struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action with them behind the curtain and in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. al jazeera. hello honorine tale of this is the al jazeera news hour live from london coming up spain eases some coronavirus restrictions with italy set to follow suit w.h.o. cautions governments against leaving iraq down too soon to control measures must be lifted slowly and we've gone through all. it cannot happen all at

once. as new york's corona virus outbreak shows signs of slowing the governor says there will be no easy on off switch for reopening the state. and libya's internationally recognized government says it seized control of 3 cities award highly for hotter. the world health organization has warned countries against lifting their lock downs prematurely same public health measures must be in place before restrictions can be eased it comes as nations across the globe try to balance the economic fallout from the coronavirus against continued confinement francaise announced its extending its lockdown until may the 11th president says the country was not sufficiently prepared for the outbreak but numbers are beginning to steady his neighbors spain and italy are relaxing their restrictions construction and manufacturing sectors

have been allowed to reopen in spain some small businesses can reopen in italy from tuesday a south korean officials are investigating a reserve in the number of recovered patients again testing positive the possibility of a corona virus reactivating is now being considered and china has reported its highest number of cases in almost 6 weeks 108 people were infected over the past day most were residents returning from abroad the w.h.o. says governments must be cautious about how and when they exit lockdown. the way down is march slower than the way up there to means control measures must to be lifted slowly and we squander all it cannot happen all at once controlled measures can only be lifted if the right public of the measures are in place including significant capacity for true.

john mccain begins our coverage with a look at the situation across europe. for many thousands of people across europe this is the reality of the coronavirus for many millions more it means locked down and the loss of their freedom of movement and for many weeks that's been the case in france now its president says it must stay that way a lot longer donna got this come on in the force hospitals are saturated everywhere in france in the french overseas territories the system is under strain there and the epidemic is not yet under control so we must continue our efforts and continue to respect the rules the more they are respected the more lives that we saved that is why the strictest lockdown must continue until monday may the 11th. but elsewhere monday meant a return to work after weeks in lockdown as here in madrid because in this and a few other sectors of the economy the toughest restrictions have been lifted and

some spanish politicians say now is not the time to relax the vigilance even to this small extent and in most other regards the existing lockdown will remain in place for much of the next 2 weeks in italy a small number of stationery shops book shops and children's clothing stores can reopen from choose day because here the number of new infections remains considerably lower than joining the worst days last month but as in spain the mortality rate remains high a point pope francis referred to in his easter monday address at the vatican or g. recorded. during this easter week i would like to remember with closeness and affection all the countries strongly affected by the coronavirus some with large numbers of infected and dead in a special way italy united states bahrain france the list is long. and

many other countries are worried to the latest figures from russia show the infection and mortality rates are on a steep upward curve. as we can use either to chew ation is changing almost every day unfortunately it's not changing for the better the number of infected people increases and there are more to be a case of the world the upcoming weeks will largely be decided that means that all are actually including prevention measures that should be optimized here in germany the abundance of intensive care and wide scale testing have helped to keep the mortality rate much lower than in much of the rest of europe which explains why some politicians now want to relax the restrictions shere so as to reduce the economic damage as much as possible because some projections suggest that in this quarter alone the economy may shrink while most 10 percent if the lock downs are to

we should get the 1st news of it on wednesday when angle america will discuss the problem with the prime ministers of the 16 german states dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. western france has more the decision to extend the lock down in front of the televised address his 4th since he 1st announced that france would go into lockdown one month ago and tomorrow mike ross said in this speech that there was a lot of hope perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel because in the last few days here in france admissions to hospitals and intensive care units have reduced or slightly as have the number of deaths however mark ross said you know we are nowhere near out of this crisis yet you have a country where more than $14000.00 people have died and continue to do so of course each day and he said that is why he has ordered that france remain in lockdown until may the 11th so another month or 2 months in total when we get to

