17 complete thing one citizen journalist claims to have connected the dots in real identities a lot of the names are told by the investigations team that we can as identify this 2nd south indian citizen journalism investigations trust is generated through transparent don't believe me here's the a. better term for an approach truth war coming soon on al-jazeera. of struggle it's full of pleasure. that i both saw something. on a sunday morning. we're taking you live to the white house where u.s. president ronald trump is holding his daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic let's listen in wages his own personal fight with the virus all americans are praying for him he's a friend of mine he's a great gentleman and a great leader and he's as you know he was brought to the hospital today but i'm

i'm hopeful and sure that he's going to be fine he's strong man strong person today every patriotic american heart beats in solidarity with the incredible people of new york and new jersey they've really become a very hot zone but some very good things are happening in new york the 1st time where the deaths were less from the previous day that's a 1st drop so far so maybe that's a good sign it could be in the hospital levels of story to. perhaps decrease it's been very short but perhaps decreased so we wish governor cuomo and. all of the people in new york great and new jersey governor's doing a great too soon a great job in new jersey they got hit very hard. i just want to say that the full power of the american government and american enterprise is it really is this is an all out military operation that we've waged and especially over the last number of

weeks 50 states and territories have now been approved for major disaster declarations which is very unusual thanks to the army corps of engineers new york city's javits center is now one of the largest hospitals in the united states it's designated for treatment of the virus patients and staffed by hundreds of federal medical personnel deployed from 2 army hospital units and they're doing a great job this was something that we didn't expect to do but they needed help in new york and we sent federal troops not only troops we also sent a lot of very talented doctors nurses 1st responders people are now. running javits also as you know the u.s. and has comfort which is in new york there's been a lot of publicity about that coming in and all that was not supposed to be for the virus at all and there are any circumstances but it looks like more and more we're

going to be using it for that so we'll see there was supposed to be for people having other medical problems but it's very interesting because there are virtually no cars of the road no motorcycles on the road no no anything on the road or things that would normally be taken care of we don't see anymore so we haven't seen that in a long time so perhaps a positive but the ship is ready and it has to if we need it if we need it for the virus we will be using it for that they'd prefer not. for obvious reasons but if for any reason they need it it's ready willing and able we have the best doctors the best military leaders and the best logistics professionals anywhere in the world and we're orchestrating a massive federal response unlike anything our country has ever seen or done we've never done anything like this and more and more we're using our medical people because of the fact that jurisdiction states. in particular new york new

jersey the connecticut area long island now has become a hotspot part of new york. sending a lot of things lot of supplies and now we're sending personnel where it's needed military personnel as of tuesday will will have deployed over 3000 military and public health professionals to new york new jersey connecticut and other parts of our country 3000 of that number is going up. and we hope we're seeing a leveling off in the hottest spots of the mall so we'll see you'll be seeing that over the next few days and see what happens but we're prepared in the last 7 days fema has airlifted critical supplies of protective equipment from every corner of earth they're coming from all over the planet. including from within the united states with the equipment isn't as necessary since last sunday cargo planes have delivered almost listen to this 300000000 of us almost 8000000

masks and 3000000 gallons and many more fully loaded cargo planes are right now on the way 3 big ones landed today and these supplies are being distributed directly to the hospitals and health care providers all across the nation so that that massive amount of material that we're getting in is being delivered all over the country. tomorrow will deliver an additional 600095 masks to new york city to take care of the needs of the public hospital system was or request of mir de blasio we've been working great with mid to blasio getting him a lot of stuff he's working very hard i can tell you that and that we're working really very hard with new york city and with new york state and at the request of congressman lee's elden out in long island we will also be delivering another 200095 masks to suffolk county where they need

a very badly so getting that out in an emergency basis should be there tomorrow we'll also be deploying millions of end $95.00 masks to other locations that admiral full of check will detail shortly they had movie up and just a couple of minutes over the last 24 hours fema has delivered an additional $500.00 ventilators to new jersey $500.00. and again. the governor has been very thankful we're working very hard with new jersey including building hospitals we've also sent an additional 200 ventilators to louisiana definite hotspur. 300 to michigan working very well i think with the governor. amazingly $600.00 will be. going or have gone to illinois and i mean there's a governor i hear him complaining all the time. pritzker i hear him he's always complaining and yet i just said give me a list of

a couple of the things we've done in illinois and we're building a 2500 bed hospital in mccormick place that's a big convention center in chicago and we're helping to staff it and probably will end up staffing it because he's not able to do what it's supposed to be able to do as a governor he has not performed well. and we're also sending 100 ventilators to massachusetts so we have 600 to illinois we have 100 to massachusetts we have 300 to michigan we have 200 to louisiana we have 500 ventilators 500 going to new jersey and this is being done by fame or being delivered by fema and it's. some job just think of that when you think about 500 ventilators a ventilators a big deal. we're also establishing a federal medical station in the washington d.c. area to help washington d.c. and working very closely with the mayor and everybody in washington d.c.

