why do you see the environmental suit called the 3000 on t w and on. this is d w news live from the number of corona virus infections in the us races are ports but health care workers face critical shortages of protective gear so is the trump of ministration doing enough to deliver aid to people who need it most also on the program biking through brussels to eat up the scale of matus enjoys the city's unusually quiet streets as lawmakers in the european parliament's devise a package to help keep the e.u.

economy afloat during the coronavirus crisis. japan's cherry blossom season brings people flocking to the pox the turkish government urges them to stay home to limit the spread of the panda. welcome to the program the u.s. senate has approved the biggest stimulus package in the country's history to cushion the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic the legislation will provide to 2 trillion dollars to help stabilize businesses and households hit hard by the outbreak the package which is expected to be approved by the house of representatives on friday comes as the number of infections souls with the u.s. economy looking likely to become the pandemics new at the center many health care workers say they don't have the supplies they need. and long. a line of drivers all

waiting to be tested for the corona virus this is florida but the queues are getting longer right across america. the number of confirmed infections is gathering pace along with the number of those known to have died from the virus as the scale of the outbreak becomes increasingly clear doctors are worried about their own safety and a part time we've cared to come to walk by and by being scared we are trained conceive i am and we're committed to doing mad doc to say hospitals nationwide out overwhelmed and there's not enough protective gear there are people that literally are wearing bandanas because they have nothing better to protect themselves from the respiratory droplets of patients who are and who would not and i think that the national shame of us president donald trump downplayed the dangers of a pandemic for weeks before changing his tone but he has criticized the shutdown's

advocated by infectious disease experts to bring the outbreak under control for not going to let the cure of the worse than the problem at the end of the 15 day period will make a decision as to which way we want to go where we want to go the timing and essentially were referring to the timing of the opening. essentially the opening of our country this was a medical problem we're not going to let it turn into a long lasting financial problem an increasing number of states have closed down nonessential businesses heating ionas hard this restaurant is trying to keep going by serving takeaways but owner mint owns 2 other eateries and pays $12000.00 a month just in rent. he's had to lay off most of his 25 staff. this is just taking it all us surprise and also off our feet we don't know how to deal with this every day is

a new challenge for us is very challenging. for the most part it's very terrible. we will get through this is the message from one bar owner in california people who have lost their jobs can get a free meal here lap. a small team does the cooking. are you scared owner tom stop it is struggling to make sense of what's happening here in hollywood he has to pay rent of a $1000.00 a day. i'm concerned. all we can do is hope it's a help each other and hope for help from washington. well the coronavirus crisis is seen european union countries close their normally open borders and put domestic needs ahead of a coordinated european response germany's president to front. is criticize this return to national priorities 9 does. this virus doesn't have

a nationality and the suffering doesn't stop at borders of a need or should we. scientists around the globe are working together to find a vaccine treatment and counter strategies. the better politics business and science work together now the sooner we will succeed that is getting in our future doesn't lie in isolation but in sharing knowledge. in good tight investment . in european lawmakers have been meeting in special session it brussels to debate the crisis. we get is following developments welcome bent and he signed a very coordinated response from the european parliament today many any piece many members of the parliament criticize the lack of sort of dirty and of the slow response of some governments and the e.u. institutions in the beginning of the crisis but they also said now it's not time to

look back and to play the blame game now it's time to look forward because the crisis is still on and the parliament of disappoint the measures the commission has announced 50000000000 if sorry 40000000000 euros from the u. budget for calm response for search for a vaccine for medical supplies and to buttress european companies and also fiscal rules will be loosened and the strict state rules will be loosened in the coming months so that states can support the businesses and will easily and also the commission president who's left underline criticize the lack of sort of dirty and but she also said now that the medical supplies are there. the commission is working on and buying stuff for all member states and the dispersed this to the member states and stockpile of medical supplies for the coming months and so what do you make of the criticism then that individual a you countries have no been working together closely enough. but it is of course

true that in the case of italy some member states was has the delivery of mosque and protective gear to italy because in this crisis every country every country every government says my people comes 1st and that was the case for germany and france and also the czech republic did do that so the italians of course have a point but it is also true that there were not enough mass in the beginning so which country which country can say i deliver to another country and then the people there with us why don't we have the muscle it's very difficult to put the blame on a country here but now that stockpiling and the coming buying of this mosque is commencing maybe this is over now the cries the more important question is now will there be so dirty when it comes to the bill of this crisis who will feed the bill and who will pay for all this and heads of state and government of the european

union have a chance to answer that tonight when they meet for video conference a summit then they have to say who will give loans and cheap money for example to italy will there be common euro bonds and tell much money will get very good from the e.u. coffers to countries that is especially into this crisis question dangling in the afternoon band make it in brussels thank you well today's session of the european parliament is taking place amid a lockdown in brussels. masses filed this report about the city's change of pace. it's week 2 of the lockdown in brussels i barely recognize the streets on my way to the city center. no traffic jams no tourists and most employees of the e.u. institutions all working from home. everyone is told to keep

