hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. now top medical experts are warning the u.s. brace yourself. this week's battle against coronavirus is going to be brutal. most of the country remains under stay-at-home orders with the number of cases rising well past 330,000. however, despite the seriousness of the situation, an upbeat u.s. president and vice president are suggesting the storm will soon pass. >> we see light at the end of the tunnel. things are happening. things are happening.

we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. and hopefully in the not-too-distant future, we'll be very proud of the job we all did. >> we are beginning to see the glimmers of progress. the experts will tell me not to jump to any conclusions, and i'm not. but like your president, i'm an optimistic person, and i'm hopeful. and the truth is we're starting to see cases and most importantly losses and hospitalizations begin to stabilize. >> now, the tone from the doctors at the front of the fight is much more somber, one even predicting this week will go down as one of the darkest in u.s. history. >> this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans' lives, quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment, our 9/11 moment only it's not going to be

localized. it's going to be happening all over the country. and i want america to understand that. but i also want them to understand the public along with the state and federal government have the power to change the trajectory of this epidemic. >> we are struggling to get it under control, and that's the issue that's at hand right now. just buckle down. continue to mitigate, continue to do the physical separation because we've got to get through this week that's coming up because it is going to be a bad week. >> and you can see just there how the past few weeks the american death toll has skyrocketed. more than 9,600 fatalities so far. and that is the confirmed numbers. of course testing is not widespread or as widespread as many would hope. these are the ones we know about. the united states now home to hundreds of thousands more cases than any other country in the world. the u.s. president claims 1.6 million americans have been tested and received their results, and he's doubling down also on an unproven treatment

for the virus. jeremy diamond questioned him about that on sunday. >> reporter: president trump on sunday stepping out into the white house briefing room talking about the grim reality that americans are going to face over the coming weeks as it relates to the death toll for coronavirus. but the president at the same time still saying that he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. so, it was once again a story of mixed messages from the president. but one other thing that the president was focused on on sunday was once again touting the use of this drug hydroxychloroquine which so far there is no conclusive scientific evidence showing that this drug is effective in the treatment of coronavirus. i pressed the president on why he continues to promote this drug. why not just let the science speak for itself? why are you promoting this drug? >> i'm not. i'm not. i'm not at all. look. you know what i'm trying to do. >> you come here every day, right, sir, talking about -- >> i want them to try it.

it may work and it may not work. but if it doesn't work, it's nothing lost by doing it, nothing, bought we know long term -- what i want? i want to save lives. and i don't want it to be in a lab for the next year and a half as people are dying all over the place. >> the president of course has been promoting that drug, appearing in the white house briefing room or the rose garden day after day to talk about the benefits of this drug hydroxychloroquine. there are clinical trials under way and some doctors are able to prescribe it off label in emergency cases. but there is not yet a body of scientific evidence backing up the use of this drug. that is why when dr. anthony fauci, the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases whrks he stepped up to the podium i tried asking him about that. the president, though, would not let him. would you also weigh in on this issue of hydroxychloroquine? what do you think of this -- >> how many times do we have to answer that question? 15 times. you don't have to answer the question. >> he's your medical expert,

correct? >> we've answered that question 15 times. >> fauci of course has been on the record talking about the drug saying there's not yet conclusive proof that the drug is effective in the treatment of coronavirus. but i think it's especially notable when you seenot a docto this advice about this hydroxychloroquine drug. and then when you actually see a doctor at the podium, the top government expert on infectious diseases, it's notable that the president won't let him speak. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. the british prime minister boris johnson is in hospital. his office says he was admitted last night as a precautionary measure because he still has persistent coronavirus cases after ten days after announcing he had been actually infected. nic robertson is in london for us. unexpected development given that he had been recovering for ten days, prime minister being sent to the hospital.

it's not normal. >> reporter: it isn't normal at all. we're told he's going in for routine tests. it's not clear what those tests are at this time. but what is clear is that anyone who's had the virus symptoms as the prime minister has had for over ten days is at a risk of developing worse symptoms of the disease. and it's not clear what his current symptoms are. but what we've been able to see through his video tweets and pictures of him over the past week or so is somebody who is still leading the country, still partaking in video conferences, still leading the cabinet sessions. and he is, we are told, still leading the country through the coronavirus response. but he does appear in the past couple of days to have appeared perhaps a little pale or perhaps a little weak. we don't have an assessment on that. we're not being given a blow by blow of his medical condition.

