you know certain in isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise you've been looking at another side of the story not so much the information around the outbreak but. the listening post on al-jazeera. south korea reports more than a 100 people who were initially cleared of coronavirus have tested positive again. china meanwhile announces the highest number of new cases in weeks most of which says are from infected travelers. i'm sorry is a band this is al jazeera live from the house so coming up opec and other major oil producers make record cuts and doing

a price war is demand crashes. and with infections in russia rising sharply again we hear from those who say the cost saving is that the health care system unable to cope. at least 116 people who work cleared of the coronavirus in south korea have tested positive again it's raising concerns for the government as it tries to stamp out infections however some believe faulty tests may be playing a role. rob mcbride joins us now live via skype from seoul rob this opens up a whole bunch of other questions how solid were these tests the 111 out of how many total cases of retesting is this the same covert 19 and so on have you got any

information shed some light on some of these issues. certainly it raises more questions and they have answers for that is a worrying development it's something that the center for disease control here in south korea has really been studying for a number of weeks now looking at the cases of people who later test positive these are some of the thousands of people who originally contract a device. like 7000 people now here in south korea and have had the virus and have been released have gone home and gradually a lot of them have been retested again and gradually they and they've been finding that around over 100 of these people have now tested positive again and there is that a real question about just where this positive reading has come from has it been a problem of the tests themselves that the south koreans are pretty confident in

the tests they have been using but there are other questions about whether these are cases of reinfection or possibly more worrying is whether it's been a reactivation of the virus there is a possibility here that maybe the virus is laying dormant in the body deep in body tissue that the normal testing that is carried out the swabs of the nose in the back of the throat haven't been able to detect and for whatever reason possibly because it is has become reactivated the person has tested positive again is that because it is mutating it's a different type of covert 19 we simply don't know but it is something that the epidemiologists here will have to have a very long look at and let's be very clear here that the whole south korean model of early testing and aggressive tracing could be at stake here depending on the answers to some of those questions. i think generally the south koreans are

pretty confident in the testing that they have been doing we know that they were they very early on imposed testing on a massive scale thousands of tests being conducted in a very aggressive containment strategy which i think the south koreans have generally said has been working and they are this is the novel coronavirus it's a 2 coronavirus so it is being studied we are learning more about it in the information that the south koreans are learning is being shared with people like the world health organization i think from the south koreans perspective the reactivation of the virus would certainly be a very worrying development for not only for people here but around the world as we tackle this and it's something a phenomenon that we 1st saw in woo hansch in china but as far as the south koreans are concerned i think it's the possibility of reinfection which is their priority at the moment we know that the outbreak has pretty much been action chained here in south korea and the the worry is it really importing re infections and again this

is borne out by a new daily low of the number of cases here only 25 cases and 16 of those were in torches i think the focus here for the moment in south korea will be really on the possibility of reinfection 22 small that before it happens all right thanks so much from right there china has reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases namo thinks weeks authorities say 108 people were infected over the past day mostly travelers returning from abroad while that number is low adding to concerns or a possible 2nd wave of cases plant joins us now live from hong kong so quite a rise in the number of cases there's this start to draw some proof to the theories of a 2nd wave. well certainly this is the concern that china

has with looking at the 2nd wave of infection particularly where this area is all the cluster of the 100 cases it's in the north east of china in a province called headlong jiang and most of these types is kind from that particular city and as a result we've had tough new measures put in place in the capital of that particular province known as harben stay at home measures being told to stay indoors as well as a city that borders russia but all of these travelers almost this travels in the slightest cluster of the infections were coming back over the border from russia back into my and then china as a result all gatherings have been banned at train services have been stopped and the health checks will now be mandatory for people coming in from russia and this is a mandatory coronavirus testing as well as a 28 day quarantine as a result now as you mention 190 cases that's up from 99 but this is where the new battleground is a certainly the northeast of china is where the governor thought he's will be targeting and we have been seeing a downward trend of the crime of virus infections in china and some would suggest

it's in a recovery mode but the big questions about the calculations in the accuracy as well as the counting methods being used on the figures coming out of china the world health organization applauded china's if it's to detect the crowd of ours outbreak early but other countries like u.k. and the u.s. have question the figures dr donald trump questioned whether or not they death tell it was actually on the lot side now looking at the at the current figures at the moment the diff tell you 3343 and the cases of the crown of arson fiction in china is $83134.00 cases so that's certainly low when you compare it to the likes of the united states and europe now the issue of the treatment of africans in china causing some new diplomatic sparks to fly right. sora number of ports on social media over the weekend from members of the african community living in the city of one joe this is in the south of china and the claims were of mistreatment being

