to be some of the world's most prestigious fashion houses are based in paris most say that they're trying to become more environmentally friendly changing a multi-billion dollar industry is a challenge but in an environment driven by trends where lee responsibly make clothes may become the ultimate fashion statement. al-jazeera. how long can validate how you're watching the news all which will be dominated by our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic the w.h.o. sees signs that infections may be stabilizing and italy and spain but says it's not a time for complacency. unity is the only option we have to defeat this virus and it's again pushing countries to work together against

a common enemy. hungary's prime minister gets sweeping new powers he says will help tackle the outbreak critics fair here use them to muzzle political opponents also. our nation is helping us in our hour of need. a navy ship with a 1000 beds on board arrives in new york to help provide relief in the u.s. epicenter. the world health organization has expressed hope that corona virus infections in hard hit european countries like italy and spain might be stabilizing but its leaders were quick to add that doesn't mean tough measures to mimic the spread of the disease and to track it should be reduced. we should start to see stabilization because the cases we see today really reflect exposures 2 weeks ago. and going down

isn't just about a lock down and let go to get down from the numbers not just stabilize requires a redoubling of public health efforts to push down not it won't by itself it will be pushed down earlier spain announced deaths in excess of 800 for the 3rd consecutive day another 6400 cases of the virus that were confirmed the lowest increase in about a week italy also had just over 800 more deaths on monday but like spain its number of new cases has slowed down while in the u.s. epi sent to new york relief has arrived in the form of a naval hospital ship it has 1000 beds on board the mayor says the nation has heard their play for help well let's take a look now at our reporting team this hour we have some new gago in london she'll talk about efforts to get the stranded home now we have gabe elizondo in new york

while diplomatic editor james bays will report on discussions about syria and coronavirus at the u.n. there is a ball has the latin america situation she's in what i said is let's begin though with francesca menotti who is live for us and run francesca just run us through the new numbers coming out of italy put them into context for us the w.h.o. has been talking about stabilize ation just bring us up to speed. and look at that to the president how you're. holding the number of people already in the polling and the number of people think we're in fence. or at the beginning we eat ready now at one hour for one hour i mean out of that 39 for a lot of the navajo when you were in fact then it. knowing our crowd did that mean

that you go down in the find that the. info you need to grow begin. the number of that from coronavirus today you know that. we have 800 new that by the new week from re the with the the. outbreath they're ready for in fact and yet they were on our point where they. won the newly in that i'm running for our or probably more let me see in our 7 bill the fact that the law is 14000 at 40 recall there and they didn't need the higher number all the confidence in the way they would it once and on the day that have meaning that the fanatics that lets link the fact that you

thought he was a bad thing at the number of people in fact it would be in heaven and they and sadly are not ready for economic them fine and they meant for in the press. even for effect than that and for that that with feet no new coronavirus by the community or may. the be in will. what and how they're going to update their franchise given all to live for us in rome. well france has just become the 4th country to support 3000 deaths another 419 people died in just the past 24 alz france is using high speed trains and military helicopters to transfer patients away from its hardest hit eastern region let's bring in sunny day ago now who is joining us live from london by skype to bring us

up to date with situation in the u.k. sanyo we had a briefing earlier from the foreign minister want does he have to say. yes the u.k. foreign minister dominic robb but gave an update on the stranded britons who are abroad and who have been on able to get back he says that while those who would have access to commercial airlines should continue to do so the government will be offering up a package of $93000000.00 to try and get as many of them back as possible so they go back to their homes back to this families and that is only in the case where they would not be able to access any form of of journeys back via commercial ways and they are currently working with other governments in the boat to try and keep airports and ports open to allow people as much as possible to come back as much as possible and also they using the services of some commercial airliners to try and

bring those people back who've been stranded and some of them having to pay thousands of pounds of thousands in order to try and come back as possible so that is one source of relief to many who have been abroad i'm able to get back also in the same press conference the chief scientific adviser patrick balance gave an update on on on how he saw the best way forward for the u.k. to break the rate of transmission now he seemed to indicate that the current measures in place. having some sort of effect he said that the the thinking is that data about so far we're able to look at seems to indicate that the numbers in the u.k. are not growing exponentially as has been happening in other countries but seem to be rising at a steady rate however and this is a big caveat this is most likely going to be