mid may that will of course be very difficult for many people who are perhaps living in very difficult circumstances in very small spaces or on their own but a man on macro has called on the nation with this rather rallying speech to be to show solidarity to make a little bit more effort for a bit longer because he says without it we risk seeing the coronavirus spread even further around france or possibly this this so-called 2nd wave we could see a resurgence if we were to loosen the restrictions at this stage he did say however often made the 11th that the french government could consider loosening some restrictions the government will in 2 weeks time here in france least start looking at drawing up what they call a de confinement plan for the future. new york's governor says he will coordinate with his counterparts in 5 neighboring states are when to reopen businesses and schools no timeframe was given but andrew cuomo says the worst is now over for new

york more than 10000 people have died there. if we continue to be smart going forward because remember we have to hit on that valve you turn that valve too fast you'll see that number jump right back but yes i think you can 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 and this worst is people dying that's the worst. 100 guns being from chicago via skype or john quinones emphasize the need to listen to scientists not politicians ever went to open his state up. that's right president trump has been pushing hard to open businesses back up in the u.s. and cuomo has been one of the voices of caution because new york was hit early and harder than any other state in the u.s. as you outlined just a little bit ago so cuomo has been talking about listening to the scientists he says that he talks to dr anthony fauci of the n.i.

age often in the morning in the evening. and he has emphasized the need to open businesses back up on a regional basis so he's gotten together with the governors of new jersey connecticut delaware pennsylvania they all sort of share a large labor pool in this same area and as he is talking about doing this on a very cautious scientifically based bases the president of the united states has been pushing his own counsel and word has just come out reported in some news organizations that his own reopen our country counsel as he calls it would include jared cushion or his son in law and daughter ivanka trump treasury secretary stephen minucci commerce secretary wilbur ross and the national economic advisory council director larry kudlow so he's got his own little group notably of the names that have leaked out we haven't heard about any health officials and no outside economists being in that particular group there may be more cuomo went on to say

in his cautious remarks that there really wouldn't be a sense of normalcy here in the u.s. or indeed in the world until there was a vaccine and that could be 12 to 18 months so all of this talk of reopening businesses here in the u.s. would really be a staged process there would still probably be some measure of social distancing limits on people in stores but that of course would be made on a state by state basis and the way also expected that. that could be a shot of a speculation of the future of adult. that's right fact she has figured highly over the weekend he said some things on the sunday talk shows the probably upset the president and launched this whole speculation what happened was found she came on and was asked on a show if the u.s. had acted earlier the federal government acted earlier would lives have been saved

and he said i can't deny that that's the case but there was a lot of pushback back then and he was referring to february a month before american states started shutting down one at a time and so the president on monday retreated somebody who said it's time to fire . generated a lot of twitter speculation and the white house had to put out a statement saying that these media speculation which the president launched was ridiculous and that the president would not fire found you so he'll definitely be asked about that in the presidential briefing today if he doesn't bring it up himself john hendren time thank you very much indeed as we reported earlier more than 100 south koreans who previously had coronavirus have again tested positive 51 similar cases were reported there last week residents are being asked to stick to straight social distancing measures until at least the end of the week by does monitoring developments from seoul. 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 through with another treated in hospital or treated at home and some 7000 of those people have recovered and as part of their 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 testing centers it proved to be negative and more than 100 now 3 have now tested positive 7 questions here for the experts is just what is causing this is this a reinfection that people coming into contact with

a carrier and getting the infection again or more worried 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 reactivated 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 china has reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases in a less 6 weeks what are to say there were 100 new cases in the past day or what 10 of which were traveling as returning from abroad well that number is no that's adding to concerns of a possible 2nd wave of cases sarah clarke is in hong kong and says authorities are putting new measures in place. large number have been reported coming from the

north east of china this is an area a province called heilongjiang that's a province a province boasts that are based in bordering russia and china is now building a makeshift hospital in this particular region trying to deal with the increasing number of infections coming from the northeast and also put in strict new border controls in that particular area due to the number of infections of the chinese nationals coming from russia back into china now those measures include in the capital harbor they put in place some stay at home orders for some of those residential compounds where they're identified some of the clusters as well as in the cities the border brushed up or public gatherings have been banned across the entire province and train services have been stopped in parts of that region they'll also be health checks on all arrivals coming in to that particular province and that's obviously mainly from russia the be mandatory testing of the coronavirus when they do arrive as well as a $28.00 day quarantine scenario the local authorities have also already put the city the borders of russia into a lockdown last week that's got about 70000 people in that particular city now