however precautionary step taking him to the hospital where he spent the night. and the current condition this morning not yet being briefed. but what we do know is that the coronavirus cabinet meeting and experts meeting this morning will be chaired by the first secretary of state, the designated person to accept up and take over while the prime minister isn't able. it does appear at the moment the prime minister does require more rest, michael. >> and nic, the queen, her majesty addressing the nation. a pretty rare event that really does sort of show the gravity of the situation. >> very rare. the queen's only done this four times previously. this was exceptional. it would have been in conjunction with conversations with the prime minister's office. one of the big messages here across the country, across government officials has been for people to continue with

social distancing, not to leave their houses unless they have to. so, the queen really began her message with a tone of support and gratitude and thanks for the health service workers who are at the front line of this but then also thanking people for staying at home. >> i also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. together we are tackling this disease, and i want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute then we will overcome it. >> and she also said that, you know, how we respond now, we'll be aebl be able to look back in the future and look back, hopefully, feeling that we've done the right thing, that we will step

up as other generations in the past. she invoked her memories of the wartime, broadcasting first time 1940, told that children were evacuated during the war. and the sort of last part of her message where she invoked a somber note to many people across the world, particularly of that world war ii era, that song "we'll meet again." she said this is tough going through this separation, but we will meet again. i think that struck a deep cord for people in the country here. >> certainly means a lot for britains. i appreciate that, nic. nic robertson, outside number 10 where the prime minister is not at the moment. i'm joined now by an infectious disease specialist with the australian medical school. good to see you, doctor. i'm wondering the situation down there. there was early criticism of the u.s. government speed of action

on covid-19, memorable images in australia of crowded beaches. what are the concerns about spread and whether the horse bolted in some ways before significant action was taken. >> in australia, thankfully we're looking at an epidemic curve and it seems to be flattening and starting to reduce. so, it looks like the social measures that have been put in place are starting to pay off. and we've got about just over 5,000 cases in australia. so, a country of about 25 million people and just under 40 deaths associated with. the health care system seems to be coping with it. so, at the moment, we're a bit more optimistic than pessimistic. but obviously we're still cautious. >> testing is an issue in many countries. is it the case in australia when it comes to identifying cases, even asymptomatic ones, or has

testing been widespread and appropriate? >> michael, testing in australia has actually been very good. so, we probably have about been doing about 10,000 tests per million people which i think is about the highest in the world. south korea who's also excellent is about 6,000 tests per million people. the united states a couple of weeks ago was about 313 tests per million people from what i read. as you know, testing is really important because if you identify people who caught the infection, one, you can look after them, and two, you can stop them from infecting other people. and now that we've taken out the issue of overseas travellers bringing into australia because of our travel restrictions, we can now focus on looking for those asymptomatic people and people responsible for community transmission. >> you know, when i think about it, the u.s. has been warned to get ready in the next week for

another 9/11 or pearl harbor, why is it that that sort of worry is not happening in other places like australia? >> i think that really getting after those travel restrictions early including social distancing, during the early part of the curve and making sure you're doing intensive testing early on has really, really helped australia and a country like new zealand which is about 5 million people and had about 800 cases and 1 dead. >> which is incredibly heartening. i've got my only family members in sidney. they are hunkering down. is there a sense that australians -- there were images of people down at the beaches and so on and so forth. do you get the sense that australians in general are taking isolation seriously? >> generally they are. as you mentioned those images of

hundreds of people on bondi beach were the impetus for those, i guess, next steps of restrictions that we saw. and i think it has largely worked. there are some people who flaunt the social distancing. and they are charitably described as idiots. >> you're right. i'm following the media and it was the issues on bondi beach that had governments say enough and put their foot down. offi australia has universal health care. any concern for potential for being overwhelmed? or is it looking pretty good? >> right now we're happy. we're doing all this because we know if we don't get on top of it and the curve goes like this we will get to a tipping point where we will be overwhelmed.

>> and quickly too one thing that does cause controversy down there, a major source of the infections in australia was one cruise ship. how was that handled? >> yes, so i think they're all called princess. this one was the "ruby princess." and about 3,000 people were allowed to disembark in new south wales. and the "ruby princess" is just about 10% of the confirmed cases in australia, and about 11 of the 30 deaths that we've had. so we know throughout the world at the moment with covid-19 and cruise ships, they're the perfect mixing pot so we is to be very careful. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. good news out of australia. great to hear. all right. we'll take a short break. when we come back, good news on

two fronts out of spain as well. the country just got a boost in coronavirus testing and a slowdown in the rise of new cases. we'll get the latest from our reporter there, allgoodman when we come back. and also a live report from italy where there are hopeful signs of stabilization for one of the hardest hit countries in this pandemic. we'll be right back.

