But there was also an increase in deaths from causes other than the virus. Now on bbc news with more than a third of the global population confined to their homes the world is going through an unprecedented social experiment. Heres Annita Mcveigh with stories of life in lockdown. Hello and welcome to this special programme on the world in lockdown. Im Annita Mcveigh. Coronavirus has now infected more than 1 im Annita Mcveigh. Coronavirus has now infected more thani Million People worldwide, but his impact extends far beyond those who have had the illness. By the end of march, well over 100 Countries Worldwide had established either in full or partial lockdown affecting the lives of millions of us. John allen reports now on the potential medical solutions that might ultimately help bring this to a close. Across the globe once bustling cities are now eerily quiet. Across the globe once bustling cities are now eerily quietli across the globe once bustling cities are now eerily quiet. I must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home. Every decision that we are making is made to save lives. Governments have imposed historic restrictions on our freedoms and have brought Economic Activity to a sudden halt. Were talking about a multitrillion dollar effect on the global economy, probably. They dont see lockdown as being a sustainable solution and we have to find a better way. But and when will be eventually returned to some semblance of normality . What we cant do is walk blindly into Large Group Gatherings again injune and july as if this never happened. People need to realise that this virus is going to be with us for a very long time. This is not going to be solved in a matter of weeks in a matter of months. So with much of the globes Scientific Community focused on solving this problem, what are the Ethical Solutions that might ultimately help bring this crisis to a close . The ideal thing we would have, in a perfect world, would be a vaccine. Vaccines are basically way of giving you a jab into yourarm, your basically way of giving you a jab into your arm, your body triggers an immune response, which means you are develop antibodies, which means when you are finally exposed to the virus you are finally exposed to the virus you mostly dont contract a serious version of it. Unfortunately, most scientists believe an effective vaccine could be as much as 12 18 months away from top you cannot physically do the weeks and weeks and weeks of consecutive experiments and weeks of consecutive experiments and testing, particularly the safety aspects of the vaccine, you just have to give it time to test the safety a nd have to give it time to test the safety and then it has to be efficacious, it has to work. So what looks more realistic in the short time as some kind of antiviral. Was antivirals wont stop people contracting the illness they could help to significantly reduce the number of people who die or become seriously ill as a result, which might, in turn, reduce pressure on our Health Services and help us to reopen our economies. In i think there is a lot of hope there because of the repurposing being done about medications we only have they dont need to be checked for safety. Medications we only have they dont need to be checked for safetylj need to be checked for safety. think this does good be to ensuring there is no more mass isolation lockdown and huge economic losses. But even if breakthroughs are made quickly, the challenge of getting drugs produced and distributed is formidable. So in the meantime many experts believe the solution or a big part of it lies in testing, antigen testing to find out who currently has the virus and Antibody Testing to find out who has had it in the past. So antigen testing is incredibly useful because you can stop transmission, if you know who has and is currently varzaqan metre they are put into warranting for two or three weeks. The Antibody Test we have talked a lot about the economic reasons because it could be we have had a lot of people exposed to the virus and have protective capacity, which means we could put them back into the workforce. In conjunction with testing, many people believe that deploying Technological Solutions that help aussies the current lockdowns by automatically alerting people that they have been alerting people that they have been a good day with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus, rather than locking down entire countries. This is what we have seen from singapore, south korea, even from singapore, south korea, even from china, because they are using different apps that tell you you are in an area where many other people have the virus. I think this is much more feasible. In low income come countries it will be a problem. That will be with skoda model will struggle. While many societies remain under strict constraints, it is that we may already be seeing some return to normal life. Wuhan and china, the viruss original epicentre, is gradually returning to normal and some countries in europe have announced some relaxation of restrictions, but there are questions over what will follow. The concern is that as society begins to open up and more people come into contact with each other we will again have transmission, and so there is going to be this starting and stopping of opening things up and stopping of opening things up and then closing them down with varying degrees in different countries. So while there is room for optimism that extensive testing, technological innovation, and Antiviral Medicines will help to gradually reduce the restrictions until a vaccine failure is, we may need to return for a final return to normality to be some weeks or months away. John 0wen, bbc news. These feel like unprecedented times. And they are. But irina sazonova, a russian filmmaker in kaliningrad explores the unexpected similarities between life at the time of coronavirus and herfamilys memories life at the time of coronavirus and her familys memories of the soviet era. Three weeks ago schools in britain closed their doors to most children. Many parents began with strict timetables and ambitious targets. But, as reality kicks in, how are they really getting on . Rankin mcca mley they really getting on . Rankin mccamley has been finding out. Hello, everybody, this is mrs a sock here. We are bored want to do some maths, guys . This morning i have been called a doughnut, a loser. Tell me a tough time in your life . What is fatigue . They are just basically rampaging around the house. Mr edwards has taken leave of his senses. This isolation and this homeschooling is driving me crazy. Sound familiar . When schools across the uk closed their doors, kitchens became the new classrooms. If you think thats incorrect, how do you spell it correctly then . Parents became the new teachers. Do you think russell can draw you a fraction . Learning from home the new norm. 0h, love fractions some are having more fun than others. Trying to work from home and home school s, i will say, nearly impossible. Im not convinced that we really achieving very much. Children came home with textbooks and links to online learning. 