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free and reinstate his presidency you know is that the truth was forged by and we will get that number goes for french position is that although not a well known actress change goes for the return of a president on al-jazeera. i developed model symptoms of the corona virus that's to say a temperature and a persistent cough. it's reached the very top of the u.k. government prime minister abbas johnson and his health secretary have both tested positive. alone can now the sounds there are live from doha also coming up spain records its highest death toll gas hospitals filled beyond capacity for treating people in corridors. victims of the war in syria now face
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a new battle his fears grow that the kind of virus could strike there. south africa and out as its 1st deaths as police and the military start in forcing a 3 week down. the british prime minister virus johnson has tested positive for the covert 19 corona virus as has his health secretary but hancock both men announced the news via videos posted online describing their symptoms as mild by mr johnson says it won't stop him from leaving the government's response i developed model symptoms over the coronavirus that's to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer i've taken a test that has come out positive so i am working from home i'm self
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isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do but be in no doubt that i can continue thanks to that was reborn technology to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against corona bars. well in spain 769 people have died in just 24 hours that's a record single day figure for the european countries now the u.s. has overtaken china with the highest number of coronavirus cases more than 86000 people and known to have contracted is let's go live now to our correspondent laurie chalons who's in lewis in england in the south east let's talk about boris johnson he has the virus or more do we know. yes and eventful day in the u.k. so far not only has it posted. i raising figures 181 dead i think that's the worst a for the u.k.
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so far. but we also have not only boris johnson the prime minister but the health sector a mass hancock both saying that they have tested positive for corona virus both saying that they have mild symptoms now as far as we understand this is the 1st global leader to have admitted falling victim to corona virus we know that anglo merkel the german chancellor was tested a week or so ago after coming in contact with infected dr but you don't think she tested positive. this is showing that the virus doesn't select its victims or that it goes for everyone high or low powerful or impotence in the it can go as a prime ministers as well as normal people. if course this will raise questions about the ability of the british government to function properly as it tackles
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this an unprecedented crisis boris johnson and matt hancock are both saying that they are staying at home they're self isolating but they are carry on work and they're carrying on working by video conference carrying on leading the fight against the virus but there are also questions about who else these 2 men might have been in contact with over the last few days and might have infected as well i mean they've been presumably holding meetings with the chief medical officer chris with the hans the chief science officer officer patrick vallance 2 very. important people in the u.k. battle against this virus as well so there are other people that might fall victim to growing a virus over the coming days that have caused or the prime minister or his health
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secretary and we have to also ask questions about who they call sort of themselves and so this london is a is an epicenter for the virus in the u.k. and it seems that westminster is at the heart of that. roy telling their life from their wrists in the southeast of england thank you. let's go to washington now where the u.s. house of representatives is debating a stimulus bill worth more than 2 trillion dollars that same to propping up the economy struggling during the pandemic it's has already passed the senate let's get more from our white house correspondent kelly how good who is live for us in washington d.c. there she is kimberly where things at right now. yeah we still have that vote passed but it is hopeful according to the u.s. president that it will eventually be passed but it's not too happy with one member of his own republican party representative massey in fact he was railing against him for slowing down the process on twitter calling this
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a publicity stunt it's pretty clear this is likely to pass it has bipartisan support but what they were hoping to do is get this through with a voice vote it appears that this one member of congress may be making that difficult to happen and that is simply going to slow down the process of the u.s. president not very happy about that and making it known very vocally on twitter to me what is the timeline then when is this likely to pos and also just remind our viewers of how unprecedented this economic stimulus package really is it's huge isnt it. yes it's historic in terms of the proportions it is 2 trillion dollars it's going to allow for cash payments for americans that if essentially lost their jobs we're talking tens of millions this would mean that a family of 4 could see a check of ford's of $3000.00 but in the midst of all this the u.s. president has one thing in mind in terms of getting this legislation passed that's boosting the u.s.
