the. the. the us congress sends a new $484000000000.00 relief bill to donald trump's desk to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic. hello again i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up an economy ruined by the coronavirus pandemic new figures out of the u.s. show 26000000 people have now lost their jobs also. because we want to do is to get

rid of this thing in the future and if sunlight is good that's a great thing as far as i'm concerned the u.s. president's task force presents unconfirmed research saying that heat and humidity have an impact on the ground virus. and how this city is mostly the holy month of ramadan will be followed different as the faithful are forced to take a different approach during the pandemic. while we begin with yet another grim tally of deaths from the new coronavirus coming out of the united states $3176.00 people have died and just 24 hours and that takes the total number of deaths there to nearly $50000.00 that's the highest anywhere in the wild globally there are now more than $202700000.00 infections and over 190000 deaths on the economic front of the u.s.

house of representatives has passed a new $484000000000.00 really felt to keep small business as a for some provide funds for hospitals had passed with big bipartisan support and will now go to president for his final up. weevil it follows a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package that was pasta last month more than $26000000.00 americans are now unemployed in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out and at his daily briefing on the question of virus response u.s. president on trump said the economy would bounce back quickly but insisted that lockdown measures will continue until there is a drop in the number of infections. or economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and that's happening as we speak and it's actually very exciting and. people are just it's just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether it's a demonstration or just in talking to people they going to get back to work and

they're going to get back to work very fast well that white house briefing was mostly dominated by president trump and his head of science and technology director at the department of homeland security presenting information about how the virus reacts to heat humidity and light now the reception is preliminary and has not been peer of years as a time when the science is far from being conclusive to prove if the virus is actually seasonal every 18 hours the virus the life of the virus is cut in half so if you start with a 1000 particles of the virus in 18 hours you're down to 518 hours after that you're down to 250 and so on and so forth temperature increases as the humidity increases with no sun involved you can see how drastically the half life goes down on that virus so that the virus is dying at a much more rapid pace just from exposure to higher temperatures and just an exposure humidity supposing we hit somebody with

a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful late. and i think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it and then i said supposing you brought the lady inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way and i think you said you're going to test the kill sounds interesting right in that i see the disinfectant but not see that in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something like that. by injection. or almost a cleaning as you say gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number of so be interesting to check so that you can have to use medical doctors with well let's say to dennis nash in new york says he's an epidemiologist working in population health at city university of new york mr nash quite the suggestion there from president trump and there is still so many gaps in knowledge about this virus obviously we've also been seeing spread in hostile him

in places southeast asia india last in america not to mention new orleans and florida so how does this report and the white house response to it fits in with that well and i agree. it's if he's not a medical or public health expert and he doesn't pass on the advice that is true medical and public health experts i think most people are smart enough to know that they should be taking medical or public health advice from president trump they should be listening to expert opinions true experts career experts and federal and state and local governments and while this is all coming at a time when states and countries are considering reopening bought most if not all medical experts are saying that will continue seeing waves of infection for as long as we don't have a vaccine and optimistically about potentially a year away at least can lockdowns be eased knowing that subsequent waves that are likely to happen. i do think they can be used but i don't think they can be used in

the u.s. right now the u.s. is just not ready to safely relax physical distinct measures many things need to be in place before that could happen but when jurisdictions do relax physical distance to succeed measures i mean to be sure there will be subsequent waves of community transmission but a few things need to be in place. we still have an overwhelming number of cobi cases in hospitals and i see use in many places around the u.s. and until we can reduce those hospitalizations to imagine that is a level we really can't think about reopening society and 2nd our health care workers are 1st responders and other and essential workers continue to be placed that are at risk and until we can ensure their safety in the event of a future surge we can think about reopening society and 3rd even if we can get to a place where it's safe for the next phase of the public health response really requires a skilled scalable implementation strategies for testing and contact tracing and