0thers brought back practice papers for exams. Parents, though, finding each schoolapproach is different as are the kids. One came back from school with a complete itinerary of what is called a is from english, maths, science, minute by minute. It was fantastic. The other child tried to convince us that they had done four hours of pe every day. So it is life lessons today. With holidays cancelled and staycations on the cards, parents are being more imaginative. A field trip are you having fun, boys . To the garden. A pe lesson. And a music class. The advice is to do what you can and have fun. Finally, the economic shock waves from the coronavirus pandemic are grim, with millions of people around the world losing their jobs. But what will life look like after the lock out lockdown is lifted . After the lock out lockdown is lifted . Christian after the lock out lockdown is lifted . Christian fraser spoke to three experts about the impact the pandemic would have on our Mental Health. Im joined now from vancouver by professor and clinical psychologist steven taylor, who wrote the psychology of pandemics, from bangalore by doctor banerjee, a psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and neurological sciences, and finally from wuhan, a psychotherapist to help establish an Online Support system during lockdown. Now, steven taylor, if i could may be staffed with you. The virus is spread or it is contained according to what we do. How strongly we adhere to social distancing guidelines. So it would seem distancing guidelines. So it would seem to me this is as much a psychological phenomenon as a physical one . Very much so. Peoples decisions to adhere to social distancing is critical in matching this pandemic. The longer the lockdown drags out would expect the poorer the adherence. But staying indoors for weeks on end with all the anxieties is a real mental battle, even more so if we are facing months of these lock downs. Exactly. People are generally resilient, but a fraction of people are going to severe experience severe stresso rs are going to severe experience severe stressors during this pandemic. In addition people lose jobs, finances, they go bankrupt, marriage is crumble, we would expect that a fraction of the population will develop severe disorders such as post Traumatic Stress disorder, evenif as post Traumatic Stress disorder, even if that was one percenter people that amounts to many millions of people. The Mental Health fallout could be quite catastrophic stop by doctor banerjee, in india there are tens of thousands of Migrant Workers right now who are destitute, they are facing huge insecurity was not there as panic, there is loneliness. All of which takes its toll. What you think the long term effect is going to be Indian Society . I think the majority of that depends on where it leaves us. Finally, what landscape we see after the pandemic goes off. As you have rightly said, there have been huge millions of people who are homeless, migrant populations, daily wage workers and they have been stranded so social distancing does not mean much for them. And you cannot really think about precautionary measures of hand hygiene. So i think chronic stress reactions, post Traumatic Stress, bereavement for people who are losing their loved ones and that is going to be very different amongst different social classes considering we are very different. I think it will have a long and chronic and many with existing mental disorders so the next six months to a year will be very crucial after the pandemic leaves us. We expect an increase in depression, compulsive disorders and Anxiety Disorders in the next six months and that will be in huge numbers. That is fascinating. Youre not talking about one or two isolated cases but about one or two isolated cases but a societal impact. Having an effect on the thousands of people. Do you think that ptsd is well understood in india . It is difficult for me to speak about all over india but, in general, i guess people do not really appreciate or understand the symptoms. So many times it is considered under the common kubrick of depression and even sometimes normalised after a death and grief. Knowledge attitude and practice two was a particular syndrome is lacking and it is our duty as Mental Health professionals to be sensitive and identify cases, especially at times like this. I am fascinated by the work you have been doing in wuhan. Even people with mild symptoms have been quarantined. Is it is impossible to say what sort of impact that has had on society or is that disguised the moment . Yes and i think wuhan is the first city to be locked down and we suffered a lot because at the beginning, we estimated the gravity about the coronavirus so estimated the gravity about the coronavirus so we estimated the gravity about the coronavirus so we suffer more. But the first 20 days because everyone did not know much about the gravity of this coronavirus so we had very difficult 20 days but the government and everyone. You set up an on line support system for people in wuhan for people under lockdown. He was calling and what did they tell you . For example, it depends on different groups. For example, exiled teachers watched their colleagues impact and even risk their lives and watched patients dying before them and struggling to fight with the disease and it is a very ha rd fight with the disease and it is a very hard for them to tolerate that some some medic stuff rang our hotline and we listened to them and try to give them the confidence that they are not struggling alone, that all society is supporting them and try to connect all the protection material and all the outside use to help them and also the isolated persons and people isolated in the home, when they felt helpless and when they felt too much pain to tolerate an anger which reached down. I imagine those are all issues that people need to discuss. This is the first pandemic in the year of social media. Does that help . It is more difficult in china, of course, because there is not free social media but what about the rest of the world . It can bring people