al-jazeera. ever. heard her. japan imposes a raft of new restrictions of might close its borders to the u.s. to china and most of europe after a surging coronavirus cases. i am. welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin there is also coming up. the world bank warns of economic pain saying 11000000 people in asia will be on the level to escape quality as a result of the pandemic. italy has been seeing its intensive care capacity in the

country's biggest field hospital bills in just. a navy hospital ship don't believe your to help the city struggling. i am. but 1st japan is imposing a series of new social restrictions after a surge in cases of corona virus is also urging citizens not to travel to $73.00 countries and regions that's a 3rd of the world it's expected to close its borders to people coming from the u.s. from canada china south korea and most of europe japan has so far been spared a major outbreak but the number of infections is now approaching 2056 people have

died live now to katrina you our correspondent who's in beijing covering asia for us and we had thought hadn't we that japan much of escaped the worst of this pandemic apart from that cruise liner that was more in yokohama for some time we thought that they almost got away with it. that's right martin in the 1st few weeks of this outbreak indeed the month of february japan seemed to be doing very well its numbers were considerably lower considering its proximity to china the epicenter of the outbreak at the moment japan as you mentioned has about 2000 cases and that doesn't sound like too much compared to some other countries but what is concerning is how fast that number jumped just in the space of about a week the number of infections in japan nearly doubled now because of this japan is now considering some very strict measures including a travel ban on 73 countries that's one 3rd of all the countries in the world

including the us south korea china and much of europe according to the government any person who has traveled to one of those countries in the past 2 weeks will not be permitted to enter japan and it's also discouraging its citizens from traveling to those countries there are also some social distancing measures that the government are encouraging there encouraging people not to go to restaurants not to go to bars or karaoke venues but there has been no strict lockdown or quarantine put into place in japan at the moment and indeed the government has been criticized for not doing enough there are calls for just the japanese government to put into place a state of emergency which they haven't done yet and also prime minister shinzo are they is currently facing a lot of criticism and a lot of questions because the spike in coded 1000 cases in japan seems to have mainly occurred after the perspire many of the tokyo olympics was announced on march the 23rd calling in raising some questions that the government may have been

not so transparent about these figures and indeed delaying it stricter measures because it was trying to quell any fears about the horse sting of the tokyo olympics because really you live in beijing thank you very much well. the world bank is warning the pandemic could fall so missed the 11000000 people into poverty across the asia pacific region is expecting that growth in china as well as smaller economies will fall heavily this year and one of those affected will be the philippines where some 57000000 people live on the largest island of luzon they've been put into quarantine for 2 weeks jamila arlindo them reports now from manila. you know just like millions of people across the country the friend's son his family have been asked to stay indoors and to practice social distancing but that is nearly impossible for this is the place they call home

a 12 square meter house for 9 members of their family the house is in condo one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country. the government calls this and has community quarantine and it has been implemented for over a week now across the entire region of luzon forcing commercial establishments like restaurants and cinemas to close and putting millions of filipinos out of work the failing china say they're fine with their living conditions it's the lack of ability to make a living they're worried about taking the i have a baby and she needs milk and diapers we can't work how will we be able to eat i'm also worried of our family getting sick we can't afford to be hospitalized. metro manila which is the epicenter of the cove in 1000 infections in the country is one of the most densely populated cities in the world more than 5000000 people here are

either living in the slums or are homeless according to government data. because the. workforce. because. of this organization. they don't save anything when the chief they live on least is searching for food donations to help feed residents there are government ration is he says but there are not enough around 7000 people living in the labyrinth of congested houses are now under his watch right now. because public workers. 100 meters away from what i'm going. so we still saw some money so that being a warrior. everyone entering the village is sprayed with

