was in the daytime we will the american people with the truth and nothing else just go. for winning the white house unfair game on al-jazeera. the u.k. government announces another 621 coronavirus dad said warns of tougher measures to keep people indoors as sunny weather draws them out. well in the u.s. at the center of the governor of new york says it's too early to tell if the crisis has peaked after a slight fall in the death rate. i'm richelle carey this is out there live from doha also coming up. back to work for salma iran's president announces low risk occupations will resume despite fears of

a 2nd wave of infections. i will explore the idea of so-called immunity passports for people who for cover even though questions to remain about resistance. began in europe are coronavirus numbers are giving some calls for hope spanish officials say another 674 people have died there that is an awful number but it is the 3rd day in a row that the death toll has fallen down $135.00 from the previous day the infection rate is also slowing the u.k. has announced another $621.00 deaths which like spain is fewer than the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes and in the u.s. new york state's had almost $600.00 further deaths taking the total to about $42000.00 that is partly 40 percent of the u.s.

is death toll. we have 2 correspondents this half hour mike hanna in washington they say. london let's go to mary have now. yes that's right michelle so we had from the u.k. government today in that briefing another robust message about social distancing measures warning that these measures could be tightened if people continue to ignore the rules or if they push the boundaries that the message from health secretary hancock was that you are risking to those who are not complying with the rules he said you are risking your own life we're risking the life of others and you are making making it harder for us all now next week we might start to get some idea of the impact on the social distancing measures so in other words what figures reveal about the number of new coronavirus cases the number of hospital admissions and sadly the number of deaths will influence what happens with the lockdown which

currently 2 weeks into the lockdown it's expected to be reviewed on april 13th which is in about a week's time it is widely expected that the measures will be extended but what those figures show and whether the n.h.s. and hospitals have the capacity to cope with the number of patients coming in as we approach the peak of the crisis here will determine what happens with those locked down restrictions and whether or not those restrictions change in some way or if that tightens ok so mary what is the latest with what's happening in italy. yes some of the perhaps some signs of relief in other parts of europe in italy this is a country that has really on the brunt of the corona virus so far in the region some interesting figures reported today $525.00 deaths which is of course a sad but that is the lowest level since march the 19th which is which is

just about 2 weeks ago. so it is the lowest level since march 19th and actually put any who's the head of civil protection in the country said that indicates that the country has reached its reached a plateau well past its peak so perhaps a growing set a sense of confidence that italy might have turned a corner when yes there are still patients that they have to deal with and there are people still becoming sick from the virus but that perhaps reaching a stage in the crisis where the health system has the capacity to cope but make no mistake they have no plans on relaxing those that look out restrictions any time soon because of course there is still a great deal we don't know about this virus we are dealing with something new and that will be concerns about whether people can be reinfected after they ate they had it or whether there could be a 2nd or 3rd wave of infections ok mary thank you marion very much live there in london going to new york state now the u.s.

obviously which has reported nearly 600 deaths and over 8000 new infections and the last 24 hours governor andrew cuomo gave this update the number of deaths is up that's the bad news. it's $44159.00 and we pray for each and every one of them and their families and that is up and that is the worst news but the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping. for the 1st time what is the significance of that. it's too early to tell i can and joins us now from washington d.c. so mike what else do we know about what is happening in there the u.s. at the center. well governor making the point there that although the death toll continues to rise the number of deaths

over the past 24 hour period has dropped now as you heard him say that it's too early to tell exactly what this means he said that it's up to statisticians who want future figures to be able to interpret those coming out today but he mentioned as well another very significant detail and that is the number of people who have been discharged from hospitals has now risen to 75 percent this of course has a knock on effect meaning that there are more hospital beds available the governor saying that it is too early to tell but this could be the fact that the 8 picks has been reached or are rather as he says it could be a plateau but once again these are says something that will be clearer in the days ahead but certainly very significant that for the 1st time since it was hit by this pandemic the death rate in new york state has dropped so what are some of the other

hotspots though in other parts of the country my. well the u.s. surgeon general has given a very bleak message saying that this could be the country's pull harbor moment it could be it's a 911 moment he says coming up could be the worst moment in the lives of many americans and certainly although we've been focusing on new york state as the epicenter of the pandemic they are other red lights flashing detroit michigan is certainly a major problem michigan now having the most cases apart from new york state another area of great concern in louisiana the city of new orleans is having more deaths per capita than even new york city so certainly these are flash points other areas still showing deep concern a california which was one of the earliest sits in the outbreak says that it's carrying on testing but it's only managed to test $120000.00 people that's not

