experts on the on his health system draw a different conclusion you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. because there are other people that need many people that are sick and dying and that isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. 'd a british prime minister tweets that he's in good spirits a day after being admitted to the hospital for persistent coburg 1000 symptoms. are suckering this is obviously life and also coming up the number of people dying in spain has slowed again now the focus shifts to maintaining that trend. democratic republic of congo sealed off its business and political hoping to clean up the suspected source of its outbreak. and the treatments available yet will look

at whether the answer lies in a therapy that's worked during previous pandemics. if the government is holding its daily briefing on the current virus led by dominic rob let's take a look right now at what's happening at downing street action plan is aimed at slowing the spread of the virus so few people need hospital treatment any one time and that will protect the n.h.s. is ability to cope at each point we've been following scientific and medical advice and we've been very deliberate in our actions taking the right measures at the right moment we're taking unprecedented action to increase the n.h.s. his capacity by dramatically expanding the numbers of beds key staff and equipment on the front line to give people the care they meet when they need it most but some say we're instructing people to stay at home so that we protect our n.h.s.

and save lives. i can report that through the government's ongoing monitoring and testing program as of today 208837 people have now been tested for the virus 51608 have tested positive the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms now stands at 17911 and of those who have contracted the virus 5373 sadly have died our thoughts our deepest condolences a with their loved ones at this very difficult time these figures are a powerful reminder of why we need everyone to follow the government's guidance we must stay home to protect our n.h.s. and to save lives as you'll know last night the prime minister was admitted to hospital for tests following advice from his doctor this was a precautionary step because he continues to have persistent coronavirus symptoms

10 days after 1st having tested positive for the virus i can tell you that pm had a comfortable night in hospital and he's in good spirits he's still in hospital under observation he's been given regular updates on developments and he continues to lead the government i can reassure the british people that the government remains united in a single overriding priority which is to defeat the coronavirus and see this nation through the challenge ahead in the last week of the prime minister's leadership the chance of the dutch of lancaster michael gove has explained what we're doing to boost manufacturing capability here at home to meet the rising demand for ventilators and other equipment in the n.h.s. business secretary alex sharma has been setting out what we government is doing to support small businesses and yesterday health secretary matt hancock gave an update

on what we're doing to bolster capacity in the n.h.s. including increasing the number of critical care beds if seo is supporting all of these operational priorities. so we're deploying the diplomatic network right around the world to source and buy ventilators and protective equipment so that we can reinforce the n.h.s. frontline here at home. at the same time we're working with other governments and the airlines to bring home as many stranded british nationals as we possibly can prioritizing our most vulnerable citizens on commercial flights we've helped over 200000 u.k. nationals come home from spain 13000 from egypt 8000 from indonesia we've also chartered flights from 7 different countries bring home more than 2000 british nationals we've repatriated a further 1550 from cruise ships including most recently the cole princess and the

zaandam. and for those travelers who are still stuck abroad we're doing everything we can to keep international airports open to keep commercial flights running and to charter flights when there are no other options under the new arrangements that are nouns last week and which have now been agreed with 14 airlines we've allocated 75000000 pounds to support those arrangements we've already had flights back from countries including peru ghana in tunisia and we fixing further flights from india south africa to pull in the philippines which will fly later on this week so i want to assure people that every arm of government is doing everything it possibly can to defeat the coronavirus and rise to the challenges that it presents us at home and abroad last night her majesty the queen reflected on the national spirit of unity and resolve that we seeing in our country as well as the collective effort we

need to tackle the disease from a heroic doctors nurses and care workers through to those manning the tills at supermarkets and pharmacies those driving the lorries and the buses they're all worthy of our pros they're all worthy of our admiration. and a lot know both the prime minister and i would like to thank all the and it just all of who they truly heroic work and we owe it to the public to continue to follow the government's advice to stay at home protect the n.h.s. and save lives and on that note i'm going to pull through 200 for an update on the latest data thank you if i could start with the slide this is about the work that we have all been doing in order to stay at home so what you see i have been listening to foreign secretary dominic kind of give a wrap up aboard things stand with with the prime minister who is in the hospital with the same of the latest numbers and even efforts to try to repatriate to make a citizens are nadeem baba has been listening closely taking notes kind of given as

