u.s. . ministration. despite. being extended at the end of february to take in the african countries including the continent's biggest economy. the u.s. is open for business. the united kingdom records its worst day of the corona virus outbreak more than $500.00 people have died in 24 hours. much of al-jazeera live from london i'm sorry not great also ahead. in the next few days we will reach 1000000 confirmed cases. a stark warning from the world health organization as the coronavirus pandemic closes in on

a new global milestone. and it's. how the pandemic is fueling anti asian racism in the united states. and austria joins 3 other european countries in making the wearing of masks outside the home compulsory. pillows growing numbers of people follow the advice of governments and stay home cities empty and businesses shut up shop the rapidly spreading corona virus continues to yield a bleak string of statistics spain has marked another record high with 864 people dying in the past 24 hours while infections pasta 100008 is hoped though that the peak might have been breached and the world health organization says the number of deaths internationally has doubled in the past week and in the next few days the 1000000 infections mark should be passed wall street slumped on the news that the

us should be prepared for as many as 25040000 deaths the dow jones closing down nearly a 1000 points or 4.4 percent and say further $563.00 people have died in the u.k. it's worse daily death figure 2000 frontline health workers have also tested positive to the virus. has more from london. with the n.h.s. nightingale hospital a few days from opening the u.k. has recorded its 1st day of more than 500 deaths 563 died in the country's hospitals in 24 hours more will have died elsewhere and the peak of the u.k.'s epidemic is still 2 or 3 weeks off the need for this vast new coronavirus field hospital is clear managers say it's open holes are an advantage when the work force is absolutely missing so we can come back see what's right it's nice and go out to also switches if we can see that we absolutely can make sure that your site well

cared for we have been our speech ready to open this week and we will be when it's fully operational there could be 4000 beds here and other u.k. field hospitals all to follow. the u.k. showing that it can ramp up hospital capacity like with the mega projects and h.s. nightingale london the government is facing increasing criticism for other aspects of its coronavirus response like the comparatively limited amount of testing that still being done. fewer than $10000.00 a day this week several times that amount to being done in germany national health service staff q would drive through testing centers but many are being turned away they said without confirmation any more. so that's on the rolls on the why or what the problem is just because the trust we need to close the phone lines all sort of close to the front lines of all possum on the then section of

a patient. on tuesday news broke of the u.k.'s youngest known victim yet a 13 year old boy is male muhammed up to one hob who had no apparent underlying health conditions because of the need way that this virus itself is no one else is allowed to be around the individual and that means you're on your deathbed in your last moments alone and he was a young boy aged 13 without his mother without any sibling on his on his deathbed in the last moment and that's very hard to digest but largely covert 19 hits hardest older people and the already sick prince charles has released a video statement after recovering from his own encounter with the disease as a nation we are faced with who found it challenging situation which we are really to witness returns the livelihoods businesses and wealth millions of our fellow citizens none of us can say when this will end but indeed we

do and he praised the medical staff who he described as battling heroically to save lives in hospitals across the country. al-jazeera london. health care systems across europe are under strain from the pandemic with hospitals in the french capital now for 2 planes carrying supplies to restock spain's hospitals have arrived while italy has extended its lockdown until mid april hoper and reports. it's been more than 3 weeks since italy became the 1st country and sayd china to introduce strict stay at home restrictions is growing signs of infection rates and deaths are starting to plateau the government announced that parents could take the children out for short walks but the government has also ordered the extension of restrictions to stay in place until april the 13th and probably for longer and the health minister has warned against complacency and will be unwelcome form lady we must not confuse the 1st positive signals that we are seeing in these hours have

been all clear signal data and that is to call projections made by expert showed that we are under the right path and that the drastic decisions we have adopted so far are starting to bear fruit that. quarantine has brought financial hardship and in some cases desperation and that's given rise to numerous gestures of kindness like these food bank donations in naples many residents in the city's old quarter are hanging pastor and other items from solidarity baskets for the benefit of the jobless and poor people without enough to eat those who can give those who cannot take says a sign she's really out all of us is a service is a bottle we're all in the same boat and we will stall row in the same direction as the organizer angelo pick only from his balcony. with that sentiment in mind the european union has weighed in with a new initiative to support short time working and avoid layoffs and redundancies in the e.u.'s hardest hit economies millions of people cannot go to work but they still have to buy groceries and pay the bills companies are paying salaries to

