the caregiver should wash their hands after any contact with their patient or their immediate environment people infected with 19 can still infect others after they stop feeling sick they stop feeling sick so these measures should continue for at least 2 weeks after symptoms disappear visitors should not be allowed until the end of this period there are more details in the bleachers guidance once again our key message is test test test this is a serious disease all of the evidence we have so i just said that those over 60 are at highest risk young people including children have died w.h.o. has issued new clinical guidance with specific details on how to care for

children all their people and pregnant women so far we have seen peter mix in countries with advance in health systems but even they have struggled to cope. the virus moves to low income countries we're deeply concerned about the impact it could have among populations with high hiv prevalence or among my own and his children that's why we're calling on every country and every individual to do everything they can to stop transmission washing your hands will help to reduce your risk of infection but it's also an act of solidarity because it reduces their reese you will infect others in your community and around the world do it for yourself do it for others

we also ask people to express their solidarity by the framing from horror being essential items including medicines hoarding can create shortages of medicines and other essential products which can exacerbate suffering we are grateful to everyone who has contributed to the cause you'd 19 solidarity response fund seen as we launched it on friday more than 110000 people have contributed almost $19000000.00 u.s. dollars this fund will help to buy diagnostic tests supplies for health workers and support research and development if you would like to contribute please go to w h o don't i n.t. and click on the orange donate button at the top of the page we're also

grateful for the way different sectors of society are coming together this started with the save hundreds challenge. we started celebrities would leaders and people everywhere demonstrating how to wash their hands this afternoon w.h.o. and the international chembur of core members issued a joint call to action to the global business community the i.c.c. will send regular advice to its network of more than $45000000.00 businesses to protect their workers customers and local communities and to support the production and distribution of essential supplies i would like to time paul polman i j banga and john benton for their

support and collaboration doubly joe is also working with global citizen to launch this will solidarity sessions serious of virtual concerns with leading musicians from around the world this is the defining global health crises of our time the days weeks and months is ahead will be a test of our resolve a test of our trust in signs and a test of solidarity crisis like this tend to bring out the best and worst in he money. like me i'm sure you have been tired just by the videos of people applauding how would cares from their balconies or the stories

of people offering to do grocery shopping for older people in their community this amazing spirit of humans only died he must become even more infectious than the virus itself although we may have to be physically apart from each other for a while we can come to give that in ways we never have before we are all in this together and we can only succeed together so the rule of the game is to give it i thank you. thank you very much for these remarks remind generalists. in by phone it's a star 9 those watching through zoom it's the king race and if it's possible to really just have one question for journalists so so we can get as many questions as possible from different people and we will start

with. each other from from brazil jamil can you hear us. perfectly thank you very. my question is about brazil and about the fact that the president also not rest day on the weekend not only helped to call a mass protest in several cities of the country but also took part himself in one of them. wow do you see this as helping or not fighting the virus and what is your suggestion on protests street protests and this case specifically specifically we are thank you very much. so thank you for the question what we know that will be helpful during this time of covert 19 in terms of what the d.j.

just said is everything that we can do to reduce the possibility of transmission between people and one of the ways that countries are doing this is to stop gatherings together in some countries have have taken different decisions based on the number of people where they've restricted that those gatherings and so it's important that people do restrict themselves you know to go to gatherings where there's large numbers of people and in doing so that will reduce the possibility that people who come in close contact with one another can potentially transmit the virus to one another and so taken together with testing in an aggressive case and contact finding it's important that we limit our our patient in. thank you very much for just remind the doctor micron is on form dr ron you've attorney time you would like to add something just to unmutual phone and start

talking. for next question gabriella. thank you. so. my question is regarding mexico. and $1170.00 is the fact that right now we're looking at the raid with older people and people would be a bit if for example in mexico there are $12000000.00 people. you're listening to the w.h.o. the world health organization's director general giving a press briefing from geneva and quite telling that there are no journalists in the audience journalists phoning in