a victim from their homes also being denied access to restaurants and hotels we had some students saying they're being denied food and now living on the streets and that this suggestion is that they are now being targeted and that the community of suspicion and to be accused of spreading the virus in one joe now background to this the african community in one job came under scrutiny after we had our claims that a number of the make north some quarantine restrictions in that city on thursday last week we had a 114 you cases confirmed of the crowd of ours in one joe and 16 were africans and a group of them were nigerians a link to a particular restaurant that several african nations have now responded to these claims of mistreatment that selective got of nigeria kenya and zimbabwe and they've done a demand in china to act on these claims now on monday we've had a response from china they've said they've denied the mistreatment they said there's been no discrimination against the ethic and brothers and that's that they have a 0 tolerance for racial discrimination against the african community in that city and this statement was made by the ministry of foreign affairs it was also backed

up by the mayor of one show on monday or on sarah clarke thanks so much russia is reporting its largest daily increase yet of more than 2 and a half 1000 new cases officials say 148 have died with the number of infections surpassing 18000. russia's government has spent years reforming the health care system to make it more efficient as critics say it's left hospitals to shorten beds doctors and nurses. this is one of 3 major infectious diseases hospitals in moscow a city of nearly 13000000 people 2 of its buildings were recently demolished when to cope with 19 pandemic had already started last year moscow's mayor announced that a new hospital will be built here but it's unclear when. genco has for years protested against cuts. i think what's happened here is

a crime and maybe prosecutors should look into it i want to officially demand that prosecutors should get involved and find out why it needs to pandemic they demolish one of the major centers in moscow to could packer late some statistics show that nearly half of all hospitals have been closed nationwide here in this video opposition figure ilyushin estimates 60 hospitals were closed in moscow alone the government calls it optimize ation of health care merging hospitals are turning them into poorly clinics in an effort to be more cost effective but experts say in reality this often meant closing them down this hospital was close in 2015 and an estimated 400 medical workers lost their jobs or even if they didn't close a hospital we could have received 570 patients that's how many beds we had officially i'm an infection ist this profession has its own specifics we know how

to follow an anti epidemiological regime there were no cases of into hospital infection in our hospital. medical workers around russia have been complaining about the lack of protective equipment and the heavy workload they are facing working with grown up patients useless each us if the same happens us what we see in the south of europe we can fail to cope even in moscow i don't know how the situation will develop it's impossible to predict but this teaches that you can't sort lessly reform the health care system you should think what the consequences might be what risks appear as a result of it. mosco authorities have not responded to our requests for comment a new infectious diseases hospital is rapidly being built outside the capital and extra bats have been added to existing hospitals but medical experts say detox spittles lead to specialist covert 900 patients need they fear these measures might not be enough when russia reaches its peak of the epidemic step fasten al-jazeera

still had an al-jazeera we continue to plead for more trusting still has not come any in anywhere near the numbers that we need a cry for help from the mayor of new york the epicenter of the spiraling u.s. outbreak plus. 4 months that's going around the world this is the sunday voice of a 1000 leagues and charley brings hours across the lands and to do work at the polls. however while comes another look at the international focus with here still scattered showers across southeast asia more the way i shall is to now into india

china and also into the philippines so we have got some wet weather coming through here fairly a sunshine in between how the showers most widespread still across parts of malaysia down into indonesia and it's more of the same as we go on into well whedon's day for northern parts of australia it is generally dry across much of australia now it is why we got a big area of high pressure a settle down into the southeastern corner which also want to showers but they're in the process of clearing out of the way so we'll see temperatures at around 2324 the melbourne and sydney touch woman there for adelaide last way sates well part of the weekend but hate that we have in past temperatures getting up around the 40 degree mt 24 celsius on tuesday could be a touch cold as you can want to see what is day but lisa's last reply i want to say showers escaping the far south of wy we got some shabby rain so into the fall south of new zealand for a time it's a little blustery here over the next couple of days but it should be lousy dry

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you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now at least 116 people who were cleared of the corona virus in south korea have tested positive again it's raising concern for the government as it tries to stamp out infections however some believe faulty tests may be playing a role. china has recorded more than 100 new infections its highest in 6 weeks most came from people arriving from overseas but no new cases have been reported in by province where the outbreak was 1st detected. russia is reporting its largest daily increase yet with more than 2 and a half 1000 new cases the government says 148 russians have died with the number of infections surpassing 18000. the world's largest oil producers have

agreed to the biggest output cut in history prices rose on the news but gains were limited because of doubts the move will be enough to stabilize energy markets well those markets have been ravaged by coronaviruses shell about us explains. opec a cool his abandoned in vienna in stede the group and its allies meet virtually remotely agreeing to cut global oil production by the largest amount in history 10000000 barrels a day that's about a 10 percent reduction. oil producing nations agreed to the cut last week mexico wouldn't sign refusing to drop its output so our lawyer president trump weighed in the united states in discussions with mexico so to arabia russia. dealing with opec nations. we are trying to get mexico