russia and china they share about a 4300 kilometer border between them and as a result of the spike of these cases that are coming in from russia it's clearly putting a number of the the hospitals and that particular region it's testing the capacity of how they can deal with the increasing number of infections that we're seeing in china as a result of all of this because speak to a smith who is a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine she joins us live by skype from green developed in switzerland thanks very much for being with us just want to go back to the to the effort of some countries to lift the lockdowns of the w.h.o. has said that public health measures need to be put in place before lock downs lifted but what would you say are the minimum requirements. so indeed the timing is essential. so if we learn funk china they really waited until they had no more cases until the virus was contains before it is started lifting their strict

measures obviously we have to keep a balance between the economic damage and societal damage of of a lockdown. but my strong advice is is to wait and to have a consistent decline in cases so you definitely have pete and it as a consistent decline because before you even think of a lock down and where you do a lock down then to do it wisely with a stepwise approach what about the requirements for testing i mean clearly people earlier on talked about perhaps the possibly of antibody test that might help lift things and then those proved to be quite are reliable what is the latest on how you roll out testing or how much testing you need in order to be able to lift restrictions. so indeed if at the time when you deescalate you're locked and when you lift or relax some of your measures you must actually in parallel build

strengthen other measures and this is you and the main measure here is your testing capabilities because you want to avoid a 2nd wave and so if you test liberally and universally as as much as you can you it is easier for you to identify new clusters and then to quench his new little fires that come up before it becomes a big wave again how concerned are you by the reports from south korea that people who've had the virus might then be getting it again. so we still do not fully understand those daytime and day requires some more studying it does not look like reinfection it looked at looks more like an reactivation and that could be possibly because of a lack of virus clearance in some persons who may not trigger an immune response

that is necessary so i think we should now not over interpret just these data and but instead now study the n.t. body responses and those people who do seem to have reactivated how important will are things like apps to track and trace i mean there's lots of talk of these being developed at what stage are we at really with with how effective those can be so we know from south korea we know from china that contact racing is is one of the principles that we need to continue to build up to do 2 to be effective in the end containing this outbreak. china really use a contact tracing wildy wide leap so that contacts would be. a quarantine and to stop further furnace spread and southgate was very good at this

so a so europe basically jumped from and really never did extensive contact tracing as i think i think part of now a plant a plant lockdown is to build up our contact tracing capabilities how close are we now to a vaccine some suggestions that there might be one as early as september is that unlikely or would you think that is possible. there is so much effort now in into this into vaccine development and more than 50 vaccines i'm development of 5 are already in clinical in human trials back scenes do take some time it is not only about showing that they work so not only sharks showing efficacy but also proving that they are safe so we should not. take short cuts here and we really want we want a very good and also very busy vaccine and and it looks like it will take at least

12 months to do so one thing i want to ask you about is there is the potential for the rate of infections to be underestimated this report by the newsgroup he can omics just about half of all 19 deaths appear to be happening in care homes and in some countries that don't include him you can actually list those in the daily figures is that an area that has been underestimated in your view. i agree so so we have underestimated new cases because we did not test enough but being now also and as emitting deaths because they occur in homes or in care homes or as you see in ecuador even you know in there on the streets so so so i think we need to take great care to make sure that we counted the deaths correctly and also count the new cases correctly and it is one of my thank you very much indeed for your expertise thank you. rockets have been fired at residential areas in libya's capital tripoli by forces loyal to the warlord holly

