says the democratic nominee we can't be still trying to join us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. this is a crisis like no other a 9 trillion dollar economic hit the international monetary fund warns that the coronavirus pandemic will cause the worst recession in a century. and i get i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up just keeps getting worse for the airlines the industry warns the carriers will lose 314000000000 dollars in revenue with 80 percent of flights now grounded.

nearly 800 new coronavirus deaths are reported in the u.k. but used to just take show the overall toll may be much higher. china approves 2 experimental covert 19 vaccines for hubert human trials. to take you live now to london where the u.k. government is about to begin its daily coronavirus press briefing this is a chance to really suck speaking let's listen director of the n.h.s. and if i'm doing well medical director at public health england earlier today the government's independent fiscal watchdog the office for budget responsibility the o.b. are published a report into the impact of coronavirus on the economy and public finances it is important to be clear that the o.b.l. is numbers are not a forecast or a prediction. they simply set out what one possible scenario might look like and it

may not even be the most likely scenario but it's important that we are honest with people about what might be happening in our economy so before i turn to today's health figures i want to spend a few minutes explaining what the o.b.l. have said and let me thank them for their continued work there are 3 brief points i wanted to make 1st the o.b.s. figures suggest that the scale of what we are facing will have serious implications for our economy here at home in common with other countries around the world these are tough times and there will be more to come as i've said before we can't protect every business and every household but we came into this crisis with a fundamentally sound economy powered by the hard work and ingenuity of the british people and british businesses so while those economic impacts are significant

the o.b. are also expect them to be temporary where they bounce back in growth the 2nd point i want to make is that we're not just going to stand by and let this happen our planned economic response is protecting millions of jobs businesses self-employed people charities and households our response aims to directly support people and businesses while the restrictions are in place and to make sure that as the restrictions are changed we can as quickly as possible get people back to work get businesses moving again and recover our economy the o.b. are today have been clear that the policies we have set out will do that. the o.b. our today have been clear that if we had not taken the actions we have the

situation would be much worse in other words our plan is the right plan the 3rd point i want to make is this right now the single most important thing we can do for the health of our economy is to protect the health of our people it's not a case of choosing between the economy and public health common sense tells us that doing so would be self-defeating at a time when we are seeing hundreds of people dying every day from this terrible disease the absolute priority must be to focus all of our resources not just of the state but of businesses and all of you at home as well in a collective national effort to beat this fire us the government's approach is to follow scientific and medical advice through our step by step action plan aiming to slow the spread of the virus so fewer people need hospital treatment at any one

time protecting the n.h.s. his ability to cope i said in my budget a month ago that whatever the n.h.s. needs it will get and we have honored that promise yesterday we published an update showing that we've given our public services an extra 14 and a half 1000000000 pounds in recent weeks we are taking action to increase n.h.s. capacity with more beds more key staff and more equipment on the front line and the secretary of state for health and social care will be updating on our plans for social care tomorrow this is why we are instructing people to stay at home so that we can protect our n.h.s. and saved lives. i can report that through the government's ongoing monitoring and testing program as of today 302599 people in

the u.k. have now been tested for corona virus with 93873 people testing positive 19706 people in the u.k. have been admitted to hospital with the virus down from 20184 people yesterday sadly of those in hospital 12107 people have died an increase of 778 fatalities since yesterday after all it's are with the family and friends of all those who have lost their lives these figures are a powerful reminder to us all of the importance of following the government's guidance stay at home protect our n.h.s. and saved lives. thank you all now hand over to steve to take you through today's date or in more detail before we take some questions from the media thank you well

as you just heard main strategy in combating this virus is social distancing so in other words stay at home avoid social contact and by doing that we can ensure that the spread of the virus the transmission from one person to another is reduced so over time we will start to see a reduction in the number of infections from corona virus and i'm pleased to say that we continue to see evidence that the great british public are complying with those instructions you've seen this transport chart most days and you can see that we continue to see much reduced activity in public transport but also vehicle transport and there are other data that we look at on a regular basis that tell us that compliance levels in the public are very high and and we need to keep it that way we absolutely need to make me make sure that we

