and coming together is the only option we have unity is the only option we have to defeat this virus yesterday i sent a tweet with a single award humility some people ask me why why i sent a single word on the to it or saying humility covered 19 is reminding as how vulnerable we are how connected we are and how dependent we are on each other in the eye of a storm like of it scientific and public health tools are essential but so are the military and kindness we sorely daddy humility and assuming the best of each other we can.

and we will overcome this together i thank you. thank you very much or at risk we will start with questions that will remind your analysts that we can take only one question per person so we can advance as much as possible so we will start with the loser news agency that's a portuguese speaking news agency can you hear us yes or can you hear me yes is it antonia yes this isn't on you thank you please go ahead well i would like to ask a question on the issues of birth and newborn care and breastfeeding does they don't do it just recommend any restrictions on breastfeeding presence of partners in the liberal rooms and skin and skin contact between mother and child because of the pandemic because of health authorities and country like my own portugal ban

these practices for women that are infected thank you. thank you for the question so we have recently published some guidance on clinical management of individuals who have covert 19 which includes pregnant women and lactating women breast feeding women it is very important that women are able to breast feed their children when they're born there are certain precautions that that need to be taken place in terms of contact precautions but we outline the ways in which that could be done safely. thank you very much dr van kerckhove i hope this answers the question i just. been told that there was a little problem at the beginning of the odio for people who were on a zoom so please listen to your file that will send immediately after if you have

missed those few 1st seconds we go to the next question do we have al-jazeera on line yes. and if you can just speak little bit louder please go ahead. think you've been here and any minute without you there i'm so going to ask you with regard to the corner virus and amec in the news. as of today there have been more than 1400 confirmed cases and 122 deaths in indonesia which is the most of any country and asia and do what needs to be done more the indonesian authorities in this case. have a good question and maybe the director general supplement. while the pandemic

is very well developed an escalating in many parts of the world particularly in europe and north america. there are countries who are still in the earlier parents of the pandemic and it remains to be seen how the pandemic will develop in those countries because with relatively no numbers of cases and i would count indonesia in that we have the opportunity to implement a comprehensive strategy focused on containment and on suppression of spread and strengthening the health system for a likely increase in demand regardless of the scenario it is likely that the number of cases will rise and therefore that the man's on the health system will grow therefore it's really important that the health system is prepared for any increase in cases at the same time you have to put pressure on the virus you

have to go after the virus like other countries in the region are shown in southeast asia going after the virus detecting all cases testing also spray cases isolating cases and putting a contact identifying contacts following them and putting them into quarantine. or home isolation is is the way to go and matching that with a strong community education and engagement approach and this needs to be built from the communities up saw and all of society all of community approach focused on both containing the virus where you have clusters and small numbers of cases where you have efficient or widespread community transmission to be sure about systems in those areas are prepared to deal will pop up with what will be a large influx of cases we believe the that that is what indonesia are attempting and we will do everything to support the government there in doing that.

thank you very much sir looked around and. not thank you thank you so much i just wanted to add to what mike said we are working very closely with. indonesia and we hand discussion with is the foreign minister and then followed with use excel and see if the president and we are aligned with is what their response should be and we will boost our cooperation with regard to the situation was indonesia thank you thank you very much of a round of next question is the mohamed from truckle can you hear a smile nod yeah. well let me know if i'm going to. the world health organization to use

a lot of them it was. i want to get him maria will do some more technical detail. so that we're clear there is no proven effective therapy to go drug against go with 90 however there are a number of drugs that have shown promise either in previous treatment of chronic viruses like birds or sars in the fight against hiv or in other situations and there is some preliminary data from non randomized studies observational studies that indicate that some drugs and some drug cocktails may have an impact some of those drugs may impact the link of disease so may impact the severity of disease and the dosage of dosages of those drugs when they're given to what patient at what stage of the disease has not been standardized and we've never had

a comparison group where we've had a randomized approach to treatment with a drug or not treatment with the drug it is very important that we continue to accelerate the implementation of the randomized control trials that have already begun all over the world including the double hey joe coordinated solidarity one trial but there are other large scale tribes trials underway in various parts of the world and it's also very important that those drugs are very very needed for the treatment of other diseases and that we don't see a situation where people who need those drugs for the treatment of other diseases cannot access them because people are just buying them up and using them and some countries may introduce compassionate use rules which allow physicians to use those drugs in certain situations off label that is a matter for national regulate free authorities we don't we don't encourage that if it leads to widespread use because it will in effect divert drugs away from the

