russia sees a 15 percent surge in covert $9000.00 cases that brings the total now to more than $10000.00. telling doctors slam the government for failure to provide protective gear in hospital suffer a surge in infections among frontline medics. funeral service is in ecuador run out of coffins is the covert $900.00 death toll mounts the government admits the crisis is far worse than official figures suggest we hear from a doctor in the country. more than 40 health workers have died in that pandemic doctors and nurses this is hidden from the public.

other thanks for joining us here with your global news this is r.t. international. ok let's begin this hour the latest facts and figures on the covert 900 pandemic the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1508800 people have lost their lives the united states has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy well why 330000 people have recovered from the disease. ok let's start by getting an update on the situation here in russia where the number of confirmed covert 19 cases is now past 10001400 new infections

were registered in the past 24 hours most of them here in moscow and says the start of the outbreak a total of $76.00 people have died. let's get the very latest now from hardy's correspondent saskia taylor who is at home of course under the current situation and spring is the latest information police are asking. well in his recent addresses to the nation flatly putin did say that neither globally nor within russia had the peak of the coronavirus demick past and it seems that today's late. night as he said russia has registered 1259 new it cases that it's highest daily rise by quite a considerable number especially crack of what was happening just. 8 days ago that brings the total number of infected people to around 10000 and to date the current

death toll sounds at 76 on a more positive note russia is being very active in. terms of testing and so far has conducted around 1000000 texts now on wednesday the russian president spoke for a couple of minutes on the 1000 pandemic and that was just before a televised conference call meeting with regional authorities and that he essentially likened magic's lighting on the front line with created by i was with soldiers on a rant and he said that kind of southwest behavior needed to be rewarded so to that and he. can now that there will be a salary increase for nurses doctors ambulance drivers really all medical staff involved in the fight and that paper is due to law school around 3 months which perhaps gives us an indication of. the kind of timeline that russia in visage is in next fight against coronavirus now as is often the case that the capital city has

the most densely populated region in any country that is there in the right indeed moscow accounts. is in russia but did warn that all regions throughout russia's past her she had to be prepared and so get ahead of the curve and ensure that all medical facilities are ready let's listen and. that i will start with an overriding priority common to all regions i mean improving the red in this of the medical institutions and considerably increasing their resources and capabilities it is an unquestionable priority now hopefully we will not need all the reserves and additional capacities that are being created in the health care system but now we must be ready to fight for the life of every person in every region which is going to do it. and that russia is actually looking around the world to other countries to see how that patterns of behavior

are watching in russia we're not in a lockdown as harsh as in other european countries but we have been asked to sit insult isolation he said either way the next couple of weeks will be crucial let's say let's listen. and they can see that isn't it if they show us which one is bits at least to me as you know yesterday i met with some scientists and epidemiologists where carefully studying the experience of other countries that are also facing the coronavirus threat and we see that the 1st 4 to 5 weeks from the start of the epidemic are the most difficult this means that the next 2 or 3 weeks will be decisive for the development of our situation national security up this is the period when we should fully concentrate our resources strictly comply with the recommendations of doctors and the preventive measures that are being introduced in every region today some as little game of owning a ticket and that's what i g but if you're lucky just give me

a race you wouldn't have which is that the beginning. ok thanks for the telly working from home today there and struggle a little bit with the public as everyone else is on it at the same time many thanks . ok let's turn to italy now which has the highest death toll from covert 90 with more than 17000 lives lost in front line medics are risking their lives with a severe shortage of protective gear many are taking to the streets urging the government to step in the charlotte devinsky has more. on the front line of this war against kuwait 19 are health workers doctors nurses all putting themselves in danger to care for those most in need but they too are being infected at this hospital in their 01 doctor describes what it was like being treated the coronavirus. it's been a very hard experience very educational drama for me was to have full knowledge of

