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. and we'll take you to one of the labs where scientists are racing to find a covert 1000 vaccine. hello the world health organization has sounded a note of hope for the european nations worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic saying steps taken in italy and spain should see case numbers drop soon so despite that though the number of infections in spain passed china in the past 24 hours while it saw 800 new deaths and in italy the number of new cases continued to fall but deaths past the 11000 mark and over in the u.s. it's bracing for the outbreak there to get worse a hospital ship with a 1000 beds has now docked in new york while the top infectious disease expert says there will be clusters in other big cities and a 3 week lockdown has begun in zimbabwe with police and forcing some of the

toughest measure a seat in africa sachs have been shut and movement restricted the country has seen one death so with many countries in europe in lockdown the fight continues to contain the virus paul brennan reports. even with stringent restrictions empty streets and ever tighter regulations imposed daily declared corona virus cases in europe have now exceeded 400000 continue to rise for the 3rd consecutive day spain reported more than 800 new deaths in the previous 24 hours and after 2 days of decline the number of new deaths in italy spiked upwards again to 812 but new infections are slowing to get down from the numbers not just stabilize requires a redoubling of public health efforts to push down it won't go down by itself it will be pushed down and that's what we need congress to focus on france is shuttling patients around the country to reduce pressure on the hardest hit regions

but the infection rate is proving relentless and $418.00 deaths in the past 24 hours takes france past $3000.00 fatalities in paris hospitals are full and doctors have to agonize over who gets a bed and who doesn't sit but that burma's says. it's not fair but rather a stress to suddenly be forced to make choices that we don't want to make and to find ourselves in situations where we have to choose which patients we could get in the intensive care as recently as 2 weeks ago russia had just 10 official cases of covert 19 it's fast approaching 2000 now and rising in moscow the city mayor has shut parks closed shops and bans non-essential journeys addressing regional leaders by video link russia's president has urged other regions to follow moscow's example of. all measures necessary in this situation should be taken even if those not involved in the problem consider them a bit excessive for russia today but as they say god helps those who help

themselves. but while millions hudlin the homes around the world hundreds of thousands of stranded european tourists are still struggling to reach their us after 2 weeks in quarantine this group departed from peru on monday with assistance from diplomatic staff we have about 300 people. to the netherlands and there is about $100.00 european lie from him for them to their countries. 19 is reminding us how vulnerable we are how connected we are and how dependent we are on each other in the eye of a storm like. scientific and public ills tools are essential but so are humility and kindness we sorely dirty humility and i assuming the best of each other we can

and we will overcome this together extraordinary heroic efforts are being made voluntary efforts medical efforts and diplomatic efforts faced with a global pandemic the responsibility is on all of us to be part of that effort to paul brennan al-jazeera well let's get an update on the situation in the u.k. and speak to someone gave us is joining us via skype from right here in london so sonia officials in the u.k. seem to suggest that the measure that they've put in place seems to be working what more we're hearing. yes terrain that would be for the rate of infections that we are seeing at the current time but of course the real information from that won't be known really for another $2.00 to $3.00 weeks now violence the chief scientific adviser to the british government has indicated that the measures which

had already been put in place and sort of the orders for people to stay indoors as much as possible on social distancing and also. trying to convince people not to use public transport which is a primary if the transmission indicated that it would appear to have been working and that the rate of british infection was going along at a rate which didn't indicate an acceleration but more of a stable progress however this is not the peak of the of the of the rate of the virus right now and whilst we are not seeing the numbers that we're not seeing the strain on the health system. that's been seen in other parts of europe particularly see in spain that is not yet a 100 percent certainty and the british government is actually bracing itself for a deluge of people to be stricken with the virus as it has

