This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. From today, people arriving in the uk from dozens of countries will no longer have to self isolate for two weeks. Outdoor shows, team cricket, beauty treatments and tattoos are all coming back in england over the next few days. Northern ireland is becoming the first of the uks nations to allow gyms to reopen today. In scotland people must now cover their faces when they go into shops. In hong kong all schools are closing again after a spike in coronavirus cases. Mexicos brutal drug gangs turn to handing out aid during the pandemic they say theyre filling a void. The bbc gets exclusive access to the Sinaloa Cartel. And on the 80th
anniversary of the start of the battle of britain the story of the 13 Year Old Girl who helped design the spitfire so crucial to the allies victory hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. I may need i am a need travellers arriving in the uk from dozens of countries no longer have to self isolate for two weeks from today. Restrictions have been lifted for arrivals from 59 countries, including spain, france, italy and germany, as well as 14British Overseas Territories. But passengers who arrived in the past two weeks still have to see out their 14 day self isolation period. Arrivals from spain will still have to self isolate in scotland however, as the country has said it will continue to quarantine travellers from countries that have a higher prevalence of coronavirus than it does. Uk Foreign Office advises against taking a cruise holiday remains in place. Spains tourist industry is keen to say hola to british holiday makers as soon as possible. Paul is heading there tomorrow. Now we dont have to quarantine coming back in, its a big help, knowing that we can just go out there, we can stay in the hotel, obviously taking all the precautions social distancing and masks and everything, hand sanitiser and everything. The hotel seems to have it mostly under control. More of us are more likely to venture abroad now that the uks travel quarantine has been relaxed, but its not straightforward. Take europe. Travellers arriving into the uk from most travellers arriving into the uk from m ost pla ces travellers arriving into the uk from most places now dont have to self isolate for two weeks. But some of these countries have restrictions when british people go there. Those travelling from anywhere else, including controversially portugal, do still have to follow the quarantine rules. And people arriving into scotland from spain will as well. Lizs package holiday to croatia tomorrow is still booked, but her flight has been cancelled. From what i understand, although some countries have opened up to tourists, a lot of flights arent currently running. So although the accommodation is available for tourists, there are no flights to get there, and i think thats where the confusion is. Airports will become a bit busier again in the coming weeks. They and the airlines which use them are desperate to get paying passengers through their doors and into the air. But the return of International Travel wont be plain sailing. The uk Foreign Office is advising all britons not to travel on cruise ships at the moment instructions which it says are based on advice from Public Health england. John mcmanus, bbc news. Earlier, i spoke to our Business Correspondent katy austin, who was at gatwick airport. One thing you will notice immediately, i am wearing a mask. Thats because the requirement here is everybody wears a Face Covering around the airport. In terms of it being quiet, you are quite right. Injune, for example, there were only 17,000 passengers who departed from gatwick, that compares to 2. 2 million injune last year, the drop off during the pandemic, the travel restrictions, has been really quite severe and now, things might start ramping up at something near normal. Things are a bit different, when you arrive, theres lots of hand sanitising stations,
signs telling you to maintain social distancing, markings along the floor in some bag drop areas, keeping people apart. And when you go to security, the process is the same, youve got to wear the mask, that will stay on during a flight. Some flights are already taking off from gatwick, easyjet is running flights from the level beneath us, its a bit quieter up here where norwegian is running flights, tui doesnt start until tomorrow. Even quieter in the departure hall, just along. Through departures, there arent many restaurants and cafes open, the departure lounge experience still feels quite different. Ive got passengers here taking flights today. Good morning, just introduce yourself. My name is metin. You are off to turkey, is that correct . Yes, for a working holiday. You are going for work and pleasure as well but how are you feeling about travelling . Fairly confident, you know, ive waited quite a long time before i went out. Everything was coming down, slowing down. Im quite confident. Turkey is one of the countries on the list, a lower risk country, so you felt happy . Yeah, yeah, ive been following it for the last couple of weeks before i bought my ticket, death rates 15 a day, the infection rates are very low. But mainly, in turkey, i am not going to a major city. I am quite confident. Of course, now you wont have to self isolate. Yes, exactly, wonderful. Thank you for your time. Weve got stephen, stephen, good morning. Where are you off to . Denmark to visit my partner. And also for work as well. Im quite happy about travelling. Denmark was one of the first countries to take drastic action. Lockdown. Everything over there, its back to normal. Death rates under 500. I was quite pleased to go over. Spend time with my partner and family. Obviously, you are looking forward to not having to isolate when you get back. Exactly. My partner was planning to come back with me. We would have to self isolate for 14 days. I am pretty happy about not having to do that. It just feels really weird. The airport being this quiet. Whole new experince, isnt it . Whole new experience. You must have flown out to denmark quite a bit. What is it like normally . Totally packed, heaving, its quite surreal. I am thinking, when will things get back to normal . It is the big question we need to ask ourselves. Thank you so much for your time, have a safe flight. Not every country on the world is on the low risk list, some you will have
