cautious optimism in china no new local cases on the mainland since the corona virus outbreak began in december. but things get worse in italy 475 people die in the country most affected after china the highest number of fatalities on one single day. at the mine p.t.w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up is the u.k. doing enough in their effort to prevent the further spread of the virus. and governments around the world are doing whatever it takes to stop it with 19 the question now is

are they going too far. more than 200000 people have been infected by the corona virus worldwide but there is cause for hope in china it's reporting no new local cases for the 1st time since the outbreak began in december. a province which has seen 3130 deaths has 0 new local infections all new cases 34 of them involve people arriving into the country. yellow even. we are delighted to see this double 0 increase this means today we've seen the dawn after so many days of hard efforts it also means our control measures and medical treatment methods have been working very well. however things have deteriorated in. europe the current epicenter of the

pandemic italy has recorded 475 deaths on the weapons day the highest number of fatalities on one single day for any country the prime minister mr county has now ordered the nation's lockdown measures to be extended for an even longer period of time in the u.s. president trump has taken another drastic measure to tackle covert 19 by invoking a thing called the defense production act it's a wartime step it does allow him to draft in the military to produce masks ventilators and respirators and also expands hospital capacity across the u.s. now here's the overall picture let's look at that as usual johns hopkins medical university tracker there you can see the total number of cases top left 118000 almost 119000 total deaths around the world just under $1000.00 total recovered $84000.00 ok let's put together the global picture for you let's talk 1st to lawrence lee our correspondent monitoring europe for us out of bureau in london so

a significant 24 hours 1st off lawrence in italy. yes really alarming 475 new deaths there in the 24 hour period the world health organization suggests at this it seems to be a combination of a very large number of cases already in the health care system coupled with obviously an aging population that it's got the bully old populations in europe but it just shows you how long these countries are going to have to go into lockdown for us he's already been in lockdown for a fortnight's as you said has had to come to the prime minister now says going to have extended equally frons was only a lot over a couple of days so a 16 percent rise in cases yesterday and the interior minister said this morning that they might have to extend 2 and if you if you take in china as any sort of model it went into lockdown in the middle of january didn't it and it's now the middle of march so everybody is presumably looking at least 2 months with all the

with all the contingent effects on society that seems to be no way around it and was the picture in the u.k. what it's morning your time because there seems to be a growing realisation that the u.k. and the u.s. is exponentially following italy or met up with tilting graph. there's also the other that's growing here peter is is a sense of anger and to some extent panic in the population the lack of care here and plans by the government to order people to change their behavior i'm going to read out a tweet that crops up on my own much as they this morning my exhausted fiance says this guy has just got in from the hospital shift 13 minute chat with her would convince anyone still going to pubs and so on that their actions are the stupidest most ludicrously selfish thing they will ever do in their lifetimes get indoors and

yet there are still people replying to in saying well the pubs are in financial trouble they need they need our support i'm going to continue going to the pub until somebody tells me i can't and you know that the message from the government is look if you do go out and do these things you'll likely to run the risk of spreading the infection to someone who might be vulnerable but they're not ordering anybody to change their behavior there's no still no idea what the lockdown which is assumed to be the next few days in london would look like wildly varying reports in the newspapers morning as to whether it would be in force by the police in the army on the streets telling people to go home and guarding shops against looting other reports saying that people might still be able to ride bikes and drive cars around and it would be it would be a much lesser stressful thing for everybody so it as some points they've got to start being serious for the population but it hasn't happened yet lawrence will come back to i suspect in the next hour in the meantime thanks very much live now to beijing and i correspondent there katrina you so katrina on the face of it it

looks like it might be some positive news out of china. that's right according to government figures there have been virile locally transmitted cases across the whole of china in the past 24 hours and that is remarkable if it's to be believed not only because that would mean that this is the 1st affected country that's been able to break the chain of human transmission but also because this is the place where the virus outbreak originated in 100 city now there been more than 80000 people in china affected by the virus more than 3000 deaths and more of these occurred in who were a province in the city of and at one stage you had hundreds of new cases announced every day and that in fact there have been tens of thousands of medical staff flown into a province just to deal with this completely overwhelmed medical system now these doctors these nurses these other medical support staff they've started going current and all of these temporary hospitals that were opened in one city in kuwait