diseases that these drugs are used for and we really want to accelerate that trials that will give us the actual answers that we need we also need to look at how to scale up the production of those drugs that will prove effective in the clinical trial. thank you michel to run. one question that's that is the world health organization giving its daily briefing a regular briefing on the latest developments on the current virus can demick just to give you a recap of what was spoken about the w.h.o. says it's come up with a detailed practical manual about how to set up screening center is and testing centers makeshift hospitals repurpose a hospital setting up field hospitals it's come up with a practical manual. says it's looking at ways of addressing the chronic shortage of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies around the world the importance of looking after vulnerable groups at this time. we also heard from the

director general talking about the importance of how of humility at this time he said that we are connected to each other we're dependent on each other and this viruses has shown that and just finally we heard about the fact that there is no proven treatment for corona virus that there are some drugs that have been shown to be effective for other. incidents like the use of to treat hiv and some drugs and call tells of drugs may have an impact on corona virus but there has been no proven treatment i want to bring in sunny gale go who has been monitoring that briefing and who joins us live from london sagna talk to us about what the w.h.o. had to say about the fact that there is no proven treatment. well sensibly so it's

really a work in progress ready and while there are all these combinations that have been . that have been worked on a course this is still a way from actually coming up with one singular. identifiable kill that can actually. kill this properly but of course that side effects is that one of the reasons why kodak 19 and certainly the spikes that we've seen around the well the straining several health systems around the world is as we've seen really quite tragic as well where it's just put an enormous pressure on the house system that it has one of the most advanced health systems in europe but it also has been affecting. the medical stuff the frontline medical staff who have who have been desperately trying to sort of keep up with the deval instead of being put on the health system already at least 50 medical frontline health workers initially have

died from 1000 as well so that just gives you some i did all of just the pressure that these people are facing and this is something that other countries are having to look at as well and having to consider is how to protect the frontline health care workers which is something that was also mentioned in the press or as well how to give those frontline health care workers the equipment that they desperately need to be able to engage successfully in the fight against coated 19 speaking of which also. don't touch wrestle so mentioned how he was pleased 20000 retired medical workers in the u.k. are now going back into the system to look as well as medical workers in russia as well an idea of maybe some of the tactics that some other countries may have to take on in order to be able to fight this off as well and also. the w.h.o. has issued that medical light like city construction manual in it gives also ideas

of some long term benefits to health care systems after the pandemic in order to be able to try and crush any sort of spike up to that the lessons to be learned from the outbreak i'm sure be dissecting for some time to come thank you for that sonya gago with the latest from the briefing she joins us from london let's go now to spain which for the 3rd consecutive day has recorded coronavirus deaths in excess of 800 smarter it all is live for us in madrid lasted just bring us the latest in terms of the numbers but also put in context for us if you can think in percentage wise about the infection rate is slowing or is it continuing to increase. while especially storage is contemned today 85000 total of cases of people infected by a truck or on a virus in spain in the past 3 days we've seen how these fevers has been have been decreasing a little bit and in the last 24 hours we had

a 9.39 percent of these distinct decrease so these these are good news but on the other hand we've got again for the 3rd day consecutive more than $800.00 fatalities from coronavirus in spain $812.00 and we'll still have to bear in mind that from all the total cases of people infected nationwide 14 percent of our health care workers nurses and doctors that are buckling in the front line of coronavirus in the hospitals with weather emergency units are all crowded and completely overwhelmed with the whole situation we had from the world health organization about guidelines to repurpose hospital setting up field hospitals evidence i thought of the almost wartime like measures that are being taken around the world what is the situation there in spain in terms of efforts to increase the capacity of hospitals. well exactly the same as what they are mentioned

here in spain especially madrid that became the at the center of the outbreak of the pandemic oswego started to being started to be overwhelmed or were overloaded with people and they had to build these field hospitals in this exhibition center imagery they had to medicalize hotels but what we've seen we've seen since then to date i think in the past 24 hours did build a tent outside the main hospital he removed as a provisional side to good there the people infected because they cannot cope anymore so with her and that in the field hospital in the exhibition center the picture is really dramatic completely overcrowded. health care workers don't have the proper equipment protective protecting a quick mend and they are threating government to to do not not showing up tomorrow if they don't product provide immediate the on the other side the government has given as a has reported that during these weekend they have distributed at least 2600000 of

