Are feared to have died after becoming infected with the virus. Spain records its lowest number of deaths this week, as the government says the crisis might be reaching its peak there. Theres also been a downward turn in coronavirus deaths in italy, the country thats suffered the highest number of fatalities. New york the epicentre of americas outbreak suffers its worst day as 630 deaths are recorded in the past 2a hours. And sir keir starmer becomes labour leader and promises to work with the government to tackle the coronavirus crisis. Theyre used to selling to pubs, restaurants and School Kitchens but wholesalers are now helping to feed the family, after the coronavirus closed the door to the hospitality industry. Some suppliers are also providing hundreds of thousands of food parcels for elderly and Vulnerable People. Our business correspondent
emma simpson reports. It is not your usual weekly shop. This is a new drive through click and collect service at a new drive through click and collect Food Warehouse in essex. I am shopping for my extended family so i am getting for myself and my sisters and i will split up and job to them. I am a teacher so i am out and about but i prefer not to be in the shops so this has been a great help. My daughter lives on tomato sauce. She hasjust come back from uni and i have realised what she has been eating. Just some things for baking. You can say that again, heres his box of eggs. It is fascinating to see what some people are stocking up on,
the most popular items, pasta, flour, big beans and tomato ketchup. Supermarkets are struggling to stop basic items but there is plenty of food here. Most of the food at this depot is super sized from tens of beans to bags of pasta. Wholesalers generally do not sell direct to consumers but since the Service Provider lost 40 of its orders overnight it then switched its Business Model to sell direct to to local communities instead. It is a no brainer, we saw the pressure on the supermarkets and the vulnerability of the community so we turned on the click and collect to help service those individuals. That includes government emergency food parcels. They could soon be making a quarter of a million deliveries a week from across their uk depots. Heres another business which has cooked up another way of working. This Catering Company would normally
have 25 chefs on deck, but its corporate clients are on lockdown, so a Skeleton Team is making meals for emergency workers and churning out boxes for sale. The boxes are a lot cheaper than we would normally sell. To get something cheaper and at the same time supplying people who cant get out. We are normally bustling at this time of year but right now we are just doing enough to get some cash in and also help the community. Businesses are having to adapt fast. With food at least, if you are able to supply right now, there is no shortage in demand. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are broadcaster Lynn Faulds Wood and former pensions minister baroness ros altmann. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The mail reports on the queens rousing message to the uk ahead of Queen Elizabeths historic address, with the telegraph reporting that the speech will look to invoke the spirit that saw the country through the second world war. The times leads with reports that the queens speech will urge the uk to be strong as the coronavirus strikes medics, and a generation as strong as any leads on the front of the sunday express. With me are broadcaster Lynn Faulds Wood and former pensions minister baroness ros altmann. We are starting with the royal same, ros, the queens rousing message. Yes, absolutely, and it is one of the only times that the queen has addressed the nation outside the usual christmas message. I think we do hold the queen in such high regard across the country, and it is wonderful that she, such a shining example of people of whatever age, who can really command respect, and she is going to explain to the nation that we are going through tough times, but encourage everybody tough times, but encourage everybody to believe that we will get through it and that future generations will look back and realise how strong we have been. And it is quite amazing, really, to see how the public has responded to what are absolutely almost unimaginable requirements put
on them by government, by the nhs. And i think she is also rightly going to praise the nhs and talk about the dedication and devotion that has been shown by the wonderful staff at so many places around the country who are doing their utmost in the most incredibly difficult and stressful conditions. And, you know, it isa stressful conditions. And, you know, it is a bit like a war, and the queen is rousing the nation, and stepping in, really, to try and bolster morale. So many people around the country are in terrible situations, locks down, locked in, but doing it because they believe that it but doing it because they believe thatitis but doing it because they believe that it is what the rest of the country needs, and they are trying to support what we need to do for the well being of the nation. To support what we need to do for the wellbeing of the nation. Lynn, number ten saying this is all about lifting the nations spirits, do you agree . I agree that that is what