province now they've all been closed because of a lack of patients and also this lockdown which you mentioned which your guest earlier mentioned which started in for a province at the end of january which saw that every resident in cuba had to be confined to their harm if not at least to the residential compound that is also started to ease and all of the counties and who they province except the city of have now been classified as low risk areas so clearly the authorities local and national do not want to import coronavirus from people either going to china or returning to china how are they going to do that. that's right china is not out of the woods yet we had 34 new cases announced in last 24 hours all of those were chinese nationals who brought the infection from overseas mostly according to the government from spain and italy and people here are afraid of a 2nd wave of infections from people overseas so what the government is doing is

tightening restrictions on overseas travel is and that's a huge challenge because you have more than 100000 people coming to china every day the capital beijing receives more than 5000 people alone so now what the government is doing is saying that all international travelers as soon as you come to beijing you must go directly to a designated quarantine hotel you must pay for the bill yourself there are no exceptions and still it's far from the end of the lockdown here in china this virus to all the restrictions that have been put in place in terms of monitoring people's activities everyone being told to wear masks that's all still very much in place all schools remain closed entertainment venues remain closed so the government is very much aware that still much has to be done to make sure this outbreak is finished and we're not quite there yet in one city they've said that they need 14 consecutive case of 14 consecutive days of no new cases in order for them to lower

travel restrictions there sir definitely still many challenges ahead for china katrina thanks very much sara clark is our correspondent in hong kong so sara how the markets doing today. well all markets across asia ended down on thursday despite initial guidance when markets opened stocks bonds gold and commodities all fell even the circuit breakers were hit in seoul jakarta and manila at the end of the day of trading gold for one percent the nic i fell one percent the s. $6200.00 dropped nearly 4 percent the cost index in south korea was down i percent and the hang seng was down by 2.6 percent now the strain reserve bank cut it so interest rates 2.25 percent that's the lowest ever in a strata and the stride in a great sense of dollar also fell to a 17 year low now in south korea the government announced a range of fiscal measures to try and prop up the economy now this wasn't just the 1st package and that some some funds earlier as crisis funds but today the full

fiscal pressure package now for south korean try to prop up the economy is worth around $39000000000.00 and here's what president murray had to say earlier or should join this is a special emergency financial measure with 39 $1000000000.00 it's a public welfare and finance stability package program this is an unprecedented comprehensive measure in both scale and subject matter if you're serious or as those crucial markets are concerned clearly they want confidence clearly they're not going to get it but this time last week when we were discussing here on al-jazeera you know cutting interest rates doesn't work that's what some analysts were telling us also liquidity printing money literally putting cash into the system doesn't work the markets just have to ride this year. it certainly does cash is king at the moment as some economists to say and other countries that are now trying to try and curb the spread of the virus and also try to prop up their economies in doing so we've got these new zealand governments both of them have today announced that the closure of borders for foreigners and these

particular deadlines it's friday and 9 pm in australia and thursday midnight so all nonresidents won't be able to enter those countries from today and tomorrow at this travel ban means that only the strain residents and citizens can enter and this is what this train prime minister scott morrison has said i did percent of the cases more than 3 quarters of the cases are coming from overseas and as a result he's trying to stop the spread because of the miners' strike is spreading quite rapidly there's some of the toughest measures that we've had certain astraddle and he's even made the announcement about closing its borders about 30 minutes after so clearly see not if it from both a strategy and new zealand and earlier today we had quantas announcing that it would stop all international flights at the end of the month sarah thanks very much . ok we'll have lots more all new to virus for you here on al-jazeera including these aspects of the story quality students who don't seem coals to avoid large gatherings despite the script tells morning. there's marcin to syria's syria is

more serious things out there are hunger and poverty we need to address there. and there are plenty of rain still in the full cost across much of borneo and also beginning to get quite heavy at times across into the northern and western areas of the west a not a bad day friday across the philippines mostly dry want to scottish as heavy rains across areas of thailand and across into laos and again very unsettled really through much some asha and on into java the real change on south below the showers becoming a bit more widespread throughout the philippines shows to the old dying is still a very wet day particularly through southern and western areas of borneo and then tools australia new zealand it's the south was saying really all of the action a big system worked his way quite quickly across much of tasmania the rain will

