tradition so i'm terminating this modern day due to such a daughter tree witness on al-jazeera. the hidden death toll from corona virus investigations are underway into care homes in the us canada and it's in the way it's believed thousands have died from the disease. clovis is al jazeera live from doha i'm fully back t. ball also coming up playing politics over the pandemic donald trump encourages protests against restorations in states led by democrats the world health

organization warns africa could become the next step the center for the pandemic and taking the outdoors indoors how exercise is being adapted for a more confined space. thank you for joining us in many ways they've been the forgotten victims of the corona virus pandemic but now the impact of the outbreak on elderly people living in care homes is becoming painfully apparent and as fears many deaths a still going unreported a survey in new york state has found 90 nursing homes free for to 20 or more deaths in recent weeks but the report only included a fraction of facilities in the state where the figure is believed to be in the thousands and much higher nationally in canada a nursing home in montreal's is under investigation after $31.00 deaths were uncovered. authorities found other residents dirty and unfed in their beds after

some staff fled the facility in the u.k. many deaths in care homes aren't included in official figures it's estimated they could be as high as 7500 workers have pleaded for more protective equipment to keep themselves and residents safe and in italy the military blocked off a nursing home near rome after 118 patients tested positive focal that 195 had already died while an investigation is underway at a milan nursing home where 190 people have died since the beginning of march mary louise mclaws is a professor of epidemiology and health care infection at the university of new south wales she says managing the crisis inside a care home is incredibly challenging. one of the problems in. a residential care facility is you don't want to isolate the elderly in the last few

years of their life from others however sometimes you have to do this to save their lives and then they have a problem with. people sharing rooms so how do you protect them from from each other from infection and that is a very vexed one so often the 1st port of call is where they're going to get most of the risk and that is from the stuff so to stuff need to be vigilant in their hand hygiene and be vigilant in their environmental cleaning of the nursing homes plus they probably should be wearing a mask while they have to know that it's very hard to wear a mask per shift their their hot their own comfortable so then the. the the manages all of these nursing homes should be thinking about how many hours face to face should they work because they expected to wear a mask and i know that way talking about this for our health care workers and we're

reducing the number of clinical hours so that they can wear a mask comfortably and this is a sort of thing that they're going to have to think about with the with the carers with the nursing staff and that would certainly reduce the risk for the very vulnerable. the carers. the democratic governor of the u.s. state of washington has accused president donald trump of 4 meant in domestic rebellion and spreading lies after trump signal support for conservatives protesting against lockdown rules the president urged his supporters to liberate 3 states a day after he said it's up to governors to decide when and how to ease restrictions hundreds of joined rallies across the u.s. demanding an end to the shutdown and the gallagher has the latest from miami. this is the president really playing politics because guess what all 3 of those states

have democratic governors there are protests in other states like utah and also here in florida in orlando the president is clearly playing politics here when he was asked about it at his latest press conference he said look those people are being treated rough that's clearly not the case people in all of the states across the entire country are following the c.d.c. guidelines are supposed to social distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus what you've got here is an ideological split between conservatives who want to see businesses reopen who think that the cure may be worse than the disease itself and then you've got democratic governors who are trying to very slowly reopen carefully doing this by watching the medical advice by looking at the numbers vitally so the president is very aware of who is talking to the people on the streets in those 3 states michigan minnesota and virginia i was all wearing my go hat some of them carrying guns they are trump's base so that so he's speaking to he was never going

to walk those comments back despite the fact he's been criticized by members of his own party you know the conservatives say look you simply cannot do this jay inslee the governor of washington saying look this could incite violence we are at a very critical juncture in this country right now there is a plan to slowly reopen things it's going to be science based that's what the president himself said and here he is backing up far right people armed people on the streets of these 3 states saying that they're being treated roughly in a so it's clear what the president here is doing but it's also clearly pretty irresponsible at this moment in time there's a great deal of pressure for people to get back to work those 22000000 people have now filed for unemployment there is a desire to do that but to do that carefully so you've got president trump on one hand saying hey governors you get to call the shots and then on the other hand tweeting out the. these messages of support to people who are taken to the streets with guns and in one case yelling to the governor there lock her up lock her up so

he's playing politics without question and there is also discord between the u.s. president and state governors over their respective roles when it comes to testing for coronavirus christianson only has that story from new york. new york announced the opening of more covert 1000 testing sites on friday and hospitalizations there are down but given as many as one of every 4 carriers don't show symptoms medical experts say knowing who has had the disease is crucial to knowing who can safely go back to work in order to tackle the spread of the outbreak we also need to test for people who may have been exposed previously and now have antibodies these types of tests called 0 knowledge to us will be the next step in battling this fire us we have now completed more than $3500000.00 tests by far the most anywhere in the world despite the president's claims that the c.d.c.