enough to get clear data in the sentiment echoed by the governor of illinois who says basically it's wild wild west out there everybody is competing all the states are competing for testing kits for ventilators for masks and this he says is a major problem in continuing to combat this pandemic saying that without the proper data it's quite impossible to be able to isolate trends or isolate where the pandemic is going once again blaming the federal government for not doing enough to support the states pointing out that the states are having to form alliances between themselves in a bid to can come to the pandemic on a joint basis ok mike hanna with the wrap up there from the u.s. and washington d.c. mike thank you. the number of people killed by the crime of virus in canada has jumped by 20 percent to 258 in one day more than 1400 are infected candidates appeal to volunteers to support frontline health care workers and is offering full

time jobs to reservists on saturday the prime minister justin trudeau announced millions of medical mask would be arriving from china. or libyan prime minister mahmoud jibril has died from the virus he had been quarantined in a cairo hospital since being diagnosed late last month to real lead the anti-government protest that ousted longtime leader more mortgage off in 2011 he was later appointed prime minister and head of the national transitional council or auto supporting another 151 deaths but also a decrease in new infections for the 5th consecutive day another positive development some iranians are being allowed to go back to work next week same as ravi has more from tehran. 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 on board 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 normalizing 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 coming up after whether. we had brought home more than 350000. some tourists stranded around the world are finally back home another $250000.00 that were still looking for a way back plus. you tell me the robot one of the many high tech machines now being used to protect medical staff in a battle against iran a virus. that

weather set fire across a good part of the middle east that sending the case across iraq and potentially hot sunshine dialogue getting up to 34 celsius over the next couple of days further north of here as well $34.00 in baghdad because such a $24.00 in damascus still a few showers just around turkey pushing over towards the caspian sea somewhat the weather there for a time also into afghanistan as well making its way further race with so we'll see some rain creeping its way towards the north of iran across the peninsula the sunshine continue study for just that could touch 40 in mecca is the heat slowly but surely continues to arise on the warm side see on the other side of the red sea a $41.00 there for katsu showers there into the heart of africa as per usual into the gulf of guinea doesn't rather lively showers just around got a pushing towards liberia maybe into sierra leone as well at least for

a time some of those showers also gathering into the democratic republic of congo wanted to show was there creeping they were a little further south was on the side of the riff obviously some wet weather there into tanzania for much of south africa is fine and dry we got some rather brisk winds pushing through the southern cape so making its way further east. i easily test trades and trace frank assessments why is it so he's struggling to cope with the number of her own virus pushed failure to take really aggressive action we put them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one ventilator 3000000 people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india doubling up to nip the spread of a lot of r.'s in the inside story on al-jazeera.

watch out there these are the top stories right now because health secretary says he will not ban public exercise for now despite the fact people are going outside to enjoy the warmer weather ignoring the government's advice to stay indoors the cry of virus figures show another 621 people have died in the last 24 hours that is about 80 fewer fatalities the day before. the number of new coronavirus related deaths in spain has fallen for the 3rd day in a row authorities reported 674 deaths on sunday compared to 809 a day earlier new york state has reported nearly 602 deaths and over 8000 new

infections in the last 24 hours but in hospitalizations have fallen by 50 percent so u.s. president donald trump has warned americans to prepare for the toughest week yet the kind of virus pandemic. a quarter of a 1000000 european union citizens are expected to be flown home soon in a large scale repatriation effort by their governments and 50000 others mostly tourists have already been airlifted from all over the world by charted airline chartered airliners and military aircraft charlotte dallas reports. it could be a hospital reception but as bolivia's airport the country's airspace is closed part of mission is 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'm going to. actually my return date had expired the airline hard freeze scheduled for the end of this month but we know this is going to take longer because kovi one gene is

spreading i found out about the repatriation flight and decided to return. history repeats in peru with french spanish and belgian citizens buses bound for an if new 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. i actually think it's a good thing to turn brings their people. because. that way we often. don't have the stomach for africa e.u. governments have been relying on commercial airlines but with fewer flights every day the block is resorting to a mix of charset 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 use citizens living permanently abroad we had brought home more than

