world on al-jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how we take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. this is al jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes another grim day for spain is that records more than $800.00 fatalities in 24 hours its highest coronavirus death toll in a single day. it's really. one of the thousands who died in the pandemic. india launches a search for suspected coronavirus cases after thousands attend

a religious gathering potentially exposing them to the virus. more business the company in gaza this rehiring staff to can fill huge demand for medical clothing. stand with sports including an emergency fund for football clubs a big and small struggle during the global health crisis will governing body pfieffer says it's planning to dig into its $2700000000.00 reserves to help get them through it. so the number of deaths in spain from coronavirus are continuing to rise so thorough its use of recorded 849 fatalities in just the past 24 hours that is the highest figure so far and it's the 4th day where more than $800.00 people have died

and this brings the total to more than $8100.00 spain is now the 2nd worst hit country in the world after italy let's go straight to marjah where who joins us from madrid in march are the figures i'm afraid bleak fill us in on the latest if you. yes well if we take a look at the evolution of the number of infections in spain in the past 3 days we can see that we went from a 13.7 percent down to a 9.3 yesterday but today's figures twisted and we have changed completely with 1200 new cases of corona virus out of 94000 people that have get tested positive of course at 19 the death toll here today has reached $8100.00 with $849.00 more that this is the worst daily total so far have minister has said that they're up turned on today's figures might be due to the weekend effect

so is the terrible figures aren't those as hard to count as but the resources presume it is getting stretched more more by the day how are the health care workers coping. well health care workers in spain represent a 14 percent of the people that have tested positive 19 they are they have been struggling to buy a corner virus and safety conditions as they have been running out of gallons of google those of masks don't have labs they don't have tests so they have said they don't want to be you can see they're here on heroes or marty's anymore just they just want to perform their work in safety conditions they have been demanding the government for an immediate supply of all these projects the drug addicted gear as soon as possible you don't have to remember that they are completely overwhelmed and make you see the emergency units have come to have come to a limit not only in madrid that is the epicenter of the whole and the epidemic in

spain but also in another in some other regions so the things are so things the the big picture is really really bad in spain. we are waiting for well we had the good news because yesterday and today we had received loads of of of. of gear that has been supplied to several regions of spain so let's see if things change for them in a few days i was going to say so the demand that people are making all the health care workers and making all of the government to supply a more equipment looks like it could be met to a degree. yes yes this looks like because i mean we're waiting because we don't get any information from from the authorities we just keep saying in the next days in coming days we will get this supply or that we get we know that these were going was really terrible we saw some statement of doctors and nurses working in this field hospital of the fame at this exhibition center saying that that was that

you couldn't call that hospital because that's what that was unbearable you know 1500 vets very close one to the other without any safety conditions at all would not protect the means people couldn't go to the cleaners at night couldn't clean because they didn't have any gowns or navy masks so the situation was quite dramatic but it looks like they've been getting of they have been receiving all the supplies so little by little things start to look a little bit better all right that's a picture in madrid the motto of thank you very much indeed for that move on to italy which is held a minute silence to remember its victims of coronavirus. 812 new deaths were reported on monday that's reversing a 2 day downward trend italy is the hardest hit in the world with more than 11 and a half 1000 deaths and more than 100000 people infected let's now speak to marco jihad jeti who's president of the pulley clinic or hospital of.

first of all mr t. the situation that has been reached in italy is reached such a pressure point that you have now even seen the construction of a field hospital in milan tell us about that if you would. yes hello it's well it's not to broker a field hospital it's a real. that will hold that up to $208.00 persons. in it when it has been built in the city of blen with a great offer to offer our region lumber the and it's in the pub elian of a 1000000 elsewhere and we will take care of this new hospital in town and he would be the most the biggest intensive care. and you need to leave and know it we will start the monday with the 1st patient and

to taking care in the 1st step of 28 persons and then in a 2nd delivered 53 and then if should there be nessie we will go up to take care o. 200 today people so it's a bit further north hospital forgive me for jumping but the focus of this hospital is intensive care it's at the beds are all intensive care. that's it it's just it's mainly mainly i mean totally sane for intensive care intensive therapy and so what is the requirement for intensive care beds and how much pressure under in italy especially in order to. assure we are in orderly that we have been and there really really until 10 days ago when this hospital was soaked and so we began to build detain 10 days so we have. d.d. or this 53 1st basis in reality hospital as i said before and you

