this is g w news live from berlin tonight the corona virus the pandemic ninnis to migrants aid groups say the greece's overcrowded camps must be evacuated they warn an outbreak of the island of lesbos would be catastrophic also coming up for millions in india the fear of starvation greater than the fear of infection the worst may be yet to come as workers who have lost their jobs are trying to get home in a mass exodus from the city and a gloomy outlook for germany's economy economists are reckoning that the

coronavirus will depress the nation's output of between 2 percent and in the worst case for more than 5 percent this year. i'm off it's good to have you with us around the world social distancing has become the mantra of the day but in greece's overcrowded migrant camps such as maria on the island of less that is not possible conditions there are already unsanitary and many migrants are stuck there and they also have preexisting health conditions aid organizations are now calling for the most vulnerable residents to be evacuated to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. in the maria refugee camp very few have been able to get a mask to protect against corona virus. there are more than 20000 people living

here in dire conditions lack of food washing areas and medicine are the norm. there is a lot of disease here people are sick they have fevers and skin conditions like school u.b.s. and life they cough and have breathing problems like asthma officially there are no coded 1000 cases here but also no government plan to prevent them says doctors without borders such a scenario would be a disaster for everyone and lesbos refugees and residents alike. and. the want to. before the pandemic germany had agreed to accept unaccompanied minors that's off the table now an effort to avoid bringing in outsiders from at risk

groups opposition parties have criticized a lack of political will to end the humanitarian crisis. many politicians say we don't want a repeat of 2000 to 15 but we're not talking about millions of people here just a few tens of thousands if you're really serious and want to do everything possible to prevent a further outbreak then we have to evacuate these camps. a camp intended for 3000 people housing 20000 that makes social distancing here close to impossible. or earlier i spoke with the director of medical programs for doctors without borders in athens he described what his colleagues are experiencing on the ground on the island. and rationing the. situation. 41 humans and women and men have a place for 6095 people these people are in overcrowding situation or the question stay home there is no home these people they have lack of access to what

it winds there's one with a point for 1300 people days wondering that 200 people and they want to shout for 200 people so there's no access to water and sanitation and thirdly these people are having an additional problem of i just think of care seems united those 19 the government stops a lot of the people who watch this go you know this isn't their last days they go down in the grass that leaves it from 7 o'clock in the evening every sort of ducking of only these people cannot move on the grounds that mean more difficult conditions and more exposure to these people to ladies 1st that was the director of medical programs with doctors without borders in athens well as more countries impose walked alice because of the pandemic india faces perhaps one of the biggest challenges it's 1300000000 people have been ordered to stay at home since last week but for workers who form the backbone of the economy that means losing their income

overnight leaving many without enough money for even food and those hardest hit by the walk down may now also be most at risk of catching the virus. social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all the cross india daily breeze rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. the nation wide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the city's. for these people who are leaving new delhi for their home towns the fear of starving is currently greater than the fear of infection with the coronavirus. if we had food why would we have left we're not enjoying this we know that a pandemic is spreading but we are forced to leave we're taking precautions and keeping as much distance as we can have no other words i mean if the government did nothing otherwise we wouldn't have left. india's efforts to contain the corona

virus has plunged the country into chaos. after transportation was shut down some state governments arranged buses to bring migrant workers back to their home villages. but in other states people were left stranded and forced to walk hundreds of kilometers home. deliveries street vendors and other informal workers form the backbone of the indian economy. with police chasing them off the streets and no savings to fall back on block zone puts many of them at risk prime minister narendra modi who had ordered india's 1300000000 people to stay home has apologized for the hardships they are now facing. especially when i look at my poor brothers and sisters i think they must be wondering what kind of prime minister i am put people in such a difficult situation. i especially ask for their forgiveness. so far roughly

1000 people in india have tested positive for corona virus but experts worry numbers could be much higher. fears are that an outbreak in one of the world's most densely populated countries could result in a catastrophe. are for more now we want to go to our correspondent when you're a challenger joining me from delhi good evening to you. we know that prime minister modi he announced this lockdown for the country last week and he gave the public really just a few hours' notice was was he and was his government unprepared for the pandemic well beyond a country with such a high population density the logged on was perhaps the need of the hour to prevent the spread of the wireless but as the critics and the opposition have been pointing out that this logged on was announced without once planning and without what's taught as far as the better nessus concerned there are plenty of reports that show that in terms of numbers india is still trying to catch up when it comes to the