isolation and quarantine. and we just don't have those right now anywhere in the u.s. and just to speak to those places in the u.s. that don't have a lot of cases right now or hospitalizations or deaths they may not be in a bad place right now but it's quite possible that they could be if they do relax physical testing system measures and i think they need to be ready before they do mr nash i do want to ask you about antibody tests at a number of studies i believe in the netherlands california and the italian town of though they suggest that any 3 percent of people have had the virus in those communities and also we don't even know if a certain whether having had the virus actually kind of fasm unity so doesn't that make any kind of reopening incredibly risky. well i don't think that we will be we can get to a place where it's going to be where everyone is immune before or reopen we're going to have to reopen we're not even sure that people who are infected actually

get immune to the the virus on this is an open question right now that it really needs to be sorted out. and infection crude and curt true christians are no immunity it could control in the short term immunity or it could can for a long term immunity but we really don't know yet so i think you know the different estimates that we're getting from antibody tests and in populations around us. first that the tests are not really you know fully validated and reliable yet and they're especially concerning in situations where the prevalence is low. so we need a lot more validation work for these tests before we can begin to really to rely on them to give us good information but you can also expect to see really big differences between one geographic area and another if if if places in california for example were much more likely to to start. you know stay at home

orders before spread really became wide they're going to have a lower prevalence of antibodies than places like new york that were late in the game in getting the state home orders in place we had. our governor today in new york announce some results of an ad of a serial logic survey that they did that show really quite high prevalence but not so much in the way of details about how they arrived at their estimates and which serial logic tests they're using so i think there are a lot of open questions here and people need to sort them as well questions still to be answered dennis nash and epidemiologist speaking to us from new york sessile thank you mr nash for joining us and. thank you. now to those record unemployment claims in the united states a sad day by the pew research center reveals that 43 percent of americans say they or someone in their family have either lost their jobs so taking

a pay cut because of the outbreak $1.00 of those people is on shabana end and sarasota florida he was laid off from his bartending job after boston restaurants were forced to close his home and out days had government websites is making it difficult to apply for unemployment benefits but the federal benefit was easy i believe if you just pay your taxes they send you a check or direct deposit but the state. unemployment benefit is really difficult in florida the unemployment benefit actually made national news because it's so ineffectual website is very old even though they revamped it in 2015. it failed every audit every year since then and when this came to this crash it took me a week of constantly trying to get through the unemployment process before i was my information is even accepted by. government and it took

exactly a month almost for them to tell me that i was in had a notable to receive any unemployment benefits. now european union leaders have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect their single market from the effects of the corona virus outbreak they have agreed on money to work together to find a way out of the crisis but seemed less united on what that should look like this as some countries begin to ease restrictions the czech republic for instance has lifted a ban on overseas travel while others are pushing ahead with the search for a vaccine. reports. in this laboratory in oxford a glimmer of hope shimon trials have now begun here with a vaccine. researchers are confident that it could take just months before they know if it would work in manufacturing it on a large scale could take much longer but hopefully this will give us some good data and then hopefully in a couple of months or maybe

a year or so we will be able to protect more people. in germany the 1st day back at school but nothing like these people's could have imagined the partial reopening old people's only carries many restrictions social distancing is tightly in force between their designated desks the usual hive of energy replaced by a more careful serious mood despite having the 5th largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world germany is slowly relaxing its lockdown but a desire for things to return to normal as well as fears over the economic impact of the pandemic have come with a warning from the chancellor angela merkel is i've been in this not often targeted but i will therefore tell you quite frankly that i fully support the decisions taken by the federal and state governments on wednesday last week but the implementation since then worries me in part it seems to me very brisk some of it

seems to me to be quite brisk if not to say to praise. for the european union the full extent of the damage the pandemic has caused the block won't be revealed for months but it is preparing for a slump the like of which has not been seen since world war 2 the european commission has suggested a $325000000000.00 recovery fund for his forthcoming budget as well as borrowing another $350000000000.00 from the capital markets for the spending that really optimistic because even if it's a difficult even if of course there was difference in cities in europe and goes into the surprise i feel there is a very strong political arena to work together and to succeed to build compromises . on the political strains are already evident wealthier countries such as france remain under pressure to provide aid to the blocs less well off members as a test of solidarity that could define the very future of the union itself so nick

