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fine young man the sun has legion and so many others go to the making after we care to stay. the death toll in spain from code 1000 rises by another 812 but also more than 12000 medical workers are now infected. hello once again from doha everyone come out santa maria with the world news from al jazeera israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has gone into self isolation after one of his aides tested positive for covert 19. sports a new date for the tokyo summer olympic games it'll be july 23rd 2021 will also
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find out how nearly a 1000000 refugees in bangladesh are coping during this outbreak. for the 3rd consecutive day spain has recorded coronavirus deaths in excess of 800 monday's figures 812 people died in 24 hours which is actually just a small decrease from previous days it all means though we're now looking at upwards of 7300 deaths since the outbreak began the number of new infections in spain there was also rising steadily more than 85000 confirmed cases and 12000 of those a health workers in other recent developments this man the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he is entering self isolation after one of his aides tested positive the prime minister is expected to be screened for covert 19 in the coming hours so waiting for an update on that meanwhile evening in china now but look at
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these pictures from earlier in the day people going back to work where the virus was 1st detected and will harm which is of course been under strict kwara. for 2 months now and in the u.k. they're making preparations ahead of an expected peak in infections field hospitals are being set up around the country ambulances are ready $20000.00 health workers will come out of retirement to help the effets ok so 2 correspondents for you this hour we'll be talking to rory chalons in the u.k. is in brighton about some of those efforts in a moment starting there with martha herrera in madrid as i said mass at 3 days of $800.00 plus deaths and that's just one side of the story infections as well. yes well at least infections and decrease a little bit but mrs sources confirm today 85000 cases of corona virus across the whole country and 7300 people have died so far by from coronavirus we mustn't
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says that 14 percent of those infected cases those people that are tested positive from corona virus that 14 percent are health career workers we're talking about doctors and nurses that are battling in the front line and they have a risk of contagion or they can even spread the virus so we have to remember the situation of how these people are coping with the battle they don't have protective gear and didn't have the have a glove they don't have googles they don't have masks we have seen several health care workers getting plastic back shopping back from the groceries and doing themselves bests or even covering their heads or covering their shoes so the situation right now although health care workers are claiming an immediate supply of whole least 10 people quit meant proper protective equipment to the spanish government and text of course text because we don't have these tests they haven't
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been spent they have been delivered so these figures we're talking about quite different want to get that they provide us with thanks to the spaniards and we can definitely have the real figures of the situation and what's the government reaction to that i know that they were asking for e.u. solidarity and financial help in the lead but i think they've also been saying no the test kits are there and we've got the equipment that is a disconnect with what the doctors are saying. well last week they were supposed to receive. but to china many many tests kids and when they got here we had to return them because they were the fault at the insisted that doing these waking in the next day is in the coming days we will get we will receive they've been they've been saying this thanks same thing doing 2 weeks now so doctors and nurses are really really angry people are feeling really betrayed because they've got their relatives in hospitals and in very bad conditions really bad conditions all these hospitals completely overwhelmed and people don't know what to try to
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believe the only window they have to the exterior of the real world are media out television online media and online so. people don't know what to believe. with the update from madrid thank you the amount of the u.k. has worry chalons well almost not a soul to be seen behind you rory just a few people out and about in brighton today tell us more about what's going on there but also this and a mention of before this wider effort around the country to really join hands metaphorically at least. well there are a handful of people out on the streets it's not many as you can see this is a view that i think you'll find pretty much in every town or city across the u.k. . businesses by and large shots most people stay inside for most of the day they come out to do a bit of grocery shopping they come out to have
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a bit of exercise but generally they're staying inside to help the fight against corona virus do that social distancing that everyone's been advised to do there are other ways that people are helping as well of course a huge volunteering effort going on in the u.k. at the moment 20000 former n.h.s. staff have come back to the national health service they may be doctors or nurses or whatever they were doing in the n.h.s. before coming back to former roles there is also been this huge campaign to try and get as many non-medical volunteers to come in to help the n.h.s. to now the governments originally said we would like to have a quarter of a 1250000 people stepping in to help out in any way they could they've actually suspended that campaign now because they've got 3 quarters of a 1000000 750000 people have said that they'll help so a huge response to that campaign there has been another push as well for
