we've been targeted by cyber attacks from russia but they're all dangerous through this kind of reading. truth and approach truth weren't on a 0. 0 . glamour shot here you're watching the news hour dominated by our coverage of krona virus france has just announced its highest daily death toll yet 833 fatalities and hospitals and nursing homes. thank you to news to lead you to. the british prime minister's colleagues insists he is still in charge despite being in hospital for persistent coronavirus symptoms. world health organization says it's concerned too

many people in the general public are where medical masks at the expense of doctors and nurses. also this hour the u.n. delivers its verdict on airstrikes in northeast syria that had hospitals schools and displacement camps last year. france has just announced its highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began 833 people in the past 24 hours so that total number now of deaths is approaching 9000 and britain the prime minister boris johnson's colleagues insists he remains in charge even after being admitted to hospital for coronavirus tests and treatment the foreign secretary says johnson is and good spirits as you know last night the prime minister was admitted to hospital for tests following advice from his don't. this was

a precautionary step because he continues to have persistent current of our symptoms 10 days off the 1st having tested positive for the dollars i can tell you that pm had a comfortable night 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 so in the us the governor of new york state the country's epicenter says he's increasingly convinced their act or at least near the peak of their and factions so let's go now to nadine baba who is in london dame let's let's pick up on what we were hearing there from dominic rob what else is being said about the prime minister and his and this illness and how much work he's actually doing. well reseller think it's fair to say that it's not entirely clear how it will or is johnson is or how much work he's doing what has been doing in the last few days he did actually tweet the promise to tweet in celt from

hospital on monday saying that he was in good spirits now dominic rob his foreign secretary at the present briefing sent the boris johnson continues to lead the government in his receiving regular updates on the covert 19 situation he said that he was taken into hospital and remained there overnight sunday into monday as a precautionary step but we know that he was taken into hospital because he still has symptoms of a corona virus which we think include a high temperature of coughing and that he has been undergoing what downing street cold a routine checks and we're also hearing that he has been given an oxygen we're not sure in power has been administered it but now we also have heard from governor rock itself that he hasn't directly or is johnson the man who he replaced to lead monday's cabinet be taking since saturday dominic but hasn't talked directly to the

prime minister for several days and lots of people are starting to wonder why the message is that mr johnson is still in charge making the important decisions if he's ever not to stay in hospital now he went in 10 days after contracting corona virus so big test it for and going into so isolation so there is a bit of a mystery going on about exactly what his condition is right now but dominic rob sense that says that the prime minister certainly does know what's happening and he is communicating when he needs to ok. there live in london again thank you. let's go to italy now the daily coronavirus death toll went up to 636 on monday just today after dropping to its lowest level in over 2 weeks but the pace of the new infections that does appear to be slowing more than 16500 people have now died

in italy that is the highest number in the world let's go now to francesca your tone from milan who's been keeping us posted so tell us more about the trends what we're seeing in italy. well the trend seems to be positive especially for the new infected people because heard today they created by only $3600.00 less than 3 percent daily and the total confirmed cases are now over 132000 the best news for sure is that the crees and the number of hospitalized patients in intensive care units for the 3rd day in a row this will gave bit of relief to the health system even though unfortunately the deaths went up again in the last 24 hours it's only reduces $636.00 new fatalities more than $16500.00 people died in the county since the break the curve of the infection as i was saying keeps flattening and shows that

the restrictive measures implemented for weeks 4 weeks ago are working are paying off anyway here in la but the hardest hit region where more than 9000 people lost their lives and wear masks are now mandatory in public the local government is under fire for not setting up a red zone in the burger more province at the end of february and not giving enough protective gear for doctors and nurses in the next weeks everyone now is looking here uneasily forward to face to as the prime minister does a pecan to call the few days ago referring to the time when the nation will have to live with the virus and gradually start lifting to lock down but it's still very early to say when this will happen the head of the civil protection said a couple of days ago that italians will maybe have to stay home until mid may this

