emergency rescue scheme. been announced by the health secretary. the government says it wants it's time to do your to carry out 100,000 tests a day bit. the health secretary urges by the end of the month compared premier league footballers to the current level to take a pay of 10,000 tests a day. cut to help out there was more clapping for during the carers and key workers yesterday coronavirus pandemic. evening, who are keeping the country running plus, in weather, a bit chilly out throughout the crisis. there this morning, frost we'll hear your tributes to for some, them. but by sunday, we could see we'll get reaction to all of that from the health secretary, temperatures as high as 21. i'll matt hancock, at have your full forecast in 07.25. first, our correspondent half—an—hour. it's friday, april the danjohnson has the latest. 3rd. our top story: cheering, applause plans to significantly increase and car horns sound. coronavirus testing in england have someone once said the nhs been announced by the health secretary. is the closest thing we have the government says it wants to carry out 100,000 tests to our own religion. a day by the end of the month, if so, this is our compared to the current level new of 10,000 tests regular act of worship. a day. up and down the land, thanks there was more clapping and praise for carers of all kinds, for carers and key workers yesterday evening, who are keeping the country and the key workers running throughout the crisis. we'll hear your tributes keeping the country on its to them. we'll get reaction to all feet. even the poorly prime minister of that briefly emerged from isolation from the health to applaud the workers his secretary, matt hancock, at 7:25am. government is accused of failing first, danjohnson has to properly protect with enough the latest. equipment or available tests. applause someone ok, thanks, nhs! thank you, thank you! once said thanks, all. the nhs how could this drive—through centre stand empty yesterday when doctors is the closest thing we have two and nurses want to know if they can our own religion. get back to work? if so, this is our new regular act and we're all wondering just how of worship. widespread the virus really is. up of worship. up and down the land, thanks and it's a trial, the government praise for carers of all says, which will soon be fully operational. kinds, and we want more testing. the key workers are keeping the country on its of course i understand why people want the certainty that feet. even the you get from having a pally prime minister briefly emerged from test, so we're ramping up isolation to applaud the workers his government is accused of testing. we've hit the goal of failing to having 10,000 properly protect with enough tests a day by the end equipment or available of march, tests. and today i've set the goal thanks, nhs! of 100,000 tests a day thank you! by the end of how could this drive—through centre this month. stand empty yesterday when doctors note the language — and nurses want to know if it's a goal, not a target. they can the government admits our testing get back to work? and we're lags behind some other countries, all wondering just how the virus really so the plan now is to build up capacity by involving more companies is. its a trial, the and university government says, which will soon be fully operational. we wa nt labs. operational. here, nhs staff queued to find out we want more testing. of if they're safe to go course i back to the understand why people want the certainty that you get from having front line. this is horrible, i can a test, so we're ramping only apologise for it. this is the antigen test, up testing. we've hit the goal of having 10,000 showing whether you currently have the virus and tests a day by the end of may spread it. march, and today i've set a goal then this is an antibody test, which shows if you've had it, of 100,000 tests a day by the end maybe without realising, of this and could now have immunity. month. note the language, it's a goal, not the government ordered millions of these, and wants millions more, a target. the government but their reliability isn't admits our guaranteed, and a bad test is deemed worse than testing lags behind some other countries, so the plan now is to no test. build up capacity by involving more this is definitely a step in the right direction. companies and university experts welcome the increase, but say more is still needed. labs. here, nhs staff queued to find out testing is not a magic bullet that if they're here, nhs staff queued to find out if they‘ re safe to here, nhs staff queued to find out if they're safe to go back to the will kill the epidemic. frontline. it's got to be seen as part this is horrible, i can only apologise for it. of a multifaceted strategy. this is the antigen test, showing and currently, there's a lot where the you currently have the of focus on testing for the purpose virus and may of helping health workers get back into the nhs, helping spread it. with population surveillance, and this is an antibody test, which but what's missing is the third shows if you've had it, maybe aspect of testing, which is its use without realising, and could now to try and minimise and stop have immunity. the community government transmission. ordered millions of these and ordered millions of these and ordered millions of these and there were another 569 ordered millions more, but reliability isn't guaranteed and a deaths across the uk, bad test is deemed worse than no which means the total is now test. this is definitely a step in close to 3,000. the right direction. as more people suffer, experts welcomed the increase here's the extra capacity — but london's nightingale hospital, say more is needed. ready to open after being fitted this is not a out in just nine magic bullet that will days. kill the epidemic, it's got to be there are 500 beds here seen as with 3,500 more to follow, kill the epidemic, it's got to be seen as part of a multifaceted strategy. there's a lot to be said a hint of how much worse for testing to get things might get. help workers back dan johnson, bbc in the nhs, helping with news. let's speak now to our political populations, but what's missing is correspondent, jonathan blake, the third aspect of who joins us testing, which is used to try to minimise from westminster. and to good morning to you, jonathan. stop community transmission. there was a real contrast, i'm looking at there were another 569 the front pages seeing the headlines deaths across the uk, which means the this morning, a number to be spoken total is now about rather than yesterday when referring to the government press close to 3000. as more conferences, there were just people suffer, here's the extra questions which were not answered. it's a very different feel to that capacity — london's nightingale hospital, ready news co nfe re nce it's a very different feel to that news conference in downing street to open after being fitted out in yesterday with matt hancock the just nine days. there health secretary out of isolation having recovered from the are 500 beds coronavirus himself. and after here with 3500 more to follow, a days, as you say, of unanswered questions hint of how much worse about how the government things might get. dan johnson, bbc is approaching testing for covid—19, he hint of how much worse things might get. danjohnson, bbc news. dan johnson, bbc news. came up with this let's speak now to our political correspondent, 100,000 test per jonathan blake, who joins us from westminster. day target which the government aims that was a stark change yesterday, to meet by the end that press conference, compared of april. it is a to big ask, though, because we are previous days, and a lot more currently, as you heard in information, but how clear was that it? report, testing 10,000 people per the target is clear, as you saw day, so there is a lot of ground to in the report, of 100,000 tests make up and there isn't that much detail on exactly how the government per day by the end of april and that's what is going to do it. it the health secretary is saying, and seems, broadly it is what the government speaking, it will expand what is will be done already, the testing judged on now. we of nhs had a lot of patients, who are sick with coronavirus or suspected to be, numbers to get our heads around and nhs staff, so they can get back to in the last few days, there's been 10,000 tests, the target by the work if they have symptoms but don't necessarily have the virus, but end of march, that's been met, then the much bigger question, when and if 25,000 by mid april, which became that test to see if people have already had the virus and are now late april, now this 100,000 immune to it will tests a day target by the end come into play. of the month. indeed, jonathan, we will talk to at the moment, to the health secretary at 7:25am, give you an idea, and looking at that and other we are testing around 10,000 people per day, so that gives you an issues, as well. questions in if you idea of how much that want them to, keep them coming in. we will number needs to pass those through. increase. how it will thank you. the new nhs nightingale be done is hospital in london is set less detailed from the government, to officially open today. staff will begin moving into the temporary intensive but it seems broadly by care unit this morning, the with the first patients expected expansion of the tests already, to to arrive next week. let's join our correspondent angus crawford, who's nhs patients in hospital and staff, at the hospitalfor to tell them whether they have the us now. virus and angus, we have watched with interest allow them as it's grown, now complete and the to return staff are in today, is to work if they that right? well, we will also have a royal don't and continue opening from self isolating if they do. lockdown, and there no date for the other test those... prince charles, who's had the that tells people illness at its home in scotland, if they've had will broadcast to staff here, a the virus and tribute from a large screen outside later today and pay tribute to the are work of the civilian contractors, immune to the military and everyone else it and who has transformed this building. he can return will pay tribute to those across the country on the front line of the to work. nhs, helping to take the that's one thing we battle to need to have covid—19 but, yes, this is an more information extraordinary building and an extraordinary building and an extraordinary achievement and you two more field hospitals can tell that story in the are to be built in bristol numbers. 100,000 square metres, you could fit the whole of terminal five at and harrogate to cope with an expected surge in coronavirus cases. it'll create capacity for 1,500 patients. it follows the opening heathrow airport into this area. we of the new nightingale hospital in london, which will will start with 42 beds in a provide 4,000 beds. the first patients are expected ward, and there could be up to to arrive next week. there are now more than a million 80 awards, 500 beds to start with, possibly cases of coronavirus ramping up if it's registered around the world. needed up to the united states recorded 1,169 deaths in the past 2a hours, the biggest single day tally of any nation. 4000. but i suppose americans are now being encouraged to wear face masks this mustn't in public at all times, detract from the reality of the to help stop the spread of the virus. medical situation in front of their let's speak now to our north america correspondent, peter bowes, man so staff now, medical staff, who joins us must prepare themselves for the potential wave of cases to come into from los angeles. the hospital in the weeks peter, give us a sense of to come. angus, thank you very much. the picture in the americans are being encouraged united states this to wearface masks in public — morning. to help stop the spread of the virus. 6000 people have died in this the united states recorded 1,169 deaths in the past 24 hours — country, and those numbers continue the biggest single day tally to spike in of any nation. the major cities. more than a million people around new york city is still the the world are now registered to have coronavirus. epicentre here and a lot of nearly 53,000 people have died people are talking of the disease since it was first about the use of facemasks or reported in central china some sort of face where to three months ago. our global perhaps protect them from catching the health correspondent virus, and this is something the white house is looking at, tulip mazumdar considering guidelines to be released in the next few days. reports. president trump said he a milestone. that nobody doesn't want it to be mandatory for people wanted to reach. it's believed using some sort of protection on their the outbreak faces, and one of his started here at a wholesale seafood chief scientific advisers says she market in wuhan in china at the end is of last year. by concerned people will feel a false sense of protection if they're early january, the wearing a facemask because country confirmed it had identified they could still be infected, it might be a new coronavirus, and cases there a virus on their hands and started to soar. it didn't take they will touch their faces and their eyes, long for covid—19 as it was later named something not covered by a facemask, to then spread all around s0 the world. something not covered by a facemask, so there's a certain amount of it took more than two months caution about encouraging people to from use those kinds of protective the first reported case in china for measures. but a couple the first reported case in china for the number of infections to of major reach cities, los angeles and new york, 100,000. then, just two public officials there have advised weeks later, cases doubled to 200,000. now, people living there to wear protection on their faces. in the last week alone, the number of peter, thank you very infections have jumped from the last week alone, the number of infections havejumped from half the last week alone, the number of infections have jumped from half a much. million last friday to more than 1 the scheme offering government—backed loans to companies million last friday to more than 1 struggling during the pandemic million now. 10 million is is being expanded, and some of its rules relaxed. obviously the chancellor, rishi sunak, a huge number and presents an said more small companies would be important milestone, but i think eligible, and those with a turnover of up to £500 million what we need to remember is that these are the numbers of would also qualify. business groups said they were pleased the government had guide note cases and in fact the unknown of the listened to amount of people that haven't had a their concerns. test to know they've been infected bus companies in england are to have is obviously likely to be much financial losses covered by the government over greater than that. so my worry, the next three months, to ensure services can still run. really, is what this means globally similar pledges have already and we are keeping an eye on been made in scotland and wales. the industry says passenger numbers many have fallen off a cliff other countries around the world, since people were advised especially africa, where similar against all non—essential travel. case numbers are beginning to creep for the second week in a row, up. we have seen what happens applause rang out last night in tribute to all of the nhs staff, when this virus hits countries carers and key workers keeping with relatively strong health systems. in the country going. brea kfast‘s jayne mccubbin has put together europe and the usa, medics a selection of some of her favourite moments. have been let's take a look. overwhelmed. there are grave concerns about what will happen in countries with far weaker health ca re countries with far weaker health applause care facilities. south africa we all came out to do currently has the largest outbreak on the continent with more it again. applause than 1400 known cases. small outbreaks are we gave thanks... also under way in countries including burkina faso, cameroon and applause senegal. elsewhere, there is some very early, very cautious optimism. we gave thanks china says it has largely stopped the spread of the disease there with with pause... parts of wu ha n with the spread of the disease there with parts of wuhan now reopening. pipes... south korea has also seen cases fall in with the last couple of brass... weeks. but it is with still extremely unclear how this pandemic will play out drums... we as cases gave thanks globally continue to from trains, rise. the scheme offering government—backed loans to companies from ports... from struggling during the pandemic is being expanded, and some ships, from our of its rules relaxed. front doors. with the chancellor, rishi sunak, said more small companies would be all our heart, eligible, and those with a turnover of up to £500 million we came out to say"... would also qualify. thank you, thank business groups said you, thank you, thank you, they were pleased the government had listened to their thank you. 0utside hospitals across the concerns. bus companies in england are to have country... in birmingham... financial losses covered in by the government over the next london... in liverpool... three months to ensure services can still run. in similar pledges have already been gloucester... thank you! made in scotland and wales. but last the industry says passenger numbers have fallen off a cliff night wasn'tjust gloucester... thank you! but last night wasn't just for those fighting the virus, it was for the since people supermarket staff. applause were advised against all nonessential travel. it was for the postal workers. test, test, test — that's applause what the world health organization says is key to tackling it was for the care home workers. the coronavirus pandemic. applause yet the uk government has faced criticism for the number of tests that have been carried out here. you have just had the biggest clap currently, there are around 10,000 for carers, haven't tests being carried out a day. you? yesterday, the health secretary, we have indeed, and that's matt hancock, announced a goal absolutely for all our nhs supporters, any health professionals of 100,000 tests a day that come in the home. by the end of april. come close to that will include the camera, joan, come two types of tests. close, because you and i know it's just firstly, swab tests, which are already in use. for the nhs staff, it's for those they tell you if you currently blinking carers behind you as well, isn't it? their very have the virus or not. kind. are they the second type is a blood test, very kind? also known as an antibody test, god bless which has yet to be her. they're rolled out. it can tell you if you've a lwa ys very kind? god bless her. they're always there when you want them, so already had the virus it's marvellous really. and therefore may carers don't get a lot of praise, do be immune. let's speak now to saffron cordery, they? a low from nhs providers, i know they don't, but i've got some and dr derek gatherer, good ones. it's lovely to who's a virologist. meet you good morning to you both, all. shall thank you we do very much forjoining us. derek, i one last wonder if we start with clap? in you, there's confusion as to what the tests liverpool, applause outside a care do, but perhaps which test home battling the virus. good is more luck to them, keep on going, important to make an impact on this the country pandemic and how we approach it, loves you, your what are your thoughts? saving lives. nhs the most important test is the