they hope it is doing. I think it is great that a 93 year old woman is showing that she can still isolate, which is what they want everyone to be doing over a certain age, and she has apparently only got one cameraman, the room was all suited and booted and they wore protective clothing, if i am well known for anything, it will be for a tinge of republicanism, but i am completely behind her, ithink republicanism, but i am completely behind her, i think it is great that she has come out and given the speech, i think it is great she has praised our good humoured result, yeah, keeping our sense of humour and fellow feeling, it is good that she has praised all of that, because at the moment that is the way we feel, and i just at the moment that is the way we feel, and ijust hope it lasts. We shall hearfrom feel, and ijust hope it lasts. We shall hear from the queen tomorrow afternoon, lets go to the sunday telegraph, as we should expect, lots of different angles on coronavirus,
and as well as featuring the queen, johnson warns against protectionism. This is after donald trump a p pa re ntly this is after donald trump apparently took a swipe at some masks that were heading to germany and decided to commandeer them. He took more than a swipe, the interior minister of germany, i made a note of it, he called it a modern piracy, and what apparently happened is that this vast number of masks was coming from china to berlin, and they were intercepted in bangkok, and trump the pirates told them. Yeah, and so of course the suggestion is we all need to work together. I will rattle through these a little bit, we have got lots to fit in, ros, the independent has focused in on social care, saying that our underfunded system is at risk of collapse, a strong headline. It is a strong
headline, but actually our underfunded system was at risk of colla pse underfunded system was at risk of collapse before the crisis, and what we are seeing collapse before the crisis, and what we are seeing now collapse before the crisis, and what we are seeing now is moving to yet another level, with care homes that might have been just about coping before now all coming out and saying they are in dire, dire trouble, and it will rebound on the nhs. They are saying they have staff shortages, not enough nurses, not enough protective equipment, and the councils are apparently not releasing the emergency funding that they do have to try and help bolster they do have to try and help bolster the resources of care homes who are actually on the front line for the very frail and Elderly Population thatis very frail and Elderly Population that is in their care. And very often they are saying, the local gps and hospitals want the care homes to look after people who are affected by the virus within that care home,
but then they need the resources to cope, and if care homes have to close, which is what some of these managers are saying, then there will be nowhere else for these people to go but into hospital. And we know that there are these concerns that hospitals themselves may be overwhelmed to rise in the coming weeks. We dont know that for sure, but if that happens, there are already concerns about the capacity of the nhs to cope, so i think it is short sighted if we are short changing the care sector. We have to get support into that sector. Lynn, what did you make of this . The city where i was born, glasgow, had 13 people die in a week ina care glasgow, had 13 people die in a week in a care home, and they probably had coronavirus, but we dont know, and as faras had coronavirus, but we dont know, and as far as i can gather they werent hospitalised and they werent hospitalised and they
werent tested, and how many others are we losing where we just dont know if they are counted or not. The other quick point is our son a journalist did a story about the Vulnerable People and in older people looked after in their homes by councils, and it was found to be lacking in the area where he did the investigation. Now, ijust wonder what is happening to all these poor people that are supposed to be looked after in their homes, who are vulnerable or old, and you may be getting a worse service than they we re getting a worse service than they were getting before. Very serious issues. I am going to get you ladies to just rattle us through the remaining ones, i want to give people at home a flavour of the spread. On the sunday telegraph, ros, they are looking out tech giants who they say have a role to play in stopping conspiracy theories, notably about 5g causing coronavirus. Apparently there are rumours going around on social media
