unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnigan this is that he was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes european countries hit hardest by coronavirus take the 1st steps in lifting the lockdowns but the world health organization warns against any hasty decisions this decisions must be based 1st on foremost on protecting human health. libya's capital tripoli is under fire after

government forces seized control of 3 cities from the world cup before half time. fears of a 2nd wave of coded 99000 infections in some parts of asia over 100 survivors in south korea have tested positive again. for the 1st payments from the us stimulus package of set to reach americans but will it be enough to get them through the crisis. more than half of the $115000.00 people who have died worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic a from europe but the rate is slowing in parts of the continent and some countries are cautiously starting to ease restrictions in spain some workers in the construction and manufacturing sectors returned to their jobs on monday prime minister pedro sanchez though is warned that his country is far from victory with

strict rule still in place for most people. italy is allowing some small businesses to reopen including bookshops stationers and children's clothing stores they should wide lockdown there though will continue until at least may 3rd and the world health organization has urged caution it says it will release guidance on easing lockdowns on tuesday it said that any decisions must be based on making sure the people are safe some countries are considering when they can lift these restrictions are there is considering whether and when to introduce them in both cases these decisions must be based 1st on foremost on protecting human health and guided by what we know about the virus and how it behaves while covered 19 accelerates very fast it decelerates might more slowly in other words the way down is march slower than the

way up that means control measures must be lifted slowly and we can't rule it cannot happen all at once live now to paris where president is addressing the nation let's listen in on. it can't get us and those if. i yeah 9. yeah yeah action in a press and then do something. else when you. least in the media. all do need. to know you never see people so video is when it has to.

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a decision it was a market of rules to gone to the world we have never lacked like many countries in the world to look white because when your glove last was on the news in a on his early said to me. to help our elders our nurses and doctors see problem and if you don't if you have some all these problems have been identified early to look and used. with the local older it is with the industrial again mrs mutimer to do what is necessary you don't need to if you are not on continually more. it is difficult to hear that our world shortage stopped street a little from taking place on her pleas for your. specially our french company and our workers. to meet on plus why we like the war has been

so up plus 1000000. people in 3.3 weeks we have lost a point well a little white lie the media just simply not there to produce can sell 1 additional respirators chris you hear me miss you so precious garces if. thanks to the effort it was on me i just read that and we are going to continue because. like you i got all the. apostles in. too much slowness too many used its procedures consequence with all the consequences that we have to draw. men and we've seen these last weeks with the p.c. market and then we've all come to the usa there is no vision. because we are something we should never have to withdraw the only clinic p.p.c.

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because that is the strength of the future. as well and if i want to speak to you tonight usually people who are possible that is to say to you in all transparency. we. hope is coming back on again on the things we've gone before. that you said in the front on exam good god this is everywhere it doesn't go under tension don't proceed on those before we have to continue our efforts. because. the more they are respected people so long looking for. what not and that is why the strictest school on lockdown law continues. said you

ha said loose during this period the only way forward i don't see you've got that pop i guess want you to slow down even more people at this point here in the mess you. 4 are both places in resuscitate in intensive care you know me. up with you on monday that was. your speak clearly. we have to respect the rules and limits your political. put lee lee for you to make an effort to get some in. your head in the next. day the lab may. ponder more clearly if you get in and whether they are showing how efficient and effective they are in demand.

then it's required of our elected persons just to make here publicly so i remember to follow the rules the same rules. for the house. but we must not. to things that are not allowed. to by. still live in him we have to keep this too so we go now it is good to humanity corny. remember all those who have chronic illnesses. going about to lose you have to be treated by their doctors who treat your needs more the most one of them that people have to keep their solitude to it is a pita to limits on what it. is retirement home. for really posh as a newborn protection the people need the right to protection from the provider of the

idea your set size the confusion on. during this phase of the lockdown we would have to continue that interview different but listen activated because they are incompatible going to security that have a year of his own company only. when the block surety of workers that are. threatened. on. them that everybody limb is used to show mash the. measure of the partial unemployment was really a home for a continuance we needed a portage sausage up a new and in with an over to protect so many people into only commit only profits when you behind it is not cross purposes professional or liberal profession

something cloyd people don't usually. lists are skewed. i've read about these burdens these charges on people question on them on that quite often and that . is why i've asked the government crews to. the banks can make this available as your insurance will be the economy but this mobilization you don't provide any portion of what. there is only working to be continued in the coming days i've been more last week so i mean on quickly everything except to confirm. that has to us you know the tourism to live in the hotel industry job market the newness of the show they're not it is effective in this in a sustainable lasting way. you need for those who are the poorest the most fragile