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economy it's what he hinges his reelection chances on and that's why we see the president so vocally talking not only about this vote and this is stuart package this 2 trillion dollars package but also pushing back against some of these major automakers like general motors in the last few minutes he's also been railing against it for claiming that it was promising to help with the much needed masks and ventilators only to later sort of double down and say that it was going to cut the number it was helping with and also that they'd be delivered much later and that seems to be making the u.s. president very angry one other thing that seems to be getting headlines here in the u.s. with regard to donald trump is the fact that many are accusing him still of minimizing the pandemic particularly when it comes to ventilators there was a plea from new york's governor cuomo to have 30000 to the state of new york the epicenter right now of corona virus in the united states the u.s. president casting doubt on that number as he spoke on fox news late last evening so the u.s. president also pushing back on that saying that those ventilators they have been
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delivered he is saying this on twitter it seems he's just got a whole host of things going through his twitter feed right now this often happens when he has a later schedule we expect to hear from him directly though when he does his daily task force briefing at 21 g.m.t. thank you that can be home live from washington d.c. . the french prime minister has just announced a 2 week extension of the ongoing lockdown that will now last until at least april 15th this comes as hospitals in and around paris are breaking point as infections the prime minister says hospitals in the capital could reach capacity within days paris and its suburbs now account for a quarter of all confirmed that 19 cases in the country with nearly 30000 there alone france recorded its highest death toll on friday bringing the total to more than $1600.00 in southwest france and russia butler says the country's prime minister has warned the entire health system is under tremendous pressure. the
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french prime minister. was speaking to other members of the french government on a video conference earlier today and afterwards he came out and gave a brief statement and really his message was that the next few days in france are going to be in his words very difficult indeed because he says that what france is facing is a new wave of corona virus cases particularly in the north of the country in the paris region where he said hospitals and clinics are already becoming such aerated now the really the hotspots if you like in france of course in a forest case up to now has really been the east of the country the alsatian region their hospitals have been so overwhelmed that european neighbors have stepped in germany luxembourg switzerland taking patients that are critically ill from fronts and treating them in their own hospitals over the border patients of also been
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transported from eastern france to all the hospitals in the rest of the country by train but what the prime minister is saying is the situation that we've seen in eastern france is this desperately badly affected area is now going to spread to the rest of the country to the north to paris and he says of course not only those regions because it is all over the country and this is what we need to prepare for he says everybody is mobilized he says that france is prepared but people must continue to stay at home as much as they can without a similar message from the french president this week when he said that the very worst in france is still to come nearly 800 deaths have been recorded in spain in just the past 24 hours the highest number in a single day a hero has more from madrid. teacher sources gave us today the daily figures and they're giving us a $5000.00 of death to the poll and a total of a little bit more about $64000.00 of people infected by corona virus in spain from
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which nearly a 15 percent 9500 of people infected in spain are doctors and nurses this is quite worrying as the last few years reused are jews they there will be 5400 of the workers infected by corona virus and today we got 4000 more people from the health her from the healthcare system infected this is very worrying because experts are saying we shouldn't rely on these official figures that have minister our are giving us daily because we don't have enough tests here in spain so we might be talking in about 100000000 of people infected in spain by coronavirus because we cannot we cannot diagnose people because we don't have these testing kits and even more health care we're workers could be infected all these have to workers are running out of protective equipment equipment and scorn a virus and they're demanding immediate supply of glasses we keep saying based
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their reality at the stage because they're fighting the confronting the current of ours in the front line new york has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus the outbreak is the at the center in the u.s. the government has been holding a news conference where he said the number of cases has jumped by 7000 in the last 24 hours that brings the number of confirmed cases to more than 44000 in the state meanwhile gabriel and his own i was outside a hospital in new york where he explained how long lines and frustrations are growing. these are all people that are sick that need to see a doctor and also want to get tested as well there's certainly a building health care crisis that's building here in new york city and where you can see it is right here at elmhurst hospital that i'm at here in the queens neighborhood of the city that walk the line goes for more than a block long. people arrive here before sunrise these are all people that are
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waiting to get into the hospital to see a doctor the problem is however is that this hospital is fool it's an emergency room hospital that is at or over capacity and doctors and nurses are struggling to try to get people the help that they need just in this hospital alone there was 124 hour period where 13 people died as one doctor said the only way we're able to free up beds here is when someone dies and they're taken out of the hospital so the situation is very very desperate here for not only the patients that are trying to get in to get help but also for the medical workers you might have saw a couple nurses just walked by there a minute ago you also have police officers here managing things as best they can there are over 300 new york police officers that actually have coronavirus
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themselves right here is where the crisis is playing out and probably the most ominous part of all of this is is that officials in new york say we are still 2 weeks away in new york from getting the peak of the most amount of people rushing into the hospital to get care and we're already seeing scenes such as this. so it's come here on al-jazeera take a look at this the u.n. is practicing social distancing during a virtual meeting as he discusses the impact of coronavirus all on one. who better to get tips on living in self isolation then an astronaut. give yourself some to accomplish or take action.
