a relief to tell the real story so i'll just men be used to deliver in-depth journalism we don't. go to look. like. a dramatic change in china's economic fortunes as it's revealed hundreds more died in the original epicenter of the corona virus outbreak. on the u.s. president's prescription for getting the world's biggest economy up and running but more doubts on whether it's realistic you. know again i missed on the a tape and this is al jazeera live from doha with all the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic including with infection rates falling germany says it now has

the outbreak under control. a future that's up in the air a bailout plan to keep a strain airlines flying but is that enough money. grow and control to me. and top tips from a former astronaut on how to come to grips with life in isolation. alarming new numbers are showing the strain of the coronavirus pandemic on the world's 2 biggest economies there is increasing doubt about the u.s. president's 2 week deadline for getting businesses back up and running and that he states 22000000 americans have made jobless claims just in the past month numbers not seen since the great depression of the 1930 s. and china's gross domestic product has plummeted by almost 7 percent in the 1st quarter that's the sharpest for. all since it opened up to the world 40 years ago

and there's been a big rise in the death toll in the original epicenter of the outbreak 50 percent more people died than was previously reported the city's total is now said to be 3869 while katrina you has more from beijing and she told me how these numbers have sophist. well they've stopped short of admitting that these numbers were wrong but they've said that during this epidemic the health system the government include a province in was overwhelmed and they'd simply did not have the capacity to look into this and now that the infections of eased and a lot of restrictions have eased they now have the ability to undertake what they've called a comprehensive review into the situation and so we've seen a jump in the death toll figures quite significant jump to they revised upwards to by 1219 deaths now that's about 50 percent higher than what we had

before and that brings the national death toll from the current a virus to 4632 and the reason that they've given for this is that there were inconsistent season in accuracies with reporting from a few of the hospitals in the city that at the beginning when the system was overwhelmed there was some people who passed away with up properly being diagnosed there were also many people who died in their horns and so now they've been able to look back counts all of that also look at the big darty coming from funeral homes etc and they've come up with this new figure so how is the state actually trying to support businesses now so far the government has resisted any blanket stimulus measures it's had more targeted. the methods to really deal with this economically we've seen bank interest rate cuts tax breaks cheap loans for businesses and subsidies and they're all they've also resulted to giving spending coupons to some of the consumers here in china but whether it's going to be enough to not well most

analysts think warrant be the 6.8 percent plunge year on year is unprecedented i mean for almost half a century china's economic growth seemed steady rapid and you know not even the global financial crisis or the sols epidemic saw this kind of. produce this kind of faltering and to just unpack that figure a bit more manufacturing investment was down 25 percent year on year infrastructure investment down 20 percent and the retail spending down 19 percent which is really key because this is an economy which is really reliant on its domestic consumption now that the outbreak there has started to ease here in china a local infection seem to be down the government is doing all it can to get its economy back on line so factories are back in production and businesses have resumed operation but to 4 weeks this country was at

a standstill and there are many companies and especially small and medium sized businesses that are really struggling to survive this period but there is an optimistic note from the international monetary fund it says that china's economy will recover quickly. the international monetary fund forecasts china's economic growth will rebound to 9.2 percent and 2021 becoming the largest economy and the fastest recovery rate among the g. 20 economies it shows its confidence in the long term development of the chinese economy since china takes the lead in epidemic control and economic recovery among the world's major economies china's practice will undoubtedly provide valuable experience to other countries well now to the problems in the united states where the president has a chester that some states could reopen for business within weeks but as covered 19 keep spreading the democratic house speaker nancy pelosi says more testing is needed and got a good reports it's what president donald trump calls

a science based plan to get the united states back on its feet he's issued guidelines in 3 phases that advise each state when they can begin to reopen and what doctors say will be the new normal america wants to be open and americans want to be open. as i have said for some time now a national shutdown is not a sustainable long term solution. to preserve the health of our citizens we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy over the long haul the 1st phase calls for social distancing and for schools and businesses to remain closed but some larger venues including restaurants and movie theaters could reopen if states see a steady decline in coronavirus cases they can move to phase 2 in which schools some businesses including bars could open big gatherings remain limited the 3rd

