pick. up. on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al-jazeera. the united kingdom records its worst day of the credit virus outbreak more than 500 people have died in 24. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up allegations that doctors in spain are refusing intensive care to patients over the age of 80 as the number of infections exceeds 100000. a u.s. navy captain says the virus is spreading uncontrollably on his ship and that his

calls for help are going on answered. russian president vladimir putin is working remotely after a doctor he shook hands with last week tested positive for the virus. so the u.k. is rapidly becoming one of the worst affected in europe by corona virus they have been more than 500 deaths in 24 hours for the 1st time despite comes as a 4000 bed hospital is jus to open in east london to treat covert 900 patients a temperate hospital was set up in 2 weeks governments under growing pressure to increase testing especially for its national health service staff nearly 30000 people are infected with the virus and spread away to london to downing streets where at the business sex trade. look sharma is hosting

a 3 fingers i'm joined today by dr yvonne toil who is the medical director of public health england before yvonne provides an update on the latest data from our copra coronavirus fact file i'd like to update you on the steps that we are taking to defeat this pandemic are step by step action plan is aiming to slow the spread of the virus so fewer people need hospital treatment at any one time protecting the ability of the n.h.s. to cope through our response to corona virus we have been following the scientific and medical advice we have been deliberate in our actions taking the right steps at the right time we're also taking unprecedented action to increase energy this capacity by dramatically expanding the number of beds key staff and life same equipment on the frontline provide the care when people need it most the daily

figures show that a total of 152979 people in the u.k. have now been tested for current virus of those 29474 have tested positive the number of people admitted to hospital in england with current vice symptoms is now 10767 was 3915 of those are in london and 1918 in the midlands. of those hospitalized in the u.k. sadly 2352 have died this is an increase of 563 fatalities since yesterday the youngest of them was just 13 years old all our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives. this is more tragic evidence that this virus does not

discriminate the current a virus pandemic is the biggest threat our country has faced in decades and we're not alone all over the world we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer we recognize the extreme destruction the necessary actions we're asking people to take are having on their lives their businesses jobs and the nation's economy and i want to thank everyone across our whole country for the huge effort that is being made collectively in tackling the couvade 19 pandemic. to the front line workers treating and caring for patients the people delivering supplies their neighbors and the millions staying at home thank you you are protecting the n.h.s. and saving lives and i want to thank businesses too through your support for your

workers and your communities and through your willingness to support our health service you are making a real difference whether it's any of us building a new hams sign that sanitizer plant near middlesborough in just 10 days or u.c.l. engineers working with missy eighty's formula one to build new continuous positive airway pressure machines which help patients to breathe more easily or broadband providers giving their customers unlimited data to stay connected or indeed london london's xcel center being converted in the n.h.s. nightingale hospital with space for 4000 patients these are just a few of the examples of businesses from across our great nation supporting life saving work. there are also thousands of businesses large and small which are worked with staff to ensure that they're supported in the days and weeks ahead whether that is through ensuring p.h.e. guidelines are followed onsite implementing fullest schemes carrying over annual

leave or providing the means to work from home i want to convey my heartfelt thanks to all of those businesses up and down the country which are working to keep our economy going so that when this crisis passes and it will we are ready to bounce back our businesses are doing all they can support our people and i want to make it clear that government in turn will do all it can to support our businesses we have already taken unprecedented action to support businesses safeguard jobs and protect the economy from today businesses will start benefiting from 22000000000 pounds in the form of business rates relief and grants for up to 25000 pounds which are being paid into the bank accounts of the smallest high street firms on saturday i said that we had provided funds to councils in england

for grants of small businesses as of today these local authorities have received more than 12000000000 pounds this afternoon i held a call with hundreds of local authorities across england and made clear that this money must reach businesses as quickly as possible and i know that businesses across england have already started to receive these grants we know high street banks are working really hard to support the u.k. through this period including through mortgage holidays and increase credit facilities loans for businesses are also being issued to the coded business interruption loan scheme since it came into operation last week. the chancellor to go to the bank of england and the financial conduct authority root to the chief executives of the u.k. banks to urge them to make sure that the benefits of the loan scheme are passed

