she sees. homes across europe are devastated by the covert 9000 pandemic with many residents passing away without even receiving treatment an italian retirement home director describes the dire conditions. i would describe what's happening as it's not losing so many people at the same time as terrible. millions of patients with life threatening conditions are left behind as hospitals around the world focus their resources on the coronavirus. operation should george the next week. salt the current press conference it needs an operation sooner rather than later. and opec agreed to slash oil production to stabilize the global market but the plan

hits a road block as mexico refuses to comply meaning more talks lie ahead. good morning q with your global news update this is r.t. international. get straight to our update of the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic and the number of confirmed infections worldwide has now surpassed 1600000 the death toll is approaching 96357000 people have recovered. now it's become clear that elderly people are at greatest risk from covert 19 and an alarming picture is emerging from care homes across europe there's been

a surge in mortality rates but the numbers are still unclear due to a lack of testing and delays in reporting in italy the health director of all nursing homes says that there are no resources to cope with the crisis so. i would describe what's happening as it's normal losing so many people at the same time is terrible but have not even had time to happened and mourn for those who have died. retirement homes provide optimal conditions for the spread of the virus and in many european countries residents have been left behind by health care services receiving little or no treatment in france almost a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths happened in such facilities at the charlotte dubin school reports. as the grim toll from couvade 19 continues to mount official figures often amid deaths outside hospitals including those in nursing and care homes a picture is now emerging of how the virus is laying waste to some of the most

fragile while many older people have been self isolating a home and hopefully safeguarding their health as much as possible it seems that others in care homes are more at risk in front the death toll rose rapidly off due to merge how many people in care homes had lost their lives to the virus those deaths now account for more than 30 percent of total fatalities but this isn't surprising from the very start we were warned that older people were at highest risk the most important task would be to protect. most vulnerable people during peak weeks it really didn't assume it to put the priority of the nation is to protect our elderly you must do it responsibly with common sense and discipline strong words from those in charge yet words that some say have wrong hollowing as

the elderly bear the brunt of the virus in spain nursing and care homes have been struggling to stop the spread of covert 19 it's estimated that in march alone nearly 5000 people in care homes in the trade region died that's thousands of deaths higher than normal. a correspondent from our sister channel to spanish francisco got you to told me that in some places care homes have become defacto hospitals when the euro's spread out. and it's very deep equal to keep in that receive and there were different parties. there was a lot of activities they were defined meetings inside is the type club us bases they call the 9 team and it. is this equation becomes very difficult for care

homes because in it for them they need to act nicer hospitals francisco's mother was living in one home but following complications she's been transferred to a hospital where she's fighting pneumonia although it's not yet being confirmed she is also being treated as if she's been infected by kuwait 19 as a reporter francisco knows the drill but as a son he says the hardest thing is to not be with her in person could be 19 is very cruel because you cannot hack your mother you can the peace here you cannot be weak pair. it's very tough for the patient and for days really weeks we cannot be close to her in the soup was francis when you were in the middle of these and then yeah i think it's very

difficult but there were some messages that they were saying for example that all people it's a priority that it was not true you know was not true and it's clear with the fact that you see how many people in care homes in the last weeks it's thousands of people of all people that. because of. the outbreaks in care homes in spain have led to a collapse in staffing last month the military was called to help but there were time at home and it found elderly residents who've been abandoned and in some cases all day in their beds meanwhile in a chilly investigation has been after dozens died at a nursing home alone what will work at the facility said the true extent of the risk of infection had been played down what stocks had been told not to wear masks

so. this situation isn't good this covered everything up there were even 4 people who gave including a female doctor who terrorized us saying we didn't have to use masks. in the u.k. government guidelines say 1000 patients can be safely cared for in care homes if precautions are taken but some care home managers say that by doing so the government is sacrificing the elderly. that would be tons of money to importing into care homes and i think to add insult to injury by. 19 positive patients it's all skills to basically make suicide notes for people in care we are taught from a young age to respect our elders to look after our elderly get the panic kissing seed with a pandemic those key lessons those reassuring overtures from leaders feel

like in some cases they have evaporated so that even ski. paris. hospitals around the world are having to suspend vital services as they focus on covert 19 patients story and more still to come. the opec oil producing nations plus russia have agreed to cut global output in a bid to stabilize prices however the deal he is on which is so far refused to play along let's get more on this now from our correspondent donald quarter don good morning to you just take us through the tentative looking agreement at this stage and what is likely to mean for global supplies the morning meal well this is certainly a store call agreement that's in the works right now between opec plus and russia saudi arabia and russia have already agreed to cut global daily oil production by