a to ask him questions about the coronavirus and some of what he had to say was his message to all the countries on coronavirus he said test test test and they w h o's director general also did say that mild cases should be isolated cared for at home in countries that do not have enough hospital capacity let's bring in lawrence they he's listening into this press conference with us here at the al-jazeera studio and and very telling that they're nor journalists in our room lawrence so what do you think the most important message you heard while i mean clearly. it was it was very solemn yeah i was in it and i think as well as it was something he was trying to have a sort of a cold. for the human race really you know you describe it is the defining health crisis of all time he's and a lot of it really was some of it was about the about the about the medicine about the testing as you say a lot of it was about behavioral change really and the idea that the people need to

even if they haven't got the virus as if they have to avoid. it to get into a sort of pattern of behavior. the can limit the spread but crucially that idea he said things are getting worse or more cases the people on the self i sleep more. and countries are self isolating more as well that's a better thing but you know he's main point on the medical side of it was that the just simply aren't enough tests being done a whole raft of explanations and steps that people should take if they're trying to look off to someone who's got the virus they should have a bedrooms themself a bathroom for themself it's all very well but i mean if you will if you're living in a one bedroom flat in saudi in village somewhere then then that maybe not not so easy to do but you know on the on the whole i think he was trying to express the gravity of the inside thing really not just sort of like europe but but but all countries

on the testing thing i would just say very briefly here in the u.k. they've abandoned the whole idea of testing frankly because they they seem to think that just enough capacity and so the government advice in this country is if you got the call or a fever go home and only if you're not better all through a week should you then contact the health authorities and so the guidance in this country will be advanced but most advanced country in the world flies directly in the face of what w.h.o. is saying which only goes to prove how difficult it's becoming well has become of the countries to act in the sort of joined up way that was to happen yeah well speaking of a joint up what are we hearing out of it because things are obviously moving very quickly right here in europe and that reports coming through since suggests that the e.u. is now proposing bear banning foreign nationals for 30 days sort of marrying what's happening in the u.s. yes exactly that i mean there are 2 things happening now basically in the shingle part of the european union where free movement is obviously you know the most prized thing that ever achieved you now have countries increasingly shutting themselves off even germany today announcing mostly closing its borders 5 of its

neighbors except for freights to try and keep the single market going commuters crossing the border to work doctors and nurses that sort of thing but as you say at the same time it's going to be a great and probably rubber stamp. proposal by the european commission that. that's 3rd country people that's anybody who's not in the european union should not be allowed to travel so exactly the same in reverse as a trump ban on people from countries traveling into the states they're also encouraging non-shedding in countries you can island to to join in but gradually what you're seeing is this self isolation of entire countries now not just towns and cities across the whole of the european union because they think it's the only way to try to get on top of the virus how long it's going to last nobody knows of underlay in the present the european commission's and 30 days to start with but it could be extended social aspects of this easter for christians is april the 12th

germany shushing a little of both the church as well as the mosques and synagogues that there will be no easter in churches in a lot of christian countries it's these sorts of things that really have an effect on people's lives but they think there is actually no way and they going to have to get people use of the whole idea all right lawrence and thank you very much. well fears are growing if a global recession is the coronavirus pandemic sends markets around the world plunging again and this is the spice central banks announcing a coordinated effort to ease the effects of the outbreak which is now cause 6 and a half 1000 deaths globally over in the u.s. take a look the dow jones is currently trading down around 6 percent after plunging as low as 12 percent earlier on trading on wall street futures was also suspended after they fell by the 5 percent maximum allowed here in london the footsie $100.00 index fell more than 7 percent with other major european markets seeing similar falls over and asia japan's nikkei sank 2 and

a half percent after the bank of japan announced it was expanding its monitoring easing while in australia shares plunged 9.7 percent and airlines right across the globe are making unprecedented cuts to flights costs and staffing as lock downs and travel restrictions take their toll on the industry so virgin atlantic is grounding up to 85 percent of its aircraft it's also asking stuff to take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave budget carriers ryan air and easy jet also announce plans to ground most of their fleets and in a rare joint statement airline alliances one world sky team and star alliance cold for government aides let's get an update on the markets and bring in gabriel is on there he's joining us from new york so tell us how the markets started their day and how they are right now gabriel. well it started with