for have to attack comes after the internationally recognized government we took 3 cities from the rival ministration in the past 24 hours or whatever had reports from tripoli. residential areas in the libyan capital targeted by indiscriminate shelling. the u.n. backed government says forces loyal to the warlord 34 have that are attacking the city in reaction to their defeat in the west of the country. people in the coastal city of so broadside cheering the liberation of the city by the government forces. other nearby cities including sort of mine and have been also recaptured by the government forces. after this of course is whole controlled those cities for the past 3 years we've been out in 24 hours after heavy fighting. this with take over all of those cities sees government forces changing their

strategy from defensive to a fund sieve mood the balance has shifted true fish and turkish aerial support and turkish training has helped the g.s.a. and now they've reached parity or even supremacy in the air and they are undercutting the l.a. supply lines on all directions. about 80 kilometers west of tripoli is a key city of a controlled it can move on many other cities in the west it also makes a gain in control of the international coastal highway easier a key link between tripoli and the tunisian border government forces other anti have to forces can now link up with them the united nations has been calling on the warring sides to stop fighting and focus on the responding to an amazing number of covert 19 infections and 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 groping 1000 and factions in libya and we need to make sure that they can set aside their all military offensive and and work together in terms of being able to allow for us to deal with with the pandemic before that comes out of control and so that is where our prayer priority lies coronavirus is opening up a new front in libya and the fall of these cities do they you and beg the government is another setback to how after after he lost the strategic city over the last june. by eliminating the threat to tripoli from the western direction the government forces say they can now focus on repealing the health to the forces that

tax in southern tripoli but with continuing the shelling of residential areas it seems that all calls for deescalation have gone unheard of. tripoli one of the $600.00 crew who caught the coronavirus on a u.s. aircraft carrier has died say they're from the theodore roosevelt is the 1st u.s. service person on active duty to die from the disease a captain of the vessel was fired for writing to his commanders begging for help to stop the spread on board the acting navy secretary then resigned after he criticized the captain calling him stupid and naive white house correspondent can really help it as more of the controversy surrounding the ship. in terms of the captain that was just miss from this aircraft carrier of the u.s. theater 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. well the 1000000 refugees in uganda are told to expect less aid as the pandemic runs world food programme supplies dry. and who pays if you're treated for corona virus it's a question millions of americans think the answer to. us could brazil's coronavirus outbreak be 12 times square and we think. there are still some fine weather to be found across central and eastern areas of europe because the change is already taking place you can see a lot of had been steamy and as and raining comes in quite

a bit of the central areas but as i say it's not all bad and this was certainly a good day germany it is actually in berlin this of course was on sunday and this is also on the coast of germany so a bit of a change there because a lot of the sun you can see probably being blown in the very strong winds coming down to the north pole so through till a country but really sick i 3 cheese day it's about the can continue to push across these areas bringing some much colder on the line of rain which is working quite swiftly over towards the east now some very heavy amounts of rain again across into the balkans maybe even. innovations and a very messy daken on cheese across much of course we'll not see beyond really across the west and in fact the temperatures will begin to pick up no say everywhere but sunny across the far west rain with strong winds those coastal areas of norway and you know sometimes in 08 because my goodness this is so below the average and look at these numbers they're nothing if not constant over the next few

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europeans go build you know the stage of you know what we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. and one of the top stories here now to syria ahead of the world health organization has warned countries against lifting lockdowns unless they have the right public health measures in place. and lock down in france has been extended until may the 11th president in one year mark or so the country still needs to build its capacity to test every citizen with symptoms. the governor of new york says the worst of the

outbreak is over in his state but the top u.s. health official says the national peak is still to be hit this week as the number 10 dead tops 20000. turkey's president says another 48 hour lockdown will be imposed this coming weekend as the country struggles to contain the corona virus the 1st weekend curfew came into force in all major cities on friday night last minute announcement of the restrictions sparked widespread panic buying with thousands of people flooding shops many without mandatory face masks the government says it's putting measures in place to ensure there's no repeat of the chaos the government is stopping short of imposing a full lockdown because of concerns over the economy let's name course you explains . chickie wants the economy to be functioning this is why presidents are gone has said before the economy wills should be whirling the government

