far wider than anyone. this is al-jazeera. 10100 hours g.m.t. this tuesday here on al-jazeera how does one come all santamaria welcome to the news 9 months 1000000 deaths the world reaches a painful milestone in the coronavirus and damage and still there is no sign of infections slowing down. we'll also look at the pandemics perfect storm rising unemployment and hunger worldwide workers in the philippines say they haven't had enough food for months also in the news the death toll mounts in the conflict

between azerbaijan and armenia over the disputed territory of not going to cut about. guinea's government puts its purity forces on alert and closes the border with senegal ahead of protests against president of the company. and in sports the tampa bay lightning have won hockey's stanley cup tampa bay basing the dallas stars to lift the trophy for just the 2nd time. 273 days ago the municipal health commission in china reported a cluster of what it thought were cases of pneumonia today 1000000 people worldwide have died from what we now know as coded 19 it has been a pandemic that has changed the world we can genuinely say that a virus that forced health of the planet into various levels of lockdown it. cost

millions of jobs so many of which will never be recovered it has profoundly altered our daily lives how we work how we move how we interact even how we grieve and remember the dead most would never have thought that nearly 9 months on more than 33000000 people would have been infected with this virus let alone more than a 1000000 of those dying from it and yet that is where we are let's start with what the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace had to say when this somber milestone was passed our world has reached an agonizing milestone the loss of 1000000 lives from the cover in 1000 pandemic it's a mind numbing figure yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life there were fathers and mothers wives and husbands brothers and sisters friends and colleagues the pain those mean multiplied by the 7 minutes of these disease research the infection kept families from bedsides and the process of mourning and

celebrating the life was over may be impossible so coming up in this news hour we will look at the virus from different perspectives those fighting it those who have survived it those dealing with the inequality it has created but those 1000000 deaths well behind every one of those is a family coping with grief kristen salumi spoke to one such family in new york who lost their loved ones during this pandemic. anthony and rosemary terrio were married for 65 years they died in new york 5 days apart during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic they met when my mom was like 17 and they were together ever since i moved to queens. and oh gosh right after they got married the disease has made its way through new york and the terrio family now it is the midwestern united states that are seeing the most new cases which are on the rise for the 1st time in 8 weeks as the nationwide death toll tops 200008 family members had it you know it

just it went the whole gamut my my sister was taking care my mother she quoted then she gave it to her son and her son gave it to his partner and my my brother gave it to his wife and my other brother caught it gave it to his wife while the other family members have recovered the impact of the disease is still being felt experts attribute the recent spike on the reopening of schools and universities as well as large end of summer gatherings but the terrio also blame politicians and ordinary people across the country they feel aren't doing enough to stop the spread is some seeing so much. people not being careless where mask can see people live and there are so many other old people that are i don't want this happens you know when they can just be responsible and not complacent with something that they may survive but it doesn't necessarily have to be all

person it could be a woman battling long you know breast cancer or a little child battling leukemia or something like that in is just a mask you know for a few minutes a family struggling with loss and hoping that amid the uncertainties of a pandemic others can be spared their pain kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. so how did we as a global community get to this point and you'll be very familiar with this map the johns hopkins university virus tracker which shows more than a 1000000 people have been killed by a new disease there's novel coronavirus from the outset we have to say that data wise we are dealing with an imperfect science when it comes to this pandemic we only have reported deaths actual numbers could be much higher and there are also arguments over what exactly constitutes a death from covert 19 given people have existing illnesses so we go with what we've got and it comes from our world in days here at the university of oxford

china was obviously our early focus but by late february iran some european south american countries they're saying debts to the united states that accelerates very quickly yes the curve starts to bend by late june but as the summer holidays kicked in it picked up again it now sits above 200000 these are by the way the 12 countries with the most deaths so you've got you can see brazil india mexico clearly above the rest and while places like the u.k. italy and spain have definitely flattened curves between them they still have upwards of 100000 dead but how do all those deaths from covert 19 stack up in the big picture i mean how many of us actually die in a normal year without a pandemic well as of 2017 when we had the last most comprehensive u.n. research 56000000 people die every year and the vast majority of those come in asia we're talking 31000000 but that's no massive

