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the country's got to get back and it's got to get back as soon as possible mixed messages out of the united states president tropical north advice from his top right of ours task force expert. i'm richelle carey this is all just live from doha also coming up cross and 2nd once again in china lockdown measures reinstated after a new cluster of krona virus infections emerges. hunger during a pandemic entire households in south africa are struggling to afford a no food plus. i robot brought in south korea with the school reforms looking ahead to a smart future in
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a post by ross world. the leader of the country worst affected by corona virus is going against the advice of his top infectious diseases expert president donald trump says he wants the u.s. economy up and running again as soon as possible but as message comes a day after dr anthony she warned that rushing to reopen could have serious consequences including needless death and suffering i can a report from washington d.c. . the president met with the governors of colorado and north dakota and urged them to look into reopening schools as soon as possible the country is getting back and it's going to get back as soon as possible and i don't consider a country coming back and the schools are closed it's a message at odds with that given by dr anthony fauci who told a senate committee tuesday that there were real dangers in reopening states too soon making particular reference to schools we don't know everything about this
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virus and we've really got to be very careful particularly when it comes to children presidential candidate joe biden was quick to comment i would trust the guy who's one of our nation's top public health experts he tweeted not the one who pondered injecting disinfectant into the body and look directly at a solar eclipse there are federal guidelines for governors to consider among the recommendations that the rate of infection dropped for 2 weeks before mitigating measures are eased that a proper tracing procedure be established and that testing protocols be in place none of the states have begun to reopen meet all these criteria and in wisconsin another denial of the concerns of medical experts the supreme court has struck down the governor stay at home order siding with republican leaders who argue the
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administration had overstepped its legal authority it's an argument that has received explicit support in tweets from the white house mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the corona virus and the disease it causes may never be entirely wiped out that is a warning from the world health organization which says there is a long way to go in the fight scientists are working on around 100 potential vaccines but there's no guarantee of one or a clear timeline and the debit shows as without a vaccine it could take years for us to build immunity this virus may become just another indemnity virus in our communities and this why this may never go hiv has not gone away we've come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we found the prevention methods and people don't feel as scared. as they did before and we're offering life to people with ha very long healthy lives to people . john as reinstating lockdown measures and some parts after
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a cluster of new corona virus infections people into when city in the northeast are being told to stay in it sounds more than 4000000 people and bus and train services have been halted and recently reopened schools have been shut again they were city was put under lockdown on sunday for lessons go to beijing arbitron to us standing by live there so what about these clusters in particular have authorities concerned . well the concern richelle is that this cluster was growing and starting to spread to other areas in china in the last 24 hours we had 3 new cases reported one in julian city where this cluster is located but 2 outside of jilin province in the neighboring province. now so far with this cluster just over 20 people have been confirmed to have carved 19 and an additional 760 people have been separated in hospital or other corentin facilities for monitoring and the
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government has released the details of the activities of these confirmed cases urging the public to come forward if they've been or that they've been in contact with these people or they are worried that they may be feeling unwell now to some people locking down 4 and a half 1000000 people because of 20 or so cases in there you seem like a bit of an overreaction but the reason that this is happening is that the authorities are suspicious that this cluster may have been growing undetected for some period of time and all of these cases are linked to a 45 year old woman insured lun city that's the smallest city and it's a mystery so far as to how she caught she has no trouble history no contact with important cases there is some speculation that she may have caught it from clothing in her workplace for example but the authorities in this area are very keen to contain this as soon as possible especially saying that next week in beijing it's the most important political event of the year is going to be held the national people's congress or the last thing that they want to see is this getting out of
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hand. katrina so there is a mass toasting that is happening and why is that an indication that the train is considering maybe why ning out this mass testing. well we know that so far all the residents that's a leavening 1000000 residents are expected to be tested if they haven't already been tested in the last 2 weeks all residents would have received a text message at some point this week and being told by the local district authorities to head to the closest clinic to schedule their own test and authorities expect that districts will get this testing done in a period of 10 days that's about 1000000 people today roughly being tested outside of 100 so far nor sign of mass testing the reason that authorities and our spirit have been spared to do this mass testing is because there has been a cluster located there 6 new transmissions located there but elsewhere around the
