china as the country with the most deaths from the coronavirus today is also the 1st day that china reported no new local infections 3 months since the beginning of this outbreak there is cautious hope tonight in china growing desperation here in europe and in the united states the fear that many won't take the threat seriously until it's too late. this is the day. them stiffen the julie on the head of the department told me it is in of the top edge of the needles the telling there is going to be coming. out in full emergency with this coronavirus anemia. a lot of personal nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless our work to find these incredible situation. we do not know all along these from the mia we lost. i have 2 messages

the 1st one is for the general population. please state that hole. the 2nd message is full whether wants to help us we are in desperate need of both nurses and physicians. also coming up tonight quarantined by a virus quarantine by our government's lack of action what coronavirus patients are telling us in the united states through the window. liz byrnes blames the us government for not responding to the coronavirus threat quickly enough big could have done a lot more at the beginning. i think we should have learned from the pandemic that had happened and asia and we saw how other countries good morning very quickly and unfortunately. went to our viewers on p.b.s.

in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin today with the dead in italy 3405 that is today's official death toll from the corona virus pandemic it is a record high for any country in the world meaning if today surpassed china in the number of lives that have been lost to the virus it comes amid reports of scenes no one in italy thought possible just a month ago coffins stacked to the ceiling and hospital morgues that are filled to capacity. firing 247 quarantine to patients dying alone while the exhausted nurses and doctors are now falling ill to the same virus killing so many of their patients our 1st report takes us to northern italy tonight which is now the epicenter of this pandemic the front line between humans and the viper's. the city of bergen mohammed run out of space to bury its dead. these

military trucks are taking the coffins to nearby cities for burial the corona virus has hit the lombardi region like no other place in italy. names and faces of lost loved ones filled the local papers as the death toll keeps climbing physicians and officials are appealing for help we are in full emergency with these coronavirus anemia. a lot of personnel nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless our work to find these incredible situation we do not know are wrong the spondee mia will last we are in desperate need of both nurses and physicians together with ventilators and this positive for protection efforts to build a temporary hospital in the epicenter are under way. its top that 200

intensive care units will be ready by the month and italy has also turned to the country where the virus originated 1st support medical teams from china have flown in to lend their expertise. the people of our 2 countries will stay together and support each other to jointly overcome the hardship. i believe the top class teams of experts will learn from each other and make joint efforts and surely will be able to subdue the outbreak very soon cheer up italy. amid speculation that the lockdown could be extended for several more weeks italians are finding simple ways to lift their spirits. odd. that he'd be gone.

that was for all. of these songs of hope there in italy let's bring in our journalist sima good to she is in rome tonight good evening to you seem you know we have heard so many stories of sorrow from italy this week especially today i want to ask you how much more can the people in italy take would you say that you're near a breaking point tonight. i think you definitely saw it today with these figures as it's the edge is shocking and incredibly hot freaking i mean 3405 people that have died with covert 19 infection in them and that's in a country of 60000000 now that sea guess is less than the entirety of china which has a population of 1500000000 people so the question one wants to ask is how is that

possible in the authorities keep going back to the issue of the elderly population in the country the fact that you've got the 2nd oldest population in the world and that most of the people that have succumbed to this disease an overwhelming number over the age of 70 and that have preexisting health conditions and this is the reason why the country seems to be hit hard another possible reason is the fact that they're overwhelmed in terms of the health system at least 14 doctors have succumbed to the disease and it's beneath that to over 2600 sick to it with a cold 1000 making it difficult for them to treat patients obviously and then of course you have the issue of the lockdown in long but could it have been done should have been done earlier for the moment though the focus really is on the immediate merge and see and to force the medical stuff that as we heard in that

