revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. the u.s. goes ahead of china in the number of deaths from the corona virus pandemic. mcleod's is our desire life and hope for the latest corona virus developments from around the world including. italy observes a minute's silence to one of the thousands who died in. another grim day for spain is it records $849.00 fatalities in 24 hours its highest coronavirus death toll in

a single day. and sewing up more business the company in dollars of its rehiring stuff so it can fill a huge demand for medical clady. coronavirus deaths in the united states have exceeded the number of fatalities in china that means the u.s. now has the 3rd highest death toll off to italy and spain with 3393 people killed by the virus with more cases in any other country it's scrambling to build hundreds of temporary hospitals new york state remains the worst affected area the hospital has been set up in new york city's central park as the search goes on nationwide for more potential sites the old governor andrew cuomo says the situation will get worse and that the state is preparing for a long fight. 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 let's meet the white house correspondent kelly how could he joins us from washington d.c. on skype and kimberly more deaths in the united states and china now tell us what else the latest figures show us. yeah well i should point out that there are some in the united states that are questioning china's numbers that they may not have revealed it as accurately as the united states and believes it is but when it comes to us numbers they also could be lower than the actually we

have in terms of the accounting given the fact that there have been enormous problems with testing in the united states so we have about 165000 people that have tested positive for the corona virus but there are many people that are being tested particularly if they have mild symptoms many of them are choosing to self isolate so there are the public health officials estimate that the numbers could be even higher now in the midst of all of this we just heard a sound bite there from the governor of new york state andrew cuomo and in the last hour or so it's been confirmed that you know this touches all aspects of society even the governor's own brother who is a prominent news anchor here in the united states now confirming that he too is in self isolation as a result of testing positive so a really hasn't hit all stratas of society in terms of the number of cases and we know that we're going to get a look or a glimpse into how things are going to progress in the next 2 weeks in the picture

is not supposed to be very very good in fact just the opposite quite bleak according to the coronavirus taskforce we're going to today from the white house that 21 g.m.t. see the models that have been used that have been helping to set up these stay at home orders that affect now about 2 thirds of the united states apparently we are being told already that the predictions are that even with perfect social distancing keeping people far apart staying at home the number of deaths in this country could reach 102200000 in the midst of all this of extending social distancing guidance the president's president trump is is tweeting about ways to get americans back to woo. yes and this isn't something that he has been criticized from the get go when he 1st put in the 15 days slow to spread he was talking already about the possibility of bringing americans back to work particularly in those so-called low risk areas for example

that don't have densely populated you know sort of dense populations and the president seems to be doing that once again take a look at this tweet in the last hour or so with interest rates being for the united states being at 0 this is the time to do our decades long awaited infrastructure bill it should be very big and bold 2 trillion dollars to be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our country phase 4 what he's talking about is this is another rescue package that is already being discussed with members on capitol hill the president seems to be pushing it we should point out it was also one of the things he talked about on the campaign trail back in 2016 this is the president even as we're going into this peak time of virus cases even deaths is still focused on trying to get this economy back on track already talking about how there could be another rescue package in addition to the one from last week $2.00 trillion dollars that will allow americans to get

back to work when the guidance right now is stay at home ok you can leave it there for a moment can we how could there in washington d.c. let's head over to europe and italy has held a minute's silence to remember its victims of coronavirus. well 837 new deaths were reported on tuesday it's really is the hardest hit country in the world with more than 12000 deaths and more than 105000 people in fact let's bring in bob was very joins us live from london by skype and barbara tell us a little more if you would about the current situation in that city the numbers. well the numbers are interesting we just in the past hour got the latest figures and i suppose even though of course the number of deaths it is heartbreaking there is some reason for optimism the key figure to look at is what is called that they the growth rate of registered cases now in a sense this would be the rate of contagion contagion is increasing in italy but

