And in sport, a leading Health Advisor warns football is getting it wrong by trying to restart the premier league amid the global pandemic. And in whether there will be some more wet weather around in fact through today but a little bit of sunshine, too. Ill have yourfull forecast right here on breakfast. Its wednesday, april 29. Our top story millions more of us will be able to book a test for coronavirus from today. All over 65s and anyone who needs to leave home to go to work will be eligible if they have symptoms of covid 19. Other members of their household who fall ill can also apply online. Care home residents and staff in england are also being offered tests whether or not they have signs of the virus. Dan johnson reports. Saint cecilias nursing home in scarborough, locked down early. But gcioss scarborough, locked down early. But across the three homes in the group, they still saw 11 deaths, four definitely linked to coronavirus. Each number means a parent, a husband, a wife,
Of 16 german states. President trump is to scrap the Task Force Co ordinating americas response to coronavirus, despite a steady increase in infections and more than 70,000 deaths. You have people that are not going to stand for this, and i understand them very well. And we are going to put out little embers and little fires and may be some big fires, but we still have to go back to work. Climate experts say this year will see the biggest decline in Carbon Emissions ever recorded, because of the pandemic. And a bbc investigation finds some hairdressers and barbers are flouting lockdown rules by staying open and cuttnig hair. By staying open and cutting hair. Good morning. A goverment minister has urged us to continue following the guidance on social distancing, after a top scientific expert, professor Neil Ferguson, resigned as an adviser because a woman described by the telegraph as his married lover visited him at his home during lockdown, twice. Security Ministerjames Brokenshire sa
And more shops to reopen. President trump backtracks, saying he wont now disband the Coronavirus Task force well have the latest. And as the uk gears up to commemorate the 75th anniversary of v e day, when the war ended in europe plans for a permanent monument, to remember the caribbean volunteers who helped the war effort. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. Lets start with the uk Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has held out the prospect of the uk beginning its exit from lockdown, as soon as monday but has been forced to concede failings in key elements of the governments coronavirus strategy. At Prime Ministers questions, the labour leader, sir keir starmer pressed the Prime Minister on why testing numbers had fallen back and why the uk had the highest official coronavirus death toll in europe. There have been a further 649 coronavirus deaths recorded in the uk taking the tot
Emissions ever recorded. Did you hear that . I can hear a duck. And archie turns one in california harry and meghan release this video to mark their sons birthday. Hello. Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has led his first Prime Ministers questions since recovering from coronavirus, where he faced criticism from the labour leader sir keir starmer over the governments response to the pandemic. Speaking in the commons, mrjohnson said he bitterly regretted the epidemic which has swept through care homes, after labour accused him of failing to get to grips with the number of deaths there. The Prime Minister also said he hoped there would be an easing of lockdown measures from monday, although he did not give details on what those might be. And he set a new goal of doubling Testing Capacity to 200,000 by the end of the month. 0ur Political Correspondent nick eardley has the details. Not much feels normaljust now, not at westminster, not around the country. Here, though, scrutiny of the governmen
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