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to perspire on even as pressure grows. i consider myself one of the lucky ones. and a coronavirus patient shares the story of her long road to recovery. welcome to al-jazeera a lockdown of india's major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the business capital mom by and chennai and calcutta among some of the curfews are also placed nationwide and international flights have also been banned for a week. grounding their fleet says the crisis hits international travel singapore airlines for example is the latest to cut back on operations taking 96 percent of its fleet out of commission now that follows decisions by emirates and turkish

airlines to halt the early all of their passenger flights. japanese prime minister shinzo has conceded that the tokyo olympic games may need to be perspired and that's after weeks of insisting that the major sporting event would go ahead in july as planned and dozens of cuban doctors of arrived in italy to help italian health workers and italy is one of the countries that's been hardest hit with more than 5000 people that have died well let's begin in india elizabeth purana is our correspondent joins me now from new delhi and of course the new reality for dare i say it hundreds of the hundreds of thousands or even millions of indians waking up across the country to some sort of restriction on their daily lives. yeah at least nearly rather $20000000.00 just in the capital the capital new delhi so and as you mention we're seeing that in pretty much all of the major cities

around the country the 14 hour curfew that was in place on sunday that prime minister that in the more he requested people to observe in his address to the nation on thursday while halfway through the day on sunday it was decided the government decided that that would be extended to all $75.00 districts of the country with confirmed cases that's now 80 cities and districts it's more than 10 percent of the country so as well as no one being allowed to go out her nest they work in essential services like health care we've also had indian railways cancel all trains all interstate buses have been cancelled and so have metro services around the country now this while most people are observing this lockdown and we've had problems that in the more do tweet saying that some people aren't taking it as seriously as they should most people are there are scenes of very crowded places

this is not what the government wanted but there are scenes of many migrant workers trying to get back to where they from there are of course a large a very large number of migrant workers around india and a lot of them are at bus stations just trying to get back to where they're from and they can't because interstate buses have been canceled and in fact in some states all all buses have been canceled so as well as these precautions what the government has also done after starting to come under quite a lot of criticism that they weren't testing enough so the number of cases has gone up there was a big jump on saturday there was another big jump on sunday we have 4 $114.00 cases and 7 deaths but there were only $52.00 tested. centers around the country and some of them weren't even functional and there were increasing concerns that the lower level of testing and restrictive testing criteria very narrow testing criteria

could be hiding the real number of cases so the government has expanded testing centers doubled them from 50 to about $100.00 the fortune private hospitals and they have given them guidelines including that they can't charge more than around i think about $70.00 to test and that again is has people worried because india's public health care system can't handle a problem of this size people will have to go to private hospitals and a lot of indians of course can't afford to spend that kind of money of course will continue to focus on what's going on across india with you elizabeth through the day for the moment thank you let's cross over to the apollo a correspondent in hong kong to look at what's happening in asia pacific and divya i think that if you can hear me there in hong kong the chief executive curry lamb has been speaking within the last hour what she's been saying.

that's right so hell for the 1st time hong kong is locking down its borders they've resisted doing this allow hanson internationals to pass through but now the chief executive says it is necessary after seeing a surge in new infections so kerry lamb has said that anyone but hong kong residents will be banned from entering the country as a wednesday for 2 weeks she did not particularly mention mainland chinese visitors per se but she did underline many times that only hong kong residents will be allowed into hong kong for the next 2 weeks pretty much sending out the message that mainland chinese residents of residence unless they are hong kong residents will not be allowed into the country now this is a bit of a hot potato item even at the height of the restriction outbreak in china hong kong had left its land border open in to mainland china but this time she's very clearly said it is only hong kong residents be allowed in and she also made sure that she

would and she emphasized that the decisions are not politically based but they are being made because of scientific or the advice of scientists along with this people who are enter hong kong hong kong residents will have to go into quarantine pubs rest friends and detainment centers anyone with a liquor license will be shut down and not allowed to sell alcohol also so it's pretty much a lockdown on a city which is already hurting from a previous. pummeling to its economy she says these measures are necessary because of the latest new infections hong kong has seen a surge in the past week infections the infections have tripled in only the past week and she says it's not just people arriving from outside but also community what they're calling community clusters she also says that people have been breaking their quarantine to now they're going to be punished if they're found to be breaking that quarantine they'll be either prosecuted or find all of this