the risk of being connected to the tubes because i perfectly understood the events happening since the outbreak last year more than 3000 health workers across the world have been infected with the disease at least 100 have lost their lives we believe that the like of p p e and the problems of supply is undoubtedly linked to the high injection rage and some of the we have seen as well the world health organization has warned that there has been an alarming failure in the global supply of protective clothing match that to the precedented workload linked to global stock shortages and this the who says highlights just how vulnerable health workers are yet despite this some medical staff are still working without proper protection in the u.k. this nurse quit her job after being told that she couldn't wear

a man. sk upon arriving to work while still wearing a mask you asked me for a berth in your office you outlined to me that wearing a mask wasn't following the truss policy and asked me to remove it here to the request later that day while staking blood from one of our patients they accidentally coughed in my face i told you what had just happened however uniform i will still unable to wear my mask the problems are not come following to one country lack of medical kit just being almost universal some stuff of even taken to making their own improvised mosques from things like snorkels or using school science googles all in a bid to protect themselves worried workers fearing for their lives have taken to the streets in protest.

you. protective clothing face masks goggles is the very least medical workers expect and should have access to these older men and the women carrying out their duties in an unprecedented medical emergency we can cut for them every night we can offer them discounts in shops and though all of this is well meant what they really need to have is access to the basic equipment to help keep them safe but only if you suppose you could be problem of a lack of protective individual gear is also a problem on the institutional level and this is something that was caused by the tsunami of cases which hit us which overwhelmed things when we found ourselves in a state of war with insufficient weaponry and in particular with a reduced number of masks after a while these masks are becoming available now alternatively instead of

a surgical mask the population could wear a skirt. something to reduce the evolution of droplets surely there would be a less efficient alternative to a surgical mask but it's useable it should motivate us to continue with this social distancing. euro zone finance ministers will resume their talks on thursday ended agreeing a stimulus plan now earlier this week they failed to strike a deal following 16 hours of discussion italy france and spain the the 3 e.u. countries worst hit by the pandemic they're pushing for a stimulus that's based on joint debt it's been nicknamed corona bonds other countries have resisted the idea though saying each country should be responsible for its own debt and they include germany austria and the netherlands spain says that the bloc means to look at the core principles that underline the european union. we need the help of other countries and that's why the european community was originally formed at the time after a physical war now we have fighting

a war against an epidemic financial consultant demi wilson believes that italy and spain have good reason to be frustrated by the lack of support so far from e.u. . inherently most nations are selfish they are run by politicians who expect are expected by the people they govern to look after them 1st and put their interests 1st we don't see this happen very often i mean something like a sporting tournament you might see it. when nationalism china maybe you know. their emotions but i think that in a situation like this which we've never experienced before and so understandable it's unfortunate but it's understandable the crisis managers in the european commission of need to the other member states haven't done as much for italy as they should have at the start and this is a point when he's announcing more relief for a country like romania i think the italians will take that very very badly in italy

where even they have the north and south divide where they have one strategy moving in the in the north where the epidemic 1st 1st materialized and that was well underway before that even in the south i think that they will be asking some big questions of the european union about what what happened and where were they when they needed and i think the same in spain they've also been asking questions these are countries that have had a combined total of nearly 32000 people die since the kind them and that's a lot of citizens to be lindsay particularly when you feel you should be having help coming to you from brussels. ecuador is now one of the worst hit countries in south america officially only $240000.00 people have died of coronavirus there but testing is still limited and even the president's admitted the actual figure is much higher with hundreds of people dying at home on a daily basis in many cases relatives have nowhere to bury their loved ones.

yeah i was god i came here to look for him i said relative with the papers i can't find the body one day she days 3 days 4 days 5 days and they call finally. i get this i'm sleeping here outside the building i have fever i'm taking care of seed small my bones hurt and all that because i want to bury my moderately. yeah.