a big punch to the face for the new york city stock exchange quite frankly what we saw was right when the markets opened at 9 30 am eastern time here it immediately triggered the circuit breaker that stopped trading for 15 minutes because the s. and p. $500.00 dropped to above 7 percent drop to 9 percent once it hits a negative 7 percent drop immediately they stop trading here so that was quite an abrupt morning to start this off this is the 3rd time. in the past week that the circuit breaker has been initiated that stops trading on the floor of the new york stock exchange really unprecedented and it just shows how this is really extending here now the market has bounced back a little bit from its session lows but it's still about negative 6 negative 7 on the dow losing says 67 percent s. and p. about the same source order settling into what is really at least on this trading

day the new reality where shoots way down it continues its downward spiral then comes back up a little bit but it's going to be an absolutely horrendous day here on wall street without a doubt. this is the worst day for the dow and s. and p. $500.00 the worst month i should say since 1987 so the statistics are not looking good at all yeah even with the fed slashing rates so the markets in the in the stocks still not happy with that move what stocks have been hardest hit. all of them quite frankly the s. and p. all 11 sectors of the s. and p. and they divide them up in those stocks in the different sectors like health care financials industrial consumer energy i t. financials you get the picture there's a levin sectors all 11 of them are in the red they're all down airlines as you mentioned taking some of the hardest hits between 25 and 50 percent of the airlines

that are traded publicly. all of the airlines that are trade probably they've lost between 25 and 50 percent of their value so they are absolutely taking a beating the bottom line here is what the wall street is basically saying is 2 things they wanted to see some sort of. a decrease of the coronavirus cases here in the u.s. to ease investor worries that's not happening happening there's actually an increase and the number one the fed by dropping the interest rates essentially to 0 percent essential basically the investors and wall street are basically that's all the fed's got there's not much more the fed can do they have in one word of one investor the fed has fired its last bullet so that is left a lot of worry on wall street as well that's why you're seeing this sell off here on monday all right thank you for that update from new york let's continue this with our white house correspondent kelly halkett she joins us from washington

because gabriel was just giving us an idea of how badly airline stocks have been doing on the markets and now we're hearing kimberly that airlines are possibly asking the u.s. government for bailouts how significant is this move. it's very significant fact the economic advisor to the president larry kudlow speaking to reporters at the white house using the r word that's one that's not used very freely and that is recession that this is something that looking ahead most americans he is saying need to be prepared that there is going to be a significant economic downturn and that downturn is going to manifest itself in a number of ways so already there is discussion under way put in place and $800000000000.00 package that is either in the works in some form or fashion or is coming online very soon that would not only do dress the issue of the airlines but to have seen major disruptions by the fact that the top public health officials

have said if you don't need to fly don't and that's had a significant impact on the number of people traveling domestically of course we have the shutdowns in terms of traffic internationally as a result of the measures that have been put in place by the white house to cut down on the virus spreading so this is hurting the industry the now the white house we're hearing looking to bail out the airlines if you will and also ordinary americans putting in place potentially a fiscal package that would allow for payroll tax holidays among other adjustments to adapt to the reality that many americans now are sitting at home not collecting a paycheck yet and how are americans just dealing with kind of the change in their daily reality the change in their routine as a result of all the shutdowns. ordinary americans aren't dealing with it very well in the you know the shock is really starting to take hold and the anxiety is rising as a result you've got every facet of american society now affected in some way whether

it's not being able to go to bars or restaurants because they've either been voluntarily closed or they are in reduced capacity cutting down on the number of people that can go there even the hours being cut back severely in cities like los angeles washington d.c. new york we're also seeing the schools shut down in their 50 us states more than 30 have their children staying at home and then there is sort of the other aspect in all of this that there is sort of some intimation coming out from the white house that so far is being tamp down by the vice president but that there may be a national curfew so this is something that most americans in their lifetimes have never experienced and just the prospect of that is leaving many nervous. thank you for that update from washington now a german bio form a suitor will company has denied reports of the us president was trying to acquire