as the expression goes over the barrel trump then offered to reduce us production further to make up for mexico conscious that loyal prices could be terminal for america's shell industry. he tweeted sunday the big oil deal with opec plus is done this will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the united states there are $10000000.00 jobs associate with this shell industry in the united states and that's a huge constituency for president trump president trump doesn't need any more job losses in the last 3 weeks alone we've seen 17000000 jobs lost because of the. global demand for oil has evaporated by around 30 percent to zuko that 19 planes are grounded streets deserted and just as the virus forced entire nations into hibernation saudi arabia exacerbated the imbalance ramping up its oil output in

a bid to northcott's picher rival russia out of the market the glass seemed to us benchmark west texas intermediate promising from $63.00 a barrel in january to $20.00 a barrel in late march and more than 2 decades lower we see this as really a monumental achievement i mean if you had told us we can a half ago that saudi arabia russia you know states we're going to come together to forge and agreements to cut 10000000 barrels a day and potentially more from the market i think most people would believe that. but pulling prices back to profitability may still they need months off even with the biggest oil cousin history is still an oversupply or the numbers are i popping the decrease it's perhaps not enough and when the outlines of the deal was announced on thursday after an initial spike prices actually fell produces banking that of countries stick to the deal or oil back as

a wanted commodity in 2021 shallow ballasts al-jazeera. turkey's president roger towboat of the wind has rejected his interior minister's resignation and tried to quit after enforcing a 48 hour curfew a short notice the long down sparked panic buying in major cities and has since been lifted thousands of people filled shops many without wearing mandatory face masks britain's prime minister says he owes his life to the doctors and nurses who treated him in intensive care for corona virus but health workers say their lives are being put at risk because boris johnson's government is failing to provide them with enough protective gear emma hayward reports. britain's prime minister boris johnson left hospital to continue his recovery at his country residence he was discharged after a week 3 nights of which he spent in intensive care i have today left hospital

after a week in which the n.h.s. has saved my life no question it's hard to find words to express my day he paid tribute to those who looked after him. i've seen the personal courage not just of the doctors the nurses but of everyone the cleaners the cooks the health care workers with every description physios radiograph was pharmacists who kept coming to work kept putting themselves in harm's way kept risking this deadly virus the number of people who died in hospitals after being infected with corona virus in the u.k. has now surpassed more than 10000 the u.k. government says record amounts of personal protection equipment is in the system but staff treating the sick say there are still vulnerable i'm sorry if ministers feel that they have supplied adequate p.p. to n.h.s. staff but that's simply not the case of what we are experiencing on the ground and

it's just i don't want to be seen as heroes we're not martyrs and we don't want to die in the line of duty we just want to be protected so that we can do our job across europe people are grappling with this crisis the number of deaths in spain rose again after a few days of dropping slightly no wonder then that there's no letup in efforts to try to stop the spread of the virus and corona virus is stalking frances care homes killing some of its residents care workers here face a grim task trying to reassure the living while dealing with the deaths. at the paris funeral homes and private funeral homes a completely overwhelmed so it means that some corpses stay 3 or 4 days in the bed . room on the bedroom floor. this weekend should have been one of coming together to many families in prince tomorrow easter instead many of europe's capitals are empty their landmarks deserted the church is closed the pope delivered his easter

mass in a much scaled down service at the vatican $100000.00 people usually gather in st peter's square to listen italy remains the epicenter of europe's coronavirus outbreak other places though are feeling the full force of this human disaster and he would al-jazeera. check in with some other world news now and a total of $36661.00 rather taliban fighters have been released by afghanistan's government after it freed another $361.00 on monday it's part of an agreement with the u.s. towards talks to end the war on sunday the taliban released 20 government prisoners in kandahar province the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan says it's an important step in the peace process so. urged both sides to accelerate efforts to free more prisoners libya's internationally recognized government has ordered airstrikes targeting warlord

khalifa haftar his forces the strikes hit the cities of some brother and son of man west of tripoli and pro tripoli forces have now entered saddam and half 1000 fighters have been trying to recapture the capital and overthrow the government for the past few years easter sunday celebrations of been disrupted by powerful tornadoes that carved a path of destruction through several southern u.s. states at least 6 people were killed when about 13 twisters worked through mississippi storms also destroyed hundreds of buildings parts of louisiana texas and alabama. this the sunday in the u.s. has been less of a celebration and more of a time to reflect almost 560000 have been infected with coded 19122000 have died in the epicenter new york the mayor is demanding

more help john hendren explains. across the u.s. it was is some bird largely silent easter as millions of american christians celebrated their risen savior in a nation that has fallen on hard times the empty tomb to the risen christ. i bring all this up because we hear plenty about emptiness these days. thanks to the dreaded pandemic. in the nation that on friday recorded more coronavirus cases than any other and on saturday tallied more deaths no state has suffered more than new york home to one in 3 u.s. coronavirus deaths new york city's mayor has blunt words for washington do more we pleaded for weeks and weeks for the federal government provide testing upfront in the kind of quantity that could have helped us contain this crisis and change the

