good. luck lead. ruth. it's a matter of life and death president trump urges americans to follow the rules after warnings of hundreds of thousands of people could die. along the raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a u.s. navy captain says the virus is spreading uncontrollably on a ship but his calls for help are going unanswered. mass spraying of disinfectant is taking place in several countries but disease specialists say it could do more

harm than good. and health emergency in mexico and latin american countries stepped up measures to combat the outbreak. welcome to the program more than 4000 people in the u.s. have now died from corona virus the u.s. president is warning americans to prepare for a very painful 2 weeks the country saw its highest single day death toll with more than 800 deaths on tuesday white house health experts say the virus could kill up to 240000 people but without government intervention the number could rise to 10 times that mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . for the 1st time the task force presented its predictions of where this pandemic may be heading saying this could now be done because of a more detailed flow of information from across the country the scientists say the

virus could kill between 100240000 americans but without efforts like social distancing counter measures like shutdowns the toll could go. they modeled the worst case scenario of 1500000 to 2200000 deaths so what we're going to see and that's we've got to brace ourselves in the next several days to a week or so we're going to continue to see things go up we cannot be discovered by that because the mitigation is actually working and will work a somber president trump said the mitigation measures were a matter of life and death i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead we're going to go through a very tough 2 weeks and then hopefully as the experts are predicting as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard you can start seeing

some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful to excess in the city at the epicenter of the pandemic the rate of infection continues to rise the number of hospital admissions in new york city increased by 12 percent in the last 24 hour period and in central park a field hospital will be ready by late wednesday everyone everyone is subject to this virus it is the great equalizer i don't care how smart powerage how powerful you think you are. i don't care how young how old this virus is the great equalizer nearly 190000 people have now tested positive for the virus in all 50 states plus washington d.c. and as the models show this number is increasing by the hour mike hanna al-jazeera

washington. at least 100 sailors on board a u.s. nuclear powered aircraft carrier have tested positive for the virus the captain of the theodore roosevelt told the pentagon the virus is spreading uncontrollably and called for immediate help to quarantine the crew but defense secretary marcus per se is it's not the right time to evacuate the people on board our correspondent particle hane whose previously spent months on board the ship is following developments from the state of maryland and i can tell you that this could get x. initially worse much much quicker than we've seen just in the general public and here is why there are about 17 levels of stairs and lights on the aircraft carrier us and if you go to the stairs they're pretty steep they're pretty dangerous you have to pull on the ground so that in you touch your face you touch the railing another 5000 people are going to use you know savings and sterols they sleep they have the list of groups they've about a foot have search type court they can actually row over in your sleep because your

shoulders for this and they are easy to get so they have the ships and it's really extraordinary mother saying we have to have that with you was $5000.00 people sailors aboard the ship and you have 10 percent board for security for cleaning and what we see is a part of the secretary of defense interview saying it's not time to have that one ship that is in sharp contrast to what this captain said just chimes up the essence he wants to see some sort of warranty barracks and. more cases of coronavirus of emotion in india amongst attendees of a muslim religious gathering in new delhi as many as 2500 people from across the country and other nations were meeting in the capital 128 have tested positive for forward to use of sealed off centers belonging to the missionary group and the tracking down those who attended that india is currently under lockdown with people

ordered to remain indoors until april the 15th elizabeth piron them has more from new delhi on the dispute over whether the group should have been gathering at all what the organization the mosques administration says is that this is a religious gathering that actually began at the end of february the main event was in early march and many of the 2000 people who took part decided to stay back at the mosques accommodation and when prime minister that in the morning announced a national curfew on sunday the 22nd of march he also very suddenly stopped all bus and train services around the country they say they were stranded but delhi authorities point out to the fact that religious gatherings were banned in delhi for days before the curfew was in place so by continuing to take part stay in this very cramped accommodation that they were breaking the law in delhi's chief minister has actually ordered police to file a case of negligence that could have endangered hundreds of lives against the mosques administration india's health ministry saying that you know this is not the