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country as domestic travel restrictions is this a clear nucleic acid test is increasingly being used as some sort of possible local governments are asking travelers to to show it as a condition for them to arrive in their area and certainly other cities including beijing and shanghai it's very easy now to gore's who is testing sent to do a test for about $30.00 and get your results in 24 hours so this is increasingly becoming a crucial part of everyday life in china so far it's voluntary but at some point it may be rolled out on a compulsory basis all right katrina you live in beijing katrina thank you it's the lenders will be able to do everything every day things again such as going to restaurants and shopping malls as well as businesses reopening children are being allowed to go back to school on monday social distancing rules do remain a most gatherings are restricted to 10 people governments announce record spending of around $40000000000.00 over 4 years to revive the economy or correspondent wayne
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hay has more from the town of cambridge on north island. the country is beginning to get back to some sort of economic activity but there is a sense that the worst could still be to come because of what the rest of the world is going through in terms of facing economic recessions this is a country that relies heavily on exports and tourism there is some estimates that say that in the tourism sector alone around $100000.00 jobs could be lost so even though the country is opening up opening up economically there is a sense as a say that they could be more pain to come the government on thursday also unveiling its annual economic budget was planned some time ago but obviously had to be rewritten quite comprehensively because of coronavirus and it's unveiled a $30000000000.00 coronavirus economic recovery plan and that is the largest single spending package unveiled in new zealand history australia's unemployment rate has
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risen to a 5 year high the nationwide shutdown has caused hundreds of thousands of layoffs since last month ever and help is being promised the key component of the plan is not just to have the supports and fight the virus but to reopen our economy and that is happening a national initiative stites interior trees working together to reopen their economies to get a struggles back into the jobs to get the arrows back to get the income spectrum and to get this trying to calmly into our covert saif environment in agencies or warning that libyans are threatened by both the coronavirus and fighting and the u.n. says there's a high risk the outbreak will escalate following the deaths of 3 people and dozens of infections it's also warning that fighting is hampering the delivery of aid and having a catastrophic effect on civilians including migrants and refugees. and fighters
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loyal to war luckily for hoft are launched a rocket attack on the capital tripoli overnight that's where the un recognized government is based a hospital and civilian areas were targeted injuring 14 people after has intensified attacks on civilians this month after the tripoli government's military pushed back on his forces recent advances a suicide bombing in southeast afghanistan has killed at least 5 civilians and injured more than 20 attack happened in a military facility in a tier province the taliban has claimed responsibility saying it was retaliation to the government's decision to resume an offensive against the group the explosion comes 2 days after more than 50 people were killed in kabul and the har. the mayor of the biggest city in south africa says people with almost 1000000 households do not have enough to eat and as far it has been locked down for more than 6 weeks along with the rest of the country many businesses remain closed leaving families without work for me miller reports. candace played says she's making the most of
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the little food she has she lost her job at a job printing company when it was shut as the lockdown began weeks ago with no income she depends on government support to feed her 4 children were moved from the log down it was from the flu and yet times it was really difficult because it was for the whole month we had to wait for the whole month to get like the child support money so we do as a struggle for me every day and all we received the money last week last few days to go by and we lose him by going in stuff like that the wife of food like full groceries for the mind by the end of the day we still struggling the mayor of johannesburg says people in a 1000000 households don't have enough to eat the national government in pretoria has increased the child support grant and it's created a special grant of $20.00 a month to help workers who've lost a job survive the lock down government leaders say they're spending the equivalent
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of almost $3000000000.00 on the unemployed and the poor but even before the lockdown 45 percent of johannesburg's 5 and a half 1000000 people lived in poverty to make the crisis even worse many workers have lost their jobs since the lockdown began the government says it's handing out food parcels to about 2000 homes every day but it's simply not enough organizations like this one a crime to help or would go up by handing out 2 cooked meals every day. neuron gain has run this food charity for 7 years but says she can barely keep up since the lockdown began. when i've started the feeding we started with about her in 50. and it's turned over in a matter of a week after the lockdown to almost 4 to 500 a day saturday as i did 300 right now is standing on 1200 and. today in the home