a very strange. there is coming into play into hong kong hong kong had been under pressure to close its borders particularly after taiwan and singapore announced they were banning this sitters and short term travelers and transit passengers and the hong kong is doing the same and of course compiles as you say touches on the whole travel industry you know we've seen emirates and turkish airlines obviously cathay pacific based in hong kong and singapore airlines the decisions made by politicians in countries like home called impact or the much more global business which is having a problem right now. absolutely and as you say there are the aviation industry is taking the brunt of that with many airlines grounding their fleets because there's simply no passengers because borders are being shut down and also people are less likely to travel in times like this singapore airlines as you say grounding 96 percent of its flights quantas had done that previously grounding

all of its flights kathy pacific many budget airlines yeah they reverberations are going to be felt across the globe particularly now with the talk of a global recession also coming into place not only are people not travelling people are not spending economies are hurting across the board to be a good holiday in the whole cold thanks very much. japanese prime minister shinzo has not conceded a perspiring when told the olympic games must be considered it comes as canada announced it won't send its teams to compete if the competition is held in july as planned alexey o'brien explains. after weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese prime minister cannot cause i suppose we hope to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that canceling them is not an option at all but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider

postponing. the games as it to be held in july but the virus that's caused both human catastrophe and economic crisis across the globe is threatening the world's biggest sporting event canada became the 1st country to announce its and then pick and paralympic teams want people to surprising in the games the international olympic committee and the tokyo organizes to push back the event by at least a year we're witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes seeking out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum you've seen athletes and sports bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable tokyo's olympic chief is warned that the games $1000000000.00 budget and he is planning are at stake and that cancelling would be bad for both stakeholders and athletes if

they did see you know go to lego you we never intend to talk about a consolation but japan and international olympic committee will talk together about what to do postponement to only be one of the many scenarios where the increasing pressure from athletes to call off the games is not just because bringing hundreds of thousands of sportsmen and women coaches and fans. i gather could help spread the virus but they argue that having them continue high level training is putting them and their families at risk she clearly again. i think it's the best option it's a least worst option available to us no so they've got an amazing opportunity here in the games and then doing well together so we see the back of this bonus just a few weeks ago the idea of postponing the olympics was unthinkable now it's looking more and more likely another victim of these unprecedented times the i.o.c.

says it will make a decision within the next 4 weeks from now the olympic torch relay is set to go ahead from thursday but without the usual fanfare with crowd surged not to attend alexia ryan al-jazeera. now the news where u.s. secretary of state but pompei or has landed in afghanistan on an unannounced visit to help salvage a deal between washington and the taliban it comes as the 1st direct talks between the afghan government and the taliban have taken place on exchanging prisoners last month the armed group signed a deal with the u.s. in qatar aimed at ending the 18 year conflict guinea's oppositions says at least 10 people have died in violence with police during a controversial referendum in parliamentary vote now there were several attacks around polling sites in the capital conakry on sunday people who are being asked to decide whether to approve a constitutional change that would allow president of condé to stay in office for a 3rd term. well still ahead here on al-jazeera see

a un frustration in bangladesh over the country's preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic plus. aggression prisoners relatives in colombia after a riot prompted by sea is off the pandemic kills more than 20 inmates who stories after the break. the my. head of some rather nice sunshine across northern sections of europe at last we got some dry weather conditions there is plenty of cloud is bringing some rain really just to the fall northwest of the u.k. and also more northern sections of the scandinavia temperatures are not too bad actually above average so very nice the cherry blossom in sweden have got those curious skies down into poland but still some snow on the ground and then into hungary this is actually the highest peak so not surprising we have got some snow

that and that is likely more as we go through monday all these temperatures here well below the average vienna book arrest between about 6 and 9 degrees below the average plenty of rain in the southeast pushing down into greece and also very unsettled cross much of spain but as i say temperatures across northern sections you have not too bad getting even warmer on tuesday 13 celsius london and paris but what we're watching is this rain across the southern areas of spain very heavy at times and some very strong winds so this will also impact northern sections of africa now the rain has been sitting across much of morocco really for the last several days it will stay that 3 monday and then as we head on into cheese day these winds will actually become stronger as that rain pushes south in spain so we're looking at widespread rain it could well lead to some flooding very gusty winds and you can see these dark areas will see these heavy downpours but really all the way from morocco on to tunisia.

