in the headlines for you this hour russia sees a 15 percent surge in cope with 19 cases that brings the total in the country to above 1000. the government for failing to provide protective equipment at hospitals that after a surge busy in infections among frontline medics. and funeral services in ecuador have run out of coffins says the covert $900.00 death toll the government admits that the crisis is far worse than even 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. with your global news this is r.t. international thanks for joining us. ok let's start with the latest figures on the cove in 1900 pandemic the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1508900 people have lost their lives the united states has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy and worldwide 337000 people have recovered from the disease.

let's start with news from russia where the number of confirmed covert 9000 cases has passed 100-1400 new infections have been registered in the last 24 hours most of them in moscow and since the start of the outbreak a total of $76.00 people have died on the correspondent saskia taylor has the latest. well in his recent addresses to the nation flaten akutan did say that neither globally nor in russia had the peak of the coronavirus pandemic past and it seems that today's late because do support that overnight russia has registered 1459 new case says that its highest daily rise and a considerable increase from what we saw just even 8 days ago that brings the total number of infected people throughout the country to around 10000 and the current death toll stands at 76 on a more positive note russia is being very active in terms of testing so far around

1000000 tests have been conducted now on wednesday the russian president spoke for a couple of minutes in a televised conferences and meetings with the choice authorities and he touched of course upon the cloak of 1000 pandemic that he essentially compared those medics on the front line up to quite a career in fire with soldiers on a roof front and he said that kind of selfless behavior of course had been awarded so to that end he announced an increase in salary for all nurses for doctors for ambulance drivers ready for medical stop and that salary bump is going to last for around 3 months which perhaps gives us an indication of the kind of timeline that russia in visage has in its battle with coke at $92.00 now as is often the case if the capital city has the most densely populated region in any country that is bearing the brunt and deep must account for around 60 percent of all that 19 k. says but that appear to warrant that all regions throughout rush's vast territory

must be prepared for potential increases chase says and so get ahead of the curve and ensure that all medical facilities are ready let's assume at nationals new york motion is there that i will start with an overriding priority common to all regions i mean improving the readiness of the met. all institutions and considerably increasing their resources and capabilities it is an unquestionable priority to know 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 will but graduate nugent diddles to say that they are looking very chatty at the other actions of the hate yet in other countries in russia we are not in a lockdown as cautious strict as not the european nations but we have been advised of course and requested to sit at home insult isolations that either way whichever way we're acting you need to understand that the next few weeks of the most crucial

and let's listen to exactly what was said on naps shows us which really nice bits at least to me as you know yesterday i met with some scientists 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. this is the period when we should fully concentrate our resources to strictly comply with the recommendations of doctors and the preventive measures that are being introduced in every region today the russian leader finished up by saying that russia has undergone serious trials because he made reference to several historical moments and battles yet he says that they had all been beaten all these problems had been overcome and graded by are no different than still very strong in. italy has the highest death toll from covert 900 with more than 17000 lives lost in

front line medics are risking their lives with a severe shortage of protective equipment meaning many are taking to the streets urging the government to step in. explains. on the frontline of this war against kuwait 19 our health workers doctors nurses all putting themselves in danger to care for those most in need but they too are being infected. 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 the lack of p p e and the problems of supply is undoubtedly linked to the high infection rate and

some of the deaths we have seen as well the world health organization has warned that there has been no longing failure in the global supply of protective clothing much that to the an oppressive dented workload linked to global staff shortages and this highlights just how vulnerable health workers all yet despite this some medical. still working without proper protection in the u.k. this nurse quit her job after being told that she couldn't wear a mask upon arriving to work while still wearing a mask you asked me for a bird in your office you outlined to me that wearing a mask wasn't following the truss policy and asked me to remove it. 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 uniformed me i will

still unable to wear my mosque the problems are not confined 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 beat up face mosques gogol's is the very least medical workers expect and should have access to these are the 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. with the 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 and we found ourselves in a state of war with insufficient weaponry and in. killer with the reduced number of masks after a while these masks are becoming available now alternatively instead of a surgical mask the population could wear a scarf or something to reduce the illusion of droplets surely that 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 the talks on thursday aimed at agreeing a stimulus plan earlier in the week they failed to strike

