experts on the island's health system draw different conclusions are you making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. because there are other people the people that are sick and dying and that isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. the world health organization warns africa could become the next epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic. and i'm glad this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up relatives around europe demanding answers over the deaths of corona virus victims in care homes. and the full picture china reveals the death toll in the epicenter was much larger but denies any cover up. and wildfires rage near the site of the world's worst nuclear

accident causing pollution levels to soar. so the world health organization is warning that africa could become the next center of the corona virus outbreak so far there have been fewer than a fouls and deaths from cave in 1000 across the continent which is a much lower rate than in the u.s. and in europe the united nations says it's likely the pandemic will kill it leaves 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly $30000000.00 into poverty a u.n. secretary general intended to terrorism and said africa needs more than $200000000000.00 to combat the virus the w.h.o. fears the death toll could already be far higher in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa. and a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does with the current challenge of

obtaining testing kits it's likely that the real numbers are higher than reported. who is an m.p. di meola just a professor at mercy college joins us on skype from in new york welcome to the program this morning from w.h.o. about numbers being much higher at the moment we're talking about 20000 cases across the continent and less than $1000.00 deaths which it all sounds very low doesn't it. so indeed there u.n. estimate of 300000 cases been severe a good picture of what we can expect to see in the coming months on what's the doomsday picture and why i'm inclined to say it can prove a not a gross overestimation this exaggeration seems to be more plausible given that we know that this virus is highly transmissible and highly and leaped on and the

perfect set of bacteria for our susceptibility and spread exists in most of the african countries so any foot hole of this virus in any country it's likely to be met with the next notion. what are those factors that you're talking about. well hi i'm ari a week help here infrastructure and that we like to see also the perfect enemy of public health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries they have a card to rise by overcrowding it's actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as to poor health care infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are

diseases such as tuberculosis aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore can fewer and lead death be done it and lead to serious disease and death so it's a perfect recipe to drive an epidemic and lead to explosion so i can understand the concern of the u.n. here right so 300 deaths could be a very real number one of can be done what can the world do to try and mitigate this and absence of a vaccine and any specific treatment when it comes to infectious diseases struck the centuries it has been behavioral interventions as we're seeing now and it's troubling because even in developed countries it's a challenge you can imagine in countries that have much less resources so to answer

your question directly we need to continue to focus on the behavioral interventions social distancing in particular how feasible is social distancing in some parts of africa that it's question that given overcrowding and some in some of the slum areas of africa so this is going to prove a huge challenge. russia has had a great to get your perspective on this day appreciate it very important thanks very much indeed rusty has had there from mercy college in new york thank you. the number of deaths from the corona virus is continuing to rise throughout europe but there are concerns that the official figures they're also far too low as they do not include victims in care homes and he barbara has this report. disinfecting a nursing home in bergen in lombardy the region at the center of italy's copeck $900.00 outbreak these pictures show russian military doctors helping out their italian colleagues but

a scandal now surrounds italy's largest nursing home in nearby milan where at least 143 people have died since the beginning of march families of residents there are demanding answers following reports medical staff was stopped from using protective gear prosecutors are now investigating that facility and more than a dozen others italy's officially recorded over 22000 coronavirus deaths but most care deaths are not included in some doctors suspect the real figure could be twice as high. in spain the government ordered the 17 autonomous regions to unify their criteria on counting the dead the official tolls stands at almost 20000 but it doesn't take into account the deaths of people who had covered going to the symptoms but were not tested including thousands of people in care homes i think. meanwhile in germany joe batiks footage has emerged along with hope he was here medics who resuscitated a coronavirus patient transport him by helicopter to

a special isolation chamber nationally new figures show the number of people infected by every person who called 19 has fallen from $1.00 to 0.7 in just a few days meaning transmission is slowing markedly germany has the world's 5th highest caseload but has kept fatalities relatively low thanks to early and extensive testing that was caucus time toit or the outbreak has as of today become controllable and manageable again i believe the very encouraging figure is also that as of the 12 of april more people recover and get infected we currently have more than 80000 people who are recovered out of some 130000 who got infected based on figures from the robert caution to choose its. while in portugal where the death toll is lower than 700 parliament has approved the president's request to extend the national state of emergency for another fortnight but it will be as the president extension of the state of emergency set in such a way to give it time and room for the government to decide and criteria to study

and prepare for the gradual opening of society and the economy after the end of april over in belgium they've also extended restrictive measures for 2 weeks in the capital brussels as part of a europe wide initiative to head shepherd up market restaurant conscious work has been cooking meals to give to hundreds of homeless 'd people there not the regular dishes that cost up to $300.00 but they're welcome a small sign of how people are trying to make a difference and trying to cope with life under lockdown the dean barber al-jazeera . or doctors and nurses in the united kingdom being asked to reuse some personal protective equipment when treating over 1000 patients the updated guidance from public health england comes as hospitals warn it is running out of protective clothing it's prompting concerns that the move could lead to more health workers becoming infected our diplomatic editor james base has more from the united nations on the challenges of getting the right kit. including the u.s. including the u.k.