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a rise in the number of cases in the past few days a 1000000000 indians stayed home and drove 14 hour lockdown on sunday. singapore airlines and its subsidiaries are grounding 96 percent of the fleet in response to the outbreak both emirates and turkish airlines have also significantly reduced their operations and the international olympic committee says it's considering perspiring the 2020 tokyo games by the year it's been and mounting pressure of math and national bodies to cancel or deny the event. but u.s. stock futures tumbled on monday amid political wrangling over an american trade a virus relief package battles between democratic party senators and their republican rivals prevented the bill from advancing and as that went on in washington the mayor of new york city ward people will die needlessly unless the shortage of medical equipment is resolved within days i detect castro reports. new york saw dramatic increase of nearly 5000 new coronavirus cases in one day with

hospitals facing critical shortages of protective masks in new york city's mayor placing the blame on president trump the president of state is from new york city and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown and i'll get my order limits public gatherings and the more than 10 people more than 95000000 americans are now under lockdown with additional shelter in place orders issued in ohio and louisiana new york's governor had strong criticism for residents choosing not to comply it's a mistake. it's insensitive it's arab descent it's self destructive it's disrespectful to other people and it has to stop and this has to stop it's a terrible thing that's going on in the meanwhile president trump announced federal supplies are on the way to new york california and washington states whose

governors have not publicly criticize the president's response but we're really backing up the governors the governors have to go out do their things and you have a lot of governors have done a fantastic job you have some that haven't usually is a once a complain that have the problems maybe in the not too distant future on capitol hill senator rand paul a republican from kentucky announced he's the 3rd member of congress to have tested positive for corona virus which for the majority leader hours later his senate colleagues fail to advance a trillion dollar economic rescue package the negotiations continue but economists say a u.s. recession is now inevitable and doctors warn current shortages in medical supplies will cost lives heidi joe castro al-jazeera maryland and bangladesh there are 27 confirmed cases of the virus there have been 2 recorded deaths so far in over 2000 under home quarantine but people of the country may not be ready to

handle a crisis to bitch out how small from the capital dhaka. there are nearly 10000000 bangladeshis working abroad many of those bangladesh is a scramble to dhaka from coby to 19 hit countries and elsewhere have not been subject to compensated quarantine some are found roaming freely in their community and possibly spreading the virus she helped shark is frustrated it has been a week now he is still unable to get a cold in 1000 tests done health professionals say they have seen a sudden spike in a typical pneumonia where patients are coming with lung infections. but with life had a fever and serious congestion for months now i've visited several clinics and they told me to come here for a coronavirus test doctors here examined me and gave me a few tests to be done outside but they are the only ones who are supposed to do these tests health experts say poor and limited testing rate may be masking the

true number of coronavirus cases the institute of epidemiology does this control and research center is the only place in the entire country of 160000000 people that has facilities to test over 19 virus. they have very limited number of kids health professional and all there's questioning governments readiness to prepare for a looming epidemic on the horizon top government health officials however say that till now the situation is under control and it has taken necessary measures to combat the deadly virus at the beginning of the any outbreak did these has to be centralized because you need to win every case will be detected you need to follow the case you need to find out that all the contacts contain them keep them in a quick in a supervised so that's why we cannot delegate these to anything i made growing concern over the course of my virus a large number of people are leaving dhaka and traveling to rural areas. but if the

overall situation in the country is bad there's a sense of panic and my family wants me to come home by leaving the crowded city maybe i can protect myself. despite a recent ban on large gatherings a massive corona virus procession with tens of thousands of devoted is in southern bangladesh sparked an outcry in the country wouldn't stay as a country reported its 1st that from the global pandemic the bank of the scheldt ministry says the pandemic spread to the level of community transmission and will spread quite rapidly though the government insists that it has taken all out preparations there is growing concern here about whether the country with the limited resource can cope with what's to come tundra children. dhaka bangladesh. new zealand will go into lockdown for a month to stop the virus spreading prime minister just into announced that all essential businesses and schools must close and people must stay at home more than

