because context is everything in depth storytelling around the biggest issues is done but had to do is to do it again. or. or or. we will be extending our guidelines to april 30th to slow the spread. president donald trump extends restrictions on people for another month to contain the spread of the corona virus in the u.s. . embassy here this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up back to work for people in the chinese city of where the virus outbreak originated.

on a mission to save lives we look at the army of cuban doctors traveling to virus affected countries. and bare necessities a simple act that's keeping children entertained while living under lockdown. in the u.s. president says social distancing should remain in place for another month to slow the spread of chrono it's a reversal from his comments just last week when he predicted the situation would return to normal by mid april the backtrack comes as the number of deaths linked to the virus in new york state rises above 1000 across the u.s. at least 140000 people have now been infected and britain health officials are warning it could be 6 months before strict social distancing measures are lifted the u.k. was put under a partial lockdown last week and china some people are going back to work where this virus was 1st detected the city who has been under strict quarantine for 2

months now or on that in a moment versus get this update from robin holes in the u.s. . so empty beaches are a sign of the times in southern california as most residents follow a statewide stay at home border. more than half of the 50 us states are now under those orders intended to slow the spread of corona virus the federal government extended until april 30th it's guidance that people maintain social distancing with the number of confirmed cases and deaths rising one of the country's top infectious disease experts says the final toll could be very high looking at what we're seeing now you know i would say between 10200000 cases but i don't want to be held to that because it's deaths i mean we're going to have millions of cases but i just don't think that we really need to make a projection when it's such a moving target governors like new york's andrew cuomo painted

a sobering picture i don't see how you get past that kerr without seeing thousands of people pass away louisiana is already running short on hospital space and we're on a trajectory currently to exceed our capacity in the new orleans area for ventilators by about april the 4th and all beds available in hospitals bob out april the 10th. michigan's detroit auto show is canceled and the convention center where it's usually held will be converted to a field hospital we see that's astronomical rise we've got hospitals that are already at capacity illinois governor said he desperately needs more testing kits the white house has promised millions of tests for weeks now and they're just not here in a briefing president donald trump made the shocking and unsubstantiated claim that the shortage of masks and other protective equipment in hospitals maybe because

nurses and hospital staff are stealing them they've been delivering for years 10 to 20000 masks ok it's a new york hospital very it's packed all the time how do you go from 122-230-0000. 122-0000 masks 230-0000 even though this is different something's going on and you want to look into it as reporters wear the mask on are they going out the back door i don't think it's hoarding i think it's maybe worse than hoarding earlier trump tweeted with evident pride that his daily briefings were getting great television ratings higher than some popular reality shows robert oulds al jazeera. so as i mentioned life is slowly returning to normal and at the center of this outbreak businesses are up and running again and we're on and china's had a problem it's the 20 year report from beijing. 2 months 11000000 people living in

what they've been confined to their homes and residential compounds are literally barricaded up now some of those people are starting to leave their homes they're giving permission if they have a job and some essential industries have also started operations for example the car industry the cement in the steel industry and roads have opened up as well as morals and stores people are able to go inside as long as they have the temperature checked 1st and they're wearing masks the subway has also reopened as has the train station they have been thousands of people streaming into city starting from the weekend but outbound travel is still restricted until april the 8th now since the beginning of the epidemic more than 50000 people in the city have been infected and there have been more than 2500 deaths and as a result the chinese government implemented some of the most draconian measures in that city and now in recent days we've seen almost 0 new local transmissions and

the government says that those measures have been working it's also brushed aside any fears of a 2nd wave of infections saying that one city is actually one of the most safe cities in china because people have been locked down under quarantine for such a long time but of course there are all still persistent fears that the government could be under reporting cases because there is just so much pressure to get the local economy going again south korea is the latest country to announce cash payments for people affected by the virus mcbride of course in seoul. this disaster relief fund will result in payments similar to those announced by other developed countries it basically means that for a family of 4 they'll be entitled to a one off payment of around $820.00 us dollars to qualify for this the family has to come below a certain income so this is very much and some of the poorest sections of society the kinds of people who have been hit hardest by the economic impact of this

