virus information is more important than ever wonder when east investigates the battle for truth in china and beyond on out 0. case of the best documentary films from across the network an hour to sierra. the coronavirus test toll passes 50000 in europe but the number of fatalities across the continent seems to be falling. below 2 and barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program in hospital but still running the country britain's prime minister says he's in good spirits as he battles coronavirus empty streets and

closed shops the pandemic forces the democratic republic of congo to shut down its main commercial hub in the capital kinshasa. the. staying connected in chile we look at some of the creative ways that people are socializing and keeping in shape a lot of them. thank you for joining us less than 2 months after a chinese tourist in france became the 1st coronavirus fatality in europe the continent's death toll has passed 50700000 people across europe have now been diagnosed with the virus but there are some signs the mortality rate is leveling out if not falling in europe spain and germany and the u.k. of all recorded their lowest number of deaths in days meanwhile the u.k.

prime minister boris johnson remains in a london hospital johnson said he was in good spirits he will stay under observation after several tests for persistent symptoms and in the united states new york governor andrew cuomo says the state health care system is at maximum capacity but a daily decline in the number of hospitalizations could suggest a possible leveling out of infections they're also talk about let's begin our coverage in europe with paul brennan. 2 you're a fast another significant number on monday as the continent's death toll from corona virus exceeded 50000 people that's the vast majority of the 70000 who died globally so far but while the infection is still on an upward curve in some european countries in others there are signs that the contagion is starting to stabilize austria hopes to allow small shops and garden centers to reopen on april the 14th with restrictions potentially lifted on larger shops and hairdressers on

may the 1st. but speaking from behind a protective per spec screen the austrian chancellor warned that everything depends on the infection rate the all-star walker we are down in the wake of a star will be a deciding wait for us and it will be a week which will decide whether the resurrection of the 8th which we are all hoping for can actually happen as planned. the spanish government is also studying how to gradually ease the lockdown it imposed since march 14th movement restrictions have left poor and vulnerable residents relying on charitable groups like this one in seville to bring them food parcels. but on monday spain's or 4th consecutive days drop in the number of new deaths and the number of new infections rising just 3.3 percent offers some cause for hope relaxing the restrictions can't come soon enough for those living beside lake constance the barbed wire which once separated the german town of constance and its swiss neighbor craigslist and was torn down after world war 2 and residents mingled freely ever since now

a new fence has created a coronavirus no man's land separating friends relatives and lovers like pierre and his german girlfriend it is very well thought. out if we've been speaking to each other on face time in recent weeks and that's ok for a while but after 2 or 3 weeks you realize that that's not good enough we needed to see each other and hear each of this voice like there was no the way but to meet here at this fades in it's elise long body region despite reductions in both. under oath rates will force use of actually tightened restrictions and residents now have to cover their mouth or nose whenever they go outside it's an order intended to prevent complacency but a shortage of face masks is creating a problem that although no we cannot find protected months i haven't found them so i made one myself with or to say most will be available in 3 days but they've been saying that for a month restrictive measures are having an impact on the spread of the virus and

collective discipline and a sense of civic duty are helping to save lives. and more people like this woman leaving intensive care are surviving but there are many thousands who will not make it to this stage of recovery and the voiding infection in the 1st place still remains the safest strategy. brennan al-jazeera. when meanwhile the news from france isn't good it recorded its highest number of deaths in a 24 hour period since the outbreak began another 833 people have been confirmed dead taking the total number of fatalities there to almost 9000 the french health minister leave here on that warning that the country has not yet reached the peak of its outbreak. well gloria tell yani is a member of the task force of the italian civil protection department working in northern italy she's also professor of infectious diseases at the subpoena university in row she joins us live now from ph hence that madame thank you so much

for joining us here on al-jazeera we'll be looking at the number of deaths across the continent across the world but focusing on europe and certainly we see that france has its biggest number greatest number of deaths today but what other figures could we look at that perhaps give a clearer vision or whether europe as a whole might be reaching the peak of this contagion. well to get the number off day. usually. carol. what's going on in the time lag between the beginning of the disease and the end of the disease that may deter only. recall or death and since the distance between the 2 points and maybe as long as 234 weeks maybe in some patients of course and when we check the pointless deaths we should remember that the

disease started many weeks before and therefore it represents the end of what was going on at that time the number of deaths will remain. at a kind of cloud top for a while even if the number of new cases are in decline i mentioned that basically the takes of the z's 2 to 3 weeks from when it's contracted that to when it might lead to a death of course that sort of coincides with a time when a lot of governments in europe impose the locked out so when we look at the rate of contagion in many of the worse that european countries are we seeing some cause for optimism there that less people are actually contracting the disease fewer people yes sure so 2 reasons one is to quarantine and lock down that has been cooked in now in many countries and the added one is that people now understand that when they go round they should wear masks and they do in the

