the right combination to ensure that we get the biggest impact unfortunately that time is now for many of these measures what we're doing is implementing them actually at the stage of the epidemic which is a little bit earlier than has been done in some other countries given where we are in terms of the epidemic now. the measures have 2 objectives one is to delay the transmission of this virus across the community and the 2nd is to keep people safe the measures as the prime minister's out bind include whole household isolation so if one person gets the symptoms of new persistent cough or fever the whole household stays isolated for 14 days the reason it's 14 days is the 7 days for the person who's got the infection the incubation period that others may catch it and the 7 days after that

we're also recommending increased social distancing that's the phrase that you hear which means trying to reduce contact between people again to try to delay this transmission that means where businesses can do it and where individuals can do it homeworking is recommended unnecessary travel should be reduced and stop avoiding gatherings in crowded places important and those gatherings big or small are important so that you get the whole thing together it's not just the size of a gathering it's actually all gatherings which become important and reducing social contacts there are specific measures for the vulnerable groups the people who are most likely to get serious illness with this infection and chris was he will say

more about that. those measures would need to go on for 12 weeks or so across this period maybe a little longer these measures like case isolation that we talked about last week staying at home if you've got the symptoms these new measures have a big effect this is not a series of small interventions you would anticipate that this could have a dramatic effect to reduce the peak and to reduce death rate. they are not easy but they are important and they will have the effect if we all do it this is a matter for us to take accountability to make sure we help each other protect ourselves and protect the n.h.s. it is also possible as laid out in the plan that other measures may be necessary

including at some point as we've said it may be necessary to think about things like school closures but those things again need to be done at the right time in the right way at the right stage of the operation. or hand over to chris. thank you i'm just going to have a few comments additionally from a medical point of view. but i'm not going to i'm not repeat points that are really made and the 1st thing is to make an obvious point that this is an a now a very global disease and the way you deal with global pandemics is different in public terms health terms than the way you would deal with a localized outbreak where you are the 1st country or a very significant region that is has got it and the 2nd point is the obvious point again that in this country this disease is now accelerating up the curve but it is still it a low level but it will accelerate up now really quite rapidly. now we obviously need to do things that are both effective and all the measures that are here have

been gone over by several large numbers of scientists in different ways looking at mathematical models behavioral sciences many other forms of science to find the things which are the most effective but they also have to be sustainable because this is going to go on for some time and i think we should not be under any illusions that if we just do this for a couple of weeks that is sufficient this is going to have to be a prolonged period. now for any individual person and this is me start off with the most cheery point about this for any individual person the chances of dying from corona virus are actually very low some people will not get the infection and many of the measures we're doing at the moment will help with that some people will get it and will have no symptoms at all they won't even realise they've had it of those who do have symptoms the majority will have either a miles disease or

a moderate disease meaning they can easily manage it at home without having to go to the n.h.s. directly or indirectly in any other way. but obviously a small minority but a significant one get significant disease requiring hospital care a small proportion of those will go on to need intensive care and sadly some people will go on to die and as we've discussed before the overall mortality rate looks as if it's a bit less than one percent on current data but that's without knowing how many people get the disease asymptomatic but we know some people get it now we also know that older people are at greater risk and that is widely known but it is important i think to stress that being ohs does not necessarily mean you'll get it worse and actually there was a rather nice article by my minister and the dean doris who actually explained when she had grown a virus her mother who caught it from her had it normally so it's not

a necessary fact that older people will necessarily have it worse so you might say why with a disease where we have such small numbers of the moment and which the great majority people are going to recover from and most of them will have a mild or or non non notice or disease would we want to do anything at all and the reason is this excel aeration an overall aim and our single aim is to reduce death rates and the numbers of people who might die as a result of this but i think it's important to recognize and this does and the reason i'm explaining this is so people understand the logic of what we're doing that there are broadly 3 groups of death deaths and other impacts on health we need to consider there are the direct deaths which are caused by the coronavirus disease itself with good medical care tragically a few people the great majority of them in good health but not necessarily all

