this is the deadly news live from berlin the u.s. response to the corona virus was delayed by contamination that's according to a report by the washington post which says contamination at america's leading disease control center has delayed testing for the novel coronavirus will go to washington shortly also on the show. the u.n. warns that africa could see hundreds of thousands of coronavirus related fields there are also fears that the continent could see millions of infections in the coming months also on the program.

will make the civil defense volunteers i mean to cheer up presidents on the lockdown in spain but this fall of song and dance. i'm anthony howard welcomed contamination at a tree in the united states was responsible for the delayed rollout of coronavirus test kits that's according to an investigation by the washington post it says that kids produced by the centers for disease control and prevention gave incorrect results the faulty kits then had to be recalled hampering early efforts to contain the spread of the virus in the u.s. . well i'm joined now by david will man from the washington post the author of that report david just how serious was the impact of these faulty kits on early efforts

to contain the virus. well it was quite permission is. imperative to get test kits out around the united states to try and surveil in advance of the expected arrival of the coronavirus to the united states so everyone was waiting for the centers for disease control and prevention to get its test kit out and there were as we all know or significant delays what has not been answered until now is what was the cause of the original of the leg and the cause was contamination that's in the c.d.c.'s manufacturing assembly of those kits that did speak to the cause and that speaks to my next question who is to blame for this delay. well of course this work was done within the c.d.c.

but as part of our report in the washington post that out. you know there are several problems here that i think demand more answers and that is 1st of all exactly how did these contaminated kits. escape the quality of the efforts at the c.d.c. laboratory we now know based on what we brought to light today that the c.d.c. violated its own protocol of manufacturing practices in assembling those kits so a breakdown in quality control there. can come of it with us at the c.d.c. used a more complicated design for these kits then for instance the world health organization sponsored design was m one a way to things stand now with testing in the u.s. on enough tests being done. she said it's a great question and i don't have a statistic for you can as to how much testing has been done i think i think the

pragmatic pragmatic adjustment that's being made around the country based on what i'm hearing from senior u.s. officials and from clinicians is that we're never going to be able to test every single person who has maybe some suspicion i think it's going to come down to people who are really ill with very severe or moggi they are going to be tested that's with the test that would confirm an infection of coded 19 course there's a different type of testing which i think is very much top of mind right now and that is antibiotic testing. how many americans for instance obviously we're trying to you know states would you need to test to see if the. added bodies that were formed in reaction to the presence of coke at 19 if you have whatever percentage you want to be comfortable with. and that has the added bodies then you get to this

concept of closer to the to this at least hypothetical concept of herd immunity and it gives i think policymakers greater comfort in trying to have a return to normal economic function life. david woman from the washington post thank you very much. now here's a quick roundup of coronavirus developments around the world. and they confirmed the global death toll has now exceeded 150000 that's according to the johns hopkins university in the u.s. the united states and canada have also agreed to keep their border close to war non-essential travel for another 30 days the united kingdom has reported that 15000 people have now died from 90 singapore has reported its highest number of new confirmed cases since the outbreak again or thirty's they say 60 percent of infections are in dormitories housing foreign workers on

a more positive note south korea has reported only i think new cases it's lowest day the jump in more than 2 months while africa has officially recorded more than 1000 deaths from cope with 19 but the united nations economic commission on africa predicts the pandemic will likely kill even in my best case scenario at least 300000 people on the continent and in their estimation it could also push 30000000 people into extreme poverty this report from egypt. this kind of rubbish dump is home to improve him saeed and his family. the dump also provides his income for euros a day from sorting try. stopping work because of the coronavirus is out of the question . i. prayed of corona but we hope that god will protect us we need every cent and we pray nothing happens to us we don't want to beg.

about 800000 people live and work in this garbage city on cairo's outskirts 16 tons of rubbish arrive every day to be sorted and recycled by hand no gloves nor masks in extremely close conditions where hygiene is nonexistent officially there's no corona outbreak here but there's also no testing the world health organization estimates a high number of unreported cases residents complain of fever and diarrhea the head of the garbage collector syndicate has demanded that the government supply protective equipment so far without results he hopes garbage workers exposure to the virus will make them immune to work must go on. now. all the trash is full of bacteria and mold and if we don't collect it the results would be catastrophic for egypt it's feared that a wave of infections could start here and quickly spread within cairo and