the rate by with that it's doing so is encouraging in the sense that now it's at 3 point one percent and that means that it's been steadily declining for about a week now so that what it implies. that the measures that have been put in place by the government for about a month now depending on where you are in italy have somewhat been working now the reason that we don't just call it a rate of contagion but the growth rate of registered cases because of course all these numbers are based on how many tests have been done and in italy like many other countries it tends to be that only certain people are tested certain people already showing symptoms but at least this is an indication and it would give some sense of optimism and perhaps reassurance to a country and government that have put in some very strict restrictions of course on the movement of people in haiti and we've been hearing about a new intensive care hospital that opening in and then i imagine there is going to

be a need for more of this kind of thing these makeshift hospitals across the country . yes they want to i think it starts with about 50 intensive care unit places could go up to 200 i have to say a lot of hospitals in milan and elsewhere have managed to get new intensive care units the pending on their size to their hospitals to try to accommodate the increasing demand especially along body so that be taken care of her at least attempting to try to meet the increase in contagion which now we are seeing in other parts of italy as well look number the remains the hardest hit region but the virus is spreading to other parts of the country although not in such a worrying way i mean the real question and now is is social isolation working and if it does seem to be working how long can it really be kept up especially when it's having such

a huge impact on the economy not in italy of course not just in italy but everywhere in all of the countries that have implemented similar measures of social distancing where schools are closed restaurants bars and many businesses as well and the impact that it's going to have on the economy especially in a place like italy where the black market economy the cash in hand economy is very very big and so a lot of people who are now losing their income will not necessarily be reached by the rescue package that's been put in place by the governments a lot of questions to be asked the government is saying that the restrictions which were meant to be lifted in a few days will obviously be place for much longer the end of may is being speculated as the date when some respects sions may be lifted but normality is still a long way off and relieve the mood thanks receivers or the movement. well the number of deaths in spain from coronaviruses continue to rise or 30 to recorded

849 fatalities in just the past 24 hours and that's the highest figure so far and it is 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 well the spanish health care system it's under severe strain from my work because according on the government to provide more personal protection equipment as martyr now reports from madrid while her coworkers in spain represent a 14 percent of the people that have tested positive of course at 19 they are they have been struggling to buy a corner virus in safety conditions as they have been running out of gowns of google those of masks that don't have labs they don't have tests so they have said they don't want to be considered 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 protects the drug addicted gear as

soon as possible hospitals in spain we have to remember that they are completely overwhelmed emergency deep emergency units have got 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 still thinks the big picture is really really bad in spain and. we are waiting for well we had good news because yesterday and today we had received loads of of of. of gear it so that has been supplied to several treatments of spain solace you've things change for them in the few days. a 12 year old child who tested positive for corona virus has died in belgium doctors say the girl had a fever for 3 days and called her death a very rare occurrence 1700 people have died from the virus in belgium the girl who's not been named as the 1st child victim in the country. the u.n.

secretary general and turning to terry's exergy a collaborative approach to tackle the covert 1000 operate calling on developed countries to help weaker health systems across the world is also requested 10 percent of global g.d.p. to be allocated to deal with the viral pandemic let's go live to our diplomatic editor james bays for more analysis from the united nations and james this figure 10 percent of global g.d.p. just demonstrates just how serious all this is it's a staggering amount of money the u.n. secretary general making it clear that that congressional support package here in the u.s. was for $2.00 trillion dollars that's about 10 percent of the u.s. economy he says something similar will be needed for the global economy 10 percent of global g.d.p. particularly to help those in the developing world where clearly the systems in the medical systems in particular are not going to be able to cope as well but not just

to deal with the disease but to deal with the economic crisis that's where he said a huge amount of money is needed right now every scene we do julian and after these crises must be the strong focus of really more equal includes even sustainable economies and societies that are not easy and in the face of climate change and the many other global challenges we face what needs now slowly that we salute the n.t. we can defeat the violence and builds a better. you often hear the u.n. talking about huge problems in the world but i think very sobering to hear how the secretary general described this particular problem the virus and as well as it compounding it the economic effects he said this is the worst challenge the biggest challenge but the u.n. has faced in its history the world in his view facing the biggest problem since the