those are 2 of the richest countries on earth where this certainly is not over yet it may have reached a peak it may have reached a plateau but still they're running out of supplies for example and in the u.k. they believe they're going to run out of gallons potentially over this weekend that's a real worry there now if you cannot find these sort of supplies all of the protective equipment but also what you need to carry out the testing if you cannot find that in 2 g. 7 countries the u.k. and the us the richest countries on earth then what hope of some of the other countries that are much further down the list in terms of their global wealth and in terms of the sophistication of their medical systems so yes real real worries obviously potentially one of the things that is good about the way this virus is spread is because people in richer countries tend to travel more it seems to

a spread 1st in the developed world but the developed world is really struggling what hope for the developing world what help for africa what hope for places in the middle east the war zones in the middle east what help your syrian refugee if you're living in yemen if you're living in libya very very worrying times to china now which is facing renewed criticism over its handling of the pandemic after it revised its official death toll in the city where the outbreak began nearly $1300.00 more fatalities were added to the tally and $150.00 which is a 50 percent increase official blamed late reporting by some medical institutions and the fact that some patients died at home beijing has dismissed claims of a cover up well we've got a been getting a range of reaction about the revised numbers and the diplomatic fallout. real issue that get countries in europe and north america angry about china is why the chinese government misled the world at early at stake and then engage in

a very aggressive public and their campaign to distort the truth and in using the ever the ability or question who production equipment to support chinese diplomacy these are the issues that get people angry so changes that is now it's not going to change their opinion i think relationship will get a bit more tense when the mate is under control i don't think you're trying this government at the moment is to concerned about what countries in europe or the united states ace may do in terms of me viewing their china policy initiation is already being seen by the chinese communist being very hostile to china anyway and they always believe that european countries including united kingdom will ultimately be weak on china that we will

be thinking 1st and foremost about the economic relationship with china what again about a core values that we or treasure in europe and united kingdom. even though it appears like any religion on the surface and it is it's a small religion ethnic and baby what we think the numbers really up what we saw in the 2 degrees in italy. and the death rate they come to get it became apparent and are increasing in paris how suspect times numbers were now their reason or vision has been done or that only independent groups meets or director has no way to actually verify these have no independent access those these are only gets the biggies and know none of it was there and out so it just encourages not magic change methodology as we know him china originally if you died without a test will mean you weren't counted as a cricket now china is not unknown even got in that kind of methodology but given

that it was in this country that then we are not particularly worried about that because it was the type of coverup that and they were biased to spread and spread and become the pandemic that we have today. there are following the fashion kenya's tailors rushed to make millions of masks after wearing them becomes law. and sold during the war veteran who's now raised around $23000000.00 to help fight coronavirus. hello there the winter weather is still very much with us across central regions of the united states is right in the forecast as well but of course it's been about this cold air plunging south and the snow that we have seen so have a look at this westminster in colorado really quite deep and of course they're

trying to keep the streets clear into denver as much as 15 centimeters has come down in 24 hours into the mountains to the west of denver the estimate about half a meter about the time this system is done now through saturday it's a better picture across the central plains how much is improving 13 celsius in denver. and thunderstorms along the south coast and then we got this big system carrying fairly quickly away from the northeast so feeling cooler certainly just 11 celsius in new york and then sunday it's a better day up into the northeast we could see some lake effect snow around the lakes pushing up into eastern as a candidate look at this mass of blue across much of the south in the southeast now again this could mean the arrival of some severe thunderstorms a with a threat of tornadoes a very warm air in place we'll keep an eye on that on discussion you showers pushing on towards the 4 corners region and then she central america the caribbean mickelson showers working their way through florida down across into northern sections of the bahamas but really elsewhere calm quiet and warming cancun

a city. of. a policy imposed decades ago. goods and when he boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences you're creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have a system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree to star as a ship or money to get other people to agree to services tree houses or examines the politics of population control. to the.