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the organization relies on donations and she's not received any help from the government delia jones has run this barber shop for 16 years it's been closed for weeks leaving for staff members with no work and didio without any income she's applied for a government grant but has not heard back instead to customers help to buy food with an economy largely stalled and no clear indication of when the lockdown will end many are relying on handouts to survive for me to 0 janice book. credit ours has now reached every country in africa after all it's had to record its 1st case on wednesday the health ministry says a student who recently arrived from saudi arabia tested positive for the virus the city went into lockdown at the end of march to protect itself from the virus in neighboring south africa so ahead on al-jazeera of viruses on every continent but will have more on the other deadly virus waiting for sound the american. and find
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out why the u.s. could lose thousands of frontline medical workers in the midst of the pandemic. however there are still some big contrasts across europe weather wise this is the line of division and that over space that circulation is getting on the storm system bringing rain course to spain and portugal but that is the one to watch because the science of it is particularly hot temperature in sicily polemicist 34 and we certainly above 30 most of southeastern europe were disappointingly if you're lucky in the middle teens for most of the rest likely the reason in spain in portugal is circulating crowd and rain that rain i think will become quite intense again in northeastern spain in the pyrenees and maybe the south of france and the line is rather weak to pick it up in ukraine across the border in russia but this
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is going to migrate through the pope valley again through the south of germany and austria has been at the system line of writing the last couple days in milan sits in its forecast is either went all sundry and went for the next 2 days a bit better on sunday as a consequence of course for what's happening overspread in portugal the consequences in morocco as you can see and the warmth is still very obvious it's the same draw through tripoli in tunis this made sicily so warm but for about it's cold wet and windy. there's the will find the correct time to make the learning more about this every day it's a new path and your new join our global community it's up to us on how we come together to fight. your questions can i just as you start to see directly that's
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coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the front line phone that's a great question but keeping you up to date and country. and beating back the stream on 00. 0 let's recap the top stories for you this hour president donald trump is ignoring the advice of his top infectious diseases expert he wants the u.s. economy up and running as soon as possible over $900.00 task force member dr anthony fauci says rushing to reopen could lead to needless death. his war in the coronavirus may never go away and could become endemic like hiv but it also says an
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effective vaccine could eliminate it. china says it's trying to test the entire population of wrong where the virus is believed to have originated after 6 new cases were reported there are also new infections in the northeastern province of chill and that's happened back under a partial lockdown. and in asia is listening to master travel restrictions that critics say the new rules are vague and inconsistent and epidemiologists say the government is pushing too prematurely a social distancing without compelling evidence the spread of spent her jessica washington reports from jakarta. this is normally the busiest airport in southeast asia but most aircraft at sukarno had to international have been grounded for weeks by cofa 19 travel restriction now some travelers in the world's 4th largest population are on the move again i had to travel for work i'm sure airlines have taken the right precautions i'm a bit worried about traveling because the regulations aren't clear in late april
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the government announced a ban on travel from cities designated as covert 19 hotspots since then the ban has been changed many times the latest is to allow travel for family emergencies and some business trips the government says the business exemption is only for journeys related to combating the pandemic and important economic functions young lass travelers have to be clear about the purpose of the troubled economy what they're doing and when they'll return this is not a relaxation of the mess social distancing. but the grounds for exemption from the travel ban are vague even industry workers are confused. about the policies are clashing with each other we need the government to be firm so we know what our future will be a move the travel restrictions were to stop the spread of the virus from major cities into provinces with little or no help infrastructure now with the government begins to relax these restrictions their fears even more lives will be put at risk
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government ministers say they want life to start going back to normal in a matter of weeks but doctors say that's unlikely if you're out of the of course we're not ready the president says we need to test 10000 people day we've only reached half that number many people died in emergency rooms because of the backlog so the never got counted even though they covered 1900 times obvious for weeks president djoko widow simply advised against the annual tradition known as moody when millions of workers return to their hometowns before by the time he announced a ban and ordered police checkpoints around major cities hundreds of thousands had already made the journey. spawn's is being criticized for being slow and inconsistent because the government is not very. very strict and he's not very. much with the restrictions in a very stupid way right from distance and it makes the right makes that. it makes the periods of the legs dependent we can be big can be long
