millions living working at commuting in such tight conditions but one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how this was put together and how it's run. gripped by the worst economic crisis in decades 36000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits since the pandemic swept through the united states. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up world leaders call for all coronavirus vaccines to be for a year and universally available. back under lockdown in china restrictions are reinstated after

a new cluster of infections. also ahead how our knowledge of corona virus is changing and what that means for a future treat. the corona virus is wreaking yet more havoc in the u.s. jobs market now almost 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the past 7 days that is down on the previous weeks but it does bring the nationwide figure of those seeking benefits to more than $36000000.00 people since the lockdown over coronavirus began meanwhile global figures have joined together making a plea for the eventual covert 19 vaccine to be distributed free of charge to all countries in an open letter more than 140 current and former leaders nobel laureates and academics all calling for the global sharing of data and technologies

related to the virus the world health organization has won the virus may never ever be wiped out completely the health body says without a vaccine it could take years for people to build immunity. this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this wireless may never go away hiv has not gone away we've come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we followed the prevention methods and people don't feel as scared. as they did before and we're offering life to people with hiv long healthy lives to people what a jury. ok let's rewind to the u.s. jobless figures a white house correspondent kimberly is outside the white house for us kimberly another week more numbers unpacking doesn't make good listening for the trumpet ministration. no this is not what a jobs president wants to hear the fact that we're now at the 36000000 mark and

climbing in terms of the number of americans that have filed for jobless claims and before this number finally settles it's still predicted to go as high as 46000000 and across all sectors of the economy because what we're seeing initially is the 1st wave of jobless claims hit sort of the hospitality tourism sectors but now what we're seeing is businesses settle into the reality that they are not going to be able to reopen quickly that this is a phase reopening of the economy at its best now we're seeing this secondary wave of jobless claims being filed so this is certainly not encouraging news for a president that had promised is voters that he would win reelection based on a strong sound u.s. economy the economy has been a blitter rated even as the u.s. president claims that he can bring this back he is projecting that recovery not till the 4th quarter notably after the u.s. election takes place now the u.s. president is headed to pennsylvania

a key battleground state today where he will be making the case to reopen that state's economy he'll be touring a mask factory is one of the stops and there's no question that he is going to continue to try and sound the optimistic note that he has for weeks even as these job numbers continue to climb but staying with you can believe for a 2nd rick bright a whistle blower he's going to testify today on capitol hill about the trump administration's reaction to the pandemic as well presumably will not go down very well inside the building behind you. yeah that capitol hill hearing is set to take place at any moment and trying to set the stage in advance of that testimony potentially even trying to discredit what we expect to be not good news for this administration the u.s. president has tweeted in the last hour saying i don't know the so-called whistleblower rick bright never met him or even heard of him but to me he is

a disgruntled employee not liked or respected by people i spoke to and who with his attitude should no longer be working for our government very quickly in terms of his background he is headed up as the top scientists of vaccine agency inside the united states government he was pushed out of his job he alleges for political reasons because he would not push a drug a controversial drug for treating coronavirus that the u.s. president was fond of he's now asking for his job to be restored in the midst of this he's testifying before a house health panel and we expect that his testimony will not be good for this administration essentially he's going to predict that there will be unprecedented illness and fatalities of more preparations are not done for that 2nd wave of quote a virus cases that is expected in the fall he says it will be the darkest winter in modern history and he's urging a ramping up of preparations and of course donald trump and his administration to be strongly criticized for the lack of preparation many allege in response to the

initial outbreak of coronavirus and we should very quickly point out this will be the 2nd testimony that hasn't been particularly great for donald trump on capitol hill this week because of course just a couple of days ago dr anthony found she top public health official in the united states contradicted the u.s. president when he said there would not be a vaccine in time for school in the fall donald trump called that an unacceptable answer and he also said that you can't consider opening the economy or consider the country to be open if the schools are also open well top public health official says that's very unlikely and that's something the u.s. president trying to win reelection in november does not want to hear him believe many things. ok let's get more no a plea from global leaders for equitable distribution of any future vaccine journal joins us now from london even before we get quite close to a possible vaccine journey there arguing over who should pay for it or who should get it free. quite well i'm not sure it's