their employees even if right now they're not making money europe is now coming to their support with a new initiative. it is called shore. medical priority though is finding enough beds and equipment to treat the ever growing numbers falling ill latest figures from france saw a new record of 509 new fatalities and the authorities are transferring patients between regions to spread the pressure more evenly paris's hospitals are now full and 38 critically ill coronavirus patients were transferred by high speed train to the city of ren on wednesday in spain where yet another record of 864 new deaths were recorded in the previous 24 hours the temporary hospital creates what this madrid conference center has been restocked with fresh supplies every bed can save a life in this crisis every minute matters paul brennan al-jazeera the world health

organization's warned of a rapid escalation of the coronavirus saying there will be a 1000000 confirmed cases in the days ahead. over the past 5 weeks we have witnessed a near exponential grows in the number of new cases reaching almost every country to 33 an area the number of days has more than doubled in the past week in the next few days we will reach 1000000 comfort and cases and 50000 does well the new york governor andrew cuomo says he's closing down the playground the new york city in an effort to limit the rising number of coronavirus deaths across the state he also had a stark warning for other u.s. regions look at us today serious self so more we're going to take more dramatic actions we're going we're going to close down the new york city playgrounds i've

talked about this for weeks i warned people that if they didn't stop the density in the games in the playgrounds you can't play basketball. you can't come in contact with each other so use the open space in a park walk around get some. great no density no basketball games no close contact no violation of social distancing period that's the rule so my can is joining us from washington so the governor of new york making sure that people are enforcing the restrictions indeed yes he'd been asking for compliance for a number of weeks in terms of keeping to those social distance restrictions however clearly he believes that some people are not following these guidelines hence the closure of all playgrounds across the city of new york the governor pointing out

there that you just cannot play games like basketball at this particular time and the people do not voluntarily stop doing actions then he's going to enforce it so all the playgrounds now are closed in new york the governor clearly irate at this having to happen happening to having to enforce this particular order the governor to speaking about the liaison that is happening with new york state new jersey and connecticut in a way of combating this fire is saying that there's a lot of interaction between these 3 states new york state itself incredibly badly hit nearly 400 people have died over the 24 hours across the state so the death toll there continues to mount in that 3 states region new jersey new york state and connecticut the death toll is now well over 2 and a half 1000 so certainly the governors working together very important in terms of combating the spread of the virus but also symptomatic of the fact that it's the

governors who are leading the fight against the pandemic not necessarily federal government and speaking of connecticut mike you're mentioning in just a moment ago we're getting tragic news out of there. indeed yes the governor of connecticut has announced that a 6 month old baby has died in hartford connecticut this he says is the youngest victim of the pandemic at this particular point the baby did test positive for the coronavirus certainly this is heartbreaking and just an indication of how the profiles of the victims vary and nish really it was thought that the virus would focus on older people people with latent health problems however it's clear enough that it's from a results that are coming from across the country it doesn't go only for elderly people it goes for middle aged people it goes for younger people and in this

particular case a 6 month old baby yeah right mike hanna thank you. for watching al-jazeera still had indian authorities to scramble to find people who attended a muslim gathering with more than 100 coronavirus cases linked to the event and. on paul race in sweden where i am from the soft approach to the corona virus has made it the odd one out in western europe. hello there plenty of rain on its way here across much of the southeast of australia quite a massive cloud is the building the last few as and at the same time some very windy conditions as well particularly developing across into towns mainly but look at this rain some very dark areas a blue this will accumulate over the next couple of days we could be seeing as much as 80 millimeters in paul's victoria and also more central areas of new south wales

staying pretty good and clear across much of new zealand the same across western australia temperatures not too bad 24 in perth but you'll see this mass of blue here so although on friday we've got a much better day across into tasmania be prepared for the next system is on its way across the great bite against. strong winds and more rain but the rain is staying the full cost in new south wales hence those accumulations a very wet day in sydney with a high over $25.00 degrees and also a very wet day across much of japan the weather is really steamy across it will be pulling up towards the kaido on thursday but the rain still very heavy across southern areas of china really anywhere from the sichuan down tools the south across into guangxi and again it stays in the forecast as we go through friday so some very heavy amounts and this is all coming down on some very saturated ground so a dumb cool day in hong kong at 23 but a much better they generally the korean peninsula much of japan and some enjoys 20 celsius in tokyo.

