like nothing you've ever seen. but we want to know how these things if. we visit me. like. this is here really invests in and that's a privilege. to find down orders a mass return to work by bangladeshi workers desperate for an income. and i mean this is our life and with much more in the pandemic including tourist hot spot sort of being lifeless for weeks now italy is days away from the restrictions. germany gets tougher on the wearing of masks make it compulsory while using public transport. workers need to state say they're feeling vulnerable to the

far as we report from california where spring planting has begun. so then workers desperate for money in one of the world's biggest garment industry to define coronavirus lockdown orders they're returning to work in bangladesh saying they haven't been paid for months the country is expected to lose at least 6000000000 dollars worth of exports and to make up for some of it textile workers now selling masks medical gowns and other in demand personal protective equipment bangladesh has recorded more than 5400 coronavirus cases and 145 deaths let's go straightaway to turn to child who joins us from bangladesh from dhaka or just outside in the heart of the garment industry there i think time will tell us more about what's going on.

in the camera view but there's a factory actually reopen in a streamlined they don't have as many workers in the road yesterday there were protests here just about a whig there's been protest all across the country workers demanding that back wages some of the workers haven't been paid for 2 months many are on the brink of starvation war stuff while in the beginning there was a time to open the factories and workers came from distance even a 100 kilometer walking all the way to dhaka only to find factories close now this time between the government and association decided to open at least 1000 plus factories in different parts of the country mainly in dhaka so workers they get out to walk all the way to dhaka to join the factories and they're not very happy with the situation many of the families labor outside that dhaka many many family members that depend then they haven't been paid many are on the brink of starvation they're worried about the koran up in age floored there could be $300.00 to $400.00 factory laborers in one of any of the big factories and that's

a serious ground for consign during the current pandemics and i spoke to one of the labor that our main concern is safety she said we understand many wants to get paid and they want to join warka but that safety is the most basic safety they're doing as my gloves and scan and nothing more lot of the people who live in you know congested areas some of them actually live in slum areas where 5 people could be raving in one room social this is a luxury for them so there is that danger of this pandemic spreading if something happens within the factory and the buyers are putting pressure on the garment factory in bangladesh to fulfill their orders many bias on the other hand a scam so that all there is you know so far $3000000000.00 and upwards of $6000000000.00 loss for the industry so it's a pick. do a demo if you don't but the workers are happy to join providing their safety is the number one concern right now time it thanks to the. let's have

a child reporting there from the heart of the garment industry just in dhaka. now it's only is preparing to emerge from the longest coronavirus lockdown in the west the daily death toll in the hardest hit european countries has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade in italy which is seen the 2nd highest number of deaths in the world after the united states will loosen its lockdown from early may people will be allowed to visit relatives and some businesses will reopen work to my job but they're committed to a legal so for me for the wholesale sector will restart but it is obvious that we'll need a market and therefore from 18 if we expect to reopen the retail sector from then we are also planning to reopen museums exhibitions and libraries and sport teams can resume training we also hope that june 1st will be the date for the reopening of bars restaurants beauty salons and hairdressers basically all personal care activities are going to speak now to francesca gimp attorney who joins us live from milan via skype or in francesca to tell us more about what's happening on may the

fore. well the prime minister does a pick and yes they have ning announced hard the country will end in the face too of the pandemic in which it will try to restart the economy without pushing the curve of the infections up again from may for factories and building sites need to will reopen the government will so permit people to leave their houses for limited family visits even if these visits have not been explained very well and sporting activities could be now practice also far from home but always alone and keeping the distance from are those parks will open but it won't be possible to meet their . friends so if a new wave of cases will be avoided from the 1st of june also restaurants bars and her dressers and personal care activities will reopen fully although take will be take away businesses will be possible for qantas said that the reopening is allowed

on condition that all companies involved the city strictly respect new security protocols in the workplace so there is also a 2nd moment of this face to that is on the 18th of may when the shops museums and libraries will be allowed to reopen the schools will remain shut until september and this will probably give families childcare problems for months to come bright it's been a long painful time in isolation with all the fatalities especially where you are there in the north what is what's the mood of the country now as we see this glimmer of light as things start to lift. well it's difficult to say because after yesterday's press conference by the prime minister i felt there is

some confusion and also some delusion many hope for a substantial return to a sort of social life but that has not really happened because the risk of a 2nd wave of contagion is still too high so the person or restrictions the restrictions on personal freedoms are still. on so people are now wondering if they are allowed to see their partners that they don't see they have not seen for 2 months but it's much has been left to. the personal. way of understanding the rules so the prime minister was also criticized for it was criticized because it was not very very clear on how explain things but let's see what will happen from from the father may absolutely that's a picture from milan in italy francisco jumper tony thanks very much indeed thank

