al-jazeera. down to. the u.k. says another 621 people have died from the crowd a virus but people are still going outside despite warnings of new restrictions if they don't stay indoors. alone kimbell this is all just there a live from doha also coming up a 3rd straight day of decline spain reports 674 dead as the infection right also slows. just will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week and

they'll be a lot of deaths unfortunately. the u.s. president warns of america's toughest week in the battle against coronavirus. living on the edge chimeric and farmers getting us about the coronavirus coming to town as the spring planting season begins. begin in the u.k. where new coronavirus figures have just come in another 621 people have died that's about us i tell issues from the day before but with the weather getting better people are still going outside as you can see despite the government's advice to stay indoors so now the u.k.'s health secretary says he may ban public exercise in spain the latest figures provide a little hope for the 3rd day the death toll has fallen with $0.67 down $135.00. the previous day and the infection rate is also slowing and in iran the

president will allow low risk economic activities to resume from saturday 2 thirds of government sector workers will head back to work despite warnings of a possible 2nd wave of infections well let's go live now to jonah hull who joins us live there he is jonah just tell us about these latest numbers and put them into context for us. what will an increase in the previous 24 hours of 621 as you mentioned there is of course a big number but it's a smaller number a smaller daily increase that we've seen in most of i think this last week certainly the last 3 or 4 days where we saw a number 708 the day before the late 600 the day before that so it's a decrease if you like in the daily increase while still being a very substantial number of it there are a couple of caveats to apply to this though this daily death toll that is announced

each day is in fact the number of reported deaths over a previous 24 hour period doesn't necessarily align to the number of actual deaths that have occurred in that period there are things like having to inform relatives and so on which means that the numbers made fact applied to previous days so it doesn't necessarily give us a very accurate timeline of the rate of increase but no doubt some people will read into it some positive sign that the number in the daily death toll he's coming down the number of increase that is donna summer is of course coming that's a very exciting things the brits who endure very dark winters sometimes how long are these measures likely to last. initially a 3 week period of quite restrictive lockdown measures is in place with 2 weeks into that now the prime minister had said he would review that after easter which is next sunday at the end of that 3 week period simle taney asli. senior

epidemiologist invite advising the government professor neil ferguson has said that the peak is expected to arrive in a week to 10 days around about the easter period so i don't think anybody's expecting very much to change post easter and they'll be at a deal of time needed to look at what has happened to that peat whether it has in fact been reduced by these lockdown measures being properly adhered to and whether the plateau that follows it is short or long whether the numbers quit fairly quickly reduced or whether those consistently high numbers continue for a matter of weeks and all of that will weigh on the lock down and also of course the testing that will need to be put in place full community testing eventually when those numbers for away and aggressive contact tracing to prevent a 2nd wave i don't think anybody frankly is expecting very much to change here much before the end of may and again profit professor ferguson reiterating this week of the government very worried about the people coming out in the sunshine taking

advantage of the parks and open spaces i hate the say this park looks like people are behaving pretty responsibly but in lots of other places they have not been the health secretary saying if you don't stay indoors apart from at the absolute essentials like exadata exercising briefly or walking your dog they may have to cancel the privilege to exercise outside at all and that will be intolerable of course to many of the extent to which people adhere to these measures says professor ferguson would depend it will determine what happens when the peak arrives and immediately afterwards thank you for that update there were developments in the u.k. that's down home as we mentioned spain's death toll has gone down for the 3rd day in a row and the infection rate is down to last editor has the latest numbers from space . these figures reflect this pain is entering a slow down trend with a total of 130000 people infected from groan of virus and $6000.00 new positives in

the past 24 hours this indicates we are entering a phase of a step ballots and us prime minister better santa said yesterday the country is close to passing the peak of infections the death toll has increased 212400 with 674 fatalities since yesterday this is the lowest number in the past 10 days so a little bit of optimism there its prime minister has to stand it 15 days more the the state of emergency lockdown until april 25th he says that these wait he can contain the virus upgrade and he can give some time for health care services to catch up and recover a little bit so they will pass it on to the congress this week maybe 30 thursday i think. that will approve it because although it was jump artists already support that they are saddled with this new extension in the us president donald trump says americans should prepare for the toughest week yet he's deploying the military to