through to businesses and consumers and it will be completely unacceptable if any banks were unfairly refusing funds to good businesses in financial difficulty. just as a tax pair stepped in to help the banks back in 2008 we will work with the banks to do everything they can to repay that favor and support the businesses and people of the united kingdom in their time of need of course this is a brand new scheme and as with all new schemes it will not be perfect from the outset we are listing all the time and in response to concerns that we've heard from businesses we are looking at ways in which we can ensure they get the support they need the chance it will be saying more on this in the coming days it is crucial that when we overcome this crisis as in time we will the business is

only a good position to move forward times are tough and we have harder times ahead of us but i know that together we will pull through. thank you secretary of state i would like to present you with some slides just to give you an update on what is happening across the country and also with the health system and could i have slide one please and this show is slightly concerning. trend because we have seen an uptick in motion of vehicle traffic so the message here really is people do need to stay at home and most are doing the right thing as you can see from the rapid decline in public transport use so everyone needs to do that the message here is we need to save lives and protect the n.h.s.

please stay at home could i have slide to please. this show is the number of new u.k. cases as of today it is slightly concerning it's still too early to say whether the plateau of hospital admissions has ended but we've now seen 3 days of increases in a row and again we need to protect the n.h.s. and the best way to do that is to stay at home to avoid catching the disease yourself and obviously avoid giving it to anyone else that is the way the n.h.s. can continue to protect us could i have slide 3 please. this slide shows the england hospital admissions i think a lot of reporting has been about london and you can see why on this slide and that's where coronavirus is most advanced but the chart shows that the threat is

everywhere we need to protect the n.h.s. everywhere and the midlands now is obviously a concern as well and study for please. i'm just listening to even doyle from public health england is updating a briefing on the latest situation in the u.k. and earlier we heard from sharma the business secretary talking about how this was the biggest threat the country faced in decades he said to the government to take in the right steps the right time and it's all about protecting our ability and the ability of the n.h.s. to cope let's bring in sunny gager who's life for us from london via skype has been listening into this briefing and sonia this of course coming off the back of the latest news that 563 deaths in the past 24 hours. yes. that number as anticipated going up and of course sadly amongst the fatal disease that was that of the the 18 year old who is the youngest victim.

in this country of coronavirus fake talent he's now they recognize of course that this is going to continue to get worse the numbers are going to continue. to go up and increases and the preparations are in place and seen with field hospitals and from those exhibition centers into those field hospitals and the scramble to acquit their mental star them taking place as quickly as possible as well but also as you mentioned earlier one of scale the most contentious issues is the issue of testing as well. now one of the reasons why it is quite important is because it is a national health service stuff that need to get tested partly one in 4 are off and they need to go back into the system in order for there not be so much strain on the hospitals themselves or

a sort of thanks so much that i mean let's send it back to downing street we can listen to gain to even dollar public health england and alex out of the business or do you know who are who through this for you and with our industry partners that we will achieve that so that means patients are getting at the tests they need but there is also a spirit some spare capacity in there for testing the most urgent health care workers and alongside a 60 state assert there is a 2nd strand of front opening and it's already testing and a couple of 1000 health care workers in an order of priority so we are definitely increasing our testing capacity thank you. next question is from sky blue through the birth. thank you question 1st on doyle could you give us the number of proportion of for online and i just starved it's been tested to coronavirus you said 2000 is that with half a 1000000 front line manager us workers and how are you intending to go about our