you let's move on to germany now which is contacting the spread of corona virus by making the wary of mass compulsory on public transport free masts have been made available in cities nationwide for the past week germany has the 4th highest number of confirmed cases in europe and fewer than 6000 have died which is far lower than neighboring countries let's cross over to berlin where dominic kane is live for us now dominick germany has been pretty definitive in how it's handled this whole crisis tell us more about what's happening now. very definitive in regards to personal protection that the government believes that citizens should be implemented so as of today the requirement to wear face masks of some description applies in every german state on public transport. people in the buses behind me if you get on a bus if you get on the tube if you've got the metro if you get on a train you have to wear a mask pretty much everywhere in germany but in some states that is as far as it

goes so the people here in berlin they wear the mask when they're on the public transport they can take them off when they get off public transport and go into some of the shops that have reopened since shops were allowed to reopen last week or shops of a certain category anyway but elsewhere in germany the tube the order is a bit more draconian so that mosques must be want effectively everywhere in public even to go shopping if you're going to take public transport back sort of thing what's informing the governmental decision by state governments and the federal government is the signs as you were saying fewer than 6000 deaths in this country so far even though the number of infections is very considerable relative to other e.u. countries other than to say is that the vast majority of the confirmed cases of corona virus in germany well the people involved have recovered something around 70 percent of all those confirmed cases have now recovered. what can we anticipate

happening next as far as germany's policy to try and move on the ground. well the thing that every politician is concerned about is the economic impact of coronavirus which is why you see the different states the the prime ministers of the different states really trying to get their economy through the restrictions on economical life loosened wherever possible because people are aware of the fact the projections are that the economy of germany might shrink by as much as 10 will as near as makes no difference at 10 percent in this quarter alone that's april through june of this year and that's why they people want to see shops reopen they want to see people returning to work one of the things that's interesting about the bonus. listen germany right now the way that it's impacted life is that some surveys suggest as many as one in 4 germans of working age is now working from home which explains why there isn't really a rush hour on

a monday morning like you would normally have expected before coronavirus really took off in this country the other thing to say is that the government is monitoring very closely what is happening in terms of the listening infrastructure and we expect the little anglo american her cabinet to revisit restrictions on the 4th of may i don't need thanks very much indeed that said picture in batman. this is the picture in london that say u.k. prime minister and burris johnson back at their home let's listen in to my desk for much longer than i would have liked and i want to thank everybody who has stepped up in particular the 1st secretary of state nominate rob who's done a terrific job but once again i want to thank you the people of this country for the sheer great and guts you've shown and are continuing to show every day i know that this virus brings new sadness and mourning to households across the

land and it is still true that this is the biggest single challenge this country has faced since the war and i know way minimize the continuing problems we face and yet it is also true that we are making progress with fewer hospital admissions fewer patients in i.c.u. and real signs now that we are passing through the peak and thanks to your forbearance your good good sense your out truism your spirit of community. thanks to our collective national resolve we are on the brink of achieving that 1st clear mission to prevent our national health service from being overwhelmed in a way that tragically we have seen elsewhere and that is how and why we are now

beginning to turn the tide if these virus where a physical assailant an unexpected an invisible mugger which i can tell you from personal experience it is then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor and so it follows that this is the moment of opportunity this is the moment when we can press home our advantage it is also the moment of maximum risk because i know there will be many people looking at our current success and beginning to wonder whether now is the time to go easy on those social distancing measures and i know how hard and how stressful

it is being to give up even temporarily those ancient and basic freedoms not seeing friends not seeing loved ones working from home managing the kids worrying about your job and your firm so let me say directly also to british business to the shopkeepers to the entrepreneurs to the hospitality sector to everyone on whom our economy depends i understand your impatience i share your anxiety and i know. that without our private sector without the drive and commitment of the wealth creators of this country there will be no economy to speak off there will be no cash to pay for our public services no way of funding our n.h.s. and yes i can see the long term consequences of locked on as clearly as anyone

and so yes i entirely share your agency it's the government's urgency and yet we must also recognise the risk of a 2nd spike the risk of losing control of that virus and letting the reproduction rate go back over one because that would mean not only a new wave of death and disease but also an economic disaster and we would be forced once again to slam on the brakes across the whole country and the whole economy and reimpose restrictions in such a way as to do more and lasting damage and so i know it is tough and i want to get this economy moving as fast as i can but i refuse to throw away all the effort and

the sacrifice of the british people and to risk a 2nd major outbreak and huge loss of life and the overwhelming of the n.h.s. and i ask you to contain your impatience because i believe we are coming now to the end of the 1st phase of this conflict. and in spite of all the suffering we have sown nearly succeeded we defied so many predictions we did not run out of ventilators or i.c.u. bet's we did not allow our h.s. to collapse and on the contrary we have so far collectively shielded our n.h.s. so that our incredible doctors and nurses and health care staff have been able to shield all of us from an outbreak that would have been far worse and we collectively flatten the peak and so when we're sure that this 1st phase is