. i want to thank the men as the b.b.c. local local elected members. the only one knows but i'm going to go further because it's. exceptional assistance the children with their 1st and on business the face up to their needs even before one loss i mean those who are in a precarious situation so want to see over these parishes as well you can see them in you put this hard the more you know the cabins well decides on the necessary financial means rules me but on the 11th of may. very well be to the gaining of a new stage. in the knowledge of the rules could lead will be adapted.

for the benefit of the health of all. public not the case we will be for losers that are progressive lee reopen crashes including the galaxy just. hold off on the demo and only go. on a companion simply vehicle sound advice you would normally to many children especially for areas. deprived of school for the good he did a lot of morally negated and we see the inequalities in housing. news on film and that is why our children we are on the march on the. government in consultation will make the required decisions be imported was also in you know it was on fire that protect our teachers our children what is it you join the north and you must be going to your the students of higher education.

we've got them on our. the government workers were on the day that france reported $574.00 further coronavirus linked deaths bringing the total to $14967.00 that was president mccraw addressing the country from the lease a palace the lockdown he said must continue until the 11th of may let's get some analysis from observers natasha butler who joins us live via skype from. in southern france france wasn't sufficiently ready for this crisis the president said but thanks to our efforts we are making progress in our battle against the coronavirus. yes the french president said we are making progress and the reason he says that is because over the last few days the number of people being admitted into intensive care into hospitals has

a diminished reduced likely as has the number of deaths there manal micron has said look this is reason for hope but he said the crisis isn't over yet and that is why the french president has announced the france faces another 4 weeks of lockdowns another month of lockdown until may the 11th said. after that time he said perhaps we will look at opening up and perhaps loosening this lockdown he mentioned for example that some crushes might open to allow parents to go back to work but it this stage the focus is very much on the fact that frogs must maintain this very strict lockdown that it's already been in for a month for yet another month so 2 months all together for the time being and why so certainly not all michael p. calls it is absolutely essential he says for the health of the nation to stop the spread of the coronavirus there's a lot of concern of course by the french government is that perhaps we could see

a 2nd wave if there was any reduction or all of this knocked down so no mark hasse's everyone needs to rally together it really was a sort of speech of rallying the nation thanking people for their efforts but saying you know i have to make a bit more of an effort for a little bit longer. and sasha bottle reporting live from. in southern france many thanks indeed sasha as we heard earlier the head of the world health organization has warned countries against any hasty decisions on lifting restrictions let's go live to london. joins us now work from there via skype he is referring specifically to work to spain italy i suppose the world health organization that is having lifted partially restrictions there. yes that's right is that you west affected countries in europe from the coronavirus adrian and the world health organization trying to address this problem of when and how you start to ease restrictions

because governments right now are trying to balance a health crisis with an impending economic crisis and this is that the dilemma but at the same time if you left the restrictions too early you risk a 2nd wave of infections in the w.h.o. saying that if you are looking at lifting restrictions you better make sure that your health system is properly equipped and prepared with a very comprehensive program of case finding and contact tracing because the peculiar thing with this virus is that even within the country you can see larry in trends in the weight affects different geographical parts of the country and then also the way it affects different segments of the population and so that's why dr ted ross was saying that the decider a she trying to come down from the crisis and reduce the number of cases takes a while i mean you were just talking about there being flare ups in asian countries places like as hong kong singapore even even korea which had such

a massive testing program is now seeing a reemergence of this so w.h.y. say if you're going to lift restrictions it has to be phased and gradual and what's the conversation right now there in the u.k. maryam about easing restrictions earlier we had the foreign minister who's deputizing for the prime minister saying that there are positive signs from the data that we're starting to win this battle our plan is working he said. yes which is why the lockdown is going to be changed any time soon just as we speak about countries in europe italy spain austria denmark looking at coming out of the lockdown no chance of that happening here in the u.k. that was one of the main developments from that briefing earlier confirmation of what we already know that the lockdown will remain in place the dominant rob didn't say how long it was going to last full but he made it clear that it stays for now. if we let up now the virus will only take full advantage it will spread faster and it will kill more people if we refuse to give in to it if we keep up this