can imagine that the longer the we have. more that 6. 1500 deaths and 41000 people infected and intensity of. the spaces are a 100. 6100 so or and when we moved from 86922006 and ready in 2 weeks so 741 places bad swore it to be a great effort all our hospitals are under great pressure that's why we do with so to to build this well this hospital also to lighten up the efforts of the. hospital in number and of course it certainly sounds like an extraordinary effort now no deaths in italy are very high but the rate of infection does appear to be slowly do you think it really is reaching now the peak of infractions. oh we hope so

because our or the sect of all that is so our metaphysician are saying that we are in that part of the curve so that's what's usually say the peak and it's going to get straight so we expect it to get down in a few days we hope so. appreciate your time marker your kitty president of the poly clinic hospital of maryland thanks very much thanks to you bye well as the pandemic shows little sign of easy in the united states a scramble to build hundreds of temporary hospitals the u.s. is the new epicenter of the crisis with more cases than any other country in the world and more than 3000 people have died at least 1000 in new york state alone that's the worst affected area nearly 165000 are infected nationwide a temporary hospital has been set up in new york central park as the search goes on nationwide for more potential sites the president dollar trump says his

administration is further ramping up testing. let's speak not to get runners on the correspondent who joins us from new jersey agape tell us more about the latest situation where you are. yeah of course the new york city that you see there behind me is certainly the epicenter and it still is over 66000 cases over 35000 cases just in new york city there behind me but there is also a 2nd epicenter if you will in the u.s. and that's where i'm at right now that's the state of new jersey that's just on the other side of the hudson river from new york new jersey has now the 2nd most cases of any state in america there are now more than 60000 cases here in new jersey and just in the past 24 hours that has jumped by more than 3300 cases just in new jersey in the last 24 hours in the last week in this state it's gone up

by about 600 percent the 2nd to biggest city in new jersey is a city called jersey city not too far from where i'm at and it has about 300000 people in that city commuter city and in new york their numbers have jumped up to almost a 1000 cases so just in jersey city one city in new jersey you have more cases than 24 other states in america i don't throw out a lot of numbers there but it just gives you a perspective on how quickly the situation is escalating here in new jersey now you ask yourself why is there so many cases here this is why tens of thousands of people that we're live in new jersey commute into new york city every single day and so there's just a lot of back and forth movement between these 2 states and so essentially what you're seeing is the major cases in new york the people that got the virus from new york perhaps have brought it to new jersey and perhaps vice versa as well maybe some going from new jersey back into new york as well so that's why both governor

cuomo of new york and. phil murphy of new jersey have been coordinating their efforts for the past couple weeks now trying to slow the rate of increase but clearly it is increasing and increasing rapidly here in neighboring new jersey where i gave the timing thanks very much preaching more in the coming hours that let's move on from new jersey to washington d.c. a white house correspondent joins us from there and candy we're hearing about new predictions coming from new modeling showing an increase in numbers. yeah this modeling has been available you believe for at least a few days for the governors across the united states that's what's helped many of them based on these numbers that were not available to the public to order their residents to stay at home the latest states not just d.c. the district of columbia virginia and maryland but also arizona adding to the long list of states in the united states some 250000000 residents us about 2 thirds of

the u.s. population but we haven't seen these numbers for ourself now we know from the corner virus task force briefing at the white house on monday that we're likely to get a look at what these models look like are the briefing that's happening today at 21 g.m.t. and we're already hearing that those numbers are going to be very good we have been hearing from top public health officials that these numbers are going to get worse particularly in the next 2 weeks and in terms of deaths we could expect anywhere from 100-002-2000 extension 00 in the united states when all this is over so we are getting a pretty bleak picture at least a preview of that we'll get the full details at 21 g.m.t. but in the midst of all of this the u.s. president is continuing to try and sound upbeat in fact he just tweeted in the last half hour or so talking about low interest rates and that this will be the time to rebuild america something very big and bold he's already talking about it

infrastructure program that was something that was one of his goals when he was on the campaign trail was unable to push it through right away when he was in office and this is something as we passed and talked about these phase 3 this very large rescue package that was passed late last week that 2 trillion dollars package seeing americans getting checks in the coming days and weeks already now they're talking about phase 4 and that's what the u.s. president is tweeting about in the midst of the fact that we have not yet reached the peak of coronavirus cases in fact the latest numbers just in terms of those who have caught the infection. having around 865000 with 3000 deaths and again we're told those numbers are going to get worse not better all right jamie i appreciate that thanks very much i can help you there in washington d.c. . but meanwhile don't says nurses and paramedics right across the united states are growing increasingly desperate for more face masks hospital gowns ventilators and other medical equipment companies in the u.s.