the the headlines on this so what were the main lines that you heard and jane. well michel he was 1st paying tribute to the workers in the national health service he also gave us an update on prime minister boris johnson who spent the night in hospital overnight and a lot of people might be wondering here we're going to why eat the message being repeated by the former secretary dominic rob is that forrest johnson continues to lead the government he said in fact he said that he was the prime minister was taken to hospital in london as a precautionary step because he continues to have symptoms of a corona virus 10 days after he went into isolation. he said that the prime minister is getting regular updates and continues to lead the government's dominant rob in fact a few hours ago. at the daily cabinet meeting the president boris johnson hasn't done much he's been doing that by a video but

a lot of people might be wondering well if he's serious enough to be held in a hospital presumably undergoing tests they've said he's been tested presumably. and he kind of lung condition is he really in a capacity to be leading the government 10 people will be wondering whether in fact he should be taking a total rest right now but anyway beyond dominic. was giving us a reminder of the figures here in britain which are so huge that over 24 hours new deaths recorded total of $400.00 and you know it which takes the number of people who die in a hospital which is important from cobbett 192-5370 3 deaths known about. it or it could be up as you know we. are at any day we're going to come back to you shortly and you have more information to get that right now we're going to go to new york where the governor

had her promise getting his daily briefing on trying to buy us. in the numbers big question that we're looking at now is what what is the curve and we've been talking about cases increase increase increase until they don't when they stop increasing then what happens and the projection models have a number of alternatives. some suggest basically the curve goes up and then drops percipient asli some suggest is a slight pause at the top some suggest there is a longer a pause at the top which is effectively a plateau. of fact or again the straight up and straight down persepolis drop which is the peak of fact no one can tell you which will occur

they say any one of the 3 options you study other countries you've had a combination of the above we are studying it as we use the projection models from day one to determine it's actually what we do how do we set policy and program by following the data. dr modulus has been working on the numbers working with the statisticians in the projection models and helping us incorporate that into an operational model and jim if you want to just take a moment and speak about the projection models here please great thank you governor as the governor said we have been looking at projection models from the beginning to determine the size and scope and severity in the governor's mansion this over his briefings we've been working with many organizations and using the data like imperial college the institute for health metrics and evaluation cornell mckinsey

and others and some of the initial projections. that we 1st saw at the beginning of this was at least 100 up 211-0000 beds for patients alone and the peak would come at the end of april those are some of the earliest modeling for many organizations that it would be at the end of april around $110000.00 beds just for covert patients there are other models too that we were tracking one being lower at about 55000. but again peaking at the end of april we follow now that we have a pretty robust data set to go by for the last several weeks. the bottom line there the purple line is sort of where we are tracking today which suggests it's a little lower and the question was what could you do to lower those initial

projections from 110000 from $55000.00 so a lot of the activity was we saw which is that it's the sions and the folks looking at these types of models said it was going so what activities and actions could you take to aggressively lower that overall number and the answer really was and what the governor's been doing was aggressively enforce and enact social distancing to lower the overall number and this number and the current data suggest that that is exactly what's happening and it's not settled yet because we are going day by day in the numbers as the governor says has changed a lot over time based on what numbers come in but this could suggest. that we are indeed potentially at the apex or beginning to be at the apex at this moment like the governor has said there's been a range of models 7 days 14 days $21.00 days 30 days it looks like we're at towards

the earlier side of that time frame based on the current projections and modeling that we've been looking at. thank you but you also see on the. you see on the slide where we are now right. and it can still go any way we could still see an increase so it is hopeful but it's also inconclusive and it still depends on what we do right these models all have a coefficient of what we do and how successful we are social distancing it cetera and from our decision making point of view it doesn't really matter if we've hit the plateau or not because you have to do the same thing if we are plot towing we are proud towing at a very high level and there's tremendous stress on the health care system and to