at the same time governor inslee we appreciate this of washington state has returned 400 ventilators which can now be deployed elsewhere in our country so the state of washington is done very well they won't be needing some of the ventilators that have been sent but 400 that's a lot and we appreciate that he's able to give them back he feels confident that they are in good shape for the coming weeks until we can declare a final victory in the days ahead america will endure the peak of this terrible pandemic our warriors 'd in this life and death battle the incredible doctors and nurses and health care workers on the front line of the fight we pledge to them our eternal gratitude and everlasting support they make all of us very proud a country is very proud we have people they love our country the world loves our

country most of it probably all of it they just don't say it i can report today that the united states has now tested and given results gotten results of 1670000 people that's far more than any other country has been able to do. and you remember we inherited a broken system so a lot of this has been developed by tuesday 1200 brand new rapid point of care testing kits has been produced by abbott laboratories great company and they'll be distributed to all of our public health labs that's a 15 minute test even less. as well as the indian health service the c.d.c. and the strategic national stockpile so we're going to have $1200.00 in all weekly basis to make it a lot more they go further faster very accurate tests. and other countries are wanting them so the right time will be able to do that but right now we're getting them to all of ours so we've done 1000000 670000

tests think of that 1000000 670000 tests and. we have a great system now we're working with the states and almost all instances but we have a great system and the other thing that we've bought a tremendous amount of is the hydroxy chloroquine hydroxy chloroquine which i think is you know it's a great malaria drug it's worked unbelievably it's a powerful drug on malaria and there are signs that it works on this summer's strong science and in the meantime it's been around a long time it also works very powerfully on lupus lupus so there are some very strong powerful signs of we'll have to see because again it's being tested now this is a new thing that just happened to us the invisible enemy we call it and if you can

if you have a. no signs of heart problems the as rhythm ice and his rhythm eisen. which will kill. certain things that you don't want living within your body it's a powerful drug if you don't have a problem a heart problem. we would say let your doctor think about it but as a combination i think they're going to be i think there's 2 things that should be looked at very strongly now we have. purchased and we have stockpiled 29000000. pills of the hydroxy chloroquine 29000000. a lot of drug stores have them that by prescription and also and they're not expensive also we're sending them to various labs

our military was sending him to the hospitals we're sending them all over i just think it's something you know the expression i've used it for certain reasons what do you have to lose what do you have to lose and a lot of people are saying that way and and are taking it if you are a doctor or a nurse or a 1st responder a medical person going into hospitals they say taken it before the fact is good but what do you have to lose they say take it i'm not looking at it one way or the other but we want to get out of this if it does work 'd it would be a shame if we didn't do it early but we have some very good science so that's hydroxy chloroquine and. his rhythm eisen. and again you have to go through the medical people get the approval. but.

i've seen things that i sort of like so what do i know i'm not a doctor i'm not a doctor but i have common sense the f.d.a. feels. good about it they've as you know they've approved it they gave it a rapid approval approval and the reason because it's been out there for a long time and they know the side effects and they also know the potential so based on that. we have sent it throughout the country we haven't stockpiled about. 29000000 doses 29000000 that says we have a lot of it we hope it works. driven by the goal of the brightest minds in science we have the brightest minds in science but we were driven by the goal of getting rid of this plague get a word in this scorch getting rid of this virus these brilliant minds are working on. the most effective and viral therapies and

vaccines we are working very very hard i have met many of the doctors that have doing it these are doctors that are working so hard on. vanquishing the virus this staying and we strongly recommend staying at home practicing vigorous hygiene and maintaining social distance year you're just not going to catch it it's the most effective weapon in this war and i will tell you the we are committing to the 2 if we're committing to the people of our country like few administrations few people few professionals have ever committed before they are they are working so hard i see them i see them before my eyes exhausted people that i'm dealing with every day exhausted they haven't left. their offices