outbreak in announcing the measures the finance minister here in south korea has reiterated what everything everyone has known for weeks and that is that the it common to the economy has been slammed by this disease and it's very much aimed at helping some of the high street parts of the economy things like restaurants stores owned by families small businesses all the way of getting the economy moving now in order to push this through the government is going to have to present a supplementary budget to clear they $10000000000.00 plus that will be needed for this that is in addition to another supplementary budget that was pushed through earlier this month all of these measures that have been announced by the south korean government totaling now tens of billions of dollars as the focus is very

much shifting beyond the health emergency looking to repair the economy after all of the fallout from this outbreak. australia is again ramping up efforts to contain the virus even as its infection rate does slow for midnight public gatherings will be restricted to 2 people and some states are bringing in new penalties for disobeying social distancing rules prime minister scott morrison has also announced an $80000000000.00 package to help save jobs at least $4000.00 people have tested positive for coping $1000.00 in australia and 18 have died from cynical cage has more on the new measures well like many other countries around the world measures to reduce the spread of current virus in australia are branching out by the day and while we aren't in a stage of lockdown at the moment people last till going to work from midnight on monday people will neuer longer be able to gather in public places if there are

more than 2 people that has been reduced down from 10 and the message from the government is korea it is that you should be staying at home unless it's absolutely necessary so if you can't work from home the only reason people should be leaving the house is to go to work to exercise or to go to the shops or write medical appointments now on top of the closures that we saw last week with hotels and polyps and other venues closing the areas that people have been going to to socialise will now be closed down as well that includes outdoor pocs outdoor playgrounds and these state governments will really be in full seeing these new measures and the question really is whether it's. a bang these new measures if they don't they will be harsh penalties of on the spot fines for anyone who doesn't follow the rules. zimbabwe has begun employment in a 3 week lockdown to prevent the spread of covert 19 security forces have been

deployed to enforce these restrictions are concerns though about the government's ability to fight the pandemic because of its struggling health sector one person has died and 7 others are infected has away this from harare well could have been fuel stations are open but people are allowed to go to those places and stock up on commodities where they've been told don't stay out for. this is the body one of the oldest poorest and busiest townships in. a lot of people decide day in their home and they're not venturing out the unemployment rate here an official unemployment rate is more than 80 percent and a lot of people work in the informal that to the casual with his and they work in these markets which are now pretty much deserted and that the good many people have seemed to have is that how are they going to manage to feed a family some of them what monday to fund they filing in these markets and they

saying that the longer this drags on for $21.00 days they want to be and it will be extremely difficult to provide for the public health sector has struggled here for years in the country facing it was economic decline in a decade and a lot of people are concerned with how the hospitals are going to manage for example the nurse association of them bob we feel we are not going to go to work because they don't feel they don't have the glove they don't have the mosque and the need that it would take to get a train carriages in and the are being converted into isolation units will be deployed across the country to reduce the burden on hospitals passenger train services have been suspended until april 14th after a nationwide lockdown came into effect last week and he has more than a 1000 confirmed cases. still ahead on al-jazeera a nation under lockdown health system under strain milk at the challenges facing

a rock as it confronts this pandemic from fashion designer to mask maker a businessman in lebanon answers the call to help this country with much needed medical supplies. the weather. for the philippines at the moment but some places of cloud and right some showers there into the fosse outthought to try to across in the china lost the sunny that sunshine stretching down across thailand bangkok 36 degrees celsius but the showers will continue across a good part of borneo malaysia still seeing some very lively downpours as shasta makes all the way across into popular new guinea so big and heavy showers coming through here still a child trouble system just developing around the cape york peninsula say the fall north of australia could see some wet weather well some wetter weather also making

its way towards the southeast at the moment it will turn on the cool side a little wintry by the end of this week ahead of flats what temperatures in melbourne at 22 celsius to fall for that for sydney wetter weather just coming out of. pushing into south australia for perth looking at temperatures of around $27.00 celsius lossie fondant right here over the next couple of days he comes out west the weather through south australia pushing into new south wales and grassy it will make its way further east with as we go on through wednesday and thursday cooler weather tucking in behind. the fine and dry temperatures getting up to around 18 or 19 celsius. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such 2 mountains as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely

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been under strict foreign team courtroom artists and zimbabwe has begun and promoting a 3 week lockdown to prevent the spread of public 19 security forces have been deployed to enforce their restrictions. with more than 100000 help professionals cuba has one of the highest doctor to patient ratios in the world island nation is sending medical teams around the globe to help with the coronavirus response often free of charge at augusta and has a story. another early morning another ceremony to bed health workers farewell last week a troop of cuban doctors were dispatched to italy. this week medical professionals have been sent throughout the caribbean to surrender grenada jamaica and today st kitts and nevis 29000 cuban doctors and nurses are working in 59 countries around the world has confirmed cases of corona virus increase so does demand for cuban medics medical services at the island's main export raising more than

$6000000000.00 for the states in 2018 but the communist rule diamond doesn't charge for the thousands of doctors who work in more than a dozen low income countries in latin america and africa the same goes for disaster relief where cuban physicians have provided emergency assistance to millions almost a 1000 keven doctors arrived in haiti after the 2010 us quake where they were the 1st to set up medical facilities amid the rubble. get mad at me more than 12000 people were willing to fight a bowler and right now there are. thousands of cubans willing to complete these missions while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the on his health system draw a different conclusion the root of it in addition to cuba's own health system which provides universal coverage in oversaw access is really the belief that cuba is one of a number of developing countries that is trying to make life better for its

population then. from the moment we're born in this country we receive an education based on humane principles of the principle of solidarity and internationalism is at the forefront of that this isn't about politics or ideology it's about humanity you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. look a man is a sea cause there are other people that need me people that is sick and dying and not just right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. at augustan al-jazeera about the security forces around the world are trying to find ways to enforce lockdown and in colombia police are resorting to some pretty unusual methods this is what's happening in many yes a hearse carrying a coffin emirates has been driving through the city broadcasting a message urging people to stay home and the city buying kier police are using drones with loudspeakers to get their message across. after months of political and

economic turmoil and lebanon and its health care system is at risk of being overwhelmed by the code 19 emergency but some businesses are stepping in to help heal mohammad reporters. work has come to a halt for many in beirut but for fashion design a tony ward who specializes in cultural gowns business is slowly picking up in a different way i don't know. i mean the whole it was a we 1st made these masks for our own employees they can be worn in a very simple way and also washed. his garment factory shifting from its usual production lines to helping local hospitals by making masks body suits and bed sheets. they put me in contact with the director of a fake harry hospital and he told me that they have a big shortage of bed sheets because they are preparing a new department we decided to buy fabric involve our staff and work together to make big. as lebanon's doctors and nurses work on the front lines to contain covert

19 private and public hospitals are feeling the strain there's not enough money and medical supplies items that are normally imported it's prompted other businesses like this plants that usually makes dental floss and diapers to step into design ventilators. maybe after this outbreak we will learn a big lesson or lebanese can have an impact on the future person and reality not always depend on what's coming from the outside and asked for help. lebanon is already facing an economic and financial crisis according to human rights watch the government has not given any money this year to the publicly funded refeed curry hospital in beirut where most cases are being treated and it only gave 40 percent of its jews last year while infections increase those running businesses like this hope their input can help prepare lebanon for what's may come mohammed al jazeera.