they can make it on good they believe they do good to maintain those things but they are worthless and worthless because they put on our relatives bodies it can't be long in their coffin could they get away but if they go one cardboard gets wet what happens it isn't a great doesn't it imagine transports in the course and it starts raining and it will just integrate. hospitals across i could or are unable to cope with the influx of covered 900 patients many have been refused treatment and died at home we spoke to a doctor in ecuador who asked to remain anonymous he said the dozens of medics have also died. this year.

we see shortages in all pharmacies both public and private hospitals where there are not enough beds no ventilation device is key to saving lives very unfortunately we also have to wait for one patient. died to give another he's bad and breathing apparatuses more than 40 health workers have died in the pandemic doctors and nurses this is hidden from the public it is very important to understand that medical personnel cannot work in such conditions so for example on friday the gospels only got your quilt had to be closed there was simply no protective equipment the situation with the band decaying bodies will cause this viral pandemic to worsen due to diseases caused by the composition of corpses if i could contact the double the show or the pan american health organization i would ask them to intervene in and provide the assistance that the city of gori acquittal needs. we heard from ronnie our legal santos who's an official in ecuador squyres province and. a former deputy foreign minister they both think that i could always

completely unprepared for this pandemic. no no one was ready for corona virus but the government should be able to respond to a possible outbreak of the disease that started as an epidemic then became a pandemic it is obvious that the public health system must respond unfortunately many of the hospitals built during the 10 years of the civil revolution were almost abandoned and many doctors and health workers were laid off therefore it turned out to be difficult to confront this kind of situation without hospitals and doctors and in addition the presidential administration has demonstrated its inability to act and the reality is that none of the measures that the government took worked since the start of government has acted in accordance with how it described developments but it was lying reporting no deaths while on the streets leave the bodies of dozens of dead people obviously when a government lies to itself its response cannot be adequate no one of the thunder but it may. in fact the situation in ecuador is now disastrous

reason for this is that our health care system was almost destroyed destroyed key posts were assigned to people who did not have enough training to ensure the functioning of the system bodies on the streets no one removes no established procedure for the collection of bodies they invent some kind of proprietary protocol according to which you have to wait several hours before picking up the body but the citizens of ecuador did not deserve such a careless negligent attitude on the part of the officials who now stand at the head of the ministry of health we observe a careless attitude on the part of the government which was created to protect the interests of those in power the financial elite in areas of the province of quietus where the wealthiest segments of the population live doctors come to patients houses while ordinary people called 911 in the hope that someone will answer them and explain something but no one will answer them people wait several days for them

to do the test. and no one cares about that. food is going to waste in rural america was applause they're unable to sell their goods because of. bringing the full story after the break.

this crisis the question. of there is a federal reserve and other central bankers and flavor reflate or. any downdraft in the stock market i know economically that's got a lot of problems associated with that but that's the big question. welcome back the united states registered almost 2000 deaths from covert 19 on

wednesday that's the highest 80 figure for any country since the start of the pandemic brings the total to almost $15000.00 higher even than spain with unemployment soaring millions are struggling just to put food on the table meanwhile in rural america produce there is going to waste a lot more pain reports. sometimes we seem to live in parallel reality across the united states store shelves are empty and food banks are reporting long lines and a shortage of donations at the same time we have farmers across america dumping gallons and gallons of dairy products saying that they have no one to buy them. how is this even possible demand for milk and cheese and other dairy products is high yet they are unable to sell them the pandemic is requiring self isolation bars

and restaurants are closed as a result people are running to their local supermarkets and the shelves are quite empty most american farmers are wholesalers meaning they sell to retailers not directly to supermarkets and if you are a farmer who sells to a retailer that supplies restaurants they cannot buy anything so you have to rapidly reorient to selling to supermarkets the problem is the factories or processors who are producing products specifically for the retail industry like restaurants for example those little tiny packs of butter that you may get in a restaurant but you can't just take that to the grocery store and sell it to the consumer it's not just melt meat and vegetables are in a similar situation producers do not have enough customers left and supermarket chains are unable to restock when they run out lots of food is going to waste in addition tighter border controls are making it harder for producers to hire

