the landmarks of London they're empty of
crowds in an unprecedented way in some
places you can count on one hand the
number of people walking the streets
these iconic places are now symbols of a
country at a standstill so here we are
Saturday afternoon on a beautiful spring
day you'll expect tourists demonstrators
all kinds of people to be walking
through here with galleries shops and
restaurants closed they just aren't
coming it feels like being on a film set
or on a postcard
by contrast the scenes in our
supermarkets in the last fortnight have
been pretty ugly panic buying leading to
empty shelves one critical care nurse
made a tearful appeal after being unable
to buy fruit and veg just stripping the
shelves of basic foods frankly we should
all be ashamed that that has to happen
it's unacceptable these are the very
people that we will all need to look
after perhaps us or our loved ones in
the weeks ahead more food is arriving
every day there's no shortage of food
production the crucial thing is that we
need people to come down and buy only
what they need and to think of others
when they are purchasing the government
insists it's not planning to introduce
rationing but it's backing supermarkets
who impose limits on how many items
customers can buy food manufacturers say
they've increased production by 50% we
may not always be able to buy exactly
the normal things that we would and that
actually there will be any less choice
than perhaps there has otherwise been
there is a billion pounds more food in
people's houses than there was three
weeks ago so we should make sure we yeah
we eat some of it
such of the surreal times we live in
toilet roll has now become political
toilet roll is made here in this country
and they're able to expand production
very very quickly but that is an item
where to ensure the goods remained on
the shelves the supermarket's together
took a
addition of putting an item limit but
more important than household stores are
hospital supplies and there is some
optimism today NHS England announced it
struck a major deal with private
hospitals meaning 20,000 qualified staff
will be available to the NHS it'll also
add 8,000 more beds and 1,200
ventilators across England but many
areas of the UK are still in fear of the
pressure yet to come MPs and Cornwall
and Wales have been asking tourists to
stay away to avoid strain on health
services a week from now would have been
the beginning of school Easter holidays
there will be many families who still
have holidays with in the UK booked up
cottages by the sea and so on what is
the government's advice to families
about those holidays well the advice
obviously we've given so far is we've
the people should be socially isolating
and the whole population should be
limiting as far as possible
should be distancing themselves as far
as possible this is all our problems are
all our problem and and if we do it
together it will be an effective
strategy this is the time in your
lifetime whereby your action will save
somebody's life it's as simple and as
dark as that well the British Medical
Association has called on the Prime
Minister to guarantee proper protection
for NHS staff and says priority testing
should be made available to all
healthcare workers I'm joined now by dr.
Vishal Sharma from the BMA dr. Sharma
we've heard a lot over the past few days
about health care staff concerned
they're not getting the proper
protective equipment and not being given
for priority for testing we've also
heard a lot of promises that both of
those things are happening so as of
today what is the situation well the
situation is really confusing still so
there are differences between what the
government recommends for staffing NHS
compared to works done elsewhere in the
world and people anxious about what they
what they're getting where they have
access to appropriate equipment or not
and there are certainly on the ground or
some supply issues so even though there
is supplies available nationally when
people need the supplies they sometimes
can't get them and this equipment is so
essential
I'm the staff member involved but also
to reduce the risk of transmission to
other patients and on the issue of
testing what is happening so the testing
in the moment NHS staff can't get access
to test um this is a really important
thing because at the moment we have
numbers of staff across the country who
are self isolating because a family
member may have had a febrile illness or
a sore throat which may on which may not
be Co abides related crush their because
they don't know what it is that happened
to self isolate we need to have all the
staff available we can to make sure they
can treat patients and all the time and
without that testing we have people self
is looking for no reason and there have
been promises that the testing will come
but as we sit here now it's not there in
enough numbers at the moment the
capacity to do it numbers that requires
it's being prioritized for patients
would quite rightly but we do need to
ramp up the trust assessing quite
rapidly to the staff can also be tested
back to work now we know sadly from
countries like history that many health
care staff become infected and in some
instances that have died what protection
is there for all of those doctors that
are being asked to come back into the
NHS or students asked to help out what
protection is there for those people
yeah so in the NHS pension scheme there
are some aspects of protection you have
if you die in service and but
unfortunately we live in a scenario
where lots of people have come out of
the scheme either because they can't
afford to pay into the scheme or because
they've been forced out because of
taxation and what we'd like to see is