are overhauling factory lines to try and speak up the supply of these lifesaving items reynolds has this report. as medical professionals struggle to treat thousands of coronavirus patients donald trump has repeatedly and inaccurately assured the public that vast amounts of vital supplies are readily available or will be provided soon we have tremendous numbers of ventilators been the masks and numbers of masks are incredible but the promised supplies aren't getting to many people who need them one indiana hospital begged anyone with a sewing machine to start making masks makes you feel less helpless and it empowers you and heizer bush the world's largest beer maker is making medical grade hand sanitizer as is the much smaller alabama craft distillery yellow hammer the processes are pretty similar to what we were doing before so it wasn't a difficult swap the global haynes brand makes underwear and sports clothing now

under contract with the government it's also making man asks we're really. early manufacture so there were some socks and underwear the t. shirts sweat shirts so we can to really critical we need to so we expect to make between 50000000 and 75000000 mass for the federal government with assembly lines shut down the ford motor company is collaborating with other big manufacturers general electric and 3 m. to produce medical face shields using 3 d. printers the companies also hope to adapt auto air filters and other equipment to make critically needed ventilators and respirators last weekend president trump falsely said the companies were making respirators right now in fact full scale production is months away efforts by companies large and small will greatly help in

the crisis but all those efforts take time and as the pandemic spreads rapidly time is one thing doctors nurses and patients haven't got robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. well the world health organization is calling on asia pacific countries to stay vigilant in the fight against the corona virus pandemic the warning comes amid further travel restrictions in japan another surge of infections in singapore nearly 1000 people in the city state now have the virus for us larry as this report. china where the virus began reported no new cases on monday its 7th day in a row a nationwide organ you can see is reported when porter but the world health organization warns even for countries where the cases seem to be tapering off this is not the time to let their guard down its regional director for western pacific. says countries will have to adopt multiple approaches testing isolating and

physical distancing to slow the spread of the virus. these measures. and. other measures and i asked. mission more countries are tightening restrictions japan has a citizen it's not to travel to $73.00 countries and regions or a 3rd of all countries in the world cases that have topped 2000 with 2 clusters imagine in tokyo over the past week last week china banned foreigners from entering the country after seeing a rise in imported cases in hong kong residents who've returned from abroad a monitor to ensure they don't break quarantine rules and also have found the mobile app sends me notifications ok tional and asks me to take

a photo off my arm with a wristband at my home but after no idea if anyone is really checking my response malaysia which imposed strict measures on movement and closed its borders to foreigners to wreaks ago will not require attending citizens to be quarantined at government centers instead of at home new zealand has extended a national state of emergency for another 7 days to provide the government powers and resources it needs to prevent the spread of coronavirus indonesia says it will ban all arrivals in transit by farnaz as the number of cases and deaths rise no one knows how long the pandemic will last but even after it's over its impact will be felt for a long time the well bangs was case scenario estimates 11000000 people in the region could be forced into poverty florence 3 al-jazeera. let's move on to india which is tracking down thousands of people who attended a gathering of muslim leaders dozens of participants of since tested positive for current arson at least 10 have died 700 have been sent to

a quarantine center when hundreds more are in hospital india is under lockdown with people ordered to remain indoors until april the 15th let's go straight away to this primer he's live for us in new delhi thousands of this event but tell us more about this it could be a big problem couldn't it. it is already a big problem now because not the least because it's actually hard for people to track down just how many thousands attended this event so we've still got buses taking people out of the mosques something like a 1000 people have been evacuated over the last 24 hours as you mentioned at least 24 have tested positive more than 400 have been showing symptoms and taken to hospital more than 800 have been put in quarantine and we know that 6 people who attended this religious gathering 6 indonesians because they were people from all