will pass away. there are however and this is really important a significant number of other deaths which if the n.h.s. became overwhelmed in any of the 4 nations if the intensive care is got care units got to the point when they were overwhelmed then people would die from indirect deaths because they did not have the ability to get medical care and a lot of what we are trying to do is trying to reduce the chance that those indirect deaths might occur and then the 3rd possibility and it is an important one for us to consider is that some of the measures we are doing well undoubtedly or could have negative impacts on people's health in themselves that there are negative effects of what we do to try and combat the coronavirus one of the reasons we are very keen not to go in advance of need was because of those negative facts and i've come onto one of them later on but just to explain where the different

things fall into this the very profound changes in terms of social distancing that the prime minister laid out which are going to be very difficult for people to maintain a very long period of time and who have very significant social effects do have the capacity significantly to pull down the peak of this infection wave and therefore make it easier for the n.h.s. and particularly the ventilation support to be able to cope with the wave that is heading its way so that is really critical people who do this who risk ric's their social gathering or doing things to protect the n.h.s. to allow people allow the n.h.s. to treat both people with coronavirus and people who have other things as well it is an overall effect on the n.h.s. . this is the 2nd group of things which the prime minister's laid out are those things that we want the quite large group of people who either are over 70.

possibly quite healthy or very healthy over 70 but over 70 or who are younger than me but have a significant so you look at the life picture from downing street to the u.k. prime minister boris johnson standing alongside his ribcage chief scientific adviser as well as the chief medical officer giving an update on the coronavirus this is in fact their 1st day of the briefing on the coronavirus pandemic and the prime minister urging everyone in the u.k. to stop nonessential contact as the virus according to him is spreading also encouraging people to move away from moscow the rains he's saying people should move away emphatically from any sort of mass gathering in this of course after the numbers here in the u.k. seem to suggest that there are more than 1500 people infected so far let's bring in lawrence live for more on what boris johnson had to say so what did you hear a lot and i want to you know i mean the context of it is a the last few days the the government has been very heavily criticized for

a lack of transparency right they haven't been to with the public about what's going on they haven't held these briefings they've been selectively briefing journalists and information coming out the wrong way and it was a white one you telling us about all this is so as you say from today it is going to be one of these conferences every day but a more change in tone in some ways and frankly suggestion that you know they wouldn't say so they they they they mostly roll i mean as of as of last week patrick vallance who spoke 2nd was talking about the importance of collective immunity herd immunity well over the weekend that went away no we don't want people to get it to get close to me and say we will now they're saying that anybody over 70 will have to stay at home for 3 months for 1212 weeks again another change as of last week if you guess it's stayed home for 7 days only after that time they said if you're not feeling better phone phone the health service number now they're saying if some of the family gets it's everybody's got to stay at home

. for 14 days. so so these these are quite dramatic changes but it is worth pointing out we did we just saw the w.h.o. about an hour ago saying that if you've if you've heard it's you could be infectious for 40 more days after that so here's the u.k. still very much out of step with the w.h.o. guidelines again the w.h.o. said test test test everybody's got to be tested in the u.k. still. if you're at home and you go see it's no one's going to test you you just you just have to assume that you've got it and wait until you are supposedly better another week after that and then and then go back to work and so based on this is it going to be no accurate assessment in the u.k. of exactly how many people have had it at all and so you can see how difficult it is for the w.h.o. to get some sort of international collective responsibility and uniformity really when you have a major country like the u.k. still not exactly in step with what the show's doing because all of this in the