encourages staying at home e courage is the companies for home office working 8 years money for on paid leave . some extra money for the companies who who need it to pay for their employees there are not very very large numbers but at least something but the main idea is here to keep the factories working not to cut the supply and logistic lines as totally is also a transfer transitional council for international logistics at as well and especially the poorest stumble which has at least 15000000 population it is the fickle to keep people inside homes because there is a there is 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 lock down was for major cities 31 cities across turkey which meant 6 almost 63000000 citizens among 18000000

all population across the country and all said that as long as the government feels it necessary they will continue imposing weekend lockdowns but it was sure that there will be no week they locked on for turkey at least for now. cases of coronavirus have surged in russia and questions remain over whether russia's health care system can cope reforms in recent years have focused on efficiency but critics say that that's left hospitals short of beds doctors and nurses said reports from moscow. this is one of the 3 major infectious diseases hospitals in moscow a city of nearly 13000000 people 2 of its buildings were recently demolished when the covert 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 how cuts. there's actually you know 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 pack a. bomb 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. 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 and 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 yes lisa truss 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 should teachers that you can't sort lessly reform the health care system you should think what the consequence is going to be what risks of fear as a result of it. mosco authorities have not responded to our request for comment a new infectious diseases hospital is rapidly being built outside the capital and extra bets have been added to existing hospitals but medical experts say d toss bottles lead to specialist go with 9000 patients need they fear these

measures might not be enough when russia reaches its peak of the epidemic that fasten al-jazeera. treatment for americans with the current virus may be down to what they're able to afford while health insurance companies have been ordered to cover testing this confusion about what comes next and who pays she have a chance he reports washington for a pass when don't trump announced this earlier this week i met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive '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 the whole tribe was speaking in early march no insurance companies were covering treatments now congress 'd has forced them to cover testing and some companies are covering treatment for a limited time but it's a confusing patchwork for patients that leaves many unanswered questions what if you test. is your bill going to be higher. it it's impossible thanks for 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 old actual qubit 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 at ness 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 i often don't have the answer especially with the added layers of a hostile ization the pandemic highlights another issue that was already a problem prior authorize asians 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 saying are you sure and we don't trust you a little inappropriate for quick efficient compassionate care such practices have contributed to insurance company's massive profits since obamacare was passed and

now according to former health insurance executive turned whistleblower wendell potter the industry's expected 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 they have to have a net savings if you will and save some of the c.e.o.'s that 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 the. all straight 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 and 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 local characteristics here in the u.s. she ever turns the al-jazeera washington nigeria's president mohammed to bihari has extended the lockdown in a budget lagos and ogun states for another 14 days as cases of coronavirus in the

country continue to rise of managers as more from the capital budget. he going said so far as i was able to trace 92 percent of thousands and 6000 individuals or content traced 6000 individuals who were in contact with infected people when this outbreak started in nigeria weeks ago now the government also said it has built capacity such that now that $1500.00 individuals can be tested but that is still more to be done you're talking about a country of more than 200 people or 200000000 people and the government also said it has doubled its capacity for isolation treatment as unless the hospitalization of individuals for helping to talk to come with the current come down with the coronavirus point symptoms now the government is extending that 2 weeks. lockdown impost on lagos and the capital abuja

a simple these 2 states or territories account for more than 70 percent of the infections in nigeria simply because the government said a lot needs to be done to deal with the pandemic the president said over the last 2 weeks the number of infections that doubled now in nigeria has been around 323 cases with 10 fatalities in the country so it's running up the efforts to trace as well as test as many as it can however the idea behind extended this at this lockdown may not go down well with many nigerians who complain that sulfite in the last 2 weeks they haven't had the politics or the support of the government promised them or the governments that it has distributed millions of dollars in aid of people who cannot take care of themselves this is a country one majority of the people leave the work with less than when or $2.00 a day and this they point to rate is increasing and for the country as well you're