earlier report they need more doctors and more nurses soon and what about the patients that these grim stories we've been hearing of the elderly people in hospitals they've been quarantined and they're dying alone i mean the biggest fear for a lot of people is to die by themselves or what is being done to prevent this. well there's very little one can do simply because this is such an infectious disease that it passes on so quickly we've even heard of funeral workers getting infected because of contact with the bodies and it's not just hospitals that up if the affected one is not to get it can't homes for the aged as well a particularly hard hit because of course again you have a population that is fragile being housed there it's a perfect place for this virus to spread and that is why it's very essential that they have all the protective the boss and so on and the respirator as they're

asking for this equipment they are trying to preach to decent themselves here it city but you're absolutely right the idea of having to die alone is hot breaking obviously for those who succumb to the disease but also for the family members the loved ones who can't even say goodbye to their loved ones at the last moment of their lives because they cannot have contact in the county even carry out the funeral you know i mean it's unimaginable you know what you're describing there and it's hard it's a hard story for anybody to cover especially when you're on the ground were it happening as you are your before we go i want to ask you how are you doing how are you coping with so much sorrow and suffering to report. well i think it is very hard listening and reading to these stories and having direct contact i think it's almost impossible now to find someone who doesn't know of someone who's been infected on knows someone who has

a loved one that's been infected it spread across a which brings it home and makes it much more real but i think it's important to get this message out to get this message out to other countries that they have to be prepared and that's what it's nice trying to spread not just the doctors and nurses themselves it's with seen on social media but also the authorities that are sharing this information with their european cotton as at the moment the prime minister is said that he's looking at further measures more stringent measures in terms of the lockdown we expect schools school closure to be extended even further the exact date we still don't know and you know the chinese experts who have been in italy now are saying perhaps now is the time for even further closure as the defense minister said he's ready to put the military on the streets to ensure that it's secure because the message to stay at home needs to be heeded yes we're hearing the same thing all over europe tonight similar in rome for us thank you see

misty safe and stay healthy thank you. well this is a story of 2 crises the viral pandemic claiming the lives and the economic collapse created by efforts to save lives today the european central bank announced a 750000000000 euro bond buying program to help stabilize markets reeling from this unprecedented threat and it is just one of many plans designed to save economies from total collapse. on both sides of the pond the central banks are pulling out the big guns $750000000000.00 euros in bond buying by the e.c.b. the federal reserve promising $1.00 trillion dollars in cash loans for banks it even old that is not enough after all monetary policy firepower alone can't breathe life back into knock down economies they want to avoid a wave of insolvencies but would undermine the recovery but nobody can prevent

the freezing of the economy and the consequences this is certainly are in the global economic downturn which is at least as severe as the downturn in the financial crisis could government spending provide the european governments are spending multiple billions of euros to keep businesses afloat and employees paid central banks and governments are digging deep but the only way out for businesses is likely months away when restrictions to movement and economic activity ease after the pandemic has passed. and joining me here to be table tonight is our senior business editor. ben there's plenty of stimulus now is working a lot of it but a lot of it is not seeing results this is a hard one i mean we're throwing the world is throwing a huge amount of money we're talking about trillions at a health emergency which is causing trillions in losses but again it's a health emergency so it's very mixed as far as the success of these packages go

we've got the 3rd emergency credit program from the fed into. today's the bank of england out with another one today the australian straightens around with another support package as well for their economy the dollar did surge on thursday but equities are all over the place they're going crazy i mean they were up by one percent 2 percent at times down by 3 percent the dax finishing up by 2 percent the dow finishing up by one percent just a glimmer of hope there a glimmer of hope for something we've never done before we've never actually asked the global economy to polls while we save lives which is what we're doing right now how serious is the economic impact that we're talking about you know well this is it's about saving lives it's about saving jobs as well and saving economies as a whole as a business journalist this is being a real challenge just keeping up with the different agencies that are coming through by the 2nd it's like playing tetris and you see one thing about corporate warnings about job losses then the next notification comes through and it keeps