and whatsapp which suggest that the sg and whatsapp which suggest that the 5g masts are spreading coronavirus and people are setting them on fire, and people are setting them on fire, and you are seeing all sorts of vandalism around the country, people frightened by what seem to be bogus stories that there is some danger in the sg stories that there is some danger in the 5g masts in terms of health. There may be other dangers in terms of intrusion into privacy that people were concerned about before, but even that we dont know for sure, and what is really important to recognise, according to many of the emergency services, is that the sg the emergency services, is that the 5g network is vital in order for these services to coordinate, because it helps with the communications across the country. And in any kind of national emergency, as we are in now, it is vital that we Keep Communications going across the country so Everybody Knows where the biggest needs are and can get ambulances to
the right place, or medical help to the right place, or medical help to the right place, or medical help to the right place, or supplies going around the country safely. So if anyone is thinking about looking at these 5g masts and, if you like, supporting any of the actions that are going on around the country, please make sure you tell people to stop this, because it is really, really dangerous to be doing that, never mind the actual vandalism itself, but the consequences of losing our 5g masts and connectivity. Michael gove making the point earlier that the story was utter nonsense. Lynn, the sunday times, a big day for the new labour leader, keir starmer, winning a landslide victory, and he has been speaking out pretty swiftly about the mishandling of the coronavirus crisis. If you get back to us at 11 30, i hope we can find out more, he has criticised what is happening
over coronavirus so he has criticised what is happening over coronavirus so far, and i would very much like to read that myself, because until now, the rest of today, he has sounded like he wants today, he has sounded like he wants to bea today, he has sounded like he wants to be a constructive critic of what has been going on, and it didnt sound awfully constructive in the sunday times. Polite no, we will hopefully get a look at that in the second go around. Finally, lynn, finish us with the sunday mirror, they have a story about people benefiting from coronavirus, pointing the finger at Jacob Rees Mogg and his firm, but it raises a bigger issue. It certainly does, andl raises a bigger issue. It certainly does, and i would quite like to get my teeth into that story myself, because apparently, when he became leader of the house of father of the house or whatever antiquarian title they have in the commons, that is rees moggsjob now,
they have in the commons, that is rees moggs job now, and they have in the commons, that is rees moggsjob now, and he stood down as a director of Somerset Capital management, but he is still apparently, according to the sunday mirror has over 13 share, and he stands to make a lot of money, in fa ct stands to make a lot of money, in fact i think they called it super results, again, tune in at 11 30, because the papers have come to us a bit later, sol because the papers have come to us a bit later, so i have not been able to deal you chapter and verse. Lynn, you have done me a wonderful segue, we will definitely have more, under a bit of pressure this hour, but we will have a leisurely look through in the next hour, they will be back at 11 30 for another look at the papers. You can see the front pages online on the bbc news website any time. If you miss us any evening, you can catch up on bbc iplayer. Thank you to Lynn Faulds Wood and baroness ros
altmann. Coming up next on bbc news, Annita Mcveigh has more information and Health Advice on the coronavirus outbreak in a special programme. Hello and welcome to this bbc news special. Im Annita Mcveigh. Stay with us as we share the latest information, Health Advice and reports about the coronavirus. Well show you exactly what scientists think of the virus covid 19 is and ask, how close are we to a vaccine . And a reminder that theres further advice and information about the pandemic on the bbc news website. But first, this coronavirus may be dominating headlines around
the world and changing the lives of hundreds of millions of people, but what exactly do we know about covid 19, and how close are we to a vaccine . The bbcsjim reed reports. Sars cov 2 is the technical name for the virus that causes covid 19. Its part of the coronavirus family, one of at least six that can affect humans. Were in the amazing position today where we can get the genetic code of a virus really quickly, and it turns out this particular virus is very closely related to bat and pangolin viruses. One of the theories is that it could have spread through one of those species to humans. The virus is made up ofjust 30 genes, compared with 20,000 for humans. It mutates or changes over time, allowing scientists to draw a family tree, showing where different strains have come from and how they have spread. Because of the slight shift, slight mutations that the virus accumulates, we can actually track which one came from china versus which one came from the west coast, for instance, that are landing into new york and so on. So that is what the virologists are looking at right now, to track the virus. The virus typically enters the human body through the nose or mouth. Those spikes on the outside grab onto a protein called ace 2, which is common on cells in the throat and lungs. Most covid 19 infections cause a fever, as our immune system fights to clear the virus from our body. Essentially, viruses, when theyre in that phase of infection, basically hijack the host cell, turn it into a virus making factory, releasing new virus particles that are then free to infect other neighbouring cells within the same host or, of course, if they are exhaled or coughed or sneezed out, are then able to infect a new person. Its not unusual for a virus