u.k. is take pressure off the creaking health services nothing like in the ventilators for people in this country right there still talking about getting companies like rolls royce the come a could to try and change is business problem make ventilates instead the loss on that had happened was in the 2nd world war when car makers had to make munitions instead so in all of these ways you can see how difficult it is for countries like the u.k. to keep up with with the progress of the disease but certainly i think in this they are suggesting that things would be like a much more seriously than they have been why is it that the u.k. has gone added alone in a way i mean we're going to hear what the world health organization has the same just a moment and since i have you here we've seen kind of stringent measures take place in other european countries and the u.k. has kind of got a different down a different path some would say why is that where they're all going from the start was that they they they didn't want to disrupt people's lives too much of the stuff and they wanted to wait until as one minister put it you can see the whites of its eyes as if it's a sort of an enemy soldier coming over the hill toward you before you start to go

through this ever disruption and obviously they all said that in the briefing now is the time soon we can see a london in particular is it peaking ahead of the rest of the country we've got to start taking these things more seriously or so on so that was frankly quite apologetic about the disruptions of people's lives you know said it's a thing it's going to be for people but look at what's happening on the consonance in countries are shutting down if the u.k. stayed where it was last week it would just look completely out of step right ok lawrence thank you very much for that. and on the subject of the world health organization so what the director said was that countries must test every suspected case of coronavirus there's now more cases and deaths 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 listen you cannot fly a flyer in folded and we cannot stop this bundle me if we don't know who is infected we have

a simple message for all countries test test test or leaders of the world's 7 largest economies have been holding a video conference to discuss how to respond to the global coronavirus pandemic and 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 well this comes as individual countries in the union implement their own travel restrictions germany has set up checkpoints with 5 if its neighbors on monday. we seemed nonessential travel should be reduced right now to in order to not to spread the virus further be it within the european union or by leaving the european union but also to avoid non-essential travel not to have more potential strain on our health care system for growing if

a global recession is the coronavirus pandemic sends markets around the world plunging again this is the spike central banks announcing a coordinated effort to ease the effects of the outbreak which is now cost $6.00 and a half 1000 deaths globally in the u.s. the dow jones opened down 7.6 percent and is currently down by more than 8 percent and here in london the footsie $100.00 index has fallen one than 4.7 percent with other major european markets seeing similar falls in asia japan's nikkei sank 2 and a half percent after the bank of japan announced it was expanding its monetary easing and australia shares over there they plunged 9.7 percent let's bring in his own there for an update on the markets in new york so stocks plummet plummet again gabriel trading circuit breaker they managed to make somewhat a full recovery. not much this is both the dow and s.

and p. are not at their session lows anymore that's when the market 1st opened and they immediately stopped trading on that circuit breaker was kicked into effect when the s. and p. reached a negative 7 percent but right now it's not gained back much i mean the dow and the s. and p. have been fluctuating between being down 7 to 9 percent somewhere in that range all day it's not moving from their anxiety is building here on why wall street quite frankly investors are not happy the market is not happy there's 2 things going on here right now number one is the market was looking for some signs that coronavirus was starting to weigh in the united states or go down in the united states that's not even close to happening it's going up and number 2 the federal reserve's decision to lower interest rates almost 0 practically. is not helped the market either because a lot of investors are saying that that's really as they say the last bullet in the

gun of the fed so there's not much more else the fed can do so that's also worried investors i got to bring this in there's so much worry here right now on wall street that there has been some talk about would the new york stock exchange close its doors to try to prevent any further declines here we just heard from the president of the new york stock exchange she just tweeted her name stacy cunningham president york stock exchange declining or are shooting aside any thought of closing she said it's important for the markets to remain open and for them to function in a fair and orderly manner as they have been she went on and to in her tweet to say closing the markets would not change the underlying causes of the market decline it would remove transparency and investor sentiment and reduce investors' access to their money this would only further compound the current market anxiety so as of now the president the new. these new new york stock exchange saying we're going to