a distance of one meter and a half between themselves and other people outdoor exercise however is still allowed even recommended among members of the same family living together or with a friend. i hope that it doesn't get any structure simply in terms of managing the family being able to use the park being an organizing exercise. if they have to change things and impose a total lockdown we'll have to accept it. maybe some people take advantage of the freedom we still have. using speakers in cars and even drones police are stepping up checks and surveillance in public spaces hundreds of fines have been handed out i'm told many 2 young people we know and i'm not sure if children too we know they like to have the social context we understand it but they have to listen to what they have to do and what they cannot do so they have to

respect it as well so what about police officers themselves to to what extent are they concerned if some of them are kind of tired because you know you not only have to worry about the citizens but also about your family because you have contacts with everybody that's what many cashiers tell me to taxi class barriers have been installed and a limit of one customer potential metres of retail space has been imposed. food deliveries are still possible and public transport is still running in belgium but there to a limit of 5 passengers on small business and 12 and bigger ones applies in belgium the peak of this epidemic has not yet been reached and many residents expect that the current lockdown will be extended. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the man accused of carrying out new zealand's worst mass shooting in modern history has changed his

plate to guilty straight in white supremacist is accused of opening fire on 2 mosques in christchurch killing 51 people and injuring dozens more prime minister just into our own and representatives of the muslim community expressed relief for the change of plea more than 400000 people in the u.k. have answered the government calls for volunteers to help the national health service they'll be deployed delivering medicines to people who can't get out or been told to stay indoors and offering tele from simple to people self isolating. japan's government is forming a coronavirus task force as it warns that the epidemic could spread rapidly and widely 40 new cases have been confirmed bringing the country's total to $1300.00 the arrival of the cherry blossoms things going to couple of days or sunny weather prompted large crowds to gather in parks but the governor of tokyo has urged residents to stay at home this weekend to try to prevent a spike in corona virus infection writes the call caused

a rush to the supermarkets. osama daniel is in tokyo he's the washington post spirit chief there welcome to g.w. so why does the message about social distancing not seem to be getting through to people at. well so far japan hasn't seen the kind of excel aeration in coronavirus cases that we've seen in so many other countries many european countries in the us so people hadn't felt the coronavirus was as much of a threat the government had taken a fairly soft line up until now it hadn't been doing making a lot of recommendations it did coast schools but that was about it people were still commuting and as you said last week it was incredible everybody was how on the streets how nami cherry blossom viewing very popular there were there was an indoor martial arts event where thousands of people gathered in the stadium there were thousands of people to see the olympic torch north of tokyo it was as though

nothing was happening and compared to the sort of scenes we saw we've seen in europe and in the us it was pretty incredible for us it was a slight sense of unreality and then in the last few days i'm afraid or perhaps fortunately reality has struck home the number of cases is rising and the government is finally beginning to warn people that this can't go on here this is part of our shut new reality was the decision to postpone the olympic games. how is that affected mirelle. yes very good question and you know in a way i think this is a relief for japan because there was always this feeling that the government was somehow downplaying academic here because of the ninety's with us true or not that was the feeling you know and to have got this decision out of the way and to be able to move on now japan can kind of focus on the growth of virus and began it

without that kind of question hanging over his head whether live takes of course there'll be another question with a limp it's going to take place next year that's for next year so now we've got a bit more focus on the coronavirus pandemic and we can hopefully begin to take the sort of measures that other places taking to get it under control you know why we don't really know why japan what hasn't taken off so far in japan it could be because people are you know more sensible about social distancing and not social distancing so much but about wearing masks about not shaking hands that kind of thing but we are seeing now as i said in the last few days we are seeing signs that the infection is more rampant than we thought so news is having more parts of the country and you see it in tokyo for talking to family for joining us simon daniel from the washington post in tokyo. and here are some more of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic 3 months into the outbreak and the global

death toll from covered 19 related illnesses has now passed 21000 russia is holding all flights into and out of the country from friday and moscow's mezzo to the closure of all shops except grocery stores and pharmacies from saturday russia is also reported its 1st 2 deaths from the disease and iran is banning travel between it's safe it's the government fears a 2nd wave of infections. next on the covered $900.00 special how to good. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our daily corona. with 19 special next on d w ringback