has been slow to deliver on the administration's earlier promises of more test kits and now he's telling state governors it's their responsibility this indiana lab responded to a plea for help from the city of new york and is ramping up production to provide 50000 kits a week we've been discussing everything from would just accept how we get orchids there to how many kids they want to purchase on an ongoing basis an even more morsel into how to behave themselves in neighboring new jersey rutgers university has gotten approval for a saliva test that could be scaled up quickly and mailed directly to people's homes the united states is currently testing just under 150000 people per day for the corona virus but experts say millions of tests per day will be needed to reopen the country safely and new york's governor insists back can't be done without the help of the federal government especially given some of the chemicals needed for the tests come from china the federal government has passed 3 bills to address this

crisis. of those 3 bills the state governments have gotten precisely 00 which nada unrestricted but pressure to get people back to work is mounting and the president tweeted that cuomo should stop complaining and start acting cuomo calls the president's strategy passing the buck without passing the bucks cristen salumi al jazeera new york. how many countries a stocking up on anti-body tests to find out whether citizens have had the virus but the world health organization warns there is no evidence indicating that those who recover from call that 19 have immunity from the virus joely fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology at georgetown university medical center she says it's not clear whether people can develop immunity against the 90. the concern is the antibodies that are produced after an action which are

a sign that a person had a request immune response to the virus and has recovered so the antibodies if tested from the blood are a clear sign that someone has been previously into it which would be useful in testing among populations to see who might have been infected particularly if they were not diagnosed with the other kinds of tests and work your tests are in action but the concern is that those antibodies may not provide complete protection against reinfection something that still being studied and examined very care there are respiratory diseases that able to infect people again and again and again but that is not the norm the expectation is that if someone has good antibody levels after action that it alters protection against or infection that's the very principle of a bax a nation on which we depend so it is as i said an open question and the assumption it till proven otherwise is that those antibodies do protect against at least

severe disease and reinfection that this is a new virus 100 percent of the people on the planet in the beginning of january were rebel group to this virus and sweep allotments do i want half of them ization is also warning that africa could become the next epicenter of the pandemic so far they've been fewer than a 1000 deaths from covering 1000 across the continent a much lower race then in the u.s. and europe the united nations says it's likely the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly $30000000.00 into poverty u.n. secretary general antonio the terrorist has said africa needs more than $200000000000.00 to combat the virus and the w.h.o. fears the death toll could already be much 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. rossy has side is an epidemic knowledge is 10 professor at messy college he says a pandemic posits a major threat to africa's densely populated cities enemy of public health is a crowded and when you think of most african countries they have hard to rise by overcrowding it's actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as 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 it child beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore can fuel and lead death be done it

and lead to serious disease and death so it's a perfect recipe so dr an epidemic in the 2 explosions one i can understand the concern of the u.n. here. in nigeria the president's chief of staff has died from the corona virus as a top aide to president mahmoud abbas hari he traveled to germany and egypt early last month before falling ill chiari was in his seventy's and had underlying health problems including diabetes. now for the 1st time in nearly 2 months south korea has reported fewer than 20 new cases of coronavirus 18 infections were confirmed over the past day bringing the country's total to more than 10600 despite the don ward trend health officials are calling on the public to remain vigilant much more ahead on al-jazeera including a rise in domestic violence during the long lean look at how the victims in the

u.k. are being supported or. hello there we've had a very unsettled picture across much of the middle east really this past week and in particular we have had some very heavy rains across into yemen now the law things have been dry but the streets all still flooded in some areas some dog storm clouds looming over has some more rain in the forecast now through saturday you can see across into southern areas of iraq a-q. ways and again 3 will central east and as a society we could be seeing some heavy amounts of rain that could also work its way across wells again into council and also the showers back in the forecast into the far west of yemen but radio where it is a fairly quiet picture temperatures across not doing too badly a tour in fact really quite nice a warm sunday through the eastern end of the mediterranean but this is one will see