they haven't left their hospitals we meet with them we see them and tremendous strides have been made i think the vaccines will have a report on that but the vaccines working together with other countries we're also working with other countries many other countries and we all want everyone else to be 1st we're very happy but we are very far down the line on vaccines we'll see how that all works johnson and johnson's doing a great job working very hard a vaccine would be great therapy a therapy in therapeutics would be great we'll see what happens. in the meantime you may listen to what i said about the 2 drugs mentioned my administration is rapidly implementing the largest emergency economic relief package in american history seen what's been happening billions of dollars and small business loans have already been processed through

a paycheck protection program so we went out on friday and literally it's become so popular it's been worked with the banks they get into the small business it's all about employment it's all about jobs want you to keep your jobs give small business funding to keep the workers on the payroll and we're sending direct cash payments to millions of americans in rushing aid to the hardest hit industries were saving industries we will be seeing it and if we do more we're going to do more and we're going to try and get directly to people that are hit so hard but we're going to take care of our workers we're going to take care of our citizens we're going to take care of a small businesses we're going to take care of our large businesses the airplane industry the the airline industry lot of great industries that we have that are in trouble because of what took place over the last short period of times these are

industries that we're doing better for the most part doing better than ever the airlines are doing great. loyal was doing great oil and gas and and the energy industry was doing phenomenally well and got hit like nobody's ever been hit before . just about like no industries ever been hit before there's never been anything like this. but we see the light at the end of the tunnel things are happening things are happening we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully in the not too distant future will be. very proud of the job we all did can never be happy when so many people are dying but we're going to be very proud of the job we did to keep the death down to an absolute minimum the least that could have happened with this terrible terrible virus and close it also want to know today is palm sunday and the beginning of holy week for christians in

america and all around the world while we may be apart from one another as you can see from our great churches are great pastors and ministers are out there working very hard but we may be apart we can use this time to turn to reflection and prayer and our own personal relationship with god i would ask that all americans pray for the heroic doctors and nurses for the truck drivers and grocery store workers and for everyone fighting this battle i had mentioned yesterday where i see the nurses rushing into hospitals and they're putting on their outfits and they're putting on their masks and goggles in some cases they're rushing into war they're rushing into war and i see people from apartment houses dreaming and shouting and then singing their praises it's an incredible thing that warriors

these doctors and nurses they're running into buildings and they're literally putting it on as the doors are opening they're putting all this stuff and running inside. and they're running inside to tremendous danger tremendous danger but most of all i'd like to ask for your prayers for the families who have lost loved ones as god to comfort them in their hour of grief it's a great hour of grief for our nation for the world this morning i was talking 151 for 4 days i said 151. 151 countries this morning it's 182 countries. it jumped up a lot so as of this morning it's 182 countries are under attack from this monster with the faith of our families and the spirit of our people and

the grace of our god we will endure 'd we will overcome we will prevail we have learned so much we will be stronger than ever and i just want to thank everybody i want to thank the incredible professionals on the task force also we had a big meeting today we were calls all day long through so many different people and i think our package to get everyone working when we're ready is really turning out to be successful we may have to make it larger because it's been really successful but all of that comes back to this country. who want to get him back we want to get our people back to work everybody wants to be back we want to open up our country as soon as possible so with that i'm going to as dr burk's to say a few words and some charts to show you and thank you very much thank you all right we're going to leave that press briefing at that point we may drop in again a little later in the hour i was there as one of her castro is standing by for us

at home in maryland with some analysis on what we've just heard we're starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel said the president heidi one of the main. that's what he said but it certainly comes with a great cause he echoed the warnings of his and his medical experts who were on the airwaves in the us this morning saying that this week to come may be the worst that americans have seen in this generation the u.s. surgeon general likening this coming week to the bombing of pearl harbor or even $911.00 the president taking an optimistic tone now saying that once this is all over he said that there would be a light at the end of the tunnel which he sees now and that he thinks the country will be proud of itself though of course unhappy with the great loss of life that