paul says it's a throughout friday. but very very windy conditions in fact we could also see some strong gusty winds through the mountains in south australia that system on its way to new zealand the rain beginning to peter out across western areas of western australia and it's the warm days that you think about one couple of days the 31 celsius on saturday and also the temperature will drop considerably in sydney from 36 down to 25 on saturday that front swings through and we get some cool app but that is when we will also see very strong winds and widespread rain across much new zealand just 17 in christchurch. the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run caravans in this cages you can not have access to toilets or water and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight she has his hands and she states tied to the bed 5

years after fast highlighting such abuses people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europe's recurring shame hard to on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera my name's peter your top stories this hour no new local coronavirus infections across china for the 1st time since the outbreak there began in december only the cases are reported to be people returning from abroad china has begun using its love to millions of people. the situation in italy is very different to the prime minister says lockdown measures will be extended past the original april 3rd deadline on weapons day the country recorded

the highest single day number of deaths from the virus since the outbreak started. stock market prices in asia have for them again because of increasing fears of a prolonged global recession japan's nikkei closed down one percent but losses were much heavier in hong kong and south korea following another big selloff on wall street. well the crisis shows few signs of ending across europe and the world health organization is warning not enough is being done laura but many picks up the story from the. as the number of recorded coronavirus cases to sponsor 200000 the world health organization announced the 1st plan of that seems underway the start of a long battle this virus is presenting us with i'm president target but it's also an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy an enemy against humanity as the rules

some countries own story enough testing to stem the virus italy has reported the highest one day death toll in any nation so far 475 who killed by the bars they have 1st of all our port the army to join in in the area a bit early where the outbreak has been. at its worse so the army has set up a hospital camps and that was not seen before there is a great worry china officials because of 8.3 percent of how care practitioners have been tested positive to the virus in the german city of frankfurt has been queuing to get a free test that covered 19 and the losing patients here in frankfurt is a socialist organ is it so badly organized as the man behind me who waited for 6 hours yesterday when he actually belongs in bed in

a televised address to the nation anglin the appeared to the public not to underestimate the crisis is else this is serious take it seriously we have not seen a challenge like this in our country since reunification i know since the 2nd world war which depend so much on us acting together and in solidarity with each other. in some parts of europe the health service is just can't cope because of a surge in cases in the same fronts 6 through a virus cases have to be flown by military plane from mulhouse to the south of the country for treatment. in france is a big incentive not to be out in public if you don't have a certificate allowing me to leave the home the police can fine you up to $150.00 so out in spain they've already arrested dozens of people the going out since in lockdown started at the weekend but it's not stopped these

housebound madrid residents from protesting they demanded for mccain juan carlos donates millions of dollars he reportedly received from saudi arabia to the spanish help system in london it's quite unusual but nobody's been told to go higher but in parliament prime minister bars johnson face demands to take a more proactive stance more of a waiting so lonesome must testing i'm wrong i also show distancing measures maybe just suggestions away said boris johnson did make one long expected announcement off the school's shot that gates from friday afternoon they will remain closed for most people for the vast majority of peoples until further notice so different stages in the outbreak and different responses but the challenge for the medical world emphasises in general is immeasurable about a man the al-jazeera. turns in brazil have demanded the resignation of the

president for his handling of the corona virus outbreak. concern about the viruses is styria and he blames china is being seen the following medical advice by shaking hands with supporters south america's biggest country has reported and more than 400 cases including government leaders. i don't expect anything from the government because it's neglecting the people he didn't understand the severity of the problem how can you make jokes during such a serious situation someone govern like this. look they're dealing with something new as a matter of fact this president is so unprepared that he's been downplaying the issue and now he's on t.v. wearing a mask but he said absurdities over and over. protesters are simply exercising their democratic right. about the protests it seems like