number of medical equipment available the number of deaths being done the government is trying to build up on this capacity especially some local state governments are doing a good job at that we know that the country has millions of day laborers and they are now trying to get home how will they be able to do that and how will they survive with no jobs and almost no aid coming from the government. well as you rightly pointed out the informal sector does form the backbone of our economy and it employs a wast majority of our workforce was just one migrant workers when the announcement of the long down came without much assurance to this one little sector of people or one night they found themselves without a source of income the income which did not only feed them but their family that extended families back home back in their wishes as well and then they generalize that they are out of school they're out of a place to say the only option that their part was left with them that's to go back

home and it's important to point out at that in that the conditions in which these workers have made their way back home you know queuing up in powder and then thousands on a bus stations and who are back home in overcrowded conditions it doesn't when you put them at just of the wires that also exist the religious and the home towns to which these people will be traveling but as i say as i said that these people probably thought that they are not left that any other option but to do that because they were doing this whether the financial package which was announced would come to them and when it would come to them. there have been some disturbing images being shared on social media that show you the mistreatment of migrant workers particularly from the state of utah pradesh what more can you tell us about this. well the fact is that indeed an upsetting and a disturbing video in which a group of migrant workers which includes women senior citizen and shouldn't sitting on the ground and the police officials literally holding them down with

what big oil disinfectant the a part of the fed that it was a mixture of colluding and what though it basically shows the incentive david which insensitivity with which some local administration they're handling this crisis these migrant workers who already thief an uncertain future i being treated in a very inhumane manner like this there are other there are other instances as well in which the videos have come out in which the police officials are being shown misusing that authority and misbehaving with these migrant workers. yet there's a very disturbing images they're treating humans like cattle and they are challenging but the latest from delhi tonight many are thank you are let's take a look now at some of the other coronavirus developments around the world the death toll worldwide has passed 35738000 cases have now been confirmed a navy hospital ship with a 1000 beds has arrived in new york harbor to help relieve the crisis gripping new

york's hospitals israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has gone into quarantine after one of his staff members tested positive for the corona virus and the price of oil has fallen to just over $22.00 a barrel that's the lowest since 2002 it's because of plummeting demand due to the global economic slowdown or here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world hungary's parliament has voted to give prime minister viktor orban extensive powers to rule by decree the prime minister says they are necessary to fight the pandemic but is a critic critics see it as a power grab and a way to entrench his authority. lockdown poland is considering postponing its presidential election because of the coronavirus the president has said that the 1st round scheduled for me 10th could be delayed if health and safety conditions

cannot be guaranteed poland has almost 2000 confirmed cases of the virus a pave team by the dutch master vincent van gogh called spring garden has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thieves broke into the. museum near amsterdam which closed 2 weeks ago because of the coronavirus the 884 painting is valued at up to 6000000 euro. or a recession is inevitable for europe's largest economy in the 1st half of the year that is according to a new assessment of germany's locked down economy by the country's top economic advisers the question now is how bad the recession will be and how the recovery might look. at a video conference on monday germany's economic advisors presented their special report the panel detail the potential economic fallout of the pandemic based on various scenarios depending on the duration of the lock down and how quickly the

economy bounces back afterwards the best case scenario has germany's g.d.p. dropping by 2.8 percent this year the worst case by 5.5 percent but the panel said that 2021 could see a speedy recovery potentially recovering most or all of those losses in the most optimistic scenario a quick tropp would be followed by a quick recovery during a v. shaped recession curve and fall amid guns and what speaks in favor of this new shape is that it's not like during a war where the capital stock is bombed and the workers are at the front end and. it's possible that as soon as the restrictions are lifted it will be able to return to work as before if you for. a more pessimistic scenario envisions a u. shaped curve with the economy recovering more gradually the worst case scenario would be the so-called l. shaped curve. follow. an l. shaped curve would mean that we'd be facing local duction capacity over

a longer period we'd be dealing with lower capacity weak productivity growth an example would be italy's economy since it joined the monetary union right now that's not the scenario that i see happening in germany with. other reports have been more pessimistic predicting a larger drop in economic output in the end the duration of the lockdown measures will be the most decisive factor and right now no one can predict how long don't need to be maintained. they are adored by children around the world and now elmo and this guy behind the cookie monster are joining the fight against the corona virus the 2 sesame street characters feature in new. musical public service announcements teaching kids to sneeze carefully to wash their hands and a lot more response are going global on a variety of t.v. channels and online platforms here's elmo getting now into the group that's right.

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