is projected now he's making this statement as we're seeing the death toll in the number of cases dramatically expand in the united states we were talking about new york earlier where more than 4000. cases deaths have been confirmed this since the beginning of this epidemic more than 500 just in the last 24 hours the president though quick to strike a positive tone thanking the medical professionals the doctors and the nurses who he narrated in a fashion similar to reality show which is his background of how they rushed in to save the moment certainly giving his and syrah things to those medical professionals the president also illuminating some more figures that he says shows a positive response from the federal government that 1600000 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the united states and he says that the federal government has

also stockpiled. 29000000 doses of a experimental anti-malarial pill. hydroxy cora quinn that is not f.d.a. approved for to treat coronavirus but is nevertheless being used in his words in the president's words he said quote what do i know i'm not a doctor but i have common sense asking the american public to put faith in his own personal vote of confidence. i do many thanks indeed al-jazeera how does your customer reporting live from maryland britain's prime minister boris johnson has been taken to hospital as he continues to battle a corona virus infection a spokesman said that he'd been admitted as a precaution because he still shows symptoms 10 days after testing positive let's go live now to london not in the mousie joins us via skype. what we know of the prime minister's condition. yes well it is that that downing street

statement that we had describing as a precautionary measure is pretty much the sentiment as you say that the reason for his admission to hospital is the fact that he had these symptoms that were persistent over a period of time so they've lasted for about 10 days and it's not that his symptoms of necessarily deteriorated it's just that the symptoms of the credit are sometimes a cough a fever if it does go on for a period of time then typically a patient would be admitted to hospital to test the blood test for a scan if something persists then that might be enough to let threshold for a hospital admission but i mean despite those reassurances that it was a precautionary measure it is going to generate a lot of concern and there will be warnings about why the prime minister is not recovering from this infection some 10 days into it and then also concerned about the 20 of all of this because this hospital admission is happening just when the

country is on the cusp of what is likely to be its most difficult very difficult few weeks as the struggle against the coronavirus intensifies and him in many ways what the prime minister is going through reflects exactly what we're seeing across the country with an increase the number of coronavirus cases and an increase in the number of hospital admissions but the timing is going to cause some concern about whether it could affect the government's response to the epidemic in some way particularly with some very important decisions coming up in the next few weeks about these lockdown measures about testing strategy and of course the economy but the now downing street is very clear that the prime minister is still leading the government he is still in charge and earlier in the day many of how much stay the queen made a rare address to the nation. yes it was quite an extraordinary broadcast and very poignant adrian those are those very positive reaction as beach on social

media in so many ways a speech that would appeal to them very much a global message and she really sympathized with people who are suffering from personal grief right now people who are going through financial hardship she also paid tribute some frontline n.h.s. workers people that are going to be under a great deal of pressure in the coming days and weeks and she also crucially thanks people for staying at home ri and also saying the government's message for people to respect social distancing measures and my colleague who is also here in london joan hull has been looking at this and the rest of the day's developments 2 weeks into the u.k. is locked down and deserted city scenes are testament to a new way of life most people staying home for as long as science and the government decide they must also on lockdown in windsor castle her residence

outside london the queen 93 years old reminded britons that this crisis too would pass we should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure better days return we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again but the government is worried about isolation for tea and a minority of people embracing the warm spring weather to picnic and sunbathe in the parks on prominent and beaches the more people follow the rules then the faster we will all be through it so i say this to the small minority of people who are breaking the rules or pushing the boundaries you're risking your own life and the lives of others. and you're making it harder for all banning all this the ability to go outside to exercise in public as the health secretary has said he might have

to do would be intolerable to many particularly those who live in cramped apartments with no outside space only compounding the effect isolation has on physical and mental health but the argument goes that if people aren't going to change their behavior themselves well then they might have to be forced to in order to save lives best friends in meal and gabriel a keeping in touch at a safe distance through the fence is still our best friend and we're very good friends so i think that's one of the hardest things about it so we're dying. and we just come for a walk once a day but this is really really difficult as far as i know like this is what the government has recommended you you know outside and you get as much sun and it's fresh air is you can obviously stay away from people so i think we're doing the social distancing quite well with the police exercising emergency powers to move people on it's expected that britain will get a pretty good idea where the lockdown efforts have helped reduce the peak when it

comes in the next week or so but even then a way out of this crisis involving eventual widespread community testing and contact tracing to manage a 2nd wave is many weeks away yet joan a whole al-jazeera number the number of coronavirus links deaths in canada has jumped by 20 percent in a day the number of dead is now over 250 kind of the us government has appealed to volunteers to support frontline health care workers and is offering full time jobs to reservists the number of confirmed cases stands at almost 14 and a half 1000 in toronto al-jazeera danielle access the government has tried to prepare the public for a steep rise in the number of deaths. what they did earlier last week late last week was prepare us for this if you will they released modeling that they're acting upon to encourage social distancing to test and everything else and that modeling