surprise given you've got china and india both with populations above 1000000000. and the biggest killers and this is by some margin there is 31.8 percent cardiovascular diseases there is illnesses linked to heart and blood vessels so let's take out 1000000 covert debts and if we use that as a percentage of yearly defense it would fit in around here just about hiv aids now let's have a quick look at the daily picture as well at its worst which was here april 16th to be exact 10491 people died from cova 19 on that day now these days well it fluctuates sort of between 4000 and closer to 7000 but again just as a comparison remember we're talking daily here every day around 150000 people die regardless and nearly 50000 of those are again from the cardiovascular diseases 26000 from cancer and another 10000 from non communicable respiratory diseases now

of course none of this is to say that any death is worse or more important than another but the question we are left with this year is how many of these 1000000 deaths could have been avoided well when u.s. deaths were 65000 and there was some research from columbia university it suggested 36000 of those deaths could have been avoided if social distancing measures had started on march 8th instead of the 15th just one week earlier and that number of saved lives goes up to 54000 if it started on march the 1st again the science is imperfect but it is plain to see that countries which locked down harder and sooner have also been spared the most pain so let's speak to the 1st of our guests on this news hour from hong kong john nicholls a clinical professor in pathology at the university of hong kong an expert on influenza viruses and you are researching the novel coronavirus as well i mean how are you feeling 9 months on do you feel like you've been you and your colleagues

must have made progress you must know more about this than yet we're still. a 1000000 deaths down and waiting for a vaccine which i must say that she feels on 9 years rather 9 months but i think we've had advance quite a lot but as was just point out before the still a bit of lack of clarity on where not people dying with over 9000 or all of it 19 and so we're actually interesting to see how much those that co-morbidities have contributed towards this excess mortality so yet and from the white basic biology point if you were very clear now about the tach meant of the virus and also some of the mechanisms how it replicates its but still some of the very much a mountain question is on the transmission about how much weight goes into on contact surfaces in aerosols or airborne that sort of area is still very much a debate and which is very important about determining how we can actually control

the disease. i'd like to talk about vaccines if we could john and run through a little affirmation for our viewers 1st of all as you know vaccine takes years to be approved but it's hoped some of these could be available sometime next year most of them still in pretty clinical stages being tested on animals not people about 40 or india phase one at which they're given a handful of people then you have phase 2 they're tested on hundreds of people so it builds up and up there are 11 promising prospects that have reached phase 3 which is where thousands of people receive the drug to confirm its safety and to check for side effects right this is all making sense i'm glad he's saying yes and then we've got some specifics vaccines developed by the university of oxford astra zeneca the u.s. biotech firm modernity they have got through to that stage china has given limited approval for use of a vaccine developed by sin of back which began with doses for soldiers but since expanded to a growing number of essential workers and then also in orchestra russian made

vaccine got the early go ahead from president vladimir putin that was before phase 3 testing and even begun so john now that i've run through all of that let's actually put it into some sort of context 1st of all how much longer do you think or is it you know how long is a piece of string and also is a vaccine a silver bullet in this case. so that last question 1st. i don't think it will get to court and the reason is that if we look at another. days which is go to very good vaccine mass influenza even though each year we rolled out a very good influenza vaccine that's good. immunization strategy you still get lots and lots of deaths from him through enter because mercy is vaccines they're very good actually stopping the patients from getting the pneumonia but they're not very