the government actually makes a
provision that if an NHS worker does
sadly die from from this disease that
actually their family will be supported
and they won't be financially
disadvantaged and obviously we've heard
today about this new deal with private
hospitals that will provide a lot of
staff and ventilators that's got to be
good news hasn't it no absolutely so as
you heard rolling this together so we
need to make sure we use all resources
are available certainly the private
providers I've got an important role to
play in this and also they have capacity
in terms of beds and their staff very
important you do of course need to make
sure the staff are properly trained and
that the the facilities are suitable for
the use that work we're hoping to use
them for but this is a positive step
certainly well dr. V Shoshana thanks
very much for talking to us today thank
you very much
silent streets shuttered shops and cafes
no meeting up with family or friends the
reality of social distancing which
experts have warned is likely to be
needed for most of this year so what
impact is it already having and how far
are people learning to adapt our north
of England correspondent Claire Fallon
reports from Liverpool 84 today first
time I've ever bought a new roles for
birthday first time I've ever bought
your new roles for your birthday and
celebrating though not quite as latest
in her family planned I thought I just
put a banner on the window so she
couldn't look house out it and we're on
the phone all the time just hard not to
be able to be able to all contact book
we will soon how are we doing I am quite
worried and I actually had a message
from a friend this morning and her
friend's father died not so far from
here at 69 it's just quite frightening
me see but he had coronavirus yeah first
one of probably many that will hear is
it's quite worried the morning after the
nights when things changed people are
still out and about but look closer the
signs are there life is different
tonight at Anfield
it was meant to be Liverpool against
Crystal Palace and not any old match but
the match where Liverpool fans hoped and
believed they would win the Premier
League game off but pre match pies still
on sale with a carefully spaced queue
it's where we met how are you getting on
I love being out since ace o'clock this
morning and they have little 30 pounds
well I should have at least 60 and by
now
like most taxi drivers Eddy is
self-employed like most self-employed
he's worried how do you feel about the
difference that there is there between
what's being done people who are
employed and what's being done people
like you who are self-employed
the government's have never done
anything for the for yourself uh boys
weren't expected to just go out and do
it the Chryse have to take our tax
dollars there's nothing can be tear and
when they turn round and say that they'd
given up two to nine thousand pounds per
employee per month was there and
businesses and self-employed can have 94
pounds it's disgraceful in Manchester
last night the queues of taxis were
telling at 7:30
hardly any after-work drinkers if we
weren't listening to the pleas to stay
at home before it seems we are now in
the most part and back in Liverpool we
found that Liverpool fan stopped outside
the ground imagining I live not far from
me and I thought I'd come here and I
just fancied plain never walk alone'
outside the ground for some reason
justice inspiration and new orleans
coronavirus thing booked just off I
missed going the match and all that and
you know what he's just frustrating
sacked afternoon no football you know
can't go to Papa I'm not bad about the
pub it's this club and they I just
fancied plain never walk alone and so
begins an age of social distancing and
things that might have been as life
changes for us all for who knows how
long but during the day it doesn't
really feel like a lockdown and that's
because it isn't a full lockdown the
shops are open so people are going to go
and get food and some people are going
to work but during the evening it feels
completely different I mean this is
Liverpool city centre this is one the
main strips for bars and clubs it's all
good deserters they're all close to come
up and
little match I'd have happened tonight
you've got traffic behind me closed the
famous Liverpool Philharmonic also
closed and although while we've been
talking to people that are seem to be an
acceptance now of why we're being asked
to do this I don't think any of us can
imagine yet all of the different ways in
which this will have an effect on our
lives thanks Claire
well we're joined now by the mayor of
Liverpool Joe Anderson Joe Anderson as
Clare says life is changing for everyone
and this will have a dramatic effect on
your [ __ ] won't it absolutely not just
in terms of help terms and the worry
that we have about people's health but
the economy the local economy here we
rely on tourism and hospitality that
sector it generates around about 3.3
billion pounds a year 38,000 jobs that
employs the taxi driver Eddie just give
you an example of what it means to him
so everybody in the city is clearly
worried about what it means for jobs and
the health and it's frightening and for
me this is a national emergency Arnold
government's wisely you know it's great
what they did yesterday but they behind
the cave I want them to be up front I
think we need a national source of
emergency task force based with
opposition based with the TEC CPI thanks
everybody working together to know what
we have to concede we have to accept
there's been unprecedented financial
support from the government yesterday
unprecedented eight intervention well I
don't wanna sound Cheerilee said welcome