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welcome back. new york of course the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states. and on sunday the state reported fewer coronavirus-related deaths. now, while encouraging, governor andrew cuomo told cnn it's too soon to say that it is a trend. >> every day we're waiting for this quote/unquote apex of the curve, and there's a theory that the apex is actually a plateau where you'll hit a high number and then you'll stay at about that high number for some period of time and then start to drop on the other side. but it's the first time we've seen any drop at all. so, you know, in a place where we're just hoping and praying to

see a light at the end of the tunnel, it was good news. we'll know better tomorrow and the next day when we see what those results are. >> the situation of course remains dire. new york city still desperately short of medical supplies. the mayor says they have enough ventilators to last only until mid-week. and the virus is taking a toll on the new york city police as well. get this, almost 20% of the force was out sick over the weekend and it has lost its 11th officer from suspected coronavirus. now, other hotspots are emerging in the pandemic including new jersey and louisiana. new jersey second to new york in confirmed cases, 37,000 cases, 900 people have died. that's more, the governor says, than the number of people the state lost in the 9/11 terror attacks. >> we're in the fight. this is war. there's no question about it. we're doing everything we can to

stay out ahead of it. >> how would you rate the responsiveness of the federal government because you've been pleading for ventilators and a lot of help. >> listen, i think they're doing what they can given the hand we've all been dealt. i suspect all of us would have liked to got into this tragedy and this challenge, this health care crisis, with a lot more weapons at our disposal. so, the communications are open. i think there's a real spirit of trying to find common ground and do everything we can, but we've been dealt a tough hand right now as a country and we're living that right now in new jersey. >> meanwhile the number of cases in louisiana has past 13,000, 500 deaths there. the governors warns the state could run out of ventilators by the end of this week. the hard-hit country of spain has begun distributing its new batch of 1 million rapid coronavirus tests. officials say they've been

performing as many as 20,000 standard tests every day but they need and want to ramp that up. the tests are going first to hospitals and nursing homes. globally right now only the united states reporting more confirmed cases than spain. journalist sal goodman joins me with the latest from madrid. he's been there throughout all this. al, we've got new cases and deaths declining but new icu patients up somewhat. that speaks to the tricky nature of trying to control this thing. >> reporter: that's right michael. in the most recent reporting period, 329 new patients went into the i krurks. that was nearly three times as many as the day earlier and the highest absolute number in a week. so, even though as you say the number of deaths and new cases both in absolute numbers and percentages, those are not going up as much as they have been. they're in single digital percentage increases. this icu problem which is the

most serious problem for spain and so many other places, how do you have enough beds, how do you have enough ventilators. that is their biggest earn can. s that one reason that the government has extended the lockdown order for another two weeks to make it another six weeks almost until the end of april because you have the statistics which are starting to look good and then you have the human reaction to this terrible virus. >> that's an important point. tell us about these calls for more help to countries. tell us more about that. >> the socialist prime minister of spain has been calling for a new marshall plan for europe. that martial plan has ramped that up a bit. he's thrown down a gauntlet writing an opinion column, the leading newspapers in many of the europe countries saying if the european union fails to rise

to this challenge, it will fail as a union. he says spain is so staunchly pro-european union, they need to see a commitment from the block, the 27 member european union. he says that the current plans that are out there in terms of financing to get economic recovery after all this is over is just not enough. he's calling for awe debt program that would allow countries to buy into this and get themselves out and forget about the strict deficit control targets which will strangle countries, remembering what happened in the 2008 financial crisis. the government has said we do not want a repeat of that crisis in terms of how hard that hit the people less fortunate. michael. >> yeah, it certainly did and those memories fresh for them, the human cost important, the economic cost yet to be fully

realized. al on the streets there. thank you. let's turn to italy. this gives a glimmer of hope for a country that has been struggling to consistently stabilize its number of new infections. even though italy has been on lockdown almost a month now, its overall death toll near 16,000. that is still the highest number in the world. here to discuss more is bobby ma doe who is with us from roam. let's talk about the numbers. looking good. they're talking about how to unlock the lockdown. what's the sense there? >> there's a lot of confusion and fear i think about unlocking the lockdown. of course people in affected areas are very nervous about sparking a new contagion. people in areas that aren't as affected are ready to unlock the lockdown. but the government is looking at what phase two is going to be. you can't just let people out of

