nine new coronavirus deaths in france the wororst day since the health crisis began medical staff and the structure continued to struggle with the crisis as it picksks up the dog. the vote. i spike in fatalities reverses hopeful projections by spanish authorities that the country was reaching the peak of the pandemic this as the government approves a new seven hundred million aid package by. and no i did states has overtaken china's official death toll with the pandemic continuing to. i thought. doeses ththe virus spread on the uss at

croft carry. hello and welcome to the fronts twenty four newsroom on simon harding we started here in france which is going through its worst twenty four hours since the corona virus hit the country with four hundred ninety nine deaths in a single day a new high thehe number of fatalities doesn't people who have died in routes and hope. will far he's- in the lineup of could be. i am. what tonight on the five thousand five and sixty people in intensive care requires serious treatment i have to do that 34% of them are under the age of sixteen. one sixty percents of between sixty and eighty years old because all. swiss while sixty eight people currently in intensive care. rooms of the age of thirty fifty trips this kind of a situation has never been seen in france before.e.

says well as the battle against the code of it and overcome it ninine cena a a disease of ragen medical staff continue to put the health in some cases lives at risk. a six the doctor has passed away here in france he was working in was that one of the main a corona our school is in the east off the car. james wilson wrote it's- my soul in the northeast of france it's been. badly impacted by corona virus and that's the only hospital has recently increased threefold. the number of beds in intensive care. but for the director general it's simply not enenough. jujust just just o pull lynn. up to date on the date of the alleged gentle peopople come to me. focal need led to the studio- i know formal told me for one except if you came all the way in which you. can live off this weekend what is your- use. it

when you. call please. on some and pay with point trying to hospitital in nouvelle. in francistownn west on a f further four were flown over by the german and force. the director general of mets the on field hospital wants this to become routine. asking that at least a dozen be transferred daily. so the sick and the whole thing. and it's not just patients but a dying a doctor in the hospitalal passed awaway on sun. it contracted covert nineteen mall carrying out his duties. like that fans his colleagues are determined to carry on working. you don't us how is the us sold much tv this one because i was t. r. jensen will definitely want to have an additional key- it's about to sell hisis opinion then they cancel. what was what and they won't lose it it. nearly two hundred people have died and nice. because of coronavirus. and doctors fail that total running sharply in the coming weeks. i would lockdowns on the

effect in many countries reports of domestic violence all surging around the world here in france interior ministry says reports of domestic violence have risen by over 30% in the two weeks since the confinement period began. as alison sergeants and marie schuster report there results a concern about a rise in violence against children with schools closed and families forced to remain indoors. a warning some viewers could find this report distressing. it's an awareness campaign that's designed to shock encouraging neighbors to call one one nine if they suspect an instance of child abuse. the director of the twenty four hour emergency line s says the number of calls hasn't changed since the lockdown began about eight hundred a day but they have seen an increase in cases requiring urgent attention. he describes s several calls inincluding one from an eleven year old boy you w will not need

to. the youou're also will also be deterred people there's only no computer.r. inn you t thought well that's s the key questionn wa't about. to but i mean wee neneed to do is a cocompany thas because a more among crews each. the closure of schooools not t only increreases pressuren families it also takes away the mamain system of alerts for potential abuse associations worried they'll leaearn of a surge in cases once the lockdown i is over. by launching an awareness campaign the french government hopes to make all of s society more vigilant.. ofourse this i is jack but sisince s she still lives here o on the phone. sheetsts morrisons set to dodoruiser hall was incredible small- do that he woman's and stuff from are alslo urged to phone one one nine if they worried they could become violent. in spain off the hopes

that the pandemic was slowing down authorities have said that the country's recorded the highest number of fatalities in a single day bringing the overall death toll to eight thousand one hundred and eighty nine with my route again hitting a- the government has approved a new seven hundred million euro aid package. to get on top of the situation. spain holds a minute silence was the daily death toll rises oncece again. but despite the jump. the head of medical emergencies maintains that thee current measusures are enougugh. one attendee yes indeed a plant animals maybe. certain databases we pretended to be. it secondly that's hello my support on this y you could give us. a definitive monaco look at people's alrlready told. davavid got a collapse. that she did she was prime minister petrus sanchez tights in n the lockdown measures b by putting an end to all nononessential e economic activity. the bid to curb. the