direct test blue shone from back gardens, for the presence of the virus, from streets, from the which tests for the genome of the nation's landmarks as the country was united in its virus, the genetic material of the virus, decision to make from cells in the back of a nose thursday, 8pm a or throat and it gives a positive or regular date until these dark days negative result and it's really important that we get lots of people are on the front line tested in that way over. so doctors and nurses and other again it was 8pm last hospital workers that are not well night, one of need to be tested, patients coming those moments, everyone is into hospitals, need to be tested, enjoying so that's really important at the it not least because they're sending their praise but it makes people moment. in the long run, it would be feel better. there's a good if we had warm feeling reliable antibody around all that stuff which tests because then we could get is just people certified as a mule and get good. and also knowing how them back into the workplace again, but it has to be said that touched s0 good. and also knowing how touched so many nhs workers and carers antibody tests are and key workers were just being recognised for what they may think but it has to be said that antibody tests a re inherently but it has to be said that antibody tests are inherently not as is there everydayjob but is so ambiguous as the director genetic tests a nd ambiguous as the director genetic tests and even the most extravagant important, so seeing that gratitude is great. played out in claims of some of the manufacturers individual households in different ways, which are for about 90% specificity, which we will illustrate now. means that there would be one in lynn lake is a nurse in north wales. ten positives that would be false, her family greet her with applause as she returns home at the end which means that somebody could of each shift. potentially be given immunity here's what that when they went really immune, but looks like. cheering because of that being the nature of those kinds of tests, we may have to learn to live with that degree of risk in the future. that's obviously one of the future. that's obviously one of the reasons we had from the health secretary saying it's taken so long to get these antibody tests firmed up to get these antibody tests firmed up as to which one to use. why do you think... ordo up as to which one to use. why do you think... or do you think the front line nhs staff are being tested after patients? that was the balloon arrival seen. the lake familyjoin us now from home in ewloe in north wales. look at you all well organised! it is like a five aside football it is really important team for a team photo. we keep and covid—19 patients separate from colour—coordinated, very impressive. other patients or else we will have good morning to you outbreak spreading within all! let's hospitals and medical staff ought to know what introduce you all from sort of patient they are dealing top road to with, is it an front rower, richard, lynn, joshua, infection patient or pete, john and zoe, not. but we want to test is that correct? medical staff as well, in excellent, good morning! particular, so —— domrow. that medical staff who have been ill all of this is for mum, and are at home are finding out if they can get back to why and how did this come about to celebrate her work and that medical staff who feel unwell need work? it was all to know whether they need to get a little bit of into quarantine in order to prevent a team method really. we were all being at the start of an outbreak having quite a bit of fun on within their own unit. good morning, our thursday in isolation, because normally we don't all live your organisation together. represents nhs we felt abu bakr al—baghdadi was trusts. in that question at work and she works of hard so much —— crackers, do you get some we felt bad reassurance in terms of testing and how important it is. keeping mum was at staff at work, do work because you get much she works hard, even without the assurance coronavirus situation, so we wanted from what you heard yesterday about the numbers of testing. to do something to appreciate her, it is and it was a collective effort to do welcome to have that commitment, it round of applause for the is not a target, it is first one and the creativity kicked in. up commitment to move up to 100,000 a day by the we try to think of different ways end of april. this cannot come to spice it up each week. i quickly enough. we are talking to hospital and other health saw that nige from your brother, are you the service chief executives every day and the anointed spokesperson? —— nudge. issue of staff absence is huge for you them. staff themselves want to get have to talk, john, come back to the front line and hospital on! tell us about your mum. she is leaders really need those staff on the front line. we have got absence amazing, the rates of anywhere between 20 most selfless person you could and 50% ever meet. she goes above and beyond on the front line at the moment and for thatis everyone she meets. she's worked on the front line at the moment and that is because we have staff who in the nhs for over 30 have coronavirus and then we have got staff in vulnerable groups who years. her kindness oozes out of cannot work anyway. then we have that group who are self isolating, her. she makes jams for people, baked staying at home for 14 days skates for because someone staying at home for 14 days because families. we're just playing the someone in their household may have it. that is the group we really want pictures, sorry to distract you, to test and get to the we're looking the mexican wave. who front line. came up it is welcome that we are seeing this big commitment now to taking with that thorough testing. i think the other one? frustration we have seen on the she just absolutely loves when front line is the fact that trusts people... in an inspiring way, have been ready to do we just wanted to honour her for all this testing for a long time. it is the hard work she does, really and yes, welcome that hospitals and other just know that she is loved health care providers are they all the time by us when themselves allowed to prioritise staff because they were not she comes home. previously. they were asked to well, this is all about you, so give us prioritise patients and of course well, this is all about you, so give usa well, this is all about you, so give us a sense. thatis well, this is all about you, so give us a sense. you well, this is all about you, so give us a sense. you are well, this is all about you, so give us a sense. you are dealing with prioritise patients and of course that is important that we believe unprecedented situations in your that is important that we believe that staff are really the priority work, no doubt. i can only imagine what it means to you to come now. because we have got a growing demand and we need as many staff as back every night see that you are possible to be working appreciated literally by your own on the wards family, but by a lot of other people in itu and those support services so as well. yes, that we can treat the huge numbers it is absolutely of people coming through the door. wonderful, actually. to walk through cani of people coming through the door. can i ask you saffron, is it your the door and to be greeted understanding then, you can in such a way, it actually feels like you maybe clarify this for me, the suggestion have been lifted, and you are able to from the health secretary leave all the was that patients first, we understand that. day's work behind and then whatever additional neither you. it is just leave all the day's work behind you. it isjust wonderful. it is is far testing is for nhs interesting, richard, ican staff. can individual hospitals make that it isjust wonderful. it is interesting, richard, i can see you there, i think everyone has even decision? on a given day can they been thinking about making sure that say we have this much availability you and lynn have some special time to test our staff! is together. wasn't there a special that how this can work in practice? dinner that i believe so, was arranged? yes. what we had is changing that is all the time. coronavirus is an tonight! 0h evolving disease. how we respond to it has dinner that was arranged? to evolve in that way. at the weekend, that is tonight! oh dear. i testing was opened up to 15% of the am so sorry. staff, we welcome as a that plan has gone out the window, there is no special step forward but that is a drop in the ocean. dinner. joshua, pete, you save me. what does the a couple of days ago the government said that hospitals themselves can day entail prioritise who they test. that means today? they can prioritise staff over patients. one of the other things we goodness. have got to understand here is that there is a real sense that pete, you save me. what does the day entailtoday? goodness. well, we have built a motorbike path in our back garden. i am clinicians on the front line are starting to identify who has trying to help out coronavirus and who doesn't very quickly now because they are working the situation here. other surprises with the disease day in and are available. come up with day out. something else, there we go. let's that probably wasn't the case a leave it there, and just month ago, six weeks ago, two months a thought ago. now we are in about work. you i am sure, lynn, are a situation where all the time thinking about your clinician can identify the disease, so clinician can identify the disease, collea g u es all the time thinking about your colleagues as well. i guess some so they need to test whether it is people do not have, like you do, an a borderline case. what they need to be able to do is to test staff. amazing family to come home to every night who are looking after you. and some of them have the facilities to i do that on site, some dare say you have colleagues who are under a great deal of stress as of them have well. i have to say that the team i to use external laboratories but what we need them to be able to do work with, i work in isjust focus on what we need them to be able to do is just focus on getting their staff general back to work. there is practice, so all of that world has of course changed, really, overnight. and the many people asking how work we do now is so different to long we will what we did before. i have to say stay with these social conditions that they are being advised for us that i work with an to take. while all amazing team of this carries on, doctors, nurses and we are still waiting for a vaccine. reception staff. can you explain why it take so long they are an amazing team, and we do work together so very, very to get a vaccine and why there is no certainty that there will be one well. and for that i produced? we don't have a am grateful. lynn, vaccine production pipeline for coronavirus are you working today?|j like we have four flu viruses. so and for that i am grateful. lynn, are you working today? i am, yes. so what time do you start the shift? every winter, and you what time will you be back? you are flu vaccine not coming back to anything special, comes out and we have s0... a well not coming back to anything special, established industrial pipeline for producing those. so even though so... it starts at 8:30am and i am when we have a flu pandemic like back at 6:30pm. brilliant. what we had in 2009, the very next winter that a lovely way for families flu strain has been inserted into to interact. the same production pipeline that in my head it is so silly, we used to produce seasonal vaccines i think this is how you watch television. and we have a vaccine against that is how you set, organised every that pandemic. because we have evening to settle down after a never had long day. so good to chat to you today, a coronavirus pandemic before, and thank you very we have no equivalent process for coronaviruses. we probably much. there are some life goals there did coronaviruses. we probably did coronavirus pandemics in the dim and in terms of distant past, because we matching, colour co—ordinated, everything. it is all going well have for that circulate in the population. so far. you can it is possible they are the descendants see all colour of previous coronavirus pandemics co—ordinated, and i love it. but they must have created everyone else sitting and happened hundreds of years around in ago. we expect this to come back their slobbies, as a milder coronavirus in the subsequent gym gear. years, but we will not be able to everyone else sitting around in theirslobbies, gym gear. do everyone else sitting around in their slobbies, gym gear. do you know, i actually came in a hot sweat immediately have a vaccine against a seasonal type vaccine then, and not in light we have a good way. had for influenza, simply because we while we are all being encouraged have no experience to stay in and work from home, thatjust isn't an option producing for many key workers, coronavirus vaccines before so we including those in the nhs and postal services. need to start immediately from over the next few days on breakfast, scratch. even with the ebola virus we are going to meet some of those vaccine which was rolled out keeping britain moving. successfully in the last outbreak to kick us off, tim muffett has been in to a supermarket in east london the congo, we had some experience to meet those working to keep of having made our shelves stocked with supplies. ebola virus 0ur our world has changed. the way we vaccines in live, the the past. can i way we clarify one thing. i think i note when you shop. tesco are talking a extra moment ago, did you see that you in beckton, east london, where staff have evidence of some hospitals have seen things which months ago where there are up would have been to 50%... you unimaginable. people said between 20 and 50% of staff are queueing for currently not toilet rolls, at work, disinfectant. they're linked to just worries about coronavirus, either in are queueing for toilet rolls, disinfectant. they‘ re just grabbing everything. it's like theirfamilies are worries about coronavirus, either in their families are whatever reason? let me clarify that, there's not going to be tomorrow. have there been times when it has that is overall absence rates. what we are talking been tough about is people in the with some of the customers? yes, a averil absence rates in the customer— i was serving a customer and another person came and asked hospital. so, her to stand behind the back line. it is not every hospital of course andl she was angry with me. there have it is not every hospital of course and i do not want to many people been dramas in the store. but i that places are understaffed about have what we are talking about been dramas in the store. but i have been able to cope. is overall customers are now absence rates. alongside coronavirus restricted to a maximum of three of we have got to remember that people any one product. numbers in will be getting seasonal flu and and out are also controlled. so this other conditions, they will be falling and well as people do in year challenge of keeping these shelves are stocked up, how hard daily life. so there are all sorts of factors that you put on top of has been? it wasn't great, as you can imagine, theirs as well as coronavirus. i think, be careful with that. because there wasjust it wasn't great, as you can imagine, because there was just tons of people just coming in, trying to it is notjust grab stuff, and the think, be careful with that. it is not just about coronavirus causing shelves were that level of sickness. it empty. so it is adding into the current absence rate. an was things like absence can come for all sorts strawberries, and just basic things, they are all empty. but now we of reasons. sorry, just to have got a good stack of clean up, because you are absolutely right to them. march with the busiest month ever recorded make this is clear. see today there are some hospitals where by uk supermarkets. i tell you what, i up to 50% have been working in retail since i of staff are absent? this was 17 years old. i have never seen is based anything like it. on conversations that we have had with our trust chief we put down markers every two metres so executives over customers understand about the two the last week to two weeks talking to them. so it metre rule, and social distancing, is anecdotal, it is and it has been really, really helpful. some shelves are still not at survey or empirical evidence. what they are telling us rather empty, but most here are now is on well—stocked, although for different days they have many different elderly and vulnerable people, levels of absence. this is obviously visiting the store fluctuating but where we are at, isn't an option. on sunday that could be the case. sometimes the customers have been and obviously that is why we need to see stressed when they can't actually get the supplies the vaccine. but this that they want. ranges between 20% and 50%. we thank you both for we have all been pulling a lot of your time this double and triple shifts in order to make sure we meet the demand. it morning. thank you has been critically important at this both very much for your time time. sometimes we go to our this morning. important for us to customer's house, we are the first try and get as much clarity to person they have seen and maybe a you about the few days. so we are always available information that is being for a chat. this disseminated by the government, medical industry and anything else week, some supermarket chains have loosened the you are hearing. that is restrictions on some of the products ourjob and thatis you are hearing. that is ourjob and that is what you can buy, but we are trying consumer behaviour and demand has been transformed. to do. normal shopping seems a i thought i would give you a bit of long way a friday off. you come into left. the contact effectively with quite a few sunrise layer. people. do you worry about the infection? it all changes this weekend, we yes, ido do you worry about the infection? yes, i do worry about it. as long as lose the chill and through the weekend you are healthy temperatures climbing, turning and, you know, warmer and most of you. we have the social distancing is in operation, high pressure at the momentjust in the east of us. west winds there's not much we can do. we flowing around it in a clockwise direction, just have to weather the storm and get on thatis around it in a clockwise direction, that is the way the winds flow with it. just around a high—pressure stand behind the black system. we line, and push them down. do you are bringing it in from the south think the way yourjob is perceived end as we bring in airfrom the by people has changed, south, a warmer direction, so as that its we go into the weekend we will see importance is being recognised more temperatures left markedly. by thanit importance is being recognised more than it perhaps sunday temperatures seeing was? to be temperatures it made to the high honest, teens. quite a change and from what you know, like, saying you just work we have got this for a supermarket, like, you know, like, saying you just work fora supermarket, like, i you know, like, saying you just work for a supermarket, like, i think we have all learned and hopefully the morning, frost in government will see that we are scotla nd hard—working, and all our people we have got this morning, frost in scotland and northern england. not as chilly to the south and will realise that we are here to serve the public and work as one west because there is more cloudy. a few spots of rain and drizzle around, team. products, places nor the line, and people we