a spontaneous movement by the population any movement by the population i face as an expression of democracy almost $700.00 cruise line passengers are returning to the u.k. from cuba after the island permitted a british ship with confirmed coronavirus to dock cuba allowed the ship in after barbados the bahamas and the u.s. all refused the captain's request to come ashore at austin has the story. after more than a week adrift at sea the british cruise ship the braemar arrived into an industrial port west of the capital on wednesday after a torturous journey the crew seemed elated to have finally landed passengers descended from the boat and were bussed to safety in a rescue mission executed by the cuban and british governments. i'm conscious that this has been a difficult and uncertain journey for the passengers and for the crew and i'm very grateful to the cuban government for enabling this operation to go ahead the

braemar had been stranded at sea for over a week and was denied authorization to dock in the dominican republic the bahamas and the u.s. but cuba allowed the ship to come in saying a sense of humanity was required to halt the pandemic. going to become will we cubans are proud to step up in a situation like this we are convinced and sure that we can deal with anything that comes up as we did with the bola cuba has shown repeatedly it can deal with complicated situations and come out successfully but there's fear on the island that allowing the ship to dock could allow the virus to spread here the island has registered 11 confirmed cases of people with corona virus so far and its 1st casualty an italian man in his sixty's has died the cash strapped island has so far opted to keep its borders open the economy relies heavily on tourism and wants to keep visitors coming but given the magnitude of the crisis the tourist season seems

certain to flop after weeks of feeling scared and adrift these terrorists are very relieved to be heading home from havana at augustan for al-jazeera. thailand's infamous night live is also feeling the effects of the virus the government's or the closure of all bars and entertainment venues in the capital with few tourists huge numbers of workers with informal jobs a man lost their income when he reports from bangkok. outside one of bangkok's famous thai boxing stadiums a makeshift coronavirus testing clinic has been set up it's for fighters spectators and anyone else who was here in recent days as the number of cases surged in thailand including a cluster at another boxing stadium across town the prime minister has ordered entertainment venues and bars to close for 2 weeks. the government will keep evaluating the outbreak situation both in the country and

internationally as well as its economic impact closely and carefully the virus at an icon of thai culture may remove any lingering complacency about a crisis that could deliver an economic knock out thailand's economy was already struggling after a coup when 5 years of military rule last year's election did little if anything to brighten the outlook and this situation will almost certainly send it into recession. coronavirus and the measures to contain it have altered the economic and social landscape of bangkok particularly its notorious night life one of the most vibrant in the world the government ordered to close bars came when business was already dramatically declining partly because tourist arrivals are down almost 77 percent this year bar owners are worried the enforced closures could be extended. in a worsening their roles we need to close the business. know shies but only as time we try to survive we have to start we have our employees that if they need to pay

for the rent for the living. far take care of their family so we try our best to take out them there is no management taking care of the more vulnerable the 21000000 thais who have informal jobs such as street food vendors many of whom are already struggling to survive. with their loan my business is getting worse and worse i don't know if there was such bangkok done or not but if they do we will because we want to have money for food if we stay at home. thailand's economy has been resilient in the past and traditionally bounces back quickly from major setbacks this evolving shock to an already vulnerable system will test that resilience like never before wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. well governments globally are enacting strict measures to contain the coronavirus raising questions about individual freedoms and privacy rights during

a pandemic israel has given its security agencies the power to track the mobile data of people suspected of having the virus the government will use the information to force them into quarantine and warn those who come into contact with them south korea has taken similar steps by using mobile phone and satellite technology to track potential carriers on the funk is the research of the watchdog freedom house she says strict measures must be put in place to ensure people's privacy isn't at risk once the pandemic is over. we know from a public health perspective that it can be beneficial to track infected or potentially infected people but what we're really concerned about is that this location tracking this and that health related information is going to be used for other purposes particularly by governments who are using surveillance to track down after mr human rights defenders or journalists or even opposition figures if this information has to be collected which i think in order to justify the collection we

have to ensure that it is scientifically supported as a way to protect public health we need to ensure that the restrictions are as narrow as possible and so then when we get out of this our privacy protections are still there because what's happening is these current restrictions could have a lasting effect a long after we get the outbreak under control going to be a big challenge and it's something that we see post you know terrorist attacks or other type of crises and that's why it's very important for our tech companies who are making these tools for civil society groups ordinary citizens to really understand what type of limitations are happening now so that once we get past this really scary time we can fight again to have our privacy rights back to us and breaks precious and freedom of association and assembly. turkey's president has told people to stay at home for at least 3 weeks to stop the spread of the virus ratchet typer the one also announced a $15000000000.00 economic relief package turkey confirmed its 1st death from the

