This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Borisjohnson and Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a healthy baby boy. The Prime Minister is not expected at pmqs later. Millions more people in the uk will be able to get tested for coronavirus from today including all staff and residents of care homes. If they go to gov. Uk, they can find out how to get a test. There are a number of ways, including having a test sent to your home, where you can get a test. Spains Prime Minister predicts a recession on an extraordinary scale following the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak in the United States has now killed more americans than the vietnam war over 58,000 have died. In the uk, patients with suspected cancer symptoms are being urged to contact their gp after a 70 drop in referrals since the pandemic was declared. And the bollywood actor irrfan khan, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, has died at the age of 53. The uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a healthy baby boy. Lets talk straightaway to norman, oui lets talk straightaway to norman, our assistant Political Editor. We
knew she was pregnant but we did not know the due date was this early. We we re know the due date was this early. We were told it was early summer. It has come a little early, a premature baby. We are told mother and baby are doing well. A baby boy was born ina are doing well. A baby boy was born in a London Hospital earlier this morning. Not much more is known. You had to say, what a tumultuous few weeks in the life of thejohnson household. Very obviously, Boris Johnson having a very near death experience with coronavirus and now the birth of a baby boy. Cynical hacks like me were assuming he would not be taking part in pmqs because his health was not up to it. There isa his health was not up to it. There is a much happier and better reason for not taking part. He has much more important things to focus on. Will he be taking any paternity leave 7 will he be taking any paternity leave . Will he take some time back
from politics . Iwould leave . Will he take some time back from politics . I would doubt it given the gravity of the crisis we are in. I would suspect any respite from having to deal with coronavirus would be limited because of the intensity of the situation we are now in. When we first learned about barry simon being pregnant, he did not say if he would take paternity leave. Carrie symonds. It is a change from a lot of the grim news we have to report when covering coronavirus. We are hearing that the Prime Minister and Carrie Symonds have thanked the fantastic nhs Maternity Team that helped to deliver their little baby boy. Carrie symonds herself had coronavirus symptoms not very long ago. No wonder it was a stressful period for her. Hugely, hugely
worrying. When you are pregnant, the uncertainty and fear compounded and compounded again by the fact your partner was pretty much at deaths door but was clawed back. Just an extraordinarily emotional roller coaster, which fortunately seems to have ended well and, as i say, with the daily grind of difficult and harrowing news over coronavirus, i think everyone will be delighted that both have come through this and they had both got a baby boy. More reaction coming in. Norman, for the moment, thank you very much. The Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds had announced the birth of a healthy baby boy. 0bviously mr johnson will not be appearing at pmqs this lunchtime. Carrie symonds and mrjohnson had thanked the
fantastic nhs Maternity Team who helped to deliver their little baby. As norman by saying, potentially the baby born a little early. We were told the baby was too early summer. More details we will bring you as soon as more details we will bring you as soon as we more details we will bring you as soon as we have them. Congratulations to borisjohnson and Carrie Symonds on the birth of their baby boy. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in the uk and globally. Im victoria derbyshire. Uk ministers say millions more people will now be eligible for coronavirus testing, including all care home staff and residents, and anyone over 65. The British Government says the 100,000 target set by the Health Secretary is due to be met by tomorrow. A recession on an extraordinary scale is predicted by spains Prime Minister following the outbreak. Over 58,000 us citizens have now died from covid i9. Thats more than the number of americans killed in the vietnam war. Almost 18,000 more people could die from cancer over the next year in england
because of the impact of covid i9, according to researchers. Well have more on that later. 0urfirst report is from charlotte rose. With just one day left to reach the government target of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day in england, it is clear there is still some way to go. The Health Secretary has repeatedly said the government will hit the milestone by the end of april. Yesterday, the number of people tested in the previous 2a hours was 113,453. In order to more than double the number of daily tests, the government is increasing the capacity for testing and expanding the criteria for who can be tested. It will now include people over 65 with symptoms and any workers who cannot work from home and anyone in a household that has