moving down the screen. today just some of them 25000000 job losses worldwide in the u.s. of a suspect making huge layoffs left right and center in unemployment figures germany's manufacturing sector seeing its steepest full in expectations in the 70 year history of industrial surveys. also crude oil traders from africa to america offering huge discounts because. basically supply is swelling and demand is is plunging also in the airline industry one of the hardest hit at the moment because no one wants to go anywhere or is allowed to go anywhere quantas telling most of its 30000 stuff to take leave and look tons of saying if they don't get state aid and this goes on for a long time there are going to be a whole lot of failings it is really unbelievable and we're hearing time and time again this week you know do home office do home office is it enough though to keep the businesses from going bankrupt and everything afloat it won't be enough for me

it's a godsend i was never allowed to have office. and i've been baking cookies for the crew. with plastic gloves on of course you're also getting into some godling i was at one of the god centers here and was picking up some seeds for vegetables and. tomatoes and there were a heap of other people doing it as well because they're worried they're not going to get enough food from the supermarkets which are allowed to be open at the moment but it's a real challenge getting ahead of them they're not respecting those social distancing measures either as well actually it's a godsend when i move from the keening to the tomato i took a step to the left the guy next to me took a step to the left ok well that's good then we've got 30 seconds what is surprised you the most so about this this crisis i think the run on toilet paper i mean how much toilet paper do you need for how long i mean for such a personal question seems to be in the fear of people all around the world you sort of fights on social media in australia absolutely embarrassing but people really

have to think and think hard about what they're doing because there's panic buying means sure you'll have a whole lot of it but they'll be other people missing out yeah i saw in london a $20.00 for one roll of toilet paper about price gougers of it you know it was all it has always been thank you. whereas if the race to save lives and the global economy were not enough there is another very different but all too familiar threat attached to the coronavirus in a report prepared for the european union russia is singled out as the main source of what is now a tidal wave of misinformation about the pandemic the report points to fake news most of it online designed to inject fear and discontent into society's already jittery from the virus take a listen to what the european union's foreign policy spokesperson said. be the start of spreading call folk around a virus or could be 1000 v. all of course know what these that would was increasing was also done

a number of this information misleading information. outright lies and wrong things which have been a kuwaiti to the nazis that it was because in amount of this information fed from outside of the e.u. among others also from russia or from providers which are based in russia or a linked somehow to broker in lean sources and what is very important is also like to inform the public and to keep the people to be aware about this because whoever i mean and it's not only coming from from russia this is not the only source of the misinformation but whoever is spreading the base information is essentially playing with people's lives playing with people's lives serious stuff there let's pull in raphael golds fight he is research in social media coordinator at democracy reporting international he is here in berlin tonight or here i want to ask you how

do we know that so much of this misinformation how do we know that it's coming from russia. thank you for having me brianna basically the report was written by a used track task force which was founded in 2015 to basically controversial disinformation so irises they have been doing a work on countering online disinformation coming from russia going through different aspects of russian interference in political life in the basically elections are also yellow fast movements in france independence and in the specific case of the coronavirus related this information the report states that they collected 110 pieces of disinformation directly or in directly related to russian and my direct the enemy basically the outlets as we know russia today sputnik and their online versions but also other outlets contribute to spreading these narratives and when we look at something online that is deliberately meant to scare

a sorts misinform i mean how can we identify how do we know what we're looking at. yeah i think we have been hearing a lot these days wash your hands and i think on the internet the same goes for check your sources so the 1st thing is to look into where the information comes from what's this news outlet isn't reliable so this is the basic rule for checking your information but of course those campaigns are much more complex than only looking at the source is mostly they use videos and images to actually play with people's beliefs and feelings so really doubt whenever it relates whenever and me more and information that comes in a visual way tries to trigger peoples in societies and few years those are. techniques used very much for from disinformation things you're talking about online hygiene and you're right everyone should practice more of that what about the european union there now it's got this report what if anything can it do to