incredible team effort we will beat this virus and we will come through this national test a plan that is working please stick with it and we will get through this crisis together. well so it terms of the global comparison of deaths adrian it seemed to show one of those slides from the government seemed to show that the u.k. is still on the same path as italy so the number of deaths are still rising and they're expected to rise even further but now with 3 weeks of lockdown the hope is that we might start to see some positive effect from nash and so what we're really looking for is a overall from the figures is a plateau in a flattening and then it's a question of how long that goes on for when it just be too long in flat for a while or will in numbers come down very quickly so that's something that we have to see the other thing that was very important that was mentioned in that briefing was care homes and it's really something of

a hidden crisis and i say that because there isn't any transparent comprehensive tracking of what is happening is i can see right now in their thought to be a significant number of deaths in those homes and chris we see the chief medical officer saying that there has to be more testing because really right now we do not know the extent of this crisis certainly though we don't have the full picture on how it's affecting the most vulnerable in this country are there as maryam namazie reporting live from london many thanks indeed let's take you live now to madrid not out of joins us from there not everybody happy about spain's partial easing of the lockdown them asta. no not at all i mean all these. all these measures have come to printing of criticism amongst all the political parties and even in the in the in the rebel government what we have to say is that today in the

past 24 hours spain has reduced to 517 new fatalities and 3500 new positive some call it 19 the very very low and health minister spencer minister said that we are facing this famous phase of us of our allies stationed with all these figures flattening don't we see them going up and down again as you mention to the non-essential workers the is the measure of the stuff in measures of the lockdown imposed just 2 weeks ago all these people will be joining supermarkets hospitals are transport or metal workers construction and only new construction optics cleaners and security people have joined today thousands of spaniards have gone back to work yesterday the governance plan is government provided the guidelines of the protocol to follow the owners of these companies had to provide or supply the personal protective equipment they had to do to keep the social

distance of the census of 2 meters bitching between the workers and avoiding to take the public data transfer anyone cares there was no need there was there was a need to take it be happy to it where people used office as well that were happening today. to everyone that was taking the public transport so as you mentioned many political parties or quit is criticizing this the least of these measures will it be that the health minister says we are not we are seeing a deescalation this is just we're still back at the beginning march 14th at the beginning of the state of emergency at lockdown and yes these people are going back to work but many problem any criticisms and many critics that prompted a lot of that are there live for us in madrid many thanks indeed so let's now go to italy then joining us is francesco jabatan a who is in milan francesco the partial easing of the lockdown there doesn't apply to the worst hit region is that right. yes it's right and the italian lockdown will

be very slightly is from tomorrow of you non essential to it is mostly bookshops and baby stores will be allowed to open again in the country imposing costumers strict distancing rules but these measures will not be implemented in the hardest hit region of lumber d. where cases continue to grow and the lockdown remains untouched according to the top health official there are still too many people on the streets but opposition parties say this is just a strategy to shift the focus from the original government's responsibilities for the lack of tests and protective gears and for their management of hospitals and care homes other regions are pushing to lift the restrictions in the confining beneteau where the number of deaths is 10 times lower than lombardi the local governments just signed an ordinance that will let open air markets return to work

and will allow people to practice sporting activities without the 200 meters limit from home this new regional soft lockdown will not include factories and firms contrary to what some rumors said in the last hours because only the central government allowed to do this and it's not planning to do it at the moment so it's really should answer the fates to the proper. lock down lifting. on the 4th of may that's the time when many more active does go back to their businesses and all the country and this will happen even though today's figures are slightly worse than yesterday there are 566 near it just said that's more than sunday but in line with the week before now total toll is over 20400 the new confirmed cases are little more than 3000. there has been

a decrease in the last 24 hours and the positive cases since the outbreak are now almost 160000 so we will have to see what will happen in the next couple of weeks because the lockdown measures could be extended or could be lifted on the 4th of may francesco gemma tony there reporting live for us from home in milan many thanks indeed let's hear now from nicolas thomas is an associate professor at city university in hong kong he's also a specialist on health security and the editor of infections diseases and security he says that it's crucial for governments to have a clear picture of the outbreak before they consider lifting lockdown measures. irrespective of what type of political system we're looking at whether it be a liberal democracy or an authoritarian system politicians always have to focus on the the feeling among society but they also have to lead because people do understand the fact that there has to be some sacrifice if we're going to get ahead

