the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland no more exemptions the u.s. broadens its european travel ban. plan fully back to you watching al-jazeera live from a global headquarters in doha also ahead checkpoints on the streets of manila as the philippines capital goes into coronavirus lockdown spain's prime minister calls a spread of coronavirus a crisis that requires extraordinary decisions confirming his whole country will go into lockdown.

thank you very much for joining us the white house doctors says donald trump has tested negative for corona virus the u.s. president had potentially been exposed to it while meeting members of a brazilian delegation who later found out they were infected meanwhile trump has extended the european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland spain's prime minister is putting his entire country into law down like it's early before its $46000000.00 people will be ordered not to leave home unless it's absolutely necessary france's shutting down restaurants cafes nightclubs and cinemas now this is the overall pandemic picture from john hopkins university more than 156000 cumulative infections globally almost 74000 have recovered the number of deaths is heading toward 6000 we'll begin our coverage with this

report from mike hanna in washington. members of the coronavirus toss of course walk into the briefing room in terms of a new protocol all in the president's proximity must have the temperature taken including the journalists present unexpectedly president trump walks in with his vice president who had been churchill to leave the briefing and another surprise he confirmed teach submitted to a test for the virus last night i also took the test yesterday. and i decided i should based on the press coverage yesterday people were asking did i take the test change when he also acknowledged that he'd made a mistake by shaking hands during friday's briefing with corporate leaders and others in the rose garden and somebody comes up to you they put their hand out you probably tend to shake it and we're all getting out of it shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing that and i agree but people put their hand out sometimes i'll put their hand out you don't think about it but people are thinking about it

more and more we have to think about it it's important for television no sense. for . the president then left the briefing leaving his vice president to officially confirm that the travel ban would be extended the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland effective midnight monday night eastern standard time again americans in the u.k. or can come home legal residents can come home but as the secretary will detail they will be funneled through specific airports and process the center put disease control has stopped publishing testing figures on its website but statistics collected by an independent group indicate says being a shop rise in the number of tests being conducted for the 1st time since the crisis began the number of tests conducted in a 24 hour period approached 20000 my kind out al-jazeera washington.

and alan fisher has more now from washington on president trump's testing on friday after the news conference there was a discussion about testing for covert 19 and the president agreed to undergo the test no he said on saturday he didn't know how long it would be before the results came back they came back just a few hours later and he was told that everything was all clear who clearly was at risk because he sat 5 down in mar a lago his home in florida last weekend with a brazilian delegation and some of those actually tested positive for the virus so clearly his physicians really wanted him to to get a test done that was done on friday all clear on saturday the white house's issued a proclamation saying that to morrow will be a national day of prayer 1st of all for the victims of the disease and as we see the number of cases increasing in the united states and the number of fatalities is

also rising but it's also for the people who are involved in the fight against the disease not just the task force but health care workers right across the country who at the moment are wondering whether they are going to be overwhelmed in the next week or so with the number of cases coming to their door. alan fischer in washington they're not europe prides itself on its visa free and open border policies which are the foundation of the shang an area now those several states are rainbow's in checks and closing borders with e.u. neighbors for the 1st time in the is as a try to stop growing a virus spreading estonia is one of the mates this it will deny entry to foreign travelers from march 17th slovakia denmark poland the czech republic switzerland cyprus malta and through india have taken similar action there defying e.u. warnings to avoid blanket travel bans at the battery for some other developments in europe including how spain has become the netas country to go into knocked off. its

only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy this is what it looks like the country's reported a jump of more than 200000 in coronavirus cases in 24 i was now people will only be allowed to leave their homes to buy food and medicine to get to work hospitals all the bank or to care for the young and the elderly and the federal. i would like to announce that during the period of the state of alert people will only be able to circulate on public roads for the organization of the following activities firstly the acquisition of food pharmaceutical products and basic necessities secondly visits to health centers services under stablish meant trips to work place to carry out your work professional or business activities. in the capital madrid people are still venturing out but with many businesses already shut the city's unusually quiet even sentimental staff enduro i live in the city center