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ventilators the n.h.s. had about 5000 ventilators going into this crisis not nearly enough to be able to cope with the number of people falling sick and needed needing to be intubated in intensive care units they are expecting to need about 30000 ventilators so now the n.h.s. has about 8000 and it has about 8000 more on international order but a consortium of 27 organizations and companies big businesses like ford like be a. systems like the formula one teams mclaren and mercedes or all grouping together to make ventilators for the national health service hopefully to get the service somewhere close to that $30000.00 that they need to save lives some encouraging news there from the u.k. with worry challenges in brighton more on that news coming out of his run our prime
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minister benjamin netanyahu who is going into self isolation after coming into contact with an aide who tested positive for corona virus harry force that has more from lester risen it's been a somewhat mixed message coming from the prime minister's office through the course of the day emanating from the news that one of his senior advisers that her husband 1st of all was hospitalized with crew in a virus then she tested positive for the disease initially the prime minister's office said that he hadn't hadn't met with her for the past 2 weeks and therefore would not require to go into self isolation but there was a t.v. news report suggesting that in fact the 2 had met on thursday at the province office hasn't commented on that but it is now saying that not and you know a long with a number of his senior advisers will go into isolation as an epidemiological
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investigation takes place we're expecting a decision from the prime minister's own personal position as to which day he will be allowed to emerge from self isolation as part of that epidemiological investigation there are those in the israeli media among others who are pointing to the fact that. is his advisor on ultra-orthodox affairs and there has been a real spike in cases in ultra-orthodox neighborhoods. has begun implementing a 3 week lockdown to prevent the spread of. security forces have been deployed to enforce the restrictions but there are concerns about the government's ability to fight the pandemic because it's already struggling health sector. 7 sectors in zimbabwe. in harare she says it is inevitably the poorest people who will suffer the most while restrictions are in place. supermarkets pharmacies and fuel stations are open people are being allowed to go to those places to stock up on commodities
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but they being told not to stay out for too this is. one of the oldest poorest and busiest neighborhoods in harare many people decided to stay at home on monday the unemployment rate here is said to be more than 80 percent the unofficial unemployment rate so many people work in the informal sector they are casual workers they need to come out to work in these markets which are now deserted the concern for millions of zimbabweans across the country is how are they going to families given that is now a 21 day they say they have to work from monday to sunday to earn that little bit of money so they can look after their worried that this lockdown of 3 weeks 21 days is going to make that extremely difficult. to police roadblocks to stop people from moving around and necessarily businesses that have been fitted non essential services have been shut and they are concerned about how all of the public health
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care system is going to be an increase in in sections for years now doctors and nurses that long complained about how they don't have the essential equipment medicines in public hospitals to be able to look after patients to be able to keep themselves safe table to treat those who are sick the government says it's working with charity to try to make sure all that essential gear all that essential medicine is put in place in. public hospital last week a problem in germany from a very influential family died from corona virus he came from the united states he didn't go to relation from when he went to some banks he was the government offices and when he got sick he was taken to work hospital quarantine facility here in harare wait that's where you go you get tested and if you think that's true you are admitted his family says they felt that the staff went wild equipped they simply weren't any ventilators in the hospital they tried to get one in
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a private hospital with no luck and eventually raised concerns about how ready is. a virus infection. they've. been given a new start date after the 2020 games were cancelled because of coronavirus it will now happen in 2021 exactly a year from the original date tokyo organizers and the international olympic committee reached their agreement early this monday the opening ceremony will take place on july 23rd the games conclude 2 weeks later on august 8th the decision to postpone this year's event was made last week. that in some way when they are a little bit funny different and national associations so looking to going to spring was a possibility it was them on the table the i.o.c. are gone for some time just that one day difference july 28th graders. next year when it would have