2nd world war nick carr james thanks a lot terry jones but here in new york philly kingdom is preparing to open a new makeshift hospital in london it's being set up inside a convention center will house 4000 beds health officials are expecting a surge in hospital admissions in 2 to 3 weeks a senior minister says there are signs social distancing is slowing the spread but now is not the time to relax those measures there are some signs as a result people observing social distancing that we may be able to flatten the spread of infection but now is absolutely not the time for people to imagine that there can be any read excitation or slackening this is a hopeful sign but we must be as stephen pointed out wary of overinterpretation any individual day's data we must ensure that we maintain this united national effort

in order to keep people safe let's bring in zion diego who's live from london by skype a hopeful sign says the cabinet minister. still the numbers rise. well absolutely and i think what they are trying to do in order to hammer home the message of this of these restrictions that are currently on is that they want to offer some semblance of qype some green shoots as they call it but i want to also balance that with a sense of responsibility on each and every in individual here in order to maintain that of course and we don't have any signs that the peak is coming imminently right now it could be 2 to 3 weeks away michael gove the senior cabinet minister that presence was also reluctant to give a date on that as well in that sense that really the puts the onus on the public in order to maintain that but while they are also bracing themselves for that of course you mentioned the field hospital that is being built in london in east

london there in order to deal with the thousands of people who they expect to be hospitalized with this epidemic now they were talking a lot about how the n.h.s. hospitals so far have seemed to be dealing with the capacity but this is still very early days for this as well and how what the hospitals are having to try to do to already try and prepare themselves for this such as stopping ole. sort of selective surgeries for example in order to clear the way for that for the coronavirus patients as well one of the issues that still remains controversial really again the same 2 issues which is the personal protective equipment for frontline n.h.s. staff and those working in social care homes as well and also testing as while testing is is really becoming quite a crucial element of this they acknowledged it themselves that you know it really

will be crucial not to decipher. people's status with this especially that of frontline health workers it's crucial for them to. be there to be able to deal with what we when we hit the peak it already you have one in full n.h.s. workers who are at home either ill or having to isolate because a member of best families is able showing symptoms so that is really already sort of a death which is being felt across the whole system pick and with a personal protective equipment again they've been promising where they are going to be rolling it out but there seems to have been problems that actually getting it out to the front line stuff as quickly as possible in a practice the the deputy chief medical officer who was present did say you know that he did actually apologize for sort of stating that he was going to get what they seem to have been hitches and now have had to bring in the army to help distribute to get it to hospitals and to social care homes that cetera also there were issues with them. for example trying to test that using postal testing as well

as a way of trying and ramp up the testing but there are still issues with that too as well it's so with that in mind yes they're trying to offer some kind of hope but still mixed messages and still the responsibility is being on the shoulders of the public to try to maintain the same class and are saying thanks very much to get there in london the city of jenner in germany is the 1st in that country to make a face mask compulsory anyone using public transport or entering a public building would have to cover their nose and mouth if it is austria's decision to require supermarket shoppers to wear masks over health experts say that face mask to not prevent the wearer from picking up the virus prick can help to stop an infected person passing it on you have in many areas of your own interest at lancaster university and he said and he says it's hard to dictate who should

wear a mask especially since many of those infected don't show clear symptoms. the only way to n.c.d.c. older and wiser men to earmark it for one is not infected with the infection but to be honest this equality 19 has some cabinet in there that really requires revision to be considered the 1st thing is that i've just said that if someone is not infected they should not be afraid and if someone is infected they should merely but the problem is that the percent of the people infected with the color 900 in show clinical following correctly they are infected but they are not showing any sign symptom so therefore they don't really know whether they should myriad or no and if they don't hear it they are the one who will be suppressing the infection and there is a strong contender in the scientific community that these pilots are predators or really the major culprit in the overall of the common 92 given the situation i think based on whether or not a logical experience i think that you have to which would really think about this