and i like to see it empty i like to say that i think people are being responsible and the people who have to stay at home are doing it. the owner of this hotel is offering hundreds of rooms to madrid's regional government so it can treat coronavirus patients while in seville the mayor has canceled all easter week for sessions just the latest setback to its tourist industry. in the italian capital rome people stuck indoors have been showing their appreciation of doctors and nurses fighting against coronavirus theirs is the worst hit country after china and the death toll is well over a 1000 already. with the entire country in lockdown normal life has come to a halt. and france is now closing all bars restaurants and cinemas and asking people to work from home and avoid nonessential visits it comes after the number of coronavirus cases doubled to more than 4 and a half 1000 in just 3 days. or places that aren't essential to the life of the

country will be shut these include restaurants cafes cinemas and nightclubs places of worship will remain open gatherings and ceremonies will have to be postponed germany with europe's largest population has recorded just a handful of deaths so far now the government's urging people returning from italy switzerland and austria to self isolate for up to 2 weeks on. saturday spain bound planes belonging to a low cost british airline actually turned round midair now the u.k. government seems set to do its own about turn reacting to moves already made by business and public pressure with ollie football in england suspended until at least early april and the london marathon perspire into the cabinet set to ban mask other rings in the coming week. garion prime minister viktor orban seen here being checked off to flying back from moldova is set to announce europe's latest school closures. across several e.u. states including poland and the czech republic and totally or partially restricting

entry to foreign nationals with the consulate now the epicenter of the pandemic more drastic measures look inevitable but the barber al jazeera. and a viral video from italy is reminding the world of the human cost of the pandemic or not. due. to where it shows an italian man looking through obituaries into additions of a newspaper one is from february 9th when they were just a few deaths less said and the other is from friday when the man counts 10 pages of obituaries it highlights the dramatic increase in the number of deaths as a coroner virus takes its toll on italy more than 1400 people have died there now the number of new infections in china continues to slow according to the government which says local transmissions are lower than the number of cases being brought in from abroad on saturday mainland china had 20 confirmed new infections 16 of them

connected to people from outside the other 4 cases where a force in the city of one where the outbreak began in december 67000 of the 81000 who have become sick in china have recovered 8 let's speak to sarah clarke in hong kong for a so just tell us about these latest figures now new cases are coming from outside of china. it does appear to be the case it's a rosy picture coming out of china they say the number of new cases are the imported cases these are cases of travelers who are arriving in mainland china from the likes of italy iran and saudi arabia there are 20 new cases confirmed on saturday in mainland china and 16 of those cases were from those travelers coming from abroad so the focus now certainly from china is looking at the importation of the virus which is a part of the number of local transmissions as a result we had 10 deaths on saturday the total death toll at this stage is around $3199.00 so the street quarantine restrictions have been put in place across china

but it does appear that as the world goes into lockdown all countries around the world are lifting the quarantine restrictions parts of china and lifting that partial lockdown we've got the likes of who by province where 16000000 people have been forced to remain indoors and businesses have been shut for months since around january 24 that lockdown appears to be slowly lifting and the government is now assessing the residents of that province of course this is where we're had his base is the epicenter of the original outbreak of the crowd a virus that seems to be lifting as a result the health status will be assessed of those residents and those considered a low risk cases will be allowed to resume normal travel now we spoke to one particular resident in that province and she said right now she believes the quarantine restrictions in the lockdown that have been successful and as a result she feel safer being in the province of the main anywhere else in the world and then it's about south korea's sad we've got the lowest number of new cases this instead theory. well they're reporting

a good figures there as well the downward trend continues 7068 cases were caught on saturday by south korea's government there are 3 more deaths but south korea is now expected to declare these special disaster zones these are in the areas where we've had big spikes a large number of the crowd of virus infections including including daisy and this day again this is a city where we had that church that met a few weeks ago a month ago or so ago and that's where we had a number of infections reported after that particular gathering they're also looking to declare a special disaster zone in the nearby province of grandson and this will provide the government with the legal or the ability to allow legal and financial support to those businesses and people who've been stuck for struck by the crown of us infections and crippled as a result of this outbreak looking at the quarantine restrictions on sunday south korea will impose greater restrictions on travel is coming from france germany spain great britain and the netherlands they've already got some quarantine restrictions in place for residents coming from hong kong mainland china and