sounds like a very long time this provisions anyway would not confirmed by the government lockdown will be in place until the 13th of april for world we know at the moment but the next days will be crucial to understand what our next moves of the politics and of the government and you'll keep us posted francesca to overturn it thank you very much. new york state health officials believe its coronavirus outbreak may be at or may be near its peak the governor andrew cuomo says the state's health care system is now at its maximum capacity at least 600 people have died there in the last 24 hours with the death toll rapidly approaching 5000 there have been more than 130000 cases confirmed and just that one state if we are applying tone we we are proud towing at a very high level and there's tremendous stress on the health care system and to say to this 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 red line 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 ok gabriel is on his live in new york a b. relisting when the governor was talking earlier doc a lot about space hospitalization hospitalizations getting more beds and things like that tell us what he said. yeah you basically said that the hospital system is already at it smacks and that the new information is now the modeling is showing as you heard from the governor there that the peak of this could be hitting this week previously the models were showing it could be individually could be middle of april well now it looks like there is no more time to prepare because the peak as the governor likes to call it is now apparently upon

us or will be in the next 24 to 48 hours already the hospitals are at capacity that's why you see the javits convention center on the west side of new york city 2500 beds that was initially supposed to be for non coronavirus patients that is now being turned into exclusively for people that are infected with covert 19 the death toll here in new york is grim about 600 people died just in the last 24 hours and there are so many people getting sick so many people dying that now the new york city council member in charge of the health committee is now saying that new york city will have to set up a temporary internment process where they're going to bury people 5 or 10 in one temporary burial site because the funeral homes and the hospitals just simply

cannot process all of this and so they will be put there temporarily it just gives you a grim idea of where we are right now in new york as the governor and state and city officials are still saying they need thousands of more ventilators and thousands of more masks and protective gear because the people that are infected now might not get sick for another 234 maybe even 5 days so new york is right in the middle of it right now ok ever elizondo with the wrap up there from new york thank you. world health organization director general has expressed concerns about overuse of medical masks he said the general population can use to many possibly limiting what's available for those who need them most mosques should only ever be used as part of a comprehensive package of interventions there is no black or white answer and no silver bullet muskets alone cannot stop the pandemic countries must

continue to find test isolate and treat every case and trace every contract around supreme leader has backed the president's request to withdraw a $1000000000.00 from the national development fund the money will be used to help fight this pandemic let's go now to tehran or is a mess rob a is there. that is a that is a obviously huge numbers saying how is it really expected to be used to get a handle on this on this pandemic. well the bulk of this money the health ministry has been clear is going to go directly into the projects of the health ministry deems necessary to deal with the spread of the corona virus outbreak here they're going to be putting the money into the domestic production of the things they need they're going to be making masks and gloves more sanitizer ventilators domestically

producing the things they need to track and treat the spread of this virus and to help those that have contracted the infection they're also going to be funneling this money into and much of the financial programs that the government has set up to help people who are out of work or have been made redundant because of the economic fallout as the corona virus continues to spread all over the country and now we need to understand that this wasn't an easy decision for the government to make this is the national development fund it is an investment fund effectively what the government is doing is borrowing against the future of a country where the future is so uncertain we should you know it's useful to remember that this time last year iran was going through some very serious problems with floods that had affected large parts of the country at that time the supreme leader ayatollah ali home and it was resistant to release a much smaller amount of money to deal with the floods and that was just about a year ago so this was certainly a difficult decision to make why have they made this decision that well they had requested $5000000000.00 in emergency relief from the international monetary fund

something that has been rejected so that comes on the heels of that rejection that iranians say was orchestrated by the united states trying to place more pressure on iran we also see this coming just days this decision just coming days after 50 iranian economists experts in these matters wrote to president hassan rouhani and said if the economic problems that are coming that are stemming from the spread of this virus aren't dealt with as soon as possible then the government can expect wide scale nationwide protests to break out as a result of this so certainly that's something that the government wants to prevent and they're hoping that injecting this cash to try to solve much of the problems they're facing will keep the country stable. from tehran thank you zain. someone on the breaking news that is coming out of france or more than $800.00 people have died in the last 24 hours that is the highest daily death toll there are so far more than 74000 people are infected cross the country go to natasha