i i go out there a. well thought africa's president says he will gradually is a nationwide lockdown mess starting early next month so rama poses has some parts of the economy will be allowed to reopen and he also called on all sub africans to stop wearing masks outdoors he says restrictions will be left in slowly to reduce the risk of a spike in infections people that have been on living under some of the strictest quarantine measures in africa with an unprecedented deployment of troops. beyond thursday the 30th of april we should begin a gradual and phased recovery of economic activity we were implementing. what we call a risk adjusted strategy through which we take a deliberate and a horse approach to the easing of carbon and lock down construction.

still ahead on al-jazeera and cases of coronavirus saw a prosperous america brazil peru and ecuador see the effects of valery. and robots in schools to monitor temperature and to spend family time that as thousands of students in hong kong prepared to fit in university entrance that. hello the weather is looking bright and breezy for japan at the moment we've got some bands of clouds and shabby rain just pulling out of the way but with stooge ragging in and north westerly wind a chance of want to see showers into that western side of honshu as a result of that crane potentially generally try and find try and find as the northern parts of china to beijing on the warm side for friday at 28 celsius is

near a 22 as we go on through saturday sunshine coming back into much of japan by this day southern parts of china will still see a few showers particularly down towards the southwest into those northern parts of vietnam a scattering of showers to into india china it's a fair amount of cloud still lingering here at present so you'll see some showers there into laos and cambodia into thailand to other gulf of thailand some rather wet weather usual rash of showers through much of southeast asia but somewhat dry there for indonesia for a time but a dry weather into south asia we have got some lively showers still lingering there around bangladesh the far northeast of india the snow showers there the kabul shock is there continuing to a rumble away some of them on the backside there will see some of that western weather just pushing towards kolkata for a time elsewhere it's fine dry i'm hot. throughout

history human kind has come together to prevail in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite side laying low saving humankind by really really not getting near every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who will come after this war is ours. the in the the in. hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s.

house of representatives has passed a new $484000000000.00 relief bill to keep small businesses afloat during the qur'an a virus and demming provide funds for hospitals and follows a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package that was passed last month. a record 26400000 americans have lost their jobs since the end of last month and just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession been wiped out. and european union leaders have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect their single market from the effects of the outbreak they're seeking a joint financial fund of up to 2 trillion dollars to recover the economy. while it's exam time for students in hong kong with the wilds with the year's most important academic tests underway more than $52000.00 students are preparing to sit the university entrance exams which were postponed last month due to the coronavirus schools have been closed across hong kong for most of the year with

students learning online restrictions are set to remain in place in the city despite the number of daily cases staying in the single digits for almost 2 weeks sarah clarke our correspondent is live outside of school and hong kong so are there been multiple measures implemented to try to protect students there to let these exams go ahead talk us through them. the having the governments handed out a number of funds to the schools across hong kong to allow for these exams and to take place now as you mentioned got 52000 students who will take these exams over the next month or so when we're at one of the examination centers there are $350.00 set up where we are it's and joyce's primary school senior school i should say in central hong kong and the safety precautions that have been put in place we've got gallons and masks that the students and teachers have been allowed to wear of course we've got the social distancing rules and we've got the tables at one point i made his part but it's a number of students and the number of examination centers that have been set up

we've got robots that are being dispersed to hand out sanitizers to the students and of course the teachers have also been trained on how to deal with these emergencies should one eventual into one of these examination centers of the next month or so that the education be over has allowed for these exams to go ahead simply because we've had a drop in the number of cases of the last couple of weeks we've had the likes of one or 2 even 0 cases reported as a result of these exams will start from to die and roll out over the next month in hong kong so how are the students themselves feeling about all of this well it's been a lot of uncertainty not just from the students but some teachers as well that it's too soon to go ahead which with large gatherings particular locations that of course is also a concern of criticism about the amount of funding that the government's allowed for these schools to purchase the lights of the gowns and the face masks and of course we've seen a number of disruptions for these schools but folks quite some time we had the protests last year that's disrupted the show jewel last september october and as