north—west england and perhaps took for granted, wales. most places of the day but not spending it dry. showers in scotland now. and centring in between, showers it isa it is a point really will be wintry, a mix well made, of sleet and hopefully people are thinking more snow. not as cold a day to come about routine jobs that are becoming today for many of you because the really vital, and the link between winds are not too strong. people. the delivery driverjust has temperatures down in other a little chat when they areas in dropped the the past day or so. showers stuff off. when i go home i say continuing in the northern half of hi to delivery drivers and say thank the country, a fair bit of you. i went to the supermarket and cloud here. many parts of england and asked the guy, you know wales see clear skies developing it is quite overnight, a greater chance of frost stressful, two in, two out, people get quite grumpy and by the time to develop taking us into the they get to the till, weekend. fog patches which will you say how are you doing? people clear on saturday morning. a fair have said they bit of sunshine around only had one not nice comment the in saturday last three days. keep being morning. cloudier times kind and lovely and positive for those who bit of sunshine around in saturday morning. cloudiertimes for bit of sunshine around in saturday morning. cloudier times for northern ireland and scotland, a few showers are walking four working for us. i around, dampest conditions in the try to do that to far north toward shetland. matt. i try to be temperatures already starting to nice to you. when was rise, temperatures into the mid that? do you teens across much of england and wales. milder air will know, i have it in a be pushing calendar, in the days before technology. i will north. through saturday night into dig it out one sunday, high—pressure to the east day. good morning, of both of you, good morning at home as us, low—pressure closing in. as those to get closer, the winds will well. it is friday, if you weren't stronger. a windy quite sure, of course. let's take a look at what the weather has in day on sunday, store for us, because a bit of a through the afternoon we will see more in the way of showers chilly start to the friday out there. some frost around, a fair bit developing in western areas. central eastern areas stick with the blue of cloud, but as we go through the skies throughout and coming days into the weekend, the yes, windy with sunshine amounts are going to increase and as i have already been telling you over the past few days, skills in the west. compared to what we have had in the past few days, it is set to turn warmer. why so? it it will be warmer. temperatures is because of an area of high pressure which is with us at the could hit 21 degrees in the moment shifting. we have seen the south east high pressure and wind moving in a corner, 11 in the clockwise fashion, as the area of north east of high—pressure moves to the east of scotland. a word of us, we start to drag the wind in caution if you from the south. through the weekend suffer from hay fever, we will slowly start to see the scotland. a word of caution if you sufferfrom hay fever, tree pollen will be up on temperatures rise day by day. in fa ct, temperatures rise day by day. in fact, by the time we had sunday we sunday. stay—at—home but the tree pollen will be up so will see damages in the height some of you may be get some sniffles of mid—teens. seven celsius possible in the north—west highlands of from scotland, 20 celsius, that. 70 fahrenheit, the in the south—west of england. a big time contrast to the first thing this morning. frost around across much of is scotland, northern and for some in 7:26am. eastern england. but a bit of after days of mounting morning sunshine. could be a bit pressure, the government has promised to significantly increase icy in one or two spots across scotland. testing for coronavirus in england. the goal is 100,000 tests a day if you wintry showers continuing by the end of the month. through the night. a few rain so how will the government showers in northern ireland, deliver this commitment? joining us now from our london south—west scotland, western parts newsroom is the health secretary, matt hancock. of england and wales. the odd spot of england and wales. the odd spot of drizzle further east as well. but good morning. thanks so much for many places will be dry. a fair bit joining us this morning. i am of cloud around through today but we going to start on a personal will see increasing amounts of sunshine towards the south—west note, good to later and still some sunny spells see you are well. you are one across scotland, temperatures in of the single figures. many away from people who has experience coronavirus. could you tell cities, single figure and bridges us what to be expected today. clearing skies to your experience was and how you are now? yes, thanks. the south could lead to a i do feel few missed and fog patches, especially to southernmost counties of england. a com pletely now? yes, thanks. i do feel completely better now, thankfully. fair bit of cloud across the north but it was a pretty unpleasant and west of scotland so some experience and i went outbreaks of rain. may not astutely there tonight as it was last night downhill on but still a bit of frost around for thursday last week. some of you as we start tomorrow for a couple morning. so into the weekend, we go. of we have outbreaks of rain to begin nights it was very with across the final from scotland. hard... it was 0ne with across the final from scotland. one or two isolated showers very ha rd to nights it was very hard... it was very hard to sleep, incredibly in scotland, northern ireland, the western fringes of england and painful throat. it was like having wales. mostly dry, variable amounts of cloud. the best of the sunshine glass in my throat, i could not eat in southern and eastern parts of ordrink glass in my throat, i could not eat or drink anything for a couple of england and already temperatures back into double figures. some in days. and i had a bit of a the mid—teens by saturday afternoon. cough but not really a big but that big boost in temperatures, car. and when you asi but that big boost in temperatures, as i said, will come as we go to are on the way this weekend. an area of down, it is really high—pressure to the east of us, this low pressure system pushing on. worrying. because we can all see but what you will notice is, as they just how serious get close together, the winds will this illnesses. and be strengthening as well. we for some people, the people who will bring more sunshine on sunday. blue often for some people, the people who ofte n get for some people, the people who skies for many to start the day, not often get into as much mist and fog around. cloud the worst of amounts are going to increase to the health, and those who lose their lives, it west on sunday, so there will be some salary ranks as we go through is often because the lungs overreact the second half of the day. most to the virus, as parts will stay dry through the bulk of the day, but as an immune response. i said, windy day and you just don't know if that is on sunday. when such a gale force on going to happen so i the west later, but it will be the found it really warmer day of the weekend. worrying. and then thankfully i temperatures up to around 70 degrees bottomed out and started getting in the north—west highlands of scotland. 20 or 21 celsius to a better and for me it was short lived south—east of england. but and andi better and for me it was short lived and i was able to it does come with about, it always come back to work does, just to give you a bit of a yesterday and i am in heads up, we are into the tree full health. pollen season, and on sunday but it is worrying. i have lost half a stone, it is it looks like we're going to see quite a serious those pollen levels claim, especially impact directly. across england and wales, just adding to some of the sniffles out but... but there. that is how tha nkfully impact directly. but... but thankfully for me, i could get it is looking. through it and i managed no—one likes big to keep working through it but it is but, matt.|j obviously much harder when you both there. that is how it is looking. no-one likes big but, matt. i have no comment for that. let's have a working from home but also look at the papers not well. of course, very glad you are for you this morning. well. have you had any news how the prime the times, like almost minister is, we saw him when all of the papers, leads on the health secretary's pledge the cla p minister is, we saw him when the clap was to increase coronavirus testing to 100,000 a day by the end of the month. happening. the we will be speaking to the health prime secretary at 7:25am this morning. minister is... he has been working there is also a picture throughout it as well. he is a bit of celebrities including daniel craig and phoebe under the weather. but as you waller—bridge showing their support for the can see from the video, he is up and nhs. about and he is the daily mail says matt hancock on conference calls. was humbled into action a huge amount and and sends him the warning, "don't fail this test, on the phones and minister." there is also a picture working incredibly hard. so we all of formula 0ne's bernie ecclestone, wish him well and we hope who is to become a father again at 89. he gets "heroes face test wait" back to full health in no time is the headline on the mirror, and there is a picture at all. 0k, of the comedian eddie large, back to full health in no time at all. ok, so there is the chat who has died after about health, that is over. i am glad contracting coronavirus. that you are back to good health again. 0na on a lighter note, and the papers shall we kind of get are picking up on these stories, through as much people are thinking of things to do as we can in terms of details and and one of the things they are doing straight talking from you, is replicating scenes. it could be songs 01’ is replicating scenes. it could be songs or whatever it is. this is please. this new level, 100,000 tests taking great pieces of art and kind a day of replicating them at home. i am by the end of the month, currently not familiar with quite a few of we are at10,000 these pieces about, but you get the idea. there is the by the end of the month, currently we are at 10,000 a day. as i said in the introduction, nhs workers are real piece, and a seeing this as a commitment now not version with a labrador.|j idea. there is the real piece, and a version with a labrador. i prefer a target from the government. in the labrador version. this one month, how does that look. how can is madonna and child, and someone has you guarantee you're going to get done it with their dog. well —— and this one back to down here, and again, i am sorry, i 100,000? am notfamiliar down here, and again, i am sorry, i am not familiar with the actual we have got to, it's a girl and i piece of art here. started for the whole is this napoleon? iam not system. from piece of art here. is this napoleon? i am not familiar with that, and public health england, and the someone i am not familiar with that, and someone has done it with a friend nhs, working together, incredibly hard and they are recreating things. they work, firstly to develop the have clearly gone to quite a lot of trouble and effort to do that. test, we we re work, firstly to develop the test, we were one of the first countries people have time on their in the world to do that and then increase the number, we were testing hands. and they come up with creative stuff. just 2000 a month ago, so u nless they come up with creative stuff. unless you are still working, as alan is. this is that ramp up just 2000 a month ago, so that ramp up has already been very britain's oldest significant. that is multiplying it paperboy, saying coronavirus has not by five. you stopped him making his deliveries. are multiplying it we have been celebrating people who are we have been celebrating people who a re key we have been celebrating people who by ten. the nitty—gritty of how you got are key to our lives, keeping our lives ticking along in these to that. yes, of course straightened times. he delivers there is the the continued ramp up of the 0xford mail six days a week, and he nhs and has been given a note to carry on public health england testing, and during the nationwide covid—19 that will continue. but we have lockdown. the measures are in place, got to do much more than by the doctor. so he that and bring has taken... he in the companies into took over the paper round from this space that can help us to deliver. the his son. how old is he? he first type of company we is 84. he took over the round from his son, are working with other companies that which is a bit of an unusual way are around, 24 years ago. he has never existing diagnostic companies, that taken a day off sick. are in the uk, quite a small the time is industry, unlike some other places 6:30am. like germany, where they hello. have a this is breakfast with charlie stayt traditionally huge diagnostics and naga munchetty. industry, some smaller it's 6.30. coming up on the programme companies this morning. that are going to help that the gruffalo as you've never seen it before. ramp up, best—selling children's author but the other part of it julia donaldson will tell us about re—writing some is that the of her classics to help us stay safe existing british pharmaceutical during the coronavirus outbreak. companies that aren't traditionally diana moran, better known as the green goddess, in testing, they are going to come is back with another routine to keep us active at home. to the fore and put and at 8.30, it's your opportunity their industrial to say thank you and celebrate muscle behind this effort. and, at the work of our keyworkers — the nhs, the posties, the same time, we also the supermarket workers and to anyone else who's put a smile need to on yourface, in our harness all of the university labs, and the research labs that normally special heroes half—hour. test for other things that are going to have to turn good morning. here's a summary of today's main their efforts, their stories from bbc news. expertise and their lab capacity plans to significantly increase coronavirus testing in england have over to testing been announced by the government. the goal is to carry out 100,000 for coronavirus, so tests a day by the end of the month it's a five pronged approach. i will compared to current level be setting out more of 10,000 a day. details, of it follows criticism the government course, but over those five pillars as we call them, wasn't doing enough testing. yesterday, 569 people i'm determined that with coronavirus died we get to 100,000 tests a day. in the uk, bringing the total it's a challenge to the whole system, a clear goal that we have to almost 3—thousand. two more field hospitals are to be set and i built in bristol and harrogate understand why people are yearning to cope with an expected for these tests as well. and how surge in coronavirus cases. important it is. i want to take a it'll create capacity look at your language you for 1,500 patients. are using. it follows the opening of the new it's a challenge. you say this is a nightingale hospital in london, which will provide 4,000 beds. goal. we spoke to an nhs the first patients are expected worker earlier, who says they have heard to arrive next week. you say this as a commitment, that americans are being encouraged it will happen, can to wearface masks in public to help you guarantee stop the spread of the virus. this is going to happen without the united states recorded 1,169 using language like goal deaths in the past 24 or target? this is going to happen? yes, this hours, the biggest single day tally has got to of any nation. happen. no, this more than a million cases of coronavirus have been has got registered to happen. i have across set it as it the is what the nation needs and there is globe. an issue of trust and once in it's a regular slot on the programme clarity from the government at the moment. we are speaking to because people working in the health there was a goal to reach 10,000 service. let's speak with the gp dr william tests a day by monday and it was not bird, whojoins us from reading. hit until wednesday. good morning to you. thank you that's not quite right, actually. on wednesday for your time this morning. you are we released the figures that showed on monday we had the a gp practising in reading, so give us an goal, so we hit idea of the setup and how it's that target, i'm really pleased working for you in terms of looking after your patients at the moment? that we did, because the figures come i'm doing out of hours so anyone who out with a delay of a day or calls after 6:30pm comes onto so. i'm really glad you brought that one up the out of hours service so we are because that shows that we met our working on the royal berkshire commitment to get to 10,000 by the hospital and in new prehospital, and end of march. then we call you back or go and see it's got to you in the hospital or come and visit you. so that's how happen. it's set there's lots of pieces of this up, the out of hours service, the puzzle that need to stuff at night, i finished at 2am be put in place. this morning, so it's been just a second, let me just very busy as you can imagine. firstly, i will finish. there is the ramp up within the nhs, say thank you for getting up in the there is the middle of your night to talk to us on the programme. 