This is bbc new with the latest headlines for viewers in as a governments around the world battled the coronavirus, a clear warning to stay indoors thiseekend. We cannot relax our discipline now. We do, people will die. Anchor scaling up coronavirus testing remains a worldwide priority, but the British Health secretary says 100,000 a day is a huge undertaki. Queen elizath will address the commonwealth sunday in a rare special broadcast. New york sees the highest, frome rise of deaths coronarus in a day as the Governor Andrew Cuomo says the stat needs urgent help from out side from outside. New yor. Come to new york, pick up and camp and then go to the next place as this rolls across the country. Anchor the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 40, 0n europemore three quarters of them in italy, spain and france. Hello and welcome to audiences in the u. K. And around the world. Where covering the latest the u. K. Health sey issued a stark warning that more people will die if the public doesnt adhere to government measures to prevent the spreadf the virus. People in the u. K. Are urged to stayathome thiseekend, over fears a warm sunny forecast could tempt people to go tside. Almost 700 more people have died in the u. K. After becoming infeed with covid19. The u. K. s newe and largest hospital is preparing to take in coronavirus patients needing the Nightingale Hospital at the exit sl Exhibition Center in london was constructed in just ni days xl Exhibition Center in london. W york has suffered its deadliest date yet. Governor andrew cuomo said the number of victims had gone up on morehan 500, to nearly 3000. Spain has overtaken italy as the european country with most cases. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases deaths in th country has reached almost 11,000. We will have more on all of those aspects from around the world, but first the situation in the u. K. Correspondent this is one of two nurses w lost their lives after contracting covid19. Uttr were paid to their bravery, including at the and there was this warning from the health secretary. We cannot relax our discipline now. If we do, people will die. Ie nd with the advicel know,his advice is not a it is an instruction. Stayathome. Protect lives. Yd you will be doir part. Correspondent earlier, there was an unusual official opening of the newest nhls hostile nhs hospital, key players keeping their distance, the moment marked by a yal contribution. Perhaps i could invite the nightingale head of nursing natalie gray, on my behalf, to veil the plaque to declare Nightingale Hospital open. [applause] tty prince correspondent Prince Charles was on the ballot moral estate after coming out of isolationin after contra coronavirus. In less than two weeks, huge halls have been transferred transformed into hospital wards for covid19 patients, joint effort with army planrs and nhs staff. The hospital is ready for new patients. Th had beeght the first would arrive today, bu London Hospitals have b extra capacity to cope with the cast the caseload at this stage. To cope with the caseload at this stage, so the nightingale wont be needed until n there are further plans for more temporary hospitals to add to those in birmingham. Scotland announced similar plans in glascow, and in wails, principality stadium in cardiff is to host patients. Tting things done is the message the government wants to get across, mat hancock, at the nightingale, facedlaims he hasnt done enough on testing for the virus. Thaving set a targe of 25,000 tests a day later this month, he has come up with a hugely increased figure of 100,000 by the end of april, including many moreone by academic and industrial laboratories. Wre are the tests coming from . Who are going to do them . He hasnt given any detail. I set up a fivepoint plan yesterday. The first stage is expanding Testing Capacity within e nhs in the public who are doing an amazing job. The next stage is to bng in the private sector companies, existing testing companies. Correspondent one of the key aims of testingow is to ahs staff with tnk they have symptoms to get back to work quickly. Thscottish government says it is expanding testing this antilles Testing Facilities like this. This expansion of Testing Capacity means amongst other thingshat we will be able to test moreey workers with every day that passes. However, in addition to apincreasingity within nhs, we are working with the u. K. And otherer parto final Testing Capacity beyond that. Ththat partners to other partners for Testing Capacity beyond that. Correspondent these doctors will move to the nhs frontline, where they will certainly be needed in the months ahead. Anchor the English Health secretarys warning about the danger of relaxing lockdowns have been echoe by the world health orgizatio. We need a transition strategy and we neeto get head ahead need to get ahead of the virus. If we are in control, we can protect our economies. But if we lurched t lockdown, poor control, lockdn, poor control, nhat is what anybody needs right now. The investment we need to make, lockdowns have given som time and taking pressure off the idemic. We can see that. This is preciouse. It is not only to strengthen thE Health Care system, but precious architecture, the testing, the building this response and build this response from the community up. Anchor the queen will address the u. K. And commonwealth this weekend about coronaviru the statement will be sunday. The royalsp cordent says these broadcasts only ppen in moments of national significance. Nicholas they have only bn a handful during the 60 years of the queens reign, the funeral ofs diana princ wales or when troops went into action in the first gulf war. Downing street and Buckingham Palace have been closely consulting. Recorded. Ast has been it will go out at 8 00 sunday evening. It will embrace, i am sure, themes