spread of the virus. this comes extra. supplies a flown in. the largest house in the opens you. another pavilion. but soon the thirteen thousand extra beds lined up in a conventioion centr that was supposed to ease the strain of the crisis won't be enough. tell the family. a it's a seasonal productcts well they have a break ahead okay just bought him this. is thomas had run the misississippi valleys them again the owners often does he was eleveven billion of sort of a seamless. from gas powered out an idea either but i ask the midide inn traffic o o unless he thought finance park an argument that it is possible that low saying- but let's be ninetyty fat. helpful because for. at the field. of ones that's inadedeate safety y may. could speak. that reference stem diseaease. and the stumblig once again hopes of the corona virus outbreak in spain. h had reached its peak. american out. meanwhile italians marked a minute of silence this tuesday

to honor the thousands of victims of the corona virus outbreak it's really remains the hardestst hit country in the world with another eight hundred and thirty seven deaths bringing the total to over twelve thousand over a third of all fatalities worldldwide the lockdown which was initially due to end on friday has been extended i'm one now lost on easter though it's hot authorities have said that the number of infected patients is. slowing down. the united states has confirmed its status as the epicenter of the corona virus pandemic with the most recorded infections than anywhere else in the world. the us has also suppositories official death toll with three thousand four hundred and fifteen fatalities inin an evolving development covered nineteteen a struck an american akropolis area the theodore roosevelt's. already one hundred site that have contracted the virus was.

police right rest montyty francs has the latest. just an aspiration just one week ago u. s. president donald trump said he hoped to fully reopen the country by easter he has since walked that back and now a sobering figure from the white house's coordinator for the virus response team dr deborah berks she says the death toll in the u. s. could reach two hundred thousand. even if social distancing guidelines are followed perfectly so far more than three thousand americans with covert nineteen have died there are cases in every u. s. state seven states have more than five thousand cases each but with sixty so thousand u. s. planes do you. work andrew cuouomo bridge. brother news anchor cuomo test positive for the virus. the governor also were the high point of an action is still a matter of weeks. thank you.

zero t. mobile who's- our whole lifestyles just every wants too know thing when is it over. no knows i can say this it i is not going to be soon so cacalibrate yourself. and your expectctions- so y you're not disappointed every morning you get up. new york continues to face a shortage of medical supplies and ventilators governor cuomo says he's ordered seventeen thousand ventilators from china but only expects to receive twenty five hundred in the next few weeks because of production delays. without a nationwide confinement order the response to covert nineteen is being waged state by state. some of issued bans on large gatherings and only about a dozen states and washington dc have imposed mandatory stay at home orders. top four on daily business around up global stock markets have wrapped up their worst month of trade in over a decade

concerns abobout job losseses ad the ecoconomic i impact of the corona virus pandemic have panicked investors. is that is the case mpd is standing by to tell a small cakes thank you very much for joining us here live on france twenty four offed- run to close the month how did wall street finished tuesday session. well i tolold youu about an awfulul lot of historic rises and falls in the past few weeks so it'll come a s little surprise. when i tell you that the dow jones h h just wrapped up its worst month ever. losost about oneneoint 84% at the closing bell- this choose day yes the five hundred was down about one point six the nasdaq about one percent. overall we seen massive losses. due was the worst month for oil prices. of all time the s. and p. five hundred worst first quarter since nineteen thirties. his losses he- this all is

goldman's has predicted that the u. s. economyy could contract by as much as 34% in the coming quarterss befefe what it described as the fastest recovery in history is of course assuming that the pandemic is overer in the coming months earlier we saw some gains to major european indices for doing london early percent those gains across the board they're not represented at the of the pac exit. forty it is. s. which represents six hundred companies across your has had. say month since my eighty seven another record their- overall global equities have lost around a f fifth of their value since the beginning of the year. analysts say this. it's a new because of ththis. and volatility- and the fact that for now we still don't know if we've hit the bottom yet of course we still don't know when and i make my comp and it's making s stabilised. okay there

thanking fans about the s. more and more. on the lockdowown rely on vidid services to communicate. yes some of these out served our names that we hadn't even heard of about a momonth ago now we're relying on them to both work and socialize at zoom and more users separatele are concerns about zoom zooms- claims that its conversations are encrypted on both ends- and also about a cinnamon calledd. but in which uninvited guests turn up your conversationn all the swirirling arounund a rather cocontroversial out we got another app called h house p pay which has bebeen in the headlins recently- it. are yoyou saying-