. this is the w.'s covert 900 special from berlin after originating in asia reaching europe and northern america coded 19 is now quickly spreading across the african continent over the weekend the number craddick republic of congo registered its 1st that from the virus now the country has closed its borders and declared a state of emergency president felix just

a county says the country is out war with an invisible adversary public life has been suspended and the country has gone into lockdown closing bars and restaurants and now most flights to and from kinshasa are battened in this covert $900.00 special we're looking at how african countries are preparing for the upcoming challenge on their already vulnerable health care systems. thanks for joining us corona virus is sweeping across africa but the true number of cases is unknown as mass testing has not yet been rolled out here's some of the latest information we have for you the number of confirmed cases in africa shot past the 2000 mark on wednesday now the majority of the continent's 54 countries have registered infections ivory coast and senegal have both declared states of emergency and south africa will begin a lockdown starting thursday. joining us from abroad seville in the republic of

congo is michel yelp he's the program manager for emergency response at the world health organization in africa also here is edward he's a professor and immunologists at reading university welcome to you both michelle i'll start with you what sort of advisory has the w h o given africa if any of the advisory in fact we went through different steps the 1st step is for iran the containment phase is. to prevent local transmission on as much as possible so this has to detect they. cases know that we are serious in the local transmission on it we have it in more than 15 countries in africa no the nest is a how to scale up quickly to be able to continue their

situation and also start preparing for the mitigation phase goes on phase is it too wide corman it's the spread that's gone is a bit of a stretch they have said this is like what we are seeing now in your european countries. now they are all the jets are also predicting that african countries fell experience their peak number of infections this summer now how prepared would you say the continent is he spoke of upscaling the capacities and shall. we say it out of the 1st step culture is performed quite well by detecting they split out the cases that's where important to not freak out but 5 a nest is where we need to mobilize maw and we need more at fault we need

more support in most of the african countries because it is this step that they will have to deal with and out of people needing intensive have in our system in many african and for fossett it is you don't have such capacity so they need to think about how to get up with for temporary treatment such as how to get assessed or are suggesting provide also rescued out to the mice in how to get access to protective equipment so at this level countries are less prepared because they are locking the ressources most of them have to follow up at preparedness and response plan but this applies for example is one of the major challenge to fulfill the spot that is utterly gente because we are moving to are they wide contamination in many countries already. now michelle spoke at there of

the white contamination do you alice see the crisis in africa reaching a similar level to what we're seeing here in europe how would that look like. i think i think that you know that's that's what we've you know i've been thinking about exactly that since way back you know when we were hearing about the outbreak 1st of all and we han in china i think one positive is i think the much work has gone on to try and expand for example diagnostic testing services across africa and we've learnt a great deal from programs to tackle big infection has such as hiv and malaria so for example simple rapid testing technology is now relatively quick and appropriate to draw all out so we have these sorts of tests here which can be done without in the burra 3 they're not perfect but they're very easy to scale out what

i'm hoping is that what we've learnt from those kinds of activities those kinds of public health activities will help to deal with early identification and early containment in these states but it is a huge problem given that we can't contain outbreaks very effectively in europe i think will be the same in any other country across the world now testing of course a important part of the response to the current virus michel would you say that people are taking the gravity of the situation there in africa seriously. i think most of the. national party it is taking it seriously if we look at all the states often meant to see declare is on that we will start to recall in many african countries that up thinking in serious you nest is really for they hold population on and i'm not sure that they have. this level of

it wellness as well as. taking it seriously in most of the african communities there is a lot of room us going to run including men's fault for treats men so that is they work to be done and from what we learn from a born out it is that when it does need to be fully on board and for about the need to have the appropriate information to increase awareness but they need to be fully engaged for them to play iran if we have faith community wide transformation is the community behavior that mean in part on their way they desist will spread fast within this community and i think learning from hero is time now to take some of the measure of public affairs us we for food and gauge went off the community to at least slow down the spread and objective is to flatten the. big that's we'll.

take control we've this think up our cities thank you very much michel yeah he's the program manager for emergency response at the world health organization and africa also here is al edwards he is a professor and immunologists at reading university thank you both. now around the world celebrities have inundated us with their song and dance numbers often from home and with mixed reception but ugandan musician turned politician bobby wine has seen his own take widely shared it's a music video reminding everyone about how to purge the spread of the coronavirus wash your hands and keep your distance have a listen. thanks. for. everything.

8 right. there but we're now joined by our correspondent joy during beer out she's standing by for us in nairobi kenya joy we just listened to bobby winds up rap slash public service message there for us what sort of a role do pop culture and social media have in getting the word out. a lot actually because when you look at the african demographics at the moment a big population happen to fall between the ages of 35 going down and this major concern is for most people right now are focusing or making sure that the

young people get the message because the older generation at the moment does not have access to technology on a large scale and they are or happen to be the most vulnerable demographic when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus or covert 19 so social media and pop culture is playing a humongous role in spreading the message to last of the young people on the african continent and in kenya and uganda as well particularly so young people acting as multipliers of the message there now that message itself it seems quite simple wash your hands stay home but neither of those things are easy for everyone . indeed access to water is not readily available to millions of people around the african continent and that in itself is a challenge especially in the informal settlements in

a lot of areas the rural parts of africa say in kenya but today what the government is trying to do is ask the water supply has to be a little bit and weave their customers not shop their bills and also and do not switch off there was a connections in a bid to help people plot and of of the coronavirus spread that water will be readily available to the people and that even though they might be having a rear is this still going to be able to wash their hands and maybe take care of that problem at a later date and also the government has tried as much as possible to go to areas where there's not enough access to water to see. them and also provide water when necessary thank you very much our correspondent a joy there for us in nairobi. and

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