we heard from the queen in a written Statement Issued march 19. She talked about ccomunities ng together to work as one she said now, more than any time, we all have a vitally important part to play as individuals. So personal responsy ility, communhesion, national solidarity, and im quite sure w the quel wish to express her own, profound gratitude to the National Health service, to all the key workers, for the heroic efforts to look afteren pa and keep the wheels of society turni. Start of the easter week from the head of state, the head of the nation, to reassure the country and rally the nation resolve at a moment of particular difficulty. Anchor nicholas witchell, our royal correspondent. The issue of testing is one u. K. Government has been heavily iticized over. A sarget of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month. Our science editor says there are two types of tests, and what theyay tell us about virus. About the virus. Correspondent the government is under relentless pressurg. About testin why does that matter and what are the test . The first kind of testing is the most urgent, because it is try to find out who actually it is trying to find out who has the infection. It is done with a swab in the mouth and throat to look fo clues. This is important for patients in hospital, because if they are ilinfected, that determine their treatment. It is vital to Health Care Workers and many others, because if they have mild symptoms that turn out to be negative, they can go back to work, and aslongerterm, relaxing es and social distancing would depend on working out who has the infection into hasnt. Testing for the vus is being ed up, and Scientists Say without it, we ce t tace pandemic. It is likeryg to fight with both hands tied behind your back, you are always responding after the effect. We are not able to work out the extent. We are not able to plan as well as we could if we had more information. Correspondent the second type of testing is to look for evidence you had the virus in the past. This invols a blood test, a pinprick on the finger to look for antibodies, a sign of your own response to infection. This should help answer the qution about whether you have immunity, having had the virus and recovering, that would allow you to return to work. But how long with the amenity last, months, years . At this moment, no one can be re. The hope is the public will t eventually getts to see who has the virus, but government eientists want to Check Technology first. It is recognized from the outset that testing is critical. A huge effort has gone in. Existing technologifficulthe to scale up quickly. Correspondent th eveg hinges on a Research Effort on a scale that wasnt expected, a race to catch up with a dangerous threat. Bbc news. Anchor meanwhile, in the u. S. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has topped 250 thousand, making it a home to a quarter of all confirmed cases across the world. The statef new york h been badly hit and today suffered its sile, deadliest day wit562 additional coronavirus. Fataliti the total number of deaths across the states 2935. New york Governor Andrew Cuomo to die due to a lack ofc ventators, and called on other states to help out. Helped the place that has a crisis. This is that on a macro scale. New york is in crisis. Help new york, and then pick up, go to decamp, and then e next place as this rolls across the country. There is not a perfeer timing, will be two parts of the country that hit the apex at the same time, three parts of the country that hit the apex at the same time, but i do not see any operational, practical alternative to dealing withhis knowing forward. Anchor andrew cuomo. Our north american correspondent says Governor Cuomos stature has risen during the crisis. Correspondent people are watching him because he is showing empathy, he is showing he understands the gravity of this crisis. They are so they are also now realizing he is fighting for his state more than any other, talking about resources in terms of equment coming to his stat he is talking about members of e E Health Care prossion coming to his stom around the country to deal with the then move on tother places. Ey but there are states across the country that are seeing a surge in coronavirus cases, already in places like michigan, a lot of hospitals saying they are full capacity, louisiana and florida as well, they are all seeing surges in the number of coronavirus patients. But the numbers are staggering in new york. 0,000 cases across this cases, and more than 100,000 of those are in new york. But new york has nearly half of the 6000 deaths that there has been in this country. But Governor Cuomo talking about his state not having to fight with other states for resources, both nationally but also resources they are tto acquire intertionally for anchor stay with us on bbcw. News. Still to come, we hear from is this man and philanthropist bill gates, who has warned for years that the world is not prepared for a pandemic like the coronarus. The accident that happened here was of the sort that cannot worst produce a meltdown. In this case theercussions worked, but not quite well enough to prevent old fears about the safety features of these stations from resurfacing. The republic ofreland has world to ban smoking in thehe workplace. Anyone lighting upn offices, businesses, pubs and restaurants will face a heavy fine. The president was on his way to theashington hilton hotel where he had been addg a trade conference. The crowd outside included his assailant. It has become a symbol of paris. 