keep the benefits of this going forward and we don't take a foot off the pedal we don't become complacent now of course a reduction in infection rates in the next slide will then translate into a reduction in you u.k. cases and you can see here our testing has shown a plateau in of the number of new cases we're picking up we're not testing everybody who symptomatic in the community so this data will never be a true. complete reflection but i think in the next slide you can see that that in turn will then translate into an effect on the number of people who require a hospital bed as we've often said for the vast majority of individuals this is a mild illness like a flu like illness or or a bad cold. but for an unfortunate minority this will require hospitalization but you can see that there's increasing evidence now that the number of hospital

admissions is stabilizing and clattering you can see that in london but you can also see it in other areas such as the midlands and this is evidence that is now accumulating that the benefit of that social distancing of reducing transmission is now beginning to be manifest in stabilisation in hospital admissions and then on the next slide you will see the. number of deaths in the u.k. and as you've heard that is continuing to rise this is the number that will reduce last unfortunately with sadness it's the one that will take longest to change but those benefits from social distancing will eventually translate into a reduction in the number of daily diets so the message is quite clear we are beginning to see the benefits of the undoubted hardship that we've all been asked

to to go through in terms of social distancing in terms of not meeting with friends and family it's really important that those benefits are maintained that we continue to follow the instructions that we've all been given and we will then get on top of this virus thank you steve if we could turn to some questions think 1st about from the b.b.c. . thank you chancellor people are of course devastated by the numbers of people losing their lives but tonight with warnings of 2000000 extra people unemployed people are also desperately worried about their job if you can level with people do you think you will be feeling the cost of this crisis for a generation and if i could ask the medics can you as you possibly can start including the numbers of deaths in care homes and in the community in these daily statistics so people can have a true picture of what's going on. thank you laura well i also when i see these

numbers deeply troubled and as i've i think consistently said when i've been at this podium and elsewhere you know this is going to be hard you know our economy is going to take a significant hit and as i said before that's not an abstract thing people are going to feel that in their jobs and in their household incomes you know what i would say and what they would be all report i think confirms is that you know the measures we've put in place can significantly mitigate that impact in particular the jobs retention scheme the following scheme we've put in place aims to do exactly that ensure that fewer people are unemployed but remain attached to their company through the furlough scheme and then also as we are says the reason that's a good thing not just in the short term which means when we get through this we can bounce back as quickly as possible so to your point about a generation no i very much hope that the measures we've put in place will allow us to do exactly as we are said bounce back and if you look at their scenario that is something that they talk about in there so you know yes it will be difficult in the

short happy to be honest about that people i think the measures we've put in place will help and then as we get through this it will mean that we can you know recover quickly and strongly and get our lives and economy back to normal and i think if one or thieve on that probably is on the over on the data thank you chancellor thank you laura yes so the deaths in and out of hospital we the office of enough national statistics to actually collect total deaths and we've had a download of that today but lower it we are working with you and us to actually speed that up so that we do get quicker information as you know the daily deaths we would very much like to have it's a bit more complicated for care homes because although over 9 out of 10 deaths sadly do occur still in hospital in the community there's a range of places where they occur including in care homes but not just there in hospices and at home indeed as well and in these. we dispersed systems we just need to be absolutely clear that the coast of this is

a tribute is correct and that is what takes time on the death certificate to get it right but we would like to have much more up to date and on preferably on a daily basis and that's what we're working towards that coverage nor their will that means that at a press briefing for the moment we will keep listening here at al-jazeera and we'll bring you were anything newsworthy to come out of that press briefing as and when it happens in the meantime let's get some analysis on what we've heard there the office for business responsibility in the u.k. the o.b. odd that the chance that she saw not was referring to that said that the u.k.'s economy could shrink by as much as 35 percent because of the pandemic charley the chancellor says ah but sorry the times though says ah but exactly well what he was saying is that the country