over and that we're meeting our 5 tests deaths falling n.h.s. protected rate of infection down really sorting out the challenges of testing and p.p. avoiding a 2nd peak then that will be the time to move on to the 2nd phase in which we continue to suppress the disease and keep the reproduction rate the our rate down but begin gradually to refine the economic and social restrictions and one by one to fire up the engines of this vast u.k. economy and in that process difficult judgments will be made and we simply cannot spell out now how fast or slow or even when those changes will be made though clearly the government will be saying much more

about this in the coming days and i want to serve notice now that these decisions will be taken with the maximum possible transparency and i want to share all our working and our thinking my thinking we view the british people. and of course we will be relying as ever on the science to inform us as we have from the beginning but we would also be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus across business across industry across all parts of our united kingdom across party lines bringing in opposition parties as far as we possibly can because i think that's no less than what the british people would expect and i can tell you now the preparations are under way and have been for weeks to allow us to win phase 2 of this fight as i believe we are now on track to prevail in

phase one and so i say to you finally if you can keep going in the way that you have kept going so far if you can help protect our n.h.s. to save lives and if we as a country can show the same spirit of optimism and energy shown by captain tom moore who turns 100 this week if we can show the same spirit of unity and determination as we've all shown in the past 6 weeks then i have absolutely no doubt that we will beat it together we will come through this all the faster and the united kingdom will emerge stronger than ever before thank you all very much. that's a british prime minister boris johnson a month on remember since he was diagnosed with a credit virus he spent 3 days in intensive care he described the crisis as the

biggest single challenge since world war 2 said that the u.k. is making progress fewer hospital admissions real signs that we are passing through the peak he said but also said this is a moment of opportunity also a moment of maximum risk and said that we must recognize the risk of a 2nd spike and it would mean a new wave of death and disease in an economic disaster that would mean more trouble than the one president the faced so he was basically calling on the british people just to bide their time and be patient and to stick with the current restrictions the british prime minister boris johnson that. schools and universities in some parts of china that were closed because of the pandemic of beginning to reopen students have been welcomed back to class in the capital beijing but social distancing measures will continue during lessons as students in this city where the outbreak began will start heading back to school as early as next week al-jazeera sarah clarke is in hong kong and she says social distancing

measures are still in place as china tries to prevent a 2nd wave of infections. it is a milestone in china on the grounds that the schools have been locked down it's been a nationwide lockdown for about 3 months or so the schools in some provinces and some of the major cities are turning some schools have already opened and that was in march the beginning of april but some of those cities that are reopening on monday shanghai beijing and one job in the focus is really on the senior and the middle school students particular the final year classes that are preparing for the end of school exams and this well that's been happening and will happen over the next month or so with the primary schools to return in mind all schools are required to have various contingency plans in place the teachers have been trained to deal with emergency procedures to try and prevent any outbreak of transmissions the students of course have also been provided with protection as social distancing measures are in place during the lunch breaks and the canteens have also been set up almost like exam rooms to try and separate or divide the students and the reason why these schools are slowly reopening is we've seen

a gradual for declining numbers in the number of crowd of cases in china and that's why the schools are reopening the national health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial krajina virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures. well south korea is considering opening schools in may so has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopened on sunday in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day. arrived a radio station in pakistan is holding on to

a clinic so that people living in remote areas can get information about the plan demick next year bryant has more. the airwaves in northern pakistan once carried lectures by the taliban one preacher was even given the nickname mullah radio but now the station in swat valley is broadcasting a very different message so i wanted to. stay home and stop the spread of the coronavirus if a lucky man. if you made your isn't news of the people in this area is not long ago it was used by the pakistani taliban to enhance the movement we found it very useful it's easy to reach out to the masses and solve the health issues using a radio clinic. packed to inquire radio reaches further than the local newspaper and television stations deep into the foothills of the hindu kush the radio clinics were launched last month to increase awareness about the virus education locals

while keeping them indoors programme you need to do clinic the purpose of our program is to provide life health services to patients who aren't able to go to the hospitals because of the lockdown doctors a video speciality is are invited and they give advice to anyone who needs help. from patients like hoshi who has had trouble and that makes them especially vulnerable to the virus and. i was very worried about my health but then i learned about this radio service it was a wonderful experience for me i called the doctor and he helped me out. hoshi delhi is home with his family like tens of millions across pakistan where shutdown began last month. there being thousands of cases and dozens of deaths and it's feared a lack of taste may be concealing the true number of infections. doctors are angry that mosques have been allowed to stay open during the muslim fasting month of ramadan. they were warned that if the virus becomes widespread here its impact