throughout the country and experts see egypt is poorly prepared for a major break. joining me now is number and nicky executive director at african monitor in johannesburg now my thanks for your time the number of infected people in africa increased by 50 percent last week the death toll increased by around 60 percent to those numbers point to africa becoming the new a.p. center for the corona pandemic. hi anthony thank you so much for having me on this evening so i think we need to be clear that when we're talking about epicenter as usually we talk about countries we talked about china eataly we talk about america so it's not possible for 54 countries to become an epicenter i think that we significantly concerned as the african continent that we don't have become passive t. yet to manage the spread of the disease but surely there are countries that are going to experience that crisis much higher death than other countries and i think that also it's good to kind of lead conceptualize that properly to say ok right now just

over 20000 people have been infected that's compared to you know 2200000 across the globe i believe that african countries have been sweet and very very specific in addressing some of the crisis is that we're facing but yes africa is fragile we have at risk and the assets and certainly said it's a number of things that we should be concerned about that. africa is also a huge continent with many different state societies and systems as you say canada said have relatively common measures be put in place for the entire continent where we see great variance on a country by country basis do you think. actually there already are a common set of measures that are put at a level as you know that i'm opposed to south africa's president is the chairperson of the african union they is and after got a sponsor team that's been looking at where i've been hotspots why did the medical

supplies that i needed where is the most help needed i think smaller countries like took enough ah so in those kinds of countries needed the help of regional effort back at the same time there is some specific cities so a country like nigeria with well over a 100000000 people has to have a very different measure is that a country that has 15000000 people as an example so we need both measures as in many other places in the world non-living taught lockdown in south africa's shop lee divided public opinion there do you think south africa would become a role model for other countries. i didn't south africa is a role model for other countries so if you look at our infections rates right now and b. and they and the graph that measures they can have as it where we started seeing the plateau in about 2 weeks and now we just have just over 2000 infections i think that the south africa case is unique from every single country

in the wells and that is the strategy that the african countries are taking because what we are doing is that we are buying time in tens of the ex says in the infection rate so that we can increase the capacity of our health said this is to manage that and they think if we can do that well across the region we will actually achieve that result so we need that we will make sure that by the time the infections actually climaxing we have the capacity we need we have the supplies we need we have the medication that we need. now let me see from african wanted in just johannesburg many sex thank you very much for having me. police in hong kong have a wristed 15 high profile democracy campaign is in connection to the massive protests there last year they were arresting clude activists lawmakers and the owner of an anti establishment newspaper they are accused of taking part in protests or publicizing the hong kong was shaken by widespread street protests in

2019 sparked by a now abandon proposal to allow extraditions to the chinese mine that. the biggest crackdown on hong kong's pro-democracy movement since the beginning of mass protests last year 15 activists were arrested on charges of organizing and taking part in an unlawful assembly is in august and october among those detained are one current and one former lawmakers including veteran pro-democracy activists 81 year old martin leading the prominent founder of the democratic party was also taken into custody. i don't regret what i have done. i'm proud to have the chair to walk down our democratic road. with hong kong's excellent young people.

of those arrests said are due to appear in court mid may and some others were released on bail. hong kong was rocked by widespread protests in 2019 which sometimes erupted into violence they were sparked by a proposal now abandoned to allow extradition samit chinese mainland almost 8000 people were arrested for taking part in the protests it is not clear how many of them are still in custody. the coronavirus locked down and spying has been in force for more than a month and is among the strictest in europe being confined to the hunger is a major challenge for the residents there especially those with young children or past with that in mind one group of civil defense volunteers is using music and dance to try and lighten the mood. here is. that they not be part of the normal job description but the families can fall into the aftershocks

curing not brings in the village. the young volunteers from the spanish civil protection agency are doing their bit to cheer up residence in this small town just outside of madrid. that wanted to volunteer because in this situation i think we all have to work together in some way some by being at home and others by going out and doing this is those are. going to get a common and her colleagues are getting ready for the next mission a surprise visit to little son you know who's just handful. why do i know. all the children in the neighborhood who have had a birthday they haven't been able to celebrate with family and friends to such if it could and of course a song. to suneel has

overcome this initial shyness he can't resist sounds a number you can't be. here this is they double the news live from berlin more news coming up in 45 minutes from now but i'm anthony how did it go in thanks what you're. sitting in rooms are always a. symbol of a long conflict in the philippines between the muslims and the christian population . as fighters occupied the city center 17 president to church's response was. i. will never again will hold.