It's no time for a history tool.

No, when history is happening right now, pictures from a year ago show the scale and gravity of this moment.

Italy's lock down was meant to end tomorrow, but it's been extended into the beginning of May.

Their covert 19 death toll is nearly 20,000.

Yet the number of people dying every day is declining.

And so Easter brings some hope off humanity's rebirth way are about to win the fight against the virus, or at least the one to minimize its dangers.

Italy's locked down extension comes as other European nations begin to slowly end.

There's in Spain, where the military are disinfecting the streets of Barcelona.

Some nonessential workers will return to work despite the death toll being the second highest in Europe.

In Denmark, with under 300 covert 19 deaths recorded Children under 11 will return to schools on Wednesday.

Germany is due to end social distancing measures in a week's time, and they've been praised for their rigorous testing and tracing program.

They want to see great to solidarity across the continent, dealing with the virus in differing ways.

Nineties abundant Mieze know this pandemic is not a war.

Nations do not stand against nations soldiers, not against soldiers.

It is a test of our humanity.

That message was echoed across the Atlantic in the Canadian Parliament.

This is not a war that doesn't make this fight any less destructive, any less dangerous.

But there is no front line marked with barbed wire.

Instead, the front line is everywhere.

600 people have died in Canada, a huge contrast to their southerly neighbors.

Yesterday, the U.

S recorded 2000 more deaths and now has the highest number of declared fatalities anywhere in the world over 20,000.

President Trump believes the lock down measures should keep the number of deaths below.

The previous estimate of 100,000 were getting rid of the plague.

It's a plague on our country like nobody's ever seen, but we're winning the battle.

We're winning.

The war will be back together in churches right next to each other.

Yet as some countries whisper about an end, others are just beginning.

Liberia's locked down began yesterday in chaos, police beating some who had rushed out to buy food and withdraw money.

You know many people elsewhere, India has turned train carriages into quarantine wards as cases their reach nearly 9000.

In Libya, a health care system already stretched by years of war struggles to deal with covert 19 similar Corona virus stories are playing out everywhere and in ever more dire situations.

Amidst the tragedy, there are small signs of hope.

Back in Italy, a couple tie the knot in a deserted church as the country prepares for three more weeks of lock down.

Remember, they hit 10,000 deaths two weeks ago, the number the U.

K passed today?

Well, earlier, I spoke to Dr Barrett Pan Konya, who's an expert in infectious disease and public help.

I began by asking him why the UK death toll was still rising.

I despair, I really do.

Because I feel for a economically mighty country like the United Kingdom is.

How did we get to this position?

Because I look at, for example, have Germany have managed to keep their numbers low?

Andi, I feel why are we not doing the same as Germany to keep our numbers equally low?

Well, let's be blunt about this.

Was that a government failing at an early stage to fail to order the sufficient number of tests, as Germany did do and has resulted in park you a death, sir, it's more than just the tests.

I'm afraid it is the whole operation off.

Let us continue to contain it.

So when we said we're no longer in containment but in mitigation phase myself and many off my colleagues said This is desperation because we knew that we need to continue to contain.

Why do you think, though, that the government didn't lock down earlier and didn't test in a Mass sent earlier?

I have a feeling that we have very clever people on the top table.

But one thing that we have noticed is we also need perhaps coalface workers, infectious disease experts, outbreak control people.

I think we need more general coverage off people at the top table and not only rely on, for example, mathematical modeling.

So the right experts were no in the room.

I don't think a full range of right experts were were at the top table.

So what needs to be done now to minimize the scale of suffering and deaths?

Or is it tragically too late?

No, I'm still optimistic, and I'm still feel we have the opportunity to do well.

And therefore, for example, whilst the numbers in London and the Southeast are very high in the southwest, northeast, northwest Scotland, Northern Ireland, the numbers are not so high on in those parts of the country.

We must, as a matter of urgency, reintroduce contact, tracing, isolation, testing All those fundamentals of operate control that we've been talking about is the government continues on its current policy.

How long do you think it might be before Britain starts to turn the tide in this battle with Corona virus?

It's a difficult one, plants, because we have conflicting ideologies that play, which is economics worse, is shut down on dhe.

I have a one track mind which is shut down because I want to save lives on dhe.

I think we will continue to have problems well into the summer the way this virus is very infectious, more infectious than we thought, more disease, causing more disease causing in younger age groups.

These are fundamentals that we didn't know earlier on, but it's now clear 45 upwards.

People are getting L.

A 60 plus more ale, 70 plus much more ill so we need to implement stronger, tighter, harder control measures.

So how long do you think before the government can consider starting to lift or he's locked down, as as is happening in other European countries?

I would say caution.

Please hold your nerve and do not lift shut down any sooner than you need to please.