quite discussion from turkey iraq there across areas of iran still as they also more rain across into western areas of yemen but some very heavy amounts of rain through the d.l.c. as we go through saturday and again these coastal areas of tanzania see. very heavy rains for the hasa several days and they're quite extensive other across tools i'm going to want to destroy the interior of south africa all suffered a bit by sunday it is a much drier warming day that 24 celsius in cape town and all the while very heavy amounts of rain through eastern areas of bike aska and still those rains up in zanzibar. talked to al jazeera squaw who of course was when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you're peons go build united states of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the

stories that matter on the al-jazeera we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we need to the news and current affairs that matter to you. the end. of watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories investigations are under way in the u.s. canada and its lead into the deaths of elderly people from coronavirus in care homes it's feared thousands of such feet on it is that going and reported around the world the governor of the u.s. state of washington has accused president donald trump off for mentoring domestic rebellion after he signals to what's going protest against knocked on doors

hundreds have joined rallies across the u.s. demanding an end to the shutdown and the world health organization says there is no evidence indicating that those who recover from call that 19 have immunity from the virus the warning comes as countries around the world 2 stock up on one type body tests in a bid to topple the fights. now doctors and nurses in the u.k. are being asked to review some personal protective equipment when treating covert 1000 patients the updated guidance from public health england comes as hospitals warn they're running out of protective clothing and is prompting concerns that the move could lead to more health care workers becoming infected diplomatic as james phrase has more from the united nations on the challenges of getting the white kids . 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 the global wealth and in terms of the sophistication of the 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 in ecuador the worst hit city of guayaquil in is reading from a huge surge uncovered 1000 deaths officially the virus has killed around 400 people in the country but doctors say many more have died in guayaquil and the surrounding region the government has started using giant refrigerated contains to store bodies the city's mayor says call the 1000 hit like a bomb and overwhelmed hospitals. and 150 people have been detained for breaking quarantine measures but he's picked them up on one of the highways that connects the capital to the region's they say they want to go back to their villages because if lost their jobs and fear they could stop if they stay in the city health officials in mexico are increasing calls for people to wash hands regularly with water and soap to counter the spread of corona virus

a tens of thousands of people in mexico city's poorest don't have running water in their homes. like millions of residents of mexico city. is heeding the advice of health officials and is 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. 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 days. mean lives in. the most impoverished district of mexico city here water cut offs are frequent and many have been forced to adapt. when there is water pressure we run the hose directly to the container then we have the clearing tablets because the water shows

up dirty but by the time we use it comes out transparent it comes out clean. there are some 60000 families in this part of the mexican capital who lack regular access to fresh water. it's the job of public water delivery workers. to help fill the demand water. is different some people are good at saving their water and only need is to come by once or twice a week or other people can get quite angry and can even injure you to get the water . please. the growing number of coronavirus 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 code 19 pandemic put daily life on hold. they tell us to take precautions to wash our hands

anti-bacterial to 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 jingle it's estimated that almost 50 percent of the country's population does not have regular access to the water necessary to wash with. mexico city now we have been encouraged to stay indoors to keep everyone safe said dangerous for people who faced domestic violence which has risen in the u.k. . and maybe a campaign has been launched in neighboring island to reassure victims this is running. out. a scene of domestic abuse when the victim

cannot escape. this is island's latest awareness campaign which was launched after a rise in cases reported since the lock down to tackle covered 19. as people are forced to stay indoors with their abuses the tullis is taking on those suffering is becoming a social crisis isolation is often used as a tool by perpetrators to minimize a woman's chance of reaching out to accessing support so she's cut off from friends and family members and they're going to normal groups or kind of community events that she might have gone to previously you know. the use natasha saunders was physically and sexually assaulted by her husband coxon style really good behavior and they should judge eventually managed to leave him with their children and knows

only too well how hard it was right now if you really feel that you can only reach out reach out regardless because the hope is there and as soon as you take that very and i know i know it's a very difficult step you take that single step and it's the step to taking your life domestic abuse charities in the u.k. so an increase of 25 percent in calls to the helpline since the lockdown began in france during the 1st week of social restrictions they saw a 30 percent increase in calls for help and in brazil during the 1st few days of belloc down there was a 50 percent increase in calls to vet domestic abuse charities. a disturbing global trend one that the united nations is battling to stop i urge all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women a key part of the national response plans for coverage 19 that means increasing