a different picture into each of 3 weeks' time because of course the incubation period of the virus in equal means that people could be asymptomatic for up to wheat. so looking at that to see whether that really has been a success we'll be able to provide a bigger picture on that in chicha 3 weeks time however he said things for example like using public transport in cities for example old not using them rubber has played a part in helping to try and limit the amount of infections but of course it's still early days yet as he indicated as well because. britain the u.k. is bracing itself full that higher rates of infections and those who who would come down seriously with the with the virus so there are hospitals which have been. transformed from exhibition send says we should design to all such

a taking thousands of patients as well and who will have access to ventilate says which the u.k. is already scrambling to source it has been a source of contention as well but they've not been able to have i.c.u. units as well. equipped as they which might have had a head of a pandemic right there but also the other point of contention is also the personal protection equipment but the frontline health service stuff i mean despite the coals from the prime minister boris johnson who himself is isolated because he is has tested positive for the current of ours that there still isn't getting it still isn't getting as quickly health workers would like it to reach they are still awaiting all those coastal protection equipment some basic things such as hounslow other ties as well but also on monday they have started rolling out more frequent testing but those for those 10000 tests

a day of being conducted but that still has to increase if they are going to try and get ahead of her in the weeks to come kim thank you that update out of the u.k. this song again go live from london new york sound system is getting a lifeline via the sea u.s. navy medical ship arrived to help relieve hospitals which are filling up the 1000 bed ship will treat people with virus related ailments i think there been times in recent days where large new yorkers have felt alone marvie yorkers have felt. a sense of. not being sure what's coming next not being sure of help would come when i was say all new yorkers we have evidence here you are not alone we are not alone. our nation is helping us in our hour of need that was new york city mayor but we've also heard from new york state governor

who said that what's happening there is likely to happen across the u.s. total number of cases 66000 cases and those numbers are daunting to be sure. you see it's continuing continuing to move across the state of new york there's only one county now that does not have a covert case. anyone who says the situation is a new york city only situation is in a state of denial you see this virus move across the state you see the virus move across this nation there is no american who is amused to this virus i don't care if you live in kansas i don't care if you live in texas there is no american that is him you what is happening to new york is not an anomaly there's nothing about it a new yorkers immune system that is any different than any other americans immune

system so in many ways new york is just the canary in the coal mine what you see us going through here you will see happening all across this country all of those guys are out of the nose and central park in new york an iconic spot where the temporary failed hospitals were atemporal field hospital hospital is being set out to tell us what's happening way you ok. yeah this is central park poor ad and on any normal day you would see people out running people on the grass enjoying themselves in this iconic part of new york city but this is no normal day and these are no normal times in new york city there's a field hospital that is being built here behind me it's an emergency facility of tents that are being built by some men and terri and purse a nonprofit humanitarian organization they started building it over the weekend and

they expect it to be operational as soon as tuesday when it is ready they will be able to have about 70 beds here for people that are sick. medical attention urgently and this is all part of a broader effort to get more hospital beds into new york city urgently that are needed when would you have ever thought you'd see a field hospital being built in central park it's really quite remarkable frankly. there is a shortage of beds the governor said they need about 150000 beds in new york for this surge of coronavirus patients that will be coming to hospitals he says within the next 2 weeks or so now in new york only has about 50000 so they have a huge shortage of tens of thousands of beds and that's why earlier on monday we saw this gigantic navy floating hospital dock on the west side of new york city in

manhattan at the terminal work cruise ships normally talk this huge ship called the comfort is 275 meters long it can it will house about a 1000 patients will not be coronavirus patients will be other patients that are in hospitals in new york right now they will be taken out taken to the ship to free up intensive care unit beds for coronavirus patients here in new york that ship is critical. asset that was just dispatched by the navy and by the white house have a 1000 beds about a 1000 doctors and nurses on it as well the last time that particular ship the comfort was in new york city was 3 days after september 11th when it was deployed here to help with the people sick and injured from that terrorist attack on september 11th that gives you an idea of how rarely

a ship like this would come to new york but clearly as we heard from the mayor earlier he said that while this ship is very helpful and necessary he said we would need the equivalent of 50 of those ships to meet the need and that's why in other parts of new york city and new york state for example a convention center racetrack being 2 of them they're building other makeshift tents hospitals there as well to meet the needs in terms of the latest numbers from new york we're just hearing from the governor andrew cuomo 9500 new yorkers are hospitalized here in new york city 2300 are in the i.c.u. these are all coronavirus patients the total number of coronavirus in the state of new york is now over $60000.00 and it's been increasing by about $6.00 to $7000.00 per day when the governor was asked when this is all said and done do you have any idea how many people will die in new york from coronavirus he says i'm not going to