$1000.00 cases of the virus that janine cosen is a krone virus patient who is now recovering after being diagnosed over a week ago and she's left hospital but is now in isolation at home in all plants he spoke to al-jazeera about her experience my 1st symptoms were that i had a sore throat. and i started getting a bad cough. i couldn't tell which of your lies with the cough was was real or there was anxiety because you know i was reading a lot of reports and it was making me feel very anxious. and there excavated to the point where i realised i was too isolated where i was and i made my way back or cleanse and my husband had hired a camper van to cut now a driveway and i moved there and my sentences got worse and worse and i went to see my g.p. a as you hadn't seen anyone had touched anyone and no they were in anybody and

they swabs may and the next day or and that i had i had. and the day after that my cough and got so bad that i couldn't breathe and i was publishing from it. and i got hospitalized and so i've been in hospital for the last 4 days and i just got that they just got high the nagger all right so you got tested at your g.p.'s right well i didn't get to go into the g.p. i had set my cat and they came to me and hazmat suits and they did and then i got a cold that the next day from there at the patent of health to let me know that i had the virus so when you were in hospital and. what sort of treatment did they give you that well you know what did you take. very little i can to. i had achieved 6 very well my bloods who have a check to make sure that. cells row doing the things that this procedure and

mostly i had and. and. they gave me into anxiety medication so obviously i knew acquired while knowing as i was the only patient in that hospital with current of our. x. is i was probably the taste case i mean something. that is really not much more than that i could do and i wasn't it late stage joining chris on speaking to my colleague folly. in the day well qatar is to provide $150000000.00 in aid to gaza over a 6 month period to support a un humanitarian programs and efforts to contain the virus garza reported its 1st 2 cases of cave in 19 on sunday there's already a shortage of medical supplies in the territory that's under an israeli blockade the world health organization has warned gaza's health systems will not be able to deal with an outbreak meanwhile tens of thousands of palestinian workers are trapped in israel after military crossings to the occupied west bank were closed

the measure aims to contain the spread of the virus with workers told that they'll have to stay in israel for at least a month how a force that has more from west to islam. in recent days palestinians crossing into israel for work have been coming for the long haul new restrictions mean they now can't go back for a month at least in normal times about 100000 shuttled between the occupied west bank and israel another 30000 work in illegal israeli settlements israeli employers have been told they must provide suitable accommodation for workers crucial to the economy in fields such as agriculture and construction. but some are having to improvise often on the sites where they work with the palestinian economy already sharply affected by the pandemic and predicted to worsen their wages are ever more vital to family back home mohammed not his real name sent us this video of his current quarter's a 25 year old graduate with a baby on the way he's worried about losing his job working for a fellow west bank palestinian middleman if police find out how he and his

workmates a living with the employer should provide us with a place to live because we are far from our families and the circumstances the hard we sleep on the ground on mattresses the food is not good there is a miserable conditions it's cold and there is no toilet in ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinian prime minister who's promoted a policy of economic disengagement from israel demanded human conditions be provided for workers there he also banned all such work in illegal settlements part of a 2 week general lockdown. no citizens are allowed to leave their homes as part of home confinement as of 10 pm tonight 22nd of march except for medical centers and their workers workers in the following areas should show their work cards pharmacies bakeries and grocery stores. further south near hebron signs that both this internal sealing off and the israeli military closure of the crossings are