whole course of that we never got that help we continue to plead for more testing but on a day when virus cases and deaths reached yet another grim milestone the governor of new york state saw signs of hope a lot of pain a lot of suffering. but also when things are out their worst sometimes people are at their best and sometimes just when you need it people can really show you how great they can be. in illinois governor sees hope of a plateau when the virus is stratospheric rise i've spoken before about a stabilizing or a bending of the curve and today is one more piece of evidence that it may indeed be happening the percent of those tested that came up positive is almost exactly the same as it has been for the last 2 weeks and the death toll today is

lower than it has been in 6 days. easter sunday was the day president originally set for american businesses to go back to work but that date is common to congo when other major cities are still on lockdown as soon as that can happen now would be may 1st and a lot of experts have their doubts about that we're looking at may 1st obviously we want that to happen as soon as possible i can't predict at this point because as i said things are happening very rapidly according to the head of the u.s. institute of allergy and infectious diseases fewer americans might have died had the government moved earlier. on a day when many american celebrated together that separately people are hungry during these times report 1st for the presence of god the people told to go it was a religious holiday fraught with perhaps more meaning than it's had in yours. john hendren chicago. and latin america editor losin human reports on how

hard hit nations across the region. in haiti the government has ordered a total lockdown but in the capital of the western hemisphere's poorest country some catholics ventured outside to the shuttered gates of this catholic church to hear the easter sunday service not everyone had internet to listen to the mass online so the probably wasn't for corona virus the church would be full of people there wouldn't be room for all of us today is the day of jesus' resurrection a great victory over death and it is fundamental to christianity others could not be consult them for women were still up in the morning we are seeing the end of the world so why can't we put our hands together and pray we can't great each other it's the end of the world the end of times. throughout latin america home to more

than 40 percent of the world's roman catholics millions renounced tradition in the name of public health where they could catholics watched religious services online most of them askew. we have to find a way to be close to the people and thanks to the willingness and inspiration of people we could do this to our social media. while churches remained empty mexico's health officials use the public holiday to finally begin wider testing for cold 19 the death toll is growing rapidly and just as in brazil mexico's president had under played the severity of the pandemic many are praying that not only will they and their loved ones survive this new virus but also its economic impact in a region that was already in trouble before the pan dimia in a report issued on easter sunday by the world bank the forecast for this year is grim in argentina brazil and mexico. 4 sees a negative g.d.p.

of 5 to 6 percent and even higher for some caribbean islands. all this is an estimate the peak of the pandemic is still weeks away which is why venezuela has extended its nationwide lockdown until april 30th in argentina and peru until april 26th. by contrast here in chile the government has decided to reopen communities in the capital on monday that will quarantined for only 2 weeks despite a stern warning by the devil you h.-o. not to relax isolation measures too soon you see in human al-jazeera santiago even mickey mouse is being affected so all $43000.00 workers the world's biggest parks in florida while disney world is laying them off indefinitely after the parks were closed last month. he's performed for huge crowds but on easter sunday and there were telly sang to an empty cathedral millions watched online as

the italian tenor performed his music for hope concert. halls. of. law. and let's take you through some of the stories we're watching here now at least 116 people who were cleared of the corona virus in south korea have tested positive again it's raising concerns for governments as it tries to stamp out infections however somebody fall through tests may be playing a role when there is such

a real question about just where this positive reading has come from has it been a problem of the tests themselves at the south koreans are pretty confident in the tests they have been using but there are other questions about whether these are cases of reinfection or 'd possibly more worrying is whether it's been a reactivation of the virus there is a possibility here that maybe the virus is laying dormant in the body deep in body tissue that the normal testing that carried out the swabs of the nose the back of the throat and been able to detect china has recorded more than 100 new infections its highest in 6 weeks most came from people arriving from overseas but no new cases have been reported in a province where the outbreak was 1st detected. russia's announced its largest daily increase or 2 and a half 1000 new cases the government says 148 russians have died with the number of

infections surpassing 18000 turkeys president. has rejected his interior minister's resignation he tried to quit after enforcing a 48 hour curfew a short notice the lockdown sparked panic buying in major cities and has since been lifted thousands of people filled shops many without wearing mandatory face masks. a total of $661.00 taliban fighters have now been released by afghanistan's government after it freed another for $361.00 a monday part of an agreement with the u.s. towards talks to end the war on sunday the taliban released 20 government prisoners in the hard province the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan says it's an important step in the peace process it's witnessed. as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic we'll bring you the latest

developments from around the world. with updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. coronavirus pandemic special coverage on al-jazeera.