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hello there are plenty of rain across central and southern areas of china but also cool so seeing it really pushing across much of japan however take has actually been spared the brunt of all this rain says very nice time a nice nighttime pictures with the lanterns a lie seeing the cherry blossom by day not cheap out again that it is chance of passing sharon take it it's not a bad day ahead of this next mass all rain that is on its way certainly by the time we reach sunday that will bring some fairly persistent rain it could be pretty heavy at times across much of central and eastern home sure and then just as it clears off the east coast of china i'm afraid is on the mass developing and this again will be heavy at times it could lead to some localized flooding and is cooling off as well just $22.00 degrees celsius in hong kong but woman sunny off into beijing now the rains are very widespread across borneo but particularly as we go through the next few days we're going to see more very heavy rain particularly through areas of java we've had some flooding here already this will not help at all and it could lead to some more flooding and again it becomes very heavy later
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in the dalles sunday across western areas all the sumatra and then india areas mostly fine here we will see on saturday more than just continuing to northwards away from pakistan and then by sunday a few more showers cropping up into the state but elsewhere warm and dry. strugglers full of pleasure but i mean nobody that imprison them which of course. everybody on my trip will ya. the rest of the way was only. an intimate look at life in cuba. coordinator back at least i. think this is my cue. on al-jazeera. rule.
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with. watching out there at the world health organization is right now holding its regular briefing on the latest developments of the course in a vice pandemic let's listen in racine an extraordinary meeting of leaders from the g. 20 countries my message would threefold we must fight unite and unite fight to stop the virus with every resource at our disposal unite to confront the pandemic together we have one humanity with one common enemy no country can fight alone we can only
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fight together and ignite the industrial might and innovation of the g 20 to produce and distribute the toulouse needed to save lives we must also make a promise to future generations saying never again viral outbreaks are a fact of life how much damage they do is something we can influence . i thank the g. 20 countries for their commitment to fight the pandemic safeguard the global economy address international trade disruptions and in hands global cooperation this is specially important for countries who are not part of the g 20 but will be affected by decisions med by g 20 countries
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earlier today we held a briefing with around 50 ministers of held from around the world which at we china japan the republic of korea and singapore share their experiences and the lessons they have learned several common themes emerged about what has worked the need for early detection an isolation of confirmed cases identification follow up inquiry and to know of contacts the need to optimize care and the need to communicate to build trust and in gauge communities in the fight countries also expressed several common challenges the chronic global shortage of personal protective equipment is now one of the most
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urgent threats to our collective ability to save lives. that nature has shipped almost 2000000 individual items of protective gear to 74 countries that are needed most and we are preparing to send a similar amount to a further 60 countries but much more is needed this problem can only be solved with international cooperation and international solidarity when held workers are at risk. we are all. health workers in low and middle income countries deserve the same protection as a source in the wealthiest countries to support our call on all countries to contact our going to steve case finding and testing we're also working urgently to massively increase the production and capacity for testing around the
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world one of the most important areas of international cooperation is research and development a vaccine is still at least trial of 2818 months away in the meantime we recognize that there is an urgent need for therapeutic to treat patients and save lives today we are delighted to announce that today in norway and spain the furthest patients will shortly be unrolled in the solidarity trial. which will compare the safety and effectiveness of different drugs or drug combinations against corbett 19 this is a historic trial which will dramatically cut the time needed to generate robust
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evidence about what drugs work more than 45 countries are contributing to the tran and more have expressed interest the more countries who join the tram the faster we will have the results in the meantime we call on all individual the same countries to refrain from using type you dicks that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of 1000. the history of medicine is strewn with examples of drugs that would on paper or in a test tube but didn't work in humans or were actually harmful getting the most recent ebola up epidemic for example some medicines stat we had thought to be effective were found not to be as effective as ours and medicines
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when they were compared during a clinical trial we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts we also need to ensure that using unproven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven effective of the pandemic evolves and more countries are affected we are learning more and more lessons about what works and what doesn't w 2 is continuing to support all countries in the response we have published more than 40 guidance documents on our website providing detailed evidence base be commended for the government's hospital hello doctors members of the public and more more than 1000000 health workers have been trained so our courses
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on open w.h.o. dot org we will continue to train more we are also delighted to report that the copied 19 solidarity fund has now received donations of more than $180000000.00 u.s. dollars in just 2 weeks from $200000.00 individuals and organizations thank you to each and every one of you. the english version of our what's up held island to now has more than 12000000 users globally. and the arabic range and despite its versions where to launch it today more languages will be added including bangalore chinese hindi kurdish portuguese russian so money or