you mentioned these exams were meant to take place in march and we only found out last week when kerry lamb gave the go ahead for these exams to go ahead today so this certainly someone certainty but as i mentioned before there are back up plans should there be a spike in the number of cases in hong kong again and these exams could potentially be delayed once again sarah clarke there for us on the ground in hong kong thank you sarah. wall street to lock down measures in the philippines have been extended there until mid may to try to contain the spread of the virus the quarantine measures will continue in the capital of manila until may 15th but restrictions will be eased and other low risk areas president for regard to tatay is also threaten to impose martial law if aid delivery is disrupted by anti-government rebels. also latin america now and brazil is reporting its highest death toll on a single day $407.00 people have died from the virus pushing its nationwide total above $3300.00 more than half the recent deaths were in the populous state of south

paolo brazil is latin america's west his country and its president jaya both sonar has dismissed scientific advice and has led down protests in the past while cases in ecuador have almost doubled to 22000 to a backlog of tests were analyzed it's now the 2nd west hits nation in the region off to brazil the government has begun storing corpses and refrigerated containers as. at critical has seen nearly 600 deaths and peruse coronavirus cases of also supposed to 20000 double that of last week hospitals struggling to treat patients bodies have been kept in hospital hallways and medics say they've been forced to repeatedly reuse mosques the nationwide lockdown there has been extended until may 10 well in europe why some schools in rural areas are reopening after being closed for

a month attendance still won't be made mandatory but the decision was made after a year ago i began seeing a decline in the number of daily and fictions. well the world health organization is warning that the number of malaria deaths in sub-saharan africa could double this year due to the corona virus pandemic and to malarial campaigns the distribution of insecticide that sand metson have all been disrupted by locked down missions to the situation in the gulf and another 623 corona virus cases have been confirmed here and cats are pushing the total number of infections 277-6410 people have died most of the newly confirmed cases are amongst expect she is the emir of qatar for more global cooperation to combat the pandemic and its effects. well to wager if you had been with us or i seize this opportunity to address would leaders and then lead advanced economies

and consumed organizations i call on them to cooperate not compete for developing a vaccine and cure to the virus i stress that the economic and social aftermath of the pen gimmick will not be achieved without global coordination and cooperation at the highest possible level as you can well in the u.a.e. jubei is easing lock down measures to reopen cafes and restaurants shopping centers can also trade again but for limited hours and with fewer shoppers for more people died there on thursday taking the number of fatalities to 56 more than 8700 people have tested positive for the virus. now paper in somalia struggling with conflict drought and now an infestation of locusts coupled with the corona virus outbreak health workers say they're facing a critical shortage of medicines and protective care and there's only one hospital to treat infected patients as mohamed odeh reports. mogadishu's martini hospital

which dates back to the italian era is somalia's only medical facility dedicated to treating its growing number of corner patients. due to its limited capacity the hospital only caters for the sickest of patients this doctor runs the schools that is leading somalia as a response to the pandemic even a little bit least 219 patients of corona have come to martini hospital since the outbreak 21 of those were admitted to the few bids available 17 people are still here while 3 patients died at the hospital. it's hard to tell the severity and spread of the virus in somalia until recently the nation locked the capability to test for the new virus meaning some pulse was sent abroad and results delayed for more than a week this also limited capacity by the government to trace people the 1st victims of the virus came into contact with. the good news however is that 4 people have so