talking about a country that test last b.s. abroad. over the past one month simply because of the demand for oil has fallen in the international market and also the price now it will be interesting to see how the nigerian government will deal with the shortfalls in revenues such that it can continue providing services already the government is proposing a cut of nearly 40 percent of its treaty treated by that simply because the price of oil has come down. the democratic republic of congo one of the world's poorest countries is fighting a health war on multiple fronts and struggling hospital system is under pressure to treat cholera measles and botha and now coronavirus mohammed atta reports from kinshasa. 12000000 people live in kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo last week the government put the city under lockdown to cop a cordon of bias out for. restaurants and charges are closed public transport in

and out of the capital is also restricted. but people here say the closure of some food and vegetable markets has affected the most. we haven't been able to access the main market in the city for about a week now we have no way of restocking our shops i doubt we'll be able to survive these measures for another week. in the gumbo district health workers a clinic up a government building where several people including a government minister tested positive for the virus. they say the lock down is necessary to stop it spreading if you don't we can log on all of can just half an hour for all of us reasons but we do believe that the current log done will help control deepen their mic in the city's main epicenter. scenes like these are becoming common in kinshasa. the sellers say these alternative remember does prevent quote on a virus infection and country of the virus. you know never to drink some mad from

leaves and roots and becoming popular with local people while there is no scientific evidence that this alternative remedies can work some here swear by that if it can see and see. little king the medicine from this plant is effective against almost every ailment this is what we prepare to use instead of going to the hospital every time we feel sick as long as we take it everything should be free from the crown if i had it. apart from covered 19 the democratic republic of congo is also battling a mississippi demick killed more than 5300 children since early 2019 . they also thought the 1000 recorded cases of cholera and a 2nd link to a bowl of the 2 months without new cases the public health system is already weak here and with all these diseases many are asking whether it can cope.

mohamedan to al-jazeera. rosemont and. the democratic republic of congo is still dealing with another health emergency recording a 3rd new abode the case a 7 year old girl started showing symptoms out of visiting the same health care center as 2 previous cases in the eastern city of beni until friday the country had not seen a new infection for more than 7 weeks there for democrats killed more than 2200 people since august 28th. the world food program says it's struggling to raise money because of the pandemic it's been forced to cut rations for more than a $1000000.00 refugees in uganda after failing to secure additional funding from nairobi malcolm webb has more on how critical the food aid is for the affected refugees with the un's world food program has been calling for donations to help them feed refugees in uganda since the end of last year donations haven't been forthcoming and while it is normal for the world food program to not receive as

much money as it requests in this case the shortfall is critical that's why they're cutting rations by about a 3rd so that's going to made 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 in northern uganda hundreds of thousands of people who fled the conflict in south sudan living there in a landscape 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 oath and so they depend on the food from the world food program which is now going to be caught a study released on monday suggests brazil could have 12 times more cases of corona virus than a being officially reported brazil's president has repeatedly clashed with state officials over the best response to the virus downplaying the size of the problem there is a boat joins us live from. tourism part of the study reveal. well

this was a study carried out by a consortium of universities and research centers in brazil and what they did is basically test the amount of people the ratio of the amount of people that died the amount of people that recovered and they excluded the amount of people that are still fighting the virus they compared those numbers with the world health organization then they came up with a result that says that according to the amount of people infected brazil should have around 12 times more of the cases that have been confirmed in the country and what they're saying is that the main reason because of this is that there's too little testing and that it takes a long long time to get confirmations of the cases that have been tested and this is happening as the country is in the middle of not only a crisis because of coronavirus also a political crisis a confrontation between presidential you also an adult and his health minister his health minister says that social isolation is the only way to fight coronavirus in

brazil while data also saying that the way out is to continue of cozying lockdowns social isolations and he says that the priority should also be the quantum hue sward about it loosing jobs during an interview on sunday health minister recently given the that said literally that i hope we can speak with a unified message people in the country and that doubting they don't know who to trust whether the health minister or the president and that's tell you the scope of the crisis of the political crisis in the country that has a lot of walsall now don't more and more isolated he is not only fighting with his health minister but also with congress and major governors in religion. and tours of the alarm has also been raised over the rate of deforestation in the amazon that could possibly be linked to the coronavirus cases crosses as well. what is being reported is that corona virus is making it to brazil's most remote