descended into an argument just yet this is an appeal certainly that's been issued by a pretty illustrious list of public figures more than 140 of them including 50 former world leaders and some current ones as well headlined by cyril ram opposer the south african president also the pakistan prime minister iran can reflecting i think concerns in the global south to use the language of the letter developing countries that a vaccine if and when it comes will be discovered in the global north among developed countries and be used there among those rich populations 1st leaving the developing world to languish at the back of the queue without the resources without the finances to secure their fair share so this letter has been released it's an open letter it calls for a free paper and on any vaccine that eventually comes that's not there for owned by any one country or any one comp company that is then produced quickly at scale to

be made available to the billions of people around the world who will need it at no cost the letter says for the global public good we cannot afford for monopolies crude competition and near-sighted nationalism it says to stand in the way of a global vaccine to end this pandemic and as you talked about there the progress being made all the time we're told towards vaccine there is a race on of course more than $100.00 clinical tests are underway around the world most of those right be according to this letter taking place in developed countries the most advanced of which is here in the u.k. at oxford university and scientists are saying look maybe in a best case scenario if a vaccine is discovered it could be discovered within months possibly by the author but that's nowhere near the point where it reaches billions of people in slums and in poor communities and often places where it's most needed that could take a long long time in developing countries here very keen to ensure they're not made

to wait even longer than anyone else in the world journey thanks very much. well as kimberly was saying there president trump says he wants the u.s. economy and up and running again as soon as possible there is of course an election in november his message comes a day after dr anthony folk she warned that rushing to reopen could have serious consequences including needless deaths and suffering mike hanna reports from washington 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 it 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

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 drops 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 that 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's stay at home order siding with republican leaders who argue the 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. 2 cities in the northeast of china reinstated lockdown measures because of a new cluster of infections 4 and a half 1000000 people in jilin city have been told to stay at home public transport has been stopped and recently reopened schools have been closed again neighboring shoe land city was locked down on sunday on the way on 11000000 people living in new hampshire where the virus was 1st reported a us more details on what's happening in julian and will and from the chinese capital beijing. to some people looking down 4 and a half 1000000 people because of 20 or so cases may 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 insure lun city that's the smallest city and it's

a mystery so far as to how she caught korvin dying teen 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 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 hand we know that so far rouhani all the residents that's a live in 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 in the hahn will get this testing done in a period of 10 days that's about 1000000 people paid a roughly being tested outside of what hons so far no 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 this 6 new transmissions located there but elsewhere around the country as domestic travel restrictions eased 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. still to come here on al-jazeera we'll tell you why the number could be 1000 cases in war ravaged yemen may not be quite the senior. class there on the front lines but still getting fired the health care workers being dismissed

when they needed the most. hello is about to get very wet again with the seasonal rains redeveloping in this part of china sars was more or less the line does extend through the east and towards the korean peninsula that's one palls of heavy rain if you see dark blue orange that's the heavy stuff then a bit of a break and then it starts to redevelop again a bit further south so you got that right from china stretching and he sees no way out towards honshu and just going south to tokyo come saturday but significant right where it does fall now the last several hours fairly obviously south of that and the 1st tropical storm of typhoon of the season has made landfall fairly recently is a category 2 it's equivalent of

a hurricane in the landtag so it's pretty windy and very wet now of course the flip easy use this has been a big break now some preparations were done by expect damage and flash floods of this thing new study north through zone over the next 2 days as you can see the orange core is the heart of it that is big gaffe of scattered thunderstorms in the bay of bengal a development seems to be taking place in fact that will take several days to amount to anything in the meantime we have significant running up the coast of kara up to go chile occasional big showers in the forecast for bangladesh. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day the new patent your new join our global community. how we come together to fight answering your questions can i just ask you type person directly what's coming on

on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the frontline phone i think or a quiet and not keeping you up to date and we've seen countries retreat back and beaten back to translate the stream on al-jazeera. populace recovery sob stories for you so far today dozens of current and former world leaders are making a plea for free and equitable access to a covert 19 vaccine once it's developed a sense an open letter urging countries to share data virus related technologies. the world health organization has warned the virus may never go away and could become endemic like a child b.