to his supporters hungary's prime minister is a guardian of europe's borders manning the ramparts against migrant told. to others viktor orban is an authoritarian chemical whose far right agenda poses a significant threat to democratic values. people in power investigates the leader taking his country to extremes hungary europe's bad boy on a just 0. you're already. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the u.k. is experienced its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic with 563 people dying

in hospital more than 2000 frontline health care workers have also been infected. the number of coronavirus infections in spain has passed 100000 the 3rd country to do so more than 860 people died in the past day another record high for the country but there are hopes the peak has been reached. the world health organization says the number of deaths internationally has more than doubled in the past week and it expects the number of infections will pass 1000000 in the coming days. into an authority as are scrambling to trace people who attended a muslim gathering in the country's capital after a spike in corona virus cases tied to the events at least 2 and a half 1000 muslims from india and overseas visited the headquarters of. the weeks ago about 130 infections have been linked to the gathering with 7 people dying with toronto reports from new delhi municipal workers sanitize

this mosque in new delhi which has become the epicenter of covering a virus cases in the indian capital. that's after health authorities have relocated 2300 people who was staying in the box accommodation more than 500 have been taken to hospital but sometimes more than 1800 and quarantine of self isolation it's thought at least $2500.00 muslims from around and all the cities took part in the gathering organized by the group. in case of the cyber so the police will investigate the phone numbers of all the people who are present in the area in that meeting they will also trace where they went on whom they met they will also tries to location of the people whom they have met i'm asking all these people who attended the meeting to surrender themselves to the medical facilities or local authorities wherever they are amazing of islamic preachers was held in early march

but many stayed behind at the mosques accommodation after it had finished 6 a donation attendees who traveled to the southern state of telangana after the meeting tested positive for corona virus and have since died a cleric from 3 united an indian administered kashmir who also attended the conference has also died from the virus delhi's chief minister has ordered police to file a case of negligence against the mosques administration is soon. in the current situation it was completely wrong to have held such a bigger gathering we are being told that many who participated in it is gathering have now traveled to other parts of the country it is scary to even think about how many people have come in contact with the disease because of this. there are at least $130.00 cases linked to the gathering in 7 states and union territories a 7 kilometer cordon has been created around a village in the state of tamil nadu after $21.00 infections which all have links to the gathering in new delhi the mosques administration says people stranded after

promised in the day had them already announced a national curfew on march 22nd and suspended all bus and train services with just a few hours' notice but delhi state government says people stayed there despite the ban on gatherings of more than $200.00 people which came into force on march 13th health officials have a big task of tracking down not just everyone who attended the gathering but everyone they had contact with and as the group said leakage of mouth faces criticism for staying at the mosque despite the restrictions so too does the police station which didn't notice all reports a meeting of thousands of people in a compound next door elizabeth rainham al jazeera new delhi 138 people have died in iran in the past 24 hours making it the 6th country to record more than 3000 coronavirus fatalities there more than 47000 people infected iran has banned all intercity travel until at least april 8th parks were closed on wednesday to

prevent people from getting together to mark nature day a traditional festival that families usually celebrate with picnics for a lot of repetition is working remotely after the doctor who showed him around moscow's main coronavirus hospital tossed the positive for a covert 19 dentist co-host of the tour a week ago where the 2 shook hands without wearing protective equipment a kremlin spokesman says the president is regularly being tested and that there is no reason to be concerned about his health russia so far has registered nearly 3000 and factions and 24 deaths. sweden's response to the virus has divided opinion with people in urban communities feeling they're part of an experiment some schools remain open and large gatherings were still allowed as recently as last week whole race reports. weeks after the 1st coronavirus case was confirmed in sweden life appears very much as normal in the cities and towns. people are still