100 years ago, many parisians wished it had never been built. The eiffel tower birth is marked by a reenactment of the first assent by gustav eiffel. Anchor this is bbc news. Eathe latestines. As governments around the world battle to sead battle against the spread of the virus, the World Health Organization warned against tilifting restricons too soon, despite concerns about the global economy. Ofting englands target 100,000 tests a day will be a huge undertaking, healthan secretary mattck admitted. The new coravirus pandemic has killed more than 40,000 people in europe, more than three orders of them ind taly, spain ance. A short while ago france announced a shdep increase in hs, after it included for teleteasing care homes for the first times that for the first time. Paper revealed 930 deaths in the past what you for hours, slightly less than yesterday, a small glimmer of hope. Tim smith is a freelance journalist based in barcelona. Tim, described the situation across spain, if you would. There must be regional differences, i would imagine . Tim absolutely. The Coronavirus Crisis in spain stard in the northwest, the Basque Country a bill bow and since then that has been the mutt and bilbao, and since then that is been the most heavily affected region, mad at the catalonia region. You see other regions with lessu essentially the whole country is dealing with cases. Anchor how much strain our under . D Funeral Services tim it ior extnary, really. There is a lot of anger about the fact that there is not a Public Health infrastructure to deal with this. You are seeing lar, permanent event spaceson likerence halls and public Sports Centers being turned into funeral homes. Cemeteries are completely overwhelmed as well. In madrid, they turned a large ice rink into a morgue because of the sheer number of deaths there. Crematoriums in madrid, they are asking other regions in madrid to carry a cretions. So it is really buckling, and there is a lot of anger that more wasnt done earlier in that yearscu o in the Public Health system here have a things worse for people o there without the right equipment an without enough beds and the right conditions to be fighti this virus. Anchor how did spaio this stage, given there were strict measures and restrictions in place . Tim one theory, same wi italy , is that there is a lot of intergenerational living. Families tend to stay with grandparents and grandchildren more, meaning there could be a greater spread among generations. Esand in a lot of plhe lockdown didnt come quickly enough. A week before the lockdown, a Minority Party in the government, were advocating that people be out in the streets for largescale marches for International Womens day. I think a lot of people, as with other countries, they are saying ewhen peo are only taking action when it is almost too late, so there is a sense the lockdown was not quick and hard enough, and the Public Healthst isnt equipped to deal with it. Anchor t smith in barcelona, thank you very much. In france, the number of deadue cont rising, nearly 600 deaths recorded in 24 hours. Thousands of police arest on the ets of paris to enforce the governments tough quarantine measures over easter holidays. Railroads statid major roads are monitored to prevent people leaving the city. Our correspondent reports from paris. Rrespondent it is not only nations that tive l onerty, epidemics as well. At stations across paris today, every journey beganith a police check. Freedom of movement is a new national threat. Do you have your visa papers . Of course. Correspondent he made it through, on his way home to brittany after two years abroad. But even the smallest mistake means being turned away. I wrote the wrong date, not todays date, and they told me go home and prepare another form. I have to go to work, but i cant. Correspondent franceared out almost 6 million chks during the First Fortnight of confinement, far more than neighboring italy. And it has issued more than 400,000 finds. 400,0 fines. Butuestio over when the confinement will and are growing. Ance risks losing public support if it is too harsh or too long. The interior minister advised sensitivity in applying rules, and said police operate differently in cou compared to big cities, and in the poorest suburbs compared to towns. But the parisic pchief was forced to apologize today after taking a very different tone. The ones who were ,ospitalized today, the es on life support now are the ones that didnt respect the quarantine when it began. This is not a videogame. Its real. There are dead people. Correspondent it wh few life besupport left in the paris region, parent patients are for care. Trycross this is the worsthit region of france, but is there light at t the end of tnel . If you asked me this two days ago, i should say no, but there is a reduction in patients in emergency wards. Correspondent he says there were no new admissions to intensive care in his hospital today, a first since the epidemic began, the first wimpse of hope here aftks of fear and frustration, the first sign that confinement might have worked. Lu williamson, bbc news, paris. Anchor nd u. S. Businessman philanthropist bill gates says there is still time for the world to take action that can help contain the spreademf the pa. In 2015, mr. Gates gave a talk in which he world heard the world was not prepared enough for a pandemihe has worked with developing countries on healtissues and has been speaking to my colleagu it is a stunning, gigantic problem, the medical challenge, deaths, the economic impact. Ntit is very unprece. So as soon as we can get the right tools to bring this to an end,to that is goine a importance. Of gigantic 2015 when you said you didnt believe the world was quite ready. At that time, did you envision anything of this magnitude was a flu spreading, andted killing 30 Million People and causing about 4 trillion of economic damage. And sadly, what has happened here mirrors that prettycl ely. And a lot of the things we could have done, like havin diagnostics that could be deployed quickly, having the drugs, having built a vaccine platform to shorten the time for that to get out,