butler now who joins us now from france with more senator tell us more about these numbers and and the kind of strain that this is on the health care system right now . well i have to say some people in france were beginning to think that there was a light at the end of the tunnel because over the past 3 days with actually seen the number of cases of people being hospitalized with current a virus go down quite considerably yet today we see that that is not the case it's all that there is this trend outputs in fact a 10 percent increase in cases 605 people who are hospitalized to die and the others die in a nursing home say the biggest figures that we've seen so far in faults in 24 hours for deaths they were announced by the french health minister who has said of course that this is extremely great news because the hospitals across france are under such strain as it is trying to cope with the influx of patients the health minister

has also said that because we are looking at so many deaths in nursing homes and or people sightings that perhaps now the french government is hoping to launch a mass widespread testing a program for people in all people seems to try and stem the deaths in the current virus spread of course in those areas because those are caught people in the population who are very very vulnerable but as i said you know over the last few days here in france there has been talk from governments in the media about what's going to come off to the lock down perhaps the lockdown is going to start to be. people are going to start to be able to be released a little bit more stage by stage people start to project into the future house not sounding like but i think these figures are real remind on the government will be using it as such that people must remain in their homes that we are no where near the end of this health crisis here in france ok and learn why for us that hotshot

thank you. so governments all across latin america have been implementing increasingly strict containment measures chile's health minister says there's what he described as an international war for ventilators at least $4800.00 cases have been confirmed there and 37 deaths what america will see newman joins us live now from santiago so what are the measures in restrictions that are in place right now the cea. well well 1st of all just to give everyone a general view of what is happening in that america health organization just announced that the 1000 deaths mark has already been passed in this region and that there are more than 30000 people confirmed to be infected or since then it's certainly much much broader than that in some countries like fruit and panama where a teen applying teen has problems with type rules and the suspense is to do that

they are now simmering they need by gender the people who panic and don't fall out on the streets for example on mondays wednesdays and fridays men can be allowed on the alternate days limon that is to deal substantially iran and people who can be outdoors at the same time people who can go out only of course to buy groceries and the slime to see essential reasons only and here in chile for example needs health ministry announced as of today will be. a face mask on public transport again you need a permit to go out but they also issued video online telling people how they can make their own face masks out of kitchen towels and would be towels in and out of chins in remand over the years because of what we've just heard made director of the won't help holden has been saying that is that the better and the more the better tested face mask in

a hospital must be reserved for medical personnel and because they are no. by the day in fact not only on masks but especially mechanical ventilators and ask what president donald trump announced and that is the barring of all shipments of ventilators that warrant a painful or an order from the united states or our u.s. factories abroad to canada and the united states countries like chile say that it's now in states where they're going to get their ventilators. from and i can say that we have heard the answer spain has been sent not china to pick up some venting they didn't invent don't need it but we don't know the origin. of. illicit people all around the world have wanted to get back home to their country back to where they're from what is going on with colombia and people trying to get brother from colombia back to venezuela absolutely and we are seeing.

thousands of desperate move trying to get out of crimea as well which ends closed and swards back home minds because there is no transport there are no buses there are no airlines that are functioning between those countries picking up their children pregnant women children old people trying to cross the border that is only opened to people back into the knisley which is a country that also has a very dire situation with things on that it would be very well i think to say the least but they are expecting that it is their government might give them some help as opposed to colombia and would do it when they have no more jobs anymore and where people are closing the door on them because many of them are going to move the line it's ok with c.n.n. live for us in santiago to tell us what's going on latin america will see it thank you japan's prime minister shinzo obvious prepared to declare a state of emergency along what they one trillion dollar stimulus package as an

affectionate surge in major cities i thought it would last about a month and allow governors to call on people to stay at home and for businesses to close local media say a formal declaration is expected on tuesday more than 100 people have died at their border more than 4500 confirmed cases and as japan imposes new measures china is heading in the opposite direction a city where this outbreak began as comparing ports lock down to finally come to an end just a washington reports. with just days to go before the city reopens council workers in han are trying to bring it back to what it was before these bio security barriers have been here since the middle of january closing off access to some residential compounds and alleyways now the city of 11000000 is preparing to come out of lockdown later this week or so. that are because of the measures we took we contain the outbreak so quickly even the makeshift hospitals have closed and there

are a few new cases. then doesn't shoppers have returned to the streets happy to be out of their apartments but still apprehensive only over the situation is improving but we shall not drop our guard the restrictions will be lifted but we shouldn't relax they said he was the epicenter of the pen demick now it represents something else what life can look like when the worst is over many southeast asian nations however a still in the early stages of responding to the crisis the tire in thailand is known for its vibrant nightlife it's almost unrecognizable now police and government officials patrol the streets to enforce a national curfew between 10 pm and 4 am every night in the philippines temperature checks on people and disinfection on now a daily reality there are more than 3000 confirmed cases and at least 150 deaths.