all this they should montane a distance away at least one to 2 meters to prevent infections from one to another so the combination of the 2 awareness. makes people be more careful and did to virus spread in a less unmatched. yes intensive you are part of the italian task force that was the ailing that is the link with the situation in the so when the situation started there a lot of things weren't as well known as perhaps they are now in other european countries so a lot of the knowledge that people have now on how to protect themselves from the disease would you say that europe is perhaps heading towards having reached the peak and perhaps you know the worst is behind the continent yes more or less in the same rural us in different countries so do europe it's like it's occurring in

something like that and it this is much clearer if you watch as the curve of increasing the number only infected people that has a shape or a different shape in any country it means that day is forced by which the virus is trending in this particular geographical context may be different in different areas. and therefore this is the reason why there are the rate. and the. new cases there are a dog's deaths and possibly the rate on song recall rates may vary across different regions because the cures. as a consequence of very important consequences. because. the shape increasing of the lumber of new cases. corresponds to an impact on the

sanitary system assisted and or has lightning the curve that that many governments have been speaking about gloria killian a professor of infectious diseases at the supplants a university in rome thank you. let's go to the u.k. now where the government insists that the prime minister boris johnson is still running the country despite being in a hospital bed he tested positive for covert 1910 days ago or a challenge reports from london after a night spent inside london's in thomas' hospital boris johnson sent a characteristically optimistic message i went into hospital for some routine tests as i'm still experiencing coronavirus symptoms he tweeted i mean good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe 10 days after coming down with coated 19 britain's prime minister hasn't thrown off the virus johnson is still leading the government for now but

he's handed over daily coronavirus meetings to foreign secretary dominic robb. the big questions don't really have adequate answers yet how sick is the prime minister really because his spokesperson dodged the question of whether or not he had pneumonia and also if boris johnson he's getting the medical care in the rest that he needs can he really be expected to carry out the demanding job of being prime minister at the same time and it transpires the man taking on some of the prime minister's workload hasn't spoken to him for 2 days so i spoke to the pm on saturday was the last time i spoke to in person the u.k.'s patient deaths rose by 439 on monday but many more deaths are happening outside hospitals in london specialist teams of police fire and health services have been set up to respond to the east we are anticipating about 30 percent of the mortality in london will

be involving dest within the community government scientists say stay at home measures do seem to be working to limit hospital admissions but it's still too soon to say how much we need a good long time series of data on all of these stages of infection in order to be able to tell what the impact of the measures that came in on the 23rd of march are going to be we it's too early to tell yet when we need we need people to carry on following those instructions so that we can work out 3 weeks later what actually happens in hospitals. and it's still not known when the peak of corona virus will be in the u.k. will reach alan's al-jazeera london. new york state governor andrew cuomo says corner virus cases there may be starting to plateau but in a briefing on monday he warned against complacency and extended a closure of non-essential businesses and schools till the end of april and

a cuomo says hospitalizations have the kleins alone with admissions to intensive care units signaling a possible flattening of the curve more than 4700 people have died in new york the highest death toll in any american state this is an enemy that we have underestimated from day one and we have paid the price dearly. well the numbers they look like they may be turning yea it's over no it's not in other places it made that mistake on congress made a mistake south korea has made that mistake and we're not going to make that mistake it's going to get his on the new york city on a so andrew cuomo there really emphasizing that people shouldn't be complacent they're not going to make that mistake but on the face of it it is good news isn't it that new york could finally be seeing a flattening of the curve. yeah it is good news in the overall context because

there sure is hasn't been much good news out of new york for the past several weeks if not months so in one sense this is a little bit of a glimmer of hope here because it appears based on the modeling and according to what the governor is saying is that we could be here in new york flattening that so-called curve and also be at the near apex if not now within the next day or 2 initially the governor thought it would be the individual then he said the modeling was showing the middle of april well now it looks like it is upon us now the good news is is that it looks like new york has enough hospital beds there's about 80000 hospital beds and only about 16000 people hospitalized roughly so it seems like the beds are ok where there are still serious problems are the health care system is stretched to its capacity right now there is still need of thousands of ventilators as well as personal protective equipment mask gallons gloves for doctors the