0ur viewers existing testing do companies like thermo appreciated as we do, as well. thank you very much for fisher, and companies like thermo fisher, and companies coming new into this that. yesterday, space, and there is we saw the press conference with matt hancock and the chief the university la bs a cross medical space, and there is the university 0fficer. matt hancock and the chief medical officer. a lot more detailed labs across the board, where we have coming an awful lot of work to do to make in. just as a gp, and it happen, and that's why i talk in i know gps are some way along the line when it the language of a goal. of course we got to get there. but there is comes to testing, tell me what you initially felt about the change in a huge amount of work to do. one of how the testing the things i try to do yesterday set is now panning out some of the real world out. challenges that there are. there are well, we were doing a lot barriers, bumps in the of testing, when we were trying to road, and restrict and isolate people and some of this is going to be follow them up, we were having very difficult. do you think everything which has been done big testing sessions and of course it suddenly stopped when it went into in a timely fashion? everyone accepts the next containment to trying to this move on intojust country and governments are going the next containment to trying to move on into just testing people the next containment to trying to move on intojust testing people in hospital, and i think it meant we through a steep learning we re curve and hospital, and i think it meant we were blind in what was actually there will be mistakes made and happening in the decisions, a lot of home side, community. assuming looking back and saying we could have done that better, and one of eve ryo ne happening in the community. assuming everyone who came in with a temperature and had a cough or sore the questions is, and you've spoken throat were having to make the about the laboratory is helping assumption that is covid—19. now, you, public health england laboratories the other thing is well of you've been using initially, should course, is influenza b is still going the government have expanded that around, other viruses going around, use to others but we had to make an assumption but more quickly? well, we don't know exactly. how i'm sure there will be lots of does that change your treatment if you discussion about what could have are been differently and we are making that assumption? if you make that assumption you are having co nsta ntly been differently and we are constantly asking the question what can we now do better? that's to, probably rightly, dress up com pletely probably rightly, dress up completely with all of your personal the question that matters. because all protection for every person, but that really matters is getting the also we haven't quite got an idea of best possible response. how many people in the community so, with the have got it, and also the other thing is there are some people situation i find myself in today, one of the things that we can do with very mild symptoms, particularly more is harnessing children, 18—month—old babies with a high temperature, having covid—19 the companies that aren't traditional because they haven't got the other symptoms, so it's a bit blind in testing companies and making sure we give knowing, so if we had community every possible support to testing increasing that would those who really, really help. as far as work can expand testing. money is is concerned, a lot of doctors out no there have got children whose object here, what matters is getting the country out of this situation as children have a temperature and then they can't come in for 14 days but quickly as possible. so, if we can find out whether that you know, child really has, we can release historians control over what we've done, all i can say is, that doctor again. there's lots of hand on aspects to the testing which would heart, at each stage, i've done really help. i'm assuming everything i possibly could you will but then have had a possibly long—term new ideas come in and new patients who have needed to go from the care you have been able thoughts come forward. one of the examples of to give this is on the ventilator challenge, into a hospital situation. have because we need more ventilators in you been able to track through what the country, a few weeks ago we put happened to people and how they come out a call to all sorts of back into the community? well, we industries like formula 1 that have do never been involved in ventilators follow them through. in the before, and they have come in and out of hours. i'm seeing are working alongside the existing more people with small but experienced ventilator urgency in primary care, but, yes, companies, and when you bring when someone the industrial muscle of babcock urgency in primary care, but, yes, when someone comes urgency in primary care, but, yes, when someone comes through the system, what happens, when somebody or phones up and they got a rolls—royce alongside the expertise of the smaller ventilator symptom of covid—19, whether it be a companies, we have been able to increase the sore throat, headache, temperature, capacity a lot and if that sort cough, shortness of breath, they get put into a monitoring of approach i learned on the ventilator place which side that we means that we call them are applying on back immediately, or try to do the testing site. 0k, lots of questions, it immediately, or try to do it immediately, sometimes at weekends and you made clear in the press it is busy, and they then conference yesterday about the get another call the next day and then a order, the priority of who will third day, as well, just to see how be tested, patients first, so let's it is getting on and that's talk about nhs been really reassuring. we also give them staff. when will a special number to call all back. that nhs staff who need it, need bypasses 111 and straight back to us to be tested, be tested? i said so if they feel the shortness of breath getting worse, which is yesterday that we commit to that by the end of really, really creating a lot of this month. i want anxiety for people, it's one of the to make that worst things you can get, they happen as soon as possible. we can come through to a doctor quickly. started testing at the then we will send text messages for weekend and the remaining five days are we got that up saying to 5000 so far. are you 0k? the remaining five days are saying are you ok? we assume things will get better and better, so we do can i monitor people all the way through, ask you to break that down and make and if they have to go into it more clear because a target is hospital, they are there 100,000 by the end of the month, so just to get how does it work over the a bit more additional treatment, if month of april, how many nhs staff do you they got a secondary infection, envisage, what's the number that or if they have to be ventilated, and need to be tested and how would that that they come back and we will be happen bearing in mind you have able to track them back again, so the system, once you are in it, a goal commitment of 100,000 tests by it's the end of the month? yes, the way really good, and i think it's working. what patients have been that that will happen is that really pleased with as they got that currently around 8000 people number they can call back a day on without going through 111, and need to be tested i have found as patients, and people have been incredibly thatis need to be tested as patients, and that is the most important, and i appreciative of that service we are have put them at the top of the giving during a really difficult priority list because for them it can be the difference between life time when they got symptoms and and death. because particular shortness of of the treatment breath. time when they got symptoms and particular shortness of breathlj know an issue for some gp practices they are given according to whether they are given according to whether they have got coronavirus or not, is your own staff, and people who around 8000 a day, and that number are either having at the moment is going up to self—isolate because of family members not slightly, but because of well, so how are you affected? give us the extraordinary your staff breakdown. measures on social distancing, we hope that that number will well, i do flatten out. at the more out of hours, and we have same time, the nurses, as well, and i think we have got all the protection we new testing that's coming on stream need now. that has really been moved very, from the private sector, very quickly so over the last ten that will days, we have all entirely in the first instance had the masks and be for nhs staff, gowns are sorted so that's been critical front line no problem. a lot of staff, i staff, and that is ramping up fast, know from and that's running at practices around, sometimes they've lost one third of their staff, about 1500 at who are off because of the moment. 1500 a day? yes, different problems, so that's a problem, however, we are not getting and ramping up fast, it started a couple of days ago and it's just at the end patients coming to the practices, so a lot of consultations are being done by of days ago and it's just at the end of its trial period and this weekend it will ramp up. to cover phone, very few patients should come all the up phone, very few patients should come up apartfrom nhs staff that needed, how many does phone, very few patients should come up apart from dressings or wounds or not need to get to a things which really have to be done, and people have been appreciative of day and when? well, at the moment, we think that that and said, no, that's fine, there are around we don't have to come up. our waiting 35,000 front line room in the middle of the night, thatis room in the middle of the night, that is empty, almost all the nhs staff who aren't in work are due time, to coronavirus, the number is much apart from the covid—19 patients who come up and then we have to smaller than some of the anecdotal dress up evidence that we have been for those, but for everybody else, we are doing it on the phone and it hearing, although, of course, there may seems to be managing be pockets, and this isn't distributed quite well. we evenly, but where there are talking to matt hancock in just is a under one hour and i want to go shortage we can bring back to the testing. what do you think is people into support. and so, to get the more useful test, the test which through and tells you you have it, make sure all of them the antigen have testing, test, or the one which tells you asi make sure all of them have testing, as i say come at the moment we have you have had it, so therefore implies managed 5000. it will that there is some immunity? what do be a matter of you think is thousands a day, so over the next most useful?” couple of weeks, we should get up to that there is some immunity? what do you think is most useful? i think there are two different aspects that, but i don't want to make a here, they are measured completely commitment i can't meet and that's different lee, so why when i was asked about it yesterday i said by the end of the let's go for month. and those are just the ones the who are off now, so the total number antibody test, the blood test which tells us whether you've that needs testing is much actually had bigger? it is, and it's really important it or not. if you are a doctor also that testing is available for or a nurse, and we know we have had it, the family members of critical workers because thenit nurse, and we know we have had it, then it means that of course we are going to put protection on, as well, otherwise critical but it means we are able to get staff say there are back into work and be able to nurses who are start working with patients high risk, married, their children have and symptoms, then you lose two nurses we have less of a worry about u nless symptoms, then you lose two nurses getting it and a bit more unless you get that child tested. if flexibility there. we've the child to test positive of course i have to stay off but if it's also known in the community how many people negative, they can get back to work. have had it. that will be a really one of the first important thing for them is just 1% areas that we have of the population who have had it used the staff testing for instance so has been for paramedics and faror10%? if it of the population who have had it so far or 10%? if it is 1%, there is a ambulance drivers, because that big worry we have a huge amount of was people still to have it, and it's an area where we going to make a big had a very acute difference, so shortage, and making sure we can get that's on the public health site. on paramedics back to work is very the acute testing, everyone important, so we are working who gets any symptoms of covid—19 we through that and the answer to the question should be testing because that is going to when can all nhs staff who needed be testing because that is going to be really important, get tested, a commitment i can give you is the end of the month, but i to know the hope it will be sooner. i've high temperatures, the cops, got one everything else, how many of those and a half minutes to ask you to are covid—19 and, if they are, questions so let me get this out. we how concerned it should be be can actually isolate them, the is make sure so much disparity about the accuracy they are properly connected to the of antibody tests, the ones which people around them and make tell you if you've had the sure they will be isolated and we can illness, and perhaps you may be immune, how test them, as well, so i would much concern is that they won't be say for the immediate future, we need to an adequate test to get out know the testing, that's the quickly? it is frustrating the first ones we really have tested have important thing. medical staff, know the testing, that's the really tested... have not important thing. medicalstaff, nhs staff, and the patients, and in the long term we've got to worked,, but we've got more coming, and we have got a rapidly do this public health understanding of massive team buying these from how many people in the country have actually had it so far because that china, getting will give us an indication of how them sent over from long we are going to have to go china, into buying these from china, getting them sent overfrom china, some buying these from china, getting them sent over from china, some are produced domestically and i hope we lockdown and how well we are doing can find one which in getting out of this whole works. and for pandemic. two reflections, one the domestic production, we will work with companies to try to help is like so many of your colleagues we them to improve their tests, speak to, very calm reassuring voice because so thank you for that, and is it an antibody test, which is one of the pillars of just me, when we do this interviews with people in their homes, i'm the five pillar a lwa ys with people in their homes, i'm always looking at the door behind strategy, the antibody test, to find because i think someone is going to out if you have had the virus, in, but it's been very that is really important to get right calm with you. you get some sleep, and thank but, essentially, a really good home you. you get some sleep, and thank you very much for what you are test has not been doing. he looks remarkably well invented yet. you won't be unfamiliar with messages on like i'm getting my social five hours sleep. we don't look media, we that good. ever. it need to be tested, we are putting isjust gone 6:40am. our patients, the general public at risk daily, and working in the good morning to you. community, most of my patients are mike, good morning. interesting, yesterday, i'm south isolating yet patients are sure you will cover this, matt still getting covid—19, tell me hancock not shying away from the if question about premier league there are nhs workers out there who football pay. that's right, haven't got the ppe, and i know he is unequivocal saying they should take you haven't got the ppe, and i know you have explained frequently about how a wage reduction there were so many it's being delivered, a logistical problem, you have the stores but it voices on this. i suppose the consensus seems to be that at wouldn't have it, should they still some point the top players will take some be working if they kind of wage don't have ppe? well, that will be a judgment on reduction. their union, ther professional footballers association, the says the players need to be flexible ground, people have got to share the financial burden to stay but have stopped short, safe, in my experience, people in of recommending, that the top earners, must take a wage cut. the nhs in social care, however, the health secretary matt they go and hancock, says they should look after the people they care and play their part and for. it's a vocation. but i don't want that to be a choice they have to gary lineker thinks players make. i want to make sure they get will the ppe, and of course, this has take a cut been another huge challenge, eventually. a my inkling will be that logistical exercise, and we are not there yet, but we are throwing footballers will take pay cuts, they will everything at this one, as well. at help out in their communities, the moment of comic if it's a they will make donations or in whatever way that they can case, and you don't have it, you help and i think we need to be work, yes? many people choose to do that a little bit patient with them. but i don't want that to be the the clubs only announced these situation, i want everyone to have protective equipment. matt things a day or two ago. hopefully, sense will prevail hancock, health secretary, thank you very and footballers do their bit much for your time this morning. because if they don't and they won't come out taking other questions. the of this very well. the way tottenham have handled it time is i don't think has been very good 743. and what tottenham are doing the medical side and testing is to their staff, i don't front and centre of everything that agree with whatsoever, but that is a separate issue we are laying out for to what the players do. you here. the it's the club that have said the players are going to carry other part of this is the economy. on with their wages, ben has been looking at the detail but let's see how the of those schemes for people working, players react to who have been put on this new phrase it. this comes after senior we have all learned, for long. figures at brighton, announced they would be taking tell us more. a significant pay cut, including the manager. yes, "furlough". heard a lot about it lately but how graham potter, along with the chief executive and director of football, that's defined could determine will take reduced wages, whether you get some financial over the next three months, help if you've been temporarily laid to ensure that non playing staff off. aren't affected financially the chancellor announced this scheme by the coronavirus. but there are some very specific rules that come with it, the other issue facing football is when, and how, because employers are being encouraged to to finish the season or not. use it to help them get through the the belguim pro league worst of this downturn. they've had has become the first to shut up their business to end the season now, overnight, so they have furloughed their staff, as things stand, so they've handed temporarily laid them off, and that the title to club brugge. means they should be eligible for to be fair, it's only the final match of the regular season some financial help but not everyone is getting that help, so and the play—offs that have been scrapped, so the current leaders let me just club brugge are declared champions. explain to you how it works. crucially, who the decision was made after a meeting of their council does and and could this lead to doesn't other major apply. european leagues following suit? the job retention scheme was 0rganisers of this summer's unveiled by the chancellor to help open golf championship business deal with coronavirus. at royal st george have denied it is designed to cover the cost reports thatjuly‘s major of paying millions of people will be cancelled. who were suddenly left without work. postponing the event it means staff will be paid up is just one of the options to 80% of their salary, being considered, according to the r&a chief executive, to £2500 a month, so long martin slumbers. as they were working there before february the he says external factors mean it's taking longer to reach a decision, 28th. well the government says the system but that they will aim to provide will be up and running by the end an update as soon as possible. of april and payments will be backdated until march the shane lowry won the tournament last year. 1st. but some big firms have already the international olympic committee said they will be forced has confirmed that all 33 sports and events from this year's to furlough their tokyo olympics will be workers. included in the 2021 games and that the schedule the treasury's will remain forecast that the same. around 3 million people, the announcement came after a virtual conference to discuss the logistics of moving the olympics this or 10% of the private sector work to next summer. force could be laid off temporarily. securing the athletes' village, is the first priority as it's this brewery in bristol normally being sold off as a residential employs four people. development with people we are just trying our best due to move in to keep afloat and try and keep our employees in 2023. as best we can. no financial figure was put we have a responsibility to our employees but also on the cost of postponment. as a business that we don't know and finally, with no when the furlough's going to kick in and that for us puts sport on at the moment, us in a challenging position in terms of cash flow many have been looking back on past for our business because we haveno triumphs, including england's ashes way of projecting what the future may look like. test win over australia well, good news for workers, but it comes at a cost. at headingly last summer. based on well, one bored fan has gone a step an estimate further and recreated the scene, with his cat of 3 million starring, people out of as ben work, stokes. 