a stoppage these field hospitals combusted from exhibition centers which will hold thousands of patients and will sadly include mokes as well now while he insisted that if the public still sticks to what the government is ordering to stay indoors as much as possible to try and stop transmission happening at a quicker rate he said also that the that the u.k. was more or less much object 3 similar to france from then italy and spain but if you look today at the news coming out from france it's already passed $3000.00 deaths now related to coronavirus and that is something that the u.k. has to be braced for that rise in numbers as the weeks go forward during. all right thank you for that update from london so while italy and spain remain under their grip of the virus france is struggling too and the country has recorded

its worst number of new deaths in one day with an additional $418.00 pushing the country's total to above $3000.00 for the 1st time more than $20000.00 people are being treated in the country as hospitals let's get an update on a talk about where she is joining us via skype from western france so it's actually you heard sonia perhaps talking a moment ago that the u.k. hasn't reached its peak what about france are official saying when france will reach its peak of the pandemic well no but things are so you know looking good from it's now recording moules and 3000 deaths from the current of our is not the latest latest because we have from french health authorities to give us a daily briefing each evening it is a huge leap multiple 100 deaths and only to past 24 hours a very worrying situation indeed one in a way that we have been about the french prime minister it was really just

a few days ago saying that the 1st 2 weeks of april and we're going to that very soon of course he said that they would be a very very difficult time to france indeed the frog's could be reaching its peak at that time the coronavirus at this stage has been really concentrated in the case it's been concentrated in the north east of france in the al sation region but the prime minister had warned to a few days ago that those cases would really well the spread if you like would really reach across north and from the paris region and to other parts of france and it seems that is in fact what we are seeing the real sprayed all coronavirus cases and these cases now putting the french desk not far behind china all right and it's also thank you for that update from france. over to new york on the overrun health system there is getting a lifeline from the u.s. navy medical ship has docked in the city to help relieve hospitals as coronavirus cases soar the 1000 bed vessel has 12 operating rooms will be used to treat

patients that do not have the virus clearing much needed beds inside city hospitals in new york state accounts for almost half of the country's confirmed cases gabriel is on though it was at the port in manhattan and says the ship could be needed for months. the last time that this particular floating hospital is called the comfort the u.s. navy came here to new york was 3 days after 911 to help with people who 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 are 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 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 while the united states still has the highest number of confirmed virus cases in the world at nearly 150000 and president donald trump said

a new rapid test will come out next week but hasn't offered any details to back up that's lame the national guidelines such as social distancing have been extended across america until the end of april while the president has discussed the pandemic with his russian counterpart vladimir puts and let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly halkett she's joining us from washington so the president seems to have backed away from his plan to have the economy up and running by easter time kimberly. yeah there's no question about of the headline coming out of the latest from the virus test for free flowing was the fact that the social distancing guidelines have been extended to april 30th and the reason is the numbers are just not looking good in the united states depending on which model you look at the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. the neighborhood of 153-215-5000 people confirmed and 2800 deaths and that number is climbing but we're knowing from the public health officials is in fact that the peak of cases in the united states is not expected to

hit for another 2 weeks now part of the reason they're concerned is that these numbers are telling us the complete picture not only has there been a problem with testing in the united states but the test results take a long time to get to the doctors in the public health officials who need them despite the fact that there is this promise of a faster test result coming it's not here yet so in the midst of all of this there are those social distancing guidelines that are nationwide but still it when it comes to the individual states not all governors have taken this as seriously as some have for example in the case of new york state we look to florida as one example where this is occurring in fact there has been some concern about what took place not just over the weekend but even a couple of weeks ago with the fact that there were spring break co-erced who were participating on the beaches they were clustered not social distancing in the the

sort of meter or more part that they was recommended but in fact they were standing very close together on the beach and now we've seen this again happening at a florida church a mega church held number of services over the weekend and this was alarming to many who saw this live streamed now we know in fact that there is an effort by the local sheriff issue going to arrest warrant for this pastor in order to try and mitigate this moving forward what we have now is. confusing claims in terms of the law that is applies here well there are strong state rights in the united states many feel that when times of diseases outbreak even a pandemic now that that is superceded our i think i really thank you for that update when you're watching al-jazeera live from london still ahead just a moment a warning that the virus is likely to cause devastation among the world 70000000 displaced people.

hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we start in europe we've got a big area of high pressure dominating things out in the atlantic and it's bringing a winds from a northerly or northeasterly direction across much of europe we've also got some weather fronts as well so cold air with a threat of some precipitation so there should forecasts for tuesday a lot of fine weather across many western areas sunshine to be had but further towards the south it's looking decidedly unsettled we're going to see snow developing across parts of the balkans over the next a 24 to 48 hours and it's going to become increasingly subtle across abir in pinch a potential for some very heavy rain across the valley erik's through into eastern parts of spain even the chance of some snow at the higher levels up a study still looking fine there paris 13 degrees london 9 but then we start to see outbreaks of snow developing across southeastern parts of europe so too bad

temperature wise for rome 13 degrees as a nice one on the other side of the mediterranean still looking pretty unsettled really all there in the gulf the search region still quite breezy unsettled weather affecting morocco algeria through into tunisia scattering of showers across parts of west africa but moving the forecast through into wednesday you can see things are looking pretty wet for parts of america and our cierra some fairly strong winds as well and highs of 17 degrees in robots. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such an amount as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stick around we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and fire mentally sound energy

solutions for future generations no pressure by any ring future energy. or. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera europe remains the epicenter of the corona virus pandemic as the number of infections and deaths across the continent continues to soar spain has registered hundreds of new deaths while the death toll in italy has now surpassed 11000. the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort has docked in new york it's hoped the vessel with a 1000 beds will help ease pressure on the city's hospitals which are battling the largest number of coronavirus cases inside the country and security forces have

been deployed across a bob way to enforce a 3 week lockdown which came into effect on sunday night to prevent the spread of the coronavirus health workers went on strike last week over concerns the health system will not cope with a likely outbreak. will drug companies and universities around the world have dropped the other work to concentrate on the search for a vaccine it's a task that normally takes years but there are plans for human trials within just months if barker reports from london. scientists are at war with covert 19 dozens of laboratories are now battlegrounds in the race for a vaccine here at 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 a breakneck speed it can take decades to develop a vaccine this lab wants one who much sooner people are saying well that. 18 months. it's a much much shorter normal development for fiction is that. even 10 years. this is the enemy corona means crowd in latin named because of the spikes on the virus his 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 heart and condi rice killer disease they get the information wants the diary 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 are now racing to develop breathing aids to beat. those single company all the poetry can do this alone it requires international effort and resources the world's best brains have been mobilized greatest hope lies in science needs barker al-jazeera london well as governments race to stop the pandemic one humanitarian organization is warning about the threat of infection along the world's most disadvantaged people refugees international says many of the world's 70000000 displaced people are

living in cramped unsanitary conditions where a social distancing just isn't possible access to health care is limited or nonexistence it's all the more problematic because refugees and migrants often have underlying health conditions and the lack of information about the spread and how to avoid the virus also puts them at a disadvantage harder langan's vice president for programs and policy of refugees international he says authorities need to act quickly to prevent large outbreaks in crowded camps. what we're seeing and part of what was highlighted in the previous report was the the level of other 1000000000 monkeys populations if you look if you take for example what's been happening in new york what's been happening in italy if you see in certain areas high population density the speed and the scale of the transmission and what the impact has been on an extremely developed health care system in european countries and china the united states and you imagine what the