over india and other countries 6 indonesians who traveled after the gathering was finished from delhi to the southern state of telangana have since passed away and so too has muslim cleric in srinagar in indian administered kashmir so this has very much lead to states around the country on a manhunt something like 6 regions have cases with direct links to the congregation half of the cases in the state of telling ghana are linked to what happened and so this is very much now being treated. as a hotspot to try and find others in the country that could be victims you know people who attended and could now be vectors for the virus the only. people across india are on the look down until april 15th and they say tell us more about the bigger picture right across the country. so next the really big story here of the last week of the lockdown i would say has been the

big tragedy that the lockdown has led to for india's hundreds of millions of poor and migrant workers there is more than 1200 cases now and this 32 deaths from coronavirus and while those who can afford to are observing the knock down and staying at home what we've seen over the last week is hundreds of thousands of people know all over the country of migrant laborers who was stranded after they lost their jobs could no longer afford to pay rent and or bus and train services were canceled we've seen them walking hundreds of kilometers to try and get back to where they're from and something like 22 have died just from trying to make that journey of starvation of dehydration some even being hit by trucks while they were walking on highways and so you have

a government clamp down more on this movement and really and force states to close their borders not allow these people to return to their homes and set up quarantine facilities where they might be and you know so people really feel that even before health crisis we are seeing a humanitarian crisis in india and as well as the concerns for these people there's also the concern that so many large numbers of them have been travelling together in conditions you know and really really poor conditions without proper sanitation and moving from the cities possibly taking the virus with them to india's rural areas which are harder to monitor and have even with public health facilities than the cities so this is a really big concern in india right now arm is a troubling story like 70 places across the world right now and it's parnham thanks very much.

it's been ordered to boost production to maximum capacity this despite a historic collapse in demand for oil of the coronavirus pandemic it is the latest move in a price war between saudi arabia and russia which has seen prices tumbling since the start of the month zone as us. oil traders called the current crisis the glut there's so much cheap oil available they're running out of places to store it and that's on top of a catastrophic drop in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic the global oil industry is at breaking point the crisis began earlier in march at the headquarters of the oil cartel known as opec vienna a 3 year old pact to cut oil production fell apart when oil giants russia and saudi arabia disagreed and further cuts the russians who are allies but not members of opec ended up refusing even to comply with previous reductions saudi arabia flooded the market with crude it also offered additional discounts to crush competition

responded with a similar output increase oil prices dropped dramatically some markets trading at less than $20.00 a barrel. supertankers have become floating oil storage tanks for tens of millions of barrels of oil over $1000.00 has closed china's factories entire airlines have been grounded around the world lockdowns mean there are fewer cars and roads now emerging economies such as india are telling refiners the spread of the disease allows them to rip up existing oil purchase contract. but the biggest impact is on the world's largest producer united states it's not part of opec and us produces had been increasing output. some u.s. senators say saudi arabia and russia are raging economic warfare against the us the us oil lobby wants to southeasterly opec with the us immediately universe its high output policy longer term it's actually threatening the survival of the u.s.

industry at this point these prices are so low in the states west texas intermediate crude is a just a little over $22.00 right now that's below the break even price for most domestic oil and gas producers and so there they've actually laid down their rigs they stop drilling and even some producers have talked about shutting in just trying to survive at this point saudi arabia has so far shrugged off u.s. pressure but opec is in the eye of an economic storm efforts to convene a meeting have failed the saudis aren't talking to the russians to stabilize the market that means prospects for covering prices are bleak at best oil traders fear the market is likely to worsen in coming weeks some of the job made their. way around 0 france germany and the united kingdom send medical aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s. sanctions. plus how one f. one technology is being used to help coronavirus patients green that's coming up with peter in sport.