of this now unfortunately we're seeing some politicians playing to very much the dice political mood which is putting politics ahead of health policy and ahead of good science saying that we can restart the economy that we can all be back to work within a week or so that just doesn't play out to be fair i need public health emergency always does balance the health against economic and social considerations but in most cases we're not there yet and the major problem with code that of course is that a logic proportion of all the cases are a symptomatic we simply don't know how many cases there are out there now if we can't maintain the quarantines of social isolation the social distancing enough to get that flattened so that we're not going to see a resurgence in the disease later on or we're going to be doing is playing catch up

to a disease that moves from being a pandemic oneself to being endemic in a number of countries around the world. russia's president vladimir putin says that the coronavirus situation in his country is was snowing and that the defense ministry may have to be involved in containing it he made the remarks off the country had its largest daily increase yes in infections 2 and a half 1000 new cases the total number of infections is now supposed $18000.00 the government says that $148.00 russians have died maybe gives the image to me it's a blockage the as we can see the situation is changing almost every day unfortunately it's not changing for the better the number of infected people is increasing and there are more severe cases well as i've said already the coming weeks will be decisive will get a weather update on that is out then a sailor who was on board a u.s. navy ship at the center of a can of coronavirus controversy has died will tell you more. and you lock down

measures announced in turkey to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus. but. i was saying quite a change in the weather across the arabian peninsula some rather wet weather and much cooler air sucking in behind this band of cloud push across the other side of the gulf into iran towards afghanistan pushing up towards the foothills of the him alas we've got a lot of cloud and rainy season right here recently within the last hour or so into that in the process of pulling out of the way process guys coming in behind for a time but you can see scattered showers down towards the southwest of saudi arabia into yemen maybe a little further north you might catch your shop shower here the west the weather is over towards afghanistan one of the 2 showers the into iran and you can join up

that law in a shabby rain as we go on into what whedon stay some really wet weather once again just around cattle just around the u.a.e. could see some localized flooding southern parts of saudi but further north here is 5 and drive damascus a $27.00 degree celsius plenty of dry weather meanwhile across northern parts of africa we have got some showers into the ethiopian highlands follow them across the red sea they push their way down into the heart of africa got a few showers there just across southern parts of west africa as well meanwhile for south africa is telling its side the unsettled to the east. rewind returns with a new series can bring your people back to life i'm sorry i'm brian new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries they has been a number of the 4 put in christ since the kind of glam was still rewind begins with

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hello again it's good to have you with us hello adrian forget here in doha the headlines now is there a spain has lifted some of its restrictions and allowed some people to go back to work including in the construction and manufacturing sectors but prime minister petro sanchez says want his country is far from victory with strict rules that are in place for most people. the world health organization is urging caution of the country's lifting their lockdowns to early the world health organization general secretary said that restrictions must be lifted slowly. and the president of france emanuel mccall has extended the nationwide lockdown until may 11th after that he said that crashes and schools will progressively reopen ilsa said the progress has been made but the battle against the pandemic has not yet been won. rockets are being fired at residential areas of libya's capital by forces loyal to the war old

colleague that's in retaliation to soldiers fighting for the internationally recognized government seizing control of 3 cities over the past 24 hours phone video apparently shows soldiers loyal to the government of national accord on the streets of sabratha having also entered. they also control the city of some money well the u.n. says that all parties in libya must set differences aside to focus on dealing with the rising number of covert 19 cases. we are concerned about all of the continued fighting. from whichever side including of course the latest shelling but we as you know have been asking for the parties to cease fighting it's very clear that right now there are the 1st signs of group 1000 and factions in libya and we need to make sure that they can set aside their all military offense and and work

together in terms of being able to allow for us to to deal with with the pandemic before that comes out of control and so that is where our port priority lies but her life out of tripoli al-jazeera is more of the what is the what would bring us up to speed with the day's events. will the. random rockets continue landing a residential areas indiscriminate shelling by have to his forces continue targeting get civilian areas in tripoli and in densely populated areas no casualties have been reported so for but the government of national says that have to his forces are marked listening to the international calls for discoloration all to the latest developments in tripoli it comes as any action or response to the defeat that have to the forces suffered today by losing 3 major