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do so i really and more i have said before that crises like this bring bring out the best and worst in the money. we have essentially see in an increase in scams cyber attacks and impressions using doubly joe my name and covered 9000 i'm very grateful to those working in various national organizations providing critical cyber security intelligence to their deadly just security team thank you for your efforts toward me that has to protect the health systems health workers and members of the general public who lie on our information systems and digital tools special tanks for to microsoft for assisting on this i would like to end with something
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singapore's minister of held gamma kim yong say during today's briefing we are only at the beginning of this fight we need to stay can stay united and walk together i would repeat we need to stay calm. stay united and what together i thank you. if you have just joined us that is the world health organizations director general there speaking about the coronavirus pandemic giving us the latest updates there on just to recap what he said he talked about the global community needing to fight and unite together to combat this virus he found g 20 countries for their efforts in combating the pandemic he talked about a briefing that was held with 50 ministers of health from around the world sharing
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their experiences what came out of that what was the need for early detection of coronavirus that there is a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment worldwide for health care workers things like masks gloves. goggles that sort of thing but that the world health organization is working to ensure that the capacity increases and also we're working to increase the capacity for testing for corona virus you say that a vaccine is at least 12 to 18 months away and talked about the solidarity trial which is beginning. with patients from norway in spain i want to bring in our correspondent laurie chalons who's in the southwest of england and who has been listening to that briefing what stood out for you laurie from what the world health organizations director general had to say. you know this solidarity trial that he has talked about several times over the last few days is looking at the
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4 most promising therapeutic drugs that already exist so this isn't developing a vaccine for the virus that is a separate projects and as you just pointed out there that's as he said. 12 to 18 months away still but looking at these other drugs there's a think of malaria a combination of malaria drugs there's an hiv and aids drug that they're looking at as well trying to work out if any of these things kind of hell as there are huge ticks for people with coronavirus help lessen those symptoms help bring fevers down treat it in other ways and that's that the trial that is just starting and he said as you mentioned that the 1st patients being enrolled in this he was very specific and he said this before don't start taking any of these drugs
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thinking that they are going to combat coronavirus until the proper testing has been done now you could interpret that as perhaps a dig at donald trump because donald trump has been. promoting the medal area drugs. and saying that this is the most promising avenue you think should be going down and we should be looking that that's where he's got his hopes for birds the w.h.o. chief that moment is saying hold on a 2nd don't take anything until the right testing has been done history is littered he said with beliefs that people had about certain drugs that they thought might be effective that were found not to be effective or even counterproductive might even work against you or and this is something he stressed or. might even disadvantage other people with those other conditions that condition that these drugs are
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supposed to fight because if you are happy larry or hiv or whatever and everyone's taking your drugs because i think it's going to come back coronavirus and you might find that there's a shortage of the drugs that you need to stay alive with your condition. that's right it did seem to be somewhat very old talking about hydroxy called crame and what donald trump said about it we'll leave it there for now roy chalons there correspondent thank you. there are these are the top stories the head of the world health organization says there's a chronic global shortage of protective equipment in the fight against the 19 and that is proving to be one of the key problems in fighting the virus. britain's prime minister says he's tested positive for corona virus virus johnson says the symptoms a mild and that he selfless elating i developed model symptoms over the coronavirus
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that's to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer i've taken a test that has come out positive so i am working from home i'm so faisel ating and that's entirely the right thing to do but be in no doubt that i can continue thanks to the with the reborn technology to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against corona bars. the french prime minister has just announced a 2 week extension of the ongoing lockdown it will now last until it least april 15th this comes as hospitals in and around paris are at breaking point as infection surge prime minister says hospitals in the capital could reach capacity within days . in washington the u.s. house of representatives is debating a stimulus bill worth more than 2 trillion dollars that's aimed at propping up the economy during the crowing of our star break if it passes it goes to the
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president's desk for signing canada has promised to pay up to 75 percent of wages for small and medium sized businesses to lessen the economic blow from the pandemic that's after nearly a 1000000 canadians filed for unemployment in just a week. we recognize that these are unprecedented investments in the economy but we also know that they are necessary they are necessary because we have to get through these coming months of restricted economic activity spain is reporting the largest single day increase in faith tell us he's since the arc break began with nearly 824 hours that raises the total to about $4800.00 you're up to date one used to come here on algis there are my cuba.
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