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in into the 2nd but too many times as many other punches many feel the rush to get things back to normal could end up doing the opposite just because washington al-jazeera to come to. south korea is encouraging farmers are all areas to adopt smart technologies to deal with the shortage of workers initiative is proving timely as the country recovers from its operate as robin pride discovered on a visit to the southern growing region and will. in the quest to grow the perfect fruit this is one strawberry farm that is increasingly turning to smart technology every aspect of the growing environment is carefully regulated the amount of sunlight let in to the water and fertilizers used it's helping to compensate for the loss of young people not wanting to go into farming like their parents can. get them we don't have enough workers in the rural areas but by using smart technology
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we can reduce the need for manpower. the farm is owned by a husband and wife team who gave up high powered jobs in large corporations to pursue their dream they are part of a growing trend of people with high tech backgrounds opting for a new life in the countryside and in the young people coming to rural areas these days are quite interested in smart farm technology we've hired young koreans and are training them to share our know how to grow strawberries helping to spread the smart farm message to ever younger people this pilot project in seoul has been running in a subway station since the end of last year it takes a news base to create a vertical farm under artificial light that is cheap so much greater productivity than growing above ground. i hope that by exposing our children to high tech enterprises like this at an early age they can one day contribute to korea's future
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and smart farming excellent in fact more engineering students in agriculture a student are being attracted to this life in farming got tougher when south korea lost its developing nation status at the end of last year that meant it could no longer use tariffs to protect its farmers it speeded up the government's efforts to harness technology in agriculture and initiative now given more urgency with the coronavirus smart technology means less face to face. act in how crops are grown and sold. after the coronavirus people need to practice social distancing and smart farm technology helps them by achieving a uniform quality it's easier to sail online. new smarter ways for a new post virus reality bride al-jazeera sun juice south korea. has a number of deaths related to crown a virus rises in latin america another disease is spreading there as well then if
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he ever is carried by mosquitoes innocent affecting people across the continent workers are warning of a record number of cases this year the tour again reports. from homes in ecuador to parks empower. to streets in argentina sanitation workers battle to get the outbreak of dengue fever under control more than 3000000 cases were reported last year in latin america an all time high scientists warn the numbers this year could be even higher in. this a possibility also parsing the historical record of 2009 that's when bolivia experienced the worst epidemic of any disease in its history we had 80000 cases nationwide 61000 were registered in santa cruz. the eighty's egypt i'm a ski take carries the day virus poor sanitation and climate change with heavy rains
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and long periods of droughts old making the outbreak was. doctors across the continent say hospitals are struggling to keep up with the number of new patients and the cave 19 is further reducing the resources available to treat dengue fever and other diseases. the moment. is the star right now so all of the attention is on covert but there are still problems with the malaria in charge of us and provincial areas there's a problem of hospital capacity. dengue fever is not normally fatal and can be treated with painkillers some suffer as experience symptoms such as fatigue weight loss and depression patients with severe cases are advised to go to hospital that many people have been staying away because of the fear of catching cave 19. you know the 1st thing i thought was i want to stay home before i expose myself i'm not going to hospital my friends recommended i go but no way i prefer to treat my
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symptoms at home and only go to hospital if it's serious with full strains of dengue in circulation doctors say people may catch it more than once and that the 2nd case is more likely to be severe victoria case and be al-jazeera. chillies health minister has announced the capital santiago will be locked down on friday after a surgeon chrono virus cases 8000000 people will be banned from going outside except for essential errands people over the age of 75 across the country have been ordered to stay home the decision follows the announcement of 2660 additional infections a lot america has more from santiago. the number of infections has just been going up and up and up and finally the government did what many people had been begging it to do now for the past few weeks and that is to declare a total lockdown here in the capital santiago just so you get an idea in the last 2 weeks the number of infected case of infected people went up 500 percent
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and that means that the course the hospitals are now practically full running at near capacity the government says that it will be bringing in more ventilators tomorrow there are only about 550 still available for patients but the thing the situation is looking quite dire not just in the capital but in other parts of the country as well another of the announcements that was made a short while ago by the health minister is that anyone over the age of 75 will be quarantined indefinitely they must stay at home he says that that is because they are the most vulnerable sector of the population and would also it's the highest death rate so far chile does have a fairly low death rate 300 and nearly $350.00 people as of now but if the situation continues to deteriorate as i just mentioned that death rate could go up much much faster with millions of jobs on the line in the u.s.