a deal after 16 hours of discussion italy france and spain are the 3 e.u. countries worst hit by the pandemic and they're pushing for a stimulus based on e.u. debt nicknamed corona bonds of the countries that resisted the idea saying that each country should be responsible for its own debt include germany austria and the netherlands spain says that the bloc needs to look at the core principles underlying the european union. we need the help of other countries and that's why the european community was originally formed at that time after a physical war now we are fighting a war against an epidemic financial consultant damian wilson believes italy and spain have good reason to be frustrated by a lack of support from the e.u. . inherently most nations are selfish they're 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 where when nationalism triumphs over maybe you know other 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 the point when he was announcing more relief for a country. i think the italians will take that very very badly in italy where even 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 were also be asking questions these are countries that if

a combined total of nearly 32000 people die since the pandemic and that's a lot of citizens to be losing 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 $242.00 people have died from corona virus but testing is still limited even the president's admitted that the actual figure is much higher with hundreds dying at home on a daily basis and in many cases relatives have nowhere to bury their loved ones. yeah i was god i came here to look for my dead relatives with really papers i can't find the body one day she days 3 days 4 days 5 days and they call find it.

i'll get people to me it like this i'm sleeping here outside the building i have fever on taking care of seed small my bones hurt and all that because i want to bury my mother in law and. yet you know that if you. can make it and then they believe they do good to one thing that is things but they are worthless and worthless because they put on our relatives bodies they can't belong in that coffin could they get away but if they go one cardboard gets wet what happens it does integrate doesn't it imagine transports in the course and it

starts raining it will just integrate. hospitals across i could or are unable to cope with the influx of covert 9000 patients and many people are being refused treatment and died at home we spoke to a doctor in ecuador he wants to remain anonymous he said that dozens of medics also died. this year if we see shortages in all pharmacies both public and private. hospitals where there are not enough birds no ventilation devices key to save lives unfortunately we often had to wait for one patient to die to give another his bread and breathing apparatus more than 40 health workers have died in the pandemic doctors and nurses this is hidden from the public it is important to understand that medical personnel cannot work in such conditions so for example on friday hospital one guy a quill had to be closed as there was simply no protective equipment the situation

with abandoned decaying bodies will cause the pandemic to worsen due to diseases caused by the decomposition of corpses if i could contact the w.h.o. in the pan american health organization i would ask them to intervene in ecuador and provide this distance to the city of gaia queer needs. we heard from running a league a son to us an official in ecuador squiers province and kid lucas a former deputy foreign minister they both think that ecuador was completely unprepared for the 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 government has acted in accordance with how it described development 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 them. so our american farmers a tipping milk down the drain. to go and that's despite food shortages caused by the law we'll explain all after this break.

with the coronavirus now officially declared

a pandemic the world faces the additional burden of an oil market collapse this comes at a time when demand for crude was already some are calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all. gets. welcome back the united states registered almost 2000 deaths from covert 19 on wednesday that's the highest daily figure for any country since the start of the pandemic and it brings the total in the country to war most $15000.00 that's even than spain with unemployment soaring millions are struggling just to put food on the table yet in rural america is going to waste more than explained. 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 using 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 were. wanted to reorganize it to move the milk not according to the market where would 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. the united kingdom has one of the world's fastest rising death tolls from cova 19 with more than 900 lives lost on wednesday bringing the total to 7000 and there are growing signs of panic with people reporting on neighbors seem to be breaking rules on social distancing on the skate park which has the story 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 chill 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 also artists around the

world are taking advantage of this trend and encouraging their citizens to watch and reports hotlines have been established apps have 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 and 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 says if it. is then and frank wouldn't have lasted

a week with all the snitches 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 ands they'll keep reporting their neighbors to the police this is obviously an undercurrent that goes to a company's 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 not says 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 risks 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 the coronavirus this includes people of all ages even if you do not have any symptoms other health conditions 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 target 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

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