wasn't. having come true then a very strong position before we entered this crisis and the office of budget responsibility is saying that it could bounce back quickly that 35 percent would be a contraction in the 2nd quarter but it would be a massive contraction bigger than after the spanish flu bigger than off the world war one bigger than off the world war 2 so credibly significant for this country. he is also caveating that o.b. our prediction saying that this is just a possible scenario it is not a full cost and the overall prediction is based on a 3 month full lockdown followed by a 3 month partial lockdown and that's not what the government has announced although it's not outside the realms of possibility because the government has said that 12 months of varying levels of social distancing could be put in place but yes

. there's been a lot of concern about these very stark predictions for the u.k. economy not only that 35 percent contraction but also a prediction that unemployment rates could rise by 2000000 up today we're standing at one point $3000000.00 so that's more than a doubling of the unemployment rate and what the ib are saying the longer these knockdown measures are in place the more scars there will be to the economy the more businesses will close that cannot reopen the more investments will be pulled back from being made and the further away those unemployed people will get from being able to return to the job market system very worrying figures that today that the chancellor with can't push back against but they are not outside the realms of possibility as i said but after another. big rise in the number of. deaths in the

last 24 hours in the u.k. we got a hint there of the controversy that that is brewing over how the u.k. reports its statistics on the number of deaths public health england's director yvon doyle there answering a journalist's questions about about the reporting of the stats the figures that we're getting every day from the u.k. a barely deaths registered in hospital is that right. yes so that daily figure today of 778 is the number of deaths that have been reported in n.h.s. hospitals over the last 24 hours they're not even necessarily the number of deaths that have happened in the last 24 hours because there's often a lot of a few days sometimes even a week that figure does not include any deaths that happen in the community no deaths that happen in care homes or retirement homes on like for example from and the office of national statistics has come out with some of those figures today and

it looks like the disparity could be as much as 15 percent now that would give us a very different picture of where we are in the car sees me that it comes down to study that would give us a very different idea of where we actually are in the curve at the moment at the moment the government is saying we're about 10 days off the peak but if those figures were to include the number of deaths in the community it could spell out a very different picture charley many many thanks indeed we'll let you go and deal with charley and so that reporting live from home here about a sara many thanks indeed the international monetary fund says the coronavirus pandemic will cost the world's economies $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years the warning comes as countries around the world face prolonged lock downs as they try to contain the outbreak the i.m.f. chief economist says it's the worst economic shock since the great depression of the 18 thirty's flattening the spread of coal with 19 using lock downs

allows health systems to cope with this crises which then prove permits a resumption of economic activity. in the sense there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods. countries should continue to continue to generously support their health systems perform widespread testing and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies gareth leather is a senior economist at capital economics in london he says the economic shock is unprecedented what you probably see is the global economy probably shrink maybe 10 percent this quarter but as the shutdowns are unlucky you will initially at least get a very strong rebound as shops and factories are reopened but i think then the global economy will start to face a number of headwinds in the form of very weak demand lots of companies have gone

bust through this unemployment is low and all of that will drag on global growth as well some sectors for example recently tourism are going to take a very long time dietrick you will get this initial pass back in economic activity shocks and so on are opened up but straight after that i think he's going to run into a lot of headwinds in terms of the kind of the drac that's going to come from all the big shock that's happened over the past quarter in terms of bankruptcies and terms of lost jobs and that is going to weigh quite heavily on demand and that is why governments and central banks in stepping up stimulus to try and give the economy this extra boost when it comes out of this shock this induced by these shutdowns when as if that economic news wasn't bad enough the world's airlines stand to lose more than $300000000000.00 in revenue this year that's a least forecast from the industry industry's representative body i.r.c. carriers of grounded planes and crew of a growing number of travel restrictions and border closures let's bring you up to