time to. there's not a time for finger pointing right now as the country faces a much bigger bashing of fighting coronavirus but this has led to you know so many cases now that there is there is a fallout over this. disease specialists are criticizing the mast spraying of disinfectant in the fight against the virus footage of merged on sunday of a group in india being washed down by men in protective suits now the videos cause widespread anger on the local administrators apologized saying no one was hurt well in indonesia a special chambers have been set up to give people a quick blast with chemicals to get rid of potential germs on their clothes and skin drones and fire trucks also being used however some experts say mass disinfecting is a health hazard and that's more targeted cleaning would be a better use of resources dr jason wang is the director of the center for policy

outcomes and prevention at stanford university in the u.s. and he says the use of disinfectant sprays helps people psychologically but has no real benefit i think that method spread or. probably would cause more harm. than good to the population are one of the things that we know about this chemical is that it gets through the skin because patients get the birth of slow down the furry both in the lung and they could in some cases. and some of the cases also show that they could affect the eyes and so i think it's probably more psychological than actual benefit to the population now if one were to use this chemical maybe in a more targeted area where you avoid that route for example in become payment maybe in the hospital where people could be putting the i think that makes more sense

than a massive spread in in the population and finally able to combine their personal hygiene or and so we're not teaching people to wash their hands and the boy patching things in their eyes is probably more effective than a massive spread of chemical. china has confirmed 36 new corona virus infections beijing says all but one of our imported cases now health authorities also began adding asymptomatic patients to their official count 130 such cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours president xi jinping described efforts to contain the pandemic as a final exam that everyone must learn from its course over to our corresponding katrina year who joins me now from beijing of course a change in the way covert cases are being counted will be presented today i mean what more do we know about this. that's

right well beijing is very much on the defensive about its krone virus data in recent days we've seen local transmission slowed to a trickle sort of 0 or single digit numbers over the past week or so and the government has all but declared victory over this outbreak but the god of the public here in china has very much not let their guard down and they have been concerned now for some time about asymptomatic carriers or just people who have covered 1000 but don't present with any symptoms now china has never added asymptomatic carriers to its official tally which is against world health organization guidelines and the government has said it's because there's very little evidence that these silent carriers are infectious in wider society but we do know some very well publicized cases here in china of the past few days of some people indeed catching code 1000 from people who were asymptomatic and because of this and because of public outcry the government has started to change its tune so from today and wednesday they've started to announce the number of new asymptomatic

cases daily so today where they were announced $130.00 new asymptomatic cases adding to a total of $1367.00 now the government has said although they haven't added these cases to the official tally they have since the beginning urging and forcing people who were silent carriers of covered 1000 into quarantine for the true week period and protecting the community in that way but of course the chinese government has changed the way it counts its coronavirus cases several times of the past few months leading many to question the government figures and the official tally which as of today stands at about $81000.00 but of course analysts say that that figure could be very much much higher than that treated for the update thanks very much see you there in beijing. well still ahead here on al-jazeera tent city new

york's central park becomes a giant field hospital where thousands are being tested. and deserted streets and stations always finding out how working people in the north of england are coping with the lockdown. of. eastern europe had a shock recently as you know it's got particularly cold that northerly wind indicated by the move to the cloud is still there but the real cold is settled in so the morning temperatures are subzero not finish up because i mean how the warm start to spring this plenty of vulnerable spring blossoms this for example hungry is warming up the fruit trees which are already in but at least they get hit by frost and snow a good toll now by day does get to single figures but not very high 3 in moscow 7 war so for example only 3 in sarajevo now the sun is out that's