hello there still plenty of shots across northern areas of the middle east in particular in your fashion of late and then more in the fall calls as we go through wednesday the rain becoming quite heavy as well through eastern areas maybe some snow again up tools the mountains and showers elsewhere beginning to push into western areas of iran now across the raven peninsula we have got some very strong winds again this will kick up the some the dust and make for an unpleasant day across many areas particularly a towards the castle again potentially and also bahrain it should be a little bit lighter this wind should ease off as we go into thursday but the rains that back in the forecast again very widespread across areas of turkey and feeling a bit cool in ankara the high of just 50 then down into southern africa we have a nice go to break in the weather conditions across into madagascar want to show us

nothing particularly heavy where we have got the reins developing into will southern and eastern areas of south africa becoming really quite heavy as we go through the day and pushing up towards johannesburg save some showers and also some scattered thunderstorms and they don't really go away by thursday and they still tend to linger in the same particular area although it should be a dry day in the ward as well with a high of 27 those showers 30 widespread angola to the north and also over tools tanzania. from. a story of popular resistance political intrigue. and betray. a son's quest for justice sometimes i feel like i'm falling i mean raj had opened for the new illusion. al-jazeera world goes in search of the truth about the tunisian independence

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again you're watching out 0 remind of our top stories this hour and spain has recorded its worst single day death toll so far 849 fatalities in the past 24 hours it is the 4th day in a row that spain has reported more than 800 deaths even 94000 people are in fact. hundreds of people who attended a religious gathering in india's capital earlier this month have been sent to according to center officials working to find thousands of others who were also there. the united states is scrambling to build hundreds of temporary hospitals it has more cases than any other country in the world and more than 3000 people have died. now the united kingdom is preparing to open the doors to a new makeshift hospital in london is being set up inside a convention center and will house 4000 beds the u.k.'s chief scientist says he expects a surge in hospital emissions in 2 to 3 weeks let's get the bigger picture in the

united kingdom right now we can join challenges in central london. and developments on the ukase death toll can tell us about the. yes so the u.k. has posted so i think its worst figures so far from the coronavirus pandemic a large jump in recorded deaths inside british hospitals the figure that we have for the last 24 hours released a short while ago is $381.00 new deaths that takes the u.k. total 210-1700 and 89 but there is a bit of a an argument brewing in the u.k. about how these numbers are calculated and whether this number that is released on a daily basis is actually that accurate because these are the figures that are released from the national health service and only describe the number of deaths that they have had inside their hospitals now an organization called the office of

national statistics is counting in a slightly different way its calculations take longer to process but they're a bit wider and therefore the numbers that are coming out from the office of national cystic statistics although they're lagging behind the n.h.s. numbers are actually looking like they're going to be bigger by about 20 percent so the figures that we have just seen from the n.h.s. could actually be the lower of these 2 when the o. and s. were eventually publishes its figures because it's looking at not just deaths in hospitals but deaths in care homes deaths in the wider community deaths where any death certificate is recorded with coronavirus is one of the contributing factors to that person dying so there's a bit of an argument going on at the moment about what is the right number for how many people have died in the u.k. right and that's going to come into sharp focus isn't it in $2.00 to $3.00 weeks which is when the u.k.'s chief scientist says he expects a surge in hospital admissions and and also when hospitals will face more pressure

than ever which is why i guess this new makeshift hospital has been. yes so we've got the new one opening in london's doc loans. it's a huge exhibition center that's being converted it's being called n.h.s. 19 gale $4000.00 beds are going to be there for we think the less severely afflicted coded 19 patients the most severe are still going to be treated inside stablished hospitals and there is obviously a big push to get medics and doctors helping out in these new hospitals are being set up because it's not just in the u.k. it's in manchester birmingham other cities as well we're going to have very similar hospitals coming online in the coming days because yes the u.k. scientists the chief science officer the chief medical officer are saying that the

peak of this is still 2 to 3 weeks off and that what they expect to see over those coming to 3 weeks is a sort of crescendo of hospital admissions. and then things starting to to ebb away again but we are being told by these scientists that you have to wait until the hospital emissions start coming really down low before you can actually do anything like lessening the the strict controls on people's behavior because what you don't want is to loosen people up too soon they come out of the streets they go back to work etc they start passing around this disease again this virus and therefore the who they are the whole things come comes back before you've even knocked on the head so i think these are these these strictures are going to be around probably for at least 6 months. right gotta keep the pressure up there or leave it there for the time being really challenge that in london. 12 year old