the lockdown on the main island which includes the capital manila is likely to be extended for another 2 weeks in singapore health authorities say foreign workers dormitories are particular concern as more workers fall ill in the cramped living spaces the city state has been praised for its early efforts to contain the outbreak but authorities are urging ordinary people to support health workers and stay vigilant because they're very stretched and they're very tired very exhausted some of them read our hearts go out to them and in vietnam people are almost halfway through a 2 week lockdown the streets of hanoi usually bustling with motorbikes are quieter authorities say now the public has had time to adjust to the new rules they will be strictly enforcing fines for those who break them jessica washington al-jazeera or corona virus coverage us shortly but for now another developing story a u.n. investigation into a series of deadly attacks on hospitals in northwestern syria has reported back its

findings let's turn to our diplomatic out of shame space has been digging into this report james what are some of the conclusions. well you remember that this was something causing outrage around the world the hospitals and clinics in syria came under attack many of actually given their coordinates to the united nations so they would not be bombed but the suspicion is those coordinates with then used to actually deliberately target them under considerable pressure in august last year the u.n. secretary general and tony good terrace set up a board of inquiry this is his letter today revealing a summary of what that board of inquiry has discovered now they looked into just 7 incidents this board of inquiry over the last 7 months all of those 7 incidents they find that in 3 it is highly probable that the syrian government the assad

regime and its allies were responsible they find in another case that it was plausible that the syrian government and its allies are responsible and in a 5th case they find that it's highly probable that the government of syria that it mentioned allies was responsible there are 2 other out of the list of 71 they think was carried out by the opposition and the other case they say they looked at and they don't believe is in the mandate of their inquiry but clearly pretty damning news about the assad regime and its allies who are named in the report but of course we know who the assad's regime allies are and there's only one that has air power and that just happens to be a permanent member of the u.n. security council russia the board of inquiry don't make it clear that all of these findings are not conclusive but that's another reason i think to look very critically at this government because they say they couldn't be conclusive because

they couldn't actually examine the scene of any of these incidents the assad regime wouldn't give them visas and didn't cooperate in any way with this inquiry there's a place down walling fell so if that's the case then james what what could possibly be next i mean what type of accountability. well that is the problem and has been the problem throughout the long war in syria is how do you get accountability when you could go to the international criminal court but you need then a referral from the u.n. security council they've tried that and it has been blocks and i can tell you right now even though this report is pretty damning i don't think you're even going to get a u.n. security council meeting in the near future to discuss issues that speak because some good news here is there's a rather uneasy calm going on in a live province right now russia has stopped its bombing and even those that are normally critical of russia don't want to do anything to provoke russia at this

time when it is actually holding off on military action in northwest syria ok james there at the united nations james thank you. still ahead in the news how the threat of an action is stopping families from being with dying black ones and what that means for ancient rituals. also the data showing just a portion hideouts and infections among african-americans and other u.s. racial minorities. how the weather's looking lossy fondant right the much of the middle east we have seen some rather lively weather that closely some parts of but it's right in this area. in producing some very heavy showers some very strong winds as well so when

strong enough it's parts of egypt state to call some sand storms the strongest winds now in the process of easing away but we have still got quite a blow going on just around greece turkey see how if a strong winds will continue with some lofty showers here as we go through chews day meanwhile across the levant lotty fine and dry will be a few showers there which was the caspian northern parts all will see some showers along the spells of rain that was a weather easing of its worst minustah this backstop pushing over towards afghanistan as we go through the next few days the showers a little more widespread come further south here in doha is fine and dry as is the case across a good part of the arabian peninsula you can follow that sunshine on the other side of the red sea and see that eastern side of africa what a fine and dry weather here got some showers just around the gulf of guinea have tools west africa was sierra leone towards liberia they've seen a few showers there into gonna as we go through the next couple of days so i was