phase will allow workers to go back to their jobs and for at risk people to continue to take precautions we took the greatest economy. in the history of the world and we've closed it in order to win this war and we're in the process of winning it now our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our economic life we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi called the plan vague an inconsistent citing concerns over the need for rapid testing oh the corona virus has taken a harsh toll on the u.s. more than 30000 people have died and there have been over 600000 confirmed cases 22000000 people are now out of work wiping out a decade of job growth president trump says the u.s. will be back and greater than ever but this is a delicate process that comes down to a state by state county by county basis some states manta phase one as early as

friday others face a far longer slog business leaders governors and scientists warn a shortfall in testing could hamper efforts to reopen the country that decision now lies with each state's governor in some states coronavirus case is a yet to peak and as a risk of the virus making a comeback in the months ahead personal protection equipment for health workers is still in short supply but even if you are in phase 123 it's not ok game over it's not it's going to be a way that we protect ourselves because as we know and as i've said from this podium it may very well be as we go the cycle around that they'll be this virus that once the compact to us i think we're going to be able to handle this is a cautious approach to reopen the world's largest economy something president trump has long wanted to do the challenges for each state a huge the dangers of making the wrong decision now crucial and as yet there's

still no vaccine and a gallica al-jazeera. well bob on it as a medical doctor and john asked and he says reopening the u.s. economy without widespread testing is risky if you look in china and who had problems their success was they came up they hit a peak and that's where you are right now they didn't succeed until they had a rigorous contact case tracey that is every single positive was traced and all their contacts they were then put into quarantine what they call these camps mobile camps and then they had a decline to 0 we're taking a big chance at opening back up full flat out we still have you know massive numbers of infections many dead every single day so there's no question it's a real risk to start back up that said you know i work with dr foushee since 9831 of the very best infectious disease people on the planet they've done a good job but the key point is this you've got to have the test it's called an

antibody test to show who has the virus or who had the virus and very rigorous contect case tracy so you have 25000 people from the u.s. census and then others about 500 or so from the peace corps that they're going to use to go door to door to door to find these cases they'll use emergency rooms so if for any optics but it's risky you know kids are the biggest carriers of the disease you know asymptomatic carriers are going to bring it to their parents and their grandparents and until we have the advent of what i would call a bio security industry much like we had a security industry after a 2001 with much more sophisticated testing in monitoring it's really going to be trial and error and the errors are going to result unfortunately in more deaths. well germany's health minister has declared the pandemic that is again under control he says the success is the result of a month long lockdown in response to an cases germany has the 4th highest number of

cases in europe behind spain italy and france well let's go straight now to correspondent john mccain he's in ballin for us dominic and america has also been laying out a blueprint for a very gradual reopening of the country with which in itself comes with risk so how confident is the government really that this is under control. that quietly confident and that culture asli confident mistrust of that would be the way to describe the way that the spawn was speaking to the press today he's saying what he's saying based on evidence the robert cock institute which is the institute which is comparable to the johns hopkins it's just were in the united states which has been compiling the data tabulating the data says now that it believes that the reproduction right the on norks the scientists talk about in so far as viruses and disease such as these are concerned they say that that's not that number is now substantially below 1.7 is the rates that they're all the cock institute says that is what that means is that each person who has it is passing it

on to fewer than one person as it were and so the government is looking at statistics like that and says ok we believe we have this now in a situation where we aren't going to be able to control it i think it would be too precipitous that for us to say now they're saying yes it's done it's dealt with they're not saying that what they're doing is cautiously confidently saying the measures we've put in place all working and they will and work is obviously the thing that really matters because they want this economy the biggest in in europe not to suffer anymore but it absolutely has to because remember also that the projections for this quarter alone of of the german economy might shrink by 10 percent or close to 10 percent it makes no difference that's why next week so the shops and stores and other enterprises can reopen that's why schools will stocks to reopen again across the whole country on the 4th of may so that's what's emerging