protect itself or to retaliate. yeah i think basically you have basically a short term and a long term role in trying to fight this types of contains the short term i think the you could actually be on recent experiences fighting disinformation around big political events such as that you 1019 and european parliamentary elections back then they agreed with this social media companies code of conduct against disinformation which basically made the socially a company's. liable for looking into what was going wrong in social media and actually which measures they were taking to take down malicious compensate think the you has experience on that already this is the time to use this experience on the short term and i feel that in the long term we need more sustainable solutions for that such as legislation where legislation. how can the e.u. protect its citizens from this is what distillation the only way. i think on the

one hand legislation and by that any 2 pieces of legislation that right now are being discussed at the you what is the digital services act and the other one is the european democracy action plan both of them are aiming to make this process is reacting to online contains massive online campaigns aimed at this informing people in a faster way so basically setting up what are the pros this is a procedure that needs to be in place for that so i think we need to make the social that you need to make the social media to have companies more accountable on the one hand but we also have this responsibility of doing our social media our online hygiene as you mentioned like really looking for sources understanding how they're there to deceive us and really do our hardest off stride trying to keep it clean it's not as easy as we might think. democracy reporting international in berlin to that rafael thank you thank you very much. the united states has

confirmed almost 10000 cases of the corona virus infection and more than 150 deaths president trump has invoked wartime legislation to speed the production of critical medical equipment but many americans say their government's response to the crisis has been slower than adequate use all over salad met with one of them a mother under quarantine in washington d.c. . locked down hits home it's an experience liz burns and her family could have never imagined but since their old here was hospitalized with a high fever the burns are quarantined inside their house the only way we can conduct an interview is by phone through the window. initially they like something you know and weren't too worried about it and sent me home and she did it all while they continue to run. over the next 24 hours because there are more cats and realize she was negative for everything else and. 9 9 want to get her

record were very unsuccessful the public health authorities said that she did meet . liz burns blames the u.s. government for not responding to the coronavirus threat quickly enough because it had done a lot more at the beginning. i think we should have learned from the endemic that had happened and asia and. other countries more on it very quickly and forcefully. on the streets of washington d.c. life has slowed down dramatically the usually busy streets remain empty restaurants are open only for takeouts. universities and schools and many states remain closed putting additional strain on students and families. at the albert einstein high school in the state of maryland stuff hands out bag lunches offering some relief for parents the pandemic is putting low income families at particular risk some

working parents have been laid off and now find themselves in a desperate situation but i think i'm and then at the moment there are no jobs for us that cancels everything we don't know how to pay our rent and apartment there and. as a government employee was burned says her job is not at stake she is well aware that many americans are not as lucky. america and the pandemic so what can each one of us do to help stop the spread of the virus on top of these isolation and social distancing that people around the world are practicing they are simple hygiene guidelines to follow that can help stop the corona virus from spreading here's a reminder wash your hands with soap and water and do it often keep going for at least 20 seconds especially after you've been in a public place alcohol based hand sanitizers are a good alternative. if you cough or sneeze cover your mouth and nose with

a tissue or you see inside of your elbow throw away used to shoes and don't use them twice after blowing your nose coughing or sneezing wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces every day this includes tables door handles light switches countertops desks phones keyboards toilets taps and sinks and one of the most important things you can do is keep your distance science correspondent eric williams you gave us this reminder of the importance of social distance. the thing about social distancing measures is that actually they're one of the few things that we know will slow infection rates down there's some pretty good evidence from from earlier epidemics and next like the spanish flu pandemic and $918.00 that social distancing really can have an impact on how fast and infection through

a population the measures are difficult to enforce of course and they also weren't for free they have huge economic costs but social distancing measures really can help limit exposure and what no medications or vaccines out there at the moment they're going to be key to flattening infection curse in europe and around the world in a flood in the curve they're very important to our science correspondent derek williams they are the days almost on the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news you can follow me a bread goth t.v. and don't forget to use a hash tag today and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day see you then everybody stay safe stay healthy.

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