did lay out some stark numbers of deaths so when you get these one day jumps like this people of course are shocked and it's tragic and it's acknowledged it all but we've been warned is what officials here would say the other thing that's happened is that canada has also managed to ramp up its testing rapidly it's now got one of the higher testing rates in the world one in every 100 roughly 100 people has been receiving code in 1000 testing so the data that canadian officials are working with is pretty good they say it emerged today that canada has rented a large warehouse in china that is being run by canadian officials accumulating masks and other things and trudeau has said that millions of masks are on the way will be here within 24 hours to 48 hours it's not yet overwhelming the health care system here social isolation does seem to be being observed quite widely but officials are sensitive to all aspects of this and are working you know probably as intensely in heart as all of their counterparts around the world on this we're

going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then. i don't usually quiet starts one of the holiest weeks in the christiane calendar. and know that the woman really is taking place now across all central and northern areas of the united states and into central areas of canada but there's a lot of chatter and the severe storms are on their way out of the picture but as i say the has been a fair amount of cloud even up into new york this is looking across new york from new jersey and. season fairly dog clowes now mondays dot a bad day tour across much of the northeast kira's skies timing is not too bad 17 degrees celsius but you'll see quite a bank of tragical see central regions it should be mostly dry and as it's a time it is really have come back up into the low twenty's the demba even calgary

and when you peg now quite a few degrees above freezing where we're not going to see a great deal of change in the weather is across much of california some very heavy rain into southern california on monday but it will see seen a fair amount of snow as well we will do some through the rest of sunday on into monday across the nevada range up to me to is a forecast on the rain could be fairly heavy widespread by cheese day it does really begin to lighten those temperatures a little bit lower in l.a. just 18 degrees celsius by then we are going to see a system working its way through eastern canada and pushing this rain once again across much of the midwest so are all the damn day but not a cold day 23 celsius in chicago on a warm day and in atlanta. for . a story of popular resistance political intrigue. and betray. a son's quest for justice

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hello again this is al jazeera adrian finnegan with you here in doha the headlines britain's prime minister boris johnson as the bitted to hospital 10 days after he was diagnosed with the corona virus his office says that it's a precaution remeasure because johnson to have johnson has persistent system of symptoms. of britain's queen elizabeth the 2nd made a rare television address to the nation the 93 year old urged people to remain united and resolute. u.s. president donald trump says 1600000 people have now been tested for coronavirus the country's top surgeon has told americans to prepare for the hardest and saddest week of their lives there been more than 9000 deaths linked to deals.

blob of infections in latin america has jumped sharply in the last few days more than 25000 cases have been registered in the region brazil being hit the worst so far with over 11000 the united nations is raising concerns about the last in consonance latin american continent becoming another covert 19 hospitals we have 2 correspondents tracking developments across the region outside of m.p.'s he is in colombia's capital bogota but 1st let's join john holdren who's in mexico city via skype where the president has been addressing the nation john what did he have to say. when he said things that were quite surprising especially given your introduction his basic message was that this is a temporary bump on the way to his transformation of the country it will soon be over and that's going to be a big disappointment to people who are who are expecting or perhaps hoping for finally a sort of a monster package of medical or economic aid to try and get through this this is

a sort of state of the nation address that he gives every 3 months now to sort of tell the country where it's at and a lot of it was dedicated to programs social programs employment programs that are already in place without a lot about what new he's going to be doing to deal with coronavirus basically in terms of the medical actions he said that the country's health services are already in a good state because of an early injection of money and he's going to get the armed forces also to help out where he is getting them to help out with something that we already knew a couple of weeks back that was announced he also said that he was optimistic and that there would be 2000000 new jobs for mexico in the next 9 months i think a lot of people just reading through a lot of economists and analysts responses here in twitter there's a lot of feeling here that he's underestimated the gravity of this crisis even though a mexico for its size doesn't have a lot it's got over 202000 cases of coronavirus that we know about so far testing