cities in the west of libya the government forces say that they are also expecting that after us forces will escalate their targeting of many neighborhoods in tripoli . today and and during the cup the common good hours too as you know adrian that have to the forces the last 3 major cities in the west of libya namely the city of. city of sort of man and the city of the city of so broader is there a key city in the worst of libya because whoever controls that city can control or can move on many other cities and the worst of the country and can also take control of the international hay way that links the coastal highway that links tripoli with the crossing terminal on the border many people. military commanders say that the latest advancement by the government of national

called forces is attributed mainly to the turkish air support as you know adrian that. the air control has been shifted recently to the favor of the government of national called partly thanks to the turkish air force supplied to the government of national court. i was there as my hood i was a white head reporting live from tripoli many thanks indeed. but jury is president mohamed who behati has announced new measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus there he's extended restrictions on movement for another 2 weeks that affects 3 states and testing will be increased let's go live to a budget of 0 as i would address is there tell us more of what the president had to say. well basically here no i think it's that the extension will

cost a lot of action for many nigerians for him but this is one african country with a very large number of. poor people and that number creasing this country came out of. a recession just 2 years ago and now this most nigeria's bost majority of the citizens of this country i depend on the wages they have to go out to get money to buy food and thought on the table for their families and for the next 2 weeks they are going to stay at home with no work and no no chance of getting money i am on the government said it's going to run out called to the poor the indigent once those who cannot feed themselves with money so that they can buy food stop however many nigerians are say that the government is yet to reach more stores them but the president also in his speech said that they have ramped up testing and expanded capacity over the last 2 weeks but that knowledge

that there is simple work to be done also thanks to tell us what those whom he said $7000.00 have been traded what past few weeks and that personal protection it could may have been provided them however there are a lot of questions that need to be answered now how will the government deal with the issue of feeding millions that millions of nigerians this is a country of more than 200000000 people and friends and their level of poverty here is so high that a lot of people don't really understand what's going on at it what is going to up and added to that the government is facing a huge problem now which is the shortage of funds because oil its main export its main export or more main really has lost a lot of value on the international market so also is the demand so how would nigeria cope in the next few months or so after coming 90 it's very very interesting thing to watch out for just there as ahmed address live for us from

home and many thanks dammit. turkey's president says that a new lockdown will be imposed then next weekend as the country struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic all of its major cities were put under a 2 day lockdown for the 1st time last friday at midnight but a last minute announcement caused panic buying the government says it's putting measures into place to make sure there's no such chaos again the government is stopping short of imposing a full lockdown due to economic concerns as 07 core seal who explains. turkey wants the economy to be functioning this is why president sadat has said before the economy will stay should be whirling then the government encouraged to staying at home encourages the companies for a home office working a year's money for on paid leave gives. some extra money for the

companies who who need it to pay for their employees they're not very very large numbers but at least something that the main idea is here to keep the factories where king not to cut the supply and logistic lines as toki is also a trance transitional council for international logistics at as well and especially the forest stumble which has at least 15000000 population it is the fickle to keep people inside homes because there's a there's a huge number of young population inside this stumble and the weather is going better and better every day that's why the lockdowns only cover the weekends for now but i have to say that the lockdown was for major cities 31 cities across turkey which meant 6 almost 63000000 citizens among 18000000 well population across the country and all said that as long as the government feels it necessary they will come to me imposing we can't lockdowns but it was sure

that there will be no week they locked on for turkey at least for now the governor of new york state says that the curves in what's become the epicenter of the u.s. corona virus outbreak continues to fly 671 for the deaths of been reported but andrew cuomo says the wost is now over we can control the spread feel good about that. the worst is over. yeah if we continue to be smart going forward because remember we have the here and on that valve you turn that valve too fast you'll see that number jumped right back but yes i think you could say the worst is over because the worst here are people dying that's the worst the worst doesn't get any bad then this worst us president on will trump his retreat as a coal to fire the country's top infectious diseases expose it comes off that dr