also around the big family. when diplomacy fails and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven barriers are built to impose division and it's not effective instead of being an obstacle to a don't waste it became another obstacle to peace in a 4 part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. consciously rose here to report on the people often ignored but who must be heard how many other channels can use. they will take their time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global of friends but our passion lies in making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how the spying the young man and his son have returned and so

many others we go to them you make me afterwards we care we stay. watching out there these are the top stories this hour france has announced its highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began $833.00 people and just the past 24 hours the total number of deaths there is approaching 9000 for the prime minister boris johnson is undergoing tests in hospital 10 days after being diagnosed with throat of virus the u.k. foreign secretary says johnson is still leading the country. as director general is

concerned about the over use of medical masks he says the general public is using too many and that could be keeping them from the people who need them the most like talkers and nurses. figures emerging from some u.s. states and cities are revealing a significant racial disparity in infections and deaths talk about chicago 61 of the 86 recorded coben 1000 deaths were black residents most of those who died had suffer from hypertension high blood pressure and diabetes 46 percent of pennsylvania's patients had been black while 37 percent were white local media have reported that many african-american residents can afford to buy groceries and bulk so they need to leave the house more and that puts them at higher risk and michigan has also started reporting on its demographic figures african-americans account for 12 percent of the state's population but 40 percent of deaths i'm crying a virus that's made to clayborne carson he's the director of the martin luther king

jr research and education institute he joins us from stanford california recreate your time very much so just 1st of all your reaction to these statistics are they surprising to you anyway. well. i think if they hear this ensure that the british will analysis or any knowledge. of. this fund early and the money everyone knows is for us 3 times it will work decisions are more modern jew. he. didn't buy this. army isn't this is the shape. who this is who is. our home. office. on. in are the servants silver. so

i said the african amik disparities can cross obviously any any racial group but when you add on to that and that they the fact that there is race that also would you say has a as an added effect to this disparity. come like want. there's no those signs or will there ever since that raise the use of. what. is a major bump in movement. or one. of the. first her or the one. of the mush the interviewer because that is what her work or a sense of the leaves are on more of the final moments of this and it's.

all i'm sorry. all right clayborne carson thank you so much for joining us from and from stanford california we appreciate it. yeah germany has long gone merkel says the coronavirus is the european union's biggest test ever germany is conform confirm it as more than $100000.00 cases but so far it's managed to avoid fatalities on the scale of some of its european neighbors hospitals and several german regions are even treating patients from italy and france some in again as in berlin. solidarity is the key word for government ministers in lynn right now as they contemplate the next move in the coronavirus crisis from the european perspective germany is indicating it thinks that other member states of badly affected by the virus can draw moneys down emergency loan funding which is available under e.u. schemes with germany saying that the countries can access the money spain italy and others can access the money and worry about paying it back later because from

angela merkel's perspective what europeans are facing now something they've never had to face before. and it's our standards are good as i want to say that in my view europe the european union if they think the biggest test i think of its foundation. if you add up all of it i would be a bad john fleming and it would be a bad federal government if we were to name a date now and we can't even if we have given the 1st indications i think they have developed austria with a step ahead but we have to use our own number if it's not advice to talk about a date gemini. the question everyone is posing angle americal and other politicians around the e.u. is when will this crisis be over when will it be possible for people to go back out and try to resume some degree of normality in their lives have freedom of movement again i got a medical says it's too soon to put a date on it but she is keeping

a close eye on what's happening in other countries specifically in austria where the government of sebastien courts has indicated it will soon within the next week or so start to remove some of the restrictions on people's freedom of movement and that's definitely what's being watched by the german government. a hospital in one of india's worst affected cities has been locked down i mean no one in no one out the walker hospital in mumbai has been declared a containment zone after 3 doctors and 26 nurses tested positive for the virus elizabeth problem has more from new delhi she says the measure will place added pressure on an area that's already struggling. in mumbai as you said no one's allowed to enter or exit until all of the patients in there test negative for corona virus twice then nearly 300 patients and nurses who will be tested after those 3 doctors and 26 nurses tested positive and that is one less facility