remain open but buckle up because it's not a not going to probably be good in the coming days or what do you know about whether public spaces over new york or new jersey are being kept open or not because there are reports that the governors from there have announced a closer of bars restaurants and public spaces yeah that just happened within the last couple hours or so governors as you mentioned of new york and new jersey both came out and said statewide closure of all bars all restaurants all theaters all museums all gymnasiums any public space in new york or new jersey 2 of the biggest most populous states in the united states any public space essentially is being closed down a public space that has more than 50 people in it as being closed down restaurants can only do delivery they can open up and have people sit in the restaurants anymore this is going to change the and this all goes into effect monday evening

here in new york and new jersey so this is going to change life here in new york city and new jersey dramatically and it also just raises anxiety of what many people are feeling here already and many of the supermarkets in new jersey and new york there's already been as they say panic buying many of the shelves are bare people running in to get food and supplies on to thank you. well china's government has released numbers so in the 4 scale of the economic damage caused by the outbreak of widespread factory closures industrial output fell by 13 and a half percent while retail sales dropped by more than 20 percent but the number of new infections in the region continues to go down as when he reports. day by day there are more signs of life returning to the streets of who province where the corona virus outbreak began the simple act of police removing a roadblock was a welcome sight for residents and the government which wants to get the country

moving again the industrial engine which led china to become the 2nd largest economy in the world is also restarting after a disastrous 2 months which saw output collapse companies are gradually recovering their general order of production the situation for factories and business and hiring is improving and on the labor demands will continue to increase as the number of new infections in china decreases just 16 recorded on sunday the government expects the economic prognosis to significantly improve this month but with the outbreak bringing other countries to a halt demand for chinese exports will take some time to recover. the number of new infections is slowing in south korea too but preventative measures are continuing particularly involved areas here volunteer work is spray a housing project for the poor in the capital seoul in australia many people were angry they weren't given enough time to return home before tough new travel

restrictions were introduced by the government anyone entering australia must now self isolate for 14 days to return to a farming property we have no food at that time and property we're now trying to find people to buy for us so that literally we can a now 12 aus were in a foreign country with all the warning we've got now i think it's deplorable the government of the philippines will extend quarantine measures beyond manila to the entire island of luzon to capitalism take to lock down with travel restrictions in place to try to slow the rate of infection after a spike in the number of confirmed cases the move came as 400 filipino crew members from a cruise ship that was stranded off the coast of california arrived back home the workers were flown back on a charter flight after some passengers on the ship became infected with corona virus wayne hay al jazeera. 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 there are almost 15000 confirmed cases and there are concerns the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities and an economy struggling under sanctions or restrictions on movement are meant to stop the spread of the virus but they're also forcing millions of people to stay home and they're causing widespread job cuts virgin atlantic is grounding up to 85 percent of its aircraft and to take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave budget carriers ryanair an easy jet also announced plans to ground most of their fleets alexia ryan has more on the global fallouts. from rome. to madrid. and manila millions of people now under lockdown or funneled through checkpoints. and heat 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 this day and all restaurants. will close at 9 o'clock tonight. how long this or will be in a fact we don't frankly know governments have been forced to announce so-called coronavirus budgets crisis measures hope to contain the financial fallout that's it 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 economies 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 in homes. and brian al-jazeera a german biopharmaceutical company has denied reports the us president was trying to acquire its vaccine research a german newspaper reported donald trump offered large amounts of money to secure a cure vax coronavirus vaccine for use in the us only german authorities insist no country should have a monopoly and offered its own financial incentives for the vaccine to stay in the country and us media is reporting that the country's department of health and human services which plays a key role in the response to the corona virus outbreak was hit by a cyber attack on sunday nights meanwhile restaurants bars and cinemas have now been shut down in the country's 2 largest cities the restrictions were imposed by the mayors of new york and los angeles 1st to say bars and cafes will still be able to deliver food gyms have also been ordered to close in l.a. . lebanon's government has also impose the lockdown in an attempt to control the