to cause different symptoms in different people. That could depend on age, genetics, and the amount you are exposed to. So you always get this wide spectrum of responses to infections. And covid is no different, so we know that age is one of the key factors for whether you are more likely to suffer from severe disease. This map shows how eight different strains of the virus are now circulating quickly across the world. Thats partly because virtually no one is immune. It may also be that a proportion of those infected show very mild symptoms but can still pass the virus onto others. So there are a few things that are going right for this virus to be very successful. One big one is the fact that there seems to be an incubation period between the time you become infected and you start shedding the virus to the time you feel very sick. So it is really impossible to catch those types of people,
unless we implement massive screening for the virus. Biotech and Drug Companies across the world are now working on vaccines and treatments. One promising target is those spikes on the outside of the virus itself. I have got a colleague at University College london who is using the biggest supercomputer in europe to search through old libraries of drugs which have already been tried and tested for other viruses and other infections, just to see if one of them has got the ability to interfere with the spikes on the coronavirus. In the longer term, there is the promise of a vaccine, which should be able to stop us getting the disease in the first place. But testing and manufacturing takes time. Even if scientists are successful, its unlikely to be rolled out widely until sometime next year. In china, where the virus originated, authorities there say they have now have got a grip on the outbreak. Its widely believed beijing is harnessing the power
of its sophisticated surveillance state to track, monitor and control people to stop the spread of the disease. The use of mobile phone data has proven particularly effective, and now some of the techniques are being copied by a growing number of countries around the world, including singapore, south korea and iran. So how can surveillance state tools help in a pandemic, and what are the potential pitfalls for privacy and freedom . Our cybersecurity reporter joe tidy explains. It all starts with this a national id card. You need one to pretty much do anything in china. From buying a mobile phone to using any app, everything you do leaves a data trail linked back to your id. In areas in lockdown, phone location data is being used to monitor movement and enforce curfews. If a patient is meant to be in quarantine, geolocation pings on their phone can alert authorities if they stray out of their homes. Phone location data is also being used to map exactly where
that person visited in the two weeks before being diagnosed. A combination of human and automated computer analysis work out who they may have infected. If they went on a train and got too close to other commuters, a text message is sent out through one of the major apps, alerting those at risk. Every person is being assigned a coloured qr code, depending on the risk they pose. Green no risk. Orange they have entered a potential virus hotspot. And red if theyve tested positive to the virus and could still be contagious. None of this cyber surveillance would be any good without the chinese states strict Enforcement Teams too. Police and volunteers have literally manned the exits of apartment blocks to keep places on lockdown. But in countries where these data surveillance powers are being brought in to
help deal with coronavirus, some people are worried about the long term. My name is adam schwartz, i am a Senior Lawyer at the Electronic Frontier foundation. There is a great concern that when government gets new powers in a crisis, government never gives those powers away, even when the crisis ends. So for example, in the wake of the 9 11 attacks, the United States created vast new surveillance powers, and 19 years later, those powers are still very much in the hands of the us government. Adam and others also have questions aboutjust how much of a difference this data surveillance can make and if its worth it. What we are basically saying to governments around the world is before you unveil or, you know, unleash a brand new mass surveillance power, its necessary for governments to come forward and really Public Health professionals to come forward and show that these technologies would actually address the crisis. Striking the delicate balance between privacy and security