one and really perform population level 30 who demonstrate that to smart or protecting against infections like all of us which is highly infectious because most of the information that has been gathered before that or based on other viruses and this call in 19 has some surprises and i think it should be considered a case by case basis to ethiopian which is to prosper owning national elections response to the pandemic the polls had been set for august and they were seen as a key test of the reformist agenda of the prime minister very often and the electoral commission says event will be rescheduled when the crisis subsides if you reported 3 new covert $92.00 factions on tuesday total to $25.00. nigeria has imposed a 2 week lockdown on 3 major states that are home to almost 30000000 people the streets of lagos that africa's biggest city are normally jam with traffic but were almost entirely empty on tuesday as president has ordered

a cessation of all movement in lagos state government has launched a program to deliver food 220-0000 households during that time a 14 day nationwide lockdown has come into effect in uganda and an effort to slow the spread of the virus there the president has already banned public transport closed the borders and urged people to stay home uganda has 33 confirmed cases. but the world health organization is calling on asia pacific countries to stay vigilant in the fight against pandemic the warning comes amid further travel restrictions in japan and another surge of infections in singapore nearly 1000 people in the city's state now have the virus from slavery as this report. who hunt china where the virus began reported no new cases on monday it 7 day in a row and nationwide all the new cases reported when porter but the world health organization warns even for countries where the k.

through seem to be tapering off this is not the time to let their guard down its regional director for western pacific takeshi casaya says countries will have to adopt multiple approaches testing isolating and physical distancing to slow the spread of the virus. these measures the risk. not wait as long as. and. now under these measures as well your. mission more countries are tightening restrictions japan has citizens not to travel to 73 countries and regions or a 3rd of all countries in the world cases that have topped 2000 with 2 clusters emerging in tokyo over the past week last week china banned foreigners from entering the country to 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 of my arm with a wristband at my home but i have no idea if anyone is really checking my response malaysia which imposed strict measures on movement and closed its borders to foreigners to reaks ago will not require returning 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 policies and resources it needs to prevent the spread of coronavirus indonesia says it will ban all arrivals in transit by foreignness as the number of cases and deaths rise no one knows how long the condemning will last but even after 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. to india which is

tracking down thousands of people attended a gathering of muslim leaders thousands of participants have since tested positive for corona virus and at least 10 have died 700 have been sent to a quarantine center while hundreds more are in hospital then there is under lockdown with people ordered to remain indoors until april the 15th that's enough this is more new delhi we've still got buses taking people out of the mosque something like a 1000 people have been evacuated over the last 24 hours 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 led 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 hot spot 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. of pakistan doesn't yet have a significant right factions but it is preparing for the worst come ohio has more now from islamabad. voluntary log down is in place and pakistan there is no transport moving and that of course allowing people to move across into other provinces the military is out and 4th also to ensure that they are able to make

people as head to that you're all down essential services of course are still operating the country's prime minister announced that he would also be setting up a wall and 3 lives force which would be based on you in order to confront they spend their make the united nations is also bracketing pakistan among those wonderful countries which badly. break out becomes a bigger issue so far the medical experts say that they had been no exponential growth of just go over it 19 outbreak had in pakistan they're watching the situation and if that escalates the country the ready preparing to deal with a major crises the united nation also say that developing countries like pakistan and that is about $17200.00 around award would need 2 trillion dollars of aid in order to bring them out of an economic crisis which is now looming because of