child who tested positive for coronaviruses died in belgium though to say the girl had a fever for 3 days called her death a very rare occurrence more than 700 people have died from the virus in belgium gil has not been named in the 1st child victim in the country. the european union is warning that any emergency powers introduced by countries to deal with the outbreak should be limited european commission president and the lead said any measures should be necessary and strictly proportionate. we are going to move across to. where the governor andrew cuomo is holding his daily briefing on the latest figures in the interim and latest at a place let's listen in with testing more people than any state in the country and are very proud of that more per capita than china and south korea total number of people tested 200000 population of $1000000.00 it's not going to give you a random sample but it's been helping us track down the positive cases number of

positive cases 9298 total cases 75000 cases you see the predominance in new york city in westchester the nassau then suffix then rockland so you can see it's that area of density and it spreads out from that area of density the march of corona virus of course the state of new york continues but down to just. 2 counties that don't have a case the overall numbers 75000 have tested positive 10000 people in our hospitals 2700 i.c.u. patients. good news 4900 on was 5000 people discharged that's up 771 people come in they get treated they go home.

she is with. new york is 875000 cases next day 216000 california is that 7000 so you can see new york is a magnitude of difference more than any other state. 1550 deaths that's up from 1218 yesterday again we're studying the charts we're trying to study the data file of the data. the danger is data is uneven it bounces numbers often bounce in any model. there are variables in this model the hospitals are reporting it so what every hospital reported that day with a busy day combining a couple of days in one it's an imperfect reporting mechanism but you see the basic

line is still up what the statisticians will tell you is you basically. draw the straight line that the columns indicate and you see that was still going up which is what we see on the overall trajectory that was still going up number of into beijing's was down not much but it was down and that's a good sign you also see the number of this charge is going up and that's consistent. the longer people are in they either get treated and leave or they get put on a ventilator and the longer you're on the ventilator the less likelihood you will come off the ventilator that is the blunt truth of the situation we have 2 missions overall that we are pursuing one is the front line of this battle is our hospital system that's what this is going to come down to. the 2nd to social

responsibility stay at home don't get infected in the 1st place don't get infected in the 1st place because it goes back to your creating a burden on our health care system that our health care system cannot handle we're talking about exceeding the capacity of our hospital system by some estimates 2 times so what does this come down to besides all the other issues it comes down to not overwhelming the hospital system because those people who need acute care may not be able to get the you cute care so it's all about the hospital system. that is the front line what we're doing is we are following the mathematical projections of the experts. we're speaking to all the health care professionals all the health care providers world health organization national institute of health doc the c.d.c. f.d.a.

the whole alphabet soup of health care experts. and the mathematicians who then have different models and we talk to about 5 different models and we compare the models and we try to find the median through the models that's how we plan everything follow the data follow the science people ask me what you think what you think i don't think about this what do i know i'm not an expert i'm not opining i talk to experts and i follow people who know but for the hospitals procure equipment identify the beds support the staff that's what it's been all about of those priorities number one is support the staff they are the frontline and they need relief. they are physically exhausted even more they are emotionally exhausted this is unlike other disasters hurricanes

earthquakes floods they happen that fast they're over you start rebuilding this is different this is ongoing and the duration itself is debilitating and exhausting and depressing. i'm speaking to health care professionals who say look more than physically tired i'm just emotionally tired. seeing the pain seeing the death that they're dealing with every day. in general i am tired of being behind this virus we've been behind this virus from day one. the virus was in china we knew it was in china unless we assume this some immune system variation with asian people it was coming here and we have been behind it from day one since it got here and we've been playing catch up you

don't win playing catch up we have to get ahead of it. the 2nd rule is never underestimate your opponent and we underestimated this virus it's more powerful it's more dangerous than we expected in the 3rd point is planned forward get ahead of it get ahead of it fight the fight today yes but intice a paid the next battle and planned for the next battle and the main battle is at the apex we're still going up the mountain the main battle is on the top of the mountain that's where the main battle is going to be the apex of the curve and then we come down the other side of the mountain we are planning now for the battle at the top of the mountain that's what we are doing get a staffing plan ready now for the battle at the top of the mountain equipment

stockpile now we're gathering equipment that we don't need today because today is not the day of the battle the battle is when we hit the apex depending on who you believe 14 days to 30 days from today and also we need a social acceptance of the time expectation we're all anxious we're all tired we're all for tea it's been all bad news for a long time our whole lifestyle has been disrupted everybody wants to know one thing when is it over nobody knows. well old president said by easter this one said by this nobody knows you can have a hypothesis you can have in the projection you can have an opinion but nobody knows but. i can say this it is not going to be soon