today they look at the data from all the testing they need 2000000 tests in germany up to yesterday and the number of beds places they have and they say we believe we can control some gagne's that dominant cane there for us and that and thank you donna. well there isn't more coverage ahead on al-jazeera. the paramedics risking their lives on the frontline of latin america's biggest coronavirus outbreak. how the summer rain really does that really is spreading naff wide from java right up to the southeast asian mainland but those showers are many weather still showing up in as fast as his job and the pretty deep ones are pretty sharp one same is true

in borneo other than creeping up into the southern part of the philippines and also there in vietnam and cambodia and thailand they're not a reliable daily feature just yet though they are still pretty regular down in sumatra and still in jakarta as possibility but if you take out the southern philippines devour for example this rain for the next 3 days monday tuesday russia will go beyond the weekend if you like it's a steady change to a wet a type. office season and we've got the winter fronts coming through the by now which tend to curl up at the moment and head down towards new zealand so the weather in new zealand on sunday the west and windy picture in australia not so passing rain is like in adelaide you've got the teens here in melbourne it's not woman hobart at 14 but sydney's a $23.00 and perth is also $23.00 despite a fairly stiff breeze coming in from the south not cloud running through bringing rain at 1st with a sunnier often a very different i'm afraid in the tropics of queensland.

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ok and i'm just on the attack and a reminder of our top stories this hour. has been the sharpest for all in china's economy for decades following its battle with coronavirus its g.d.p. is down by nearly 7 percent in the 1st quarter of this year the government now says 50 percent more people than previously reported died in. prison donald trump has unveiled guidelines to reopen the u.s. economy but it will be up to governors to decide when to ease lock downs in their own states $22000000.00 americans have made jobless claims just in the past month. and germany's health minister has declared the pandemic is again under control he says the success is a result of a month long lockdown in response to a case of. brazilian president diable sonar has fired his health minister they've been trashing for weeks on how to handle the corona virus outbreak the president has repeatedly played down the risk calling it

a little flu and opposing social distancing advice the former health minister pushed for w.h.y. guidelines to be put in place brazil has latin america's west outbreak with nearly 2000 reported deaths al-jazeera is has some mustard is in sao paolo and he says the pair were giving the public conflicting messages. the president decided to move monday from his position and this is because of the disagreements between the president and the men there especially about socialization and quite entirely and here in brazil since the brazilian presidency was not a wants to return to life the normal life here in brazil he wants and support that idea of vertical isolation another has until as a lation he think that the only and the people that they are in danger must stay at

home at home must be isolated but all the other people must return to work normally here in brazil and this was the main issue that the former minister recently came on that i didn't accept at all and he said the brazil must obey and follow what the h. always said about the strategies that brazil and all of the countries. and as and many countries helped work as and putting themselves at risk by battling this pandemic al-jazeera joined a team of paramedics palla and i know repeller has the story. from this operations room the fight against corona virus begins here emergency services receive calls from families of victims and cases are prioritized by severe to. keep repeating we have nurses to receive calls provide directions and the says

a severity and in a case we find a suspected case of coronavirus we will send the ambulance team directly. the team moves after receiving a dispatch every safety precaution is taking. coming in such close contact with the cope with 19 patients means an increased risk of infection. the tension is high inside this mobile intensive care unit supervised by a doctor i'll make them more humane to the cause of increased a lot and we deal with all suspected cases with great caution there are a large number of medical workers who have already been infected by the virus including my friend who was a nurse and had died a few days ago. after handing over the patient the team begins the process of disinfecting the ambulance but she quipped if you put it in the infected patient may have left a trace of the virus in the ambulance so we will immediately go to the base to disinfect and sterilize everything. the team returns to the dispatch center and

