little seed which started to raise £1000 back on good friday has reached a level where he has raised over £26 million but will number one in many countries across the world. It is bringing people together. That mutual thing to do that. Life is difficult away from home, lots of people serving under tough conditions. To have that mutual thing to gravitate towards. There is a big Facebook Group to get him a birthday card. You will receive a big card from cyprus. From the forces. Everyone is loving it. What is really clear is being a veteran and pa rt really clear is being a veteran and part of the forces, he is part of a huge, loyalfamily. Yes, exactly. He said with you last week, when he crossed his 100th lap, he is surrounded by the right people. It is that mutual connection. The conversations ive had. He is one of their own and it is amazing to see notjust the forces but the whole world gather around such a legend. At times like this, people rely on the service you are providing. It is so the service you are providing. It is so important where there is a lockdown and they feel they have access to what is going on in other parts of the world. Have you found your connection with your listener is much stronger at the moment . Hugely. The engagement we have had has been ten fold. Just stuff like tom and the morale boost that can provide, and across the board, social media, television, all our services have gone crazy. At the minute, asa services have gone crazy. At the minute, as a lot of people are still actively working, the forces community hasnt stopped at all because of this. It is having an active involvement with the whole battle. We a re active involvement with the whole battle. We are hugely important now more than ever. How many times a day do you play it . We have played it a few times. And the reaction is always just how incredible it is. What a hero of the man is. I am sure i do not need to sell you him. And you have a great name for a presenter. A quick look at the fundraising. Somewhere between 26 and 27. As you can see, over £26 million. I love to see how many people donated. Can anyone see that . I cant quite see. Over anyone see that . I cant quite see. 0ver1 million individual donations which is amazing. Incredible. The thing about this or is it willjust carry on. thing about this or is it willjust carry on. This story. When weather presenter owain wyn evans finished his forecast by playing the drums to the bbc news theme music, he never imagined it would go viral and be viewed millions of times online. Now, owain wants us all to get involved in a special orchestra to help us through the lockdown. Well find out more from him in a moment. First, heres a reminder of owains skills. Thats the forecast, stay safe, and ill see you soon. Music bbc news theme. Brilliant i must confess i have watched that about 250 times on my own and there you are with the drum kit. What a crazy few days it has been, the response has been immense. Absolutely. When i did that video, i am working from home at the moment for north west tonight and doing the Weather Forecast from either here in the dining room without the drum kit in shops or in the garden. Doing that has been quite strange. You get dressed up as if you are going to a wedding, and dressed up as if you are going to a wedding, and i stand in the garden. Ijust thought, wedding, and i stand in the garden. I just thought, why wedding, and i stand in the garden. Ijust thought, why not put the drum kit and that iconic Music Together and the response has been incredible. I was not expecting upwards of 5 million views. Now you want everyone to get involved and we do not need drums. That is right. We are launching my big house band. I am asking people to get involved in this. You can either do the iconic beats. But you dont need a drum kit. You can use a saucepan. If you are a bit more musical, get on your instrument and play it and go to the website. We will put this house band together because we are all staying at home. What i love is all the details people are obsessed with including the fact that your quiff never moves despite the fact you are drumming quite vigorously there is a lot of hairspray on this lets hope you dont run out. Lovely to see you. You can upload your videos for owains band on the bbcs make a difference website. The details are on the screen now. The deadline is midnight tonight. If you get to watch his forecast, they are brilliant, by the way. Thats all from us for today. Breakfast is back tomorrow from six. Well leave you with owain and a special performance of the bbc breakfast end titles. Bye bye. Music bbc breakfast theme. Good morning, welcome to bbc news. Im victoria derbyshire. Here are the latest headlines more warnings from hospitals in england over shortages of personal protective equipment some say supplies of gowns are critically low. It comes after a delivery of protective equipment from turkey was delayed. Ministers call on all companies to do their bit, to help bolster supplies. I would urge any companies that feel that they have not had a response from government and have that capacity to continue to come forward. Were working with Companies Across the board. Scientists are looking into whether blood from covid 19 survivors could be used in a new treatment for those infected. 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