virus on tuesday and infections have doubled to more than $100.00 only just got a cult another nerdy mused the packet with a package we call economic stability shield we're deploying $15400000000.00 in order to produce defects in the coronavirus pandemic. crowds of university students in the u.s. a celebrating spring break despite the dire health warnings over coronavirus florida is one of the biggest destinations where bars and clubs have been told to close early some beaches and theme parks have also shot but many are ignoring instructions to avoid large crowds potentially putting others at risk and gallacher reports from miami. it's a dream destination for millions of tourists and one of florida's largest employers now the streets rides and car parks of disney world in orlando are deserted. the company's now putting its resources behind food distribution but in other parts of

the state it's a different story but. in miami university students on their spring break a blatantly ignoring warnings about gathering in large crowds the governor of florida has told them to knock it off but many seem unconcerned about the health risks we need to refire this mars into serious serious more serious things out there are hunger and poverty and we need to address that what is it and you hear other than you go to the bars in the region and nothing all of it is really a mess and i think they're blowing it way out of proportion on florida's west coast to tourists and locals appear blissfully ignorant of the dangers of the pandemic the jordan family visiting from tennessee wrongly believe the whole crisis is a hoax there's a lot more people die from the flu a lot more people die from swine flu than any common virus probably ever do you ever. body's going to get it eventually it's a viral infection parts of miami beach and now closed but stiffen measures may be needed it's hard to believe this far into the crisis there are some that appear

unconcerned with the pandemic while the young are less at risk they're not exempt they may not get critically ill but they could also be carriers for the more vulnerable florida thrives on tourism but the crowds we're seeing here on helping even president trump who until a few days ago was playing down the risks says young people taking it was sponsible chances we don't want them gathering and i see they do gather including on beaches and including in restaurants young people. they don't realize that they're feeling invincible. and if you felt invisible when you were very young but they were feeling totally invincible or are feeling that way but they don't realize that they can be carrying lots of bad things home to their grandmother and grandfather and even their parents florida's governor ronda santa says warn people not to gather in groups of malden 10 it's a warning that few here seem to be heeding and agalloch are al-jazeera miami florida more news on the web site including all the latest international

developments as the fight against the coronavirus goes on on the websites al-jazeera dot com. it'll be here in doha you top stories from al-jazeera there have been no new local corona virus infections across china of the 1st time since the outbreak began in december all new cases are reported to be of people returning from overseas china has begun easing its locked out of millions of people. yellow eventually we're delighted to see this double 0 increase this means today we've seen the dawn after so many days of hard efforts you know also means a control measures and medical treatment methods have been working very well italy's prime minister says lockdown measures will be extended past the april 3rd deadline on weapons day 475 people died after contracting the virus in the country

the highest single day number of deaths from the virus since the outbreak began stock market prices in asia have fallen again because of increasing fears of a prolonged global recession japan's nikkei closed one percent down but losses were much heavier hong kong and south korea following another big selloff on wall street governments around the world have announced measures to help businesses cope with the economic cost of the break south korea's announced a massive aid package to help small and medium sized companies or join this is a special emergency financial measure with $39000000000.00 it's a public welfare and finance stability package program this is an unprecedented comprehensive measure in both scale and subject matter and turkey's president has also announced a 15000000000 dollar economic relief package. as told people to stay at home for at least 3 weeks to stop the spread of the coronavirus turkey confirmed its 1st death from the virus on tuesday and infections have doubled to more than 100.

testers across brazil have demanded the resignation of the president joy of also an author of the for his handling of the virus outbreak mr bolton otto says concern about the virus is styria and he blames china for the outbreak he's been seen defying medical advice by shaking hands with his supporters south america's largest country has reported for deaths in more than 400 cases including some government leaders last more news is always there for you the website 0 dot com you can also follow the programs and everyone on the teams here via twitter and facebook pages up next people in power also use it. as the wealth battles the coronavirus pandemic will bring you the latest developments from around the outside. without dates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. kuranda virus pandemic

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