date on some developments throughout europe on tuesday spain has reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly a month bringing hope that the infection rate there is slowing authorities reported a further $567.00 deaths on tuesday pushing the total past $18000.00. thousands of shops across australia a reopening as the government there loosens its lock down measures authorities say that it's the 1st phase of a gradual process to restart the economy austria's strict social distancing rules will remain in place russia has reported another record daily rise in new infections with more than 2700 on tuesday the government says 170 russians have died but the total number of cases more than 21000 new york's governor has called for more cooperation from u.s. president donald trump that's off to trump said that he alone has the total authority to decide when the economy reopens and said that's not accurate and the

trump is trying to start a fight the president will have no fight with me i will not engage it i've sat here every day for 44 years asking new yorkers to remember that this is not about me it's about we i understand your personally can inconvenience i understand you're frustrated and stressed and anxious and you're feeling pain think about week think about get it get past yourself and think about society and think about your family think about interconnection and act responsibly for everyone else this is no time for politics and it is no time to fight. south korea is sending thousands of testing kits to the u.s. following an appeal by president trump the kids are capable of up to 600000 tests trumpet ministrations come under repeated criticism for not testing early enough of

the more than $23000.00 deaths in the us. health authorities in beijing have approved 3 experimental vaccines for testing on humans but experts say that there are dangers in rushing ahead with any potential solution jessica washington reports . every day there's a new frontline in the fight against covered 19 this outbreak is seemingly unrelenting and many countries that had appeared to slow down the transmission of corona virus are now facing the prospect of a 2nd wave of infections in sway from her a chinese town bordering russia medics are preparing for cases to increase sharply and are taking precautions even though i think one of mirthful of even when the door is closed it becomes a confined space and this machine will extract this is called negative pressure chinese cities near the border with russia tightening restrictions strict border controls are now a reality for almost every corner of the world experts say the only chance of life

returning to normal is a vaccine and authorities in beijing say they've now approved a clinical testing for 3 vaccines and they're working swiftly to make them a reality for me john believe them by really all the young far we will make if it's to do a good job in developing these vaccines so they can be used as quickly as possible like china in the u.s. the 1st human trial of a vaccine has also skipped animal testing but experts say that could be risky when you got 70 people working on so many different vaccines everyone is going to compete and say there's going to be the best you rush a vaccine too much and you get side effects and that's going to have a deleterious effect. while trials are happening at a rapid pace the world health organization says the vaccine is at least 12 to 18 months away jessica washington al-jazeera uganda has extended its strict blocked measures by

a further 3 weeks president yarima 70 says the country isn't get free of the virus uganda closed its borders and banned international flights a day after the 1st case was identified so far have been 54 confirmed cases in iran the daily death toll has dropped below $100.00 for the 1st time in a month reported $98.00 new deaths bringing the total down to over $4600.00 over the last few days the government has been easing restrictions allowing businesses to reopen and some travel to resume it's the hardest hit patient in the middle east with all the $75000.00 infections turkey will release tens of thousands of prisoners as part of measures to stop the virus spreading their parliament approved the law earlier on tuesday but rights groups have criticized the move saying that detainees charged under anti-terrorism laws are not included. south korea is preparing to hold a national election its 1st since the outbreak began despite the health risks there

are indications that the pandemic won't deter people from voting bride reports from song. how to hold an election at a time of pandemic carefully in a country already following strict preventive measures extra precautions are in force at polling stations this was early voting last week that had a record turnout including among coronavirus patients who were provided with their own polling stations but. after learning i can vote i feel very grateful that patients like myself were given a chance to vote. this polling station was in the country's most densely populated province around the capital seoul. and you can ask patients to give up their right to van but we also can't let them vote with regular citizens so we set up this facility so that patients can van't casting his vote early president. before this