358-9. stokes on strike. the costs could hit £10 billion and that assumes it is only needed england need one to for three months. win. but if more businesses take up and in comes pat cummmins from the far end. the scheme or if the shutdown he bowls to stokes, goes on even longer, who hammers it for four! the cost is expected it's stokesy with the to rise bat raised. significantly. joining me i can't now is believe we've natalie greenway seen that. she changed job. and rustom tata. natalie, please the best thing can you explain your was the egg. situation. next time you run that, what did your employer tell you ? what did your employer tell you? i had been in my newjob for could you get the editors to clip that better. so we two weeks and we were on a call can see the egg. he was dressed up, to say that we would be furloughed. i got well drawn on. a separate call saying that the loved the cat's government had introduced new tale action. cats love playing with legislation and i was ping—pong balls. note on their action. cats love playing with ping-pong balls. thank you very much. see payroll on the 28th of february. you have not had any gap in your you later employment, you finished onejob in on. one and started the newjob the ben is in our studio in london this day after. you have fallen morning. we miss you. between the grant —— like you are talking about what the government gaps. has announced when it talks after. you have fallen between the grant -- like gaps. i finished my old job on the 15th of march and about small businesses. there have been a lot of demands to make this started my new one on the 16th. it was a shock. as positive and as generous as possible. welcome to to find out the business that i am and economics room in london. we are looking at the scheme, not because i changed jobs was a one of many, blow and there are thousands of other people in the designed to help small businesses situation that weather the worst of are stuck in limbo, not having any this pandemic. support or any the government has announced and start.” an overhaul of a loan scheme designed to help small are stuck in limbo, not having any support or any and start. i wanted to ask you that. that idea of being businesses. stuck in limbo. did yes, this is one of the schemes launched by the chancellor rishi your employer sunak aimed at keeping businesses give you any idea of where you could afloat during the coronavirus crisis. look for any help! not really, it's officially ‘the coronavirus they we re business interruption loan scheme' — look for any help! not really, they were in the darkest and is designed to support small and medium sized firms — we were. the let me run you through guidance they were getting for the the details. government was confusing and under the scheme they can borrow conflicting. the only option they up could give me was to go to the to £5 million for up to government and cf there was any help six years. the government covers the first 12 like universal credit that was months of interest payments and any fees charged by available. stay with us, i want to the lender. bring in the employment lawyer. the government also guarantees 80% of each loan you to encourage the banks to are listening to natalie's case. what you make of lend. since it launched last week people like the government says more herself, she has moved job and she does not qualify for the than £90 million of loans to nearly scheme? 1,000 small and medium sized firms good morning. clearly it have been approved — is difficult as a situation. it sounds a lot, but thousands more it is as say they can't get hold natalie says, unfortunately the of the cash they need — little guidance that there is is not like this small altogether clear. what we do have business is clarity that says that the owner near individual must be on bristol. the employer's a few years ago we were burnt down as at south the 28th of bya a few years ago we were burnt down february by a fire so we have been through this year and that is clear and that was on the chancellor's this close down and restart before and we have got a worked initial statement. however, what it does out plan. mean is that people by and we have got a worked out plan. by monday evening after the prime who perhaps move or change employment for one reason minister's statement, we work or change employment for one reason or another after that date may out what we needed to do and we spent well be in the position that natalie is the next few days talking in, which is obviously a very to staff, unfortunate one. quite clearly laying off staff, talking to suppliers and i immediately rang the lots of uncertainty for employers there. bank to enquire about what are the issues they are facing the grown—up because as we head from natalie iris business interruption scheme. we are yet it is about dates and when they to hear back moved job at other people will not be from them. eligible for this either. that is one example of how it could yes. again, this game so be difficult to get the money that you need. far is only the scheme has come under a lot of criticism since it launched. drawn in very broad terms and as well as being difficult to get so there is so much hold of, some banks have asked for personal guarantees that uncertainty around could see their assets being seized coronavirusjust as if they there is so much uncertainty around coronavirus just as there is unfortunately with the scheme. and i fall behind think one of the fundamental uncertainties is whether it is supposed to be an income replacement on repayments. scheme that the government wants employers to administer or whether the chancellor has said that will essentially it is supposed to be not happen. he has asked support for employers in deciding banks not whether or not it should to ask for personal assets place people on redundancy or lay if the loa n to ask for personal assets if the loan is under £250,000. if it is them off. natalie, let me bring you lower than that it is in again here. the idea of £20,000 you would have to the scheme of course is to encourage employers put up. others have said they'd charge to keep people on the payroll or double digit interest after the 12 keep them employed and just month interest—free period. the chancellor has now banned that — temporarily laid the law. have he says there will be no personal guarantees on you been given any assurance from your employer that they will take you on loans below and all this is £250k. over? yes, my remember, these loans are being made employer offered me to either take available to businesses my notice or take unpaid leave. so who would i did opt to take unpaid leave so i otherwise not want to get in have a job to go back to. any kind of debt. they have been careful but when i returned to work or if they are in running their businesses and these factors way beyond their control a position to still resume my contract have come up. the chancellor at the end of it, said that there should be a who knows, it is uncertain. what would you want to lifeline. yes, you will repay these loans, see from the government, what hell they are loans are not bailouts, could they give but they are loans are not bailouts, but the terms that which you you?” see from the government, what hell could they give you? i think what we take out all really want is for them to amend these loans should be fair and he the february 28 cut—off date so is asking the banks play their part so anyone who was employed people can access the money that they need to tide for any companies or had a valued them over. employment by the end of the month, contract on the 20th of march when the government has promised it will carry out they announced the scheme are eligible. other than that, that 100,000 tests wasn't so much support they can give for coronavirus us wasn't so much support they can give us until they scrap the each day. eligibility criteria for university —— like currently it is just over 10,000 a universal credit but that will be a day. it comes after much criticism that massive pay cut for most not enough testing was taking place. let's get reaction from of us. the shadow chancellor, tough times. i wish you well john mcdonnell, whojoins us from west london. natalie. you are in a position where thank you very much for your time you will have a job at the this morning. could you give me your reflections on what was quite end of it. good to speak to you both. thank a significant press conference you for your time and your thoughts yesterday when details of this new this morning. it does testing pattern was revealed. really underline quite how difficult it is. what did you make of it? i the government launching all sorts of schemes, be the am pleased that matt hancock has recovered and loan guarantee iam that matt hancock has recovered and schemes for smaller businesses and i am pleased that the commitment has also there furlough scheme that we been given for 100,000 but we have heard so much about have to maintain people's confidence in to help employers get through the worst of what the government is doing and what the government is doing and what we are all doing and remember this, but quite clearly there are borisjohnson promised lots of caveats, a lot of what we are all doing and remember boris johnson promised us what we are all doing and remember borisjohnson promised us by now uncertainty for workers like natalie we would have 250,000 a day. so matt to try and contend with right hancock has got to deliver on this now. so difficult times for and we do need more details. most many people. of it is important we get these the clinicians know are saying we need that break down of that situations out to show what we are 100,000. is that the swab going through. thank test or is you, ben. time it about the antibodies? there is 7:51am. we are going to still some confusion pay tribute about whether to there is a reliable antibody test. oliver the government need to give more key information to maintain confidence. we need to know well workers. when will nhs staff have access to these tests. the other issue is the from 8.30 this morning, we're going to pay tribute world health to all of our keyworkers from nhs organization advises test, staff and supermarket shelf—stackers, to posties and delivery drivers. test, test and track. we noted no you can get involved in our heroes half—hour too. let us know who you want to thank. the government when they will be perhaps they've gone expanding testing on a mass above and beyond, perhaps they've just made you smile. basis within the community itself. if we do let us know. to get us started, here's can get that clear from government i some familiarfaces think we can re—establish confidence in the government strategy. as you have seen in the media, there has i just want to say a big thank been real doubts expressed. do you to everyone at the nhs. you whether you're a cleaner, think then that that is a very real a nurse or a doctor, issue at the moment, you're doing a fantasticjob and we all appreciate it. that people, thank you. maybe confidence is living ijust wanted to say a massive thank and how you to all of our nhs workers the government has proceeded thus from the cleaners to the doctors. far? i think people are expressing i think what you're worries because if promises are doing is amazing. you're very brave and your given and they are not dedication and care is overwhelming. to everyone in the nhs made and who go to work every kept, you can understand why people day and put us before start having doubts. but what themselves, thank you. truly, thank you. the you're our heroes. government has got to do now, they have made this promise, they have for all you wonderfully dedicated got to stick to it but carers and nhs workers out there, you are our they need to be much clearer about how that is hope. you are our heroes. going to be delivered. in that way and we want to say thank we can restore confidence. there are you. to all our wonderful issues, other issues about the workers within the nhs, testing. you saw yesterday, it that includes our doctors and nurses, our cleaners, our is not just about nhs, porters, everybody doing their best. testing. you saw yesterday, it is notjust about nhs, it is about social care and residential thank you so much for your establishments as well, we need commitment and your dedication. thank you. more information about how that we need you. and we appreciate you. aspect is going to be tackled. we must not be notjust now, but always. ina going to be tackled. we must not be in a situation where people are i just want to thank fea rful in a situation where people are fearful that both absolutely everybody working for the individual, the elderly people in residential nhs. establishments are in their own i hope you know how loved and appreciate home, are being you are at this time and always. you truly are the nation's heroes. put at risk we're in a pickle. and not, we're in a mess. the staff that are dealing with them we're self isolating and we're apart are not sufficiently protected. the from those we love best. government need to be near open and but we are grateful stick to their promises and for you. your love, care and dedication too that way i think we can restore confidence. to get in the kitchen and face but clarity is the heat and get this the issue, openness nation back on its feet. thank you. and then delivery. you as we love you. we are lucky opposition, i imagine are treading a fine line at the moment between to have you. wanting to be one message in i suppose part of the point of this that we are all in this together, but at the is that heroes come in same time offering a different shapes and sizes at the moment. and critique and sometimes a hero may some kind of constructive criticism, not be doing a some kind of constructive criticism, some of which was keyjob and sometimes maybe it is a recognised yesterday in the press conference in hero who does something for you. line with some of the financial someone has done a little thing that decision the government has made. has made a difference. although that was literally said, we show appreciation now, wasn't it, that the office, the ideas from the we should labour party had been always. a question for you. useful.” that the office, the ideas from the labour party had been useful. i was grateful for matt hancock saying are you home—schooling and looking that. it was about their financial for more inspiration? we mayjust have the answer for you. proposals that we have put to the bbc bitesize is launching a massive range government and they have accepted of online resources about the need for investment. today to help you was my commencement, again, the chancellor has listened because get the most out we raise this in parliament. it was not of your lessons. just the labour party but mps here to tell us more is the cbbc of presenter karim zeroual. other parties. we raise lovely to see this issue about loans to businesses last week you. a lot in parliament and all political of people may be scratching their heads at sides were raising examples of how the system is not working. now we home. a lot of people are hoping today that enjoying the opportunity to be at home and the chancellor learning with their kids. tell will address that, it will be a us, bit ofa what has been set up will address that, it will be a bit of a u—turn that we welcome it. there are other gaps with regards to by way of help? thejobs iagree, i what has been set up by way of help? i agree, i think lots of people will there are other gaps with regards to be enjoying it. what we are the jobs retention scheme. there are other gaps with regards to thejobs retention scheme. people and short time working, a lot doing at of the bbc is the biggest push seasonal workers not on workers education and history and it is covered. and also for trying to give people the self—employed, people who for a helping hand example have only just self—employed, people who for example have onlyjust started their when we are going through companies in the last 12 this. we months. a lot of freelancers, the creative have six 20 industries are not covered by that. minute daily programmes, i have submitted a number of papers just with experts and in the last few weeks. teachers, guiding them through the day to give i have them a helping hand so submitted three in the last week and they do feel i hope you will take this so isolated. what kind of thing will into consideration and again there will they be doing? will it be themed be amendments to the jobs retention around subjects? key scheme and to support to the subjects, maths, english and science. we will self—employed. i have also said to him, we have got be honing in on what students need to increase for that date, for that statutory sick pay and year, for move along a that curriculum. we minimum earnings guarantee for eve ryo ne minimum earnings guarantee for have bite—size everyone now. i egg daily, ranging from years one to —— i'm hoping ten. there's loads and the government are learning lessons. there, we wa nt the government are learning lessons. quizzes, videos, tests we want to work with the and games. government, we wa nt we want to work with the government, we want to ensure we all work helping out parents or guardians. together and tackle this crisis and how do you access all we come out of it this material? having learnt you can access quite a number of lessons as well how do you access all this material? about the nature of our economy and you can access on how do you access all this material? you can access on the bbc red button how it should be operating in the or iplayer. if you want future. thank you for your time the general curriculum it will be on bbc red this morning. the shadow chancellor. button and all of the above and bbc matt hancock after half an hour. bite—size as well. it's time now to catch button and all of the above and bbc bite-size as well. i wonder what you up with diana moran, better known as the green goddess, are hearing anecdotally or through the bbc and what you are doing for another home work—out routine. good morning, everyone. about how people are either enjoying it i hope you've been enjoying this slightly better weather that we've or and the skill of the challenge they been having recently. it's time now to catch are facing. it is a up with diana moran, huge scale that we are all facing and that is why it is important to give people a looks as if i'm having a gene kelly moment. helping hand that they need, for it's just that i wanted to use pa rents helping hand that they need, for either a long stick, parents who might struggle like a bamboo pole, or maybe my golf with teaching their kids throughout the club to do a few exercises. day. life has been turning on its so for you golfers who can't get out head so this will hopefully show and about at the minute, and a few gardeners and a people that there is support there and it is a different few other people, come on, let'sjust way of learning. there are physical use activities they like bbc super either that golf club or bit movers. for your mental health and of bamboo to move our bodies, physical health, there is