together but it also exposes people together but it also exposes people to make use, exaggerated risks and so to make use, exaggerated risks and so forth but it perhaps provides us with a tool to reach out and connect to people. Were not for the fallout of covid 19. We will be looking to wuhan to learn how to best manage anxiety and depression and so forth in the western world. Do you think we need to understand that better because, if we suspect we might have, rolling lockdowns where we have, rolling lockdowns where we have to lock it down again later in the year because there are more cases of the virus, we need to understand how people react to that and whether they observe the rules set down . Absolutely, that is essential. We have research under way to try and understand that an understanding which provides of the information on how to better help people. A lot of stigmatising of different groups through the course of the last few weeks and that is a Dangerous Development in a country like yours, in india, where there is a caste system and a tense divide between hindus and muslims . Yes, stigma itself ready problem of marginalisation itself is a separate disorder in any country. Especially asi disorder in any country. Especially as i was mentioning in a country like ours where there are hundreds of divisions and diversions. People from a particular state or area or even as medical professionals, against doctors because they are now in contact with hospitals. There are many people, many of my colleagues have reported that the landlords wa nt to have reported that the landlords want to evict them or neighbours do not come and talk to them because they have a fear of contacting infection. From the bottom area, they are stigmatised. A lot of people who come from that southern pa rt people who come from that southern part of india so people who have a travel history from that are stigmatised. They are marginalised, especially when billions are isolated. India is the world s largest democracy and especially when people are isolated, that sigma can cause chaos. Eventually it is not the virus that takes a toll on the Mental Health but it is the chaos and mayhem. Stigma. We need to ta ke chaos and mayhem. Stigma. We need to take lessons from wuhan as to how effectively we sensitise people to the need of Mental Health, notjust us the need of Mental Health, notjust us but other people as well. Very interesting to hear your thoughts on Mental Health. It is an important issue going forward. That is it for now, before we go, here are some of the latest striking images from the last few days as a coronavirus continues to affect so many of us. A reminder that you can keep up to date on the bbc website. Thank you for watching. Hello there. Well, theres another fine and sunny day on tuesday. Not quite as chilly but there was a bit more high cloud in the sky in scotland. Then it was picked up by the setting sun in stirling, with a fine end to the day here. Now, some of the high cloud is pushing southwards now, which means it could well be quite a nice sunrise across some eastern areas as we start off wednesday morning. Other than that, its going to be a chilly start to the day. You can see the skies for many, apart from the high cloud, staying clear. And that will allow temperatures to dip down, close to orjust below freezing in the countryside, to give some patches of frost up and down the country. An area of High Pressure firmly with us then as we get on into wednesday, centred close to the uk it means theres going to be more fun and dry weather for the vast majority. Remember though, there will be a little bit more in the way of high cloud in the sky, which at times will make the sunshine a little on the hazy side. Also thicker cloud working in across the northern and western isles. It could bring an odd light shower and some cloudy weather seeping its way southwards across western scotland. Just knocking the edge off the temperatures here. Otherwise its a warmer day. Temperatures reaching a high of 18 degrees. Now, on into thursday, were going to see some colder air arriving to the far north of the uk but some warmer air arriving across england and wales. So thursday is a day of increasing contrasts. Again, there will be some areas of high cloud around, which will make the sunshine rather hazy at times. We could see some showers arriving towards the south west of england late in the day, although there is some uncertainty about exactly how many of those are likely to make it down to the ground. And across the north east of scotland, thats where weve got some cloudy weather, an odd spot of rain, and much cooler conditions but, otherwise, england and wales seeing temperatures into the low 20s. It will feel increasingly warm. For fridays forecast, there is a rather greater threat of seeing some showery bursts of rain, particularly across parts of southern england, perhaps the midlands and wales as well. Turning increasingly heavy perhaps later on in the day but, away from that south west quarter, its largely dry but still quite a bit of cloud in scotland and well start to see those temperatures cooling off around some of the north sea coasts of england as well. Come inland, 17 degrees still not bad for birmingham and for london. Now, the weekend, quite cloudy for england and wales. There is the prospect of seeing a little bit of rain for some of us. The driest weather probably in scotland, where it will stay dry and bright. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Im mike embley. President trump halts us funding to the world health 0rganization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The reality is that the who failed to adequately obtain, vet, and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. More than one in five deaths in england and wales is linked to coronavirus, as figures show 6,000 more people died than expected at the beginning of april. Polling is under way right now in south koreas parliamentary election. The result is expected to be influenced by the governments handling of the pandemic. Bringing a little music and light into these Uncertain Times grammy award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter performs for us from her living room. President trump has announced a suspension of funding of the world health 0rganization. He alleged that the who had failed to show accountability in its response to the coronavirus outbreak. He went on to accuse the Un Health Agency of having failed earlier this year to investigate reports from the chinese city of wuhan that conflicted with official accounts about the virus emerging there