various parts of europe but basically what this means is on sunday all those travelers arriving in south korea will have to have their favorite checked but also have to provide their health data and those who do show symptoms will have to download an app and therefore the government authorities to monitor the condition of the coming weeks and also on sunday around a total of $136.00 countries will now impose tighter quarantine restrictions if not a ban on all travelers coming from south korea sarah clarke in hong kong thank you for that update sara now police in the philippines are blocking major roads into manila as they start sealing off the capital to stop the spread of coronavirus is 12000000 residents have been told they should only leave home for work any marriage and sees for the next month travel in and out by land sea or air is suspended richard a darrian is a professor university in manila and he says the restrictions could last longer than a month. well i would admit that it feels almost surreal right as albert come with

said the 1st thing that the plague brings is a sense of exile so i think a lot of us had our flights canceled going out of country classes are suspended for the next month much of government work is also suspended. thousands of police forces are going to be deployed across the city what 1500 joint task force members of the philippine military are also going to help out so this is this is progressively going to look like lockdown present it's hard to call the the lockdown to base a go the bought the government officials are called calling it a community choir and what they're trying to clarify is is that the movement of goods and basic services will not be stopped but the movement of human beings will be progressive you're restricted depending on the facts on the ground so this could actually be extended beyond one month if the situation on the ground doesn't improve now on the surface the philippines that's just over 100 cases confirmed but the problem 'd is that with very limited test kits that the philippines has we

don't really know how bad the situation needs are suspicion he is and must be so bad that the government's going for a lot. i assume a head on al jazeera a new crisis for venezuelans now cut off from desperately needed food and medicine after cannot be acknowledged as the border because of coronavirus and in other news my family living among the dead dismay syrian families set up home in a graveyard. welcome to look at the weather across the americas now beginning in north america we've got this area of rain across the south gradually weekend for a time. looking dry and find no particular warm there 8 degrees in washington d.c. and weather systems affecting at the pacific coastline there of california so we

like to see some breaks of rain at times and indeed the low pressure center is likely to move in and give some heavier rain as we head on through into monday how about stage across more central areas we've got dry conditions little bit of rain across parts of the south but that cold air persists across more northern areas 7 as a high in new york the caribbean is looking pretty good at the moment things have generally settled down here but skies and sunshine and 31 degrees in kingston jamaica showers few and far between bridie among the islands there a few showers through the isthmus but again nothing particularly heavy and noteworthy should be a nice day and delays that highs of 30 in belize city heading into south america because an active weather system around the river plate area that scheme is a very heavy rain extending up into northwestern parts of argentina system is still in evidence ahead on through into monday but it gradually begins to weaken away draw across much of a power with highs of 26 expected in ascension. on

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person donald trump has extended a european travel ban think killed the u.k. and ireland to stop the spread of coronavirus tribes doctor says the president has tested negative for the virus in met a brazilian delegation recently and several of its members made it became sick and spain has followed its early and imposed a nationwide knocked on following a shopping spree seen corona virus infections the prime minister's wife is among the nations to become sick and police in the philippines are grokking major roads into manila as a start sealing off the capital to stop the spread of the virus is 12000000 residents have been told they should only leave home for work and emergencies for the next month. now the coronavirus pandemic has prompted colombia to shut its land border with venezuela thousands of venezuelans crossed over every day looking for food and medicine they can't get at home infections as elsewhere pricing across latin america and their concerns is not well prepared to deal with

the outbreak that a civil has a report from one insiders. for many venezuelans their border with colombia is a lifeline for surviving the economic crisis in their nation. but on saturday colombia's president and now sits close to contain the spread of cool vague 19 says . the border crossings with venezuela will be closed starting at 5 am it will be done as a protection measure against the situation that is also occurring in the neighboring country. on friday venezuela confirmed 2 cases of corona virus but many fear that number could be higher as the country struggles with a humanitarian crisis that has left hospitals without basic supplies including soap and hand sanitizer. doctors in venezuela say they're not ready to cope with a common flu let alone a global pandemic of it as rumor most of these hospitals are not acceptable