so much stretch our on there. i am physical health, there is so much on there. iam hoping bodies. physical health, there is so much on there. i am hoping that people will a piece of equipment simple use this, it is accessible, there like this just encourages are use this, it is accessible, there a re lessons use this, it is accessible, there are lessons for the whole day if you you to move a choose to use it. it is generally little bit more. a really good thing. it will you can be out in the be played fresh air doing this. out differently in every household. the mum or the dad that you wouldn't even be hitting has the fun the plants that i'm kind of slightly and then the other one is the doing here this morning. and then twist, use your disciplined person or it might be body. mixed up, that everyone is having to twist, twist. rethink those rules and work things out ina that's it. rethink those rules and work things out in a different way. look round to the side. yes, it is look right round. trying to build that structure. that's it. pa rents trying to build that structure. parents will be taking on different work your body. roles, not just the parents will be taking on different lovely. roles, notjust the mum and dad but the teacher, that is tough. i that's really good. know my sister struggling with that, i just need to work my have three nephews. and back a little bit. i think that so just simply move the is what we really need at the umbrella or the stick up and down moment, accessible education for working your body in a children to feel they have that slightly unusual way. support that they need. year and when you do that, ten will do a 90 minute instagram your bones respond and say life, they can explore questions we should get that they wa nt a bit stronger. they can explore questions that they want and there will be an immediate effect from a teacher which is as long as you're having enough great. it is ranging from years calcium in your diet, one to ten, it is an important time that plus vitamin d, which is that we are in. is sunshine, your bones it nephews you have, will get stronger. let's go to the nephews and nieces, do they listen to ourjuicy, are other side. just up. you any use and down. whatsoever? my question, it up and down. really wasn't a question... i up. and down. am wondering with yourfamily, wasn't a question... i am wondering with your family, i well, what about wasn't a question... i am wondering with yourfamily, i think it is nephews you have, do they these poor feet? ever listen to anything you ever say, are let's have a look at you any use ever? what i call fidgety feet. no, i definitely am not. i know that they will so we'lljust turn the toes in, lift and lower, lift and love this and i know my sister will be lower, very grateful for this because she working the has been struggling. good luck with ankles. all that stuff. working the little cannot believe you toe muscles, as well. that's asked one of our guests if they are good. any use whatsoever! in that keeping us nice circumstance i wouldn't be. and agile. everyone is just don't run into the habit of sitting circumstance i wouldn't be. everyone isjust dealing circumstance i wouldn't be. everyone is just dealing with it. and you can find the online in the chair too much. lessons published daily from monday that's good. 20th april on the bbc bitesize let's finally stretch out website — the muscles with the help bbc.co.uk/bitesize. of the umbrella or the here is someone who knows his stuff normally. here is matt. i golf club. that's good. thought he was going to ask if stretch out. you are any use stretch the other one. ever. good. and now we really will be i like that normally tagged singing in the rain. on in there as well. look or, yes, get out in the garden what changes we or take a nice long walk. go through this weekend, all area come on, let's keep set to see a boost fit and carry on. in temperatures by sunday, some getting above 20 degrees and there will be a fair bit of sunshine for a while the nation needs to know that overhead. matt out there tomorrow, where we have was actuallyjoining in in front the sunshine, where we of his weather screen. i have told have frosty them. i have told them. sta rts the sunshine, where we have frosty starts in scotland, north and what have you got for eastern scotland —— like england. temperatures have held up your through the night, a few us? good morning. rain showers around. in the northern half a bit of scotland, it is of a cold enough here lovely to have the show as full as sleet picture from sheffield. a chilly and snow. a fair bit start to friday, that changes this of cloud around through the day that we see sunshine weekend. things set to get much come and go, increasing sunshine in warmer. an area of high pressure the south east later. with us, winds in temperatures a clockwise around eight to 12. condition —— make direction. the as we go through dragon winds from the south and those southerly winds will bring this evening and overnight, rain warmerairas we showers for the northern half of the those southerly winds will bring warmer air as we go through the weekend. temperatures peaking on country. brief spells of snow on sunday when we could see the hills before that turns as as high as temperatures start to rise 17 celsius in the north west of in one scotland. 21 degrees in the south shape in scotland and northern ireland. a chilly night tonight, a east of england and with it chance of frost for some sunshine. a big contrast to what we the start of have outside at the moment. trust in your saturday morning. into saturday, sunshine and parts of scotland and the north and east of england. frosty for wales. cloud increasing through the cloud for many day, afair but wales. cloud increasing through the day, a fair bit of cloud for quite nac start with actual scotla nd day, a fair bit of cloud for scotland and northern ireland, one in scotland, wintry showers through the or two showers around night and scotland, wintry showers through the nightand a scotland, wintry showers through the night and a few more to come through temperatures the day especially the further start to rise on saturday, around north 11 you are. rain showers in northern to 16 degrees. they will ireland, the west of england and rise even further into sunday. the message wales. some sunny breaks and an this weekend and stay at increasing amount of sunshine towards the south—west later home. on. temperatures away from city centres, for most in double figures. a fair bit of cloud for the northern half of the country, clear skies in england and wales and was later went, a few folic —— fog patches. a greater chance of frost around first thing to the weekend. lots of sunshine for england and wales, mist and fog clearing. the cloud will then across scotland and northern ireland, early rain in the far north lingering across shetland in the afternoon. isolated showers. most good morning. will be dry. saturdays on welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty saturday, and charlie stayt. 11 to 16. our headlines today... for sunday, blue skies for all frontline nhs staff who need it will have been tested many to start with, clouding over from the west later wish for coronavirus by the end of the month. you —— if that's the pledge from few shows around. touch gale force the health secretary on this programme this in the west later in the day. morning. as i said, during the afternoon we could it's a challenge to the whole see temperatures peak at around system, it's a clear goal 21. 01:00:34,971 --> 613566587:02:25,608 that 613566587:02:25,608 --> 1227133173:04:16,246 is 1227133173:04:16,246 --> 1840699759:06:06,883 how 1840699759:06:06,883 --> 2454266345:07:57,520 your 2454266345:07:57,520 --> 3067832931:09:48,156 weather 3067832931:09:48,156 --> 3681399517:11:38,793 is 3681399517:11:38,793 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 looking. that we've set and i understand why people are yearning for these tests. clapping for our carers. millions show their support, once again, for frontline and key workers. a new hospital which can treat 4,000 covid—19 patients opens today — at the excel centre in london. it's time to do your bit. the health secretary urges premier league footballers to take a pay cut to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. it's friday, april 3rd. our top story. all front line nhs staff who need it will have been tested for coronavirus by the end of the month — that's what the health secretary, matt hancock, told this programme earlier. he described it as a commitment. it comes as the government promises to carry out a total of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month, compared to the current level of 10,000 tests a day. there was more clapping for carers and key workers yesterday evening, who are keeping the country running throughout the crisis. we'll hear your tributes to them shortly. we are going to have a heroes half an hour. it will be lovely. first, our correspondent danjohnson has the latest. cheering, applause and car horns sound. someone once said the nhs is the closest thing we have two our own religion. if so, this is our new regular act of worship. up and down the land, thanks and praise for carers of all kinds, and the key workers keeping the country on its feet. even the poorly prime minister briefly emerged from isolation to applaud the workers his government is accused of failing to properly protect with enough equipment or available tests. ok, thanks, nhs! thank you, thank you! thanks, all. how could this drive—through centre stand empty yesterday when doctors and nurses want to know if they can get back to work? and we're all wondering just how widespread the virus really is. it's a trial, the government says, which will soon be fully operational. we want more testing. of course i understand why people want the certainty that you get from having a test, so we're ramping up testing. we've hit the goal of having 10,000 tests a day by the end of march, and today i've set the goal of 100,000 tests a day by the end of this month. note the language — it's a goal, not a target. the government admits our testing lags behind some other countries, so the plan now is to build up capacity by involving more companies and university labs. here, nhs staff queued to find out if they're safe to go back to the frontline. this is horrible, i can only apologise for it. this is the antigen test, showing whether you currently have the virus and may spread it. then this is an antibody test, which shows if you've had it, maybe without realising, and could now have immunity. the government ordered millions of these, and wants millions more, but their reliability isn't guaranteed, and a bad test is deemed worse than no test. this is definitely a step in the right direction. experts welcome the increase, but say more is still needed. this is not a magic bullet that will kill the epidemic. it's got to be seen as part of a multifaceted strategy. and currently, there's a lot of focus on testing for the purpose of helping health workers get back into the nhs, helping with population surveillance, but what's missing is the third aspect of testing, which is its use to try to minimise and stop community transmission. there were another 569 deaths across the uk, which means the total is now close to 3,000. as more people suffer, here's the extra capacity — london's nightingale hospital, ready to open after being fitted out injust nine days. there are 500 beds here with 3,500 more to follow, a hint of how much worse things might get. dan johnson, bbc news. let's speak now to our political correspondent, jonathan blake, who joins us from westminster. good morning to you. so much of what is going on at the moment in relation to government announcements, we were speaking to the health secretary this morning, about confidence, isn't it? these questions around testing, the commitment they are making and who actually will receive those tests and when? yes, the health secretary in his interview with you in the last hour or so gave us a bit more ofan last hour or so gave us a bit more of an idea of who is being tested at the moment, around 10,000 people a day, we knew that and that breaks down to, he said, about 8000 patients per day and they remained a government priority, remaining in hospital with coronavirus symptoms and approximately 1500 or so nhs staff. that number he said, would be increasing rapidly very soon. but from 10,000 up to 100,000 a day is a bigjump and the from 10,000 up to 100,000 a day is a big jump and the health secretary acknowledged that the government had acknowledged that the government had a lot of work to do if it was going to meet that target. i'm determined that we get to 100,000 tests a day, it's a challenge to the whole system, it is a clear goal that beset, and i understand why people are yearning for these tests as well. testing is important because it will allow the government and experts to build up a better picture of exactly how many people have been infected with coronavirus and ultimately, to lift or relax the restrictions on our daily lives that have been put in place to slow the spread of this disease. crucially though, it doesn't seem like the test which will tell us if people have had coronavirus in the past and are now immune to it, is anywhere near being ready. so the 100,000 figure will be people tested for the virus to see whether they have it now, not whether they have had it in the past. jonathan, thank you. the new nhs nightingale hospital in london is set to officially open today. staff will begin moving into the temporary intensive care unit this morning, with the first patients expected to arrive next week. let's join our correspondent angus crawford, who's at the hospitalfor us now. these nightingale hospitals, pleural, so crucial in tackling the patients that need help? indeed, we will have a royal opening, royal opening with a difference, it will be one from lockdown, prince charles who is obviously himself recovering from the virus at home in scotland will broadcast a video message to the people here, the workers, medics, thanking them for all their help, paying tribute to them and paying tribute to all those nhs frontline staff across the country and it is an incredible think they have done here, they began with an empty shell two weeks ago, 100,000 square metres of space, you could fit the whole of terminal five at heathrow airport in there. and now we have ward up on—board up on—board, at the moment 500 beds, each ward with 42 beds in it, possibly 80 awards in total, that would make beds if needed in the weeks to come. angus, thank you. royal opening with a difference! americans are being encouraged to wearface masks in public to help stop the spread of the virus. the united states recorded 1,169 deaths in the past 24 hours — the biggest single day tally of any nation. more than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered across the globe. the scheme offering government—backed loans to companies struggling during the pandemic is being expanded, and some of its rules relaxed. the chancellor, rishi sunak, said more small companies would be eligible, and those with a turnover of up to £500 million would also qualify. business groups said they were pleased the government had listened to their concerns. bus companies in england are to have financial losses covered by the government over the next three months, to ensure services can still run. similar pledges have already been made in scotland and wales. the industry says passenger numbers have "fallen off a cliff" since people were advised against all non—essential travel. the time is ten minutes past eight. about half an hour ago we were talking to the health secretary, digging down on how the testing will pan out, how many people are going to be tested. yesterday, he made an unusual comment for a health secretary —— about premier league footballers for a health secretary. mike is here to tell us more. he didn't shy away from anything? this is about ethics, the integrity of sport going forward, some people saying this could be a pr disaster for the game if it isn't sorted out so what we are talking about is whether premier league players, the average wage in the premier league is around £70,000 a week, should they be taking some sort of wage cut? they haven't come out as yet premier league stars universally, they haven't followed the lead of they haven't followed the lead of the likes of barcelona, juventus, barcelona have taken a 70% pay cut already, led by the likes of lionel messi who donated money to healthcare workers. premier league players haven't done that as yet. some clubs have put nonplaying staff on leave and reduced wages, and even use the government taxpayer funded job retention scheme, put them on furlough, if you like, clubs like totte n ha m , furlough, if you like, clubs like tottenham, newcastle, norwich and bournemouth. some clubs had taken a lead at the top in terms of their directors and managers, the bournemouth manager has taken a volu nta ry bournemouth manager has taken a voluntary pay cut and now brighton, we understand at the last 24 hours, the manager graham potter and the board there have done what they say isa board there have done what they say is a significant wage reduction but not for the board stop now we wait to see, more talks going on at the moment, to see whether players follow the lead as well as some english clubs in the championship, leaves, they led the way last week, taking a voluntary wage cut and also birmingham taking a 50% wage cut for the next four months. talks go on today, would be surprised, i think the consensus is would be surprised if there isn't an announcement today are certainly next week about the players taking a wage cut. the players taking a wage cut. the players union, the players football association while saying players should do their bit and should be accountable and making a contribution, they have stopped short so far of saying come on players, take a wage cut but we think some movement might happen on this today. 