good at stopping transmission so even though you can run out of vaccine even if it's one shot that's just 2 shots and it gives a good antibody response which at this stage is still being investigated is still going to have to look at things like the cold chain how much people are going to accept the vaccine there's estimates ses say being out 40 to 50 percent of the population one even wanted vaccine and then even if it does the people do get it then yes i said it will stop the severe disease in the number of patients but i doubt it will stop the transmission and then we've got the problem of that if some countries have got very good vaccination strategies others don't and how you're going to deal with the travel issues and those sorts of issues so i really unfortunate don't think it's going to be a silver bullet because we've had an influenza vaccine for many years and still each year we get lots and lots of deaths through preventive preventable disease one more thing i want to talk to you about john and that is the issue of testing and

before we talk about it let's actually have a listen to u.s. officials who were speaking at the white house yesterday about rapid testing have a listen to this this is not the deep brain biopsy that we talk about this will generally done by a health care provider but it can be done supervise it's easy 123-451-2345 . into the task twisted 3 times. the adhesive is pulled off and you wait 15 minutes and that is the test it really could not be easier in this this is a very sophisticated little piece of cardboard with lots of antibodies and incredible technology into that. so 15 minute tests a quick swab in either nostril and apparently you can get some sort of guidance i mean this is the type of thing which surely we need rolled out to as many places as possible. that was he that's where i think these rapid tests on the engine out in

the bench it's better than doing the p.c.r. we have to wait for hours because unlike influenza we have that really pretty period where the patients can actually have the virus and show no symptoms and so the idea will this test pick up those asymptomatic people and basic catch them at an early stage so that they can be isolated and they can be monitored because unlike influenza you don't have that period where you know that it will only asymptomatic for once 2 days with them this virus you can actually be asymptomatic for 6 days so if you can get this rapid test and i think the estimation will be that fiber 6 u.s. dollars then and it can be done without the need for fancy high powered equipment and it could be very effective and my understanding is that some of the airlines are trying to actually bring this test him as a way of screening but he does so this i think is what it is texas is used

for me in many g.p.'s offices things like influenza so if we are able to do this then i think that will cut down on the transmission and also hopefully cooked up to open up some countries john nichols from the university of hong kong we appreciate your time your experience and the work you're doing thank you thank you much have a good evening thank you i want to return briefly to the johns hopkins university virus tracker which has been the global benchmark for monitoring infections and deaths from cova 19 something we don't always show you though is the number which we've changed to green the number of people who have recovered it is upwards of 23000000 people out of those red number 33000000 infections and we have one such person with us from oakland useem and joining cross and he was one of the 1st people to contract over 1000 back in march 9 months on still feeling

the after effects of what's now known as long covert janine thank you for joining us simple question are you feeling. tang's kamau. did describe better for me. sure well i'm certainly that i was 2 months ago last time i spoke with outages here i was going into surgery for inflammation i'm fortunate that pushed me into a relapse where i came what was known as a long whole lot of coders and i ended up with full body inflammation that course being an enormous amount of pain and distress and time spent 2 and a half months recovering from that some patient than i was 10 a half months ago very aware of how great for like i need to be and all that what ongoing treatment do you have you know we were talking to the doctors just then in hong kong about vaccines which is obviously trying to prevent people getting it for someone like you who has had it and still continues to suffer what i mean or can

you take for covert 19 sometimes. well you can take a lot of known medicine to be honest a lot of eastern medicine that simple in my treatment so between acupuncture. and setting diet and how you put things into your body that are going to create a better and inflammatory response those about the only things available to us tell me about the effect on well your life i mean what what are you not able to do now that you were able to do before. well come out i've taken a sledgehammer to my life and i don't work the same sort of hours i used to i generally can only work a few hours a day the moment i get i have chronic to take and so that means that my energy levels sat i constantly have been flowing but mostly it better not flowing. so my i can't i can't exercise i go for a gentle walks but i have to carry careful not to push it i certainly am no longer