that they've had t their house r oblilitions on their n network n after u using that apps house party says that is absolutely not the case. put out a tweet actually offering a mill dollar bounty for any information. described as a paid smear campaigngn lots of other apps of messaging sererces have beennts used t twice more t than usual n the past few weeks. microsoft is saying i it it seems. under instantly for. increasing years in we upload all this. . it is important to try and keep in touch also. you know what kind of issues you're using no. settings are huh and as i. used when using any of these platforms. okay maybe our business added said thank you very m much for that is a very wise words indeed thank you kate. well that's all the news we have for now thank you very much for watching from everyone here at france twenty four do

you stay safe take care. bye bye. when it comes to health care the french are extremely proud of their system and we have every reason to be it's high quality accessible and affordable francis system the salty is ranked among. the best in the world but critics say the system is hemorrhaging money so who pays. and what its long term prognosis join us for this episode of french. where we check out. french. the friends love to complain but one thing they'll always stick up for is the french healthcare system that's because france ranks among the best in the world when it comes to the

general health of the populatition. the more top. relatively low friends while life expectancy is pretty high. getting affordable and quality healthcare is not something french people worry about they know they'y'll be a safety net for them no matter what. in france health insurance your energy is met tory and universal meaning it covers all legal rest almost everyone has an end date a cap. which is a french help the card it's been. a real symbol of the french healthcare system what you do. what you're- riright the card in a contains all the details for your right. to treat at. refufunds which are first. wide range. france and sure system is of the social protection program called securities just yet which also covers things like pensions and family subsidies all of their tea is a crucial part of the systetem the government funds 20% of most health care costs and 1100% of

these. crop was let in eight another. person is the less they pay. so who foots the bill well largely the public more than 40% of healthcare spending is financed by payroll taxes a third comes from income taxes are relatively high in france and the rest comes from taxes with tobacco alcohol and speed up the com suitable industry and a small amount of state subsidies. one is in the people. out of. total choice of where they go for karen who they see in other words there no gatekeepers and french health insurance coverage a lot inpatient and outpatient care house calls specialist prescription drugs mental health maternity kerr and even some forms of alternative medicine like acupuncture the french love their care. one thing often hear brought about french healthcare is that it's a 100% socialize but that's wrong for instance a majority

of french dococtors are self employed and about a third of french hospitals are for profit. the french health system public private hybrid and that's good for patients not the percent of french people off for supplementary private medical insurance i need to. which has person aren't fully covered by the state for instance when you get glasses when you go to the dentist but the truth of the matter is private healthcare just. as x. save as a- to begin. in protest. the prices appointments procedures and drugs and the government has a lot of bargaining power to keep prices low for example the cost of an average visit to a general practitioner is just twenty five euros so that means the french doctors tend to earn less money than say their counterparts about a third less but medical. we been friends and they don't't to pay for malpractice and- it even. now some specialist like a gynecologist for example might

charge more say about a hundred euros a visit but you'll never see the dizzying prices you might see in the united states or another country. to find out more about with the french health care system is like from the inside i went to the american hospital of paris and there i met with doctor johnson. is an american obgynyn working in france for twenty years thank you so much for being on the show to. now as a doctor with experience abroad what would you say it surprised you the most when you first started practicing here in france. the use of the midwives. terms here as opposed to the uniteted states for abuse and nurses as anan obstetricici- in the united states to were the ones that are callining the shots and we'e're in charge. and he- was no we're- we'e're not. this terms are the ones that are telling us how it's going to be managed so there's a whole it's a whole different approach to- abstracts and a

fferent apapproach. descent i find it a lot more opportunistic okay and i'm used to- for starters when in by paternalistic it would give me- i will tell you what you need to knonow. if i could d apply et i. united states. foforty thirty years. when youou had a bad. you had can in. the not to tell the patient but maybe they tell a loved one but not to tell them. i felt it. it was very similar to that in other words it was thirty years behind emotionally. and then nap and then what was the united states whatat would you sayay. your favorite thing about what. in health care system. thank you for l. and the access come again and i did stay. againn an obststetrician the united states said have d dismal r record for indian pmr tly and a lot of ththat is due because people ca. access system. don't have the