allowed to gather in groups of up to 50 while isolation is a question of free will the so-called swedish model getting support at least on the streets. but i think there'd have been the right positions like having your schools open and so on as long as you wash your hands and keep a distance it's feels like if you're not in a risk so then you should be out it's difficult to see so far so good primary schools remain open after the health agency said it doesn't believe children are strong transmitters of covert 19th testing of which has been minimal with measures to increase it only announced on tuesday beginning with hospital staff. a letter criticizing the hands off approach was signed by 2000 people in sweden's medical community but plenty supports it as well. just have to break away from that report and take you back to the white house where the us president is speaking on the coronavirus pandemic alongside his health experts as well as the vice president

state location and ideally not even hit the states where houses if we can avoid the warehouses it's even better because they go directly into a hospital and one example of that is ohio the great state of ohio senator rob portman called today and he asked for some help but got us. did a tremendous job along with mike de wine the great governor of ohio to facilitate a donation of 2200000 gallons 2200000 yancey to what that is 2200000. to the strategic national stockpile from ohio based cardinal health cardinal health we appreciated and they're making much more than that and different types of things we're profoundly grateful for their contribution to protect the lives and safety of our health care professionals cardinal's been working with us very well fema and h.h.s. formed a historic partnership with the private sector called project air bridge to bring

supplies from other countries to the united states including gloves gowns goggles and masks these supplies will soon be distributed around the country we have large cargo planes coming in from various parts of the world every day new plane loads are landing in cities such as new york miami chicago los angeles additional flights have been scheduled and we're reading more and more and they're actually coming in ahead of schedule a lot of these flights are coming in with a lot of material ahead of schedule the amount of usage the amount of need. is something that nobody's ever seen before we are getting so much but no matter how much we get they seem to use it up very quickly more than 17000 national guard personnel have now been activated all across our country on tuesday the vice president sent a letter to the governors calling on them to have plans in place to use the

national guard to move medical supplies from warehouses to hospitals so a lot of times we'll deliver supplies to a warehouse in a state someplace into york or in new jersey or in connecticut or wherever it may be. and they're having difficulty getting it moved so what we're doing if we don't bring a directory to the hospital is we've authorized it was a special authorization the national guard to go into that. facility and to move it for the state so the the national guard is moving a lot of this equipment and medical supplies into a hospital or into an area where it's needed by the state as i said yesterday difficult days are ahead for our nation we're going to have a couple of weeks starting pretty much now but especially a few days from now that are going to be horrific but even in the most challenging of times americans do not despair we do not give in to fear we pulled together we

persevered and we overcome and we win this week every american heart is joined with the people of new york as they continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic every new yorker please know that we are by your side i love new york and every day we will be with you and it could very well be that others take over from new york. there are some areas some hot spots in other states that are really. exploding some like louisiana were very late and then all of a sudden it was like an explosion in confronting this deadly plague america's armed with capabilities never dreamed of in past centuries you look at 1917 the pandemic it was something ravaged parts of this country but ravaged europe ravaged they say 752100 1000000 some people say 50 to 75000000

people died think of that and it was a long time ago over 100 years ago very very many books written about. the 19171800 pandemic our doctors are poring over the virus genetic code designing potential therapies and vaccines our planes are airlifting supplies from every corner of the earth while watching other countries and they're watching us to see whether or not and who's going to be the 1st to come up with a cure or a. remedy of some kind or even a help if it can help and of course a vaccine looking very strongly for a vaccine johnson and johnson is doing well in other countries companies are doing very well but are most powerful asset our greatest weapon in this effort is the spirit of our people and we want to keep away keep a distance keep away if you don't get it that solves

a lot of problems if you don't get it and you can't get it if you keep the distance . american spirit is unyielding unwavering and unbreakable it's credible i've never seen anything like it the way the way the people have pulled together the unity of this country. so together we're going to win this war and the sooner we do the sooner we can begin to rebuild and we're ready to rebound and return to normal lives we would for the best economy in the history of the world the best economy that this country has ever seen the best employment numbers we've ever had 160000000 people working almost 160000000 to the point where the professionals came to me and they say sir you can have to shut the country down said what does that mean this it's a you have to shut it down and we're going to build it up and i think we're going to build it up fast i think we're going to have a tremendous rebound there's