in the state with the highest number of cases and deaths which is now fully functioning now there is concern a lot of concern for maharashtra not just because it has the highest number of cases and deaths but also because last week that was the 1st reported case in mumbai the dot of the slum that's one of the largest slums in the world it's home to more than a 1000000 people and since then they have been 5 reported cases one of whom is died and they have been to containment zones created in the heart of the after the 1st patients death around his home and also of the doctor who tested positive huge concern because over a 1000000 people living in really close proximity many without full access to basic sanitation another really big concern in maharashtra also in india right now as elsewhere in the world is the lack of personal protection equipment for health care workers we've had a number of at least 850 around the country a number of doctors resign in delhi citing the lack of personal protection

equipment we've seen reports of doctors in west bengal other places in fact being given rain coats and sunglasses to wear while they're treating patients with the virus pakistan has opened its border with afghanistan for 4 days to allow stranded citizens to return home the move follows a request from kabul many afghans have been trapped since the border was close suddenly last month and more than 150000 have returned since the outbreak began. democratic republic of congo's government has shut down the capital's main commercial hub for 14 days just what is the up the center of the nationwide outbreak so 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 $161.00 people and killed 18 nationwide malcolm webb has more on how the measure would impact the spread of the virus whether it's government buildings foreign entities the headquarters of large companies and other commercial buildings

that actually make a very small part of the city of kinshasa outside of the center city to say the largest city in africa about 12000000 people living in cramped conditions low rise that goes on and on and on business is usual in most of the suburbs so well closing down going they certainly are very visible measure in the center of the city it's hard to see how this is going to stop the spread of the virus in all of those suburbs and millions of people living in cramped conditions the pandemic is for schools around the world to close with students continuing their education online that in some parts of africa the kids don't have the same resources catherine so i reports from eastern kenya. maybe we will skip this part this is the new normal in many schools in kenya we are a little quick checking before the lesson starts and julius my sharia is settling

into the idea that he might be remotely teaching his students for months my machine has honed some of the challenges we are experiencing. is dealing with a few technology cliches and the fact that not all children might give 100 percent in vachel classes it will not take us through this light but he says a coronavirus has shifted the future of learning majority of them are now organising some groups that they're doing their own discussion they're doing discussions on new and engaging teachers in ways that actually unimaginable about 150 kilometers east of nairobi in which this parent homeschools he still has her. grades he uses a television learning program started by a government institution but it's not easy you know the program which is coming to you cannot to have follow up for the laughter because sometimes the kids want to.

and sometimes the they tell you that you want to go home tens of thousands of students across the country are now adopting to vosh more studies on t.v. radio or online but many have no electricity internet or devices to keep up state school students are suffering the most in 2030 in the government promised free laptops to primary schools saying it would gradually expand the program to secondary schools but our project has been slow to implement coronavirus has disrupted every aspect of life education has been badly affected by the disease and with schools now closed indefinitely many children are likely to lag behind in their studies. re told by the reason he entered secondary school but now she's back home and. days full of house walk and chores she lives with her mother and siblings and today the only mill they have is from mentored partridge in school should have

had 3 hot meals seen in sr i don't have a bookie radio t.v. i don't even have a computer to listen to those learning programs i'm afraid when i go back to school behind the children who have to devices the only time bath it gets to revise is just before sunset and only for a little while because once that miss sets in she's limit head with no electricity and money to buy solar line tends to uses flashlights it has story at could buy many others across the country catherine saw all dizzy era when east and kenya and secretary general antonio terra says there has been a horrifying rise into mest and violence cases around the world during this pandemic is warning of the dangers of enforced lock downs for tens of thousands of women at risk i urge all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women they keep part of the national response plans for coverage 19 that

means increasing investment in online services and civil society organizations making sure this will systems continue to prosecute abusers setting up emergency warning systems in fantasies and grow cities declaring shelters as essential services and creating safe ways for women to seek supports without alerting their abusers the pandemic has limited people's ability to mourn at a time and so many are dying and then victims pass away they're often alone with no family with them priyanka gupta reports. a cruel disease that leaves no comfort for those dying and for those left behind. in the chaotic hospital wards around the world tens of thousands of patients are dying alone without their families by this side to avoid the risk of covert 19 in the us our brains are there for the patients it's been