far recovered from the virus but she is one of them. i was provided good care by the doctors and the nurses from the day it was confirmed i had the virus they also gave me good consul and when they broke the news to me so i was mentally prepared for everything i went through. all international and domestic flights except for emergency medical and food have been suspended the borders have also been closed as part of an all out government effort to stop the spread of the disease and the guy who got a massive public awareness campaign has also been mounted in the capital. and in the media referred to as a little bit of we're encouraging people to practice social distancing we're also alerting them about what the virus is and the effect it can have as well as the importance of washing their hands and disinfecting any equipment they're using beyond the capital vol fighters hold sway in many parts of rural somalia this means

there's little access for medical and humanitarian workers to carry out lifesaving work al-shabaab fighters also carry out frequent attacks in the capital one of the major cities something else that hinders a proper response to the outbreak they are now increasing fee is that the disease will spread through comms housing displaced families who huddle around the hearts built from sticks and old drugs many of the 2400000 somalis displaced by conflict and other disasters over the years live in comes like this one a critical shortage of medical supplies and personnel also continues to carry pulse patrols across the nation. with some doctors and nurses now same thing to simply being forced to choose between the health of their patients and their own vomit i don't algis it. well muslims around the world are starting the holy month of ramadan and many of them are under quarantine and indonesia the world's most populous muslim nation domestic and sea travel temporarily banned. reports on

just how the virus is changing traditions for the faithful. for hundreds of years muslims used to go out into empty fields looking at the sky to figure out when the done begins these days though clerics here in pakistan and elsewhere used telescopes to get 1st sight of the new moon once spotted ramadan starts. it's the holiest month in these lami calendar when muslims stop eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset. the fasting allows worshippers to devote themselves to their fate and remember the sufferings of the poor. but during the unprecedented coronavirus emergency muslims are abandoning many of providence traditions and rituals. they won't be able to invite their loved ones the

neighbors or the 4 to join the evening fast breaking meal known as if tara as covert 900 spreads restrictions are being inforced governments have closed borders imposed curfew years lockdowns and encouraged social distancing to contain the contagion islams holiest site in mecca is usually teeming with worshippers from all over the world during ramadan it's closed this year as part of the sunday government's campaign to curb the virus spread getting people everywhere to observe social distancing in ramadan won't be easy. the highlight of ramadan is the night of destiny where muslims believe their holy book was 1st revealed to the prophet mohammad and where the gates of heaven are open muslims spend the night in

contemplation and prayers in morse a ritual they are being asked to perform at home this time islam's most sacred both meant to encourage. praying together and breaking their fast together may end up being a month of relative solitude. 0. again if as al jazeera and these other headlines the u.s. house of representatives has passed a new 484000000000 dollar really fail to keep small businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and provide funds for hospitals and follows a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package that was passed last month. a record 26400000 americans have lost their jobs since the end of last month in just 5 weeks all the

jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out u.s. president donald trump said the economy would bounce back quickly but insisted that lockdown measures will continue to as a drop in the number of infections. economy will sir to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and that's happening as we speak and it's actually very exciting and. people are just it's just thrilled to see it because the country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether it's a demonstration or just in talking to people they going to get back to work and they're going to get back to work very fast european union leaders have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect this single market from the effects of the outbreak they are seeking a joint financial fund of up to 2 trillion dollars to recover the economy brazil is reporting its highest death toll on a single day $407.00 people have died from the virus putting its nationwide total above 3300 more than half the recent deaths were in the populous state of south

power strips lock down measures in the philippines have been extended until mid may to try to contain the spread of the virus the current measures will continue in the capital of manila until may 15th but restrictions will be eased and other low risk areas president president for a very go to task he has also threatened to impose martial law if a delivery is disrupted by anti-government rebels south africa's president says he will gradually ease a nationwide lockdown starting early next month so rama poses says some parts of the economy will be allowed to reopen and has called on all south africans to start wearing masks outdoors he says restrictions will be lifted slowly to reduce the risk of a spike in infections well those are the headlines the news continues here on out is there a after p.l.o. history of a revolution black september. as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place

is the democratic nominee but can he beat trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. in 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since.