mask 10000000 units of other material set to google. and they have distributed the these nationwide to all the regions but the problem is not only madrid to that along it's facing exactly the same problem another 6 regions and that and others that we don't know yet because they have to they have to tell in themselves and what the government started to to to think about is moving all these people that are infected from one region to the other so maybe we see in the next days patients moving from form from one region to the other nation like. 3rd it all with the situation in spain. hungary's parliament has approved a bill that gives prime minister viktor orban government unlimited post to deal with the pandemic is no time set for these emergency measures to end olson's critics accuse him of a power grab but the government insists it's necessary to protect people the law

was passed in a parliament dominated by organs policy hungry and e.u. member states has previously been warned about the by the blog about obama imposing increasingly autocratic rule when york's health system is getting a lifeline via the sea a u.s. navy medical ship is arriving in new york city to help relieve hospitals which are filling up with coronavirus patients a 1000 bed ship will treat people with known virus related ailments. at the new york cruise ship terminal and joins us now live to tell us what's happening there. well this giant floating hospital just arrived here pier 90 in the last few minutes you can probably see some people going to get some views of it there behind me the last time that this particular floating hospital is called the comfort of the u.s. navy came here to new york was 3 days after 911 to help with people that were

injured then this ship is massive it is about 894 feet or about 275 meters it has 12 operating rooms over $1000.00 hospital beds inside and it will have about a level $11200.00 nurses and doctors and staff on it that will be helping here in the coming weeks and perhaps even months in new york city what they're going to use it for is taking patients that do not have coronavirus out of some of the new york city hospitals bringing them here to this hospital at least some of them to clear out bed space for coronavirus patients that are needing urgent care in new york city so just to give you an idea though of how much this is needed and how much still needs to be done according to the new york governor they need about 150000 hospital beds in the coming weeks right now they have about 50000 so they're short

about 100000 hospital beds this ship that you see as big it is it is is only going to have about a 1000 so they're still short tens of thousands of hospital beds that are needed in this city in the coming weeks to meet what is going to be the peak of the most amount of people coming that are infected that are going to need urgent care. as a state is the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. to. tell us what's the latest in tens of numbers and in terms of the infection rate and also when that apex that peak is expected to hit. by all accounts the peak is about 2 to 3 weeks from right now that is why so much work is being done by local officials and by the federal government to try to prepare for that peak we're not even close to the peak get still 2 weeks away the latest numbers are a new york 59000 people infected with corona virus it's doubling about every 4

days now why is the number so high because new york is testing about 17 to 18000 people a day that's by far more than anywhere else in the united states so that's why they're building these makeshift hospitals throughout the city one of them i can show you i think right now this is one that is in central park in new york city a small 10 hospital for about 75 people is being constructed there but there are 8 other sites including a convention center in new york that are also being converted into hospitals and about a 1000 beds each as well so new york is certainly at the epicenter most of the cases of the $59000.00 in new york state by for more than half are about 70 percent are coming from right here in new york city and if you think it's only here just across the hudson river behind me is new jersey there are numbers have increased by about

600 percent just in the last week they have over 12000 cases just to new jersey so the northeast region of the united states is by far the epicenter and we're still a couple weeks away from seeing the worst of it. i was down there live from new york thank you. news coming out of israel now prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to self isolation after coming into contact with an aide who tested positive for corona virus high force that has more from western islam 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 rivka politics that her husband 1st of all was hospitalized with coronavirus then she tested positive for the disease initially the prime minister's office said that he hadn't netanyahu 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 previous office hasn't commented on that but it is now saying that netanyahu along with a number of his senior advisers will go into isolation as anybody new epidemiological investigation takes place we're expecting a decision from the prime minister's own personal physician 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 rivkah palettes is his advisor on ultra-orthodox affairs and there has been a real spike in cases in ultra-orthodox neighborhoods the u.n. security council has held a virtual briefing on the situation in syria a handful of concerned coronavirus cases there have been adults but there's concern that will change quickly on diplomatic efforts james pace joins us now live from

the u.n. headquarters in new york james welcome to tell us. well the security council has been told in syria there are so far 10 cases and one death but marlo cock who is the top humanitarian official of the un who is briefing the security council in this virtual meeting that took place says he believes that is the tip of the ice he says the u.n. is deeply worried about the situation in syria after almost a decade of war he said that heart of the hospitals and clinics in the country aren't operative and that is going to make the problem very very hard to deal with indeed he told the security council there were practical difficulties of incremental isolation and protective measures in areas of displacement with high population density and low levels of sanitation services the very grim situation already in syria i think also highlighted when he mentioned one statistic