symptoms any nhs worker and resident or staff in care homes regardless of whether they have symptoms or not. It will be done by a combination of existing drive through centres, mobile testing units run by the army and home testing kits. Tens of thousands of care home staff have been to drive in centres. We call this a satellite model where a bunch of swabs are delivered, administered by the staff and sent back in a bunch. There has been criticism as to why testing in care homes was not available sooner. We have been working with them on protocols to prevent the virus getting into care home settings. In the nhs you have people dealing day in and day out with people who actually have the symptoms and in some cases advanced symptoms of the virus. You have to make sure is a First Priority that they have the protection they need. Liz kemp did not feature in daily death figures. She died in a care home. Her family say the staff did all they could in herfinal days but they had been unable to stop the virus reaching her. I hope that ministers do recognise the wonderful work that has gone on and goes on up and down the country in Nursing Homes just like where liz was. They are doing a job equal to anyone in the National Health service. Liz was one of more than 4,000 who have died since it but have not so far been recorded in the official daily figures. They show there were another 586 deaths from covid 19, bringing the total to 21,678. From today all care home deaths will be included in that figure. With the added deaths, the uk could be on course
to have the highest death total in europe. Whilst the peak of the virus in hospitals may have passed, the country is still a long way from recovery. Earlier i spoke to our science correspondent pallab ghosh who explained more about who now qualifies to apply for one of those tests. As we heard in charlottes report, the testing has been expanded to all health care and social care staff. Previously it was only available to those and their families who showed any symptoms. It will now be extended to anyone, whether they show symptoms or not. It has also been extended to the over 65s with symptoms and also people who have to go to work for their professions, like emergency plumbers and construction workers and so forth. It is a great increase in the number of people eligible. That follows an increase last week and i suspect it has got something
to do with that target of 100,000 actual tests, rather than capacity. At the moment the capacity is said to be 73,000, yesterday, and only 43,000 people to cut out. Took that up. Come hell or high water, it seems matt hancock is determined to reach his target. 0bviously increased testing will protect some of the most vulnerable as well. Also the testing is key to potential modification of the lockdown restrictions, isnt it . That is right. This week is all about reaching the target. If we are going to get out of lockdown before a vaccine is developed, testing is going to be absolutely vital. Forget 100,000 a day, you are going to need an extra zero an extra zero on that, so this is part of an effort to ramp up testing even more. And so the model will be that if we are allowed to go out to work
and to the shops and so forth, rather than controlling it by staying indoors, what the plan will be is to test anyone that starts to show any symptoms and track all the people they have been in contact with, either with an app or physical Contact Tracing and isolate all those people who have to stay in lockdown for 1h days or so. That will be one route back to normality but clearly there is a lot we still do not know about the virus before some of these measures can begin to be eased. The breaking news from about 20 minutes ago is that the british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson minutes ago is that the british Prime Minister borisjohnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have had a baby boy this morning. Here are some recent pictures of the pair. This morning a baby boy was born in hospital in london. Borisjohnson had onlyjust hospital in london. Borisjohnson had only just returned hospital in london. Borisjohnson had onlyjust returned to work after recovering from coronavirus. He
spent several days in intensive care. Carrie symonds has given birth toa care. Carrie symonds has given birth to a healthy baby boy, according to their spokesman. The leader of the labour party, mr keir starmer, has just tweeted his congratulations. Wonderful news, he says. Congratulations. Keir starmer will be at pmqs this lunchtime and Boris Johnson will not. Carrie symonds and borisjohnson has said thank you very much to the fantastic nhs Maternity Team that helped to deliver the boy. We did not know that Carrie Symonds was due to have her baby on whatever day is today, towards the end of april. Congratulations to them both. A baby boy born this morning at a hospital in london. The spanish Prime Ministerpedro sanchez has warned that the country faces a recession on an extraordinary scale, amidst forcecasts that unemployment there could nearly double this year. Spain has had more than 210,000 cases confirmed, and one of the strictest lockdowns in europe, which the government says it now plans to emerge from. 0ur europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas has more. In spain, the daily tally of the dead may be falling, but the lines of the hungry are lengthening. Queueing for hand outs to fill empty stomachs. A new wave of suffering brought by the virus is gathering force. Norma, a cleaner, has lost all of her work. 300 euros a month is what shes left with. The poorest being hit hardest. Translation the people whose house i was