investment in online services and civil society organizations making sure the szell systems continue to prosecute abusers and creating safe ways for women to seke support with off alerting their abusers. the social isolation of the lock down is risking the lives of many who are living with their abuses but concerted action from governments and other organizations serve as a reminder to those suffering that they are not alone so new diagonal al-jazeera london. other news now and people living in ukraine's capital are being warned to stay indoors apple has increased in kiev after weeks of forest fires near the chernobyl power plant the site of the world's worst nuclear accident as the details . 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 this month but it'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 for austin these nasa images show the huge plumes of smoke from space wind blowing the smoke towards kiffen across the border into belarus the finds are near the site of the world's worst nuclear accident when a fire in a reactor forced tens of thousands to be evacuated from the area 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 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 by the radiation background in the capital and in the cave regions is within normal limits subsidies we bounce environmental activists accuse the government of downplaying the risk of radiation and how big the fires were while forest fires a 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 nasa has set the date for its 1st manned mission to be launched from u.s. soil in nearly a decade 2 astronauts will be sent to the international space station on may 27th aboard the falcon mind walk it owned by the company space x.

the american space agency has relied on russia to transport its strasser a lot since the space shuttle was retired in 2011. now with millions of people around the world living under lockdown many have found creative ways to stay fit and healthy at home and mahela tells us more. lobstering ballet and gymnastics at 3 she school of energy but with parks closed in classes council because of coronavirus she's finding new ways to keep active. the coronavirus pandemic has led to a big upsurge in online fitness classes for all ages from here and dance to a high intensity cardio workout and football it's all out there some people are even managing to run marathons inside here in the u.k. all james and leisure centers of close the door was in some parks are off limits because of the risk of transmitting the virus restrictions mean that people are

being urged by britain's government to exercise just once a day and only with members of your own household for many people fitness is part of their daily life and under normal circumstances this place is full of different ages and abilities but they can play at the moment. steve mcginty is a retired teacher who plays golf and swims regularly refer to. stronger you're actually. if you give up and say oh. my exercise program today then you're going to the day. in some ways our own little are coming spurs you want to do more the next. many of us are changing our lives significantly during this crisis to stay safe and trying to stay fit is a challenge but doctors say it could also help protect us now and in the future but

i think it's really important to take advantage of any options you have to exercise when you know you're not go outside for war critics taking advantage of that and also utilizing some of and videos that might be available online or things you might be able to do in hiding with yourself your family members your kids maybe teaming up with some friends over the internet and reading. each of the 2 account trying to get in some of that physical exercise every day no i need not be good for your physical how it's going to be good for your mental health some people are using this time to try out new ways of keeping fit none of us know how long this crisis will last or how long it will be left to alter our lives and he would al-jazeera lincolnshire. play again i'm fully back with the headlines on al-jazeera investigations are underway in canada 80 and the us into the deaths of alle elderly people from corona

virus in care homes it's feared thousands of such fatalities are going unreported around the world the governor of the us state of washington has accused president john often meant in domestic rebellion after the president signal support for growing protests against down votes 100 have joined rallies across the u.s. demanding an end to the shutdown and agalloch as well from miami. what you've got here is an ideological split between conservatives who want to see businesses reopen who think that the cure may be worse than the disease itself and then you've got a democratic governors who are trying to very slowly reopen carefully doing this by watching the medical advice by looking at the numbers vitally so the president is very aware of who is talking to the people on the streets in those 3 states michigan minnesota and virginia i was all wearing my hat some of them carrying guns they are trumps base so that's who is speaking to it. the world health organization

says there is no evidence indicating that those who recover from covert $9000.00 have immunity from the virus the warning comes as countries around the world stock up on anti body tests in a bid to topple the prices w.h.o. is also warning africa could become the next at the center of the pandemic so far they've been fewer than a 1000 best across the continent a much lower rate than in the u.s. and europe but the united nations says it's likely the virus will kill at least 300000 people in africa and ecuador's worst hit city of guayaquil is reeling from a huge surge in cold in 1000 deaths officially the virus has killed around $400.00 people in ecuador but doctors say many more have died in the surrounding region the government has started using giant refrigerated contain is just all bodies those are the headlines coming up next it's talk to al-jazeera to stay with us. counting the cost of the great lock down africa to sink into its 1st recession in 25 years

from its health service take the strain of the pandemic and historic production cuts but what does it mean for the gulf economy plus europe's colonial. counting the cost and i'll just say around. the. week. it's been over a month since code 19 was declared a pandemic. more than 120000 people have died and more than 2000000 are infected worldwide. the health emergency has also affected the global economy and diplomacy one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the pandemic is spain. it's had more than 800000 deaths despite the weeks long government imposed lockdown it's already weak economy has declined further. and despite concerns by the world health organization of workers' unions and opposition leaders the spanish government has announced a partial lifting.