Its believed 1 in 400 outside of hospitals and care homes have caught covid 19. Lets go, well start cutting at 12 01, so come on in. People queue at midnight for much needed haircuts, as new zealand reopens thousands of businesses at the end of lockdown. When tiers are in your eyes. And the hospital choir whose bridge over troubled water got a shout out from paul simon. Good afternoon and welcome to viewers on bbc one and the bbc news channel ahead of the daily downing street coronavirus update. The government has announced that a further 428 people have died with the virus in the uk bringing the total number of deaths in hospitals and the Wider Community to 33,614 people. The news comes as Scientists Say a new blood test, which detects whether someone has had coronavirus, is a major step forward. The test looks for antibodies which could indicate some immunity to covid 19 in the future. It was approved last night by Public Health england, and ministers say they want to roll it out as
Off their calling skills. Catherine is going to pick out the first ball. 0k. So the first number is five and eight, 58. One little duck, number two. Fight and seven, 87. Six and two, tickety boo. Time for a look at the weather. Heres tomasz shafernaker. Thank you. Really blustery day across the northern half of the uk today but especially around Northern Ireland and western scotland. Gale force winds. 0n ireland and western scotland. Gale force winds. On top of that we have got heavy rain. The worst of the weather is concentrated on a small area of the country compared to the rest of us. The reason for this bad weather in the north west is a storm which is kind of site sweeping us. It is off the coast of Northern Ireland and will be moving between iceland and scotland over the next 24 iceland and scotland over the next 2a hours, but it is close enough to give us quite a blow, especially along exposed areas. Gusts could approach 60 mph or more. Heavy rain in the west of scotland. Elsewh
With possible fines of £1,000 if people fail to self isolate for m days. Scientific advice on opening schools is published later, as 68 councils in england say they cannot guarantee their primary schools will return on the 1st ofjune. We want people to ensure that he guidelines are able to be followed, and that they return to school when its safe, than the 1st ofjune, and councils and local authorities and schools have got to assess that safety issue from the health point of view, for the best interests of the pupils. President trump is seen without a facemask in a michigan factory though he claims he did wear one, but took it off before speaking to reporters. And coming up at 9. 30, its your questions answered today were looking at whats going to happen when universities reopen in the autumn. Hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im annita mcveigh. New figuresjust out, show the devastating effect of the coronavirus on the economy. Retail sales fell sharply, posting the biggest
Police fired tear gas, and protestors threw rocks. George floyd died on monday and a video showed him gasping for breath as a policeman knelt on his neck. Four Police Officers have been sacked. The premier League Season is set to restart onjune 17th, with aston villa playing Sheffield United and Manchester City against arsenal. There will be no fans in the stadiums, but all 92 remaining games will be shown live on tv. Our Sports Editor dan roan reports. Its game on. With clubs resuming contact training for the First Time Since the season was suspended back in march earlier, confirmation tonight the premier league is set to resume injust under three weeks time. Subject to government approval, the 92 remaining fixtures will be played in a packed five and a half week period, as clubs try and make up for lost time. Obviously, there are things that are much more important at the moment and we have not lost our sense of perspective, but football is an important thing to lots of people. Ive m
And how is this all playing on the campaign trail . As the new poll shows a new first choice for democrats in the first in the nation caucus state. And if its monday, its meet the press. Im katy tur in for chuck todd. We begin with the president followed by angry denials after seemingly confirming reports he asked a foreign power to dig up dirt on his potential opponent joe biden, he asked aides to deny the requests. He spoke to reporters at the ukraine about joe bidens quote, corruption, and he wouldnt give joe biden to ukraine if he wasnt, quote, rooting out corruption. A large part of the conversation i had was corruption, the corruption taking place. Largely the fact we dont want people like Vice President biden and his son contributing to the corruption already in the ukraine. What did you tell the ukrainian president about joe biden and his son . Youre going to see because what we are doing, we want honesty. Its very important to talk about corruption. If you dont talk about corr