and if i may to the structure state the prime minister said nearly 2 weeks ago he wanted to get to a quarter of a 1000000 tests a day that was the virus and its latest 8 figures $10412.00 tests why is it taking so long for reality to much the rhetoric when you give a clear timeframe as to when you can deliver on the prime minister's from its thank you or it won't come out of the thank you set your state so beth and the number of tests and undertaken in the n.h.s. and public health in combined testing capacity is it just increasing at the moment so that would be a relatively small number but there is capacity for example state for almost 3000 and that will increase as we get to 25000 that capacity but the important capacity is in the 2nd strand where we will have 5 and have 5 centers where people can drive through and get their testing done in order of priority and it has chief executives

are identifying that priority and the intention here is to get from posen is to hundreds of thousands within the coming weeks so we are very committed to our n.h.s. frontline staff thank you you don't think that and i think both if i wanted to explain the details in terms of ramping up testing you may particular reference to the antibody tests and what i can say on that is of course we are urgently evaluating that test and it is an absolute priority and of course is about making sure that people have the test can find out whether they've had the virus and are now immune to it the chiefs want to go officer has said that the accuracy of this test is incredibly important so it's all. so important that we get this right before we launch the test itself. alex i'm a business secretary also even though all of public health england back to sonia gago who's standing by listening to that and sonia the the briefing they're turning

towards this big issue of testing of course same test test test that's most important thing to do the u.k. has been behind the curve on this and we saw the government in its public health representative defending their testing history. well yes i'm saying they are defending it because simply they're actually having problems they're trying to access some of the components with which they can undertake the testing now they are saying that they are really trying their hardest to try and access as much of the material as possible and putting a lawsuit emphasis on the fact they want these tests to be effective tests however. as you mentioned yes the u.k. has been behind the rest of europe when it's come to this as well craig's on file in germany they already began making there in 1000 tests to be able

to identify the patients back in january the u.k. went into that a month later that's that's a lot of time but it's managed to miss in the face of what then became a pandemic now also there is this issue of exactly what is missing to be able to get these tests as quickly as possible there is this real agent a chemical which is needed for the tests as well as the swabs themselves. they really are focused amongst their 2 particular manufacturers as well and because there hasn't been any anticipation of this pandemic or such so soon there is problems with trying there are problems of trying to sort of get them as quickly as possible but there is an awful lot of criticism from the government for the government really how it's sort of like this quite so late and this is something obviously that will come to light more and more information will be known about

this after the urgency of trying to control the pandemic as much as possible will be over and done with but some serious questions from the will be posed to the government as to why the u.k. had lagged so far behind other countries when it was really obvious later. yes it was coming to the u.k. at some point and this was turning out to be a global pandemic well all right sonia that's the latest from the united kingdom where more than $500.00 people have died for the 1st time in 24 hours so your thanks a lot well doc says in spain have been advised against admitting a coronavirus patients age of 80 into intensive care and the document published by spanish media says health workers in catalonia have been told to prioritize younger patients however the regional government says it did not issue such a directive spain has announced its worst single day death toll so far with 864

fatalities in the past 24 hours the number of infections has now gone past 100000. the u.s. president is warning americans to prepare for what he is calling the hard days that lie ahead more than 4000 people in the united states have died from coronavirus health experts say it could kill almost a quarter 1000000 people emergency supplies are being sent to new york state where more than 1700 people have died temporary hospital facilities have been set up to try to ease the burden on the local health care system change day so the highest daily national death toll 865 casualties. at least $100.00 sailors on board a u.s. aircraft carrier have tested positive 90 the captain of the theodore roosevelt told the pentagon the virus is spreading uncontrollably every tour again because this report. the captain of the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt reported the 1st case of corona virus last week the nuclear

powered aircraft carrier has since doctors reporting guam a u.s. territory in the western pacific the pentagon says most of the 5000 sailors must stay on the ship its captain says it does not have enough quarantine and isolation facilities in a letter to navy commanders captain brett crazier wrote we are not at war sailors do not need to die if we do not act now we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset acela is the u.s. navy says it's testing everybody on board and the situation is under control sailors who have been flown off the ship are currently doing fine and none of them have been required to be hospitalized because their symptoms are very mild and their x. and pains in those types of things sore throats but nothing that required hospitalization so they are in quarantine now on guam u.s. defense secretary mark s. best says now is not the time to evacuate the ship i don't think we're at that point we are moving