standards about 12 of the military hospitals are not qualified to be able to tend to patients even with the common flu. precedent. has suspended schools and banned public gatherings he's asked people to wear a mask when using the metro in the capital caracas siegel it's simple wear a face mask it's an order for everyone in the next days and weeks better safe than sorry. in brazil the government has announced a $1000000000.00 to strengthen its public health care system the. president tested negative for cove in 1009. 100. 50 or a trip to the united states where he met with president donald trump. is to remain in isolation and will be tested again even though the number of cases to latin america remain relatively no they're likely to increase in the next few weeks and that's why governments are stepping up efforts to try to control it in argentina

they're controlling cool says imports they're also canceling flights and imposing mandatory isolations of those who travel to the united states europe and china schools and public events are also being canceled last countries try to adapt to what may come ahead that is how will. this chile's president sebastian pinera says it's time to take extreme measures to curtail the spread of the virus more than 60 cases have been confirmed there a lot in america and it's in the sea and human reports from santiago on what people can expect. chileans are being told that more than $500.00 people cannot gather in one place added time indoors or outdoors which will clearly be a test of the government's strength and authority because as you will probably remember going protests are taking place in this country almost every day with thousands and thousands of people gather apart from that flights from europe and

from asia have been cancelled until further notice hospitals special emergency hospitals are being built. who heads a regional body has just called for an emergency summit via teleconference for monday with his with the other south american leaders so that they can try to coordinate tried to set parameters a common policies so that they can and also try to help each other because not every country is equally prepared to face this president nicolas maduro for example is suggesting that all they need to do is wear a face mask when there aren't any face masks or very very few of them in venezuela and in fact in many countries including chile and argentina they've already sold out almost every single pharmacy so there are a lot of things that need to be done helping with doctors helping to set different targets to decide when it's time to close a border when when it is it a lot needs to be done especially as the south american winter approaches right now we're still in summer or getting into into autumn but when the colder weather hits

things will get much worse i know a lot faster. now the head of libya's u.n. recognized government has declared a state of emergency over the corn a virus pandemic land and sea crossings as well as schools have been ordered shut for 3 weeks libya does not have any reported cases and then. we are now seeing a nationwide emergency to tackle this continuing threat and i will ensure we are asking for me to do w h o's pandemic strategy we're allocating $360000000.00 to tackle what is a critical situation we will also close all borders and crossings including air. orts and ports for 3 weeks starting monday. dozens of south africans repatch raided from the chinese city of 100 have been moved into current teen they were working and studying in ruhani when the coronavirus was 1st discovered in the city was put under lockdown but residents in a quarantine side say the government's winning then at risk from a diminished reports from the province of impossible. for the $114.00 south

africans on board this plane it's been a long 14 hour journey home from the chinese city of will hand a sense of relief after months of lockdown for the corona virus that has now been partially lifted we spoke to english teacher amy put to way before she left to hand she told us she hadn't left her apartment there for more than 50 days. as the passengers left the plane health officials made sure restrictions were followed roads are blocked off to make the bus journey from the airport and pull a quantity to the quarantine sites outside the city as smooth as possible as the bus passes the group appears in good spirits the convoy carrying the south africans

have been repatriated from who hand is passing through this road to the quarantine site just outside the city of kwame the government's emphasize this is a military operation wanting to assure us all africans are being kept safe despite the government's assurances that they've been multiple screenings and none of the people who came home have to stay positive for covert 19 there's been mixed reaction from people here to what many of us a risky plan and partially states the situation because i'm not certain that they are having been free i'm not even sure. they. welcomed them in. our countries helping them but that feeling we can't keep the group will be quarantined for 21 days officials say as a safety measure at this hotel in the limpopo province should anyone develop symptoms of the cold but 1000 virus will be removed from quarantine isolated and