0k and no doubt if it does, we will hear later on bbc news or in the morning but mike, can i change the subject? how well do you know the gruffalo? i've seen it live, i used to read the books to the children, i love it, the snake, the children, i love it, the snake, the mouse, the owl, al ice cream? you will be interested in what's coming next. it's being changed. they're some of the most recognisable children's characters — now the ‘gruffalo' and the ‘stick man' are back with a very important message. authorjulia donaldson and illustrator axel scheffler have created some new stories to help us stay safe from coronavirus. we'll speak to them all about it in a moment, first here's a little look at their famous creations in action. dog pants. stick giggles. a stick? barks the dog. an excellent stick. oh! the right kind of stick for my favourite trick. stick breathes heavily. dog pants. ahh! mouse whistles. silly old snake. doesn't he know there's no such thing as a gruffal. .. oh! who is this creature with terrible claws? and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws? he has knobbly knees and turned out toes. and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose. his eyes are orange, his tongue is black, he has purple prickles all over his back. oh, help! oh, no! it's a gruffalo! gruffalo growls. that's a little taster of the original gruffalo, if you like. we joined now by author julia donaldson and illustrator axel scheffler. welcome to you both, it's so lovely to see you. julia, you've come up with new storylines, along with some of axel images. it was totally axel ‘s idea, i can't take any credit for this. we started doing some sketches, and each incorporating a ta ke sketches, and each incorporating a take about coronavirus. the gruffalo one is all right said that the g ruffalo one is all right said that the gruffalo bursting with laughter. you go ahead and i'll follow two metres after. there is a couplet from each book and i wrote most of them but that one, i said, that was written by my son. how sweet. axel, we can see one of the images, you probably can see the monitor. but we have the g ruffalo next can see the monitor. but we have the gruffalo next to the tree. did you have a moment of inspiration, you thought, you know what? i could do something with this that might impact. i thought what can i do as an illustrator and i'm currently working on a digital non—fiction book about coronavirus which is serious and very informative and probably more important than this which is coming out early next week but i wanted to do something light—hearted and cheer people up andl light—hearted and cheer people up and i thought, what if i imagine our characters in a coronavirus situation and it's about entertaining and giving out serious information. you know what i will say to you, we all work to live, don't we? this will be very important to many people, we need this entertainment, that's what we are doing it for. julia, you mentioned your son, you're collaborating with him when you are coming up with these razors and snippets, what kind of things were being bounced around ? snippets, what kind of things were being bounced around? —— these phrases. idid i did most of the couplets actually but we are bouncing around some jokes on mobile phones. i have also been talking to them a lot about home education, because this is a big thing for a lot of families now. and ifound big thing for a lot of families now. and i found out big thing for a lot of families now. and ifound out that big thing for a lot of families now. and i found out that one of them my younger son, has been doing scientific experiments, one where they try to suck a hard—boiled egg into a bottle, and another has been doing touch typing with his children. i think they are making the most of the home—schooling! absolutely, and these new pictures that have come out, you understand your readers, don't you? how important do you think it is that they can see something familiar like they can see something familiar like the gruffalo or stick man, taking pa rt the gruffalo or stick man, taking part in the new rules and the new measures? because they will feel like new rules and restrictive.” think that probably is a point, if they are like those characters are saying to keep your distance ought to get plenty of exercise, the one about stick man," stick man state home in their tree but they are still keeping fit with their sticky children three." that is a message you can still do the exercises at home. but really, i don't think axel ori home. but really, i don't think axel or i were intending to be preaching about that product but can ijust say, one of the things that has been interesting. as we have been talking to more guests on skype in the home is like you, we get to have a little look at your home is and i'm looking behind you at what looks like a washing line full of pictures! what is going on there? it isjust pictures of drawings that my daughter did and it's really a lamp cable so that shows you howl daughter did and it's really a lamp cable so that shows you how i live! one of the things you must encourage, a lot of youngsters at home at the moment are drawing and painting. what a wonderful thing to do and spent some time doing? a perfect way to spend some time, isn't it? yes, me, my life is at home drawing so it hasn't changed that much but for many children, it must be very hard to spend so much time at home, but drawing and making things and reading are all good things and reading are all good things to do. you can enjoy the time you have. and julia, are you finding that this time is inspiring in different ways? everyone is doing things a little differently from how they might normally. in a way, as axel said, you work at home quite a bit anyway but what has changed for you? i created a weekly broadcast from reading stories, songs and poems which is going out every thursday, i'm not technical but i think the gruffalo facebook page. that is one way of getting into children's homes and its completely new. who is on the guitar in the garden? inaudible we are losing your sound but i think you said it was your partner malcolm. it is a fun video. lovely to chat with you both, thank you very much. all adapting, even children's stories with a little twist one way or another. and it helps them to understand because it can be confusing at times with these measures in place. we are talking about what you can do at home, we are all being encouraged to stay in and work from home but for key workers including those in the nhs and postal services, it's not an option. over the next few days on breakfast we're going to meet some of those keeping britain moving. to kick us off, tim muffett has been to a supermarket in east london to meet those working to keep our shelves stocked with supplies. our world has changed. the way we live, the way we shop. tesco extra in beckton, east london, where staff have seen things that months ago would have an unimaginable. people are queueing for toilet rolls, disinfectants. they are just grabbing everything. it is like there is not going to be tomorrow. have there been times when it has been tough with some of the customers? yes. a customer, i was serving a customer and another person came. and i asked her to stand behind the black line. she was angry with me. they have been dramas in the store. but i have been able to cope. customers are now restricted to a maximum of three of any one product. numbers in and out are also controlled. so the sheer challenge of keeping these shelves stocked up, how hard has it been? it wasn't great, as you can imagine. there was alwaysjust... tonnes of people just coming in, trying to grab stuff, and the shelves were empty. so things like strawberries, you know, just basic things like blueberries, they were all empty but now we have got a good stack of them. march was the busiest month ever recorded by uk supermarkets. i tell you what, i have been working in retail since i was 17 years old and i have never seen anything like it. we have put down markers every two metres, so our customers understand the two metre rule around social distancing and it has been really, really helpful. some shelves are still rather empty but most here are now well stocked. although for many elderly and vulnerable people, visiting the store isn't an option. sometimes the customers are having stress when they can't actually get the supplies that they want. we have all been pulling a lot of double and triple shifts in order to make sure we meet the demands. it has been critically important at this time. sometimes we go to a customer's house and we are the first person they have seen in maybe a few days. so we are always available for a chat. this week, some supermarket chains have loosened the restrictions on some of the products you can buy, but consumer behaviour and demand has been transformed. normal shopping seems a long way off. you are coming to contact effectively with quite a few people. yes. are you worried about the impact on your health? yeah, we do worry about it. as long as you are healthy and, you know, the social distancing is in operation, there is not much we can do. we just have to weather the storm and get on with it. stand behind the black line and push them down. do you think the way yourjob is perceived by people has changed, that its importance is being recognised more than it perhaps was? to be honest, you know, like saying, like you just work for a supermarket, i think we all have learned and i hope the government will see that we are hard—working. and all the people will realise that we are here to serve the public and work as one team. products, places and people we perhaps took for granted, but not now. tim muffet, bbc news. you know what? what is great about thatis you know what? what is great about that is that all week and in the coming weeks we are going to be celebrating those people, often behind the scenes, who often have been ignored or not recognised and now they are for how important they are and we are celebrating them. from 8:30 this morning, we're going to pay tribute to all of our keyworkers — from nhs staff and supermarket shelf—stackers, to posties and delivery drivers. you can get involved in our ‘heroes half—hour' too. let us know who you want to thank. it doesn't have to be a key worker, that's the point. it could be someone that's the point. it could be someone who has just made your day by doing something small but significant because that can make a difference. we have seen that with the clapping for carers. to get us started, here's some familiar faces from the cast of holby city and casualty with special messages of their own. i wanted to send a message to you guys, the real heroes in the nhs. you know, we are doing our bit, self isolating, washing our hands whatever, but you guys are front and centre in these extraordinary times. ijust want to say we love you, we appreciate you. why do you think we act like you every week? keep doing what you're doing. thank you, you're absolute, real—life heroes. i want to big up everyone that works from the nhs, from the porters to the cleaners, the nurses, the canteen staff, the doctors, surgeons, the list is absolutely endless. you guys, you're amazing. thank you. to the nhs, i support you, i thank you. and i salute you. ijust wanted to say a massive thank you to all the real workers at the nhs. not the fake ones, all the amazing people that are helping us through this really difficult time. just to say thank you, from everyone at big, fake holby city. above all, we must remember what a treasure the national health service is. a jewel in the cultural crown of this country. to all health care workers, still going, making big sacrifices in order to keep us going, we're so incredibly grateful and we stand with you. thank you so much. some lovely messages from the cast of casualty and holby city, it almost makes me feel that i should be nice to matt! but i don't think the measures in place have changed things that much! good morning. i will put this out there, you are one of my heroes! sometimes we watch the weather and think, it is just the weather and think, it is just the weather but it is so crucial so thank you. very little job compared to some. a lot of people keeping the country going and thank you very much from all of us. i do my little bit to keep you going to. i know most of you are stuck inside but any length of time outside, a bit of a bright, we need to know what the weather is doing and take a look at what is happening across this morning in parts of scotland. some snow around in the far north. some more snow showers coming today but here and in the rest of the country, big changes this weekend put it things will be turning much warmer. at the moment we have high pressure to the west which has been feeding the north—westerly winds. the winds go around it in a clockwise direction and as it moves to the east, we bring the winds from the south and those southerly winds start to put in on saturday and particular sunday which will bring ever warmer air and by the time we get to sunday afternoon, some places could reach 21 degrees in the south—east corner. where you have snow this morning, may be 16 or 17 celsius. we have widespread frost in scotland, northern and eastern england, wintry showers continue in the north of scotland, turning back to rain through the day. if few rain showers in the west, hit and miss, some cloud but some sunny spells and increasing sunshine in a south—west later and still some sunshine between the showers in the north of scotland. the wind not as strong as yesterday, for some it will not feel as chilly as it did, a cooler day further south so for the most part. this evening and overnight, a fair bit of cloud to start, more cloud in scotland, northern ireland and the north of england, a couple of showers but much of england and wales will have clearer skies compared to last night so it will be told that with a chance of mist and fog developing especially in the south—west. there we will have a lot of sunshine in england and wales to begin with, a bit more cloud later on put it fairly cloudy for scotland and northern ireland, some showers, dampest conditions in the far north of scotla nd dampest conditions in the far north of scotland lingering in shetland into the afternoon. template is already climbing into double figures if not the teens —— temperatures climbing to. and saturday night into sunday, the wind will strengthen but a lot of sunshine to begin with, showers developing in the west later. we could see gales in the west later but don't forget, if you are spending a length of time outside, keep it local and largely in your garden. temperatures will reach around 21 celsius. enjoy your weekend. you enjoy your weekend as well. are we seeing you tomorrow? not this weekend but i will be back next week. i don't know whether you watch the programme when you stop giving us the wonderful weather but the next half an hour, if you want to feel good in a difficult time, watch bbc breakfast. it is next to my workstation and i'm looking forward to it! it's time for our heroes half hour now. we're going to celebrate all the positive stories at this difficult time. there no pretending that things are very difficult for a lot of people. but clinging onto the little things can makea but clinging onto the little things can make a big difference. for the second week in a row, applause rang out last night in tribute to all of the nhs staff, carers and key workers keeping the country going. as charlie said we are recognising all the people and lots more people who are making our lives better. brea kfast‘s jayne mccubbin has put together a selection of some of her favourite moments. let's take a look. applause. we all came out to do it again. applause. we gave thanks. cheering and applause. we gave thanks with paws... laughter. ..with pipes... bagpipes play. ..with brass... brass band plays. ..with drums. drums play. we gave thanks from trains, from ports, from ships, from ourfront doors. with all our heart, we came out to say... thank you. outside hospitals across the country, in birmingham, in london, in liverpool, in gloucester. thank you! but last night wasn't just for those fighting the virus, it was for the supermarket staff. cheering and applause. it was for the postal workers. applause. it was for the care home workers. applause. you have just had the biggest clap for carers, haven't you? we have indeed, and that's absolutely for all of our nhs supporters, any health professionals that come in the home. come close to the camera, joan, come close, because you and i know it's notjust for the nhs staff, it's for those blinkin' carers behind you as well, isn't it? they're very kind. are they very kind? god bless her. they're always there when you want them, so it's marvellous really. carers don't get a lot of praise, do they? i know they don't, but i've got some good ones. it's lovely to meet you all. shall we do one last clap? all clap. in liverpool, applause outside a care home battling the virus. good luck to them, keep on going, we love you, you're saving lives. nhs blue shone from back gardens, from streets, from the nation's landmarks, as the country was united in its decision to make thursday, 8pm a regular date until these dark days are over. let's talk to susan now who is a nurse at a london hospital. good morning to you. couple of things we need to clarify, your boss has said it's ok for you to talk to us now, you're on shift, right? where are you're on shift, right? where are you on the shift pattern. i'm on the day shift, i started at 8am this morning, i have an amazing manager who kindly said i could take the time to talk to you guys this morning so i thank herfor time to talk to you guys this morning so i thank her for that. and we in turn on behalf of everyone else thank you and so many of your collea g u es else thank you and so many of your colleagues for everything that you're doing and just reflect for a moment with us, would you, on that 8pm clapping moment. i'm not sure what doing at that time last night but you know it's happening? yes, i do actually. ironically i actually finished a little bit earlier last night so i live in a small village in kent. driving home as i come into the village, all i could hear was people clapping, you know, because tooting their horns and i will be honest, i was so overwhelmed, i broke down in tears. the love and warmth that is coming out from the public is absolutely unbelievable. you know what? on behalf of all of my nhs colleagues we want to thank everybody out there because you know what? without a lot of people out there we would not be functioning as well as we do at the moment. from restau ra nt well as we do at the moment. from restaurant owners and i'll know, oh she's back, thank goodness, susan, you dropped out there orjust a moment. please continue. they've been sending us food, you know. they've been absolutely amazing. on behalf of all of us here, huge, huge thank you for what you guys do. most of us are working from the time we leave home until we get back at night, it's round about 14—15 hour day so most of us are too tired to cook when we get home, it's pretty demanding at the moment as you can imagine. to know that we are getting a hotmail, it'sjust amazing, imagine. to know that we are getting a hotmail, it'sjustamazing, i'm overwhelmed, i don't know how to put it into words. —— hot meal. overwhelmed, i don't know how to put it into words. -- hot meal. as you say, you appreciate so much with the public is doing, doing the most it can, but it's a small thing to show you are appreciated. how is work at the moment. we've done enough about the moment. we've done enough about the nitty—gritty, but talk to me about the atmosphere amongst you and your colleagues, when it's tough, how you help each other, you know, the tools you are using. we've got a pretty good support network, all the practitioners and the doctors that i work with, the management team, are amazing. if we find it overwhelming we've always got someone we can go and talk to. we are in a bit of unique position here, we are triaging telephone calls as well. even talking to people on the phone, again, it can be very, very overwhelming. you are talking to someone overwhelming. you are talking to someone who is very, very unwell and you have to send an ambulance out to them but over all, morale is very good. yes, the pressure is on, the demand is there in different areas. we arejust doing demand is there in different areas. we are just doing things that we wouldn't ordinarily be doing, we are just mucking in and soldiering on, really. i tell you what, just mucking in and soldiering on, really. itell you what, susan, i'm looking at the backdrop behind you, have you chosen the only quiet place in the hospital? i've not seen a single other person, is there anyone there with you? i'm actually in a consultation room. my role as an advanced nurse practitioner, i do the same as what a lot of the junior doctors do and gps. i've hidden myself into one of the consultation rooms so i can myself into one of the consultation rooms so i can have some peace myself into one of the consultation rooms so i can have some peace and quiet and hopefully not be interrupted by one of my colleagues coming running and going and me going whoops! it's lovely to catch up going whoops! it's lovely to catch up with you. please pass