say the health care system which is at maximum capacity today right this is a hospital system where we have our foot to the floor and the engine is that redline and you can't go any faster and by the way you can't stay at redline for any period of time because the system will blow and that's where we are we are at redline people can't work any harder the staff can't work any harder and staying at this level is problematic. and if we are towing it's because social distancing is working so we have to make sure the social distancing actually continues on the relieving the pressure on the hospital system which is unsustainable at this rate we're continuing what we call

a surge influx program where we get all the hospitals on the line on a daily basis they're all doing inventories they're all doomed to sheets they're all on the top telephone and we're shifting among the hospitals ventilators p p e equipment who has gowns who has masks and that happens on a daily basis that adjustment. also to relieve pressure on the hospital system the javits coming on line is a very big deal that is the relief valve for the entire downstate system. the 1100 military personnel started to come in 300 were sent to new york city public hospitals to help the new york city public hospital system the h. and h. system which has been under stress the rest will be going to javits to bring that up and running to full capacity that transition is happening now. that is a covert center now started it is non covert it's now

a covert center the majority of the military personnel will be coming in tomorrow and the next day but that jabot center is going to be a major relief valve 2nd the united states navy ship comfort the original plan was that that would come in for non coded people the original plan was it would also be a relief valve on the hospitals but not for covert people that it would take all the non coded patients if you will from the hospital system that was the plan as it turned out there's not a lot of non colleville people in the hospital system which is a separate story happens to be a good news story. a byproduct of shutting everything down is you have fewer car accidents. crime rate is way down fewer trauma cases so there's not there is not a large non covert population in the hospitals i'm going to call the president this

afternoon and ask him to shift the comfort from non coded to code then we would have javits and the ship comfort as a relief 2500 beds in a 1000 beds as 3500 beds which could serve as a relief valve for the whole downstate hospital system. that is the only way we sustain this level of intensity in the hospital system and i understand what the original plan was with the comfort but i understand that there is no preordained strategy here you have to feel it out day to day and you have to adjust with the facts. and we don't need the comfort for non cold cases we needed for cold it if we had those 2 facilities as

a relief of that would make a significant difference now bringing on line $3500.00 beds is no small task north well health is going to help us manage those but they're going to be staffed by military personnel. only the military bring in that many people that quickly with that logistical operation and i want to thank the o. d. very much for their cooperation because god bless the u.s. military. they're listening to governor andrew cuomo the governor of new york obviously york being really baptists that are but it's been happening in the last giving it up to a basically you know the fact that we don't yet know if we've hit the curb the peak the apex explaining a lot of those terms also explaining that he is trying to get more bad one form of that being a ship that is right off the coast there the u.s.s.

comfort that has been used for non covert cases he says he's going to make a call to the president to ask that that ship be allowed to take covert cases my colleague gabriel is on has been listening in as well taking notes on what the the governor has been saying so what are some of the lead lines that you heard. yeah there are a few of them i think we 1st need to go to the numbers number one there are now over 130000 confirmed cases just here in the state of new york. that's an increase by about 8600 in the last 24 hours that is pretty much what it's been trending at the last a week or so so the new number of confirmed cases is about on par of what we've been seeing also significantly he said that the death toll now in the state of new york is 4758 that's up by 599 in the last 24 hours certainly a huge number but put in context that is normally what the trend line has been for

the last 3 or 4 days so far about 550 to 650 people a day dying a huge number of people dying certainly tragedy is it only way to describe it but looking at it from the numbers perspective crunching the numbers as you're not seeing the huge spike in daily death toll which is some sliver of hope if you can in a sense that it has seemed like it stabilized and then of terms of course what he was talking about is simply beds and the new york hospital system is strained that's why at this javits convention center you see behind me it's being converted into 2500 beds for coverts coverts patients it's being run by the military he's also talking about turning that giant a navy ship the comfort which was supposed to be for non covert patients he's saying he's going to talk to the white house hopefully get that hurt or can't cope