give an estimate but he said in his words the number is going to be staggering remarkable times in the thank you that. from a field hospital in central park. the u.n. security council has held a virtual briefing on the situation in syria a handful of confirmed coronavirus cases have been announced there but there's concern that will change quickly in this particular concern for displacement camps and rebel held province let's bring in our diplomatic editor james bays who joins us from the u.n. headquarters in new york james tell us what came out of this briefing. well it was a virtual briefing as you heard in gabe's report the situation very bad in new york so ambassadors meeting by video conference for a security council meeting to hear about the situation in syria now clearly most of the countries that have been worst affected so far are countries with pretty good medical systems that syria does not have a good medical system after nearly

a decade of war 2 top u.n. officials brief the security council marlo cockers the emergency relief coordinator said that half the hospital and clinic facilities weren't operating in syria and that's what makes the situation so worrying so far 10 cases only in syria and one death but he believes that will be the tip of the iceberg considering the medical conditions in syria and the systems they have their one fact he brought up was was about malnutrition he said in northwest syria among the displaced children the u.n. estimates that 3 out of 10 now have stunted growth we also heard from the un special envoy for syria pederson he had one bit of good news he said there was an uneasy calm on the ground in syria so the level of violence has actually reduced a bit but he said that needed to be turned into

a permanent cease fire he also made a call that he's made many times before but given the virus situation he said it's more important now and that's to release detainees an abductee from their jails and prisons so that the virus doesn't spread through those those prisoner populations he ended his briefing and i think this was an important paragraph will read you for many syrians now in their 10th year of conflict that still devise comprehension in scale of suffering brutality and devastation it may seem hard even slightly abstract to focus on a global virus pandemic but he said make no mistake over $1000.00 is an enormous threat to syrians and demands a complete shift in the mindset. thank you for that update that diplomatic editor james spays live from the u.n. well twitter has deleted 2 posts by brazilian president jaya both sonata for violating its guidelines against spreading false health information also now or has

repeatedly downplayed the outbreak while calling for a lockdown mission to end let's go live to the border who's in that point i said is there is that just give us an overall picture if you can of the situation across that in america. well those are wrong $10000.00 confirmed cases in latin america and airlines has just confirmed that they have cancelled all their flights in and out of the region and this is a vixen if it comes because it talks about a bit of the chaos that is happening everywhere foreigners and locals stranded in foreign countries we know for example that there's dozens of people arjen ties that are trying to come into argentina at the border with brazil and they're not being allowed the government of about the from the shut down the border at least until the end of the month the government has also just announced this sunday that they're extending the quarantine until mid april they have taken very harsh measures in this country to try to prevent the spread of the virus it's also seen

in a way as a test of what happens if containment measures are taken very early when argentina had around 20 confirmed cases and that's when they started imposing i look down on the government is very very being very very strict with this is not down security forces are portrayed in the streets thousands of people have been detained hundreds of cards have been confiscated by those who are not respecting the quarantine that's happening here in argentina and this is happening all in the middle of a big economic crisis with inflation rates soaring with the many in this country that are not able to make it until the end of the month that live on a day to day basis while the government is announcing measures to try to protect them well it's not clear yet how much they're actually going to achieve and most of the region is implementing quire in tin measures trying to contain the spread of the virus except of brazil that the coronavirus it's also taking a political turn precedent. has come out and said that it's not necessary to impose

a lockdown he's stalking about imposing on the creek to force. his to open up once again and he has a direct fight he's in a direct confrontation with congress with governor. knaidel among others who are saying that the lockdown needs to be in place in order to try to prevent the spread of the virus this sunday he tweeted earlier it was a picture of him in a way hugging and addressing his supporters telling them to continue working he was asked at one point whether he was afraid that the situation that's happening right now in the united states could happen in brazil and he said that brazilians don't get sick that there are very strong in the past he has said that he is not afraid of getting sick himself because he's very afflicted in complete denial and that's what the opposition in brazil is saying small so i don't have lost the support of many key figures in brazilian politics that were his supporters in the past in the meantime figures in brazil continue to be on the rise around 4300 people have been