playing football on a full running like i was last time i spoke to. lots of lots of things to change i don't drink i don't eat sugar i don't have to send her there is so many things that i don't eat or have in my diet any longer. it's a real big change to just the way that i live my life it won't be like this forever i hope but it's necessary i will end up fisher and healthier at the other side of it but it's a little bit of a shock to the system to have to the brain fog made me know rate no reason other than to do that. and what about doctors who are treating you what are they able to give you any. maybe timelines not the word but any sort of advice on well this is what you can do this is what might have a mean again as the doctor in hong kong with on us was still in the dark to such a large degree with this illness. you know right and so they can only liken it to other post oral to take sometimes they've come across the floor and. they saw

people who had the extremes of symptoms where they were gay saying chronic fatigue in may that were a secondary type of infection that went with it and so they've only got those things to gauge it off and that can take anything between months and years to recover from and it really does come down to how much you can put into your own health recovery of course when they've already has that luxury you still have to get on with like you've got to be out of pay the bills i feel very fortunate i'm in a position that i can take more of a step back but i'm very acutely aware that not everybody gets that so i think it's really had a lot of people in my support group who are really struggling with a basic living every single day and there's not a lot of help coming and they feel very much in the dark and they feel scared and there's an enormous amount of mental illness that comes through that anxiety depression it's a really hard time for them they do can't get placings don't get me wrong i'm very aware that they are one of the lucky ones and we live in

a very lucky country and everybody has collectively worked very hard for this but it's sad it's a difficult one paper body to have a positive outlook a person would die but they don't know that today you're looking and sounding pretty well actually everything you know after everything they hear you so your recovery continues and thank you for joining us thank you. thanks. well the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the global economy to the brink of its worst recession since world war 2 hundreds of millions of people have now lost their jobs and social safety nets are struggling to keep up with the level of need united nations says the pandemic will widen the poverty gap between men and women expects up to $47000000.00 more women and girls will be pushed into poverty by next year and those the figures are not expected to recover to prepare demographics 110203296 1000000 more people are likely to fall into extreme poverty because of the pandemic and then you've got food shortages of course which are also expected to worsen the

pairings led to massive job losses for example in the philippines where many are going hungry as the country struggles with its 1st recession in nearly 30 years millions of families have reported not having enough food over the last 3 months jamila onondaga as a report from manila. even says his family feels lucky if they are able to eat 3 times a day he used to earn an equivalent of 6 u.s. dollars a day selling food but now he says he's happy if he's able to bring home 4. we've been hungry since march in the 1st 2 weeks of the lockdown he finished off the very late that cash we had as is he couldn't really go out to work he just borrowed money many people here are in a similar position they used to be part of what the government calls the informal sector they're either so employed or run businesses providing goods and services

but now they tell as many people here have lost their jobs and some have resorted to. and it isn't happening in the capital manila alone local survey shows at least 7000000 families have experienced hunger at least once in the past 3 months that's a record high of more than 30 percent the highest incidence of hunger since 2014 the survey comes as the country is well into its 7th month community quarantine one of the longest ever implemented by a government in the world the philippine government imposed a lockdown with the coronavirus pandemic broke out but it pushed the country into one of its worst economic recession in decades the government says it is doing the best it can it is giving out cash to millions of filipinos and says it hopes to get more. now because they get to me. that is so i hope in the economy

to restart jobs and to generate more income for those most affected but others say more could be done there has been permanently damage done to label good jobs and there needs to be a more sustained response to this problem and i think we need to dispel that notion that there isn't enough funding there is funding it's just not being used in the more appropriate interventions there is enough funding for infrastructure projects of local politicians this is a community inside one of the country's top business districts people here tell us life has always been difficult but now they fear it is getting worse jim duggan al-jazeera manila. we're going to expand this discussion now with isabel fried director of the studies in poverty and inequality institute on scott from johannesburg isabelle thank you for joining us why don't we talk specifically about south africa 1st of all an african country which was hit very hard and which

