Hello and welcome to bbc news. Where covering all the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. The uk has another week of tragic news for families. Today has been the third day in a row in which the British Government has announced close to a thousand deaths in a single day. Uks Daily Briefing was led by the Health Secretary who confirmed their been 980 reported deaths from coronavirus in the last day. That is the biggest daily increase so far. That makes the total number to almost 9000. There have been nearly 1. 6 million recorded cases of coronavirus with many people having died. That is according to the Hopkins University of the united states. Mass burials are taking place as the death torments high with more cases reported in new york state than any other single country. Back in uk, the Prime Minister is out of intensive care and continues to improve in hospital, according to downing street where he has to think the whole Clinical Team treating them for the incredib
A Good Friday Service in Notre Dame Cathedral almost a year it went up in flames. And bringing the outdoors indoors for lockdown how charities are trying to connect people with nature using webcams to help Mental Health. In bbc news, the head of the Managers Association said football should not restart in england until all players have been tested for coronavirus. Good evening. Almost 9000 people in the uk have now lost their lives to coronavirus in the past five weeks. The latest daily death toll has risen by a record 980 hospital people. Thats higher than spain and italys worst daily death tolls. And that number does not include people who have died from coronavirus in care homes or in the community. It brings the total number of deaths in hospital to 8,958 at the end of another week of tragic news for thousands of families across the country. Today has been the third day in a row in which the government has announced close to 1000 deaths in a single day. Meanwhile, despite fresh cla
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Youre covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First we would like to ta ke globally. First we would like to take you to the live pictures from the vatican. These show a stripped down Good Friday Service inside the vatican itself and normally on good friday, pope francis would move over to the coliseum on the other side of rome where romance would pack out to see the pope was also the bishop of rome. But the vatican has stripped back with the plans to do and that is st. Peters square there and there are eight to ten parishioners in that procession and the pope himself. We will see him in the second. There he is alone on the stage the podium and st. Peters square stage the podium and st. Peters square on stage the podium and st. Peters square on good friday. The United Kingdom has recorded the highest increase of death due to coronavirus after week of tragic news for families. This been
The week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament, where there are more questions for ministers over the governments handling of coronavirus. The labour leader wants to know. Why he thinks that coronavirus continues to spread so fast in the care sector . Filling in for borisjohnson, dominic raab admits its a challenge but says its one the government will grip. We can get the numbers down in care homes, as weve seen in hospitals and as weve seen in the country at large. The chancellor announces his latest loan scheme, promising fast and easy access to help for small firms. And away from the coronavirus pandemic, mps give initial approval to a bill to help victims of domestic violence. Threatened and terrorised by someone who thinks its ok to use his wife, partner or family as an emotional or physical punch bag. It was another week of the extraordinary new normal, with the public being urged to continue staying inside to slow the spread of covid 19. On tuesday, a
Hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. An experimental drug developed to treat ebola has been approved for use on coronavirus patients in the United States. A recent Clinical Trial suggested the drug shortened Recovery Time for people who fall seriously ill with the virus. President trump has confirmed that the us food and Drug Administration authorised the anti viral drug, remdesivir. Heading into the weekend, more than 30 us states are partially re opening their economies. Elsewhere, the uk government says its hit the target of 100,000 coronavirus tests per day. But critics say the claims lack clarity as thousands of tests were sent to peoples homes, and may not have been taken yet. In spain, the government says some restrictions will be lifted on monday. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez described it as a return to a new normality. Australia is being touted as one of the Success S