infected over 100 people have died and the figures are likely to continue to go up thank you for that tourism giving us the situation across latin america from when i say it is thank you hungary's parliament that started i should by the governing party has approved sweeping new powers for prime minister viktor orban he says it's to fight the coronavirus pandemic with critics see it as another step towards autocracy preg gupta with this report. a lot the tongue greece prime minister viktor orban says will help fight a pandemic with those who oppose him seek to create the european union's 1st dictatorship. hungary has been under a state of emergency since early march because of the coronavirus that has been extended with no time limits by a parliament dominated by the governing today's party or about now his sweeping

powers after being at the helm for 10 years the law is basically extending the extraordinary measures and possibilities of extraordinary measures which is provided by the constitution for 15 days it's going to be the parliament that provides free and it's going to be the parliament who is going to revoke it anytime it will. so any criticism that it is something that is going against the european matter of the european way of using extraordinary measures you simply not true did you lol allows or bans government to rule by decree without parliament's approval it sets prison terms of up to 5 years but those convicted of spreading false information about the outbreak and up to 80 is for those who blocked the government's efforts to contain it. opposition leaders human rights activists as well as the council of europe have all spoken out against it we are not talking about an abstract fear we are to be are speaking from experience that we have

observed in the last 10 years how the hungary and government and the leadership of victor are my undermining human rights and limiting the rule of law in hundreds of years bringing about experience when we raise our concerns that unfortunately because the coby the emergency order covered president under even being you if there's a constitutional moment for the government to maintain. the nexus the powers. in countries around the world governments have been imposing unprecedented restrictions deploying the army in some instances to enforce lock downs but it's also risk concerns about powers left unchecked for too long if the pandemic continues priyanka gupta. let's speak to when they melba's corfield who is now going to france she is a member of the european parliament who serves as repertory on the situation in hungary thank you for coming on the program what kind of power does this give it to

or about and what are your concerns about it or well it could be a huge power once again we don't know how it's going to use it each doesn't have the obligation to come back in front of the parliament to take any decision has put no sense at close to this emergency law or other emergency laws exist in europe but because of the coroner there a situation and because the member states needed to protect their population but of course all these emergency laws are very specific sense it cures very specific deadlines this one that's not so each doesn't need to come back in front of parliament basically as from today it can do whatever he wants when he wants this is really a very worrying democratic situation and what about his track record plays into your concerns about how this might play out going forward. yes of course i mean

that's the worry we have because it's not been a few months it's been 10 years 10 years with the european parliament has been alerting on the situation and the council and the commission. people before me i've me i've only been up to ship since one year before me other piece members of parliament i've been on this because he has made nearly every year change reforms in constitutional law we forms in judicial real reform in the press law to silence a position to have very strong powers in the parliament to also put a lot of frets on judges to what the decisions he wants so it's been 10 years when up to this situation and we we have always been saying that everything that was put in place to be capable at one moment in a crisis moment to really be an authoritarian regime maybe as from today this is

the case. hasn't. i i would say so and i think a lot of n.g.o.s activist journalist would say so. because there was no need of not putting once again a sense that there was i mean you could say we need an emergency or because we want to have very strict rules to protect the population but of course then you say look this is 4 to 15 days and then we will come back in parliament and try to have it again if we need but you don't do an unlimited moment where you don't need to come in front of parliament so we could look like a very important stick moment. anyway the taliban as they clearly stated it doesn't work and i says a certain number of european values east talks about illiberal democrats see any gifts as big examples for him china. or that sort of member state that

sort of states so is big examples and not european values stated thank you for your time that's when they'll both corfield a number of european parliament and repertory on hungary. thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera back to what the people in the chinese city of homs where the crowd a virus outbreak originates in. and a report on how nearly a 1000000 rohingya refugees in bangladesh are caught everything else like. how i went to places i've got some dry weather group making its way back in across the middle east to see some very heavy rain recently spilling out to keep pushing across iraq iran iran still seeing some of that wessel weather that's now pushing

across towards afghanistan that will roll over into northern pakistan in the form of western disturbances we go on through the next couple of days and eventually more the piles of india will see some of that behind not see bad loss you try to still see a few showers as we go through wednesday want to those showers sliding across northern parts of iraq and back into iran with a much of iran is generally try not see bad here and hot temperatures around 28 celsius wins now in the process of easing back so some pleasant sunshine as we go on through the days ahead then sunshine to across a good possibly northern africa and again the winds in the process of easing off somewhat here the showers will continue into somalia because see some showers here always a possibility of some flooding as a result of that ethiopia also seeing a little line of showers they push down towards the rift valley and to the gulf of guinea that's where we see some lively showers recently liberia could see some rather heavy rain along with gada further south while the showers also making the