has been pretty limited but even without that the economic impact in this country they're saying is going to be huge and he's under estimating that remember that this is a country that neighbors with the united states that 80 percent of its exports go to the united states that those economies are inextricably linked together so i think the feeling possibly from a lot of people in mexico right now is going to be that a president who even over the last few weeks when his own officials whistle to try to increase encourage social distancing was still hugging and kissing suppose. it is going around the country and different rallies is still not taken this is seriously as perhaps he should be i john many thanks to john homan live from mexico city for us let's go the poll guitar then a sound of i'm p.f.c. in colombia things not looking particularly good at the moment in ecuador under saddam. yes adriane the province

of y. s. in the capital there was a heel there which is the largest city and where there remains the worst. stuff erin all of latin america a sort of worst case scenario for everybody in the region it's a place where the health services the hospitals the morgues have been completely overwhelmed by the number of cases of kovi 19 and the deaths in the past days we have seen pictures of bodies the piling up almost one on top of each other in the main hospital of guayaquil with a number of families in the city of why a hero having to store dead bodies in their houses or in some cases on the streets and that's why the government has decided to send these huge refrigerated containers citing a sunday to start bodies 1 while they find a way to properly properly burry them the vice president of

ecuador has also publicly apologize for the situation after the government has been criticised criticised for the way it has been handling the crisis especially at the beginning when they haven't been able to truly inforce their quarantine though with putting in place in the city of why you're here and we're seeing the consequences of that now the government does also said that they will send 2000 cardboard coffins the to try and help with the situation and a special hotline telephone number has been organized for people to call if they have bodies they need to be picked up just a very horrible dramatic situation there and countries the neighboring countries of columbia crew are very worried of this situation they have increased the military presence at the border both with colombia and improve. u.s.

armored military vehicles there to try and stop illegal crossings and bring us up to speed with situation day in colombia and in brazil of course it's the beginning of easter week the region. very catholic. absolutely this would be a time for families to get together across the region one of the biggest vacation times of the year in most of the countries there are a lot of traditional procession than other religious activities that happened across throughout this week everything has been pretty much canceled the rain vented in a virtual way so it's a very sad easter week for many deeply katha leaks people across latin america while the numbers of cases keep going up you are talking about brazil

and the situation this particular there because there's a lot of political infighting going on with the president both scenario was been criticized for minimizing the emergency there a majority of brazilians are or disapproving of the president's position but at the same time in a new poll that came out today on sunday they say they don't want him to resign there have been growing calls for that to happen but a majority of brazilians are saying look we don't approve of what the president is doing bad we don't want to political crisis in the middle of a health crisis so that's the situation in brazil here in colombia it seems like the lock down has helped to keep the numbers down at least for now but the president of colombia said this will take a long time and in the meantime we're seeing a lot of economic consequences this specially with the poorest year and in particular with venezuelan immigrants there are almost 2000000 of them that have

fled the economic devastation in their country looking for a better life here in colombia where now hundreds are trying to make their way back because with the lock down there and able to make any money and feed themselves and their families and that's why the a government here has announced that the start of a humanitarian corey. they're organizing buses to take i've been i swear i'm still at the border and even if the border is shut they have opened this humanitarian corridor supportive on this one and preferred to go back to venice where and the colombian government that's helping them to do it at al-jazeera as i was on n.p.r. to reporting live from bogota many thanks indeed our sons are going to take you back once again to the white house now where russian president trump has begun to answer questions from some of the journalists gathered there for the press briefing let's listen in i think we all know that we have to reach a certain point in that point is going to be a horrific point in terms of death. but it's also pointed which things are going to

start changing we're getting very close to that level right now and the next we can have 2 weeks are going to be. i think they're going to be very difficult at the same time we understand what they represent and what that time represents and hopefully we can get this over with because this is a very horrible thing for the world to look at where one country out of 182 now that have 182 countries that have a friend of my that he didn't know we had so many countries in the world 182 countries are now affected by this that we want to get it over with can place not just as much focus on those numbers they were part of our earlier how does that change the projections that you were making earlier this week of 102 how many were you are we hope we can say under those numbers those are numbers of death and we hope we can say under those numbers that would be. terrific and as far into those

numbers as possible now we did nothing you know that number 2 but the american people really stepped up so did the professionals they just really stepped up so we're hoping to stay under those numbers and that means the minimum and the maximum but we're hoping to stay under the minimum number you know what that number was the numbers that you were talking about today the change though. i would say the answer is yes but i would also say that we're not going to know really in terms of the final toll until we get out to the end and we're probably possibly not so far away we're getting closer. but it's era goal to stay as far under that minimum number the minimum number as possible ok that's what we want to do. mr president as president of the united states your words carefully in the months in the. one you've acknowledged in opposition you do promote these medicines the sense of them

