Prevail in highlighting what he called a loss of progress being made. He did talk about the fact that a tough week with a loss of death is to come but we will move heaven and earth he said to safeguard american citizens. You are watching bbc news. The government urges people to stay at home, as the death toll from coronavirus in the uk rises by 700, including a five year old boy. 13 residents of a care home in scotland 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. Now on bbc news, its time for dat
This is bbc news. The headlines. The uk Prime Minister warns of tougher measures if social distancing advice isnt followed he says people who are acting irresponsibly are putting lives at risk. We will keep the implementation of these measures under constant review and yes, of course, we will bring forward further measures if we think thatis forward further measures if we think that is necessary. Nhs england writes to one and half million of the most high risk people, who are told to not leave home for 12 weeks to shield them from the coronavirus. Spains state of emergency is extended for another two weeks while in italy the death toll from the virus rises again. Primark is the latest uk high street chain to close its doors until further notice. And new ways of reaching parishioners on a sunday without Church Services as usual. Good evening and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. The british Prime Minister today urged the public again to follow the rules for social dista
The Prime Minister is moved out of intensive care as the uks death toll rises sharply again another 881 people have lost their lives to coronavirus. Borisjohnson is spending his 5th night in hospital after being moved to a ward doctors say they are monitoring him closely almost 8000 have now died among them tony wilkes who broke his arm and caught the virus in hospital. It was just so dreadful that no one was able to visit him for three weeks and no one was able to be with him in his final hours and minutes. Police step up checks on social distancing as the government says its too early to lift restrictions and urges everyone to stay at home over the easter weekend. Lets not undo the gains we have made, lets not waste the sacrifices so many people have made we musnt
give the coronavirus a Second Chance to kill more people and to hurt our country. Still at work just. Warnings about the huge impact that virus could have on the uk economy. And hundreds of nhs workers, carers and key staff
Troops in afghanistan last year. Now on bbc news, panorama. Tonight on panorama the great testing gamble. The stakes are very high indeed. Testing is absolutely critical and central to preventing a second wave now. Thousands of lives now depend on the government getting testing right. We should be very concerned, until we can see there is a fully effective testing and Contact Tracing system in place. So why do our covid investigators have nothing to do . I have had zero cases. Absolutely zero. And why havent millions of test results been shared with the nhs . There is no transfer of data into a clinical record at the moment. I gather theres an aspiration to do that in the next few weeks. But we need it now. It would have been helpful to have it a few weeks ago. Were facing an invisible killer. So we need to see every road, every place, where covid is spreading. The only way to track the movement of the disease is to test. So we can follow the infections and trace those that may have it