their homes and pretend nothing happened. it has to be a calculated unlocking of the lockdown. when we're looking at factories going back to work and things like that, there's talk of widespread testing before people go back into those sectors of the economy. a lot of people are able to work from home. schools are functioning online, classes are functions. but there are a lot of people ready to get back to their jobs, michael. >> you've made an interesting point there. let's explore it a little bit more. it's an add question really, but are people mentally ready for that? a lot of people want to get back to work, of course, need the money. but how nervous are others about the risk of another wave once people are out and about again? >> yeah, there is a real concern about that. you see that -- a month into this, you see that in the grocery stores and things like that. people look very nervous around other people. if someone coughs or even rubs their nose, people move away from them. you become accustomed to the lockdown mentality.

the idea of people going back out and potentially resparking this contagion is something that's hard to wrap your head around and something that the government is going to have to do a really good job introducing. normal life again, it's really hard to understand how that's going to look and how that's going to work, michael. >> yeah, fascinating. talking to a psychologist yesterday who talked about the potential for ptsd with people at the end of all this. bobbie, great reporting as always. great to see you, my friend. the trump administration is under fire for down playing the severity of the virus for weeks, even months when the whole world new it was a problem. the fallout from those missteps and opportunities when we come back. also u.s. futures in oil making big moves but in opposite directions. how markets react amid the pandemic as a new week kicks off. and could a return to highs be in the cards? >> oil was doing great, oil and

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. how could you on the one hand have said yes to me that this is really going to be a bad week at the same time we're talking about the light at the end of the tunnel. it seems to be inherently contradictory, but it really isn't. it has to do with what we explained before about the lag in when you look at the indications that dr. birx and the president was talking about,

you see a flattening out of cases. and you don't see the realization of what that means until two weeks later. so, right now we're seeing, as we all said correctly, that this is probably going to be a really bad week. that is a reflection of what happened 2 1/2 weeks ago. so, if we start seeing now a flattening or a stabilization of cases, what you're hearing about poli potential light at the end of the tunnel doesn't take away from the fact that tomorrow or the next day is going to look really bad. >> that was of course the united states leading expert on infectious disease trying to explain the mixed messaging coming from the coronavirus task force. u.s. leaders have been repeatedly slammed for what some called their bungled response to the biggest global health crisis in living memory. there has been a lack of testing, still is, shortages of

critical equipment, still is, and a government slow to call on the public to take precautions all while the virus loomed and then raged. president trump's own remarks on the threat have dramatically evolved from early dismissals to eventual acceptance. >> by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. the coronavirus which is, you know, very well under control in our country -- we're going down, not up. we're going substantially down. >> it will go away. stay calm. challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days and this is a vital 30 days. this is will be the toughest week, between this week and next week. and there will be a lot of death unfortunately. >> and with me now is gregory trevorton, a professor on international relations at university of southern california and former chairman of the national intelligence

council. that's the important part of the job. part of your job was to help the u.s. government know how it is viewed by the rest of the world, analyze that. given how this crisis is being handled. what's your assessment on the impact of america's global reputation as the leader in the times of the crisis. >> one of the biggest tasks, one of the hardest, is to tell policy makers how the rest of the world thinks about them, how they think about the united states. policy people, all of us are likely to have wishful thoughts. we americans are particularly prone to the view that we're usually on the side of the angels and everybody else thinks we are. so often conveying how people do think about us is a hard task. and in this case coming off a couple of decades where we haven't looked especially competent either in the middle east or at home and then

suffering this terrible crisis that didn't need to be nearly as bad as it was that left us looking like we were late and incompetent, i think that's really a pretty bad blow to the american reputation in the world. >> when you say, you know, didn't need to be as bad as it was. i think a lot of people would agree with that. when the president continues to say inherited a broken system when he's been in office 3 1/2 years. is that what you're saying, the blaming of others, shifting responsibility, the president of course giving himself a ten in the handling of this. >> absolutely. i think certainly the centers for disease control and food and drug administration haven't behaved spectacularly and that's a prize. having been in the government, i know that middle level officials aren't going to take risks if they don't have some sense of

authorization from the top. that's what happened in this case. mr. trump continually saying there's no problem here, it's no big deal. by the middle of january, before there's a single case in germany, the germans already had test kits deployed and ready to go. we were still saying oh, there's no problem. nothing happening here. so, i think that pretending it didn't exist, delaying, wishful thinking, that's a typical feature of politicians. that did play a huge role in us being so late, so, so late. >> and again to the point you were just making there, there has been reporting in "washington post," cnn, and elsewhere about divisions in the administration between camps. a camp that's worried about the health implications from the virus as it emerged and then other camps which seem to prioritize the economy and even politics in an election year over health.