new york which has been the hardest hit of all mike hanna joins us now live from washington d.c. so mike donald trump zel taking the sarah say it looks like apart from these warnings how else is he trying to prepare the country for the coming surge. well there's been a bleak statement from the u.s. surgeon general within the last hour speaking on network television he says basically that this is going to be the u.s. is pole harbor moment it's going to be a 911 moment it's going to be prague probably the worst week that americans have ever had to endure this follows warnings by the white house so coordinator for the you pandemic deborah burke's who are saying in the past 24 hours that the apex of the pandemic is likely to hit within the next 7 days in at least 3 separate locations within the united states in louisiana for example there's been a massive increase in the rate of infection 20 percent increase in the past 24

hours new jersey remains with a massive increase on a daily basis and of course the epicenter of the pandemic within the united states remains in new york state and new york city in particular now in new york city still a increase in the rates of infection once again the apex according to the governor of new york state is likely to hit within the next 7 days according to their projections president trump has sent a group of 1000 medical military officers to help in the hospitals in new york city and president trump says this is probably the beginning of a wider military deployment we're going to be airing a tremendous amount of military to help supplement the state's thousands of soldiers out thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors

and it'll be a large number it'll be will be telling them over the next version where they're going and they're going into war they're going into a battle. well new york state has welcomed this particular deployment but many governors continue to despair about the backing of the federal government in terms of the efforts to combat. the pandemic california for example not having to set up its own task force a mixture of state and corporate bodies to try and get a testing program to go wider in california they have been 120000 tests according to the governor but this is simply not enough and in illinois the governor they're absolutely furious about the ongoing lack of testing equipment saying that it's not being left to the states to try and source their own testing kits now these are critical in terms of getting accurate data on how the pandemic is spreading the

governor of illinois saying it's just like the wild west out here thanks for that update mike hanna across developments in the us from washington d.c. iran is reporting another 151 deaths but also a decrease in new infections for the 5th consecutive day and another positive development some rains are being allowed to go back to work next week saying the strategy has moved from to around. we've heard from health officials over the last few days and weeks that things can go back to normal too soon but the president when he made this announcement president rouhani began by saying that all branches of government are onboard with the plan that they have moving forward so making it clear that the government is according to him speaking in one voice despite the warnings of normalising too quickly from health experts saying that that could bring on a 2nd wave here president hassan rouhani did say that in terms of the details of what is considered low risk and high risk those announcements will be made over state t.v.

in the coming hours but we can surmise that what they consider low risk is anything that doesn't compel too large of a crowd to form people can work from home they can open small businesses remember this country is a place where the majority of businesses are small to medium so really those environments will begin to see life coming back to life returning to some kind of normal he said that even though those shops and other organizations may begin to start their engines again they have to observe health protocols social distancing that still has to be the key element of how to go about doing this it's always going to balance between fighting a public health crisis and making sure the country's economy does not go bust he also acknowledged that iran and iranian people are still operating in unknown territory they don't know whether or not this will continue for a long period of time whether the country will become a kind of reservoir for the virus so he said things will be taken one step at a time but we have to remember that the country's main concern all along has been

that the virus might do what sanctions could not which is bring the country's economy to a standstill and that's really what they're trying to fight against at this time turkey's death toll has now called $501.00 around $24000.00 and factions reported nationwide and they're going to measure this and that containing outbreak has been stepped up including the mandatory wearing of masks and shall kill markets. as countries around the world grapple with new restrictions and anxieties stemming from the covert 900 pandemic there's further concern among groups in the us who live and work on the margins of society like undocumented workers and their families are brennan's reports from los angeles one son tian is a day laborer. i'm with and the. i were dead today so i have to work this is them if i don't work. i would have enough to cover the basic necessities in a city that has nothing. at the nonprofit outreach center where something beyond goes