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a july 24th quarter the paralympics and fall and 2 weeks later so when you take a step back and look at what's a pretty place it makes a lot of sense of course a lot of cost and some of the will have to be taken by the japanese tax time is it doesn't look like a way i don't already know you know the i.o.c. are probably as much money as they can into this it's going to be a difficult situation i'm sure they just accept it now they say they want canada is the movement of sports events even though the big event of one of the next championships in oregon would have crashed it now looks that will be taking place in another year on in 2022 where they might have actually considered having it before the olympics as part of an up doubtingly back to the fall it's been a difficult time the athletes are not knowing where they stand and their training judges of course have been completely in ruins now i know the legend tightest are
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they ok we know where the gates are let's hope everything is in position for us to go and try to chico return jaron 2021. in the news ahead on al-jazeera there is at least one positive thing coming from the pandemic environmentalist rejoicing over the clean air caused by the closure of businesses few cars on the roads and a cruise ship with passengers infected with corona virus is banned in latin america it's been in limbo at sea for weeks. who we've got more heavy rain pushing into southern parts of china sliding a little further east was easing towards japan this weather system here this stationary front that's going to continue producing heavy downpours across already
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saturated ground so more so again weather coming in the southern parts of china southern areas of japan also seeing some wet or whether to go on to the middle part of the week and that'll nudge its way across a good part of the country for the 2nd half of the week behind that not bad in korean peninsula 17 sales staff a so we're going to 17 degrees there too for beijing and you can see bits and pieces of cloud and right into a good part of central and southern china perhaps not as heavy as it has been missing pieces of rain shabby right across much of indonesia pushing up into malaysia some parts of the philippines just cash shabba nothing much to speak of here and nothing much to speak of to across a good part of india china cambodia might just catch the odd shabbat thailand looks fine and dry with plenty of sunshine and it's fun to drive in the sunshine for much of india but space is a cloud over towards the eastern side of the country towards a dish or maybe up towards the west and go for a time but the wettest weather is making its way out of northern pass because don.
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there with al jazeera continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and numbers released from spain show the death toll has risen by 812 in the past 24 hours with more than 7300 deaths in total since the outbreak began also on the infection side of thing more than $12000.00 health workers alone have been affected. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going into self isolation after coming into contact with an aide who tested positive for corona virus is expected to be screened for the illness in the coming hours. and zimbabwe's began implementing its 3 week lockdown to prevent the spread of covert 19 security forces have been deployed to enforce the restrictions. china's lifted to more of the controls that have kept 11000000 people under quarantine in. where the pandemic originated shops and malls reopening although with strict limits still on how many people are allowed inside but other countries in asia are tightening their rules of the same
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time florence though it has a report. shopping malls and retail business has slowly reopening in the new hard since we where the coronavirus 1st emerged but everywhere there are reminders that these are still different times a sign advises shoppers to wear masks and keep the safe distance from others know how you know just how much i'm very excited because who has been shut down for a long time through one international plaza is very representative of the city so it's reopening really makes me feel the city is coming back to life. before people are allowed in their temperature is checked and they have to show a mobile phone code that certifies they're in good health china has reported a drop in new coronavirus cases for the 4th day in a row. after restrictions on foreign travelers reduced the number of imported cases but elsewhere in the asian region countries are tightening their rooms astray as to
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most populous states new south wales and victoria are limiting public gatherings to just 2 people from a previous limit of 10 in vietnam the prime minister has asked local officials in major cities to prepare for possible lock downs the number of confirmed cases there has reached nearly 200 and non essential services have already been ordered to shut till at least mid april even in countries which have avoided strict measures the economic fallout has been severe south korea says they'll make an emergency cash payment to all families except the richest 30 percent a move that will cost the government more than $800000000.00 but these scenes of life slowly returning back to normal and rouhani offer hope to many and even higher than has he now i'm very excited and happy for the 1st day of reopening today i
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think be able to be healthy and leave the house and meet with other colleagues who are also healthy is a very happy thing it might seem very ordinary but after enduring the epidemic being safe is a blessing. florence moon al-jazeera. train carriages in india are being converted into isolation units deployed across the counter to reduce the burden on hospitals and to train services have been suspended until april 14 after a nationwide lockdown came into force last week india has more than a 1000 confirmed cases of covered 19. activists are warning that conditions at crowded camps in southeast bangladesh leaving a 1000000 ringgit refugees at risk of contracting the virus is an internet shutdown as well in and around the camps which makes the situation even more dangerous there's just no information for the people there mohammed reports. in the world's largest refugee settlement anxiety and alarmed as the 2 clutches her prayer