a terrible experience they have been taken away from their families many of them died we had 605 deaths and it is extremely stressful to remain in the hospital and not even recognize nurses and doctors who are hidden behind this mask and these glasses it is very stressful for the family certainly very stressful for those who cannot stay next to their loved ones who are being treated. disinfectants are spread in coffins a new reality of death in some countries. in italy where hundreds are dying every day funeral services are banned just the blessings of priests in empty churches. the global lock downs and restrictions have altered the way people grieve no matter their culture or religion this virus took widget out of the equation. mark or serious question very scary for

a church the muslim families care or a mosque the jewish care go to the top. there here are people gathered. in china where more than 3000 people died because of horn of virus sirens wailed. and people came together for one day of collective expression of grief. lockdowns a changing age should rituals and funeral customs some are using video calls and live streaming apps to. bring communities together to honor the dead. and grieving and rituals that go into that. very social event typically and so to have. so many deaths go. unwitnessed or ritual in the ways that we are used to i think

is going to be something there that results in the lack of good sense of lack of clue sure. the one scoring unprecedented changes to this crisis for many it's a time of mourning and loss but perhaps hoping for better days ahead to priyanka cook the. and there are no proven trog therapies or effective vaccines for this virus yet but the u.s. food and drug administration is looking into a treatment that's worked during previous outbreaks and for schapelle has more shortly after stepping on board this mobile clinic for instance wars became the 1st person in florida to participate in an experimental treatment to fight coke at 19 he's also the mayor of miami who has recovered from the virus and has been symptom free for at least 14 days researchers hope his plasma can up a critically ill coronavirus patient nearby as i got 3 or 4 instagram messages that were very similar asking if i would be willing to donate blood or plasma and with

the same number i was actually at my parents' house because they were decontaminated my house and actually called back to patient right away the patient's family right away and they were very emotional they were very very grateful and are very hopeful that with this donation hopefully he can he can be saved the american national red cross wants other recovered patients to do the same . plasma is the liquid portion of blood that's full of antibodies that fight infections blood is drawn in pipes through a special machine to extract the yellow colored serum donors then get their red cells and platelets back in a process that takes a little longer than donating blood recipients will then in theory be able to share the donors active in unity. after 1st approving it for emergency use u.s. food and drug administration has now authorized johns hopkins university and the mayo clinic to begin clinical trials to see if passive antibody therapy may shorten the duration of illness the severity of disease or prevent people from dying from

it all together and to find a way to boost the immune system of frontline health workers for their egos. and banded together to try to work together for. and i think in the end science will went out the f.d.a. gave new york state's department of health permission to conduct the experimental procedure last month though it's only been used on a handful of patients die in a parent's became the 1st potential plasma donor in her state and is working to connect recover patients to opportunities to save lives through facebook we are keeping a reading list of every study that we can find around the country and making those available in acting as a matchmaker of sorts between research institutes and survivors to make the system more efficient and expedite the process because we don't have time to wait 509 this treatment predates vaccines and was used to fight the 1800 flu pandemic as well as more recent outbreaks of the corona virus family like sars and mares one donation

can generate nearly 4 units of plasma i could help for people however it's not known to be a safe and effective treatment for cover 19 we don't understand a lot about the immune response to this virus we're assuming it's similar to other viruses and there are good reasons to think that. and so we think that within $7.00 to $14.00 days after the onset of an infection that people will develop an immune response and benchley make high amounts of antibodies although exactly when the peak of antibody production will be we don't know and and how long it will stay permanent we also don't know that either institutions in 20 states are coordinating their research through a national code 1000 program to answer those question. together they hope to discover therapeutic treatments that will help reduce the number of infections and his pressure on hospitals and health care workers and or ship al-jazeera. a tiger as it were new york has tested positive for cove it might tame the bronx zoo said

not yet a 4 year old female alliance hiver had developed a tri coffin was tested as a precaution selfishness had 6 other tigers and 3 lions also developed some since it's believed they were infected by is it employee connor bamford is a paralysis to queen's university belfast who says the focus should be on humans and limiting person to person contact we know that many animals have their own coronaviruses even kept up their own from the viruses and maybe in wild cats do not have this kind of virus we know that there are differences and we know that our pet animal but it seems at least pets kept the wild tigers and you the arms see are you able to catch the infection so theoretically i wouldn't be surprised that it appears that maybe practically there doesn't seem to be too many differences although i know that the pet cats did not appear to have disease while while the

tigers in the city and him time with a cough who may be while they can both be infected and one might be more susceptible to disease than the other they can get probably get infected they don't get sick and they probably don't aren't that well evil to pass the virus on we don't think although we don't know and then the question then that of course you know most of the cases going to come from people who we should be really focusing this on limiting the human interactions because after all for all we know these animals are catching the virus from people here they're in a close contact with some of the stuff people getting infected you couldn't stop the vast majority of animal infection. still to come and the news hour scans and high prices on vital supplies prosecutors in the u.s. take on and demick profiteers.