hospital system is at a near breaking point in new york so in one sense while the does appear that this curve is flattening there is still a very very long way to go. gabrielle is on the with the latest there from new york to get you know thank you let me bring you some breaking news now from london because we are hearing that over the course of the afternoon here in the u.k. the condition of the prime minister has worsened and on the advice of his medical team he has been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital where he has been for just about 24 hours now that statement coming in that the condition of boris johnson has worsened the has now been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital we understand the prime minister the british prime minister has asked the foreign secretary dominic robb to is the 1st secretary of state to deputize for

him and that news just coming in now that boris johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit he was a found tested positive for the coronavirus about 10 days ago we have the stand that he had symptoms that persisted fever and a cough he was moved to a london hospital but 24 hours ago and he is now in intensive care there will bring you more news on that breaking story as we get it here on out to sea or. well still to come on algis they were bringing down the barriers businesses shot by coronavirus start returning to her. and how a surgeon complaints of a profiteering has led to a crackdown on grown up virus scarabs. had

other samoa sunshine and some good case guys across central areas of europe some cloud to the north but into the west of the last year as bringing some showers and still are all the stuff in system city across areas of greece but look at this is the picture on sunday in blackpool in england play skies and of course clear problems on beaches on a very similar story across into also although here the sunshine was actually not much will miss the time which is about 5 to 7 degrees above average that's how they've been this week it'll stay warm as we go through the next few days mostly case guys is still a few showers and brisk winds 3 the james pushing across into areas of greece again and across into turkey and then scattered showers very windy scuttles much of spain as we go through tuesday by when say it should be a lot dry there's a new system beginning to push in that'll bring a few showers into areas of portugal but you can see elsewhere we have got these good case skies and also those temperatures well very warm entires for the next few days in fact by thursday 24 degrees that's actually a whopping 10 degrees above the average for this time of year now isn't quite so

clear and fine across northern areas of africa particularly into egypt karo we have this big dust storm on sunday really did limitlessly visibility and very unpleasant in the air that should ease the winds of ease that they will do through choosing wednesday may be just a few showers with some clouds along northern areas of libya. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these demands we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the condition of u.k. prime minister boris johnson has worsened in the past few hours and he has been taken to intensive care the 1st secretary of state dominic rob has been asked to deputize for johnson where necessary meanwhile the coronavirus test told in europe has now passed 50700000 people have been infected but there are signs the rate of infection is leveling off in spain germany and the u.k. also recording their few worst number of that in several days. and new york governor andrew cuomo says the state health care system is at maximum capacity he

says a decline in the number of hospitalizations could suggest a plateauing off of infections. let's go back to that breaking news story and that is that the british prime minister boris johnson has been taken to intensive care in the in baba joins us live now from london via skype. just a few hours ago we'd been told that the prime minister was in good spirits so what else do we know about the changes that have led to him being taken to intensive care. well that's right barbara bars johnson himself put out a tweet on monday saying that he was in good spirits and dominic rob at the daily briefing said much the same thing insisting that boris johnson from the hospital continues to lead the government and receive regular updates but he also admitted he hadn't spoken to the prime minister since saturday that raised a few questions and a few skeptical looks now we have got this statement from 10 downing street the

spokes person of the prime minister saying that as you were mentioning in the introduction his condition how scott was in the last few hours and that we're hearing that he's been taken into intensive care we know that he was taken into some thomas' hospice so. in central london on sunday because of those continuing coronavirus symptoms which we believe included a high temperature and a cough and we were told that he would receive routine checks those checks couldn't go checking his lungs now beyond that there's been very little detail about what kind of treatment and what condition he has been in but now it seems clear that he is in a serious condition at least serious enough not just to stay in hospital overnight sunday into monday but now it seems for some while that so dominate rob we hear from the number 10 downing street spence president has been asked to deputize

for the prime minister at least for the time being. and as i was mentioning the fact that he is and now in intensive care is it being widely reported of course be getting more information on this developing story for the moment on a team with the latest from london thank you. the democratic republic of congo's government has shut down the capital's main commercial hub for 14 days kinshasa is the center of the r.c.s. outbreak many of the 12000000 people who live in the city will be impacted by the session because they also work or do business in the district of columbia the current virus has infected 161 people and killed 18 nationwide. we pray to god that he will look after this country to lift these measures because if it continues like this it will be

a catastrophe and people risk of dying from sickness and stress the not the coronavirus. but the u.n. says there's been a horrifying global surge in domestic violence cases during the pandemic secretary-general and tanika parish has warned and forced lock downs are putting many more women and children at risk i urge all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women keep part of the national response plans for coverage 19 that means increasing investment in online services and civil society organizations making shoes additional systems continue to prosecute abusers setting up emergency warning systems in fantasies and groceries declaring shelters as essential services and creating safe ways for women to seek support without alerting their abusers. japan's prime minister has pledged a one trillion dollar stimulus plan in an effort to contain the economic fallout