iraq is saying a relatively low number of infections compared to its neighbor iran and the regional hot spot of the pandemic iraq supported 547 confirmed cases and 42 deaths but there is growing concern the virus could overwhelm its fragile health care system as some on a fault in our ports from baghdad. iraq has entered its 3rd week of nationwide lockdown but despite these measures the rate of contagion is accelerating on sunday the number of confirmed covert 1000 cases rose above 500 more than double the week before so just how prepared is iraq to deal with the rising numbers the government says the country can cope we have a very important and that is easy and i have system it can compact the virus and really we achieve a very good progress if you take him back to the numbers of patients who are we cover it to represent about 3rd of the good that number which is

a very important sex as a stood in front of the health system in my county. but many in iraq question such claims data shows that iraq's health care system was chronically under resourced before the outbreak started according to world bank data the iraqi government's health care spending is less than half that of neighboring iran and other countries like china that have been badly hit by the crisis the country has also suffered from a long term exodus of medical staff and has only 8 doctors per 1000 people well below many other nations it's the 2 sticks like these that have many worried about what lies ahead i've been monitoring the outbreak from my home in baghdad as i too am under self isolation i interviewed several doctors and patients over the phone to ask them how confident they feel in the government's response this man was admitted

to one hospital in baghdad with flu like symptoms and was tested for corona virus the hospital didn't have the capacity for the large numbers that are right everyone was supposed to be isolated in their own room while under quarantine but they did not put me in an isolated room they brought one person whose father died from. this was one of the patients who was tested for corona virus his test came back negative but while he was waiting for the results he was kept in the same room as other patients who were later diagnosed with covert 19 based on this testimony and others it appears that many hospitals that 1st received and test potential cases lack the necessary procedures to prevent the spread of the virus within their own facilities . this doctor works in a hospital that handles cold 19 cases he agreed to be filmed but asked that we conceal his identity our hospital with these cases now that we are going with this

one number of cases. emerging from this sorry we don't want. to be assured of our short offer their personal. protective equipment for the health care war this and other doctors told. that iraq has only one to 200 ventilators many of which are already in use on patients with other diseases so we don't have the capacity or to. to manage patients who will not acquire an education or acquire as part of a 30 care unit to treat management the government with the number of ventilators at 500 for a population of 38000000 after months of political crisis iraq remains under a caretaker government and the 2020 budget has yet to be passed factors that many fear will further impede efforts to fight the outbreak a whole teen al-jazeera bugged out as cases of the virus rise hospitals worldwide

are overwhelmed and medical workers are among those most at risk spain has the highest rate of infection among health workers government says they make up 16 percent of the cases that's compared to 8 percent in italy and the danger is spreading on sunday the new case national health service announced the 1st death of a frontline health worker without protective equipment the risk of transmission from patients to hospital staff increases health workers in the us are warning of shortages of gear and world health organization has called on manufacturers to increase production. these concerns are being echoed in the philippines where at least 12 doctors have died while treating the sick and the health system is struggling to handle the rising number of infections parnaby low reports from manila. the philippine general hospital a news release empty the country's biggest public health institution treats more

than 600000 patients several year now entire wards have been cleared after the government designated it the country's main role in a virus hospital certainly for justin paul is an infectious diseases specialist for children who's been called into the front light to treat adults we have and more or less in terms of managing the tree odds and then even us vegetations burdick wired to even assists adults in the economy in. away from public hospitals private once in manila are widely considered to be depressed but they've stopped that meeting potential coronavirus patients after treating the 1st wave of infections so the empty road that you're seeing right behind me is what's called a facility quarantine zone basically local authorities have sealed off about a kilometer stretch of the road because inside the containment zone it's a hospital where there has been

a rising number of coronavirus cases hundreds of health care workers have had to be isolated and several frontline doctors have died of the disease rate now we don't know who has the infection on so when we go out there when we need patients initially if you are it's a very risky without any but they're shy and so it's really part of their anxiety on our part. well some of the government's limited resources are now at the disposal of the philippine general hospital health care workers from other hospitals continued to beg for help the health department says despite shortages it is still in its best to supply protective gear indeed among all supping to be nuts the shortage of personal protective equipment isn't unique to the philippines other countries are experiencing as shortage as well so we are purchasing and accepting donations at the same time rest assured we are working to