its vaccine research a german newspaper reported the donald trump offered large amounts of money to secure a cure box coronavirus vaccine for use in the u.s. only the german or forty's insists no country should have a monopoly and offered its own financial incentives for the vaccine to stay in the country cure vioxx as it hopes to have an experimental vaccine by the middle of the year it would then need regulatory approval for human testing. well iran has recorded another big rise in the number of deaths 129 more confirmed on monday among those dead is a senior advisor to the assembly of experts and there are almost 15000 confirmed cases and there are concerns the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities and an economy are ready struggling under sanctions let's get an update from zambia he's joining us from the iranian capital tehran so the president presidents are high and he had said that iran had passed the peak but that ben prompted a correction or

a clarification from one of his officials what do you make of these mixed messages . well ever since the beginning of this outbreak in iran the one of the main things that the country's government struggled with is getting iranian people on board having them trust the government's guidance on how to try to stem the flow of them the spread of this virus and certainly what we've seen today isn't going to help their case president hassan rouhani during his statements seem to say that the peak of the virus is over in iraq and certainly he was about a week or 10 days early if experts are to be believed but it certainly struck an optimistic a positive tone hours later hours after the news spread across the country and adviser to the president's office issued a correction saying that is not actually what the president said if you listen to the translation of the audio what he said is that the figures seem to suggest that there is a positive trend in terms of combating the spread of the coronavirus but even that seems to contradict the numbers that are in black and white another record setting

day for the death toll the overall number of cases touching 15000 really these sorts of bits of information that downplay the severity of the spread of the coronavirus sort of contradict what many in his own government are saying on the same day earlier today hours after president spoke a member of his coronavirus task force the man in charge of the task force for the city of iran painted a much more serious picture calling it biologically different from what's happening in china more complicated and if it's not taken seriously it could be something that could proliferates and becomes even worse well into the later part of this year the head of the i.r.g.c. major general hussein salami went on national television and literally begged people to stay at home saying that the virus was a chain and to break it people have to stay home so these contradictory messages will not help the government to get its people on board writes in misrata thank you . well restrictions on movements are meant to stop the spread of the virus they're

also forcing millions of people to stay home from work and causing widespread job cuts alexia brian looks a big global fallouts. from rome. to madrid. and manila millions of people now under lockdown or funneled through checkpoints. and meet up some of us a little it's hard for workers who are not able to go to work and are stuck at home they don't have income they can't buy food their families will go hungry the coronavirus has the world on a war footing authorities battling an invisible enemy that's threatening a global recession all bars in the state. and all restaurants. will close at 9 o'clock tonight. how long is or will be in a fact we don't frankly know governments are being forced to announce so-called coronavirus budgets crisis measures hope to contain the financial fallout and save

but the billions of dollars don't always extend to low wage earners or contract workers many without health insurance will be hit hard by the uncertainty which could extend months even years. in my 35 year career i've never found myself unemployed so it's weird for me i never thought even imagine that one day i'd find myself unemployed i don't know what the future will bring. right now the future is not looking good for the world economy is expected to grow at its slowest rate since 2009 after the global financial crisis that means less wealth and fewer jobs even the most remote areas aren't immune to the virus ski lifts are at a standstill in the swiss alps as resorts turn away tourists. it's a bit annoying because now i'm out of work but we'll see what's decided. the travel

industry is among those hardest hit with airlines grounding planes and slashing jobs tourism operators fear the bill could run into the trillions if you want to ask the obvious a how the but i'm really concerned about my. there are others too who rely on foot traffic for their survival. with streets continuing to empty millions of lives and livelihoods and now on hold. and brian al-jazeera. the other hand a 6 year old child has died in a fire at an overcrowded refugee camp in greece local media says the blaze at the morea camp on lesbos began in a container nobody else was injured but several tents were damaged the campus at 6 times capacity holding more than 19000 people in recent weeks hundreds of refugees