but it also says effective vaccine could eliminate it. in the u.s. almost 3000000 people have now filed for unemployment benefits in the past 7 days that's done from previous weeks but it brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 people since coronavirus measures began. among those losing their jobs in the u.s. are health care workers while others are seeing their hours and wages cut she have sensi as the story. it hasn't gone unnoticed that even as the u.s. salutes front line workers in this case with military flyovers at a conservatively estimated $60000.00 an hour over at least 22 cities health care workers are being funded at a low rates due to a lack of phones and that's despite $100000000000.00 in funding post by congress specifically to help medical providers preliminary estimates for april showed a loss of $1400000.00 health care jobs with 135000 hospital stuff such as

revenue rich elective surgeries and routine visits were canceled his data report and on the situation as well. so what we're seeing today is what was going on in and around the middle so i certainly think i would not be surprised to see more losses when we see next month 317 stoffel find at this hospital in san diego those who remain say some of those well frontline kovan stone as with millions of others in the u.s. then without their employer based health insurance when they may need it most everybody was still devastated were reeling from that. everybody demoralized on the or is that right now and of course there were. a lot of. or nurses and now they're worried that after a 14. day between 2 to 14 database and spirit what if they get infected and that we don't have insurance so. it's easy for

a lot of. executives. you know these health care workers and there's a hero and then they can really just drop it like nothing but problem on health which runs the hospital said it had no choice not only is revenue down in areas not connected to the pandemic it isn't treating high numbers of patients on either meanwhile health care workers who remain acing that hours on wages cut while fearing drug laws and that's particularly so it will have been a little noticed but a growing sector in u.s. medicine hospitals and medical style thing controlled by private equity firms wolf street spent 100000000000 dollars on health care assets in 2018 aloon private equity is financial bill is based on profits for investors that beat the rest of the market and that's made these assets particularly vulnerable now those emergency rooms are the ones that have been at the forefront. of cutting salaries and cutting

doctor salaries it's the extreme form for profit says they are reacting quickly in order to get their money to repay their investors for the organization's private equity blames medical insurance companies for forcing them to make cuts and it's true insurance companies are already seeing unprotecting healthy profits as a result of the pandemic because the emergency continues well many flaws within the us health care system have been revealed increasingly there's debate as to whether it's the system itself that is brute can she have returned see al-jazeera. well it's been more than 5 months now since the 1st known case of corona virus but much is still unknown about how it impacts the human body early on people will want to watch for fever shortness of breath and a dry cough but more is being learned about other ways covert 19 appears to attack the body we now know it can damage people's kidneys the filter waste from the blood

meaning some patients may require dialysis it can also weaken the heart and cause blood clots that can trigger heart attacks or strokes a blood clots lodge in the brain then there's the vomiting inflammation of the eyes loss of smell and taste of skin rashes and other illnesses related to the human immune system can as chest doctor in the u.k. and a senior lecturer at the lead school of medicine also in the u.k. he says some of the effects of the virus could impact patients for the rest of their lives. it's a new disease so everything is new we're learning new things about it all the time it was initially thought just to be a respect retrieve iris like other coronaviruses the common cold saws and miss but we now know that the receptive that binds to the ace to resect is it can get into the intestines in the kidneys quite easily it can travel along the nervous system as well so we're seeing all these new long term problems developing so with with

adults usually get the fever cough with children it seems to have a predisposition for their intestines and they get that they gastroenterologist diarrhea or an abdominal pain in terms of long term consequences is there is evidence to suggest that actually it can do permanent damage to the lungs something called pulmonary fibrosis where the lungs don't inflate and deflate as well even after the person has cleared the virus and that can lead to permanent problems with breathing shortness of breath and minimal exertion that kind of thing we're also seeing people with chronic kidney disease at the end of the virus because what it does is a fex a tiny tiny blood vessels in the kidneys which feed the filtration system in the kidneys and once that filtration system gets damaged it's irreversible so those people can end up with chronic kidney disease and a small number again and upon dialysis and that isn't reversible they will be on dialysis for the rest of their life the number of infections in russia has

surpassed a quarter of a 1000000 another 1900 were reported on the 1st time in 2 weeks the daily total has dipped below 10000 the government has eased the nation wide lockdown with many russians returning to work this week. casaus recorded as high as daily increase in infections a further 1733 people were confirmed to have the virus on thursday taking the total number of infections to more than 28000 containment measures are being stepped up as of sunday with people being ordered to wear a face mask in public or risk being fined. lebannon has imposed a lockdown for 4 days following an increase in infections more than 100 new cases have been reported in the past few days along excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industries levanon began lifting restrictions last month to help ease its worst economic crisis in decades in yemen

a lack of testing facilities has made it difficult to assess how badly the virus is affecting one of the world's poorest countries so far only 13 deaths and 72 infections have been reported however health workers are warning a major outbreak will have catastrophic consequences is priyanka gupta. a new military offensive in the middle of a global pandemic. the southern province of the army is the latest frontline in humans war. government forces backed by saudi arabia are inching closer to is a provincial capital since a bar they are fighting to end what they call an armed rebellion by the southern transitional council the separatists movement was just backed by the united arab emirates determined to break away from more than yemen the breakaway fighters were once allies in the fight against these in the north. now enemies in the battle for