already had to deal with inequality and the haves and have nots how much worse has it got in your opinion. thanks as you point out south africa was facing dire economic inequalities prior to the impact of cope so we had we had one of the highest inequalities in terms of income and wealth poverty levels more than one in 2 people were living below the poverty line why don't people who are daily starvation and in addition to that are in employment terms of formal i mean clement it was 20 percent and that was in the 1st quarter of 2020 what we've seen since the impacts of the well more laughter from march is skyrocketing there was a poverty and unemployment in fact unemployment figures were released only of this morning what we've seen is that the well when labor markets open shrunk so far more

people are now dependent on it and. farm are becoming activity and much as a result of the fact that there is such widespread poverty they are very few people who can support the informal economy and so you have no negative cycle of poverty which reinforces our teeth and then of course the full not stepped up the economy that most small elite farmer set. continues to grow the commodity export certainly will see a huge story swindler to isabel do people have any it's a strange word to use here but hope is there any hope that things could. start to improve return to the levels they were if not get better at least get them back on an even footing. that's a really important question and i think on a day to day basis that hope that might be met and start way increasingly shrinks but resort beginning of lockdowns

a really strong response by the states the rollouts of cash transfers to people and i hope that that would increase with time what we've seen is that fewer and fewer people are actually coming eligible for the receipt of this and so as the unemployment grows and the impact of unemployment. and we add handouts and that kind of. in direct support increases people's hopes for carrying. this wrong in terms of show recovery obviously you specialize in south africa and africa but i think the the the problems that the government faces there are replicated in many other places in the simple fact they've gone into recessions money is not being generated and the amount a government can do can long term it could end up being quite limited. it is a really tough situation and what we see within the said it region is that a lot of the income is generated by commodity exports that continues but the

question is how much of that is. at and as opposed to being taken out of benefit shows by countries globally i think that for our region the global supply chain is really care it's the export of a number of goods such as well as for instance i doubt it. would be question is also however political will and priorities if the state is determined to spend on people's welfare in that kind of financial or finance it can be found whether it's local. and it is and or part of it. is about fraud joining us from johannesburg we thank you very much for your time do appreciate it. thank you. the rest of the day's news is coming up on this news hour as the better russian opposition appeals to france's emmanuel marker on to help negotiate the release of political prisoners and we'll have sport as well asian champions cause i get ready

for a unique footballing challenge and he will be here with that a little light. look at the conflict now between armenia and azerbaijan and as it escalates diplomatic efforts are underway to stop the fighting france is calling for an urgent meeting of the minsk group which includes russia and the united states formed in the early ninety's to find a solution to the in a go in a cutback conflict united nations security council is also holding an emergency meeting to discuss the situation later on tuesday. on the ground fierce fighting has been reported over 2 nights azerbaijan says it's taking control of a city in no going to cut about from forces president says 10 civilians have been killed by the country's blame each other for reigniting

a decades old conflict with renewed violence on sunday. this is from the armenian side which is denying accusations that its me has shelled areas just a few kilometers away from the not going to cut about region both sides accuse each other of using heavy artillery in the fighting media has also reported dozens of deaths is a team covering the story for us to walk a monitoring developments from tbilisi was starting though in baku azerbaijan with sin and cos cinnamon update from you. well kim all the fighting continues right now in the ground then we have been hearing from dallas our bridge on officials that they have some advance actually the most in some intense fight clashes are occurring up on the north of where the area is called tar tar also in the area down in the south we learned from that as a real which was that they have been making at venice and they are actually hoping

to liberate the area in their terms from from the ok pyres iranians this is what they say also i have to say that there is also another place which is. which is hotel went where clashes are ongoing actually have heard that are many and they were evacuating their military members who have been wounded or dad in that area in a hold of an area which is between target between tara taught and physically actually when you look at the map of not gonna cut about on the eastern side there is a there is that there is a region called all of them this is one of the 7 region is the regions as they are there is called the 3 owns that have been occupied so thinking it's thinking that. vent. there is an advance in the vent and from brazil apparently they are city militaries trying to regain control of all of them.