provide hospitals in need of. the month long lockdown that began 2 weeks ago appears to be the government's preferred solution for now dr spear and outbreak the size of china's circuit at least could be in the collapse of the entire health care system here barnaby low al-jazeera middle. a 3rd of the world's population is now living under lockdown it is particularly challenging for children who have to stay indoors away from alls and they miss their friends and is ill and some are turning to teddy bears to support their young and themselves observational about reports. we're going on a bear hunt when not scared that much of that from the pages of a children's book to the streets of all cleaned children hunting for teddy bears and people's windows the game is a way to entertain children living under lockdown but going on to be had probably

can't get out my year because i don't know how to go outside and that would that help like new zealand's coronavirus lockdown came into effect on thursday for 4 weeks citizens can only leave their homes if they were going to central services or going to the supermarket or for health care or to go for a walk with the people they live with we experience and accept that people will go for a walk they will take the children outside to get fresh air they might look for tb some windows spread as they pass people keep your distance don't talk to others just stay within your bubble and if you're in wellington and you're walking in the local neighborhood you might see one of my windows her fiance followed up with this append and a beer looking down from the residence near parliament and it's not just in new zealand this was in washington d.c. and texas as coronaviruses sprayed teddy bear hunts have follows from sydney to toronto and london they have started from community groups spread to cities and in

new zealand's case a nation each pull print is a geotagged beer the psychological boost goes beyond children helping those isolating at home to feel part of the community will stay. we've got here in the one night he said a lot of attention and we're cheering everyone. so in asia it's easy to get to see what has become a war. and us and it will divisive. and if you look at washington we've things keep him and shout you much. i think it would help keep it going a shallowness of what we want help each other all absolutely. lovely thing breaking out of little caves flowing around all over the world looking for j.p. . we see michael rosen wrote the book we're going on

a bear hunt 30 years ago he said i think. al-jazeera asked for comment but was told he took sick with lyra symptoms still his words are coming to life supporting children and adults through the spend dimmick shallot ballasts al-jazeera. these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera yes president has extended emergency restrictions on social distancing as health officials predict deaths from the pandemic could rise into the hundreds of thousands the u.s. has recorded at least 140000 and that stands out as more than any other country because you're talking about a potential of up to 2200000000 and some people said it could even be higher than that so you're talking about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from this and so if we could hold their own as we're saying 200000 it's

a horrible number maybe even less but 200000 so we have between 10200000. we altogether of done a very good job. and china some people are going back to work and where the virus was 1st detected the city has been under strict 14 for 2 months more now from katrina you in beijing essential industries have also started operations for example the car industry the cement in the steel industry and roads have opened up as well as morals and stalls people are able to go inside as long as they have the temperature checked 1st and they're wearing masks the subway has also reopened as as has the train station they have been thousands of people streaming into one city starting from the weekend but outbound travel is still restricted until april the 8th zimbabwe has to get implementing its 3 week long town to prevent the spread of

covert 19 security forces have been deployed to enforce the restrictions but there are concerns about the government's ability to fight the pandemic because of its struggling health sector one person has died and 7 others are infected south korea is making emergency cash payments to families to lessen the impact of the coronavirus crisis how all households except those in the top 30 percent by income are eligible for payments of up to $800.00 new infections have stabilized under very tight restrictions and australia's prime minister has announced an $80000000000.00 package aimed at saving jobs if approved by parliament the government will give money to eligible employers to keep paying their employees social distancing restrictions are being ramped up even as the infection rate there is slowing so the headlines keep it here witness vikings versus neo nazis that is that next. talk to al jazeera we want you will force was

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