with patients but the bottom line here is that they are still in need of beds and also the other key point that i heard out of this is that they're now saying looking at the data new york it could be interesting the peak right now meaning the worst of it right now does that mean it's over far from over the worst is still yet to come although previously it said it could be the end of april now they're saying the worst of it could be this week based on what the state health officials there say that moment. talk about needing hospital beds and space did you catch the part where he said that they're seen because the state is not officially on a lockdown but on officially on a lockdown there's there's not car accidents and other types of things that cause people to be in the hospital so that's actually freed up some beds as well. yeah that's right i mean new york isn't maybe officially on lockdown but call it what you want it's on lockdown this city is empty the state is pretty much empty all

non-essential businesses are 100 percent shut down there is nobody really coming in and out of new york to new jersey or other places lesser in essential employees so the bottom line here is you're not seeing car accidents you're not seeing normal injuries that you would normally see sending people to the hospital so there's really only one reason people in new york are going to the hospital right now and that's because they either want to get tested or they're sick and they have covert coronavirus and so they're saying that they're needing beds for covert patients they're not needing beds for people getting surgeries done because there aren't any surgeries happening or all non-essential surgeries have been canceled for the bottom line is the good news is is they're only seeing covert patients but the bad news is they are seeing a lot of them over 130000 now diagnosed just in new york state so that's what they need these beds for and that's why this convention center boat behind me huge convention center on the west side of manhattan this was supposed to be for non covert patients now the military is in there getting ready for covert patients we

should start seeing them this week here ok carol isn't over the crap there from new york kate thank you very much. let's return now to the u.k. where my i'm calling in to bob i was listening in on the press or the daily press or that comes from from downing street so let's just kind of remind people that they did update what's going on with or stands in as much as we know and they also updated some numbers so tell us about that. show me the headline on boris johnson that we've just been given from foreign secretary dominic robb who actually chen a cabinet meeting. a few hours ago in johnston absence was the dumb prime minister johnson remains in hospital and that he was taken to and spend the night that as a precautionary measure because he still was displaying symptoms of coke at 90 now several journalists in the question section of this daily briefing did ask

both the money and to scientists whether it was why he's full boris johnson to still be leading the government's response to cope at 19 and should he not in fact be observing a total rest had to go to somebody else and the answer generally was we're sure he's taking advice from his doctor and there's nothing to worry about but there's very little detail on exactly how seriously ill boris yeltsin is we know that he had a high temperature when he was taken to hospital reports of still coughing as well and so we head that he has been undergoing what they call routine tests there was routine tests generally involved testing belongs but there has been no detail from this study briefing so another thing that the government's been pushed on in this briefing is what the public should be aware of in terms of how we intend to get out

of its current measures its restrictive measures which some people call a lot down but in comparison to the haps what it was just describing in new york 'd or in front countries like iran might be less restrictive where people can still go out and exercise and is still being told that they can go out and exercise as long as they have social distancing so the question ready why. isn't it in everyone's interest to know how you were intending to move out of this is it when lots of the population will have been tested by that fall having the virus or the antibody tests which is somewhere down the line to you know whether they have had the virus and recovered so that presumably they have some kind of immunity where there was very little in terms of detail in response the chief medical officer deputy chief scientific advisor in unison really saying that we have to wait until

we have strong data on the effects of these restrictive measures before we can think about what to do next the next phase and they were saying that it's only right now 2 weeks after those measures came in that we can start to analyze think it is so an admission really that the measures will be in place until the end of this week perhaps several weeks longer and there are also many new things today not just on the number of deaths. in the 24 hours rising by 430 knowing to give its hoto death toll from call it 19 of 5373 but we've been hearing about other measures that have been going on around the u.k. including hundreds of thousands of people who signed up to volunteer for the national health service about to get details on how they can help in many areas it will be in terms of delivering essential supplies and also the foreign secretary reminding us about these huge temporary hospitals that are being set up to deal