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for the government that you pay your money cuba. on just 0. 0 her reminder of our top stories this hour another 812 coronavirus deaths have been reported in italy a slight rise from the day before and it's posted its lowest daily increase in new infections since early march. france has just become the 4th country to surpass 3000 deaths another 419 people died in the past 24 hours. and

a navy hospital ship has arrived in new york city to help rebuild hospitals which are filling up it has 1000 beds on board to treat people with not virus related elements and york state governor says what's happening there is likely to happen across the u.s. . israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has tested negative for the virus off to putting himself into isolation earlier it was announced that one of his aides had fallen ill. organizers of expo 2020 dubai have backed a proposal to perspire in the event for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic in ousmane came after a meeting between officials from the united arab emirates and foreign countries participating in the event which runs for 6 months was scheduled to begin in october. the governor of florida says he does not want a cruise ship with coronavirus patients to dock on his shorts 4 people have died dozens are sick on board the cruise ship it's heading towards florida after passing

through the panama canal passage is showing no symptoms were moved from the ship and taken to its sister ship they wanted them it's unclear where the 2 ships will be allowed to dock but joining us now from miami is our correspondent allan gallica andy what are officials there saying about the ship. well in very short blunt terms it's a hard note to the passengers on board the ship as he said for people of died on board the zaandam for elderly people we're not sure exactly what they died of but we think at least one tested positive for covert 19 there are over a 1000 people still on that ship as he said some of been removed by the sister ship the rotterdam but their fate is now unknown to sentence the governor of florida gave a press conference a couple of hours ago in which he said we have to look after our own 1st we don't want foreign nationals taking up bed spaces that are needed by floridians but there are many u.s. citizens aboard the zonda some of them from the very area he's talking about the

mayor of fort lauderdale where that ship is supposed to dock has said he's horrified of plans for it to dock they're saying unless they get plans in place for those people to be quarantined and treated they absolutely will not accept that so there's a lot of books passing going on but it seems like there's on dom's fate is unknown at this point the mayor of fort lauderdale ports saying perhaps they should continue up the eastern seaboard to a naval base but these people on board the ship have been on board since the beginning of the month they set off on board as ari's they went around chile they were stuck in panama for a while until the panamanian authorities allowed them to pass through the panama canal so they're about 3 days away from the state of florida and as yet their fate is unknown but it certainly seems like the authorities here will not welcome this vessel all the passengers on board with open arms incidentally there are around 200 people on board the ship just over a 1000 in total on that ship that are displaying influenza type symptoms so it is

a desperate situation for those people on both the zaandam and it's still not known where they will end up or how they will get treated when they get there so the government of florida clearly doesn't want the ship to dock there what is the situation and ten's of a crowded virus like in florida. well the southeast of florida where i am now is particularly bad we've got about 5400 cases 63 confirmed deaths but i was just reading a study a projection that lots of these medical institutions are coming out with that saying the coronavirus won't peak here until potentially may and the hospitals may not be able to cope by early august so we're going to the same situation i imagine lots of other people are going through essential services here are remain open the governor of florida just declared a stay at home mandatory order i think yesterday or so in the last 24 hours but

a couple of weeks ago here we had crowds and crowds of college students university students celebrating their spring break all the governor of florida at that point did was told them to pack it in but they were still here so this is a very difficult situation for florida but an even more difficult situation for the people on board that cruise ship thank you that there from miami. i want to bring up to date now on the walk that's being done to find a vaccine in the u.k. there's a call out for volunteers to participate in human trials from london yvonne reports . scientists are at war with covert 19 dozens of laboratories are now battlegrounds in the race for a vaccine here it oxford university volunteers blood samples are prepared for testing ahead of the 1st human trials of a vaccine the blood will be checked for antibodies in any t.v. cell responds to the virus t. cells can recognize and destroy infected cells. and here in