control in the south last month the southern separatist fighters declared self rule in their stronghold the port city of aden and now want to extend control over nearby provinces. victory is close only a few hours separate us from an aide and we are well prepared a morale is high and men are ready. to not fall from the shelf yemenis and aden are fighting against the civil enemy. the new corner virus the city is reporting the highest number of infections from decks in yemen as more cases are detected elsewhere the lack of testing facilities means many infections are going undiagnosed and many deaths on group or to. director we have taken many steps to prevent the spread of corona virus we've implemented an educational campaign we've implemented to sterilization campaign in

streets and stores 5 years of war between who the fight is on government forces backed by the saudi you a military coalition has forced millions of yemenis from their homes. and crimes comes running water is a luxury. that we are afraid for our children we have elderly people and we are in a remote place and we are afraid the virus will spread like wildfire is spatially get the disease appeared entires and only the directorate of motor is between us and the virus meaning that is very close and we are in fear that the world health organization says the virus could flip through yemen really hard the hospitals are functioning i audition sees how border famine yemenis are caught between the pandemic and civil war with no end to their suffering so it plunk a couple ounces here. now coronaviruses reached every country in africa

after the suit to record it is 1st case the health ministry there saying a student who recently arrived back home from saudi arabia tested positive for city went into lockdown at the end of march to protect itself from the virus in neighboring south africa. the mayor of the biggest city in south africa says almost 1000000 households don't have enough to reach the country has been locked down for 6 weeks many businesses in johannesburg remain closed leaving families without work is for me the middle. candice played says she's making the most of 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 really bad for on the fly 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 it was

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 and 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 their jobs survive the lock down government leaders say they're spending the equivalent of almost 3000000000 dollars on the unemployed and the poor but even before the lock down 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 cry for help or would go up by handing out to cooked meals every day. neuron game 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 saturdays i did 300 right now is standing on 1200 and. saturday and on 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 4 staff members with no work and d'leo without any income she's applied for a government grant but is not heard back instead her customers help her buy food with an economy largely stalled and no clear indication of when the lockdown will

end many are relying on handouts to survive. al-jazeera johannesburg. to be landmarks in the southwest of germany have disappeared in just a few seconds. the cooling towers are part of the now closed phillipsburg nuclear power station all of germany's nuclear plants are being phased out by 2022 a decision made after the fukushima disaster in japan green activist welcomed the latest demolition and called for more investments in renewable power sources. updating your top stories here on al-jazeera almost 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the united states in the past 7 days but is down from previous weeks but it adds to a total of coming out 36000000 people have now lost their jobs since coronavirus

lockdown measures began white house correspondent kimberly health it unpacks the numbers. before this number finally settles it's still predicted to go as high as 46000000 add across all sectors of the economy because what we're seeing initially is the 1st wave of jobless claims hit sort of the hospitality tourism sectors but now what we're seeing is businesses settle into the reality that they are not going to be able to reopen quickly that this is a phase reopening of the economy at its best now we're seeing this secondary wave of jobless claims being filed. dozens of current and former world leaders making a plea for free and equitable access to a covert 19 vaccine once it's developed they sent an open letter urging countries to share data on virus related technologies the world health organization has warned the virus may never go away and could become endemic like b.

but it says an effective vaccine could eliminate it in china there are fears of a 2nd wave of infections after new local transmissions were reported there is trying to test all residents in one hand and in the northeast jill in city has been put back into lockdown and 700 people have been put into quarantine infection rates in russia has surpassed a quarter of a 1000000 another nearly 10000 reported on thursday is the 1st time in 2 weeks the daily total has dipped below 10000 the government's eased the nationwide lockdown with many russians returning to work this week coronavirus has now reached every country in africa after the suit to record its 1st case the health ministry saying a student had recently retired returned from saudi arabia up next is the stream i will see you very soon for the moment. what impact will called it 19 on the drop in the oil price problem the race to the white. count going from

survive these historic setbacks until the job only to have what it takes to beat. the special coverage on al-jazeera. to me ok watching the stream the home edition because i don't need to tell you the coronavirus pandemic study who had in 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 right ads akhil the station for today if you and i you cheap chat how low 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 help.