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beads she also clings to her faith. the more we heard the coronavirus has occurred in malaysia mecca and thailand now we've heard it has spread in bangladesh and we're praying to god to save us around $1000000.00 refugees live in these informal settlements in cox's bazaar where sanitation has always been an issue and living conditions are so crowded that social distancing is impossible. authorities are using loudspeakers in some parts of the camps to give advice on how to prevent the spread of coby one team but humanitarian groups say it's not enough the running the medics organization warns a corona virus outbreak in this community could lead to an enormous loss of life all right and that if you do go and it's been producing informational videos in the working the language and posting them online but last september bangladesh's
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government shut down most of the internet and telecommunication networks in and around the camp's unfortunately the door you have the axes so we are doing our best . and it's really frustrating for us that we are not. talking to the nation aid groups and in geos are urging government officials to reverse their decision should immediately let the internet restriction so that refugees have information they are able to inform themselves about how to mitigate the risk of a crowd of virus spread in the camps the government hasn't responded to calls to restore the internet but says all measures. it's taken to prevent an outbreak have been necessary. if you have ordered the shut down of places where people usually gather including schools madrassas learning centers etc only essential commodities will be continued in the camps. amnesty international says the lack of internet access in desh and other parts of the world is making the situation worse it's not
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the best time to have. communication because that's that's the easiest and the source of this amazing information means to be provided by. activists have been holding seminars to educate other refugees about a threat unlike any they've faced before having escaped violence now doing all they can to evade a virus. and 0. security forces around the world are trying to find ways to enforce lock downs and in columbia police are resorting to some unusual methods this is where a hearse carrying a coffin and wreaths has been driving through the city broadcasting a message urging people to stay at home and the city of police using drones with loudspeakers to get their message across. measures such as not time curfews are
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enforced across several latin american countries other countries though are taking a less drastic approach in their fight against the virus has this update from mexico city. a cruise ship anchored off of panama pacific coast began transferring passengers to another vessel on sunday at least 4 people have died aboard the san dan a dutch cruise liner that became study after panamanian authorities announced that new ships with confirmed coronavirus cases could transit the panama canal this is the voice of an american passenger aboard the same damn whoever can open the ports to us it would be eternally grateful and abide by whatever regulations you have for us. we just need to be able to start the process of getting home. because other places have closed their doors to us 4 people are now dead and that is on the head of other people along the way who turned us away please help us. in venezuela $55.00 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered from china on saturday the supplies
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included face masks and ventilators and they got out. 500000 fos test kits of arrived that the 1st fastest kits for the offensive and the next phase for us to control and prevent cave at 19 meanwhile venezuela's opposition leader one who i don't continues to denounce the presidency of nicolas maduro is also calling for more international aid to the tune of $1200000000.00. we've proposed an emergency national government that includes all sectors of political society. leaders in central america continue to intensify containment efforts on sunday the government of honduras announced that a national curfew restricting freedom of mobility would be extended into mid april . not all countries are applying the same drastic measures brazilian president. seen here meeting supporters on sunday maybe the most reluctant world leader when it comes to cope with 1000 containment efforts calling the virus quote
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a little flu. local governors in brazil however have begun calling for stronger measures in lieu of a federal containment policy no horse in that house mexico's president has also faced criticism for taking what many have called a relaxed approach to the global pandemic though mexican authorities on friday called for people to voluntarily stay in their homes and help flatten the curve of contagion now many come anita they didn't feed the only way to reduce the transmission today is to all stay in our homes for a one month period. mexico has resisted implementing more drastic measures the authorities insist the policies in place are based on scientific evidence. the lockdowns of meant significantly less traffic on roads all over the world which in turn has meant clean air in the major cities look at these new satellite images from the european space agency which show dramatically lower levels of pollutants
