death toll from the code 19 reaches 8 with 4 lives lost in the past day tougher measures have been introduced to stop the spread of the virus we look at how muscovites view the partial lockdown also to karmically account one 3rd of the world's fatalities is the figure passes $10000.00 and. i. asked that has come out positive. among the main stories of the week the british prime minister contracts the virus and writes a letter sent to every u.k. household people to stay at home.

hello there welcome you watching the weekly here in r.t. and our look back at the main stories of the last 7 days and of course it is the coronavirus pandemic that is dominating everything so let's just give you the latest numbers on that as of today 677000 cases of covert 19 have now been confirmed globally 146000 have recovered in total but over 31000 people have died from the pandemic. well here in russia 4 people have died of covert 19 in the past 24 hours that brings the total figure to aids there are now more than $1500.00 confirmed infections in the country with 2 thirds of them in moscow but despite the rising numbers there is some cause for optimism because the world health organization has

agreed with the russian government's estimate that the outbreak should start to subside as may well starting on saturday restaurants cafes and non-essential shops that shut their doors only supermarkets and pharmacies remain open although deliveries of food and other items are still permitted people over the age of 65 they are advised to stay indoors public parks are out of bangs. has been out on the streets of moscow. it's the weekend and it's this country's turn the people have been calling the measures that have been announced quarantine all kinds of places from restaurants to gyms are shut down but there's been no formal ban on people leaving their homes unless they're over 65 years old the weather is beautiful it's a fantastic weekend and usually all the people would be out. that's why

i want to check out a few locations and see what's gone on and get these places a quarantine commitment score. so i start my tour around moscow's most popular spas swizz remember the scorpion song full of the most down to gorky park that's right. gorky park here it is officially it is shut down but there are a couple of beautiful promenades right outside it and i can tell you ali see 2 people here so i give it not out of 10 for edsel location quarantine commitment score.

moscow there's a whole new place for selfies with the kremlin in the background it's called the soaring bridge where approaching it right now you can see it over there. and it's completely deserted no axis and i've been told that technically it's part of a park that's also closed so. like i said access restricted no people 10 out of 10. we are all nikolsk a street this place was a magnet for football fans from all over the planet during the world cup 28 saying it literally felt like a tin of sardines in here. well

at this point as you can see i wouldn't say that of all the encountered one or 2 passers by the restaurants are closed but there you haven't so probably i'd say 5 out of 10. where the place called the depo food mall which is a combination of the food market and a food court this hit complex is also full of fancy bars and even night clubs and i'm sold not used to seeing this place almost completely empty actually i was sure that i'd see some hipsters just trying to hang around here even out signs it turns out that the food part is actually operating because it counts as groceries but other than that everything shut down and i don't see anyone here pretty much so

just for the public's responsibility i guess this place gets 10 out of 10 but of course i guess it's a bit of a hard time for the market traders well only this week president putin visited a hospital in moscow where coronavirus patients are being treated stuff there for the dedication and efficient work the president will say chaired a meeting with the city authorities on containing the pandemic. have. influence and could. rule. the world. you know notice that we're going to get it including. you. across europe there are more than 400000 confirmed cases of coverage

19 italy has suffered the most with 10000 lives lost in the north the country there have been overwhelmed the sheer number of dead and large numbers of coffins are being stored in churches russia meanwhile has launched a massive operation aid operation to help italy fight the pandemic a total of 15 russian military cargo jets have landed in the country over the past week they brought with them ventilators protective gear the medics did 19 test kits and disinfection trucks also around 100 russian specialists in have been sent to say they'll be helping out italian hospitals currently swarmed by patients leaving doctors and nurses at breaking point.

all. we're going to do for you very soon. they're all going to would almost. all. no remorse there are. more for the blues is also. where much of the world's population is now living under restrictions spain europe 2nd worst affected country after italy is in lockdown more than 6 and a half 1000 have died from the outbreak there medics are working around the clock to treat the infected it is

a job that comes with huge risks and hospital staff now account for almost 14 percent of the country's total coronavirus cases lifesaving equipment is also in short supply too and hospitals are running out of capacity. mosque or find ourselves in an extreme situation in which we've all experienced extreme emotions and just as anguish emotions that many of the professionals may have experienced previously but this situation will make it even more intense fear anger anguish sadness a very difficult to handle. were a lack of workers and when people go out to the streets you know what happens they get sick where like an equipment medication or germany has almost 60000 coronavirus cases but the country has managed to keep its mortality rate far lower than in spain or europe correspondent peter all of the looks now at how both countries are dealing with the outbreak. here in berlin we haven't seen the type of lockdown

that's being put in place in other parts of europe although social distancing itself isolation being practiced germany thankfully hasn't seen the type of cases and fatalities of covert 19 that have been seen in countries like italy and los recently spain patients are having to lie on the floor as there simply aren't enough beds to treat them in hospitals while in a car but twist of necessity this ice rink normally a place of enjoyment is having to be used as a makeshift mortuary so far spain is the 2nd hardest hit in europe but drew it has been the epicenter of the spanish outbreak authorities have had to put in place the strictest measures in an attempt to stop the spread of the momo library the way it was common in of the difficult days a common that's a good test to the very limited capacity of resources. about.

