Are still struggling to make their way back home. The country with the highest death rate italy extends its lockdown until easter, but there is some hope as the country reports a sharp decline in the number of infections. President trump says the next 30 days will be vital to stopping the virus in the us as the number of cases rises to over 164,000 the highest number anywhere in the world. In a few minutes, well talk to one employee in rochdale who feels hes being forced to go to work in unsafe conditions. If you feel in a similar situation send me a message on twitter or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. And after 9 30am well be answering some of your Health Related questions about the virus with a gp and a virologist, so stay with us for that. Police forces in the uk have been told to be consistent in their use of emergency lockdown powers, after concerns some are being too heavy handed. Guidance to officers calls for a coordinated effort and emphasises the importance of professionalism. In other key developments. British airways is suspending all flights to and from Londons Gatwick airport, the uks second busiest. The move comes after easyjet grounded its entire fleet due to the unprecedented travel restrictions. Supermarkets have recorded record sales in march as shoppers stocked up for a long period at home. Analysts say sales in the past four weeks have been even higher than levels seen at christmas. And families in england with children eligible for Free School Meals will be able to claim supermarket vouchers while schools remain closed. The vouchers are worth £15 a week per child. With more now on that guidance to Police Forces, heres keith doyle. You shouldnt be driving unless its essential. In weston super mare, police are reminding people of the rules about only undertaking essential travel. Just come out walking the dog. Right, 0k. The only thing well say is please read the government guidance on essential travel. The guidelines say you should take exercise near your home. Have you driven here . Derbyshire police were criticised for heavy handed tactics after using drones to show people driving to remote areas for exercise. Dyeing the water in a local beauty spot and leaving notes on parked cars were other tactics that police used to discourage people travelling. Now, the National PoliceChiefs Council has reminded forces of the guidelines and that enforcement should be a last resort. Were not going to enforce our way out of this problem. We will get out of this problem because people want to solve the problem, and we will get out of it because weve got the public at our sides and they will lead us through it. People queuing outside this pharmacy are keeping two metres apart. The uks chief scientific advisor said that social distancing measures are making a difference with cases not rising as fast as feared. The latest figures from Public Health england are 22,141 cases in the uk, with 1,408 deaths and 180 of them in the last 2a hours. The numbers being admitted to hospital are expected to rise over the coming weeks. With more and more cases, the British Medical Association which represents doctors says theyre still facing a fatal shortage of personal protection equipment, despite government assurances. The bma is urging the government to make it clear what frontline staff should do if they dont have the necessary protection. Weve got many doctors who are worried, if they are not protected, what should they do . No frontline workers should be expected to be on the front line without adequate protection. These are some of the hundreds of britons who have been flown home from peru after the government chartered flights. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, has announced a £75 million plan to bring home tens of thousands of british nationals. The government advice is to get home on a commercial flight if there is one, if there isnt, then embassies will advertise government charters to help bring those stranded back to the uk. Keith doyle, bbc news. Lets talk to our assistant Political Editor norman smith. He Political Editor norman smith. Is at home. Good m debate he is at home. Good morning. This debate about the line that police take. 0ne former supreme courtjudge claimed britain was turning into a police state. Yes, i mean, ithink there is concern, shall we say, that some of the Police Actions do appear to be somewhat heavy handed, and the problem is if you are to police a lockdown clearly the police cannot be controlling every street in every town in every city. They need the consent of the public and the danger is if the public think the police are being heavy handed you lose that consent, which means it becomes very ha rd to enforce consent, which means it becomes very hard to enforce the lockdown. Secondly there is the obvious danger if you adopt an unnecessarily shy with the aggressive tone, that in itself generates conflict and develops into situations and, you know, it just makes develops into situations and, you know, itjust makes it much more of an argy bargy situation when what the police want to do is encourage people, persuade people, that actually maybe they shouldnt be out on the street, and that is the danger, if they lose that sense of goodwill from the public. That has certainly raised a little bit of disquiet. At the downing street News Conference seeing the police have to show common sense. And grant shapps are urging the police not to overreach. We are asking them to do something completely unprecedented that normally with our policing by consent approach theyjust do not have to get into, and i am sure they are not particularly liking having to do this, and of course the best thing we can all do is just follow the guidance, and most people are doing exactly that. Stay home and protect the nhs and save lives. You have heard it many times. I think the police are doing a difficultjob. There will be one or two instances where perhaps they have not