areas and that that could have to do we've illegal logging brazil's space research institute just released information that if you measure the same period last year there's been a 50 percent increase in deforestation in brazil and also it is in brazil are saying that it has to do with the longer it's illegal mining in some territories in indigenous territories where you just heard that last week and indigenous of borja 15 year old died from the yanomami tribe this is a tribe that is around 26000 people that are located between brazil and venezuela there's around 26000 of them and there's thousands of miners in that part of the country we spoke to members of that community and they were telling us that they're desperate that if there is a outbreak in that area they won't be able to control it because simply they do not have enough doctors or enough equipment no mommy is just one of the thousands of tribes in brazil and they have suffered in the past for example back in the 19

$160.00 s. and eighty's they lost 15 percent of their population because of an outbreak of missiles that was also caused by illegal miners and that's why they're very much afraid that something similar could happen now to risible thank you very much indeed and life was tough for indigenous farmers in malaysia before coronavirus and now they can't sell their produce because of the lock down the traditional malays speaking people have a higher risk of catching the disease because of their impoverished lifestyle explains. keep out the signs saying indigenous communities in the asia have set up roadblocks preventing outsiders from entering their villages these are photos and videos we obtained from the center for our concerns and they'll take you straight to the white house and isn't president tom but the daily briefing on the corner turn of ours pandemic. before i begin i'd like to offer my condolences

and best wishes to the people all across our great south who have 'd endured deadly tornadoes and other severe weather in texas louisiana mississippi alabama florida georgia tennessee and south carolina. my administration will do everything possible to help those communities get back on their feet were speaking with the governors and representatives theme is already on its way and they got there as soon as we heard the word i said get out there so fame is there and you know it you know the great job that fema does it's really something very special so we just want to say . the warmest condolences and and we're with you all the way it's a tough deal that was a bad bad. level 5 that was a bad group that's as high as it gets as a bad grouping of 2 an anus something that's something credible the power the horrible destructive power america is continuing to make critical progress at our

war against the virus over the weekend the number of daily new infections remained flat nationwide flat hospitalizations a slowing in hot spots like new york new jersey michigan and louisiana this is clear evidence that our aggressive strategy to combat the virus is working and that americans are following the guidelines it's been incredible what they've done. you looked at the charts and the charts are and the models from early on predictions where 10120000 people looked like if they did well they were going to unfortunately perish and we're going to be hopefully way way below that numbers that will be. a sign of people doing things right but it's still just a horrible thing all over the world. 184 countries this is all

a tribute to our wonderful health care advisors and experts who have been with us right from the beginning we appreciate it so much in fact. dr felt she is here maybe i could as tony to say a few words before we go any further thank you very much tony please. thank you mr president just one of a couple things and then i just want to make a comment about something that happened yesterday you can hear from dr burke soon about the numbers that we've been talking about how things are starting to balance off and i think the more as we go by each day i think we're going to see that and again i never like to get ahead of myself or of dr burke's but it looks like even though we've had a really bad week last week remember when i was speaking to you before i was saying this was really a bad week there's still going to be a lot of deaths but we're starting to see in some areas now that kind of flattening particularly in a place that was a hot spot like new york that's the 1st thing the 2nd thing is that i had

a really very very productive conversation with the congressional black caucus this morning for about an hour and they really wanted to know what exactly are we going to be doing in the immediate as well as the long range about the health disparities and the discrepancies both in infection and in poor outcome in the minorities in general but specifically african-american and i mean i made it very clear to them that what we have to do is focus on getting the resources where the vulnerable are to be able to get testing done to be able to get the appropriate. again if occasion where a proper and where appropriate to isolate and contact trace if we can but also to help mitigate in a community that is itself and suffering much more disproportionately so i just want to get out of the way the other point i wanted to make is that i i had an interview yesterday. that i was asked a hypothetical question and hypothetical questions sometimes can get you into