balance as a society the corona virus has overwhelmed some of spain's medical facilities so quickly in fact that some of those that were most at risk from the virus were left behind in the panic dozens of elderly and sick people were found dead at home the situation made all the more harrowing when the army had to disinfect their resting place as the army during certain visits found older people completely abandoned sometimes even dead in their bad spanish health care services fighting against collapse this is a significant problem for healthcare system this collapse which is being talked about could happen in some places germany seems to have the spread of covert 19 under some semblance of control a quick glance to our neighbors elsewhere in europe like spain shows just how quickly the situation can degenerate and with such tragic consequences peter all of

our r.t. belin. meanwhile the u.k. has seen a dramatic spiking cope with 900 talismans over the past week more than a 1000 have died more than 4 times the number this time last week the british prime minister meanwhile has written a letter to the nation urging people to stay at home but after boris johnson himself tested positive for the virus i developed marl symptoms of the corona virus that's to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer i have taken a test that has come out positive so i am working from home i'm so far isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do but be in no doubt that i can continue thanks to the with technology to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against corona virus but infection numbers do continue to

rise in the u.k. despite the nationwide lockdown and the citizens who refuse to comply with the restrictions going out and meeting friends is normal twitter users to have dedicated a new hash tag for those people of idiots. and you want. to get. these bloody idiot seem to think they're enjoying a summer's day in the park the u.k. is in lockdown for sake it's a lockdown people not a whole day still at home the longer you persist in behaving like idiots the longer this is going to continue. people ignoring the key log down and treating it as a special holy day event video it's a backlash against those who ignore social distancing advice is also happening in

rural areas of the u.k. some national parks have been busier than ever and locals have been telling visitors to go home we spoke to regional authorities who were stunned by the influx of visitors they saw and they say that the confusion is down to mixed messages coming out of westminster. i don't know whether it's a deliberate ignoring or whether it's and. the advice at the time just wasn't clear enough people and i think unless you you've had something directly impact on you and last a member of the family has been impacted or unless you specifically been quite into isolation and i think here i don't think it hit people at that point the seriousness of the situation you know we're very reliant on on people coming to the area for the local economy and i think it just hasn't hit people is

my hope that it just happened people and they just didn't sound the guy in the gravity of the situation unfortunately there was an element of the digital until he is and that i was very pleased to see the mayor of the town of course call come on to the airwaves to put a more rational case forward i think those visitors were misguided i wouldn't call them stupid because those rules are not at all clear we've heard the u.k. government which was encouraging people to go out and gain good immunity you prime ministers farther saying it was going down the pub seconds after the prime minister advised people not to so you have to. have to be aware that there are very mixed messages and that's the challenge. pandemic has brought entire economies the brink of collapse after the break we'll look at how it could affect our lives but

also to come to an intensive care unit york wrong critically low on supplies as the taliban's continue despite. the atlantic alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 global security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington in brussels by virtue of them for the foreign policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you

then. believe named weird things by the way this is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system it's a feature that comes equipped in the software of our programming to try to connect things in the environment just in case there's a real connection. welcome back to the weekly not governments around the world are faced with a dilemma when dealing with the coronavirus break medically they need to things done to prevent it spread but financially that could prove to be catastrophic for

their economies shot in the difficult choices countries facing. economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced. to the government offering to pay full salaries to cannot work there is a scramble to inject amounts of money into the system to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic the costs are expected to exceed germany from economic crisis to natural disasters in recent decades has not done so implemented with no clear end in sight the real question perhaps is now how could the world afford this this pandemic has brought the most serious economic financial and social crisis of the 21st century the strict measures applied around the world although

essential to control the spread of the virus plunge our economies into a presidents of paralysis from which they will not come out easily or automatically already we know that some 67000000 us citizens are worried about how they going to pay their credit card bills because of the pandemic other fears about finding money for the more essential basic needs of life accommodation and food while the multi-trillion play it out for now will keep things taking along over some point that will end governments will have to choose between keeping your column you running or treating populations it is impossible to leave even unself isolation and to cure people if we do not continue the economic activity that quite simply allows us to live in this country our daily life so that eating out to restaurants going to the cinema meeting friends perhaps for