is an age old problem for governments and the public. But perhaps never in history has the dilemma been more pressing and more life threatening. Now, many of us are facing the challenges of dealing with coronavirus and also dealing with very different working conditions. Youll have noticed the way youre receiving the news has become very different not least that the programme youre watching now didnt exist two weeks ago. The bbcs media editor, amol rajan, has been looking at the challenges the news and Media Industry is facing. Good evening. Our headlines for you this morning. Britains coronavirus crisis. Coronavirus. In a crisis. Coronavirus. Its horrible. Pandemic. Especially one in the information age. Hand sanitiser. Covid 19. Trusted news becomes a precious commodity. Social distancing. For which there is high demand. Coronavirus. Britain has a range
of regulated Public Service broadcasters doing their best to produce world class journalism. Ratings for news programmes across all channels are soaring with many presenters broadcasting from home. Published data showing that transport use across the country. But actually producing broadcast news is exceptionally hard in a global pandemic. Im just going to script a line about Northern Ireland there to put in at this point. Innovation is the only solution. There is plenty of it about. Recording. The nhs scheme only covers england and Northern Ireland. Here, correspondentjudith moritz is at home in manchester, working on a bbc news piece with her cameraman and editor rob wood, who is nearly 30 miles away in derbyshire. The nhs scheme only covers england. News reports are the result of teamwork between correspondents, producers, camera operators and studio editors. Oh, and children too, who can make their presence felt when correspondents work from home. What are your thoughts . Keeping both staff and contributors safe is a priority. Video interviews has
become the norm of late. Keeping two metres away from interviewees can be hard, but boom mics allow sound to be captured safely in high quality. Good morning. Its seven oclock. The headlines this morning. And its notjust television. Kitchens and front lounges have been converted into makeshift radio studios, like those of the today programme. Here is the bbcs David Sillito using a duvet to improve sound quality. Furnishings can absorb sound and reduce echo. To a much greater extent than is generally acknowledged, journalism is the product of a particular energy, camaraderie and culture from within a newsroom, like that of the bbc. Its hard to replicate that when, like these designated keyworkers, youre sat two metres apart. This place is usually densely packed, but like millions of others also facing logistical challenges, most editors and producers are now working from home. Im working on a piece with david hockney. Apps such as skype and zoom
are therefore replacing face to face daily editorial meetings. Jonty, what do you think about using that clip that weve already laid down . We can do that. Broadcasting is always a technical adventure, but right now more than ever. Amol rajan in central london, working with producer elizabeth in kent, and editorjonathan in north london, bbc news. Thats it for now, but before we go, we thought wed share some of the striking images from the last week from around the world as the coronavirus continues to upend the lives of hundreds of millions of people. And a reminder, you can keep up to date with all of the latest information on the lockdown in your area and your country on our website. Thanks for watching. Hat, white plenty of sunshine across the uk, it will be breezy, especially in the west, where we will see outbreaks of rain arriving later in the day, but a lot of sunshine around throughout the day for many places, turning hazy with wispy high cloud from the west, and later raining to Northern Ireland, western scotland, perhaps pembrokeshire and cornwall, gusts of up pembrokeshire and cornwall, gusts of up to 50 mph for parts of Northern Ireland and western scotland. With the winds from the south, yes, one, 201 the winds from the south, yes, one, 20 1 degrees the winds from the south, yes, one, 201 degrees in london, even further north glasgow likely to get to 18 degrees. Yes, warm, 21 degrees in london. Very mild through the night,
double digits for many. Monday, slightly cooler for many, rain clearing the south east, warming up again as we head through the week. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. A five year old becomes the youngest victim of coronavirus in the uk, as people are urged to stay at home, amid a large rise in deaths. The queen will praise the countrys self discipline in response to the crisis, when she makes a Rare Television address on sunday. Markets reopen in parts of italy as hopes rise that theyre over the worst. And sir keir starmer becomes the new Labour Party Leader and commits to working with the government to tackle
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