something difficult because it's what would have or could have the nature of the hypothetical question was if in fact we had mitigated earlier could lives have been saved and the answer to my question was as i always do and i'm doing right now perfectly honestly say yes i mean obviously if you mitigation helps i've been up here many times telling you that mitigation works so if mitigation works and you in seagate it and you initiate it early you will probably have saved more lives if you initiated it later you probably would have lost more lives you initiated at a certain time that was taken as a way that maybe somehow something was at fault here so let me tell you from my experience and i can only speak from my own experience is that we had been talking before any meetings that we had about the pros and the cons the effectiveness or

not of strong mitigations so discussions were going on mostly among the medical people about what that would mean the 1st and only time that dr burk's and i went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a quote shut down in the sense of not really shutdown but to really have strong mitigation we discussed it obviously there would be concern by some that in fact that might have some negative consequences nonetheless the president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation. the next 2nd time that i went with dr burk's into the president and said 15 days are not enough we need to go 30 days obviously there were people who had a problem with that because of the potential secondary effects nonetheless at that

time the president went with the health recommendations and we extended it another 30 days so i could only tell you what i know and what my recommendations were but clearly as happens all the time there were interpretations of that response to a hypothetical question that i just thought it would be very nice for me to clarify because i didn't have the chance to clarify thank you. again you know i to be honest with you i don't even remember with the date was my can just tell you the 1st and only time that i went in and said we should do mitigation strongly the response was yes we'll do it with. our search and no travel restriction is separate that was whether or not we want to go into a mitigation stage of 15 days of mitigation the travel was another recommendation when we went in and said we probably should be doing that and the answer was yes and then another time was we should do it with europe and the answer was yes and the next time we should do it with the u.k. and the answer was yes somebody said there was. you know where did that push back i

know it was and that was the wrong choice of words you know what it was when people discuss not necessarily in front of the president people discuss they say well you know this is going to have maybe a harmful effect on this on that so it was a poor choice of words there wasn't anybody saying no you shouldn't do that or you did it on earlier you know i'm doing. everything i do is voluntarily please don't even imply that. that's all mr president for the way to. early to tell them was. that if you look at statistics i have to write a couple of them down if you look at statistics. so when january 6th that's long before the date you're talking about there were c.d.c. issued a travel notice for wu on china notice before there was even a confirmed case of the virus in the united states sits on january 6th is all

documented because we have so much fake news i like to document things january 6th long before the dates we're talking about the c.d.c. issued travel notice for will on on january 11th we have 0 cases in the united states 0 we don't have any cases so there are no cases reported that we know of this is january 11th the c.d.c. issued a level one travel notice health but health while there were still no confirmed cases so we had 0 cases people woman act i'm supposed to close down the economy the greatest economy in the history of the world and we don't have one case confirmed in the united states said she and you were 11 on january 17th the c.d.c. began implementing public health entry screenings at 3 major u.s. airports that received the greatest volume of passengers from move on it my instructions there was not a single case of the corona virus in the united states so in january 17th

there wasn't a case of the fake news a saying oh oh he didn't act fast enough well. you're a what happened because when i did act i was criticized by nancy pelosi by sleepy joe biden i was criticized by ever been fact i was called xenophobia. i was asking biden to please define that for me i was called other things by democrats and some others not too many others actually so that by the media definitely now. on january 21st is long before the time we're talking because when tony tony is talking i believe he's talking about the end of february on january 21st ok still early there was one case of the virus at that time we called it the war han virus or it who on there was one case in the whole united states we have one case this is all documented all comes from you

a lot of it comes from you people on january 21st the c.d.c. activated an emergency operation center there was just one case one person that's why that ad was such a phony there was one person in the united states you know they use it there's only one person that that said was made at that time one case in the whole united states one case i'm supposed to shut down the government the biggest the biggest. economy in the history of the world shattered and we have one case. 7 cases were on january 31st now in january 21st there was a case not one person had died there that's the right not one person so we have this massive country the united states of america we have the greatest economy in the world bigger than china has by a lot right because of what we've done over the last 3 and a half years. prior to the virus but including the virus.