with a peak in cases that expected fairly soon ok at the wrap up there from the from london thank you jane. so the numbers released from spain show the daily death toll is continuing to fall still $637.00 people died there in the last 24 hours but though that that is down nearly 40 from the previous day are to her has details from the terrain this is the lowest number since march 24th this means 2 weeks ago but we have to be a little bit cautious with these speakers as during the week and the reduced or it's a slower stross of soon we need to more of figures to compare with these slow don't trent is 100 percent certain spanish prime minister better santa reported yesterday he splattering apart from approving these 15 day extensions in the congress passing this approval of these until april 25 they're also thinking in a for

a future plan whether to be more toughening or easing the measures because it will be an extension kind of descent so they need to plan what they're going to do next one of the things we know is that he's asking the 17 regions in spain to provide at least of private public infrastructures in order to isolate a symptom and seem to amount to coronavirus patience i asked china few days a few months ago with these protocols north arc and in a way to to stop the spread of the pandemic because work very well in china but we don't know whether in spain is going to work because despite the health ministry has distributed 1000000 test kits we don't have enough so we need to have more and more supply of test kits in spain in order to do it b 2 b. is north park project be affected. the democratic republic of congo's government has shut down the capital's main commercial hub for 14 days can toss is the

epicenter of this nationwide outbreak many of the 12000000 people who live in the city will be impacted by the decision because they also work or do business and gone but the virus has infected 161 people and killed 18 nationwide kenya's president hurrican yatta has banned all movement in the capital nairobi for 21 days it dress the nation to announce the measures to combat the spread of kobe $1000.00 in the ban also applies to other areas affected by the outbreak kenya has reported $158.00 cases in 6 deaths as we continue to face the challenges ahead of us assuring you that as a government we will both do everything we can to combat this riotous and to reduce the health impacts of not society while at the same time. working together and working extra hard to ensure that as

a country we show overcome a tiger at a new york city has tested positive for covert 19 the bronx zoo says nadia who's a 4 year old female lion tiger has developed a dry cough and was tested as a precaution so officials said 6 other tigers and 3 lions also developed sentance. kerry let's get to the headlines right now on al-jazeera more than 70000 people have now died from chronic virus globally with europe accounting 450000 of those deaths spain and italy have reported the most fatalities in the world there is however some hope and spraying with the number of deaths dropping for a 4th straight day according to the health ministry 637 people died in the past day to 2 days ago more than 800 people died president donald trump is sounded

a note of optimism saying there is a light at the end of the tunnel that's what he tweeted that's despite a warning from his nation's top surgeon that americans should prepare for their saddest and hardest week the u.s. is reporting more than 9000 deaths so far the deputy director general. expressed concern about the use of medical mask he says the general public is using too many keeping them from those who need them the most he also announced he was going to hold a major global virtual concert to raise money for the group's solidarity fund some of the featured artists will be lady gaga sir elton john paul mccartney and stevie wonder. kenya's president her a kanada has banned all movements in the capital nairobi for 21 days they address the nation to announce measures to combat the spread of coven 1000 the span also applies to other areas affected by the outbreak kenya has reported 158 cases and 6

deaths as we continue to face the challenges ahead of us assuring you that as a government we will both do everything we can to combat does rightists and to reduce the health impacts the loss of the loan at the same time working together. and working extra. to ensure that as a country we overcome. now the news we're following for you as many as 23 soldiers have been killed in mali during an attack on a military base in the gallery and out in the southern town of about 4 am local time so far no one has claimed responsibility for the headlines keep it on al-jazeera counting the cost us up next.

and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week. this is in rich nations struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic so what about poor nations will the world bank's multibillion dollar fund be enough to help developing countries.