in the briefing which was in northwest syria where now 3 out of every 10 displaced chip children there are actually stunted in growth because of malnutrition the u.n. very very worried with figures like that what will happen if coded 900 spreads in syria i think that saying phase there live from the united nations headquarters. the barboy has begun implementing a 3 week lockdown security forces have been deployed to enforce it 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 are metastases in harare. supermarkets pharmacies and fuel stations are open people are being allowed to go to those places to stock up on commodities but they've been told not to say output to their own this is embodied township 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 for many people work in the informal sector there casual work has been nice to come out in a word in these markets which are now deserted the concern for millions of zimbabweans across the country is how are they going to see the families given that is now a 21 day lockdown they say they have to work from monday to sunday so that little bit of money so they can look after hogs are worried that this lockdown of 3 weeks 21 days is going to make that extremely difficult. the police are manning roadblocks to stop people from moving around and necessarily businesses that are considered non essential services have been touched and they are concerned about how well the bobbies public health care system is going to call should there be an increase in inspections for years now doctors and nurses of long complained about

how they don't have the essential equipment medicines in public hospitals to be able to look after patients to keep themselves safe and able to treat those who are sick the government says it's working with charities to try to make sure all that essential gear all that essential medicine is put in place in public hospitals last week a problem in journalism a very influential family died from coronavirus he came from the united states he didn't go so far isolate. since he went out clubbing he went to some banks he was the government offices and when he got sick it was taken to work and hospital quarantine facility here in harare wait that's where you go you get tested and if you think that's why you are admitted to family says they felt that the staff would want to quote they say if there weren't any ventilators in the hospital they tried to get one at a private hospital with no luck and eventually raise concerns about how ready the bob is to cope with an average of crowd of fire if infections right. china

has lifted more of the controls that kept 11000000 people on the quarantine in the city of new hardware the pandemic originated shops and malls a study reopening although with strict limits on how many people are allowed in size other countries in asia pacific a tightening their rules once though it reports. shopping malls and retail plans and a smoothie reopening in 100 systems 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 oh it's just i'm very excited because who hunt has been shut down for a long time 200 international plaza is very representative of the city so it's reopening really makes me feel the city is coming back to life. if people are allowed in that 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 australia's 2 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 were high on offer hope to many and behind the has now i'm very excited and happy for the 1st day of reopening today i 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 during the epidemic being safe is a blessing. florence louis al-jazeera. train carriages in india are being converted into isolation units they deployed across the country to reduce the burden builds passenger train services have been suspended until april 14th after a nationwide lockdown came into force last week india has more than a 1000 confirmed cases covered 19. i give us a warning that conditions that crowded things bangladesh leaving a 1000000 behind a refugees at risk of getting sick as reports and internet shutdown is cutting off

vital information reports. in the world's largest refugee settlement anxiety and alarming as the 2 clutches her prayer beads she also clings to her faith i don't know what. we've heard the corona virus 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 there is a ticket bill and it's been producing informational videos in the working the language and posting them online but last september bangladesh's 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 reaching the talking to the nation aid groups and in geos are urging government officials to reverse their decision should immediately left 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. you have ordered the shutdown of places where people usually gather including schools my classes learning centers etc only essential commodities

will be continued in the camps. amnesty international says the lack of internet access in bangladesh and other parts of the world is making the situation worse it's not the best time to have. telecommunication because that's that's the easiest and fastest source of this amazing information that needs 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 the virus. and jazeera to the u.k. now a field hospitals are being set opposite prices for infections to pick one of the 1st up and will be in the east london $20000.00 health workers are also coming out of retirement to help let's bring in rory telephones now who's joining us live from brighton in the u.k.