anthony fauci said that more lives could have been saved if the u.s. a taken certain measures soon up the u.s. has the highest global toll but more than 22000 deaths a u.s. navy sailor has died off contracting the coronavirus he was one of hundreds of crewmembers who became infected aboard an aircraft carrier the captain of the theodore roosevelt was fired for writing his commanders begging for help to stop the spread of the virus on board soon after the acting navy secretary resigned for calling the captain stupid and naive and for criticizing the crew who hailed him a hero a white house correspondent kimberly helka reports. in terms of the captain that was dismissed from this aircraft carrier of the u.s. theodore roosevelt certainly sadly there is some vindication that he may receive from this at least in the realm of public opinion given the fact that he sounded the alarm he was very concerned about seeing coronavirus ripping through not just

his own ship but the cruise ships around the world who had been in many cases debilitated by it so this is something that he was afraid of for his own ship of course he made this known publicly when he was not getting results from the higher chain of command within the u.s.s. within the u.s. navy and that resulted in his dismissal but his dismissal in fact was caught on video when he was leaving the ship he was cheered by the sailors who looked at him very admirably for essentially trying to save their lives but this is sort of a twist and turning story in the u.s. navy because the acting navy secretary then went made a speech to this very same crew called this captain that they revered. as stupid and he was then in turn dismissed from his job so this is yet another sort of aspect to this case that now that we have this death this is certainly going to

bolster the case of the captain that this was a need to sound the alarm. u.s. health insurance companies say that they will cover testing and treatment but some doctors say there's still a great deal of confusion about who really end up covering the bill. reports for a pass when donald trump announced this earlier this week i met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all 'd co-payments for coronavirus treatments it just highlighted a particular confusion the u.s. faces as it deals with the pandemic alone among developed countries the u.s. health care system isn't universal but run by for profit health insurance companies even after the affordable care act or obamacare was passed in 20 term 30000000 remain without health coverage and the number of under insured those whose out of pocket expenses for treatment is over 5 percent of their income has risen 50 percent over the last 9 years to an estimated 44000000 in fact when donald trump

was speaking in early march no insurance companies were covering treatments now congress has forced them to cover testing and some companies are covering treatment for a limited time but it's a confusing perhaps work for patients that leaves many unanswered questions but what if you test. is your bill going to be higher. it it's impossible to that question in addition your coronavirus test is covered but your visit to a physician may not be if other covert diagnostic tests are conducted like a white blood cell count or chest x. ray that aren't actual coded 19 tests they may not be covered the millions with employer supplied health insurance may face large out of pocket expenses even hospitals covered by insurance companies perform procedures not covered by insurance and the list goes on in the best of times patients and doctors often don't know what's covered until the bill eventually arrives my greatest sadness as a physician is that i often don't have the answer to that question when someone

asks me how much is this medication going to cost we often don't have the answer especially with the added layers of a hospital ization the pandemic highlights another issue that was already a problem prior authorization insurance companies requiring doctors to prove the treatment is necessary a process that could lead to delays of $1.00 to $3.00 days in freeing up hospital beds crucial time during a pandemic a recent american medical association survey found the process led to death or disability in 30 percent of cases and that was before the coronavirus a prior authorization it's a question to the clinical team a saying are you sure and we don't trust you seems a little inappropriate for quick efficient compassionate care such practices have contributed to insurance companies massive profits since obamacare was passed and now according to former health insurance executive turned whistleblower wendell potter the industry's expecting to clean up as

a result of the coronavirus they're saying this is that as a possible opportunity for them to actually make more money and to have a net savings it will save some of the c.e.o.'s and even told wall street financial analysts that they're expecting that because spittles and doctors are canceling a lot of routine care also the executives are saying to. that if we have to spend more money that we had it dissipated this year we will just raise rates for everybody next year that's what they do if they can get away with it because there is no other game in town it's a tremendous challenge this global pandemic how some specifically move cool characteristics here in the u.s. she ever turns the al-jazeera washington the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is making it harder for international agencies to raise money among those the world food program which says that it's been forced to cut rations for more than a $1000000.00 refugees in uganda after failing to secure additional funding under

serious malcolm webb explains how critical that food aid is with the un's world food programme has been calling for donations to help them feed refugees in uganda since the end of last year donations haven't been forthcoming in mali it's normal for the world food program to not receive as much money as it requests and this case the shortfall is critical that's why they're cutting rations by about a 3rd so that's going to make a hard life even more difficult for those 1200000 refugees in uganda these camps are not good places to live even at the best of times northern uganda hundreds of thousands of people who fled the conflict in south sudan a living there in a landscape that's dry for much of the time that farmed the land is not suitable for farming it makes it difficult to be able to produce their own food and so they depend on the food from the world food program which is now going to be cut. in