what's your read on that in terms of efficiency. >> that does seem like the fight. it's one that shouldn't have happened in my view. we should have known, particularly after h 1n 1 in 2009. we should have known if this thing happened in china, it's going to be here and we need to be ready. finally in the last couple of weeks, mr. trump held the trump card, but it took two months too long. and that fight kind of chaos that characterizes this white house really is going to wind up costing a lot of american lives. >> yeah, it's hard to even hear that. and you know, again the intelligence community apparently did put out the red flags and the warnings in late december, early january. i'm wondering if you were in the white house now what would you be advising the president on how to handle this in terms of the

american people but also international allies. >> i think this is a point to reach out. it's pretty late in the game. but if he'd convene world leaders, done something at the g7 other than just pat themselves on their back and say they're watching the situation, that there was some real leadership. if he had really reached out to china -- as i said the chinese have not been terrific in this for sure, but it's time to reach out to them and say we want to lead, we want to help, we want to contribute. instead, we're still in the sort of name calling, criticizing china, somewhat fairly, but it's not helpful now. this is the time for humanity's sake and for our own it seems we need to put great priority on this. so, having arguments about iranian sanctions and those issues, that seems to me to be a side show where the stakes are so, so, high. >> interestingly, the u.s. did have a cooperation program with the chinese on infectious

diseases based in wuhan which was cut by the administration before this all happened. i wish we had more time. appreciate your expertise. you know how it works in washington. thank you. >> thank you, thank you. take care. all right. wall street looking to recover from yet another week of declines amid the coronavirus pandemic. u.s. stock futures point to a jump at the open for all the major embassies. as you can see there nearly 4% in the dow. that increase has been driving asian markets higher as well. japan's nikkei up over 4% on the day. let's check oil. both u.s. and brent crude, they're nearly flat now to slightly lower. as you can see there, investors reacting to the delay of an opec meeting originally set for monday. john defterios joins us from abu

dhabi. he knows all about such things. i guess while the coronavirus challenge is still enormous, are investors seeing the leveling off of cases as something of a positive or the potential leveling off, hasn't happened yet? >> yeah, that's a great way of putting it, michael. i think they were looking at south korea, italy in particular, and new york and trying to think what the economy's going to look six to nine months down the road. and it's u.s. stock futures which are setting the pace globally right now. even the oil market which started down 8% earlier, they cut the losses in half, and we saw stock futures go up. we even saw the russian sovereign fund indicating that saudi arabia and russia are very close to a deal. that would be a complete about-face compared to the language we saw friday and saturday. there's three big players here. the u.s., vladimir putin, and russia, the crown prince of saudi arabia. the two, russia and saudi arabia were trading barbs over who was to blame for the price war.

and we had donald trump come in on saturday saying i never liked opec. in fact i hate opec, it's a cartel or monopoly. and if they don't get a deal done, i may impose tariffs on imports of russian and saudi crude and other opec players. so, there is incentive to get things done. the language is turning better, but we have another three days, michael, to see it play out and get all the ducks in a row. >> i guess, you know, so thursday it is. how tough is it going to be for point of law producers to get a deal then? >> reporter: okay, so there's 23 players in this opec alliance. but opec alliance was thrown a wildcard, if you will, because the u.s. is not talking about being part of the process. they wanted the u.s., canada, brazil, players like norway to contribute cuts. we're looking at record cuts of 10 to 15%. the other players i talked about is a very heavy burden.

can they get it done? i don't think at that sort of level. so, what has to happen here in the next three days, michael, is to get everybody lined up and saying what can you put on the table here? even if the u.s. can't offer it now, you can have states like texas and north dakota even though you have antitrust concerns in the united states say here's our contribution going forward. that's how you can get a deal by thursday. >> all right. john defterios knows about such things. good to see you my friend. we'll take a quick break. when we come back tokyo records its biggest single day jump in coronavirus. could a state of emergency be on the horizon. we'll be live in japan's capital after the break. the good news? our protection lasts all day.