350000. 350000. 257000 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 or $100.00 airlines 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 coach in the mumbai and chartered an air france flight to pick up nearly 200 swiss belgians germans and british people in moscow leave. 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 looking for security harm even if home is where the global outbreak is at

its worst shelob ballasts al jazeera. a spread of the corona virus has been relatively low in africa but the african union predicts the pandemic could lead to the loss of more than 20000000 jobs a study shows the continent's economy could trend by one percent this year and foreign investment gets not by 15 percent trade they fair made to buy up to 35 percent which would lead to a loss of more than $270000000000.00 of the tourism and oil industries could see losses in the billions of dollars. and harry has confirmed 4 tests and more than 200 cases of chronic diarrhea displaced people living in camps across the northeastern region are particularly vulnerable at this outbreak spread the u.n. says it's working with nigerian officials to develop emergency response plans managers in nigeria's capital a position where he tells us about the difficulties authorities are facing. the big major problem is the absence of enough testing kits only

a few 1000 people have been tested and the government as we speak now is chasing after thousands of people who came in contact with people who have been infected with the corner by this in nigeria so the government may have defeated it some years back when there was an outbreak in west africa some of the structures are still in place but a major outbreak not because of bladders in nigeria that was filmed do 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 would be willing we think 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 or by air will by sea but the federal government imposed a lockdown on 3 major states the federal capital which is subject to late may ghost

which is the commercial capital of nigeria and a neighboring state in the southwest of the country where we're seeing seoul so some interaction is rising so so far be you know going to governments that it's doing all it can to control the spread of this modest but it will definitely need some assistance outside. it's a big nationwide lockdown and uganda means millions of people cannot go to work and as a result many are struggling to put food on the table aid is being distributed by the government here one and a half 1000000 ugandans designated as most vulnerable public transport is at a standstill the borders are closed and everyone is being urged to stay home to contain the spread. south sudan has confirmed his 1st case of the corona virus vice president riek machar said a 29 year old woman infected with the virus arrived from ethiopia and february she is now being treated in isolation south sudan is the latest african nation to report a case during this outbreak going back to work in getting the economy moving again

may take a long time in many countries but there is one idea out there that's already being worked on with the hope that it may ease the lock down it's being called an immunity passport to reports the corona virus has transformed the world were empty streets and shot to business is the norm and billions are under lockdown but researchers around the world are developing tests and conducting clinical studies to explore if people who have been infected and cured are no longer at risk the aim is to eventually allow people to go back to normal life the idea behind this is that if people get him you in school natural infection they would have a similar situation to someone having received a vaccination. and we could use the body tests as soon as possible antibody tests become available we could use antibody tests to document that immunity exists.

britain which is struggling to speed up testing has floated the idea of a so-called immunity passport acidic it for those who recover it and declared immune to the virus in the minute a region of italy infected doctors and nurses are being tested to see if they have developed resistance to the virus so they can return to walk and millions more italians will be tested for natural antibodies but it's unclear just how reliable and effective the tests with. early in the pandemic that there are a small number. compared to who had been infected and cleared and will have both be and. we don't know for how long these antibodies will last. time as an all antibodies or tens of drop off time. at a time when government lock downs have dropped so many people off their livelihoods

they're also concerns about criminals forging immunity documents this passport can be the equivalent of yellow fever or polio certificates that allow international travel to resume if countries recognize such a certificate but there will be a problem that i see that it's wrong counterfeit certifications because individuals communities urgently want to return to economic activity. there are also difficult ethical questions about whether such certificates will cause more prejudice and further restrict the most vulnerable in society you can ensure that people face a lot of risks and we reduce the death toll from this but you have to. make more decisions about who will be allowed to work and who won't be who will be allowed to travel who won't be the idea attractive and hopefully perhaps but also from with

uncertainties asked the wild hunkers down for yet another day of the global pandemic priyanka could go on to 0 countries around the world are looking to all sorts of technologies to help contain the crime no bias or he reports on the doctors and nurses and it's only need all the help they can get including from tommy the robot. that robots like tommy operate in the most infectious wards stuff here hope he'll reduce the risks of catching the disease by avoiding direct contact with patients. it allows us to use less protective clothing like masks and overalls which at this time are in scarce supply the advantage is there for double the northern region of lombardy accounts for most of italy's known coronavirus cases here the robots help