to find work staff are preparing bags with soap tissues and information packets about cope at 19 but we're really concerned specifically for our workers that are elderly we're really concerned about them we look at that we have a huge population of workers that are 60 and while it work many undocumented workers can't even practice basic virus prevention workers who don't have access to running water can even wash their hands at the month senior osco romero clinic in los angeles dr don garcia treats low income families many of whom are undocumented they live in the shadows their exposure i could very well say on an epidemiological site could even be higher than the ordinary resident or person of the united states just because of their employment standards garcia says some undocumented people ovoid interacting with public health systems for fear of being caught like immigration authorities and deported doctors say if the situation remains in which

undocumented people stay in the shadows away from the health care system during the pandemic it poses a grave risk to the population as a whole they're becoming a transmission vector to all those other individuals that they're exposed to unless government policy encourages undocumented people to come out of the shadows the danger of infection could increase for everyone. robert oulds al jazeera los angeles so we come here on al-jazeera we had brought home more than 350000 you do feel. some tourists stranded around the world are finally back home got another 250000 still looking for a way back. and he was jailed for nearly 5 years and when he says a prominent civil rights lawyer he still can't join his family.

for. more heavy right into southern parts of china the seasonal rains here further north high pressure is in charge that's keeping things quiet unsettled and if anything that high will just squeeze this cloud a little further south would say somewhere to whether they're coming in across a good part of southern china as we go on through monday choose day for anything that will sink a little further south still heavy rain there for hong kong again the could be some flooding coming in here for tonga for much china by this stage you can see it's largely dry dislodging dry across the korean peninsula and japan seeing more in the way of sunshine after a rather cool and wet our last few days find a dry across a good part of the philippines into china will see one or 2 showers maybe even wanted to those showers just pushing towards the gulf of thailand cambodia could catch a shower to central parts of vietnam much of malaysia as the heat of the day showers

in the similar picture to into good parts of indonesia we got some showers meanwhile it's in southern parts of india just around carolers particular much of india on monday does look fine and dry with plenty of sunshine and change as we go on into choose day big downpours coming into parts of carola for a time somewhat to weather to the far north of the country could also see want to see showers for the fog all the pakistan. and for me to the poles good kids are renowned for their courage on the phone. when i want to east finds out what it tikes to join the elite brigade. on al-jazeera. i'm counting the cost for nations seek emergency funding from the world bank and i.m.f. to battle the coronavirus pandemic argentina puts people before that crisis and

from a helicopter money to universal basic income what governments must do to keep the economy alive counting the cost on al-jazeera. who. must. be watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.k.'s health secretary says he may ban public exercise self to people still going outside enjoying the warmer weather despite the government's advise to stay indoors you coronavirus the figures have just come in another 621 people have died that's about 800 suicides how the scenes from the day before. the number of new products are as related deaths in spain as for wonderful the 3rd day in a row with already reported 674 deaths on sunday compared to 890 day.

and iran is reporting another 151 deaths of the number of new infections has decreased for the 5th consecutive day president hassan rouhani says a low risk economic activities will resume on saturday and so spy warnings of a possible 2nd wave of infections. a quarter of a 1000000 european union citizens are expected to be flown home soon and. an effort by the governments 350000 others mostly tourists have already been airlifted from all over the world by chartered airline is a military aircraft shelob else reports. it could be a hospital reception but as bolivia's airport the country's airspace is closed part of measures to contain covert 19 it came back to life on saturday after the french embassy organized an exception to get european tourists home but i meant. actually

my return date had expired the airline hard rescheduled it for the end of this month but we know this is going to take longer because covert 19 is spreading i found out about the repatriation flights undecided to return. this story repeats in peru where french spanish and belgian citizens all buses bound for an earful space this weekend. the german government has repatriated nearly 200000 of its citizens including this group in south africa on friday all flights have been grounded there but an exception was made this week. if you think it's a good thing to turn the crank say people. because. that way we're also not going to have the stomach for africa. governments have been relying on commercial airlines but with fewer flights every day the block is resorting to a mix of chartered and military planes e.u. institutions are also helping to cover costs when their passengers have more than one e.u. country they focused only on tourists not

a used citizens living permanently abroad we had brought home more than 350000. 350000. 250000 remaining and many operations on the way things become more difficult every day in january daily commercial flights peaked at 118000 around the world now there are just 27000 over 100 yr lines have completely or nearly completely stopped service it's pushed the burden increasingly on to governments like france which seem to playing for more than $100.00 nationals to the indian cities of cochin in mumbai and chartered in air france flight to pick up nearly 200 swiss belgians germans and british people in moscow. some time and probably true leave simply because i'm not 100 percent sure that the information about the epidemic here in russia is reliable unfortunately e.u.