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like nitrogen dioxide which is harmful to the lungs the european public health alliance says governments must take action to continue improving air quality even when this crisis is over not because maps actually tell us is the human activities and especially transport contributes a lot too little polluted air it harms our health and if we manage to crease them then we can no school have better our polity so now that we are forced to do that because if you look don't measure the mass and those map visualize significantly improved air so that tells us that change is possible and it should be done in a sustainable way but of other news for you now soldiers in syria are trying to retake control of a prison after captured i saw fighters staged a riot the prisoners broke down walls and took over the ground floor of the jail in a sucka soldiers are also hunting for for i still commanders use escaped during the
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riots and the coalition is carried out several air strikes against targets in yemen capital sanaa a presidential palace compound a military school and an air base where all hit coalition says the operation was aimed at destroying legitimate military targets also on saturday saudi air defense systems intercepted 2 hooty ballistic missiles targeting very out and the southern city of g.'s on more on that from the. insana. today the capital sanaa yemen has witnessed one of the most faires air strikes after a long time suspension of such air strikes. from 442 or 3 era strikes in the several months ago but so far today we have witnessed more than $25.00 era strikes as you mentioned the presidential compound in the game which is
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in the southern part of the capital also that they are targeted. the idella me air base along with the different roundness areas around the capital sanaa along with the war colors where we have to head the warehouse or the stable of horses at least 70. original fine horses were killed and 30 others. were seriously injured this has sparked also condemn nations and also along with the minister for health that has been run by the whole fees that they have also condemned what the say that the saudi. fighter planes have dropped facemasks in the region of. fearing that these such masks will could be carrying the coronavirus for these says it is their so they have called on the citizens do not come closer to such drops. faces masks.
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people looking for a lot of information these days it's a few al-jazeera dot com to keep up to date on the coronavirus of course and the rest of the day's news we're not getting all of that to find it when you want it online at al-jazeera dot com. we will take you through the latest coronavirus pandemic developments now though and numbers released in spain today show that the death toll has risen by 812 in the past 24 hours more than 7300 people have died altogether since the outbreak began and more than 12000 health workers have been infected also hospital officials have said not only do they need more test kits they also need training on how to use them another development in the last hour or so is israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is going into self isolation after coming into contact with
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an aide who did test positive for corona virus is expected to be screened for the illness shortly zimbabwe's began implementing its 3 week lockdown to prevent the spread of covert 19 security forces have been deployed to enforce those restrictions the tokyo olympic games have officially been given a new start date after the 2020 edition was cancelled because of coronavirus they vent will now open in 2021 exactly a year from the original date tokyo organizers and the international olympic committee reached their agreement earlier on monday the opening ceremony it will take place july 23rd the games will run for 2 weeks and conclude on august 8th the lockdowns of meant significantly less traffic on roads worldwide and some clean air in major cities there is a satellite images from the european space agency which showed dramatically lower levels of pollution is like nitrogen dioxide which is harmful to the lungs the european public health alliance says governments must take action to continue
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improving air quality once the crisis is over. and just a couple of other headlines soldiers in syria trying to retake control of the prison after captured eisel find a staged riot the prisoners broke down walls and took over the ground floor of the jail and house aka soldiers are also hunting for 4 eisel commandos who escaped during the riots on the study the coalition that has carried out several airstrikes against the hooty targets in yemen as capital sanaa. a presidential palace compound a military school and an air base were hit the coalition says the operation was aimed at destroying court legitimate military targets on saturday saudi air defense systems intercepted 2 missiles targeting riyadh and the southern city of. talk to our desire is next with the world health organization's might run we are also waiting for the next news conference from the w.h.r. frank assessment why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus
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failure to really aggressive action with them behind her and in depth analysis of the day global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. covered 19 has killed more than 800000 people and infected at least 400000 worldwide and counting. it all started in december last year when cases of an unusual pneumonia were reported in the chinese city of new honda. most of those affected by the unknown virus seem to have something in common they were working at a local seafood market. at the chinese health authorities were trying to investigate the causes of the illness the numbers kept growing on january 7th the world health organization announced it had identified the new virus 4 days later 41 people had been diagnosed in china and the 1st death was reported.
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