money they don't h have t the insurancnce in here it's very well organized in that regard. it's a double and what do you say. challenging after working here for. please this is it's difffferent i'm not french they're not american this hassle is c completely different in terms of how you communicate and talking about french healthcare in general it's credited and said with being portable accessible good quality. it's the best system in the world. i haven't experienced that many different ones i certainly been here i've been on the dededuction for y yr and obviously the united states and i would d definitely put to france yeah it's very very. so the french healthcare system is currentltly used as s an examplr a counter example in the ongoing debatate about health care in itsts state. do you thik a french style system work in the united states i think if

the excellent i think a bit difficult to i implement. . i it helps s because uninited statess run too much by the insurance companies it's- very different they- don't have a lawsuit problem that we have the united states cannot practice. issue which doesn't really make it more sloppy- it makes you more be able to accept patients. because you're not gonna have the constraints of. what kind of baggage abraham mateo and i think that's important. and what would you d date or the pound french healthcare facining today. i i think it. . well coud go pro. i that's what a lot of people are worried about- in that same time they're things they could do anything to improve. they could stop things first is they really don't need to pay for it. yeah i mean finding love to. all my gosh yes yes. they could clean it up a little bit and say okay fine you need talent pay for it. you can pay for but that's also coming from different induststries. the pharmacy industry- in terms of harm.

themselves are. yeah for time. one final. would you. come here to for. okay yes. yes baby notot to vacatation surgery and things like that. but to no i think did a good job. right well thank you so much doctor thanks for the show the- despite the love for french healthcare system is far from perfect critics say it's complex and hard to navigate and financially it's been struggling to stay afloat. high unemployment and an aging pop stationn mean that lesss money s going into the french healthcare system and that's a real problem given the cost french bends over 11% of gdp on healthcare which is close to the highest rate in the- but- it's nothing compared with the unitited states. n now ten years excess government last. not that. french health care said when over in. billion euros in two thousand and ten two under one billion euros today but years of budget cuts have put

tremendous pressure on healthcare providers particularly french hospitals. overworked and underpaid many hospital workers are sounding the alarm and saying that they are at a breaking point. the symbolic day of mourning for the striking hospital workers. they've come to honor colleagues who have taken theirr lives and patients whoho have died due to a lack of care. at that. point i mean i love. it don't you w. dot through multiple accounts. you know it's- it was also a judge on the show on the top i said they got it to be diesel. to well i would. what does he see the- there is a growing malaise in france's public emergency services er visits have doubled over the lastt twenty years leading to long w waits and shot tempers. on the designers of amritsar. illinois office. appointments on. metal workers at this children's hospital in

paris have e been staging symbolic strikes by law thehey have to o show up foror work thy sasay chronicc underststaffing a lack of resources are putting them under severe strain and patients date. one is on a two thousand. one of the best start since i got out of the medals members. one a- if you snooze on the warning on the on the- on the- on their cleats you down for a- refund you can put on don't forget us. all of us just one check. up don't want. thank a potentially so the ministry of health has promised financial aid and bonuses the critics say the dysfunction in emerging says is symptptomatic broader crisis and are calling for a major re hauling of france's renowned health system. france's health system is certainly a source of fascination abroad and many of you send in your questions like ricky j. marcou said. i have

been some reform proposals to further modernize system well the current government has put in place a series of reforms that are set to kick in in twenty twenty for instance they want to stop limiting number of medical. at this should help fill in france medical data birds huge areas of the country where there simply aren't enough doctors but the truth is it's a very different system to reform because people arere attacked the way it is. the severe weather you're rich where you're own fault. right in medical bills and get good health care now many of you sent in your happy friends health care stories like pull cut who tweeted as a tourist i slipped and hit my head on rocks on a small island matt hey that's part of new caledonia. sixteenth kilometers from paris i was picked up by an ambulance treated by french nurse and doctor exit and again in the next day. i totally understand okay i was born prematurely and spent my first

month in intensive care and my parents didn't spend a cent well actually no they did they had to pay for a glass of wine that my father quartered. to lower so happy you made it this far. that wraps it up for this edition french connections plus don't forgetet if you have your own questions for us you can always leave a message. on our facebook page or tweet flow athlone them.

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