citizens are looking for security at home even if home is where the global outbreak is at its worst shelob alice al-jazeera. idea has confirmed 4 deaths and more than 200 cases of the coronavirus displaced people living in camps across the northeastern region a particularly vulnerable this outbreak spreads the u.n. says it's working with nigerian officials to develop emergency response plans for vulnerable groups of addresses in nigeria's capital of buddha where he tells us about the difficulties authorities are facing. the big major problem is the absence of enough testing kits only a few with 1000 people have been tested so far and the government as we speak now was tracing after thousands of people came in contact with people who have been infected with the coronavirus in nigeria suck the government may have defeated ebola some years back when there was an outbreak in west africa some of the

structures are still in place but a major outbreak like the koran a virus in nigeria that was still doomed unless the government has some assistance outside the country the government told us just yesterday that they expected some chinese medical experts to come in to help with the with the with the with the with the control of the of of the current of the outbreak in nigeria and there's been some fumigation efforts going on in major cities in nigeria some states have locked down the states from travel from people coming in either by road by air by sea but the federal government imposed a lockdown on 3 major states the federal capital which is subject to late may go which is the commercial capital of nigeria and a neighboring state in the southwest of the country where we're seeing in seoul so some infectious rising so so far the you know going to governments that it's doing

all it can to control the spread of this lattice but it will definitely need some assistance outside a 2 week national had locked down in uganda means many hands can't go to work and many a struggling to put said on the table ideas being distributed by the government around want to health many and ugandans designated as most vulnerable public transport is at a standstill as a closed and everyone's being to stay home to contain the spread. south sudan has confirmed its 1st case of the corona virus president said a 29 year old woman infected with the virus arrived from ethiopia and separate she's now being treated in isolation south sudan is the latest african nation to report a case strain the outbreak. the public health laboratory tested and confirmed a case of 19 in an individual the suspect presented to the u.n. clinic on the 2nd april 2020 with

a fever cough headache and shortness of breath the government urges members of the public to strictly observe the rules of social distancing him organise in khartoum she explains why south sudan's efforts countering the outbreak will be a challenge. well 1st of all let's remember that south sudan is coming out of a 5 year conflict in which most of its health infrastructures have been damaged and even prior to the conflict there were not much infrastructure to begin with coming to the case that has been confirmed and the key word here is confirmed the patient came to south sudan on the 28th of february according to the government statement but did not present with symptoms of the disease up until just a couple of weeks back so but actually up until a couple of days back so there are questions about whether she is indeed the 1st patient or whether they are other cases that have not been recorded prior to the

case that was announced by the government today there have been 18 people who were tested there were people who were kept in isolation but who escaped according to the government and who refused to be important teen while they were coming from the u.a.e. and from your neighbor in uganda and if you are so lots of questions about how many people are actually infected and when it comes to the economy of handling the disease south sudan has announced some measures they've announced a curfew they've announced the lockdown or shutdown of restaurants from 6 pm and that restaurants should not allow people to set only to take their food based on orders but then the question is is south sudan ready for a total lockdown and the answer to that is that many people in south sudan rely on a day to day labor to be able to provide for their families so lots of challenges will be presented to south sudan should the number of cases rise in the country. in the united states are regarded says being at high risk of catching coronavirus

that's despite working in vast open fields in the so-called fall bells in the midwest farm has their fair shortages of both food and well if the virus spreads into their rural communities 100 reports from chicago. here in america's bread basket the corona virus has yet to descend in force on the nation's farms. but john keep your nose it's coming and the timing could hardly be worse some people are going to get sick the numbers are out there the history of this virus is we're not going to avoid it like most farmers keefe nurse who raises corn soybean and chickens is already socially isolated but the average u.s. farmer is 58 and a half years old putting them in the high risk group for the global pandemic that is yet to reach much of rural america a lot of younger farmers aren't worried about it all i'm of the mindset that i'm probably not going to avoid it i'm going to get it and i'd rather get it now well

