This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. No time frame for schools in england to reopen as the government says its too early to set a date and children are told there are no plans to keep them in school over the summer. I know that you will be missing your friends, your teachers, your lessons, and i want you to know that you are such an important part of this fight to. As uk hospitals warn that stocks of personal Protection Equipment are running low, a new delivery to replenish stocks due to arrive today has been delayed. More protests across the us, calling on governors to reopen economies which were shut to stop the pandemic spreading. Well look at the Different Solutions to different covid i9 problems with four of our correspondents around the world. Singing and from the homes of the stars in celebration of healthcare workers everywhere. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavir
That. That inevitably means there will be smaller quantities over shorter periods of time until individual ppe line stabilise. Is there anything further he would like to ask . Just on the reopening of schools, if i could . Is the timing of that dependent on you feeling that schools have an adequate supply of cleaning materials, hand sanitiser and that sort of thing . If so, what guidelines are being drawn up so, what guidelines are being drawn up to give to the schools and the trusts to make sure that schools can be as safe as possible for parents and children and staff when they do eventually reopen . Kit, we have already issued a lot of guidance on this and it is available on the gov. Uk website. If you want to be able to access, i can organise someone able to access, i can organise someone to send you a link in terms of how we have been advising schools in order to deal with the challenges. Because we must not forget, many thousands of schools have continued to remain open over the
No family nearby. To get my fair share of abuse. And from the homes of the stars, the concert in celebration of healthcare workers everywhere. Good evening. The education secretary, gavin williamson, has declined to give a date for reopening schools in england, denying reports that the government hoped to send children back to class within a few weeks. He insisted the governments tests would need to be met before pupils could return to school as part of any easing of coronavirus restrictions. The latest official figures for the uk show there were 596 deaths reported in hospitals in the last 24 hour period. That takes the overall number whove died in hospitals to 16,060. Today the government was again under pressure over the supply of personal protective equipment for healthcare staff particularly the gowns used in intensive care. A delivery from turkey that was due to arrive here today is now expected tomorrow. Heres our Health Editor hugh pym. A vital consignment of masks and other pe
Set to remain closed. And well ask why the uks black and ethnic minority communities seem to be more likely to become infected with, and die from covid 19. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments, both here and globally. The uk government says its doing all it can to get as much personal protective equipment as possible from around the globe to Front Line Health Workers here. It comes as a further 596 people have died in the uk from coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths tojust over 16,000. Over 120,000 people have tested positive for the virus in the uk. A delivery of vital protective equipment for Health Care Workers to the uk has been delayed. The government said it was working to ensure the shipment from turkey which includes 400,000 gowns would reach front line staff in the coming days. The education secretary has said he cannot give a date for when schools in england might reopen and argued that