a lot of supplies and assistance medical assistance out to the carrier in guam we're providing additional medical medical personnel as they need it and i'm pleased to report that none of them are seriously ill. the u.s. navy says it will take sailors off the aircraft carrier on a rotating basis it's a plan that seems to fall short of the decisive action called for by the ship's captain victoria gates and be out there. let's hear now from shipper tansey who's monitoring developments from washington d.c. and says efforts to move the crew are now making progress getting information from military and government are who are same value attention is to remove as many of the sailors off that ship as quickly as possible in the next few days if they have not tested positive for current virus those affected will stay poor the plan is to you how's the sailors in 14th a quarantine invasion to tell rooms and who are going to resident stream travelers

neuchatel the boats and hotel rooms so they will we put our rooms as mary is to her room and then we have military act guards on each floor to make sure there is never social interaction. would be conformed to it but the parameters for many services in the next few days start moving into tell rooms ongoing. in the in the next few days according to to the governor and. vladimir putin is now working remotely after the doctor who showed him around moscow's main coronavirus hospital tested positive for kevin 19 dennis approach to the to a week ago the kremlin spokesman says putin is regularly being tested for the virus and there is no reason to be concerned about his health russia confirmed the $500.00 new cases of virus a wednesday bringing the total number of infections to nearly $3000.00 well earlier we spoke to mary lipman who's a senior associate at george washington university and she says people are more

worried about what the immediate future holds for them. the fact was reported that they had docked there with hospital that put in this it did now has the virus and the doctor himself wrote it his face book that he feels well but he isolated himself in his office we have a form from which in this press meant that the president is fine in good health and i don't think people are focused on this piece of news people have so many things to worry about at this point not so much about the fear of getting infected but the economic consequences of the virus in the economy being increased fall right now in russia the price of oil having dropped to an all time low the ruble devalued against the dollar in euro people are worried about their immediate future they are their jobs and their salaries are not about the president's health i think they are take the pressman's word for it that tim is fine iran has reported another 138

coronavirus this make it the 6th country to go past 3000 deaths nationwide iran has banned all industry travel until at least april the authorities closed pogs on wednesday to prevent people from gathering to mother nature day which is a traditional festival in which families picnic house schoolers. on 2 fronts where the number of deaths from the virus have increased for the last 3 days is grim new records continue to be set residents are growing more desperate for tests and any potential treatment medical experts know the need is urgent but they're warning that safety has to come 1st natasha butler has this report. in the southern french city of mass say hundreds of people queue outside a hospital specializing in infectious diseases off to doctors offer to test anyone worried that they have coronavirus. the test is very quick swab in the nose and

it's over will be contacted within 48 hours if we declare positive and if they don't contact you. or not we have fever burning sensations in our chest coughing and headaches french health authorities of only authorised testing critically ill patients but the head of this hospital says widespread testing can help stop the spread of the corona virus professor didio role is also leading the charge and from as for the use of chloroquine to treat patients he says the decades old drug commonly used against malaria can be effective in reducing symptoms when combined with an antibiotic we have reserved which are significant to show that iraq's interim in its clearing. is a virus from respiratory system probably makings that people are no more can tell yours. no more sick and dying as you try marcin even. increase efficiency the professor's claims that curry queen can treat the corona

virus have been widely publicized in france and as a result some pharmacists say that they've been inundated with requests for the drug but france's drug safety agency says that people should not self medicate the agency says at least 2 dozen patients reported undesirable side effects off to taking chloroquine. there are risks that apply to everyone so you have to be. very wary of taking this product without a prescription and without strict medical supervision research but the french government's position on the drug had been unclear until last week when the french health minister said only doctors in hospital should decide on whether to use it local say the high council of public health recommends that this treatment should not be used unless there is a decision to use it by doctors under strict medical supervision for seriously ill hospitalized patients the high council excludes any prescription for the general public or phenomena severe forms at this stage excludes $800.00 patients in france