in the past year american farms have endured damaging floods a trade war with china and now a virus that threatens their workers and their ability to transport food to market if we shrink the labor pool this year that's going to be terrible all the emphasis is on the supply chain and my biggest fear is the transportation industry we constantly have a shortage of truck drivers so truck drivers need to avoid this virus. on chicago's mercantile exchange and throughout the midwestern farm belt agricultural income fell nearly 10 percent compared with last year and that was before the virus. then there's the worry about getting livestock to market meat packing plants are labor intensive that would be the biggest problem would be even have processing plants let's say had to shut down even temporarily it's going to drive down prices for a while because you're going to have a back in the supply chain. john key for says farmers can get through the short

term but the longer the crisis last the more strained america's food supply will be if this becomes a long to law endemic it's going to be a lot of people relying on us farmers until then keefe naren farmers like him are doing their best to stay isolated and in good health john hendren l.g. 0 chicago but he said colombia making a song adults to help people feel free during the confinement on the locked up was . was. offices in the capitol building tops and to keep the music going for as long as the internet is a law as well as lifting spirits and encouraging exercise police say their campaign reminds people to say it's time protect themselves. china has released a prominent human rights lawyer from jail wang tong tong was serving a 4 and a half yes sentence after being convicted of subversion of state poa sarah clarke

has more now from hong kong. confirmation from his wife via twitter that he was released from jail at 5 am on sunday morning or the family had requested that he be returned to their home in beijing however the authorities have kept him in an apartment in june and province and that simply because he'll be in quarantine now for 14 days so he's yet to be reunited with his family now he was arrested in 2015 as part of a chinese government crackdown on human rights lawyers we know around 300 or so of those lawyers were either arrested or they disappeared and interrogated some even reported torture now this crackdown has been referred to as a 709 crackdown simply because of the date as a result that was the the 9th of july now when he said 4 and a half years of job but he did this appear was in communicate over about 3 years and as a result his wife heavily campaigned for his case to go to trial he's got the last of those human rights lawyers to remain behind bars and in 2018 he wants to finally

tried his case was tried after the campaigning by his wife and he was sentenced to jail but his wife the last time she saw him was it last year in june so certainly some good news for his family of the release of this human rights lawyer on sunday in china you can find more on our web site the address for that is out there at the dot com headlines and eggs. got geologist there are these are the top stories the u.k. is health secretary says he may ban public exercise people are still going outside to enjoy warmer weather despite the government's advice to stay indoors new coronavirus figures show another 621 people have died in the u.k. that's about 80 fewer fatalities from the day before john holl has more on what lies ahead for the u k. but i think anybody frankly is expecting very much to change here much before

the end of may and again prophet professor ferguson reiterating this week of a government very worried about the people coming out in the sunshine taking advantage of the parks and open spaces i hate to say this park looks like people are behaving pretty responsibly but in lots of other places they have not been the health secretary saying if you don't stay indoors apart from at the absolute essentials like exadata exercising briefly or walking your dog they may have to cancel the privilege to exercise outside at all the number of new coronavirus related deaths in spain of 4 than for the 3rd day in a row with already as reported 674 deaths on sunday compared 280900 day earlier brings the total number of fatalities 212400 iran is reporting another 151 deaths but the number of new infections has decreased for the 5th consecutive day president hassan rouhani says low risk economic

activities will resume on saturday as despite warnings of a possible 2nd wave of infections donald trump is warning americans to prepare for the toughest week yes of deaths from the corona virus as the number of cases apostles' 310000 nationwide the military is being sent in to help the new york city south sudan has confirmed its 1st case of the crowd a virus vice president rick michel said a 29 year old woman infected with the virus arrived from ethiopia in february she's now being treated in isolation the latest african nation to report a case during the outbreak. turkey's death toll has now topped 500 with around 24000 infections reported nationwide emergency measures have been stepped up to include in the mandatory wearing of masks and shops all markets you're up to date up next is than the posts. our coverage of africa is what i'm most proud of

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