a drink or even having a haircut these are all activities that contribute to. keeping our economies taking over the money top sliced off by our governments in taxes then goes towards paying for essential services be that the doctors and nurses who are currently at the frontline of the war against. all the ability to purchase ventilators and other essential medical equipment governments need money and money comes from a healthy working a quantum me we have already been warned that when containment measures finally and this will not be over the virus will not magically disappear. this idea that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks you solve the problem and get back to normal life that's not what's going to happen this virus is going to be circulating potentially for

a year or 2 so we need to be thinking on those times goes. social distancing may provide a rest spike from infection peak rates the so-called flattening the curve model but the impact that could have gone wrong term economies could some believe provoke spikes in deaths elsewhere in the u.s. state of massachusetts a suicide prevention hotline has seen a surge in cools the majority of people call him lately and mentioning all talking about fear of contract in the virus economic impact and prison loneliness or isolation we anticipate and there will be an increased need for services like ours for a time to come in countries where social safety nets on particularly robust or perhaps nonexistent this is a real concern president trump is well aware of this despite lawmakers agreeing on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package trump knows like china he may have to

prioritize the economy we have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicide over things like this when you have a terrible economy you have death probably i mean definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we're talking about with regard to the various governments who they enact a draconian lockdowns now face an even bigger di lemma given that a vaccine for the virus is still possibly a year or even 2 years away that we're being warned by health experts that covert 19 will remain a deadly force when recess a taishan of the financial system becomes the more pressing issue how will they sell the exit strategy from containment. now over in the us containment measures there have forced businesses to shut down and lay off staff unemployment claims hit

3300000 this week smashing previous records that number is 5 times higher than june the paid the 1980 recession meanwhile the senate has passed a 2 trillion dollars stimulus plan to keep firms afloat we heard from economics professor richard wolffe in things that the measures won't be enough. we. were rushed conditional unemployment now one unemployment goes up a little more like every conceivable struggle szell raglan which i go all the child that you wore a. gold really it that's one of the reason i had the belief predict fall out of all of this everything that government has done since we 1st learned about the coronavirus in december of last year has been too little and way too late and my judgment as best i can see is that this bill assumably in the form of

well it. will also be true little. the u.s. is now at the center of the pandemic with the largest number of cases globally more than 123000 americans have tested positive for the virus and more than 2200 have died york state has been by far the worst hit with more than 50000 cases that's almost half the total nationwide 883 people in the state of died with as many people have called the emergency services line in new york city is after the 911 terror attacks from the chavez sent this report. hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in they get into bed it they die the cycle repeats elmhurst hospital in queens the bureau with the most coronavirus cases in the city in the center of the outbreak

right now it's every day it's nonstop literally and. unfortunately it's my get to suggestion you have to pick and choose what you're going to do are you going to do . as the doctor say a lot of people call the doctor the survivor to expire and you put the same machine in the not the 1st shot as medical staff operates out their limit hundreds of more people wait lining up outside to get tested for covert 19 but officials say the 545 bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies you know the systems overwhelmed all over the place the situation in new york worsening by the hour the state accounting for roughly half the cases across the country this grim video shows teams setting up a makeshift morgue outside of bellevue hospital something that was done during hurricane sandy and 911911 was nothing compared to this we were open waiting for patients to kabul never came. ok now they just keep coming however

a small sign of hope governor cuomo announcing that for the past few days the rate of hospitalizations is slowing although he cautions that the peak of the crisis could still be about 20 days away the governor as that while only about 15 percent of cases have required hospitalisation the state intice a pizza 140000 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have enough beds or lifesaving ventilators and as medical personnel remain on the front lines we are learning that a member of mt sinai is nursing staff who has been treating coronavirus patients has passed away from co the 19 the hospital saying in a statement today we lost another hero a compassionate colleague friend and selfless caregiver meantime the hospice. system initiating a procedure called plasmapheresis where they transfer antibodies from patients who have recovered from cold in 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the procedure could be life saving reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . well amongst all the gloom it does appear to be

a small ray of light new cases of the virus in china's hu a province of fall into almost 0 that's according to chinese authorities is where the global outbreak began and on saturday 122 medical workers who were sent to the region from elsewhere in china returned home they were so you know off by a crowd of locals there were uprooted them for their work quarantine measures are being gradually lifted people who were earlier came into contact with the infected have now been allowed to leave self isolation. so that brings you up to date you've been watching the weekly here in r.t. will be back with the latest on the pandemic at the top of.

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