a disinfectant solution as a precaution it is a new way of life that is causing and salad here yet the fear has never been too far from the surface hunger is a constant threat and it's likely to become a new reality for many of those who have the least. dugan on just 0 manila. so india is attempting to track down people who attended a gathering of muslim religious leaders after 24 of them tested positive for coded 19 as many as 1500 people from across india as well as from other countries where all at the meeting in new delhi 700 have been sent to a quarantine center while hundreds more are in hospital india is under lockdown with people order to remain indoors until the 15th of april. now in italy after 2 days of decline the number of deaths is risen again to 812 the country is

a feeling its biggest field hospital later today it was built in just 2 weeks it will base the amount of intensive care beds available and for the 3rd day in a race pain as reported more than 800 deaths but there is some hope that infection rates are slowing in both countries as paul brennan now reports. even with stringent restrictions empty streets and ever tighter regulations imposed daily declared coronavirus 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 and 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 but 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 the infection rate is proving relentless and $418.00 deaths in the past 24 hours take 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 the bird. is not fear 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 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 brands non-essential journeys. addressing regional leaders by video link russia's president has urged other regions to follow moscow's example but i knew. all measures necessary in the 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 their 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 that they. neverland's and there is about $100.00 european lie from him for them to their home 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 probably killed tools are essential but so are the military and kindness we sorely doubt e.t.

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 responsibility is on all of us to be part of that effort to paul brennan al-jazeera. all right let's talk to journalist thrown cesco jumba tony he's in milan and so the emphasis then from the italian authorities is to business intensive care unit capacity by building this new field hospital is there much hope that that that will provide the relief that is needed in the country the country of course with the highest number of deaths. well this is the hope even though maybe

it's not going to be enough as you were saying. here and long but the there is the wealthiest region of the country and the hardest hit by the coronavirus with almost 7000 deaths just in lumber day is still very serious the intensive care units have been doubled in the last month in here along with the end in the country too but they are not enough yet so the region has inaugurated today a new field hospital built in just 2 weeks on the grounds of the former 1000000 fair there will be 24 new beds for corona virus infected at the beginning with the possibility to raise them up to 250 in the coming weeks apart from this the public opinion wanders when of this will come to an end or at least will start to decrease in a way that we can see $23.00 days of lockdown have passed and it's not clear if the

government has any plan other than restrictions of movements and improving the health care system a new decree expected in a couple of days will probably extend these measures to the 80 and the very brew but also there is also a social problem right now because the time is passing and everyone is still stuck at home so it's becoming tough for everyone right now italy among every country in the world so far as experience the perhaps the most excruciating. model of this pandemic has with this large number of deaths but i'm wondering whether italians dare to hope given that the number of infections are steadily decreasing even though the death toll is going out. well of course we will look at these numbers every day and we try to see if there is something to understand but scientists and experts warn every day these numbers are probably not

really accurate. it's not accurate the number of the positive cases because not of the real positives are tested it's not accurate the number of deaths because a lot of people die at home without even being tested so we are looking at a picture that is not properly taken. even though of course we still have to look at this and we have to try to understand what is happening. the death rate we're not too worried about the death the death the fatality rate because we know that if 15 people out of 100 die it means that the count is wrong in a 100 infected are way many that then we think. but of course in italy 800 people die every day and this is still to march ok

francesco attorney thank you very much indeed talking to us live from milan there. the only industry is a coronavirus pandemic continues to crush demand. and of them or the same across much of indonesia seen some very heavy amounts of rain also particular and also down further to the south across much of java same story through wednesday the rains not quite as heavy across born yet but we will see some areas later in the day to get some heavier amounts but not quite as widespread as we have has you can see is going through thursday again a similar story maybe some coastal shallows just pushing through the cambodia and also into thailand and then australia holding a few showers here there's

a system on its way across south australia that will bring a fair amount of rain is to go through wednesday tema does not see bad we've got to tempt us back into the mid twenty's celsius but the rain also becoming quite heavy at 3 more central areas of new south wales becoming much heavier generally on thursday. victoria and again into that southeastern portion of new south wales so really quite. a bit lower just 20 in melbourne meanwhile and. that it should stay dry 24 degrees celsius and then for the next couple of days wednesday and thursday it should be mostly dry across new zealand the winds are still pretty strong we could just see want to show into northern sections of the north island but failing to vote in christchurch with a high of 80. when diplomacy fields and. our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've