to still self isolate, the usa. Check the details before you fly and check the requirements in the country youre travelling to, as well. We can speak now to David Nabarro special envoy of the World Health Organisation director general on covid i9 very good to have it with us to talk through the latest developments. U nfortu nately, pretty through the latest developments. Unfortunately, pretty grim news from your director general in his latest assessment of how cases are emerging, new cases, and the number of cases being recorded right around the world. Take us through those numbers . The first thing to say is the testing that is available throughout the world probably only picks up a proportion of those who have actually got the virus. Especially as now the spread is fastest in poorer countries. But overall, we see a real acceleration in the number of cases. And with
that acceleration, we are seeing real challenges in poorer nations. We are also seeing an acceleration in parts of the united states. And in western europe, and in central europe, we are seeing obviously, the return of the virus, especially as movement restarts. And the big challenge is to make certain that as the virus comes back, that the authorities were able to get on top of outbreaks really quickly so that there is not a need to go back into lockdown and other similar privations. That acceleration, if i may, that you are talking about and the numbers you are talking about, thats not all being picked up via testing, is it . There are other cases emerging, can you give us any sense of what we are getting through direct testing and how many other cases there might be out there, based on what we have learned from
the past few months, that we might not actually know anything about yet . Its quite difficult to work out exactly what is happening when you dont have testing. You have to use other indicators like whether or not hospitals are filling up with people needing care. Whether or not there are reports of unusual numbers of people dying. The current view is that really, we are underestimating significantly, i hate to put a percentage on it, the other thing i wa nt to percentage on it, the other thing i want to stress is the right at which the numbers are increasing isjust exhilarating. And so, we seem to be getting a million cases appearing in kind of a few days, seven or eight days now, where as before, it was much, much longer. So that is telling us the spread is picking up and when we have that kind of situation, we have to keep reminding everybody, just take this seriously. Do not behave as though it has somehow gone do not behave as though it has somehow gone away do not behave as though it has somehow gone away and build into your lives, as much as you can, the actions that you need to do to reduce risk to yourself and to others. Dont get bored of it. Because if you do, it will come and it will cause awful problems to you and those near you. Stay on guard, like we heard from the travellers that you were interviewing just now, ifi that you were interviewing just now, if i can help to get that message across, i feel if i can help to get that message across, ifeel im really doing if i can help to get that message across, i feel im really doing what i ought to be doing as an envoy at the moment, to remind people that its not gone away and we have to learn to live with it as a constant threat in our lives for the foreseeable future. With the spread currently picking up and as travel quarantines are eased in a number of countries, how concerned are you that there is an opportunity there for the virus to spread . Well,
thats the reality, you see. There is an opportunity for the virus to spread. As we restart our economic and social lives. But none of us in the World Health Organization ever wa nt to the World Health Organization ever want to stop economies and to stop people being able to see their partners, like the gentleman you interview just now. Partners, like the gentleman you interviewjust now. Instead, what we are saying is, make sure the basic defences are in place and make sure people know what theyve got to do to prevent themselves from being infected. Obviously, we are having to update the guidance of the time because there is science but at the heart of it, is every country having the ability to detect people with the ability to detect people with the disease quickly and to isolate them, and to find their contacts and isolate them. Now, as travel restarts, there will be risks of new spikes, lets just accept thats the
reality we have to cope with. And if we feel ill after doing a journey, just make absolutely certain we isolate ourselves, thats the key actions that we have to remember to do. Picking up on your point about updating guidance. Earlier this week was a letter from around 200 scientists to the World Health Organization accusing the organisation of underestimating the possibility of airborne transmission of covid i9. Possibility of airborne transmission of covid 19. Can you spell out for us of covid 19. Can you spell out for us today what the position of the organisation is on that . Thank you very much. When i cough, droplets come out of my mouth. Usually, these droplets fall to the ground or onto a surface, or if im using a handkerchief, perhaps im catching them in my handkerchief but they travel about a metre and perhaps a little bit more. So that means that somebody who is more than two metres away from me is not going to be affected by those droplets. At the