to taking part in new european trials of experimental drugs to treat corona virus including chloroquine as corona virus cases rise in france finding a treatment is clearly urgent but medical experts warn the safety must not be compromised natasha butler al-jazeera france. a police in kenya have ordered an investigation into the death of a 13 year old boy his neighbors say he was shot dead when police opened fire to enforce a curfew in the capital on monday night but it's not the only example of police using excessive force in response to the outbreak is malcolm webb reports now from ari. yasin moir was just 13 years old. his family say he was shot dead by police on monday evening. they were in forcing a curfew here in kenya's capital nairobi. the government his uncle told us he was at home on his balcony with the children when

a bullet hit him in the stomach they're covered. it when he was i would doubt it by that time he would be what i did to him a big. you know even a deadly w. should double the news of. the government's brought in restrictions to try and slow the spread of covert 19 the curfew killed yaseen before the virus yaseen has been laid to rest his family say they want justice and they're not the enemy ones who aren't happy with kenya's curfew. in the port city of mombasa police used tear gas to break up crowds before the curfew began rights groups police and making things worse we believe that the curfew is necessary in order to flatten the crowd but we don't necessarily think that we do not believe that people at the same time actually helps fight against corporate 19 to be really frank we've seen more deaths

at the moment from violent policing than we've seen. in the western city of kisumu police also fired tear gas to close the markets in forcing another one of the new restrictions the people depend on markets for income and food restrictions are making life harder and as the virus spreads people expecting a greater lock down in the weeks ahead the president has made a rare apology for police brutality police say some of its officers are being held to account and the police chief has ordered an investigation into yaseen his death his family say they will welcome justice but it won't bring him back malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya. the wimbledon tennis championships are being cancelled entirely for the 1st time since the 2nd world war the grand slam tournament was originally scheduled to take place in june and july but just like with the olympics in the european football championships fans will now have to wait until 2021 for

any action. the former president of french football club and limping must say has died off the contract in coronavirus in his native senegal i played with was 68 he moved to france as a teenager from senegal and became the 1st black president of a 1st a european club when he took up the position that most say in 2005. let's have a recap the headlines here on al-jazeera and more than 500 people in the united kingdom have died from covert 19 in a single day for the 1st time close to 30000 people are infected the government says this is the biggest threat the country has faced in decades but leaked a document published by spanish media claims doctors in catalonia big advise not to admit patients over the age of 18 into intensive care the regional government has

denied making that directive spain has announced its worst single day death toll so far with $864.00 fatalities in the past 24 hours the captain of a u.s. aircraft carrier says a corona virus outbreak is spreading uncontrollably among his crew at least $100.00 sailors are infected crew members who test negative are expected to be allowed off in the coming days to begin quarantine in kuala. so i mean peyton is now working remotely for the doctor who showed him around moscow's main coronavirus hospital tested positive for cave at 19 then his producing co-host of the tour a week kremlin spokesman says putin is regularly being tested for the virus and that there is no reason to be concerned about his health russia confirmed nearly 500 new cases of the virus on wednesday bringing the total number of infections to nearly 3000. iran has reported another 138 coronavirus deaths make it the 6th country to go past 3000 deaths nationwide iran has banned

all into city travel until at least april the 8th authorities closed parks on wednesday to prevent people from gathering to mark nature day which is a traditional festival in which families picnic outdoors in the more cases of corona virus have emerged in india who have among people of attended a muslim religious gathering around 2300 people from across india and other countries where at the new delhi meeting 134 have tested positive and 7 of them have died or thora these have sealed off centers belonging to the league jamaat missionary group and are tracking down those who attended. this is a live pictures from the world health organization in geneva they'll be holding a briefing on the latest developments of covert 900 pandemic in the next few minutes we shall bring you that briefing live that's it for now.

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