a good seeing the still snow around in albania for example and parts of northern greece and this rain to the science of that and the other place getting rain is spending quite a lot of it is the circulation that means the mediterranean coast of spain is particularly wet in that moment and the northerly breeze keeps blowing in norway fresh snow here so it's a bit of a cold time for spring in europe after what was really a fairly mild winter the effect on north africa is visible here the blue is showery stuff in the atlas mountains and at low levels for morocco and algeria and some degree in tunisia but the wind coming out of the interior means it's getting quite hot in tripoli we see 30 on thursday. to join the colobus conversation half the battle for the people to expand their. ranes maybe have a different view this is a dialogue women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair we don't know how much

they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to trade everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be i'm right here in the street we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection i'm out to 0. welcome back you're watching the home run a reminder of our top stories more than 4000 people in the u.s. have not died from coronavirus donald trump is warning americans to prepare for the hard days that lie ahead as white house health experts say the virus could kill up

224-0000 people. almost $130.00 have now got the current virus after attending a muslim religious gathering in new delhi authorities in india have sealed off the areas where the meeting was happening in the trying to track down those who attended china says all but one of the 36 new infections reported all imported cases unhealthful forty's began adding asymptomatic patients to that official tally 130 of these cases was recorded in the past 24 hours. the death toll in the state of new york continues to rise with 300 deaths in the past 24 hours but neighboring new jersey is also being hit hard. on those sent this report. an empty park that normally would be filled with people playing sports a sign of the times for the state of new jersey going into week 3 of state wide lockdown. if new york is the coronavirus epicenter in america new jersey is not

far behind with more than 18000 confirmed cases and 267 deaths 2nd most anywhere in america the disease has taken service members 1st responders coaches loved ones many friends and too many new jerseyans and sadly we know that this number will grow i cannot be any clearer in my call stay at home before this hits home. the normally bustling pedestrian mall in jersey city is mostly now empty businesses ordered closed the few that are open waiting for customers just in jersey city there are over $800.00 confirmed coronavirus cases more than most states in america on the other side of the hudson river from the epicenter new york city is here the

state of new jersey and on any given day about 400000 people from new jersey commute into the city for work it's that mass movement of people back and forth that many believe caused the explosion of coronavirus cases here. doctors tell us local hospitals are barely able to keep up. to get thousands of people a day are being tested at drive through pop up sites like this all part of a strategy to aggressively identify those that are infected get them isolated and slowly bring down the infection rates it's too early to know if it's working for now the people of this state hunker down now in the worst is yet to hit gabriel's

sandow. we harken new jersey. mexico has declared a public health emergency as the number of confirmed cases surges past 1000 several countries across latin america and the caribbean are extending calls for people to stay in their homes. or reports from mexico city. mexican health authorities are warning the country's health system could become overwhelmed by the spread of coburg 19 of them this week mexico's deputy health minister called for a voluntary 30 day isolation period and declared a national public health emergency. this is our last chance to avoid contagion all we cannot limit the damage we do not want to live in the situation that other countries of facing. in brazil concerns are growing that public health services could collapse by the end of april as the number of covert 1000 infections continues to grow authorities in rio have begun repurposing schools

and events spaces to tend to the most vulnerable like the city's homeless population. this space will be for shelter from those who accept being protected from coronavirus because this population is the most vulnerable and the streets they are very exposed in. latin america calls for self isolation as the best defense against kobe 19 or intensifying in cuba a lot down is in effect until at least the end of april and only citizens or foreign residents are being allowed into the country all travelers arriving from abroad are sent to a quarantine center 2 weeks. i live in the united states but i came as soon as i saw how the problem with coronavirus was being handled because this is my country where my family is and i have more confidence in the public health system here than anywhere else. at least a dozen latin american countries have imposed mandatory quarantines to fight contagion authorities in mexico however say they do not intend to enforce that people stay home