if our apex is $14.00 to $21.00 days that's our apex you then have to come down the other side of the mountain once you hit the apex so calibrate yourself and your expectations so you're not disappointed every morning you get up yesterday we met with the entire state hospital system dr zucker and our team 1st time they were all in one place and we said to the hospital system look what i just said to you we're dealing with a war with doing with a war we've never dealt with before we needed totally different mindset and organizational transformation we can't do business the way we have always done business we needed an unprecedented sense of cooperation of flexibility communication and speed and that's what we talk through yesterday and we have to do it now the health care system is one of those balkanized systems it's like our

state education system it's like a criminal justice system it's in place it's fragmented they have their own identities their own associations it's regionally organized that all has to change. we don't have the ability to meet the capacity of our health care system as an entire day or that assumes the health care system is working as in entirety that's not how the health care system is organized now we have new york city hospitals and then we have long island hospitals and then we have westchester hospitals and then we have up state hospitals that have to go even in new york city you have 2 basic ospital systems in new york city you have the private hospitals voluntary hospitals about 160 of them which are some of the finest health care institutions in the united states of america you know this is mt sinai columbia

presbyterian it cetera. some of their members are also upstate but they're that large private institutions greater new york hospital association gen raspy runs that association of 160 you then have in new york city the public hospitals the new york city health and hospitals corporation they are 11 public hospitals. they are a universe and then you have the private hospitals as a separate universe the 11 public ospital zx are the hospitals that in many ways have always been under greater stress and greater need we have to get those 2 systems the private system and the public system in new york city working together in

a way they never did before. the distinction of private and public that has to go out the window we are one health care system on top of that. it can't be the down state hospitals and the upstate hospitals and the long island hospitals when we talk about capacity of beds when i say we now have 75000 beds that's a statewide number that means those beds have to be available to the people in new york city or nassau even if those beds are up in albany so combining that whole system and you're no longer just the western new york hospitals so the central new york hospitals it's one coordinated system it's much easier said than done but we have to do it on top of that you have to overlay the new federal beds that came in that are an entirely new component we have javits center 2500 beds we have the u.s.

and as comfort of the 1000 beds we're planning other federal facilities these all have to be coordinated on top of the existing hospital network so you see the organizational situation that we're dealing with and. let's be honest and let's learn from the past we know where we have to focus we know where we're going to have problems in the next hospitals because the hospitals that have the least capacity that have already been stressed. are the hospitals that are not going to be able to handle the additional load that is a fact you know which hospitals we're struggling we do reports all the time about the financial capacity of hospitals and and what hospitals are stronger versus

weaker position the hospitals that are in a weaker position are the hospitals that are going to suffer when they then carry and i had a burden that was hers hospital it happened to be a public house but all it happened to be a public hospital in a place of density it happened to get overwhelmed and that's what then you saw the burden on the staff you saw the emotion you sure saw the stress that can't happen and that's what we talked about yesterday. and people said well elmhurst isn't my responsibility. as a public hospital the city runs it i don't run it it's new york city it's not a pub a private hospital i don't care which link brain in the chain. that sundered new york state governor giving his daily press

briefing we have been behind its virus from day one he said you do know when playing catch up we have underestimated as far as he said and no one knows when this will be over i know it's not going to be soon the apex anywhere between $14.30 days from today and then it's going to come down the other side so manage to manage expectations he told everybody so you're not disappointed every morning you wake up and it's into the news let's bring in gabriel elizondo he joins us from neighboring new jersey and gabriel's the chagrin of ours continues across new york state. yeah that's right he gave a lot of numbers and there are a few that really struck me here the number of total cases in new york state has jumped to more than 75000 now that's a jump of about $9000.00 in the last 24 hours the death toll in new york has increased by $372.00 people so the total death toll now is over $1500.00 new

yorkers that have died also he was talking about hospitals and something that really struck me here is that he said that right now new york has about 2500 coronavirus patients that are in the intensive care units in new york hospitals these are people that are very sick that need urgent care 2500 coronavirus patients the governor said in new york hospitals right now he has previously said that in new york has a total of 3000 i.c.u. beds so if you do some quick math there that points out that they're only about 500 away from reaching the capacity of the i.c.u. bed bed units in new york now they have many more other beds about 10000 coronavirus patients he said high. right now but it's that i.c.u. number that is very critical and that's why you're talking you're hearing the