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to to the virus tens of thousands more could be at risk because of a decision by the president that's because so many people including health care workers are undocumented immigrants who arrived in the u.s. is children and an upcoming supreme court ruling could see them deported castro reports. when jose aggie luce came to the united states at age 15 it was to fight for his life on a very bad car accident that i broke my neck and my parents decided that they couldn't do the surgery in honduras in the u.s. the medical team that saved him also inspired a new path for his future i saw the care that nurses provided to me and i decided that i want to be one of them the family settled in the u.s. despite having tourist visas jose studied and earned a nursing degree but discovered no hospital would hire him due to his immigration status good afternoon everybody then came former u.s. president barack obama's 2012 announcement of
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a program called deferred action for childhood arrivals or dhaka it was that this was a well giving young undocumented immigrants a chance at the american dream eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization with dhaka jose became an operating room nurse and progressed in his medical career now he's treating kovan 1000 patients at a field hospital in baltimore maryland i don't introduce myself to my patients. and nurse and the doctor recipient you know for them i'm just so said the nurse and that's going to be taking care of them in their time of me on his day off from the field hospital has a volunteers here at a coed 19 drive through testing site where he takes samples from patients he doesn't get paid for this work he says he does it to give back to
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a community that's given him so much i feel it's my responsibility to help and help other americans say immigrants and anyone in this country according to the national immigration law center 27000 frontline. health care workers in the united states are immigrants covered by dhaka but whether they can remain on the job during this time of crisis depends on a u.s. supreme court ruling expected within weeks the high court will decide whether the trump administration may cancel daca as it intends to do. you know reaping the benefits really of this group of individuals who are working on the front lines protecting us at the same time not extending just the basic benefit of allowing them to stay in the united states it's a really uncomfortable and you know tragic position that we've put ourselves in. without dhaka the young immigrants face the threat of deportation that means the
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thanks jose may receive for helping america overcome the coronavirus pandemic is a boot out of the country castro al-jazeera washington. pick up the headlines right now on al-jazeera as president all trump is ignoring the advice of his top infectious disease expert he wants the u.s. economy up and running as soon as possible coven 1000 task force member dr anthony fauci says rushing to reopen could lead to needless death at the derby h.-o. has warned the corona virus may never go away and could become endemic like hiv but it also says an effective vaccine could eliminate it china says it's trying to test the entire population of one hong where the virus is believed to have originated after 6 new cases were reported there also new infections in the northeastern province have to lead and that has been put back under a partial lockdown has the latest from beijing. in the last 24 hours there were 3
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new cases new local transmissions reported one in gielen city but 2 in neighboring province and that's why the authorities ah so concerned so far so far over 20 people are confirmed to have covered 19 in jianlian province and more than 700 people who have been known to have been conned being in contact with these 20 cases have also been put into hospital facilities or quarantine facilities full monitoring in isolation these legal wonders will be able to do every day everyday things again like going to restaurants and shopping malls and as well as businesses reopening children are being allowed to go back to school on monday social distancing rules remain in most gatherings are restricted to 10 people still as unemployment rate has risen to a 5 year high the nationwide shutdown has caused hundreds of thousands of layoffs since last month government help though is being promised. the mayor of the biggest
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city in south africa says people in almost a 1000000 households do not have enough to eat johannesburg has been locked down for more than 6 weeks along with the rest of the country many businesses remain closed and that's leaving families without work i mean agencies are warning the lives of libyans or risk not only from conflict but also from the coronavirus more than 60 cases have been confirmed 3 people are reported to have died and the u.n. says there is a high risk the outbreak outbreak that is will escalate 7 agencies say the fighting is having a catastrophic effect on civilians that includes migrants and refugees and it's also hampering the delivery of a. for the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera mortars to calm the strain is next to the old is there a sort of let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop all the 30 action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting of it might be we meet with global news makers and talk
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about the stories that matter on the al-jazeera. high after me ok watching the string in the home edition because i don't need to tell you the current of the list pandemic started in la had china but now china is just getting out for more of its lockdown mandates and it's fascinating see what looked out real life lessons we can learn as the rest of us are coming out of those stay at home mandates how does china going to lead the way out is akhil the station for today if you're in are you cheap chat hello welcome nice to see if you have a question you have a comment you have stories to share and go ahead jump them in the you tube chat and have.
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