approached it in the right way but in general actually across the country not only are people complying very well but generally speaking the police are taking a very sensible approach towards it as well. 0ne one of the difficulties i think, there seems to be a slightly inconsistent approach between different forces, so Lancashire Police have issued 123 enforcement notices since thursday. Bedfordshire police have issued none. It cannot be that people in lancashire i123 times more disobedient than people in bedfordshire. Clearly the Police Forces are taking a different approach under Police Forces recognise there needs to begin a fourth mag uniformity and consistency. In terms of the criticism you mentioned earlier, it is true he warned about the dangers of moving towards a police state, but actually he laid the blame for that knot at the foot of the police as it were about at the foot of the public because he said in these times it is the public who demand that the Police Take Action and in a way they had called for tougher restrictions, clamp downs, and were seeking the police to enforce a much tighter regime, so yes it is critical of the police but he was saying they are only doing it because we want them to do that. Thank you very much, norman. Most of you on twitter have said that you have not really seen the police in the past week about four men a patrol car and then they have just with that year. Children in england who would normally receive Free School Meals are being given supermarket vouchers from today as part of a National Government scheme. Theyll amount to £3 a day, but headteachers have warned that even with the vouchers some parents will struggle to feed their children. The department for education says the rate exceeds that normally paid to schools for free meals. In italy, theres been a glimmer of hope with a sharp fall in new coronavirus cases. Just over 1,600 new patients were diagnosed in the latest daily tally less than half of sundays figure. So, is the lockdown there which has now been extended to april 12th working to curb the infections . Lets cross to rome. 0ur correspondent Jean Mackenzie is there for us. Remind us how strict the restrictions are. Yes, italy has one of the strictest lockdown is in europe. It has been in place for three weeks. I heard you saying that people in the uk have not really seen Police Officers, that is not the case here, there are police everywhere throughout rome checking papers and asking people where they are going because people here are not allowed to work unless they have essential jobs and not allowed to work unless they have essentialjobs and all nonessential factories have been shut down and people have been told to stay on site unless they are going to buy food. This lockdown is going to extend until april the 12th. Do you think people will continue to comply. Is there a possibility that people will be a bit cross about that . I think they will continue to comply. People have been very good so far add following these restrictions because people here are scared, they turn on the news every single night on the here hundreds and hundreds more people have died and hundreds more people have died and that is enough to keep you in your home, but there are problems, because it has been so strict, people have not been working, and some people are running out of money. Reports on the size of supermarkets being robbed as people get desperate. Certainly this extension is going to be a blow for people even though they will have seen it coming. The 12th of april is an at least date and many people expected to be extended for longer. It will depend on what happens with these rates of infection. Thank you very much, jean mckenzie, in rome. President trump has said that america faces a vital 30 days in the fight against coronavirus, and suggested that social distancing could save up to a million lives. Health services in new york have been overwhelmed by the number of cases with more than 1200 deaths. The state governor has appealed for medical staff from anywhere in the us to come to their aid. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. A symbol of wartime and a morale booster for new york, this military medical ship docked in manhattan will provide relief to the citys hospitals overwhelmed by covid 19. The us navy ship, comfort, has space for 1,000 beds. It will be used by non coronavirus patients, while shorebased hospitals focus on the pandemic. With more and more states ordering people to stay at home, americans are buckling down for at least another month of the economic shutdown and social distancing. 30 days that President Trump says will be vital. By very vigorously following these guidelines we could save more than a million american lives. Think of that. One million american lives. 0urfuture is in our own hands and the choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of this virus and, really, the fate of our victory. We will have a great victory. We have no other choice. Mr trump said progress was being made with the number of americans tested for the coronavirus. Today, we reached a historic milestone in our war against the coronavirus. Over one million americans have now been tested. More than any other country, by far. Not even close. But President Trumps numbers have been widely questioned, with the us well behind italy and south korea in the number of people tested. Peter bowes, bbc news. The World Health Organisation has warned that the coronavirus is a long way from finished in the Asia Pacific Region. Its urged governments to prepare for mass infection and warned of the threat of a renewed crisis in countries where the situation appears to be under control. We can speak now to our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, in beijing. What have the who said specifically . This is an explicit warning for those countries where the coronavirus appears to be, well, kind of under control. We had in a press c0 nfe re nce