a policy that could change given the relaxed attitude many here have over the viral threat. mexico city and kenya funerals being held for a 13 year old boy allegedly shot by police and forcing a virus lock down hussein says his family were standing on the balcony at the beginning of the nighttime curfew on monday when police opened fire his son died after being shot in the stomach police are investigating the incident but human rights watch says the use of excessive force by kenyan police could undermine the fight against the virus in the operation the bungling up on was they this operation is being carried out in the wrong way it's like robbery because the police arrive yelling and we people see this they run scared to make matters worse they base and robbed people they also 3rd tear gas in their homes even though people have children where fighting corona during the day and we have to deal with bullets during the night. police in south africa are also being accused of heavy handed

behavior of to using tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest by health workers the nurses at the bungalow in the regional hospital were rallying over the lack of protective gear like gloves and masks the hospital says the group was blocking the entrance and breaking restrictions on gatherings. ethiopia is for spawning parliamentary elections in response to the pandemic the august vote was set to be the 1st since a prime minister a nobel prize winner on it came to office in $28.00 he's carried out wide ranging reforms over the past 2 years the electoral commission says the vote will be reshaped chilled when the crisis subsides ethiopia has 26 confirmed cases. and the former president of french football club olympique damascus a has died in senegal after contracting the virus purposes you've also moved to france as a teenager and was 68 years old the club tweeted that he'll remain in the hearts forever while the french league described him as

a charismatic and daring and passionate leader the former journalist and agent is the 1st person to dive covert 19 in senegal a nurse in spain has taken to facebook to express her frustration she says the number of infected is much higher than the government is willing to acknowledge. what is happening in madrid i know what's happening in other communities but i'll talk about what i know myself we are completely overflowed health workers are exhausted physically and emotionally because this is awful this is an inferno the numbers that i'm seeing on television are fast why are they force because they are not testing people if anyone has late symptoms he staying at home that person does not count as has it if but he is that person is infecting his partner or his parents. now the number of deaths from the krona virus in the united kingdom rose

by nearly 30 percent on tuesday the government minister has called the spike deeply shocking as the country's health service struggles to get a grip on the crisis well let's speak now to steven and nicola downey a couple from chester in northwest england whose jobs have been severely affected by the pandemic nicholas a school teacher and stephen is a photographer thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera stephen can i just begin with you you work within a small business as a photographer how has isolation and self distancing affected your family and your work life. yeah well it's it's quite a bit of it is at the minute 'd. you know just. how quickly washington really. you know it's tricky. so obviously you've you've lost your job at the moment

nicola obviously as a schoolteacher the rules are different for you because you're a key worker here. so. yeah groups and i'm not well i'm a woman on friday i'm only going to another. in the matrix. i mean last and. well rents. and trying to. and educate them as well of course it's difficult as you know i'm sure it is difficult as you know parents are you confident that you have you might say the protective equipment you need when you're going into schools what has been offered to you. so. continuously changing and there's more things in place now. and just having and back

to our closing once we finish where and again just instead of the children evidence labeled for individual children who are rare in result we choose this and when i go in they'll be 18 children in 6 that's. now a large cabinet and intervention. at the end of the day you both are professional lives stephen obviously your family's in chester as well i presume how difficult has it been keeping in touch with them when you actually can't see them physically . yes it's tough for me we're quite a close knit family so you know you see each other daily so. it's hard to look for an over moment. and not leave my house at school so you know i get to see him through the remote in our shop and love which is nice but it's just really hard florence not her grandparents and cousins and now we see them at least twice twice

a week returns we can it's hard for her to understand why we're not going to granny's now and that's very tricky to explain to her indeed for both of you really have wants to answer this i mean you're seeing pictures from around the world from from china from japan india italy and spain that's nearer to the home where you are what goes through your mind when you see what's going on in europe and what might happen across the u.k. do you think you're getting the information you need from the government. yeah we do get. quite a lot but then you hear different things locally you need agents from hospitals have a different things i've got friends that were and the local hospital and now they're well again from that is that she had actually might but then you know like me you know people have a guard equipment that they need so it's hard to know really gauge where it's actually. chester is a very popular city in terms of its tourism and the people that come to visit it