from the coronavirus the package is expected to be confirmed by shinzo of his cabinet on tuesday and will see cash payments made to households and small businesses is also expected to declare a state of emergency within the next 24 hours that will allow governors to call on people to stay at home. and as japan imposes new measures china is heading in the opposite direction the city of war where the outbreak of course began is preparing for its lockdown to finally come to an end jessica washington has more now on the situation across asia. with just days to go before the city reopens council workers in ruhani 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. 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. vendors and shoppers have returned to the streets happy to be out of their apartments but still apprehensive. the situation is improving but we shall not drop our guard the restrictions will be lifted but we shouldn't relax he said he was the epicenter of the pandemic 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 are now a daily reality there are more than $3000.00 confirmed cases and at least $150.00

deaths the lock down 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 are very strange and very tired very exhausted some of them and we 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. chile is one of latin america's worst affected countries with more than 4000

reported cases and like many nations locked on measures have dramatically changed everyday life so people are getting creative to try to keep themselves busy to see a new man has more. sinister and flint is ready to roll. tonight i'm having a party and i'm going to cook a barbecue here is the meat. the coals are already lit and snacks and drinks are ready to and here are the guests all connected via internet. for couples sharing a saturday night and a good last each from their own home whatever according to their not meanwhile 25 year old look less heritable is just starting to party without leaving his bed all he needs is this application so no. i don't need to spend money on transportation that is 100 percent safe and i can travel instantly between one party and another

with the possibilities of socializing a much faster but i don't know what i would not do if i didn't have it so much that i asked myself what if this quarantine had happened 20 years ago. with schools and offices closed and confinement now i must chileans are discovering countless ways to stay active and not just physically. a year ago cmon michelle launched an online platform that offers psychological consultations with professional therapist with total privacy but in the last 2 weeks since called it 1000 changed everyone's lives the number of patients has soared this young man specifically allowed us to film him. i'm feeling a lot of anxiety because i don't know what's going to happen with my job. if. confronting these uncertain times can generate anguish stress fear sadness and

anger we've seen a leap in consultations from couples who are struggling because of their confinement to people who are alone and feeling panic. another cause for insecurity is the lack of personal protection products until it's been weeks since anyone can find a facemask to buy so people are making their own and this is how kitchen towels you fold them like this and then with a string or ribbon even an elastic you staple them at the ends and when you open it up you'll have your own homemade facemask like that gentle pull of the young and speaking of creativity the center of cinema is offering children something to do teen we look forward to. reading them a different story every day at 5 o'clock. the syntagma ballet's dance master cyril demountable hasn't stopped giving dancers classes now on instagram the class is now

also open to anyone who wants to join just another example of how this crisis is increasingly inspiring people to share their creativity in captivity. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. their reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the condition of u.k. prime minister boris johnson has worsened in the past few hours and he has been taken to intensive care he is conscious and his office says it is a precaution the 1st secretary of state dominic rob has been asked to deputize for johnson where necessary. the coronavirus told in europe has now passed 500-027-0000 extension 0 people have been in fact. but there are signs the rate could be leveling off spain germany and the u.k. recorded their fewest deaths in several days the news wasn't quite so positive in

france though where the country marked its highest number of deaths in a 24 hour period since the outbreak began another $833.00 people have been confirmed dead taking the total number of fatalities to nearly $9000.00 french health minister olivia veron warn the country has not yet reached the peak of its outbreak there are more than 74000 infections across the country. new york governor andrew cuomo says the state health care system is at maximum capacity he says at the klein in the number of hospitalizations could suggest a plateau ing off of infections in well the u.n. says there has been a horrifying global surge in domestic violence cases during the pandemic secretary-general and tanika terrace has warned that enforced lock downs are putting many more women and children at risk for years all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women keep part of the national response

plans for coverage 19 that means increasing investment in online services and civil society organizations making sure the systems continue to prosecute abusers so if you've got to emergency warning systems in fantasies and groceries declaring shelters is essential services and creating safe ways for women to seek supports without alerting the abusers. the democratic republic of congo's government has shut down the capital's main commercial hub for 14 days kinshasa is the center of the or seas outbreak many of the 12000000 people who live in the city will be impacted by the decision because they also work or do business in that this strict of gold but the current virus has in fact that 161 people and killed 18 nationwide those are the top stories that the stream is next the featuring award winning poet the lead to say i'll be back with more news at half an hour and more news of the situation with the u.k.

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