The shutdown is one measure that we know works, so we should be very, very cautious about lifting the lid on that because it's very difficult to go back to again.

Another shutdown started about up Franconia.

Thank you very much, Thank you.

The pope has called for international solidarity to fight Corona virus in an Easter Mass streamed live from the Vatican, Pope Francis one that this was not a time for division or indifference while the whole world is suffering here.

The archbishop of Canterbury praised the heroism of Britain's key workers in a sermon recorded in his flat at Lambeth Palace.

It was a very different Easter for worshippers around the world, as I should told reports.

Just because churches on open doesn't mean Easter Sunday service is canceled, Christ is risen.

Well, come on, everybody, welcome toe Sunday service is very special day Easter Sunday festival.

Let's pray kitchen, living room and dining rooms transformed, they said on to them.

Why stinky?

They're living among the dead.

Yes, he is not here, but is risen with the UK under lock down.

Worship now looks slightly different.

The bells are ringing, the pews are empty.

It's an Easter like no other, but churches across the UK like this one full silent.

There's still a celebration going on somewhere.

It's mainly happening online, and at this church in Hackney, the pastor took dizzy.

I feel a little bit like a D J have to say, not so much like a priest, but getting getting the camera at the right angle and bringing in the music at the right moment.

But it seems to be going well, and everyone appreciates it.

People like to see each other's faces.

Andre likes each other together because you know, being being in a church as being part of the body being part of a community.

Normally, the queen would be a church with all her family.

But for the first time, she's recorded an Easter message from Windsor Castle.

We know that Corona virus will not overcome us as dark as death can be, particularly for those suffering with grief, light and life are greater.

May the living flame of the each to hope, be a steady guide as we face the future, fill your church with faith and hope.

And the Archbishop of Canterbury welcome worshippers to his kitchen stands open in our savior, Jesus Christ.

Many Christians around the world celebrated Easter at a distance.

Pope Francis called for global solidarity to fight the Corona virus crisis.

In previous years, some Peter's Square looked like this.

Today it's eerily quiet.

In the Philippines, homemade alters also had live online service is, and in Kenya, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Christians had a socially distant Easter.

Even when church doors opened, people worshipped from afar.

But for many celebrating Easter today, online is the best way for them to come together, not in person, but United invoice.

Earlier, I spoke to the bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson Wilkin, who's the Church of England's first black female bishop, and I began by asking her it was the right decision to keep Church is closed.

As long as the lock down is on, we must play our part as the church, and we must not think that we have some spiritually arm special thing about us.

Why we should be there.

You know, one of the most amazing things about this locked down is that our church for the first time is beginning to understand that we can serve and worship God in our homes.

Prior to that, what we did, we went to a building and weed our religious bit there.

And then we went home and thought, We leave the God bit over there.

Now we recognize and we're acknowledging that God is here in our homes.

And at a time like this, it's Easter.

Let's say Alleluia Christ is risen.

He is risen.

Indeed, Alleluia, let's say that and stop pining after a building well, rose, your your excitement is infectious, but for many people now, when they're looking at, you're the terrible numbers of deaths you nearly 1000 announced every 24 hours.

For many people, it's very hard to locate that hope, let alone faith for those who are experiencing the pain of loss.

For those who are experiencing the pain of not being at the bedside off a loved one for those were not able to attend the funerals for that final ritual Where we say goodbye off course.

It is hard.

Of course it is painful, but I want to say to them that there is light on DDE.

That is what Easter brings.

Did you dare to hope that the UK might fare better during this crisis than other European countries on Actually, Now we're warned that perhaps we might have the worst death rate in Europe.

Why do you think that is well that I'm hugely saddened that the sorter that not only us but that you know other places in Europe and and God forbid, when something like this hits in some of our poor nations, when it hits refugee camps where people are living cheek by Joel and they have nowhere to go toe, isolate or tow the social have social distance, It is going to be a huge tragedy.

So I wouldn't even begin to compare to say this.

I want this to be better than that nation.

I think what we're doing is recognizing that we're all in this together.

Do you think the prime minister, having emerged from hospital today, will have bean changed by what he's seen, what he's experienced in the hospital.

I don't think you can come out of that and not be changed.

So I believe I believe that it will make a difference.

And many of those staff tending to the prime minister tending to everyone sick in this country, have come from overseas to work in the British Health Service.

Do you hope that in the future we've spoken a lot about hope?

Do you hope that the public attitude to them, the political attitude to immigrants, will have been changed by this, given that so many have made the ultimate sacrifice for their lives?

Boy, do I hope so.

More than anything else in the world, I hope that the countries in the West who have seen the care workers, the cleaners, the bus drivers, the nurses, the doctors who have come here and given off themselves on ultimately paid the price with their own lives.