well again you're watching al-jazeera reminder the top stories this hour and china is facing renewed criticism over its handling of the pandemic after revised its official death toll in the city where they operate because maybe $1300.00 more fatalities were added to the tally and city has a 50 percent increase the world health organization says coronavirus numbers are surging in africa it's been more than a 5050 percent increase in the number of reported cases and a 60 percent increase in deaths over the past week. but as we had the warning from the w.h.o. comes as textile factories and tailors in kenya scrambling to produce tens of millions of surgical masks the government has now made it compulsory to wear them in public after and soit has this report from nairobi. a few weeks ago 300 tailors at this factory in nairobi made clothes most are now on enforced leave because of the corona virus pandemic was left to workers stitching around 20000 protective

facemasks a day the government has ordered that everyone must wear proper masks when out in public or pay a fine of $200.00 it's a job of tailless across the country to make sure there's a constant supply at an affordable price the local authorities have only 35 the surgical ones but those are not very comically for philly to have if you want one of the 4 devote every day for what we came up with is the clock. a few textile companies have also been commissioned to make other past more protective equipment for health lakas but this young people in a neighborhood backyard on the outskirts of the city tallis they too can make protective of it 900 spondon they all recently lost their jobs as economy continues to suffer they've already made body suits like this one. which they've distributed to a local health center here they tell us this is an extra layer of protection. and it

all for her award. from different. parts of the country with groups. who are unmarked not official that occurring a girl standard or forewarning of some of this product. for a 4th. their walk is not yet approved by the government's bureau of standards but they hope it will be soon it's just like. anything you. can you has little experience in manufacturing medical supplies mostly realize and imports from countries like china and foreign aid hospitals have around 500 ventilators many like this a private health facility are preparing isolation units one pass and recently died of the disease. around $5000.00 public health workers are to be employed in the special units and those on the frontline will be regularly tested but some nasa say

it's not enough. to be dusted after 14 hours 14 days to ensure that. we have been raising the issues of life insurance. that has not been responded by the minister for now it's a race to have everything in place using all means available to deal with a pandemic that is causing so much distress across the walls cathy zoi al-jazeera nairobi kenya. mexico's increasingly calls to wash hands regularly with water and soap as the best defense against the current are spread tens of thousands of people in mexico city's poorest districts don't have running water in the homes. like millions of residents of mexico city. the advice of health officials trying to stay indoors though it's not always easy to quarantine when you share

a home with 13 people. the weather has been hot and to make matters worse there's a water shortage but. it can be 2 weeks without any flowing water we can go 15 days without water we can figure it out but it can be complicated to keep water reserves to hold you for 15. mean lives in. the most impoverished district of mexico city here water cops are frequent and many have been forced to adapt. when there is water pressure around a hose directly to their container then we have the clearing tablets because it water shows up dirty but by the time it comes out transparent it comes out clean. there are some $60000.00 families in this part of the mexican capital regular access to fresh water. it's the public water delivery workers. to help fill the demand. is different some people are good at saving their water.

twice a week people can get quite angry. to get the water. faced with the growing number of cases in central mexico local officials announced that an additional 250 water trucks would be deployed to help ensure that people can maintain basic hygiene but for many here access to water is only one of the many challenges they've had to face since the 1900 pandemic put daily life. they tell us to take precautions to wash our hands bacterial where are we going to get that i'm a single mother i haven't been working i have 4 teenagers to care for in my case i am desperate but there are many families that are in the same condition. until now the policy of mexico's federal government has been to inform and encourage people

to keep their hands clean and to self isolate though many in mexico might recognize the government's wash your hands gyngell it's estimated that almost 50 percent of the country's population does not have regular access to the water necessary to wash with limited upolu mexico city people living in ukraine's capital are being want to standards pollution has increased and kiev after weeks of forest fires near the chernobyl power plant site of the world's worst nuclear accident so hot has this report. strong winds made it harder to tell these new fires new ukraine's general nuclear power plant they aren't as large as those that burned here this month that's enough to push pollution levels i think you have nearly 100 kilometers away making it the most polluted capital in the world right now according to the swiss monitor i.q. . another blaze that began on april 4 was finally patel to earlier this week police arrested a 27 year old man fallston these nasa images show the huge plumes of smoke from