governor talk about how important it is important it is to expand bed capacity to expand i.c.u. capacity because as you heard him say there we're still about 14 days to 20 days maybe 3 weeks away from even hitting the apex we're not even there yet and already we're seeing based on these numbers the i.c.u. beds almost almost at capacity already a couple other things that struck me was saying that and that you know clearly the numbers are going up very very fast and i should say as an aside that was governor andrew cuomo we just found out the last few minutes that his younger brother chris cuomo a journalist in the united states just in the last few minutes has confirmed that he has coronavirus his younger brother good as the netherlands gabriel thanks very much deborah is under the new jersey well from germany in the u.k.

you have send aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s. sanctions it is the 1st transaction under this new system set up for the exchange of humanitarian supplies and food for the u.s. withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal ron has just reported 141 new deaths bringing its total to nearly 2900 let's speak straightaway to same bazarov who's in tehran as in 1st of all tell us more about this this new trade mechanism. well this was set up in the aftermath of the united states pulling out of the 2050 nuclear deal and really imposing oil and banking sanctions on iran now iran told other signatories to the agreement that it had to make up for the last financial loss that iran was incurring because the united states pulled out of the deal and iran was unable to sell its oil so britain france and germany signatories to the

2015 nuclear deal decided to set up with the title of the instrument to support trade exchanges and effectively what this is is an oil barter system set up so that iran can send its oil to european countries and european countries can send iran humanitarian goods food and other services now this never actually took off the 3 original signatories that signed the agreement that made instax possible really struggle to get inside the countries and companies that will seek to trade through this agreement through this inspect system without incurring any sort of american secondary sanctions that the united states said that it would continue to place on anyone dealing with iran but late last year 5 other nations decided to sign up something that upset u.s. officials at the time and finally we have this 1st exchange happening months later something that iranian officials have been calling for for some time i mean well all the while the total number of fatalities in iran approaching 3000.

yes that's correct we've continued to spike in these numbers we've continued to see iranian official saying that american sanctions have really hurt their efforts to try and come back they're part of what is a global public health crisis and it's really interesting that it has taken this global pandemic of that proportions more than 100 people dying daily here in iran from the coronavirus to move the needle even a little bit in terms of changing the tide on sanctions but we have to ask is this instax the beginning of something that is going to create tangible change over the course of time well if you look at the volume of oil that iran was trading before the sanctions we were looking at 2 to 3000000 barrels of oil a day the most optimistic estimates put that at around 1000000 barrels a day now so inspectors unlikely to make a massive change there however this is still a bit of good news we are seeing medical supplies coming into iran much needed

medical supplies no doubt and for iranians that are struggling to deal with the spread of this virus for those patients that these medical supplies could potentially help this is certainly a bit of good news in a country where it has been difficult to find a silver lining our zain thanks very much that's a picture in tehran is embers robbie that. 14 day nationwide long time has come into effect in uganda in an effort to slow the spread of the virus the president has already banned public transport close the borders and has urged people to stay home uganda has 33 confirmed cases in nigeria the government has imposed a 2 week lockdown for nearly 30000000 people on monday lagos and abuse your face major gridlock as residents hurried to stockpile supplies before the order came into effect the president has declared a cessation of all movement with the exception of visiting hospitals and supermarkets. the committee to protect journalists is calling on all governments to release imprisoned journalists during this crisis the group says it's launching a campaign on behalf of $250.00 jailed journalists including al-jazeera as mahmud

hussein has been detained in egypt for more than 3 years c p j describes the situation as a matter of life and death as journalists in prison have no control over their surroundings and are often denied medical care for serious sites around the world to close to stop the spread of the virus but some are being repurposed in the thousands of years they've been studying this is the 1st the pyramids at giza some of the most famous attractions in the world and the message couldn't be clearer. evidence in van gogh painting has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands is closed because of the outbreak thieves broke open the global stores of the single large museum it's believed the work called parsons god in the nude and spring is worth upwards of $7000000.00 the museum has been closed for several weeks. but

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