kind of under control. We had in a press Conference Today that the World Health Organization thinks that they should not drop their guard and whats more they should be ready for a large explosion in new cases, parts of the fear is that people coming into these countries, like here in china, south korea, singapore, from overseas, can bring the virus back and like nothing it can take off again into the community. If we have a little look around here you can see people overrun most of these corners here, people riding bikes and the like, they still have masks, and even though it does seem to be kind of under control here, apart from the fa ct under control here, apart from the fact that you kind of have to have a mask, i have mine in my pocket, to get into the shop or most buildings, there is still concerned that it is not over, although you can feel the stea m not over, although you can feel the steam coming out of it. The who does not want there to be complacency. Perhaps more concerning the i worried that the coronavirus is going everywhere in asia, everywhere means everywhere, every country should prepare, including paul Pacific Island countries which at the moment do not even have the capacity to do their own testing, so they will test people and send the tests off to another country and they have to come back again. You can imagine how long that will take and sue other countries are at the moment rallying to assist those countries. You can imagine papa new guinea or Something Like that, coronavirus going through a country like that could be very tough on them. Either way, the message is pretty clear to this place to not sort of bring their guard down. People still should be very worried and that is partly because we have had people coming in from overseas, mostly chinese citizens, 90 of them returning to china because they think it is safe to be here. Some of them have boarded planes with symptoms knowing they were sick and taken drugs to try to suppress their fever. They arrive in the country and they test positive. That is why we still have very strong quarantine measures here. It is why although they are opening up wuhan next week, who the province, from anywhere you have to do quarantine. Foreigners com pletely have to do quarantine. Foreigners completely banned from coming into china for the moment except for diplomats and those with special reasons to come in here. Flights have been drastically reduced. Airlines can basically fly one service from a country into china a week, and so you can imagine how much that has reduced the air travel coming in and out of this country, because this is a key source of infection. If someone has infected the get on a plane the infect eve ryo ne the get on a plane the infect everyone on the plane and going through an airport they can potentially infect everyone in an airport. That has been the focus here in terms of trying to make sure thatis here in terms of trying to make sure that is not another explosion in this in china. Thank you, stephen, in beijing. The headlines on bbc news. Police officers across the uk are told to take a consistent approach when using their new Emergency Powers on restricting our movements. British airways temporarily suspends all flights to and from Gatwick Airport due to the virus as hundreds of stranded brits still struggle to make their way back home. And italy extends its lockdown until easter but there is some hope as the country reports a sharp decline in the number of infections. As the country faces potentially months of lockdown, many of you have been getting in touch with me to say you feel you are being forced to go to work even though you believe its unsafe. Warehouse workers atjd sports have complained of having to work in what they say are hazardous conditions, Holland Barrett workers have started a petition to close their stores, saying the company isnt providing enough hand wash or protective gear, and one boohoo member of staff says they fear the online clothes store wont close until someone dies. Lets talk to simon not his real name he asked us not to use his real name to protect hisjob. Hes in rochdale. He works in the dispatch department atjds warehouse in the town. And to tony clare, from the Shopworkers Union usdaw. You have been told to take either unpaid leave are going to work. How do you feel about that choice . Unpaid leave are going to work. How do you feel about that choice7m unpaid leave are going to work. How do you feel about that choice . It is u nsafe do you feel about that choice . It is unsafe and it is just not acceptable. We are going to work in fear, we are worried about our families, we are worried about letting the nhs down as well because the government is saying stay at home, help the nhs, save lives. We are going in warehouses like this like td and Sports Direct and we are letting everybody down. We are really worried and concerned. How would you describe what it is like unloading goods from the lorries and on the production line . On the production line you are virtually side by side, so social distancing is nonexistent. In some areas you can control it. You can unload or load a lorry on your own, but in certain areas in the department you just cannot do that. What about hand sanitiser . Is that being provided or any masks . No masks. We are bringing our own end. The hand sanitiser we get it to a degree. Sometimes we are going to wash your hands in cold water on the toilet and a hand sanitiser is are asking them to be refilled. The finger clock areas should be shut down. You should do it in should be shut down. You should do itina should be shut down. You should do it in a different way to sign in and out. Are you worried about catching coronavirus . In the workplace, yes. Ifi coronavirus . In the workplace, yes. If i was at home self isolating with my family, we can control it better and do the government guidelines better, and going into work four days a week and then i am off again, i could ha