working at told me, dont come any more until this is finished. now i dont know if i can even afford to pay my rent. The little work she gets she shares with her brother. His work distributing flyers to homes has dried up and there are four in his household to feed. Even in the worst of spains economic crisis, those on the margins could find odd jobs not now. Assistance from others is all thats left. Translation every day we pray for help for the nations volunteers and thanks to god were getting them. It is a miracle. A miracle is what many of spains businesses need too. The plan is they will start reopening next month but customer numbers must be limited. Cafes can only serve outdoors. Businesses, shuttered for weeks, may struggle to survive. Pacos come back to find the bills piling up,
more than he thinks hes able to pay. If his restaurant fails, the five staff hes kept on will be jobless too. Translation even when we open, i dont believe people will go out like before theyll be scared. Nobody knows what is going to happen. Were all scared. Those fears are felt right across spain, even in the smallest places. This bullring should be full now. This was it exactly a year ago. The annual fiesta, people crowded in from far and wide. Now, nobody. These events help sustain economies in towns like this but how to restart them . Events will be the last thing to reopen just 400 spectators allowed, all spaced apart. Translation its a day when, in a small village like this, many thousands come. Restaurants, hotels, shops everyone will feel the impact. Its sad. Spains Health Emergency may be waning but an economic one isjust beginning to bite. Damien grammaticas, bbc news. The bbcs been speaking to the Spanish Foreign minister, Arancha Gonzalez laya. This is her take on how confident she was that easing the lockdown in spain would work. It is not about confidence, it is about walking their dog. We are gradually easing the lockdown measures and not be driven by dates. Be driven by milestones, within which the solidity of the health ca re system which the solidity of the Health Care System to absorb new places will be fundamental. All regions in spain will start at the same time at all well and at the same time. We will put all our energy, government,
citizens are showing extraordinary ability to. And resilience to respond to the challenge. And then, you know, with a lot of endurance and a lot of determination, we will get there. The impact of the lockdown due to temper macro will be significant. It is notjust as in spain that will suffer. Due to covid. We want all members of the eu to come out of this crisis and a stronger manner. What is crucial now isa stronger manner. What is crucial now is a robust recovery plan, a robust recovery fu nd is a robust recovery plan, a robust Recovery Fund to help all European Countries face a challenge that this crisis is posing on our economies
and ourjob crisis is posing on our economies and our job market. Crisis is posing on our economies and ourjob market. Lets bring you the headlines. The uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a healthy baby boy. Mrjohnson is not expected at pmqs later. Millions more people in the uk will be able to get tested for coronavirus from today including all staff and residents of care homes. Spains Prime Minister predicts a recession on an extraordinary scale following the pandemic , which has now killed almost 25 thousand people in the country. The coronavirus outbreak in the United States has killed more americans than the vietnam war, according to the latest figures. More than 58,000 people have died. The total number of cases in the us has passed one million. And theres more bad news expected on the economic front later. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes reports. Two grim milestones highlighting the devastating impact of covid 19 on the United States. More than one million cases and over 58,000 People Killed by the virus, which surpasses the number of americans who died over nearly two decades in vietnam. And the outbreak is far from over. One of the white houses senior medical advisers has warned that covid 19 could re emerge later in the year. Its not going to disappear from the planet. Which means as we get into next season in my mind its inevitable that we will have a return of the virus or maybe it had never even went away. Applause at a meeting with Small Business owners, echoing comments made in february, President Trump said he was optimistic the number of cases would ultimately go down to zero. You never know about a vaccine. But tremendous progress has been made. Johnson johnson and oxford and lots of good things that youve been hearing the same things as i do. Tremendous progress has been made
we think on a vaccine. You always have to say think, and then have to test it, and that takes a period of time. In the meantime, much of the country is still at a standstill, with stay at home orders enforced until at least the middle of may. 26 million americans have lost theirjobs during the pandemic. The Us Commerce Department is expected to report later that Gross Domestic Product suffered a steep drop in the First Quarter of the year, with the economy shrinking by up to 4 . It will be the biggest decline in Economic Activity since the Great Recession over a decade ago. And theres much worse to come over the coming months, since the virus didnt begin to impact the us economy until late march. But President Trump remains o