outbreak he was struggling in the opinion polls with poor economic performance domestic political scandals and a stalled reconciliation policy with north korea in the early days of the crisis the spiraling number of infections combined with moon's refusal to ban people arriving from china meant his approval rating plummeted further to 41 percent but as the outbreak has been brought under control so his fortunes have improved with more than half of south koreans now believing he's done a good job that could see a boost for the ruling party and its allies the popularity of the president has been surge and the ruling party can really pin you banging on the surge in popularity of the e.u. directive branch of the government and the effective management of the situation in this new. reality there are new norms for how candid it's campaign balancing the need to connect with voters with

a more pressing need for safety. because candidates still have to publicize themselves and meet voters we had the idea of wearing clear face masks instead of ones that hide your entire face it seems stark contrast to the more exuberant style of campaigning that south koreans are used to. but as south korea has been providing other countries with lessons on how to deal with the pandemic it's also giving pointers on how to hold events like elections in the middle of one robot bride al-jazeera so in hospitals across canada many organ transplants and other surgeries have been put on hold to give priority to patients with covert 19 doctors say the delays and only frustrating but dangerous journey a lack reports from toronto. distress call and just t.v. in tehran today. 15 year old to leah allie needs a double lung transplant she was told to prepare for surgery earlier this month but

because of covert 19 most transplants are on hold to leah and her mother lisa are sheltering at home determined to stay healthy well i had to kind of keep my son about well just as much as she's in the novel because i'm her primary caregiver so . for him and her medication all that stuff that's my job operations like to lives have been delayed because the risk of her getting cold at 19 with a suppressed immune system is simply too high cases like this mean lungs that someone else had agreed to donate before they died cannot be used current technology allows us to preserve and fav an organ for about 24 hours there is no technology existing that would allow us a phrase that are going down for a month or something until the. feds say those arguments are gone and lost them

a different challenge faces kidney patient paris's scanned and a graphic designer and photographer he'll get a new kidney from someone who's still alive what's known as a living donation but these operations are also suspended he needs twice weekly dialysis but that means traveling outside his home risking infection and i don't want to complain too much because i am lucky enough to. my family somebody to do is offering to give. so that that is really. you know most of the people he's not as lucky already some 200 canadians die each year awaiting organ transplants depend demick will certainly lengthen that list what we're trying to do that again you know we're just trying to balance the breath and the band and try to try to do what's best for them at a very heartbreaking. the only way to restore hope for people like parents is scanned into leah alley and others is to bring the pandemic under control so

medical staff can begin helping patients with conditions other than cold 19 daniel like al-jazeera toronto and libya the un recognized government has recaptured 7 towns that were under the control of khalifa haftar promised a 5 stars says his forces will continue their advance after us forces have pulled back to an airbase in the southwest. surrogates have you with us hope you're ok adrian for going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the international monetary fund says that the coronavirus pandemic will cost the world's economies $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years the warning comes as countries around the world face prolonged lockdowns flattening the spread of coal with 19 using lockdowns allows health systems to cope with this crises which then prove permits

a resumption of economic activity. in the sense there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods countries should continue to continue to generously support their health systems perform whites protesting and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies the world's airlines stand to lose more than $300000000000.00 in revenue this year of us the latest forecast from the industry's representative body i asked that. the u.k.'s finance minister said there's not a tradeoff between people's health and the economic well being of the country that's after forecasters predicted that the economy could shrink by 35 percent over the next 3 months. russia has reported another record daily rise in new infections with more than $2700.00 reported on tuesday the government says $170.00 russians have died with the total number of cases of known cases now more than $21000.00

thousands of shops across austria reopening as the government loosens its lockdown measures authorities say it's the 1st phase of a gradual process to restart the economy in austria strict social distancing rules will remain in place uganda has extended its strict lockdown measures by another 3 weeks it's closed its borders and banned international flights did that the day after the 1st case where there was identified so far have been 54 confirmed cases turkey has to release tens of thousands of prisoners as part of measures to stop the virus spreading the parliament approved the law earlier on tuesday but rights groups have criticized the move saying detainees charged on the anti terrorism laws aren't included those the headlines next up here on al-jazeera its rewind.

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