being challenged with crowds apparently attempting to get into israel through unfenced areas typically it's estimated some 60000 west bank palestinians work without papers about. syrian economy is estimated to gain some $330000000.00 a month from wages and inside israel the p.a. wants to retain as much of that as possible israel still needs the labor the question is how to maintain that while still stopping the spread of the virus that's the experiment under way with these closures at its center tens of thousands of palestinian workers now cut off from their families are a force that al-jazeera westerners. at least 23 people have been killed during a prison. relatives rallied outside the gates. demanding to know the fate of their loved ones. from. social media showed fires raging at the. prison shots could be heard as prisoners

filmed themselves trying to flee riots over corona virus panic and prison sanitary conditions broke out in this and other 8 overcrowded detention facilities across. the what the government described as a massive attempt to escape. 23 inmates in 83 were injured 7 prison guards were also wounded 2 of them are in critical condition the minister of justice described it as a sad and painful day but denied that there was a health crisis. i mean there is no sanitary problem that has caused this plan and these riots there is not one infection or any prisoner or custodial or administrative staffer who has coronavirus. the next morning inmates family members clashed with the police outside the prison the man the permeation the prison riots show that concern is rising over to increasing number of cases here. as

a lockdown is already under way here in the capital and. which will be. square in. new restrictive measures are being imposed on a daily bases across the region on sunday believe years interim government announced a 2 week long shutdown and the postponement of presidential elections scheduled for me 3rd he didn't mean to shoot. from sunday at midnight we should be at home for 24 hours a day because we'll be safer at home this is the best way to. stop the coronavirus . the police were out on the streets in argentina to strictly enforce quarantine measures. in brazil were cases of spiral to more than a 1000 the state of sao paolo also called for a 2 week long quarantine and the closing of all non-essential businesses and services it follows a similar decision by of rio de janeiro and comes despite opposition from president

. who keeps downplaying the emergency international flights have been banned in most countries and even internal flights are being restricted are stopped altogether in a region where most governments are determined to take the most drastic decisions before the number of cases gets out of control. deserve means the whole romney a reminder of all top news stories india has extended a curfew across major cities to fight the spread of the coronavirus now this follows a sharp rise in the number of cases in the past few days 1000000000 indians stayed at home and a 14 hour lockdown on sunday and singapore airlines on its subsidiaries a grounding 96 percent of their fleet in response to the outbreak both emirates and turkish airlines have also significantly reduced their operations the international

olympic committee says it's considering postponing the 2020 tokyo games by up to a year it's been under mounting pressure from athletes and national bodies to cancel or delay the event cannot. while the international community is being severely affected in a negative way we hope to hold the games to market the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that canceling them is not an option at all and the decision that would be made by the committee is in line with what i just said but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider postponing. new zealand will go into lockdown for a month as it attempts to stop the virus from spreading prime minister just and are announced that all non-essential businesses and schools must close and residents must stay at home there's more than $100.00 mostly imported cases of the virus. is to provide $150000000.00 in aid to guards or over

a 6 month period to support un humanitarian programs and efforts to contain the coronavirus garza reported its 1st 2 cases on sunday there's already a shortage of medical supplies in the territory the world health organization has warned that garza's health care system will not be able to deal with an outbreak u.s. secretary of state might pompei was landed in afghanistan on an unannounced visit to help salvage a deal between washington and the taliban it comes as the 1st direct talks between the afghan government and the taliban have taken place on exchanging prisoners guinea's opposition says at least 3 at least 10 people have died in violence with police during a controversial referendum and parliamentary vote there were several attacks around polling sites in the capital conakry on sunday those were the headlines i'm back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's up front to stay with us. on the counting the cost counting italy cope with a coronavirus can demick without

a bailout 40000000 auto workers in europe have been told to stay at home we talked to b.m.w. about the future of the industry. for their survival as governments impose travel bans counting the cost and others are. on up front today it's the biggest story in the world as a coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading how is it that south korea seems to have controlled it and why is the united states so far behind i'll ask a top scientist in seoul and the top republican in the us. south korea has more than 8000 cases of the coronavirus but so far remarkably they've managed to avoid the staggering death tolls we've seen elsewhere in the world from covert 19 the disease caused by the.