so rory this sort of national mobilization force is very much coming together. yeah that's right kim you can see in the background here how quiet it is here in brighton that's because the way that some people are helping with the fight against coronavirus is by a bang obviously the government's advice to stay at home the closing of most businesses all except the essential ones people go out for a walk they go out to get essential groceries that sort of thing but generally this kind of national mood of fighting this disease more or less together is to do what the government is asking them to do but there are other ways in which people are helping out the n.h.s. is saying that $20000.00 people who used to work in the national health service that's doctors and nurses etc have come back to the health service at this

crisis time also there was a push to get as many volunteers as possible to help out the n.h.s. in other ways this is not medics this is more normal people less medically trained people there had been an original appeal for 250000 to come. they suspended the the volunteering hotline at $750000.00 so 3 times as many people volunteered as they initially wanted which is fantastic news of course and shows how people are pulling together there is also a push to get more ventilators into the national health service the n.h.s. at the beginning of the crisis had 5000 ventilators for people who needed assistance in breathing. but the estimate was that they would need 30000 to cope with all of these people. in the intensive care units 8000 of those are now have

now been sourced 8000 more are coming from international orders. and there's a consortium of various companies including systems and ford and formula one teams lima pyro and miss eighty's who are going to be producing hopefully about $10000.00 more so that is trying to get the death toll as small as possible just to bring you up to date with the latest death toll the last 24 hours in the united kingdom $180.00 new deaths of being reported for corona virus that brings the total death toll in the u.k. it's 1408 thank you that for bring us up to date there rory tellings live from a very quite high street in bryson some information about this pandemic can seem confusing i'm a don't give us the full picture about which age group is most at risk so have come up with some info for you the world health organization says all the people and those with preexisting conditions

a pair to be more vulnerable to serious illness but if we look at the data in the u.s. for example as of march 16th it seems 20 percent of the people in hospital were between the ages of 2022 rather and 44 and in south korea the highest number of infections are among those between 20 and 29 what we do know is that the fatality rate at the moment is 4.7 percent of all the confirmed cases worldwide here's a tracker we've been looking at throughout the pandemic from johns hopkins university which gives us real time data of the situation has the total number of confirmed cases there and the total number of deaths right now around the world from coronavirus stands at more than 35000 now in the past few weeks a 14 year old boy has died in portugal the youngest in europe and another teenager and france and an infant in the u.s. also became the youngest to be infected who later died. and dr peter drawback is an

infectious disease specialist based in oxford he explained why young people may be more at risk than originally thought. we're learning so much about this this this disease every day what's clear is that everybody is vulnerable to infection and in fact in countries that have been testing a lot more aggressively they're finding that the proportion of infected people who are younger is actually quite high and well overall younger people have a lower risk of severe disease and death as your segment just pointed out it's very clear that that anyone can be affected and in work and for clues in some very young people as well one speculation as to why we're seeing such higher rates of disease and even hospitalization in western countries and actually in new york city about half of all hospitalized patients are between 18 and 491 speculation is that younger people were less likely to abide by a social distancing regulations because they felt that maybe if they were vulnerable that wasn't going to affect them and that may have actually driven more

trans trent's mission in those populations now we're seeing a slight predominance of males over females amongst those infected but where really gets interesting is that men appear to have a higher death rate than women amongst those infected and that has cut across multiple different countries we don't know why yet certainly one suspicion is that for example in china and italy at some places where a lot of these states are coming from that men are much more likely to smoke and drink and that can drive underlying health conditions and risk factors to toronto where 117 people have died in the last 24 of the latest figures pushed the number of coronavirus linked to deaths to 2757 officials have committed one 5th of the national budget to fighting the fires there on had a 42000 known infections in iran the country has one of the highest mortality rates in the wild. iraq has seen

a relatively low number of infections compared to its neighbor but there's growing concerns the virus could overwhelm its fragile health care system as some are faltering reports 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 have system it can compact the virus and really we achieve a very good progress if you attempt back to the numbers of patients who are we cover it to represent about 3rd of the total number which is a very important success story for 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 covert 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 is one number of cases. a marriage and from this society we don't want. to be

assured by short of their personal. protective equipment for the health care worker this and other doctors told us 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 of bread to manage patients who will not acquire an education or acquire a 30 care unit to treat management the government put 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. al-jazeera bugged out. nepal has been under a complete lockdown for the past week 5 cases were confirmed thousands of tourists

stranded because the government suspended international flights are going to mohamed has. after days of being trapped in the himalayan mountains in the pulse these foreign truckers and local guides have made it back to the capital since a nationwide lockdown was brought in to contain the coronavirus many had been waiting to return to safety and there was a lot of anxiety but there was also a lot of confusion. we didn't know what was going on thousands of tourists from europe australia south korea the u.s. and canada have been stuck in trucking routes across the country the past tourism board says west you operations are underway but more flights are yet to come as my information and. flights. landed here in kathmandu and i need to fax people from different national media and i got to meet. the german and french embassies have been working with nepalese authorities to repatriate hundreds of their citizens using chartered planes over this. and the pandemic is coming to