what was done boy if you look at Denmark
you know like you look at all the
European countries they're doing similar
if not a dumpsite more and if you look
at you know what they're doing in the
private rented sector very little yes
people are getting mortgage holidays but
that's what it is and if you look at you
know the loans to businesses we need
much much more we need you know a
focused determined effort to support the
economy moving forward in the last week
announced help for people on mortgages
help for renters they're gonna pay 80%
of salaries for staff now it's
acknowledged there's an issue for people
like the taxi
and Claire's report what would you like
to see for those people in the so-called
gig economy for self-employed people it
would work if they for instance when
they're taking time off we're gonna have
to claim universal credit wait five
weeks then it's about 94 pound the week
so it's not going to help them and if
they're getting a holiday of rent and we
wait to see whether that's going to be
the case what happens to the rent this
is just a career when it means a debt
that they've got to pick up so that's
why I'm saying you know what the
government did yesterday was welcome but
it has to be almost on a daily basis
here because if if not consigned people
millions of people to the unemployment
queue then it's going to cost us more in
the long term anyway so that's why I'm
calling for this national task force to
be set up so we can respond on a daily
basis and government are listening to
businesses that tea you see the banks
all these of course the government would
say that everything that they've done
over the past week has been to try to
keep people in work but just just
finally for the moment as a city mayor
we know that food banks for example many
people in communities across Liverpool
and elsewhere in the country rely on
food banks we know some of them are
having to close what can you do for the
vulnerable people in your city
well we've set up two phone lines we've
had 900 volunteers that have volunteered
since Thursday I'll make sure that
nobody in this city goes hungry were
given vouchers out to young children to
the families who are on school free
school meals that will happen on Monday
we'll make sure that nobody goes hungry
we'll make sure that the volunteer
sector gets supported to help the people
at this time that's exactly the spirit
which we show here at Liverpool that we
want the government to show nationally
Joe Anderson thanks very much I'm sure
we'll come back to talk to you more
about that at some stage but thank you
for now now the number of deaths in
Italy are continuing to saw latest
figures show 793 people have died in the
last 24 hours another record high well
the numbers testing positive rose more
than six and a half thousand since
yesterday has also been a surge of cases
in Spain now the third worst affected
country in the world claim Ian's Arum
reports
one of the few things moving on Italian
roads today an army convoy carrying
coffins from Bergamo not far from Milan
it was confirmed in the last few minutes
that nearly eight hundred have died
since yesterday making a total of just
under five thousand the Health Minister
banned people from driving to their
country homes this weekend all but
essential travel forbidden and strictly
enforced a solitary stroll on the beach
come this way please sir fifty thousand
people here have already been charged
with breaching lockdown rules in Spain -
the numbers are rapidly going in the
wrong direction the second highest
number of both infections and deaths in
Europe an emergency treatment centres
being constructed in conference halls
but widespread criticism of the nation's
response hysteresis is tempora the
king's televised call for unity and
collaboration drowned out by protesters
confined of course to their balcony
which was where French runner Elisha
nakama vets decided to run an entire
marathon all 26 miles and 385 yards in
support of local health care workers in
Toulouse just under 7 hours it was some
way off his personal best across the
world those who are still healthy are
facing into a very different kind of
life Kurds in Iraq celebrating New Year
from their rooftops and in Jordan those
breaking curfew face immediate jail
nation by nation the world is struggling
to comprehend the tasker hand thankfully
no one has died in Kenya for example but
health officials were spraying
nonetheless in one of Nairobi's big
informal markets each Kenyan each
citizen must take responsibility to make
sure that we cut the transmission we cut
the spread and it is possible the
continent of Africa has seen few deaths
so far but infections
now totaled just over a thousand in
India urbanites are flocking to the
countryside amid warnings rural health
systems there are even more fragile than
in towns cases so far around 300 with
only four confirmed to have died
no where is immune Australia which has
banned foreigners from visiting today
began closing the nation's beaches too
many people risking everyone's health by
ignoring pleas to keep their distance if
any nation knows what's at stake it's
China which after three months of
shutdown now is slowly and tentatively
starting to come out of hibernation but
as scientists the world over warned
beware the false spring came in and
saram their well earlier I spoke to
Silvia beanie emini health director for
a hospital in the city of Bergamo that's
in Lombardy in the north of italy the
epicenter of the outbreak in that
country with a number of deaths rose by
five hundred and forty six in the last
24 hours
the highest daily increase there since
the outbreak began I began by asking her
just how bad things have become in her