how would you describe the city right now. it's a ghost of a moment. where very quiet now we're seeing some pictures of of town no there's no middle of the afternoon those are the only ones. so it's quite. as at the moment i mean we're just trying to out we're just. using local shops would mean i'm rich and so. we're not really venturing too far into. the to me very very quiet have you found it difficult doing your daily shop because we see all the pictures from the u.k. where supermarket shelves are empty. yeah it's ego to go into the local shops it's not too bad i mean all the shops great he's got he stuck in his normal what you know he goes supermarket chains and you can't yeah

it's wooden roller. you know just i mean they really are what we can get and not worry there is no no not what he she. just like to make the most well known men well we'll see what has happened in the coming days it's been very nice to speak to nick lowe and stephen thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera from chester in the u.k. thank you. well with people confined to their homes a small town in wales is facing an outbreak of a different kind with a herd of goats taking over the deserted streets because it's which usually live around the town of clan did know are believed to have wanted because of the lockdown now the new residence which originally gifted by queen victoria have wasted no time in helping out with the gardening what a blessing they are. well below reese has confirmed its 1st corona death

more than $150.00 infections are also being reported the country's president is taking a relaxed approach to the outbreak alexander lukashenko suggested his fellow citizens should drink vodka to ward off the virus regular trips outdoor sand to the sauna were also advised restaurants and bars in the country remain open and its top football league remains one of the only one still to be playing globally and in other news media mars being accused of stifling press freedom after a court charged a journalist and to terrorism laws now emile lin could be facing life in prison for publishing an interview with the american army a separatist group which is battling the government in rakhine state the amar declare the biggest fight as a terrorist group last week websites covering the conflict of be blocked in meanwhile. a roadside bomb has exploded in afghanistan killing at least 8 civilians and wounding 2 others police say the blast happened in their district in helmand

province the group has claimed responsibility for the attack. and you can follow all of the stories that we're covering on the covert 19 outbreak across the world on our website at al-jazeera dot com it's updated through the day. we're watching out as they were with me so wrong the reminder of our top stories more than $4000.00 people in the u.s. have now died from a crowd a virus donald trump is warning americans to prepare for a very very painful to exist white house health experts say the virus could kill up 224-0000 people at least 100 sailors on board a u.s. nuclear powered aircraft carrier have tested positive for the krona virus the captain of the theodore roosevelt has called for immediate help to quarantine the crew almost 130 people have now got coronavirus after attending

a muslim religious gathering in new delhi authorities have sealed off the area where they were meeting and the trying to track down those who attended elizabeth run and has more from the capital what the organization the mosques administration says is that this is a religious gathering that actually began at the end of february the main event was in the early march and many of the you know 2000 people who took part decided to stay back at the mosques accommodation and when prime minister that in the morning announced a national curfew on sunday the 22nd of march he also very suddenly start all bus and train services around the country they say they were stranded but delhi authorities point out to the fact that religious gatherings were banned in delhi for days before the curfew was in place so by continuing to take part stay in this very cramped accommodation that they were breaking the law in delhi's chief minister has actually ordered police to file a case of negligence that could have endangered hundreds of lives. china's confirmed 36 new coronavirus infections beijing says all but one or imported cases

health authorities also began adding asymptomatic patients to their official count 130 such cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours jinping described efforts to contain the pandemic as a final exam that everyone must learn from. the former president of french football club olympique to say has died in senegal after contracting the virus pdufa also moved to france as a teenager and was 68 years old the club tweeted that he'll remain in their hearts forever umbrella russa's confirmed its 1st coronavirus death and has more than $150.00 infections but the country's president is taking a relaxed approach to the outbreak alexander lukashenko suggested his fellow citizens should drink vodka and you saunders to ward off the virus those were the headlines of the back with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's the stream to stay with us. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get to places that others cannot i was just you know you hear guys by the police on

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