impact is going to be on in a crowded camp environment in a developing country that has just a fraction of those kind of resources to respond you begin to get a sense of the scale of the problem so now it's going to turn organizations and governments in these countries are facing a tremendous uphill battle the good news right now is that it isn't it doesn't spread yet these places in a way that is a you know what we're seeing in italy what we're seeing in new york we saw one before so now the question is can we take a couple of steps to try to get ahead of the curve by taking action now and some of the things involved in getting information out to populations quickly. a 3 with lockdown has now begun in zimbabwe to prevent the spread of the coronavirus security forces have been deported to enforce the restrictions but there are concerns the country's health sector will struggle to fight the pandemic which also 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 so i think maybe those measures. budget ground and limitation meant something to do their due. to government revenue. the spread of the call numbers. 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 will mean less cash for millions already struggling. to raise. even $1.00 to $2.00 old clothes. on day one of the lock down harare streets were largely deserted health officials say they are ready to minimise 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 effect services the government has also closed borders and banned large gatherings. pharmacies fuel stations and supermarkets can stay open jaring the 3 week lock down the daily water fuel and food shortages need queuing for hours looking for basic commodities practicing coronavirus 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. a cruise ship carrying sick passengers has now made it through the panama canal after days of uncertainty at least 4 passengers have died 2 others have tested positive for a corona virus and almost $200.00 say they have flu like symptoms some healthy passengers were transferred from the vessel when it was awaiting permission to access the canal and the ship's operator hopes to let passengers disembark in

florida but governor says they will not be allowed into the states while restrictions are being titans around the world and the chinese city where the pandemic started controls are being lifted socks on malls and ruhani are slowly reopening with strict limits on how many people are allowed inside florence that we are ports. shopping malls and retail business and smoothly reopening in 160 with a coronavirus 1st emerged but everywhere there are reminders that these are still different times and some advise this shop is to wear masks and keep a safe distance from others oh yeah just in the house i'm very excited because who hunt has been shut down for a long time through her and international 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 that temperature is checked and they have to show

a mobile phone code that certifies that 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 ill 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. portugal says all migrants who have applied for residency will be treated as permanent citizens from monday it will give them access to the country's public services including health care with the status lasting until at least july the country's government hopes that minimizing contact between border staff and applicants will stop the virus from spreading portugal has reported more than 6000 cases and a 140 deaths. the tokyo olympics have officially been given a new start date after the 2020 games were counseled last week because of the

coronavirus pandemic so the events will open in 2021 exactly a year from the original dates tokyo organizers and the international olympic committee reached an agreement earlier on monday the opening ceremony will now take place on july 23rd when the games will conclude 2 weeks later on august 8th with billions of people around the world staying indoors polluting emissions have significantly dropped resulting in cleaner air in major cities new satellite images released by the european space agency show dramatically lower levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide which is harmful to the lungs the european public health alliance says governments must take action to continue improving air quality once the corona crisis is over. what do those maps actually tell us is that human activities and especially transport contributes a lot to law there in terms of our health and if we manage to create them

then we can all saw a better air quality so now that we are forced to do that because it's not done measure the messenger was visualize significantly improved air so that tells us that change is possible and it should be done in a sustainable way. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera europe remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic as the number of infections and that's across the continent continues to soar spain has registered hundreds of new deaths while the death toll than it only has surpassed 11000 but the w.h.o. steps taken in both countries should see case numbers drop soon. 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. scientific and public old tools are essential but so are humility and kindness we sorely doubt e.t. humility and assuming the best of each other we can. and we will overcome this to give them the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort has docked in new york it's hope the vessel with a 1000 beds will help ease pressure on the city's hospitals new york governor andrew cuomo has called on health care professionals from across the u.s. to come to his states and help hospitals deal with the surging coronavirus cases which has killed more than 1200 people in the state. security forces have been deployed across and bob way to enforce a 3 week lockdown which came into effect on sunday night to prevent the spread of

the coronavirus health workers went on strike last week over concerns the health system will not cope with the likely outbreak a cruise ship carrying sick passengers has made it through the panama canal after days of uncertainty at least 4 passengers have died 2 others have tested positive for corona virus and almost 200 say they have flu like symptoms some healthy passengers were transferred from the vessel when it was awaiting permission to transit. portugal says all migrants who have applied for residency will be treated as permanent citizens from monday it will give them access to the country's public services including health care would be status lasting until at least july you're up to date with headlines on al-jazeera up next is the stream of thanks for watching but i for now.

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