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itself and 56 deaths the world bank's warning the pandemic could force up to 11000000 people into poverty across the asia pacific region it's expecting growth in china and in smaller economies to fall heavily this year. italy's reported 812 new deaths on monday and that reverses a 2 day downward trend in its virus death toll the country's largest field hospital is due to open to boost the number of intensive care patients. that the u.k. is preparing to be open the doors to a new makeshift hospital in london is being set up inside a convention center and will howls 4000 beds the u.k. chief scientist says he expects a surge in hospital admissions into 3 weeks we can go live now to. lawrence lee akhara spondon 2 is in london for us and lawrence so the government

must be rather pleased with itself getting this this massive hospital almost ready to roll in a record time. well that is partly because the army have got involved as well. but yes they they they have to some extent. manage to do things quite quickly to get around the lack of intensive care beds in the existing hospitals and there are going to be other convention centers around the country used to use like this in the same way at the moment though they're still in there still saying that the actual hospitals in london which is obviously the center of the epidemic here aren't at capacity so they're not completely stretched what there is though is a much bigger issue to do with the lack of protective equipment for doctors and nurses

a quarter of all medical staff have gone off into self isolation which is really really bad news and those of very fast growing raúl about the lack of testing equipment there's a ongoing circular argument martin of the moment in this country about how long the lockdowns going to last for and it is could it be 6 months or will people get let out more quickly in dribs and drabs the answer is that no one actually knows until mass testing starts to find who's got it and who's had it and it looks like the u.k. strategy change from mitigating the effects of it to suppressing it's too late and by the time the u.k. then started asking for testing kits it was towards the back of the queue globally and so they just can't get enough testing kits in at the moment and that's really the issue is trying to find out exactly how far the virus has spread through the population and meanwhile what more can you tell the center about these complaints that are just drawing class a lot of attention that in many parts of the country the police are rather

overreaching in terms of their implementation of what they understand the restriction conditions to be. well i mean look it it's really difficult for the police you know that i mean they've never come across anything like this before they've been told by the government to to to you know keep people apart from each other and try and keep people at home but it goes against the entire philosophy of policing in the u.k. which is policing by consent and ideally what the police wants is for things like people gathering in groups. to become socially unacceptable in front and for society to say to people that you really can't do that to stop the police having to do it's equally been incidents where the police have been spat at by people in the streets who have been claiming to have the coronavirus which is completely of noxious so you know it's not easy for the police by and large they're not overreaching it but there have been a few instances where for example in a play in darbyshire which is very beautiful part of the country in the middle

there's a very very well known lake which is very blue and people go and see it because it's amazing to look at the police died the late black and then they put up drones to try to catch people who were going off into the countries of the long walks that that sort of thing well it's not i mean it's not on the level of a lot of other countries which put drones up with the shouts of people to go home don't they so it's not all of anything like that but of course you know there are people who are absolute champions of civil liberties in this country who say the u.k. turning into a police state i mean i think it's a bit much to be honest and the police say themselves they're trying very hard not to enforce things and trying to get people to look after their own business but to some degree they're having to make it up as they go along because no one's in anything like it before all right ok for now thanks lawrence there is a live in london there. now drug companies and universities around the world have dropped their other work to concentrate on the search for some sort of cure

a vaccine is a task that normally takes years barters need arca reports from london there are plans for human trials with in months. scientists are at war with covert 19 dozens of laboratories are now battlegrounds in the race for a vaccine here and 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 raskin that they can get information once a day or 2 weeks to increase the viral immunity and to prevent the virus from replicating and eliminating the virus more effective. the virus has led to an acceleration in engineering this rapid covert 19 test 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 equipments readily available meanwhile a number of firms including the british bucky make a dyson airplane make