space wind blowing the smoke towards kevin across the border into belarus the finds are near the sites of the world's worst nuclear accident when a fire in a reactor forced tens of thousands to be evacuated from the area and so radioactive contamination spread across europe. ukrainian government insists there's no cause for concern for the forest fires because radiation levels have not spite so it was a. little stances there was no threat to the nuclear power plant spent fuel storage and other critical facilities all citizens not to panic we remember the lessons of april 26th 1906 and no one who hide the truth from the truth is that the situation is controlled the radiation background in the capital and in the care of regions is within normal limits. bounce environmental activists accuse the government of downplaying the risk of radiation and how big the fires were while forest fires are

common the so-called exclusion zone near the site greenpeace russia says this month's fires have been the worst since the 1986 nuclear accident on friday emergency services said all fires across the snowball area and neighboring regions are out but the health ministry has advised the nearly 3700000 people in kiev to keep their windows closed to stop the smoke from causing breathing difficulties and other health problems so the height of al-jazeera. now there $23000000.00 that is the incredible sum of money raised by a british man who will be 100 years old at the end of the month and the donations will be given to a charity helping health care workers fighting the united kingdom's corona virus outbreak it's made tom moore an instant celebrity but also questions about the value in funding of the country's national health service as were a challenge now reports amidst all the coronavirus gloom it could be hard to find a positive so behold this captain tom moore completing $100.00 laps of his car

most 99 year old world war 2 veterans could be forgiven for putting their feet up and taking things easy. he's wowed the u.k. and raised an astonishing amount of money for the health service. that. and to get. this. first starting it. deliberately. what may on friday he was applauded at his home by emergency service staff. but the extraordinary achievement of captain tom moore and the immense generosity and goodwill among the british public at the moment towards doctors and nurses in hospitals like this around the country it all raises a big question why does the n.h.s. need such charity. the health care academic and the to charles wirth explains that

even though the n.h.s. is tax funded it's always received donations to charity isn't all i have. shared god for children. and on the. planet. cause the n.h.s. to me. will be. ministers have certainly been keen to show their support coming out weekly to join public applause for health care as but corona virus has highlighted cracks in the system a lack of virus testing and protective equipment for medics has become a national scandal a decade of austerity means n.h.s. funding has not kept pace with demand. this is run for heroes another campaign set up to help doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus perhaps the epidemic will boost

n.h.s. funding in the long term says its young founder i don't know if our government is giving enough right now towards it and. you know i hope after this we realise the importance of the n.h.s. have because you know it's british pop that we're so lucky to have it and it's so clear from this campaign that people are so behind it and so you know the n.h.s. means so much to them. donations and approvals landmarks lit up in blue in the time of coronavirus love for the n.h.s. is a sentiment that's echoed around the country rory chalons al-jazeera london. spending months at a time in isolation is not uncommon for astronauts and not millions of people to be looking to them for advice on their lack has more from turned. around control to me your time 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 turned 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 here 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 for iraq 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 on a mission to be hopeful helpful and well informed as this pandemic runs its course then you lack al-jazeera toronto. so this is out there these are the top stories and 1st up the wealth health organization is warning africa could become the next step the center of the corona virus outbreak so far there have been fewer than a 1000 deaths from covert $1000.00 across the continent a much lower rate than in the united states and in europe the u.n. says it's like the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly $30000000.00 into poverty u.n. secretary general antonio caetera said africa needs more than $200000000000.00 to combat the virus and italian care home is under investigation after nearly $200.00

residents were found to have died since the start of the outbreak the facility in milan is suspected of concealing numerous coded 1000 fatalities since february there are fears a number of deaths from the virus in care homes in europe is far higher than originally thought china is facing renewed criticism over its handling of the pandemic after it revised its official death toll in the city where the outbreak began nearly $1300.00 more fatalities were added to the tally in woodland city a 50 percent increase officials blamed late reporting by some medical institutions and the fact that some patients died at home. new york's governor says he needs more help from the federal government with testing there's been another slight drop in people being admitted to hospital in the state. says it's too soon to be complacent he said that more testing is needed before lock down restrictions can be lifted the state is the epicenter of the outbreak in the united states and they are

still seeing more than 600 deaths a day. to ecuador now in the west the city of quite kill is really from a huge sea and it's officially around 400 people have died from corona virus in the country so far but doctors say that the number of deaths in the province is actually far higher mer of the area's largest city quite killed says that cave of 900 hit it like a bomb and overwhelmed hospitals storage whose have been forced to distribute thousands of tall order coffins and small trees could not cope if you know the kingdom has announced a new government led task force and also millions of dollars worth of funding for a coronavirus vaccine the u.k.'s business secretary says it is key for controlling the outbreak stay with headlines here and out zurich news coming up right after witness africa frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus patient failure to take really aggressive action with

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