germany warm small company part funded by microsoft billionaire bill gates says it too will soon have a vaccine ready for human trials it may look like slow work but things are moving at breakneck speed it can take decades to develop a vaccine this lab wants one who much sooner people are saying well that year to 18 months make sure it's a much much shorter normal development for fixes that can be $1015.00 even 20 years . this is the enemy corona means crowd in latin named because of the spikes on the virus's outer coat this crown is also its weakness the vaccines under development to contain the genetic sequence of this surface spike which primes the amine system to attack the virus if it later infects the body but what about those

most at risk of contracting the virus symptoms can range from a runny nose to a sore throat to a fever but it can escalate quickly among people with respiratory problems or underlying health issues it's a full blown pneumonia one team of british scientists believes are best line of defense lies deep in our lungs. they've developed this inhaler to help restore levels of a substance called interferon be tearing people's lungs vital for removing viruses from the body unhealthy lungs lack interferon peter levels also naturally deplete with age which is why elderly people are more at risk of contracting the virus patients with lung disease diabetes preexisting. they get the information once a diary to weeks to increase the viral immunity and to prevent the virus from replicating and eliminating the virus more facts of. the virus has led

to an acceleration in engineering this of rapid covert 19 tests has been developed by the german company. blood samples are inserted into the cartridge for analysis it takes 2 and a half hours for of it's old and it's 95 percent accurate but it could be many bombs before the equipment is readily available meanwhile a number of firms including the british baccy make a dyson airplane maker of the formula one team mclaren and now racing to develop breathing aids to beat demand no single company all the poetry can do this alone it requires international effort and resources the world's best brains have been mobilized great his hope lies in science needs barker al-jazeera london let's speak now to stereo small saucers and new castle in the u.k. he is a professor all cellular and molecular sciences and northumbria university thank

you so much for your time we have there from knaves that normal vaccines can take a decade or more to come about what's your take on the progress to find a vaccine for a cause and so far i think we need a very grateful but this community rather than a big structural the private sector has rallied to try and develop. for government . covered 90 however the warnings come on us just because we were lucky with a bowl of virus and we managed to get a very quickly it does not mean that we will be equally lucky with coronavirus 19 in fact there are 2 other coronavirus mers which is familiar to your audience but also the or original. the original it isn't 'd asia whom we don't have enough for to be ongoing since 2240 fires level i'm not trying to say how to be

able not necessarily. but it's worth raising caution about how much investment we need to make but there will be a proxy and it will work and therefore everything will be fine if that may not be the case and we may have to live with this permanently potentially nobody can predict whether the buckets will work that is a stark warning the world health organization has said it could be between 12 and 18 months before that scene is ready do you agree with that do you have a timeline or are you sort of more courses about whether there will be what it all . if if if we show in the next few months your bill takes at least 6 months to show that the one of the candidate boxes being developed was at least 40 that i know of so who should one of these works and we have to consider the must

production of this boxing so that we can get it distributed worldwide to separate from damaging economies to people that will take time in itself you can't just turn a single item into no believes of those is literally overnight so even if we are dead lucky and within 3 months we have a working which so happens will take at least 6 months then. we will still have a long lead time until that can be distributed worldwide as you said that there are other coronaviruses that we know of has our knowledge of those virus coronaviruses impacted the speed of that thing creation for cause at 19 it all was there any pre-work down i guess to speed up the situation that we're in now yeah i think. my experience has been that it's very inappropriate to extrapolate from one virus

to another us of how they will behave howsoever closely related these might be so once we can get some insight or what things may happen with coronavirus 90 based on the 4 common cold viruses viruses or indeed the 2 highly pathogenic once must we can't really say oh this is work go this october at 19 it's going to work so it's almost like starting from scratch yes we get some information we have to confirm whatever happened with us will happen with covered 90 or not we may dead lucky just like we were the polar nobody really knows thank you for your assessment there that stereo. from newcastle a professor of cellular and molecular science. zimbabwe has begun implementing a 3 way lockdown to prevent the spread of cover 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 harmatz house reports from harare. police in harare blocked major roads as the baba begins a 21 day nationwide lockdown if people can't prove why it is essential for them to travel to the city center they are told to go back home. those measures. logic around and limit to movement something to do that. to cover. the spread of the call members. other countries have also put in place similar measures in varying degrees but zimbabweans living with hyper inflation and high unemployment worry that closing down markets and nonessential businesses cash for millions already struggling. to be used. if you wanted to try to close. on day one of the lock down harare