prepared to go on the next mission the work doesn't stop here there is a phrase written on their vehicle together ready to deal with cope with 1000. and while many health workers on the front line of this pandemic are being applauded around the wild others are becoming the targets of abuse in chile there are increasing reports of discrimination and attacks by people afraid they might infect them out latin america editor thin human reports from santiago. health care workers are a godsend during a medical emergency but for a chilean ambulance driver. it no longer seems to feel that way. now and some people say yes they. need to they should realize we are families too and we're doing oregon to stay healthy at this hospital as in so many others medical personnel are working at their own peril without sufficient personal

protection acquit but as this pandemic spreads so too did the cases of paris and even a small it's against them fanned by one of the most basic human instincts and that is fear. this circular says medical personnel living in our condominium or forbidding from using the lifts and public areas failure to comply will result in having their electricity water and gas cut off in the other building and health worker found this message we know you work for the red cross don't come home the state has special places for you don't come back again. hospital nutritionist sonia farrar has been harassed and threatened on the social networks ever since she was suspected of having called coronavirus 3 weeks ago. i don't know if i need to get a restraining order there's a person who's threatening to hit me if she sees me but the health ministry calls the ongoing cases of discrimination against health workers appalling and. that we

should be grateful to them i've asked that this cases be reported as a breach of the law. and it's not just in chile from argentina to mexico and way beyond cases. discrimination against medical personnel are on the rise xico city hospital intern ist allen goodness has started wearing his street clothes rather than his uniform when he can't get a lift to work. when i try to take the bus the driver closes the door in my face when he sees i'm a doctor and there are even worse forms of aggression of. reports of medical staff being attacked or having bleach thrown at them are becoming more common dr pamela explains it's not rational the hostility or the anger really comes from underlying fear and frustration because we're fighting something we know disability or not this pandemic is revealing not just the positives but also some of the more ugly

aspects of human nature. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. 2 of a strain is biggest airlines are getting bail up money to maintain domestic flights over the next $8.00 weeks quantas and virgin australia will receive $105000000.00 from the government to keep flying critical metropolitan and regional routes and the airlines say the money is not enough virgin australia source nearly $900000000.00 but announcing the deal the deputy prime minister says the payment which is the equivalent of 165000000 australian dollars would be invaluable for the movement of people and medical equipment across the country. today's $165000000.00 announcement is going to mike the world of difference for those commuters who've come in from overseas done the 14 days of coron saying let me tell you if i landed in sydney and required to get back to perth with very limited services available

it's a long drop in a hot car over the knob or inside that's going to mike a difference for them it's also of course going to have in those planes defense personal medical personnel but most importantly is will people and medical equipment. nicholas cage is in sydney and its planes why the funds a particular important event in australia the jonas trail ia suspended trading in its shares on thursday and it has only been running one fly around the country its each day because it hasn't been able to afford any more and the australian government has stepped in so it will be paying for it quantas and virgin astroid leah up to $105000000.00 to keep these essential flight routes always been across the country sorry work is in essential jobs and you need to be flying around can reach those jobs now this money will be in place to keep flights off

racing for the next 8 weeks the big question is what will happen after that surgeon a strong leader is no doubt in a lot of fun to drive there have been reports that some private companies could be stepping in but of course a monopoly in the airline industry is something that no one wants the prime minister scott morrison has been very clear that not insane is a fight of the health side and also the economy so it's hoping that if we open up some of these flights into the future we might be able to help bring some of those jobs back and help the economy in a stronger. now nearly a quarter of myanmar's prisoners are being released as part of a traditional new year amnesty as you can see large crowds gathered outside this prison and yangon despite private 19 restrictions a spokesman for the prisons department says the release of nearly 25000 inmates is not linked to concerns over the virus but human rights watch has called on the

government to reduce prison and numbers to prevent a spread of the outbreak or government workers in bangladesh have held a protest over unpaid wages hundreds blocked a road outside a factory demanding their salaries textile manufacturers in bangladesh account for 85 percent of exports and employee 4000000 people but international orders have dried up because of the pandemic. and pray is true slim's aqsa mosque being suspended for the islamic holy month of ramadan the council that oversees the site says the compound will be closed to worship is because of the pandemic there's been a ban on islamic prayers at the site known to muslims as the noble sanctuary and to jews of the temple mount since late march. and russia has reported an extra $4000.00 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours bringing its total close 228000 the government says $232.00 people have died there is