have arrived on the island after turkey stopped preventing them from traveling to the e.u. . israel's president has asked the opposition leader been against to form a new government ahead of the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu guns has been tossed with ending a period of political stalemate at the same time as israel grapples with more than $250.00 coronavirus cases neither gantz nor netanyahu have managed to form a government after 3 elections in the space of a year. the time has come to less empty words and more big acts the time has come to set aside boycotts and swords and reconnect again all the tribes of israel and all the citizens of israel. we will be the coronavirus we will pass through this crisis we will defeat the hatred because our hope is not going to get very far so it is in west jerusalem and he says the endorsement doesn't necessarily mean benny gantz will become prime minister. he's been here before for one thing in

october he was given the mandate after benjamin netanyahu failed to form a coalition government after the 2nd election he failed to do so then and we eventually got to a 3rd election a couple of weeks ago now and so here we are once again the difference though this time is that he does have a majority of the newly elected parliamentarians at least recommending him for prime minister that doesn't the automatic lee means meaning as a government in waiting he has 2 options really one is a minority administration supported but not incorporating the 15 palestinian israeli members of the knesset from the joint list largely palestinian israeli who supported him in their recommendations for prime minister but there are some within his own ranks within blue and white who are uncomfortable with that kind of arrangement so he might not get 61 votes the necessary majority to form such a government what he's talking about though is trying to form

a broader unity government one equipped to deal with the current situation especially with the coronavirus crisis as it's gripping this country both in terms of health and economic effects he is now reaching out or he's reaching out his elbows he put it given the the restriction on hands and handshakes to benjamin netanyahu and others to join him in such an administration now netanyahu had made the same call just a few days ago saying that gantz should join a netanyahu led government to try to tackle the coronavirus together russian president vladimir putin's efforts to remain in power have received a boost in the country's constitutional court judges approved constitutional changes that could allow him to reign and remain in power until 2036 by which time he would be 83 years old has been in office as president for 2 periods and one is prime minister but is currently required to step down in 4 years' time with

a team 1000 russians a signed a petition calling the reform an illegal coup. apple has been hit with the largest fine ever handed out by the french competition authority the tech giant's been ordered to pay $1200000000.00 for striking deals with resellers if its products to keep prices high apple into french companies were fined accuse the for agreeing not to compete with each other thus hurting consumers apple says it will appeal. hello again to headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization says countries must test every suspected case of corona virus more cases than deaths have now been reported in the rest of the world than in china on the w.h.o. says the current response isn't enough to stop it spread you cannot fly a fire in floated and we cannot store this bundle me if we don't know is

infected we have a simple message for all countries test test test global stock markets have plunged again despite central banks around the world announcing a coordinated effort to ease the effects of the corona virus in the u.s. the dow jones plunged 6 percent and here in london the footsie 100 index has fallen more than 3 and a half for a cent with other major european markets seeing similar falls asian markets also saying concluding in japan despite the country announcing monitory thing and leaders of the world 7 largest economies have been holding a video conference to discuss how to response of the global coronavirus pandemic the head of the european union has proposed banning foreign nationals for 30 days in a bid to curb the spread of the virus the restrictions would cover the open borders own including $22.00 e.u. nations and 4 others known as the schengen area it comes as individual countries in

the union implemented their own travel restrictions. i mean airlines across the globe are making unprecedented cuts to flights costs and staffing as lock downs and travel restrictions take their toll on the industry for a gentle plant is grounding up to 85 percent of its aircraft and asking staff to take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave budget carriers ryanair and easy jet also announce plans to ground ground most of their fleets on iran has recorded another big rise in the number of deaths $129.00 more confirmed on monday among those dead is a senior advisor to the assembly of experts here today with the latest headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news coming up right after counting the cost thanks for watching.

hello i'm daryn this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week a battle for the hearts of opec who will capitulate putin all m.p.'s as a price war decimates the markets. will the most liberal democratic nations by beijing's facial recognition technology to control the citizens. and the lebanese lived a dream that was a delusion while lebanon was drowning in words of the prime minister as his country defaulted on its.