combat as many as $25.00 soldiers have been killed in mali during an attack on a military base in the gallery jhon happened in the town of baba at about 4 am local time sources say the camp was destroyed a military items stolen and no one has claimed responsibility as a neighboring senegal and he explains the reasons behind the fighting. well this is an area where several armed groups are you have a lot of islam will mostly mean which is an al qaeda affiliate and then a new comer the islamic state in the greater now both have been in talks in january to try to join arms together but those discussion have fallen out and now they have

been. attacks between the 2 groups and that's a recent development just as early as yesterday the 2 groups were launching attacks at each other in the area further west of this area of go 150 kilometers away is where there was a major un peacekeeping stabilizing force and the french forces side by side we were there just a year ago and the u.n. peacekeeping forces were keen to show us their firepower and their ability to quickly react i know though they were so close to where this attack took place they failed to prevent this attack it's a big blow to the money and forces who have been on the forefront of conflict with these armed groups that are more and more active in the north of mali just to give you a perspective on when this is taking place there's been $83.00 aerial deployments

from the french forces and it comes at a time just 2 weeks ago where the mullion opposition leader was kidnapped not too far from the go area now there's been discussion between the government and the armed forces to try to free this opposition leader but it seems that these attacks will go on until the government can find a better solution to this conflict in the north of mali. the fighters say the saudi led coalition has launched 21 air strikes on rebel positions in 5 governance and western yemen meanwhile 2 children are said to have been killed by hooty sniper fire and central thais a day earlier in that city the women section of a prison with hit by shelling with the rebels have been blamed for the attack but deny any involvement thais is humans 3rd biggest city and a major center of the conflict. and a former soldier will spend 23 years in prison for the 2018 contract killing of an

investigative journalist and his fiance. had been investigating alleged high level corruption before he was shot dead by. the double murder lead to a nationwide protests and eventually brought down the government of spock at a separate trial is set to resume same with 3 people charged with ordering that killing. finally this news hour the global demand for hand sanitizers and other hygiene products has as everyone knows spiked and they can be very hard to find right now that has led to a search and complaints about profiteering john hendren has that story from chicago . as the corona virus spreads around the globe so is a series of equally viral scams cashing in on the crisis there are dozens and dozens and dozens of unique and difference coronavirus cyber attacks that are operating right now tor excel is a malware researcher in seattle he found this out which promises to alert android

users when they're in a coronavirus hotspot instead the program locks the phone and demands a ransom from the user so far we've uncovered over $68000.00 domains and that number is growing daily there are also offers for vaccines in home tests and a $50.00 patch that immunizes you from the virus that we're in fact there is no vaccine no in home test no patch the scam artists are coming out of the woodwork very area here in michigan attorney general dana nestle tells al-jazeera she has fielded 4200 consumer complaints when people want to reserve their alliance they are desperate and. in one scam callers as consumers who are desperate for government stimulus checks to give numbers to credit cards and bank accounts which are the. and looted. along with other scams prosecutors say they're

also seeing price gouging on vital medical supplies like masks gloves and those breathing ventilators that for very sick patients can mean the difference between life and death the u.s. government has declared making more ventilators a national priority and banned price gouging on medical products but some prices have more than doubled they were under $20000.00 the ventilators are now over $50000.00 if you can find them the ventilators didn't change that much in 2 weeks one michigan company was selling hand sanitizer for $40.00 in up in this area you know things like face and and sanitizer and not just that other things other items like diapers and being a formula with gelding in viral scams mirroring the spread of the corona virus prosecutors say for every one they find there are hundreds more john hendren al-jazeera chicago thanks for joining me for the news hour we're going to hand it

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