. how do you not doesn't far as to be giving medical advice and you said yesterday let's take some of these medicines even though you don't have symptoms are you still planning to do but in how do you calibrate the enthusiastic and not playing top because i want people to live and i'm seeing people dying and i've see people that are going to die without it. and you know the expression when that's happening they should do what really do we have to lose we also have this medicines been tested for many years for malaria and for lupus so it's been out there so it's a very strong powerful medicine but it doesn't kill people we have some very good results and some very good tests you have seen the same tests that i have. in france they had a very good test they're continuing but we don't have time to go and say gee let's take a couple of years and test it out elipse go and test with the test tubes in the laboratories

we don't have time i'd love to do that but we have people dying today as we speak there are people dying. if it works it'll be great if it doesn't work we know for many years malaria it it's incredible what it's done for malaria it's incredible what is done for lupus but it doesn't kill people that's one of the things with a vaccine when we have a vaccine we have to do tests because when you inject that vaccine when they take whatever ever it is they have to take we have to make sure it doesn't have a horrible impact destroy somebody could so we have to test it for a long period of time this one not so much because it's been out there now i'm not acting as a doctor i'm saying do what you want but there are some good signs you've read the signs of red the science with the other one there's some very good signs also different going together works very well but there may be an indication that if you

have a problem with your heart you should take what we call the z. pack you shouldn't take it and that's ok but i would love to go to a laboratory and spend a couple of years testing something we don't have time we don't have 2 hours because there are people dying right now if it does help great if it doesn't help we gave it a shot we gave it a shot that's the way i feel you know when there's something i would i would be super serious about taking it. would pass something very proud of go right to try for 4550 years they've been trying to make so much sense we have the greatest. doctors and labs and lab technicians greatest medicines the greatest minds in the world everybody admits it and when we're close to having something or when we have something that tests incredibly well you couldn't use it for years because they

would take years and years to test so. with the help of also democrats i got it bipartisan but they've been trying to get this passed for for decades you know that go right to try so a person would be diagnosed terminally ill from something and in the old days many before a year ago they would say do you think i could try this this pill this whatever this medicine that's testing so well no you can't do that you can't do that under no circumstances that leave for asia deadly for europe that leave for if they had money if they had no money they'd go home and die with no hope we get a thing called right to try if somebody is very ill terminally ill they're going to die they and it was very complex wasn't as easy as it sounds because there were huge liability problems the drug companies didn't want to do it because they didn't

want it on test results because he's a very sick people so they didn't want to bring down that test results the insurance companies had tremendous problems they got everybody enormous and look will sign a waiver the person taking it will say we're not going to sue the family is not going to sue the drug company not going to sue the insurance company not going to sue the state the city or the federal government ok it's called exculpation and we get it done it's a very simple agreement i don't know why nobody ever thought of it but they never thought of it i did and we got it done now we have right to try which is actually in my opinion much more difficult than what we're talking about here but if there is a medicine or something a possible cure or something that's looking good and somebody has something that's got they're going to die or they're very sick. they take it and you know we've had some unbelievable results unbelievable results and it also gives the people hope yes please rather than the doctors who are treating her of ours patients they have

the medical expertise to determine whether or not they should perhaps prescribe high prices for many of them and there are already clinical trials in place looking at hundreds or for so if you want it is that about a year why not just let the science eat for itself why are you promoting this drug i'm not a i'm just your company simply i'm not go in and look you know and i'm trying to play the same out here every day rates are talking about the benefit is i want them to try it and it may work and it may not work but if it doesn't work it's nothing lost by doing it nothing because we know long term what i want i want to save lives and i don't want to to be in a lab for the next year and a half as people are dying all over the prairie out there doctors are you able to prescribe it all plays a role under was well it's a way of which we would message them out 729000000 doses that we have it coming from all of the labs were actually now doing it here because in case it does work