could be catastrophic overwhelming a fragile health system that has just 3000 acute care beds for a population of 200000000. in normal days hospitals were brimming with people but after the lockdown it was impossible to go to any clinic or hospital this new radio health program has helped many from their homes because they can just call us. this one time pirate radio station now a lifeline for this community. brian al jazeera. iran plans to reopen some mosques in arizona doing free of coronavirus the government will start labeling regions either white yellow or red depending on the number of deaths or infections mosques in white zones will be able to resume services iranians have already returned to shops observers as government tries to revive its battered economy the country's president says regions will be classified on

a case by case basis do i have to show that 14 now. after 2 weeks is there are no deaths no new cases it is then up to the ministry of health to say according to its own criteria that this area this county this sector is white and other areas can be yellow or red so we will divide the country on the basis of white yellow and red. star manufacturer have been told to brace themselves more job cuts and initially expected as a company fights for survival a letter to employees from the chief executive once the company is bleeding cash their boss has reportedly lost a 3rd of its business in a matter of weeks with airlines among the hardest hit by the covert 900 outbreak. the united states depends on millions of farm workers to maintain its food supply but crop working and living conditions are putting them at increasing risk of infection from curve at 19 that's enough and reynolds who reports are not in california the country's biggest agricultural producer. strawberries are right

dinning in the fields waiting to be picked but for farm workers like maria harvest time is a season of fear but. i am afraid of getting sick because if i don't recover i will die so i would leave for children in the all finance i am obviously afraid but i have to whack maria who is undocumented and asked that her surname not be used is one of an estimated $3000000.00 farm workers in the us all are considered essential workers like doctors nurses and law enforcement but unlike them they are paid low wages have fewer legal protections and many lack protective gear on to seem to me the bottom line the last line think about them they are about. any form workers as a group are already among the least healthy in society poverty lack of access to basic medical care high rates of diabetes hypertension and lung problems from

exposure to pesticides means that farm workers are at high risk of becoming extremely ill or dying if they get corona virus a corona virus flare up among farm workers could spread like wild fire extremely difficult to prevent the spread if there's a there's a major outbreak in the agriculture industry even a good one outbreak among say one careless farm labor contractor can cause an outbreak among the whole industry many farm operators do allow workers to practice social distancing for example by working alternate rows of crops but the pay structure discourages stringent hygiene and many workers are being paid piece $3.00 per box to plaster 20 seconds washing your hands can feel any less secure waiting in line during a break and want to get back out there in the fields to pick up more california and

a handful of other states have laws. laws providing unemployment insurance and compensation for injuries on the job to farm workers although the united states. do not know this is. not. an insurance for workers like maria working from home obviously isn't an option and even staining home while sick is an impossible luxury. i mean any person in my family that is ending in income so if i'm me it's either you work well. or that i have. they are essential workers putting food on the country's tables every day yet somehow they remain invisible and vulnerable rob reynolds al-jazeera oxnard california. one of the next report in our series will be in the united kingdom where the lock down what it's encouraging more people to grow fruit invades in their back gardens and we'll show that on

tuesday here on al-jazeera. a huge piece of artwork has been unveiled in the swiss celts which aims to inspire hope during the global pandemic the french land out this site calls his beyond crisis and it was spray painted using a mix of cold and chalk so it says he wants to send a message of hope and positivity to the world. just time for an updated headline terror knowledge is there and that britain's prime minister johnson has returned to downing street to take charge of the u.k.'s response to the corona virus outbreak during his speech boris johnson said the u.k. is beginning to turn the tide in tackling the outbreak. hundreds of factory workers in bangladesh have defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and have returned to work and many factories are exclusively samosas medical grounds and other in demand personal protective

equipment. kind which has more from bangladesh bangladesh's capital of dhaka right on the road behind me there was a protest here because the governments were. demanding for their late wages many of them didn't get paid thousands of workers were laid off somewhere fired at least 10000 workers were fired from different factories across the country many of the workers haven't been paid for 2 months despite the fact the government had a bailout package of $688000000.00 which is supposed to help the industry as well as the garment workers the daily death toll from coronavirus and europe's hardest hit countries this fall into its lowest level in more than a month if he plans to begin easing restrictions in many people will be allowed to visit relatives and some businesses will reopen. gemini's making the wearing of mosques compulsory while using it public transport free mosques would be made available to collect for the past week in cities across the nation in el salvador

security officials have been authorized to use lethal force against gang members following a surge in violence during the pandemic prisons have been ordered to place members of rival gangs in cells in a bid to break up lines of communication it's also imposed a 24 hour lockdown in correctional facilities the country suffered 24 homicides on friday and another 29 by late sunday. schools and universities in some parts of china that were closed because of the pandemic are beginning to reopen but social distancing measures will continue during lessons students in the city of the outbreak began will start heading back to school early as next week europe's take the headlines got more news here on al-jazeera right off the risk you don't see that.

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