streets was largely deserted health officials say they are ready to minimize the impact of the outbreak should they be more infections are now only transport operators for the state are allowed to work or they are needed for people who are in a financial services the government has also closed borders and banned large gatherings . pharmacies fuel stations and supermarkets can stay open jury in a 3 week lock down but daily water fuel and food shortages means queuing for hours looking for basic commodities at this in corona virus prevention methods such as social distancing is nearly impossible for many it's a dilemma between hitting out to provide for their family or staying at home. china has lifted more of the controls that kept 11000000 people under quarantine in city of han with a pandemic originated shops and malls austerity reopening although with strict

limits on how many people are allowed inside other countries and i have pacific tightening their rules for it so if reports. shopping malls and retail plaza slowly reopening into hans's from 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 a safe distance from others so how do 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 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 nonessential 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 dollars but these scenes of life slowly returning back to normal and high on offer hope to many n.b.a. title 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 move al-jazeera train carriages in india being converted into isolation units will be deployed everywhere to reduce the burden on hospitals passenger train services have been suspended until april 14th as part of lockdown measures. activists a warning that conditions of crowded camps in southeast bangladesh are putting a 1000000 refugees at risk of getting sick as the how to judge are reports an internet shutdown that's causing off vital information. 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 they say oh you're right you are the

more we've 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 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 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 camps

unfortunately the door and 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 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. you have ordered the shutdown 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 bangladesh and other parts of the world is making the situation worse it's not the best time to have. communication because that

that's the easiest and the source of this amazing information that 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 the virus. and 0. coming up in about a minute from now we're going to be hot because we can't get out not yet because i know you're not to go outside in that would just. tracking teddy bear with a simple game to keep children entertained during this pandemic becomes a hit around the what. it is impossible to overstate the mental scarring of the survivors sure peter lived

in the home until the age of 4 when the nuns sold him all to yvonne and family by that time he'd lost his sister she like nearly 800 others that's the name recorded in the death register for the catholic organization put bodies in here there were baptized yet to put them into our own conservation ground savages for become painters think the government is so frightened of the damage to the church that the full excavation would do that it is resisting it's so they're threatening court action i think the only way in which this will result this through an order of the spirit courts of this country i can't see any other way because there is no will there's no wish there is no appetite church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact. the

old the own car. welcome back protesters in palestine are marking the 44th anniversary of land day it's an annual demonstration against israel's illegal occupation of palestinian territory but this year the event had to adapt so people are crowded on the streets spreading coronavirus it ever had reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. the 44th anniversary of land b. was commemorated this year without people there is a state of emergency in palestine due to the issue of the coronavirus we're talking about more than a 100 cases the buyers in the occupied west bank and 9 people were tested positive for covered 19 in the gaza strip now in gaza the authorities have marked the days

they've disinfected the streets to provide more protection to people and planted trees to show the special relationship between palestinians and their lands it's worth mentioning that the great marches of return which have started 2 years ago have begun on this day 2 years ago on that day the 30th of march and there are many thousands of palestinians have went to the bordering area between gaza and israel we've seen many confrontations over the weeks that have led to the wounded of many in the killing move over then 300 palestinians now we know. that the bodies of said that they are canceling the. gatherings of people and postponing those protests till the coronavirus issue and and that there will be going on with their protest on a monthly basis. about

a 3rd of the world's population is living under lockdown that's particularly challenging for children who have to stay indoors away from their schools and their friends in new zealand some are turning to teddy bears to support youngsters and themselves shall about explains. why we're going on a bear hunt when not scared but much of that from the pages of a children's book to the streets of all clint children hunting for teddy bears and people's windows the game is a way to entertain children living under locked. but going on if you had to literally can't get out math if you don't know how to go out sign in our desk out there clyde 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 server says we're going to the supermarket or for health care or to go for a walk with the people they live with we explained end except that people will go

for a walk they will take the children outside to get free sheer 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 window 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 spirit 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 aged paul print is a geotagged beer. the psychological boost goes beyond children helping those isolating a home to feel part of the community while staying up with of their own the one night he said a lot of attention and way cheering everyone from christchurch as we made it it's

easy to get a sense of what has become a war hostile place and us and it will all divisive in war. and if you look at what humans do we things. humans shout humans threats what do. i think what does help keep it going the 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 i did a. al-jazeera asked for comment but was told he took sick with virus symptoms still his words are coming to life supporting children and adults through the spend demick shelob ellis al-jazeera. well that said for me in the team here there are

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