relay a vital information between patients and doctors remotely and at any time of the day. chair you'll need this robot helps us monitor some clinical parameters of the patient for example heart rate respiratory rate oxygen saturation blood pressure and also mechanical aspects of respiration. in galle in belgium hospitals are testing whether robots equipped with ultraviolet lights can disinfect wards to keep patients safe even in hard to reach areas. disinfection the machines ultraviolet light to quickly kills bacteria we want to make sure that we touch every surface by the lights and this can be done by the robot as if to drive itself. in india's southern state of tom i'm not do robots and then a helping hand by delivering vital supplies that will lead to good people and also

available. for the. giving yeah food and medicine to the patients so it's a very good really should be appreciative that others are on security patrol in tunis he is capital. this one dubbed robo cop is guarding empty streets ensuring no one breaks a lockdown imposed last month. spotting unmanned drones is slowly becoming a regular occurrence many are being deployed as part of coronavirus awareness campaigns. as well as making sure that everyone stays indoors and maintains social distancing while the human touch remains essential in times of crisis robots are stepping in where people can't. take a look now at some of the other news around the world but the rebels have attacked

a women's prison in the southwestern many city of ties local sources say 5 female prisoners were killed and several others were injured during a shelling on sunday tice's humans 3rd biggest city in a major center of the conflicts. 4 government soldiers in libya have been killed in the latest fighting there and the government national court based in tripoli says 175 fighters for work khalifa haftar have been killed in the past 8 days i'm going to tell the head of central plains says the u.n. calls for a global ceasefire because of coronavirus seem to have gone unheard military sources with the government of national say that house that his forces started shelling get their positions and also chilling it is the areas with indiscriminate. rockets rockets random rockets landed in sort of residential areas in southern tripoli and also in near the city center

the lake. neighborhood today but meanwhile the government military sources say that they have been targeting have to his forces litigations with air strikes over the past week and today near the. east of the city of misrata government air force targeted have to the forces positions including get a detachment military detachments and also military vehicles to the world after the government forces have lost 4 fighters today and they say that they have pulled out from the city that neighborhood in southern new tripoli but meanwhile the government forces have achieved advancement on the ground in other axes like. and where there will be a neighborhood in southern tripoli china has released a prominent human rights lawyer from jail on chain was serving a 4 and

a happier sentence after being convicted of subversion of state power sir clark has more from hong kong. confirmation from his wife via twitter that he was released from jail at 5 am on sunday morning the family had requested that he be returned to the home in beijing however the authorities have kept him in an apartment in john province and that simply because he'll be in quarantine for 14 days so he's yet to be reunited with his family now he was arrested in 2015 as part of the chinese government crackdown on human rights lawyers we know around $300.00 or so of those lawyers were at the rest of it all 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 that the 9th of july now when he said 4 and a half years of job but he did disappear was incommunicado for 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 joe but his wife the last time she saw him was it last year in june so certainly some good news for the family of the release of this human rights lawyer on sunday in china. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera the case health secretary says he won't ban public exercise for now despite the fact that people are going outside to enjoy the warmer weather and nor in the government's advice to stay indoors coronavirus figures show another 621 people have died in the last 24 hours that's about 80 fewer fatalities from the day before but number of new coronavirus related deaths in spain has fallen for the 3rd day in a row authorities report

a 674 deaths on sunday compared to 809 a day earlier and italy as reported its lowest daily death toll in 2 and a half weeks 525 people have died but there are more than 4500 new infections. new york state has supported nearly 600 deaths and over 8000 new infections in the last 24 hours and hospitalizations have fallen by 50 percent still u.s. president onil trump has warned americans to prepare for the top this week yet of the crime to virus pandemic the number of deaths is up that's the bad news it's 44159. and we pray for each and every one of them and their families and that is up and that is the worst news but the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping food the 1st time what is the significance of that. it's too early to

tell the number of people killed by the krajina virus in canada by 20 percent to 258 in one day and farm cases rose to more than 1400 in the same period nigeria has confirmed for tat some more than 200 cases have a chronic virus displaced people living in camps across the northeastern region are particularly vulnerable as this outbreak spreads former libyan prime minister mahmoud jibril has died from the virus had been quarantined in a cairo hospital since being diagnosed late last month to pale at the anti-government protests that alstad longtime leader more market off in 2011 he later head of the national transitional council as the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come inside story is next and a news bulletin for you at the top of the hour.

life coronavirus some countries are considering issuing immunity passports for those who've recovered from the illness the aim is to allow them to go back to a normal life but would that work and is it certain their immunity would last this is inside story. hello and welcome back to the program. we are all a climate sizing to a new world of the coronavirus pandemic people staying at home businesses show.