spread of the virus but the countries in the middle of an economic crisis and many residents say stay at home isn't an option there are also concerns over how they're struggling how system will cope reports from beirut's. traffic has slowed after lebanon's government ordered a lockdown private and state institutions are closed as daily life slowly grinds to a halt it's the latest measure to stop the spread of coronavirus but not everyone can afford to stay home. i have 3 daughters there's no work for a whole worker's home forced to drive a taxi i know my health is in danger but i have no choice. the government declared a medical state of emergency to keep the number of infections in check while essential services like bakeries and pharmacies remain open the country will be sealed off from wednesday with the closure of airports ports and borders but some

fear these measures are not enough the start of a few minutes here in the french only problem is many lebanese are not taking the threat seriously ask us why we wear masks and gloves one should protect himself private health facilities are now on the frontline of this battle because of the bitter reality of public hospitals that's how the prime minister has described the situation as they prepare to face the pandemic but doctors say the private sector to doesn't have the equipment and supplies to last over a month or the private sector is not ready to take this in charge except a few major hospital in beirut and these few major hospital in beirut can handle this. but not for very long time because we have a huge shortage the government is under pressure on more than one front it is almost bankrupt and there is a deep economic crisis. trying to protect people but many are asking what they're doing to look after their livelihoods many say there is a need for

a comprehensive response plan and the strategy to ensure the economy doesn't collapse even further some are taking personal initiatives to help those in need opponents of the government believe ministers and parliament members should work on retrieving what they say are stolen public money instead of donating this month's salary to a national fund set up to combat the virus people are getting poorer. the needs are getting very big because we got a lot of people. coming to ask us for boxes with the rice. and we are giving as much as we can. but the fight against corona virus is taking precedence health officials expect the number of infections to rise but as they try to delay that it is the most who seem to be left behind. beirut. on to other news and russia's foreign minister says fighters in syria's stronghold

are breaching the ceasefire it comes after russia and turkey which brokered the pause in fighting joint cut short joint patrols because rebels cut off a main road ceasefire deal was signed earlier this month by the russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart. the agreement came after a direct confrontation between the turkish military and syrian government troops. israel's president has asked the opposition leader benny gantz to form a new government ahead of the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu dance has been tossed with ending a period of political stalemate at the same time as israel grapples with more than 250 coronavirus cases neither gansey or netanyahu have managed to form a government after 3 elections in the space of a year or dance the country's former military chief says he will do his best to form a government within a few days. the time has come for 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 yet. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization says countries must test every suspected case of coronavirus more cases and deaths have now been reported in the rest of the world than in china and the w.h.o. says the current response isn't enough to stop it spreads you cannot fly a flyer in folded and we cannot store these bundles me if we don't know who is infected we have a simple message for all countries test test test

in the last hour the u.k. prime minister has advised against all unnecessary social contacts or is johnson said citizens should work from home if possible and avoid pubs restaurants and transportation previously in the country faced criticism for its response to the crisis being seen as lagging behind its european neighbors on social distancing measures. global stock markets have plunged again despite central banks around the world announcing a coordinated effort to ease the f. effects of the coronavirus in the u.s. the dow jones is down more than 8 percent and here in london the footsie $100.00 index is down 4.7 percent with other major european markets seeing similar falls asian markets also sank including in japan despite the country announcing monitory easing and leaders of the world's 7 largest economies have been holding a video conference to discuss how to respond to the global coronavirus pandemic the head of the e.u. 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 and 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 and 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 virgin atlantic is grounding up to 85 percent of its aircraft and asking stuff to take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave those were the top stories on al-jazeera up next it's inside story thanks very much for watching.

the coronavirus pandemic puts further pressure on some of the world's lowest paid workers with more countries imposing lock downs many people without sick leave a stable income say they cannot afford to stay at home so how should they be protected this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm maryanne demasi the world is experiencing unprecedented events right now as the coronavirus pandemic affects the lives of millions of people governments are pushing cities into lockdown and they are urging everyone to avoid public spaces and to work from home if possible but many low paid

workers around the world don't have that option as shops and restaurants are deserted people face weeks were.