treated at hospital. al-jazeera limpopo south africa let's take a look at other stories making headlines now and sunday marks a year since $51.00 worshipers were killed in 2 mosques a new zealand special prayers were held on friday in followers of been laid flowers rather have been laid outside the mosques in the city of christchurch cohen a virus has full as a cancellation of the main memorial service that was planned an australian man is due to go on trial in june charged with terrorism murder and attempted murder. iraq's military says 2 air defense service men and 3 coalition members have been critically injured in iraq at a taco ontogeny base north of baghdad is not yet known who is responsible it comes a day after the u.s. says strikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those responsible for killing 2 american and one british soldier in an attack on wednesday. the russian turkish ceasefire is largely holding in syria's

last remaining rebel held area but for the nearly 1000000 people displaced by the latest fighting finding refuge is a daily struggle as osama bin javid reports somehow taney the turkey syria border many s. trunk struggling to find safety. it's playtime and ad lib far far mara than mahmoud this means chopping up grass and weeds but look closer and their playground becomes clearer it's a graveyard the grim reality doesn't end there it's also their home for the foreseeable future use or are soon he says the only place you could find shelter was with the dead floor nominal control council full model we are scared to rehire because of heavy bombardment we ascribe to if we've searched everywhere for shelter but the only available space was inside the cemetery god willing he will help us in after the situation gets better we return to our homes i don't think we can stay

here longer the girls are too scared. nearly a 1000000 people have been displaced in the last 3 months of the monument and advances by government troops backed by iranian and russian forces where they used to pray for the dead is now home for 65 families i'm not. and we provided shelter to the displaced families from south of lib and west aleppo in the mosque of some out of symmetry most of the families came from the streets they have nowhere to go in case we don't find houses or tents the families will remain here somewhere. syria is the last rebel stronghold for years people from other opposition held areas were moved here and the various political deals of the opposition loses more ground there's less space for the nearly $4000000.00 people in the province the weather is still cold and most families lack basic supplies people say they have been abandoned by the world yet again for them it feels no one cares about their

suffering sad let it pass of play around we left our home at 3 am under airstrikes we need everything blankets mattresses are small children are surviving only on water and rice we need milk diapers for the babies we need you to help us it's winter and it's so cold at night help us with a tender with ever just take us out of here away from dead people at night they close the door and i was a most of the family stay awake at night because they're scared. a ceasefire deal between turkey and syria has paused the fighting at least for now human rights watch once concerned countries to call out russia's involvement in syria's war crimes and tell the kremlin to end its support of syria's government it says the war has taken a toll on children for 9 years their lives forever marked by the conflict more than half a 1000000 children displaced by the latest fighting are living in desperate conditions it looks fragile ceasefire is holding for now but people are scared they say

agreements have been broken before and they've had to move their homes multiple times the fear now is that with government forces closing in refugees unwelcome and borders closed even running out of space inside syria to escape the fighting. some of the job with al jazeera on the turkey syria border. hello again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has extended a european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland to stop the spread of coronavirus doctor says the president has said a negative for the virus he met a brazilian delegation recently and several of its members later became sick alan says she has more from washington so it would seem that the physician is giving donald trump the clean bill of health saying everything's ok but of course he says he's also reminded the white house about the steps they need to take to mitigate

exposure to those who might have it and also what they can do not to catch it such as shaking hands the way he did at the podium so much on friday which he talked about again on saturday saying it was just a habit. spain has followed italy and imposed a nationwide lockdown following a shop increase in corona virus infections the prime minister's wife is among the latest to become sick and france is expanding its restrictions by closing more public places including cafes restaurants and entertainment venues police in the philippines are blocking major roads into manila as they start sealing off the capital to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak it's 12000000 residents have been told they should only leave home for work any measure in cities for the next month the philippines has reported 8 deaths and 111 infections so far the number of new infections in china meanwhile continues to slow the government says local transmissions are lower than the number of cases being brought in from abroad on

saturday mainland china had 20 confirms new infections 16 of them connected to people of people from outside 67000 of the 81000 who have become sick in china have recovered. sunday marks a year since $51.00 worshippers were killed at 2 mosques a new zealand special prayers were held on friday and followers have been flowers have been laid outside the mosques in the city of christchurch coronavirus has forced the cancellation of the main memorial service that was planned an australian man is due to go on trial in june charged with terrorism major and attempted murder those are the headlines coming up next here is counting the cost. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trunk parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

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