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This is bbc news, im clive myrie. Well be bringing you todays downing street News Conference shortly, with the latest on the battle against coronavirus, but first our top stories. The number of people who have died a leading government scientific adviser says the outbreak in britain may be the worst in the region. The uk is likely to be certainly one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in europe. The british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, leaves hospital to continue his recovery a week after he was admitted, following his testing positive for coronavirus. I have today left hospital after a week in which the nhs has saved my life. No question. No question. Spains daily death toll from the coronavirus rises by 619,
having fallen for three days in a row. The us overtakes italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world more than 20,000 people have now died. In his easter message, pope francis has delivered a prayer for those affected by the pandemic that has k
Had right from the very beginning shut everything down it may have been a little bit different. There was at will of pushback about shutting things down back then. The president also has a easter message for everyone via twitter. In the meantime, he said hell make a decision fairly soon on when to reopen the country, are you hearing anything more specific from the white house . Reporter happy, easter, fred. When it comes the details about reopen the government or this decision, President Trump hasnt given a specific date, we know that there has been behind the scenes conversations with Administration Officials talking about may 1st, now President Trump said hes going to convene an opening our Country Council this week, to talk about this. There are two things to note here when were talk about President Trumps decision, its not President Trumps decision to make. President trump himself didnt issue any sort of National Stay at home order. In fact, he said that was the job of the governor
Mission. Dr. Anthony fauci saying there was pushback to shutting down the economy and initialing social distancing at the begins of theious breakened that delay may have cost americans lives. Obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and started mitigation earlier, could you have saved live s obviously no one will deny that. What goes into those decisions is complicated. O obviously if from the very beginning we shut everyone down, it may have been different. There was a lot of pushback about shut things down back then. Despite that, dr. Fauci has reason for cautious optimism citing a decrease in hospitalizations, icu admissions and intubations. We begin coverage at the white house. Jeremy diamond is there for us. Reporter today is a day by which President Trump had at one point hoped to see the country reopening again. Wanted to see the economy raring up and open to go. But that was before the president extended the social distancing guidelines for a
Especially worrisom worrisome fe with preexisting conditions. There are half a million known coronavirus cases in the United States. Experts say there are likely millions more americans who have or had the virus but have not gotten tested. Steve harrigan is live in atlanta outside of cdc headquarters where they continue to track the spread. Hi, steve. Reporter the u. S. Death toll as of this morning was 20,00 20, up just under 10 in the last 24 hours. Over the past five days, just under 2,000 americans dying each day. Last night, President Trump gave some insight into the decisionmaking process behind the next step to reopen the u. S. Economy. And its going to be its going to be based on a lot of facts and a lot of instinct also. Whether we like it or not, there is a certain instinct to it. But we have to get our country back. People want to get back. They want to get back to work. We have to bring our country back. And so ill be making a decision reasonably soon. Reporter a stay at ho