we want to have it and we've given it to drug stores where we're sending it all over fim is doing it famous doing it we're doing it through of different channels so many different channels including the companies that make it it's a very special thing now it may not work in which case hey didn't work and it may work in which case it's going to save a lot of lives and a lot of people say if the people walk in prior to getting it if they take it it has a profound effect well maybe it does or maybe there's a body don't want to wait a year to have to find out and only c.n.n. would ask that question fake news go ahead. but you are focused 1st as of a nonstarter burns question the president of based on the most recent. you've seen . and some change and the projection i'm wondering if you could you obviously have a weeks more worth of data since the the sort of 100-002-2400 extension 00

potential death. figures that you gave us last week so i'm wondering with all the power of the outs that this is sort of based on continuing social doesn't soon that we might see you know if one city opts things could change dramatically what what are the sort of range that you're now looking at in terms of total death impact. i think the most important thing right now is when we were talking about why we are hopeful well hopeful because last time i was here i was unable to really tell you that italy and spain were coming across their apex and coming down the other side and i think to me that's extraordinarily hopeful they just completed it completed 4 weeks of really strong mitigation and i think that's our word to the american people is we can look like that to other countries look like that now to other countries with a very similar experience to tar experience with higher case numbers and higher

mortality and so that's what the promises the promise is if we do this we could potentially be better now dr fox tonight today got another update from another independent modeler and the numbers came in close to that 100000 number again but we believe dr foushee and i that if every american follows the guidelines 6 feet washing hands not social gathering that will have an even greater impact on the other side of the equation certainly as arm remarkable health care providers are respiratory therapists are a laboratory technician are nurses and doctors they're saving lives every day and i say that i believe that press briefing at that point to get some analysis from i was there was how did your castro live for us because skype and marilyn the president says the latest data suggests that the administration's projections of

total deaths from a coronavirus may be on the high side heidi. that's right and he also said that he sees a light at the end of the tunnel now you heard him take a lot of questioning just now about what the journalists of the room say he was promoting this experimental drug that is approved to treat malaria but only in experimental phases for treating kovac 19 and it was interesting he presented something a bit he said that it was called exculpation and that it was the president's own idea which according to what he says would prevent patients and family members from suing the drug companies that make this drug suing the insurance company or any government officials. that allow them to take this drug so in a sense he president trump here is saying that anyone who takes this drug would and

the federal government apparently has 29000000 pills in its stockpile would do so and that the there would be an abdication of responsibility for the results from the government and from the medical industry is certainly a statement that we journalists will be digging into because it presents many concerns now the president again saying that even as the number of virus cases and deaths continue to surge here in the united states trying to strike an optimistic tone saying that he's seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but you'll contrast that to what we heard just this morning from the president's own u.s. surgeon general who warned americans that these coming this coming week may be the worst that americans have experienced in a generation likening the loss of life and the toll that this week will take on the country to the catastrophes of the pearl harbor bombing and to 911 so very

difficult to know what message to take away here those from the medical experts who are saying this is much too soon to be celebrating or the u.s. president who is trying to be more optimistic all right how did your customer reported live from there led to many thanks do. libya's former prime minister mahmoud jibril has died from the corona virus had been quarantined in a cairo hospital since being diagnosed late last month jabril led the anti-government protests that ousted longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 then became head of the national transitional council the head of the roman catholic church pope francis is held palm sunday mass in line with italy's ban on public ceremonies usually tens of thousands of people will attend in the square outside

instead it had a very modern congregation and was streamed online from inside st peter's basilica to the faithful online the ceremony is the 1st major event of the christian holy week a social distancing meant that mass was affected around the world this is how it looked in jerusalem where the traditional procession was called off palm sunday marks the time that christians believe jesus arrived in the city before his death on good friday south sudan has confirmed its 1st case of the coronavirus vice president greg mashad said the 29 year old infected woman arrived from ethiopia in february she's now being treated in isolation the public health brutally tested. it is over. in an individual that says pick but isn't it to the u.n.

clinic on the 2nd. 20 with fever. and should. the government. members of the public who strictly rules social distancing. maybe 8000 people have died from corona virus in france since the outbreak began the country has close 290000 confirmed cases covert 19 has led to the deaths of more than 65000 people around the world since 1st being reported in china back in december the navy captain who was removed from command of the coronavirus stricken aircraft carrier has tested positive himself a covert 19 kept in red cross here started showing symptoms of the virus before complaining about the lack of action to stop it spreading among his 5000 crew more than 100 sailors aboard the u.s.s.

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