asia some countries facing the challenge of preventing a 2nd wave of corona virus infections south korea is preparing to lift some restrictions on social gatherings but health authorities there are concerned after a further 116 people tested positive for the virus for a 2nd time despite having earlier been treated and cleared china has reported 108 new infections the highest of almost 6 weeks all but 10 were in people who derive from abroad but half of those were chinese nationals returning from russia cities near the border or introducing strict coroutine for incoming travelers his robot bride in seoul on those apparent re infections in south korea. it is a worrying development this is a phenomenon that epidemiologists in the center of disease control here have been studying for quite a while the months this large population of people here who got sick towards the

end of february beginning of march who got the virus who were there not treated in hospital or treated at home and some 7000 of those people have recovered and as part of their own going treatments of gradually being retested and worryingly there has been this trend of finding now more than 100 cases amongst this population of several 1000 people who have tested positive again so these were people who were clear and they had had tests either in hospital look at clinics at testing centers it proved to be negative and more than 100 now 3 have now tested positive so the questions here for the experts is what is causing this is this a reinfection that people coming into contact with a carrier and getting the infection again or more worrying they use a reactivation that somehow they were may not have been asymptomatic at they may not have been it's certainly on the face of it infectious but seem to have possibly

still being carrying the virus in some dormant form possibly deep in body tissue that somehow has managed to become reactivate so it is a worrying trend here does that mean that there has been a problem in testing and does it mean certainly that there are many more questions about this virus that the experts simply don't know about it. clements is a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at curtin university he says the countries that think think overcome the pandemic must stay on guard. firstly i don't think there is any evidence emerging that it's becoming symptomatic again if that. was the case then that would be very concerning but i don't believe that there's any clear evidence that that is the case. i think even with a very very large number of people being tested for rape in this but one of ours and and in most countries that is still anything infecting

a very small percentage of population you will see a high. positive right and i think that is to be expected when you need an almost perfect test to avoid that situation what the critical thing is is that people need to interpret the data correctly and so you know when you're monitoring population of. the 20000000 people as you do in south korea and you just hop a 1000000 people you will expect a number of false positives. but usually in a pandemic with things are rapidly him changing way and learning more about the bars it's to be expected that the diagnostic test will have limitations the important thing is the public health response. and then of course erring on the side of caution so it will testing positive that need to be are isolated the concept pricing needs to happen. and so much of this in thing mate continue certainly recession this thing is the thing they need for a considerable time to come. just ahead here on the news hour we'll look into

concerns that safety measures introduced during the pandemic could lead to a greater loss of privacy.

if you want to help save the world's. sneeze into your own. or. well again some governments are embracing new technology to help them slow the spread of the coronavirus digital tracking for example helps them to monitor where

people go and with whom they interact they do this mainly through mobile phone location data as well as so-called contact tracing apps but there are privacy concerns if abused raw data being collected could be stored and used by governments well after that the pandemic is over pfizer patel is the co-director of the national security program at new york university she says that any app will be limited by how and if people decide to use it. there's a number of things that are out there promising obviously the google akhil partnership that was or an ass at the end of last week seems promising they've been very sensitive to do privacy issues you know the data that is stored on your fellow for the most part there are ways that they are making sure that it's d.n.i. so that a coffee riyad and i asked so there's definitely you know potential over there but

even with that. would have to oppose oh you know they're planning to release the a.p.i. in the middle of may and they're hoping that you know that people will develop apps that can be read and that you're looking at you know some period of time before even something like the google apple partnership will be a lie and you also have to contend with issues around adoption right so even in singapore we saw relatively low rates of adoption in the united states where you know even stay at home borders and become a partisan bickering point it's easy to imagine that there will be a lot of people who won't want to actually download these apps and the 2nd thing to keep in mind is a different populations may or may not have a smartphone apps right so welcome lucian's that are older who are most vulnerable to code that 19 are less likely to use marco's and younger populations there's out

some discrepancies based on income level obviously so there's those kinds of issues that you have to contend with as well and that's the news out lauren tyler here next to update you i'll see you get my full. on. and. join the global conversation to pop the bubble to the people to expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue that women in cambodia are in fact telling their here we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to treat everyone has

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