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welcome back. reports out of japan say prime minister shinzo abe is planning to declare a state of emergency as soon as tuesday over coronavirus, though it might not be nationwide.

until now, he's said japan's outbreak didn't warrant such measures. on sunday, tokyo reported the biggest one-day jump in cases bringing the city's overall total to over 1,000. meanwhile the commander of u.s. forces announced a public health emergency for a large swath of japan's largest island. let's go live to tokyo with our journalist. some people thought japan moved a little slowly in the response to the virus. now talk of a state of emergency. >> that's right. that could be imminent. and their expectation growing that the prime minister will declare a state of emergency and give the local governors like tokyo which has been struggling with record number of cases day after day a little bit more authority in doing what it needs to do to contain the virus. but please make sure this is really not a lockdown. japan can't really implement a lockdown as you've seen in some european cities. legally it can't.

it is prohibited in doing so by the constitution. but too there's a real difference in japan. authorities have requested people stay home. that's a literal transmags. it was understood that it is demand and the expectations are that people will obey. that is the kind of thinking they will be using when the state of emergency is -- if the state of emergency is announced. but the authorities really need more leeway in trying to skewer the number of hospital beds, particularly the icu units that are falling day by day, michael. >> yeah, it's -- i want to ask you, the postponing of the olympics was a huge financial hit for the government. what is the economic fallout for the coronavirus. >> the economic fallout from the postponement of olympics is going to seem like childs play

compared to the coronavirus. subaru said they are going to move forward plans to shut down production because they can't get parts. so, there's the supply side that continues to dog manufacturers. then of course there's the demand side. and this is a very export-driven economy. so, when you have china, when you have most of europe and the u.s. in the state that it is with the demand drying up and the tourism dollars they were counting on to propel economic growth this year, all of those factors combined, japan is in a recession. economists have no doubt about that. numbers i've seen maybe minus 7% gdp growth later on this year. and the question is when and what kind of shape a recovery will take place. >> yeah, exactly. power houses of the region. thanks so much there in tokyo for us. now, some of brazil's poorest neighborhoods, well their bracing for the onslaught

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covid-19 could have a devastating impact on brazil's hilltop slums. residents in these densely packed areas are already struggling to make their basic needs but that has not stopped them from taking care of one another and facing the crisis as best they can. >> this man is the first in rio to confirm a coronavirus case. patient zero tells us why streets there are deserted. >> translator: four adults and three kids live here, seven people in this space. others might have at least 40 square feet. >> reporter: he shows us where the three children sleep with their mother on the ground. he sleeps on the sofa. it's 30 degrees celsius outside but much warm erin doors because there are no fans or ventilation

in the small home. he has very little food. he makes a living selling beverages at the beach but rio de janeiro's governor has now banned this. >> translator: i am diabetic. i need insulin, and i suffer from hypertension. but if i had to go to work, i would in a heart beat. >> reporter: brazil's favelas are vulnerable to the threat of covid-19. facing precarious dwellings, they're at a disadvantage. julianna lives here with her husband and two daughters. this small space makes up the kitchen and living room. there is no water. there is only water down the hall, one faucet for the whole living complex. she tells us she has no running

water to wash her hands tor follow hygiene guidelines against coronavirus. more than 40 neighbors have come together fearing the pandemic will wreak havoc on their community. they rapidly organize products donated to them so they can later distribute. >> we get detergent, hand soap, sponges. >> translator: these are not expensive items but we know favelas reality, many people don't have these products. they don't have money for rent, so they won't have money to buy these things. >> reporter: they've already distributed 1,200 kits in ten days and solely depend on donations. they live in the favela and are well aware of their needs. >> translator: we are focused on helping while trying not to get infected ourselves or our families. but we are here. our motivation to help is hard

to explain, but it's in each and every one of us. >> reporter: they are hoping to distribute next week. many are informal workers and are now unemployed as coronavirus cases in brazil grow and spread, so too do the problems in the favelas. now millions of people in india lit candles and waved flashlights on sunday to show their solidarity in the face of the coronavirus. india's prime minister narendra modi said everyone should, quote, ensure the dark clouds of the virus make way for the light of hope, adding that no one is alone in the fight. thanks for spending part of your day with me and watching cnn newsroom. i'm michael holmes. the news continues with rosemary church after a short break. you've been watching cnn. need a reason to switch your tax provider?

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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and from all around the world. i'm rosemary church. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, cnn newsroom starts right now. and we are now entering what could be the most crucial week yet in the u.s. fight against coronavirus. the top experts warning it is going to be extremely painful. there are already more than a thousand people dying each day in this country, and the number of confirmed cases is approaching