a partial economic shutdown in place until the end of the month and of votes on amendments to the constitution has also been postponed now people in moscow who want to use the metro need to apply for a pos which list said destination and their reason for travel. well a former canadian astronaut who commanded the international space station for several months has self isolation advice to people millions have been watching colonel chris hadfield's you tube videos recorded in his home west of toronto that you know that has no. ground control to me. famous for performing david bowie's space oddity in space and for being perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever chris hadfield is reaching out to those of us grounded by social isolation. his 3 missions in earth orbit including command of the international space station in 2013 taught him to cope

with months and months of separation from almost everyone else on the planet while for the 1st time maybe in living memory for most we find ourselves globally in a position fear and isolation physical isolation. and that's that's not the way most people normally live but if you think about the life of an astronaut they live in a dangerous place that is extremely isolated and thrives and you know really do well succeed and love the life it's all about being prepared mentally hadfield says that's what astronauts must do from the moment they start training for blastoff until fiery reentry and splash down or being stuck at home with a dangerous disease outside isn't all that different he says so give yourself a list of stuff to do understand your own constraints deal with the danger and then take action i think it's a really productive and healthy way to fly

a spaceship but it's also a productive and healthy way to get through this with literally billions and many countries locked down in their homes hadfield is hoping his advice can help them through what could be months of separation from almost everyone else in an effort to avoid infection and especially protect the most vulnerable i think it helped so i prepared for danger and isolation most of my adult life and and it's the same here if you just look at this is ok it's just another day i've just got a different set of options and you know i'm still alive and there's stuff that do it let's let's just get at it you have to be an optimist fire rocket ship but you also have to be a very practical realist and often those 2 things go together. as a man with many months in space behind him chris hadfield is urging us to think like astronauts in a mission to be he killed here and well informed as this pandemic runs its course

then you learn to rancho. and all extra precautions were also in place as a u.s. and russian crew safely arrived back from the international space station to what they say is a much changed they landed in kazakhstan after spending more than 200 days in orbit the recovery team assigned to help the crew out of their capsule has been under close medical observation for nearly a month including coronavirus test. hello again mrs al jazeera and these are the headlines china's economy has suffered its largest fall in decades amid the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic g.d.p. is down by nearly 7 percent in the 1st quarter of this year the government says 50 percent more people than previously reported have died in the city where the outbreak began katrina you has more from beijing so far the government has resisted

any blanket stimulus measures it's had more targeted. methods to really deal with this economically we've seen bank interest rate cuts tax breaks cheap loans to businesses and subsidies and the role they've also resulted to giving spending coupons to some of the consumers here in china but whether it's going to be enough and not well most analysts think it warnt be this 6.8 percent plunge year on year is unprecedented. president and trump has unveiled guidelines to reopen the u.s. economy as it continues to reel from the pandemic but it will be up to governors to decide when to ease lock downs in their own states 22000000 americans have made jobless claims in the past month germany's health minister has declared the plan the pandemic that is again under control he says the success is the result of a month long lockdown in response to an cases germany has the 4th highest number of

cases in europe behind spain italy and france brazilian president john abell sonora has fired his health minister they have clashed for weeks i have a house to handle the corona virus outbreak brazil has last in america's west down break with nearly 2000 reported deaths bailout money is being given to straight is biggest airlines to maintain domestic flights over the next 8 weeks quantas and virgin australia will receive one $105000000.00 the airlines say the money isn't enough virgin australia requested nearly $900000000.00 from the government. nearly a core set of mammals prisoners are being released as part of a traditional new yes amnesty boss a spokesman for the president's department to deny is the release of nearly 25000 inmates is linked to the 19 well those are the headlines next up it's what i want to talk to al jazeera we know this what you will force with when you saw that

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