the global pandemic. well. a ramping up production of medical equipment to tackle coronavirus the territory is confirmed just 10 cases but health officials fear a wider outbreak could have devastating effects. a queen takes this is anything but business as usual the company which provides clothing and blankets to gaza's health sector has largely switched from manufacturing to importing what it can get through the israeli and egyptian blockade but now it's rehiring laid off employees to make just one product medical grade coveralls the health workers preparing to confront the coronavirus. benefit of the now we're getting an income we can buy food for children and get them what they need before the coronavirus we could just get a bit of seasonal work. colonna house on a one is for now at least rare in gaza someone who seen the effects of the pandemic up close he'd been living in china for 15 years sourcing the company's products

when the virus started to spread he was quarantined for 2 weeks before deciding to come home. i knew the virus would reach us here because i wanted to import the suit from china but it would have taken too long so i got all the specifications from chinese friends and decided to produce it here we found the raw materials and made a prototype and i got the ministry of health approval. he says his 5 factories can produce a 1000 suits a day but gaza's market has only enough material to make a total of $10000.00 the same blockade that has hampered the market has also slowed the entry of the virus into gaza but with a hammer the cases now detected there is huge concern about the potential impact on a densely packed strip of 2000000 people reliant on an already struggling health system. another textile factory and more intense activity here and in 4 other restarted sister factories they're working 2 shifts a day to meet demand but these mosques aren't for gaza they go into the occupied

west bank and israel. in the past because effect she's had been working around the clock to supply west bank and gaza markets but because of these really. says this part of the current. orders from an israeli private company and then of the company in hebron in the west bank a total of $5000000.00 mosques. has rehired more than $150.00 unemployed workers to fulfill the massive orders but while he and his employees glad of this sudden surge in demand there's also a fear that it could be the preview to a devastating new crisis for gaza's economy and the health of its people are a force that. the u.k. has begun testing a new breathing aid made in part by the mist sadie's formula one racing team to help coronavirus patients the devices were developed in less than a week by a team of f one engineers and doctors at university college london hospital the

continuous positive airway pressure or c pap machines deliver and oxygen to a patient's lungs to help them breathe without needing to go on a ventilator essentially there is as we know a shortage of ventilators in the u.k. and clearly if a patient needs to go on a ventilator they're often needing to stay up to several weeks so if we can have a breach halfway house where you need more than oxygen mask but less than an invasive ventilator then hopefully many patients can be prevented from needing to go on to eventually. so then this is our deserve these are the top stories and the coronavirus deaths in the united states have exceeded those in china the u.s. now has the 3rd highest death toll off to italy and spain 3393 people killed by the virus more cases than any other country it's scrambling to build hundreds of

temporary hospitals in italy flanks of flying at half mast and a minute's silence has been observed to remember those who've died from corona virus it's reported 837 deaths in the past 24 hours italy is the hardest hit country with more than 12000 fatalities and over 105000 infections. and spain has reported its highs daily number of deaths since the start of the outbreak 849 died in the past day. the u.n. secretary general and turning to terrorism nations to collaborate as they tackle covert 19 he's also called for 10 percent of global economic output to be allocated to the response to the pandemic. every scene we do during and after these crises must be with a strong focus on building more equal includes even sustainable economies and societies that are not easy and in the face of climate change and the many other

local challenges we face what what needs now is something that we saw in the n.t. we can defeat the violence and builds a better war and there is tracking down thousands of people who attended a gathering of muslim leaders dozens of participants have since tested positive for corona virus and at least 10 have died $8000.00 people from india and other countries were at the meeting in the capital new delhi earlier this month ethiopia is postponing national elections in response to the pandemic polls set for august was seen as a key test of the reformist agenda of prime minister of a up at the electoral commission says the votes will be rescheduled when the crisis of side he reports of 3 new covert $1000.00 faces on tuesday bringing its total to $25.00 job states with the headlines have more news right after inside story.

the u.s. becomes the new battleground in the fight against coronavirus health workers struggle to contain the rise in infections and they're running out of supplies so what needs to be done to prevent the crisis spiraling out of control this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the world health organization has warned the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic could shift to the united states although italy spain and china have higher death tolls the.