on our best wishes to all of your colleagues for all the work you're doing, you have all the work you're doing, you have a long day ahead so thank you so much. no, thank you for everything you do. thank you. what a way to start heroes half hour. susan there, doing thejob we start heroes half hour. susan there, doing the job we are also grateful for. plenty of you have been getting in touch with special video messages this morning. here's just a few. this is for all the posties and binmen who are keeping everything going while we are all locked away. thank you. thank you so much to paul matthews, my milkman, and to all the royal mail postmen and women who've kept delivering, all the delivery drivers. can we give a huge thank you to teachers as well. my daughter amy is a year six teacher, she still goes into school to look after the children of other key workers so please, can we say a big thank you to teachers as well? thank you to the nhs. and i also wanted to thank the refuse collection team. i live here in watford in hertfordshire and they've been out every single week, tirelessly, doing theirjob, keeping everything clean and spotless so thank you so much to them. and of course, a massive thank you to everyone who is out there on the frontline. and i'd like to say a massive thank you to my mum who is an nhs hero. she works in a doctor's surgery as a practice nurse and has been working more hours, more days, helping those that are poorly. i don't think she realises how great she is but she's a real hero to us. we are 820 naval air squadron and we are proud to be supporting the nhs staff and key workers, fighting against covid 19. thank you. all: thank you! some of those thank you is reflected in sport as well. mike? i love those clips and tributes and i love how people have been creative, people finding new ways to keep fit and active. we had the video of the chapter recreating the ashes triumph with his cat. here is kelly, in the kitchen of her household. seeing locate the cat recreating the ashes triumph, they have relived the success at olympic curling for britain. what imaginative use of bills, paint and a very clean kitchen floor. people have been changing how they exercise to help vulnerable people, this mum runs we re vulnerable people, this mum runs were started in bristol five years ago by a woman who wanted others to keep company but with people in isolation, she and her members have become prescription runners, getting medicine to people that cannot get out themselves. we can see them in action. i think we can bring you those pictures at the moment but i can tell you about simon garner who has been leading the residents of st marys garden in kensington in daily exercise routines on their doorsteps. he and his housemate katie compiled a 20 minute playlist the night before and they send it out on the group whatsapp chat and they come to the doors to exercise using household objects like brushes and wooden spoons. and i've got to say, these two little lads, climbing the equivalent of mount 01:40:16,1000 --> 01:40:18,070 everest up the equivalent of mount everest up the stairs, that's 8868 metres, using the ropes and climbing equipment, i think they are on day six raising money for age uk. incredible. mike, so many lovely stories of how people are helping, i'm sorry we didn't have the pictures but you describe them perfectly so thank you. see you soon. perfectly so thank you. see you soon. and as mike was saying, heroes in all shapes and sizes. could be little things, could be big things. but in this case we are talking about six foot helping to deliver food to children. ‘jam' the t.rex has beenjoining volunteers joe parsonage and sam bryan as they distribute free school meals in the wirral and manchester. they join us now. joe, i'm sorry, i'm getting everyone mixed up, can you explain what's happening? it's an educational business that teaches children across the uk with our dinosaurs and dragons and we teamed up with riverside primary school to deliver some meals with our friend jam. just to bring a smile to some of their faces. 0k. are we going to get to see jam? faces. 0k. are we going to get to see jam ? where faces. 0k. are we going to get to see jam? where is he? are you ready? come on! come and say hello. don't be shy. he's coming! here he is! ok! he is very big, i didn't realise he was quite as big. for one moment i thought he was a little toy dinosaur, that is a huge thing, on the head of someone. 0k. how does that not scare the children? explain to me, please! ithink in that not scare the children? explain to me, please! i think in terms of not scaring the children, from being primary school teachers, we take the dinosaur into schools and deliver workshops that are creative and engaging and when we go out into the schools, and we are doing our work and visits, in the streets, the children are kind of blown away with awe and wonder, they don't tend to get too scared, sometimes in primary schools but not when we deliver the other meals. how does this work in practice, restrictions apply at the moment to do with social distancing and all that kind of thing, how does it work in practice, what you are able to do. that's why at the moment it'sjoe. he able to do. that's why at the moment it's joe. he and able to do. that's why at the moment it'sjoe. he and his partner lived together. we are seeing a little bit of footage. jam in action, appearing over garden fences. walking down the street. we basically, we have separate vehicles and we use separate vehicles and we use separate vehicles and we use separate vehicles in order to follow isolation rules. strict government guidelines. we make sure we have hand sanitiser with us, we make sure we clean the dinosaur every time we do it. minimal contact, to tell you the truth. it's lovely, we appreciate the work, thank you for showing us. jam, thank you, i'm not sure if you can give us a nod of approval. there you go, that's what we wanted. so lovely. jam, joe and sam, thank you so much. why wouldn't you give out free school meals accompanied by a dinosaur? it's our heroes half hour, loads of messages from you. wanting us to acknowledge your heroes. sally says as a teaching assistant herself, can you thank the thousands of teachers, assistants, kitchen staff, cleaners, heading to work so key workers can keep doing theirjobs during these times? and this remark assess cleaning supervisor in the east midlands, that's a job, just wanted to set public thank you to be clea ners to set public thank you to be cleaners in hospitals, warehouses, medical centres, supermarkets, clea ners medical centres, supermarkets, cleaners are often forgotten. their line of work is critical in situations like the current one we are in. so true. absolutely, john in kingston upon hull says he knows full well he was looked down upon by certain sections of the community but that said, he enjoyed his work and he's glad certain shopworkers, waste collectors, rug cleaners are being recognised. talking of waste collectors claire has been so this morning. she's made some home—made jam tarts, got them out of the oven and she's given them to the bin men this morning. nice! comfort food. exactly what you need. loads of m essa g es exactly what you need. loads of messages coming through so thank you. time for another heart—warming story now. sarah roberts has been washing nhs workers' uniforms for free at her laundrette in swansea. we can talk to her now, in the launderette. this is one of those jobs that people perhaps would not think it's so crucial, sarah, but you thought of it and it's making a real difference so tell us how it works. good morning, absolutely. because of the crisis that we are going through, the shop was empty and the machines were not running so we thought how could we help in the crisis point that we decided to help the nhs staff, the doctors and nurses and porters, anybody in the nhs who has a uniform and wash the uniforms for free. and there is a special setting, to be a bit technical because people might think if the machine washes the uniforms well enough, tell us about that. we have a system, it's all on our facebook page, where we have two boxes outside with key codes on them. the workers text us and let us know they are dropping it off, we give them the key code so there is no handling involved and it works 24 hours a day so they can drop off when they finished their shift. we ta ke when they finished their shift. we take up the laundry, wash it all separately in a commercial machine at the back that we have on a 75 degrees sluice wash and then dry it, pack it up, label it with their name, give them a text and put it in the collection box which is a separate and they can pick them up at the beginning of their shift or send someone down if they are busy. it works really well. we can say hello to anne who is one of your customers. how does it work for you? good morning, at the end of my shift, when i get home, i take my uniforms off at the front door, put them in the bag, take them down to sarah, and she launders them for me and returns them with a text and i pick them up after my shift. what a great idea and we should explain that you are a nurse? i am a health ca re that you are a nurse? i am a health care support worker.” that you are a nurse? i am a health care support worker. i imagine the whole thing about cleaning what you wear to work, it would normally be a logistical problem, especially given what is going on at the moment? yes, at the moment we are advised that when we come home from our shift that we get out of our car, take off our shoes, step inside our door. i have a onesie by the sight of the door, i take have a onesie by the sight of the door, itake my have a onesie by the sight of the door, i take my clothes off and put my onesie on, put my clothes in the bag ready to go to sarah at the launderette. it's a fantastic thing. i've got to say, the joy you are bringing, apart from the work you're doing, you will make everyone else feel better sitting at home in their onesie! there is no shame in it!” look like a snowman every day! it's a great look! sarah, i note you mentioned the facebook page but i wa nt to mentioned the facebook page but i want to make sure you still have capacity because it takes about 40 minutes for a run of uniforms to go through? and how many machines have you got? we have just got the one commercial machine, it can take about 50 uniforms which takes anything from 40 minutes to one hour. you have a lot of volunteers who have offered their help and we can work 24 hours round—the—clock if necessary. you can work 24 hours round—the—clock if necessary. you seem can work 24 hours round—the—clock if necessary. you seem like one of those superefficient people but i will ask anyway, have you had any ke rfuffle where will ask anyway, have you had any kerfuffle where someone has got the wrong uniform black or the wrong size? fingers crossed, not yet! -- the wrong uniform back. and tell us what sarah puts on the little notes when you get your uniform, anne? that is amazing. when i pick up my uniform, there is a little sticker on and she puts a little heart on it or says, stay safe, orthank on and she puts a little heart on it or says, stay safe, or thank you very much for your hard work, and it just makes me smile. it is such a wonderful thing, a little thing. i don't know if you can see, you got the heart sign from sarah. it is a special thing, there is a lot going on at the moment. in difficult times, i can tell from looking at you, there are good things happening to. definitely. everybody is coming together and the community is pulling together with a lot of volunteers offering help and it's amazing. it is a gorgeous story of coming together and helping each other, thinking outside the normal realms. anne, good luck and keep up with the hard work, you are appreciated by all of us and you can't see her but sarah is clapping as well and thank you, sarah, for being so innovative and helping and keep up giving the love! we are celebrating all those people that perhaps you don't necessarily see normally or if you do, you hadn't really acknowledged putjohn debra said her son as a bus mechanic in london, who along with his collea g u es in london, who along with his colleagues has worked tirelessly in the last few weeks. he and his collea g u es the last few weeks. he and his colleagues are worn out, they are covering for other staff members who are self—isolating, working hard to keep london moving but not normally recognised for their efforts. today we are hailing all the bus mechanic is not just we are hailing all the bus mechanic is notjust in london but around the country keeping transport moving for those who need to use it. and we know some of these are going on but it's never a bad time to say it again pandit sandra says, "i would like to thank the teaching staff are still working to provide an open school for children of key workers who are vulnerable as they were children of staff who could be infected." it's a real issue but they continue to provide activities for children. this is when you might not have thought of, i wouldn't. someone has messaged, jeremy saying, "i'd like to thank my colleagues at ultimate packaging. they are working ha rd ultimate packaging. they are working hard along with the rest of our supply chain and especially the packer customers to put fresh produce on the supermarket shelves throughout the uk. " produce on the supermarket shelves throughout the uk." you never think of that side of it. it is the little things which make all the difference. carol says," let's thank the bank staff, many banks are still open, helping people who don't have protection or screens and are dealing with members of the public face—to—face." there is a nice one for us from gillian! "i'd like to thank you both and the rest of the tea m thank you both and the rest of the team for providing the much—needed up—to—date information on covid—19. we appreciate it." is very kind. at the age ofjust 39, matt dockray found himself fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus despite having no underlying health conditions. after a stay in hospital, matt is now recovering at home in buckinghamshire, from where he joins us now. it's lovely to see you and good morning. you had better give us a quick rundown of what has happened to you and how you are. i'm a lot better than i was and feeling quite good at the minute so a good morning. i started feeling very ill at the start of the month, a few mild symptoms, a bit of a cough and a normal cold, we were not in the middle of this pandemic and the advice we had so i felt i had a bit ofa advice we had so i felt i had a bit of a cold winter then started getting the flu and that happened over a week and a bit and suddenly went very downhill. really bad flu symptoms, lost my taste, chills and fever is everywhere. got to the point where i physically could not breathe, and i got rushed into hospital. my right lung had collapsed, my left one was not doing so well. the doctors were quite sort of despairing at that point and said that i had deteriorated over three weeks and it did not look like it would get better and they would do the best they could. obviously they did. we have got you on in our heroes half hour to celebrate people. it is brilliant that you are well but i suppose can you contribute in the sense of the fact that the people who looked after you, not just the that the people who looked after you, notjust the medical care the emotional and mental support you got as well? absolutely. there is no tick box, trained medically to look after you and do what they can, but the emotional support i got from the team, the doctors and nurses on all of the wards was phenomenal. you don't get to see your family, they are not with you holding your hand and suddenly they become your best friends. the lead nurse, miranda, she was my life—saver, absolutely phenomenal, keeping you going with positivity. date note you are at your worst physically and mentally. —— they know. every day they keep you going, giving cute little challenges, shouting at me when i needed to be shouted at! hugging me when i needed to be hugged. so they could hug you ? when i needed to be hugged. so they could hug you? that must have been so important. and they come in they have all the gear on we are not at the stage we are now but they have the stage we are now but they have the equipment on and they are covered head to toe and it's not that they don't care, it is that they know what it i don't is making a difference. charlie has a surprise for you. if you wanted to say something to miranda, if you happened to be listening to what you we re happened to be listening to what you were saying right now, what would you say to her? she's an absolute life—saver. the reason i'm sat here is because of her. she's amazing, absolutely phenomenal person. she is here. we can see her in our studio, and she is smiling to. how are you? talk to us about you and matt. good morning, everyone. hi, matt! hello, beautiful! you made it through and you only a mcdonald's! what is that about? well, actually didn't know that his mrs was checking up secretly and touching base with me. and on one occasion she said, god, i don't know what to do, he is having his taste and smell back, he is craving for a mcdonald's! i was like, hold on, hold on, what are you on about? why he can't have mcdonald's? she was like, because he is in hospital. i said he is in quarantine because of coronavirus, he doesn't have anything in his throat or whatever so if he wants mcdonald's, let's make him happy!” just wanted to ask matt, even looking at miranda, i kind of understand what you just told us about what is a special about this particular lady. yes, there was a time when the ice you were almost measuring up for a ventilator —— the icu team. she was warding them off and saying he will get better, shooing them away from the door, trying to make a sense of humour in the most worrying and harsh times. she is absolutely phenomenal and she thinks it isjust she is absolutely phenomenal and she thinks it is just a she is absolutely phenomenal and she thinks it isjust a job but she is absolutely phenomenal and she thinks it is just a job but what a job she does and what an amazing person she is. that tells you everything and what a way to finish our programme. matt, glad you are well. miranda, you are a hero and we thank you and what a way to finish this half hour. thank you. thank you, miranda. you're welcome! that's it, a lovely story. something tells me that another time they will get together and have a chat. we hope that has inspired you, take care, we will both be back tomorrow from six o'clock. goodbye. this is bbc news with the latest headlines. the health secretary describes his "goal" of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by the end of the month as a huge undertaking in answer to the question, when can all nhs staff who need it get tested, the answer, the commitment i can give you is the end of the month but i hope that it will be sooner. built at breakneck speed — a new hospital which can treat 4,000 covid—19 patients opens today at the excel centre in london. in the us, authorities in new york city and los angeles advise people to wear face masks when they're outdoors, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. after strong criticism, the government's emergency loans scheme for businesses struggling to survive has been revamped to make it easier for firms to access loans and premier league clubs will meet via video later to discuss a possible restart date and the issue of footballer‘s wages as pressure mounts on top players to take a wage cut during the virus crisis.

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