a great energy and a great pent up demand and as you know phase 3 was terrific and phase 4 what passed. in congress and phase 4 if that happens will be great i already proposed a paying almost 0 interest on bonds and i proposed a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan which would not only fix our roads and highways and bridges and tunnels and other things but will also do something very good it's called the jobs i'm also asking that restaurants and entertainment facilities. go back to the old. deductibility for corporations where corporations can buy because otherwise a lot of these restaurants a could have a hard time reopening takes a long time and they can have a hard time reopening so we're asking for going back to deductability where corporations can buy and corporations can go out to lunch and they pay and they get a deduction of what they eat they get

a deduction on the bell and. the same with the entertainment it's going to bring a lot of people back i think it will open up the restaurant business people forget that years ago they had that and when they got rid of it when they ended it for whatever reason but they ended it many many restaurants went out of business many entertainment type facilities went out of business and that was a great time to bring it back it was it was a terrible time for that business after they ended it but this is a great time to bring it back it'll keep our restaurants going in fact i think the restaurant business will be actually bigger and better than it is right now so we're also talking about that and now what we'll do is we'll take some questions and i see mike is back with some of the folks that's great dr phadke and we will. thank you deborah so we'll take some questions and. we make progress day by day police officer yesterday when you were talking about

a friend you had with anaconda i'm sorry to hear your friends going through that on but you said this is no flipping on their self people kind of thing. this has the flu and over the past month you think it is enough listen. to you like the flu or you know one tree to tell him the flu so what changed your thinking on that when you're looking at this is there any i think also in looking at the way that the contagion the it is so contagious nobody's ever seen anything like this where large groups of people all of a sudden just by being in the presence of somebody have it the flu has never been like that and there is a flu is contagious but nothing like we've ever seen here also the violence of it if if it hits the right person. and you know what those stats are if it hits the right person that person's and deep trouble and my friend was the right person when you heard about that was your friendly but that is a turning point for a 100 for you but not before that i knew how because i'm seeing numbers and i'm

seeing statistics that. you know not exactly very good so but but it hit him very hard he's strong a very strong kind of a guy but he's older he's heavier and he's sort of central casting for what we're talking about and it hit him very hard i've never said they like it you have to know this 1st serious question as well for dr berger dr felt she on senator lindsey graham tweeted last night we checked today that there are still flights that are running from hot spots like new york and detroit new orleans is where all of them are flights were completed today senator graham's point is if you're going to declare mitigation should not be full mitigation and you stop people from travel we think it had doing that at the same time we just you know to start these airlines have to start this whole thing over again is very tough it's a very tough and you have i'm going in some cases from hans but it's but if you

notice they're usually but. very few flights new york to miami. and but where we think it was. certainly looking at it but once you do that you really are if you really are clamping down an industry that is desperately needed calculation as to whether or not you keep the in the order or your risk him breaking to change that is a calculation that will look at right we're looking at it very strongly please so let me follow up to that mr president not every governor has a stay at home for all of us meaning very clear how for you to stay home that we are in a dire situation here and that's how you stop the spread of the staying home why not take. the power to hands of the governors and just as she was here home for her every say just never say it's a different and i understand that the governor of florida great governor run just sent us issued one today and that's good that's great but there are some states

that are different there are some states that don't have much of a problem there are some well they don't have the problem they don't have thousands of people that are positive with thousands of people that even think they might have it or hundreds of people in some cases so you have to look you have to look at that so if you have to give a little bit of flexibility but have a state. in the midwest or if alaska has an example that doesn't have a problem it's awfully tough to say close it down so we have to have a little bit of flexibility look we're helping governors we're really here to help governors they're the front line of attack and that includes and purchasing brother way we're here and we're back in a mop and there's never been a back up like we've given them we've given them billions of dollars worth of things medical supplies and ventilators thousands and thousands of ventilators we have thousands under construction right there. we have thousands ready to go in

case they need is never been anything like this i mean we've they've done really the people have done incredibly well building hospitals all over the country when building houses. right now at a rate that has never even been contemplated before their mobile hospitals but they're really not mobile i mean they're incredible structures but we're building many hospitals in louisiana new jersey new york we just finished a massive hospital complex and we also have medical centers built in new york with building hospitals at the rate that this country has never done before and hopefully it's all going to work out. first this is presidents to make sure we're on the plains are you looking at just current silly rules that's when certain hotspots or is it broadly about whether it will look at the whole thing because we're getting into a position now where we want to do that we have to do that and so we look at the whole thing what is it and we have we have some. second question on economics and.