nepal with the like you do not germany has much better health care system than nepal so i think the risk in germany is much smaller than here maybe it is more difficult to secure a lot of french people thought about staying in nepal because the situation was better but now we are also thinking about our jobs and want to be closer to our families at this time. but some travelers from the u.k. and u.s. are still waiting for information on what will happen next there are to say they are working on solutions that will be flight coming in scotland to go back to london and take you home thanks flights will not be free they will come in on a commercial basis but we are working very hard with the airlines to try to make sure that the prices are not inflated so many americans are in fact. outside of kabul and un currently under lockdown it strikes me that the thing that makes nepal such an attractive destination the ability to get far off the beaten path is also

complicating our logistical work right now we are currently bringing american citizens into cap and do from all over nepal. tens of thousands of visitors come here every spring for trekking and mountaineering but now expeditions businesses and major markets have closed transport has come to a standstill and the nepalese government has extended a nationwide lockdown but many foreigners stranded here say they just want to go home mohammed al jazeera. turning now to some of the other world news soldiers in syria trying to retake control of a prison after captured i saw 5 staged a royal the prisoners broke down walls and took over the ground floor of the jail and hasa soldiers are also hunting for 4 as well commodities who escaped during the riots the saudi u.a.e.

coalition has carried out several air strikes against truly targets in yemen's capital sana'a a presidential palace compounds a military school and an air base were hit the coalition says the operation was aimed at destroying quote the military targets on saturday saudi air defense systems intercepted true who've listed missiles targeting ria the southern city of jerusalem for now from a top. today the capital sanaa yemen has witnessed one of the most faires air strikes after a long time suspension of such airstrikes. 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 in the southern part of the capital also that they are targeted the. air base

along with the different around and around the capital sanaa along with the war college where they have taught heads 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 asians 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 there so they have called on the citizens to mark come closer to such drops. faces masks. let's get the news now here's far kevin thank you so much the telltale empirics

have officially been given a new start date the games will take off in 2021 in the same time slot scheduled for this year's games tokyo organizers and the international olympic committee reach an agreement earlier this monday the opening ceremony will take place on july the 23rd and the games will conclude on august 8th the decision to postpone this year's event due to chronic virus was made last week they welling's has more. that had been somewhere within the a little bit funny different a national association to look into going to spring was a possibility it was them on the table the i.o.c. are gone for just that one day difference july 20 traders are next year when it would have a july 24th quarter to the paralympics and follows 2 weeks later so when you take a step back and look at what's the very place that makes a lot of sense of course a lot of cost and sudden 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 for sure and it just accept it now they say what can be done is the movement of sports events even there a bit about athletics championships in oregon would have clashed it now looks that will be taking place another year or in 2022 where they might actually considered it before elizabeth is part of the monarch doubtingly parts in the fall it's been a difficult time the athletes and not knowing where they stand and their training judges of course have been completely in ruins now i know that they can take a step are 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 there are also new dates for the

paralympics where the opening ceremonies set to take place on august the 24th of next year. the new dates provide certainty for the athletes reassurance paul the stakeholders and something to forward to for the whole world. when the body begins to take place in parts next year there will be an extra special display of humanity uniting as one agro also liberation of human resilience and a sensational showcase of sport. well the english premier league is considering a plan to finish its season behind closed doors players will be kept in isolation between matches there are $92.00 fixtures left in the season with a league team to fulfil its commitment to broadcasters when the competition was suspended earlier this month liverpool were $25.00 points clear at the top the aim is to create an environment for players and officials which reduces the risk of anyone catching the virus of players managers team doctors referees and television

production staff would be isolated in hotels away from their families matches would be televised but played in front of no fans it's hoped this can happen in june and july games are likely to be staged in a small number of venue's training grounds rather than stadiums could be. one of the leading voices in german tennis expects this year's wimbledon championships to be called off tournament organizers are set to meet on wednesday to make a final decision about the event which is due to start at the end of june their court off the vice president of the german tennis federation said the necessary arrangements have already been made and will do should be cancelled it's entirely unrealistic to imagine that with the travel restrictions that we currently have an international tennis tournaments with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world would be how this is thinkable. well coronavirus hasn't