immigrant workers with harvest just around the corner this presents a big problem it could lead to fruits and crops rotting in the fields with no workforce to reap them many are wondering why all the food that's being thrown away due to market disruptions cannot just be provided to food banks if you will. wanted to real world good night to move the milk not according to the market where it will be paid for but to give it to charity you would have to we organize the whole sale the storage the transport and that's precisely the kind of arrangement that could only be done if it were planned for in advance at this point it's happening as are we don't have train traffic as we normally do we do not have truck traffic as we normally did there is no cold war nation the major effort of the government

is to appear to be in control when it isn't. a government that is focused on reelection and not on dealing with this problem it's really like the 930 s. the great depression. coming down into the united states economy. the crisis unfolding in the united states seems to be bad for everyone hungry people cannot get food from food banks consumers ready to buy food find empty shelves in stores meanwhile farmers have to dump their products because they are unable to sell it caleb martin r.t. new york. united kingdom has one of the world's fastest rising death tolls from cova 19 with all the 900 lives lost there on wednesday that brings the total to 7000 and there are growing signs of panic with people reporting on their neighbors seem to be breaking the rules on social distancing artie's part explains. the

british are farmed out on tell tales there's even an old nursery rhyme that graphically condemns those who inform on others tell tale to your tongue shall be slit and all the dogs in the town shall have a little bit. but since the u.k. went into lockdown on march the 23rd fia of the coronavirus and frustration at others ignoring stay at home rules mean police stations have been inundated by snitches one senior policeman urged the public to stop it and instead choose a polite disapproval but other british police forces and or thought is around the world are taking advantage of this trend and encouraging their citizens to watch and report hotlines have been established apps been developed and online forms published for denouncing rule breakers in the us what was once socially condemned is now officially remunerated you know the old expression about snitches well in

this case snitches get rewards we want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe as anyone can transmit the disease everyone is under scrutiny in germany politicians have seen reported for not keeping enough distance while scotland's chief medical officer ended up losing her job dr catherine calderwood was caught visiting her 2nd homes twice in a fortnight contrary to her own official advice photos of her were leaked to the press and she resigned that there's already been a backlash to the rise in social censorship. is that and frank wouldn't have lost a 2 week with the sneetches the thing they have the moral high ground for reporting on the neighbors activities. an absurd amount of people in this country are going to turn into 1st class snitches and when this and's they'll keep reporting their neighbors to the police this is obviously an undercurrent that goes into a company is there so i mean it's sort of positioned in framed as you are doing

your civic duty you are protecting everybody but it has deeper ramifications than that we must be very careful it is fear based absolutely people do have judgment about them about what other people are doing what's in your basket is that shopping essential why did you go out how long was your exercise how long were you on that bench for we have to be really careful sociologists claim snitching is based on fear or often surges in times of crisis and historically such as under the nazis when all sorts is encouraged social spying it can bring out the worst in people libertarians argue that look down restrictions hit the poorest hardest and shaming risk inflaming social divisions at a time when unity is needed but the rule followers argue this situation is temporary and a small sacrifice for a much bigger picture this is a national emergency is not a national holiday it's important people understand that everyone must stay at home

to help stop the spread of coronavirus this includes people of all ages even if you do not have any symptoms of a health condition before the coronavirus struck the world was becoming more polarized economically and politically coded 19 is also having the global impact not only in loss of life and social disruption but in highlighting humanity's extremes arguably balancing these extremes to talk at a common viral enemy is the reasonable response and to prevent it a social divide being the legacy of the coronavirus after its physical effects have been conquered hate partridge r.t. love the. as the coronavirus pandemic continues we had r t r here for you with all the latest info bring you coverage on our website r.t. dot com and all forms of social media plus of course around the clock live broadcasts from astute is in moscow london washington d.c. stay with us stay informed.

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