same time, there are much smaller particles that come out, what are called nanoparticles, or aerosols. Those travel further than the i 2 metres, they can be picked up and often travel four or five metres. Thats called airborne transmission. Theres always been an anxiety that although the majority of transmission is through these quite big droplets, just occasionally, airborne transmission occurs. And that leads to people getting sick, even beyond the two metres. We have two or three examples including people singing enquires, which make us people singing enquires, which make us believe that you are more likely to get this when people really are singing or shouting loudly, alternatively, when they are in very confined areas. Are we still talking about largely indoor settings here, rather than outside . Yes, absolutely. These scientists,
because they were particularly concerned about this issue, wrote and said, are you giving enough importance to aerosol or airborne transmission and the answer is weve a lwa ys transmission and the answer is weve always been concerned that this might bea always been concerned that this might be a factor and the question is, how important is it and i dont think anybody knows but we have said very clearly we need more research and we are encouraging more research to a nswer and we are encouraging more research to answer that question. Given that, could that change the perceived wisdom, the current advice in various countries about how close we should get to one another . various countries about how close we should get to one another . I think what it means is we have to Pay Attention to the physical distance and, even more carefully but in confined areas, ventilation is also important. And in confined areas, we need to be doubly careful if it looks as though somebody is ill but i dont think it means and overall, radical change to the guidance, it
just means being super respectful of this insisting issue and ventilation. Distancing issue. Should that be a concern to people getting back on aeroplanes today, tomorrow, or in the next few days . One good thing about aeroplanes, the ventilation system includes really powerful filters which ventilation system includes really powerfulfilters which in ventilation system includes really powerful filters which in our view, means that they are relatively safer. There have been questions about other forms of transport and so, we about other forms of transport and so, we are about other forms of transport and so, we are continuing to work closely with everybody involved in different transport settings to try to make certain that we share our concerns with them and they share their anxieties with us. In general, i would like to ask everybodyjust to respect the physical distancing norms but to beat perhaps particularly careful in confined settings, especially when there is singing or shouting. And that may be
karaoke bars, and quark practices and so on, still needing special attention. Just in summary, i was struck by something you said if you minutes ago, dont get bored with it. Its hard, isnt it, it is a long slog for us all, and familiarity can sometimes, that phrase, breeds contempt but it can also perhaps breed a sense of you know, weve been ok so far, we will be ok, touching that, not washing our hands, etc. You are saying very clearly, keep up with those basic hygiene regimes. Hygiene, physical distancing, mask wearing which, as you may know, i have been a particular advocate of, keeping out of the way when you are sick. Yes, i ee, of the way when you are sick. Yes, i agree, it gets dull. I was listening to the gentle man saying i want to
get back to normal but its not going to be normal as we knew it a year ago, or even seven or eight months ago, it is going to be different, until weve all worked out how to deal with the spread. It will take us a bit of time to make sense of it but thats what weve got to do. Thank you very much for your time this morning. Thank you very much. Hong kongs bureau of education has announced that all schools will be closed from monday because of a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases. The city reported 42 new cases on thursday, of which 3a were locally transmitted, marking the second consecutive day of rising local infections. From the outset, hong kong has been praised for its success in managing the virus recording only 1,365 cases and seven deaths in total despite its close proximity to mainland china. Our reporter in hong kong, martin yip, gave me this update. Well, theres plenty of reasons from the hillside to close it, like we just mentioned, there is a spike that came out yesterday, 42 cases in one single day and there are two clusters being identified locally, without knowing the actual hand of transmission. Of where these clusters came from. At the same time, these cases also involve pa rents time, these cases also involve parents and students or even teachers, thats why people are getting quite panicked at the education centre, now the Education Bureau has decided to close the schools. This is not an exact shutdown right away, i willjust read you more details of the order from the Education Bureau, they are giving quite some leeway to many aspects including schools, primary
schools, holding the primary five examinations. Why is it important . To let these exams continue . Because they need these marks from these exams to determine the students entrance for secondary school. And also, make cut classes for Senior Secondary School students, would also be given some leeway, they might continue if they cant manage it safely. So this is a bit of a chaotic situation here as well, but it seems the government knowing people are panicked, they have to do something to make people think they are actually acting on it, to be seen as are actually acting on it, to be seen as trying to control this, possibly, third round of outbreaks in hong kong and thats why there are School Closures now. The uk government has announced the latest easing
of lockdown restrictions in england, with some Leisure Facilities and Beauty Services allowed to reopen. From tomorrow, outdoor Swimming Pools can reopen, and performances can take place in outdoor theatres, while some sports, such as cricket, will also return. From monday, customers can return to beauticians, tattooists, spas and tanning salons but they will be subject to some restrictions. And on the 25th ofjuly, indoor pools, gyms and othe