stopped the world's biggest pro wrestling companies from putting on televised shows world wrestling entertainment better known as he has press ahead with its weekly program in empty venues and its biggest show of the year wrestling out will still go to air this weekend wrestling writer adam clary explained how events have been able to continue the main decision they've made here is that this was a very good opportunity for pro wrestling because of the unique way it's structured and produced them all adaptable i think to this current crisis of the conscript the shows around the problem they're the constrained or even obligated to really showcase the kind of matches that they're advertising or if somebody gets ill ought to be taken out of the situation they can do that where as you compare that to the sports like say the n.b.a. they can creatively right away to take one of their teams out of a match i think they've seen as an opportunity to be the only show in town effectively if they want to be present it is a legitimate sport and there's no other legitimate sports currently on air i think

they thought and get a quite a large bump in ratings as a result of what they did initially but i think people are now just more concerned about the safety of the fullness of this quite a number of stars and for various reasons are going to be missing i'm to do we don't credit they are quite happy to allow us to remove themselves from it are not comfortable performing so right now the wrestle media show looks nothing like the one they were trying to build to in january earlier in the air which i think is a lot of fans wondering why it's even going ahead in the 1st place and alex marc has won his 1st ever moto g.p. raise all from the safety of his living room their season on hold the riders gave their fans something to watch by taking their competitive instincts on line 1st 5 races of the real season have been postponed with no definite date for a return. ok and that is all your support for now can that's a cue for that far really everything can be done online it turns out. now organizes of expert 2020 dubai have backed a proposal to storm the event for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic and what

came after a meeting between officials from the united arab emirates and foreign countries participating the event which runs for 6 months is was due to begin in october. i was spoken to a lot in recent weeks about how airlines and others in the transport industry are being affected by the crisis that's also causing delays for space travel halted work for example on america's next manned mission to the moon and you shall have. with so many aspects of our lives shutting down it can be reassuring to see some things keep going 1st mission for the united states space force a successful mission on thursday launched from cape canaveral in florida with a $1400000000.00 communications satellite on board and we have 5 other parts of the space industry though are dealing with astronomical headaches just like everybody else. but. we understand that the international space station may possibly be the

safest place on earth over the next few months. the next men to leave the planet have been under heavy quarantine in russia star city forced to say goodbye to their families several weeks ahead of schedule that's to ensure they don't bring copa 19 to the international space station next week it's really interesting it's not unlike any other time in our in our lives is a generation really right like to me and this is goes into where were you when j.f.k. was shot where were you when you landed on the moon and where were you when corona virus is happening and i'll have my own interesting story to tell and in the years to come for nearly a decade the u.s. has relied on russia to fly its astronauts into low earth orbit but that will change in a few weeks if all goes according to plan go on to for grab sample container nasa and the private american aerospace company space x. say the launch of a crude mission will go ahead in mid to late may regardless of the pandemic back on earth there's a lot riding on the mission giving the u.s. the capacity to send its own people into space once again. time lines for other

missions will certainly have to be pushed back 3 to one ignition. nesses new ryan spacecraft is scheduled to take the next man and 1st woman to the lunar surface in 2024 nasa is also building the world's most powerful rocket to get them there and then hopefully to mars but the plant producing the rocket is just outside of new orleans which has one of the highest rates of new corona virus infections in the world the agency shut nearby rocket production and testing facilities on march 19th and others across the country to protect its workforce when you work on a rocket a lot of people have to work very close to each other and that could of that could have really spread quickly and it's even affecting spacecraft already millions of kilometers from earth the european space agency has put 8 of them in what's known as hibernation mode because of reduced staffing and has suspended its launches

indefinitely. even with delays on the next generation of their spacecraft nasa astronauts are busy performing a different public service sharing advice on how to cope with isolation at home after they survive the isolation of space some of it is just connecting you know reaching out and doing a video call with family and friends or or working on a project you know when i was on the word of it i do crossword puzzles with my boys over video chat advice that we can all use right now no matter where we are in the universe and you should tell al-jazeera. security forces around the world are trying to find ways to enforce lockdown sundin columbia police are resorting to some unusual methods and maybe in a hearse carrying a coffin every has been driving through the city or casting a message urging people to stay at home and in the city all of bottom kill police are using drones with loudspeakers to get the message across. they

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a 4 part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. unity is the only option we have to defeat these fighters. will tell balkanization reinforces its global call for countries to work together in the fight against the coronavirus. that al this is al says there are a lot of also coming up spain's infection count has overtaken china and another 812 people have died as more hospitals are pushed to crisis.