area the situation I can say exploded
towards the end of February myself I did
the first test for coronavirus in a
nurse that was working in our nursing
home for elderly people on the 26th of
February and after five days we got the
result it was positive but already six
or seven elderly people started adding
fever and pneumonia in that nursing home
where the nurse was working and from
there it exploded everywhere so we did
not have time enough time for
preparedness and we had to deal with the
emergency situation that really exploded
in few days and now the case is errors
in the past two weeks and still there
are new cases but I hope we'll reach a
plateau
hopefully next week from your
perspective why do you think it has
taken a group so quickly is it because
as you said you weren't prepared is it
because of the elderly population why do
you think it has taken such a first
group in your area we know that since
the mid February the cases were
increasing in that area in Bergamo area
but still there was no rules and norms
limiting the movement of the population
so the population continued moving
around and the cases when increasing
increasing increasing when all the
measures were taken it was good I think
for the rest of Italy Milan and other
cities the rest of Italy but
unfortunately Bergamo area and like
other cities Lodi Cremona were already
affected so for for us in Bergamo it was
too late I hope for the rest of Italy
and for the rest of the world this
experience would teach something so you
will be able to act promptly and earlier
and because the only thing to limit the
virus is to limit the movement of the
population even the health workers they
live in the same place they get the
virus at home they get the virus
everywhere and inside the hospital and
so what has been the impact on the
hospitals their own health workers like
yourself how have they managed of course
there is a lot of work to do in this
moment we are using personal protective
equipment but like some health workers
like myself I was one of the first one
to get the virus
I cannot say why I got it because I used
the mask and the gloves and all the
protective equipment to visit the people
we have a hospital and next to the
hospital there is a nursing home for
elderly people for these people really
when they become positive we can just
give some support to them we cannot even
send them to intensive care units
because above 80 years old they can't go
there in this moment so this is very sad
and painful for a health worker because
your mission is to save lives and right
now in some cases you have to just give
some support what would your message be
to the UK were said to be two weeks
behind you what would you be saying to
us now stay home don't move because this
is the only way to prevent the spread of
the virus at the beginning we were also
thinking this is a simply a flu is not a
flu is giving a lot of pneumonia and
it's very dangerous for a lot of people
elderly ones but even younger ones I
have colleagues of 45 50 years old in
intensive care units so the only way is
to stay home and for health care
facilities be prepared be prepared with
personal protective equipment much more
than you think you need and secondly
increase the beds for Incans intensive
care units for infectious disease we
need to be remembered all the time
washing and don't cough on your hands
and use masks and all these things you
need to repeat repeat and train all
everything Silvia bin Yamini thank you
so much for talking to us today thank
you
more than 500 travelers from Britain and
Ireland are still stranded in Peru which
says it will completely close its
borders and shut down all airports by
the end of tonight the country's defense
minister said this would be the last day
foreigners would be able to leave the
country while the Foreign Office here
says it's working furiously to arrange
flights from Peru our Latin America
correspondent Guillermo galdós now
reports with four deaths and over 250
confirmed cases in Peru one local mayor
is taking action into his own
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no silly Christos impresarios the family
so at this Kohl Center in cheek lay on
northern Peru the staff seemed to agree
as the force comes in the fire in the
capital Lima masks soldiers guard
against an invisible enemy and have
imposed the most extreme measures in the
region in an effort to curb an impending
crisis Lima is one of Latin America's
biggest capitals with more than 10
million people but today it looks like a
ghost town the Armed Forces have been
sent to the streets to keep people at
home like everywhere else no one knows
how long the lockdown will last at the
airport hundreds of flights have been
canceled leaving thousands stranded
all the airlines now do not take any
more reservations Peru is one of the
region's most popular tourist
destinations with over 4 million
visitors every year and for those still
desperate to leave the doors are closing
fast others have taken a different tack
and we were gonna try and travel until
May but I think we'll have to get back
earlier with no flight home there
waiting it out here in a rented flat we
tried to ring the embassy and we can't
get in touch with them over there
they're closed so we don't know when
flying they know what's going on
we bought this for two weeks hopefully
ride it now and then we'll know more
from what I've heard from friends and
family back home I definitely prefer to
be here dumb thing like the president
handling it very well over 70% of Latin
Americans make a living outside the
formal economy surviving from day to day
but with shops shut and the streets
deserted millions in Peru alone are
wondering how they will feed their
families