a app the formula one team mclaren and now racing to develop breathing aids to be. 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 barkha al-jazeera london. well the us now has more coronavirus cases in any other country in the world well than 3000 people have died at least a 1000 of them in new york state alone that's the worst affected region across the country almost 165000 people are infected now after dismissing the dangers posed by the virus in the early stages of the outbreak president now says his administration is ramping up testing. today we reached the historic milestone in our war against

the. coronavirus over 1000000 americans have now been tested more than any other country by far not even close and tested accurately. and a u.s. navy hospital ship is docked in new york harbor to bring some relief to the city's struggling healthcare system gabriel elizondo reports. the gigantic u.s. navy ship comfort enters new york about to dock at the terminal normally reserved for cruise ships a $275.00 metre long floating hospital with more than $700.00 hospital beds 12 operating rooms and 1200 doctors nurses and staff. new york hospitals will start sending sick patients not infected with corona virus to the ship this week to free up hospital beds for those who do have the virus. some new yorkers came out of

their apartments where most have been holed up for more than 2 weeks to marvel at the ship. a memorial to the victims of the 911 terrorist attacks looks over the hudson river the last time the comfort was in new york harbor was 3 days after 911 to help those injured let me be clear that this is such a crucial part of the plan we are putting in place but i want to understand the sheer magnitude of the plan we need to triple our hospital bed capacity in new york city by may. but the comfort alone won't be enough to fill the surge of the sick new york is also having to look elsewhere this is central park in new york city and on any normal day you would probably see people out there on the grass enjoying themselves but this is not a normal day and these are no normal times right now it's being built behind me is an emergency 10 ta spittal and when it's completed it will have about 70 beds for

people who are sick and in need of help when did you ever think you would see this being built in central park. new york has over 9000 sick people in hospitals with coronavirus tens of thousands of more hospital beds will be needed time is of the essence the worst isn't supposed to hit for another 2 weeks gabriel's on doe. new york. a mexico has declared a public health emergency and impose impose a series of new restrictions people over the age of 60 as well as those with preexisting health conditions they've been told to stay at home with her it is also canceling all non-essential activities until the end of may of april excuse me and they're saying they'll publish a list soon of what counts as essential mexico has more than a 1000 confirmed cases so far 28 people have died

a 14 day lockdown will come into effect later on choose a new gander in an effort to slow the spread of the virus last week the president banned public transport close the country's borders and urged people to stay at home shopping rules and businesses selling non-food items were also ordered to shut uganda has 33 confirmed cases so far. so to the main developments here at our jazeera japan has issued its highest travel warnings and deserving its citizens not to go to places where coronavirus infections are on the rise is also set to close borders to people coming from countries worst affected by the pandemic the country's reported almost 2000 cases and 56 deaths so far katrina you has more from beijing. japan seemed to be

doing quite well over over the from the beginning of the outbreak it had very close proximity to china yet it's only had about 2000 cases so far now that seems very low compared to other countries but what is very worrying in japan is that that number has doubled in recent weeks so there was sort of a false sense of security japan sort of escaped having to impose any strict lockdown or quarantine measures and now because the numbers have jumped so quickly so fast they are introducing more of these stricter than the world bank is warning the pandemic could force up to 11000000 people into poverty across the asia pacific region it's expecting growth in china and in smaller economies to full heavily this year analysts say the region is facing the prospect of global financial shock and recession india is attempting to track down people who attended a gathering of muslim religious leaders after 24 of them tested positive for coded

19 as many as 1500 people from across india as well as from other countries where at the meeting that took place in new delhi 700 have been sent into quarantine where hundreds more are in hospital. the u.k.'s preparing to open the doors of a new makeshift hospital in london is being set up inside a convention center and will have 4000 beds the u.k.'s chief scientist says he expects a surge in the missions within 2 to 3 weeks the us has more confirmed coronavirus cases than any other country in the world more than 3000 people have died at least a 1000 of them in new york ses alone president claims the us is testing more people than anywhere else but many state governors disagree. also shame is that. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that coal means

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