$10000000.00 barrels of oil and that's after a 2 after a month long price war between saudi arabia and russia actually that began after saudi arabia had dramatically boosted its oil production resulting in record low global oil prices on thursday opec plus called on its member states to assist in efforts intended to stabilize the global oil market and that was after marathon negotiations on the issue we also heard from russia's energy minister. who said that these intended cuts in production are crucial to the global economy. we have seen a substantial slump in demand $10.00 to $15000000.00 barrels per day demand could fall even further in the near future oil storage facilities are nearly full to capacity and that's a cause for concern this could have serious consequences for the oil sector and the global economy as a whole now mexico isn't seeing eye to eye with everyone else right now the

agreement is hanging on that countries consent according to opec and even saudi arabia which not long ago was against cutting global oil production is trying to get mexico into the fray. i hope mexico can see the benefits of this agreement not only for mexico but for the whole world the entire agreement depends on mexico's consent there's still another round of talks ahead so nothing's set in stone yet but of course we'll let our viewers know of their decision as soon as the details become available many thanks articles for the don't call to there just a lot of us know we are hoping at some expert analysis on this story hopefully if we can get that guest in the next 10 minutes or so many thanks don. now the world bank has warned that sub-saharan africa's economy is going into recession for the 1st time in 25 years because of the pandemic it could mean millions of people being pushed into extreme poverty and then able to meet their

daily needs. of the global shock waves and how they are affecting the continent. of the world has now realized it's facing not just a health crisis but also potential economic collapse global growth will turn sharply negative 2020 in fact we anticipate the worst economic fallout sees the great depression these numbers are dramatic. comparisons with 2008 financial crisis and even the great depression of the thirty's are inevitable in the us and asked me to 16000000 people have filed unemployment claims of the past 3 weeks and know if that is happening to the world's economic superpower what bleak future awaits everyone else take africa for example the world bank says that coburg 900 is threatening to take the continent

into its vast recession in 25 years we will see a complete collapse of the condom is and livelihoods livelihoods will be wiped out to the way we have never seen before if the analysis proves right coronavirus could cost the continent up to half of its g.d.p. in 2020 why while africa is one of the most export dependent regions in the wild but with countries shutting their borders the continent can't trade like before that's on top of reduced tourism and oil prices the number of corona virus cases in africa is so far relatively no around 11000 but there are concerns it's just the calm before the storm case numbers here increasing exponentially and there she can . region it took 16 days from the 1st confirmed case in the region to reach 100 cases it took a further 10 day series the 1st says and 3 days after this there were teas hasn't cases in 2 days later we were at 3 says and if this patent continues african

nations which already have fragile health systems will just simply be overwhelmed we don't have the hospitals the i.c.u. use or the ventilators to deal with massive amounts of people so if the spread is comparable to that scene in europe or china the outcome could be devastating the coronavirus were to the effect their health care services across the world but more so are can control to a clearly more could pave clearly have just because the underfunded and ill equipped many of them are the cause of the labor market expected to docs and nurses very in short supply so. called market issues for many of your employers countries right now to try and get ahead of the pandemic many countries have been forced containment measures like lock downs curfews and travel bans but that has led to its own knew of problems overzealous policing has already cost lives and kenya

there are reports of police beatings and the president himself apologize for the death of a 13 year old boy at the hands of an officer is straight but meanwhile south africa has taken the unprecedented step of going into a military patrolled or knocked down was was human rights groups also allege these lockdowns are being taken advantage of by authoritarian regimes to consolidate their power and also to sneak out social uprisings as joblessness continues to rise the timing of the pandemic is taking the bad for africa a number of its nations only now is recovering from the ebola outbreak and in the east a small of the locusts is threatening to devastate crop. if we fail with the current regional control operations because of the lack of pesticides then we could see 4000000 more people struggle to feed their families so

while the creative virus is making life around the world difficult for the $1300000000.00 living on the african continent it threatens to undermine individual freedoms collapse health care systems and bring about economic ruin africa is meant to be an agricultural produce the continent i mean many crazes many countries in africa have sought the the element of mineral wealth and last we've seen that that doesn't actually play in good hands so if people who live on a dollar a day nearly 70 percent of 1000000 population sizes across europe and went on the a dollar a day those people do not ask to stay at home if we're told that's the case who's actually going to take care of them and their bread lines are going to be affected the ability to be able to feed their families and themselves are really straight on move and likely the african people will suffer when supply chains are terribly

affected which they will i'm going to see not to be the case. so it's come for you this hour preying on fear we look at the fraudsters are trying to cash in on the pandemic.

i would say we could have prevented this but we weren't ready for a number of reasons because you know the problem is that companies that are making vaccines and other virus they want to make a profit so they don't make them if there is no virus to make them again so after sars one of these appeared very quickly there was no incentive. call spittles around the world and having to focus their resources on treating that 9000 patients and that means many crucial services are being neglected for example

in the united states hospital admissions for heart patients of drops by up to 60 percent and in spain that's been a 40 percent cut in emergency procedures not related to cope at 19 hong kong supporting major delays in accepting patients and a doctor in new york told us patients are refusing to be sent to emergency rooms for fear of catching the virus. housing the hospitals it's overcrowded over 9000 patients are going to have to wait for a long time just to get upstairs to a bed with if i'm going to share a room or going to hallways with other covered 90 patients i have patients come in to crying and screaming that they don't want to be sent to the very deserving of the nursing home because they had a fever discreetly that they don't want the virus to take me back take me back but they know they're being sent to certain do. because they're going to just inhale the air of an emergency room where the patients are 90 percent of them untested father of a 19 coughing and sneezing who we heard from david bull a british doctor

a former member of the european parliament he thinks patients should never have to be scared of going to hospital when they need treatment really cared for ice to people is the hospitals remain open if you have a serious condition so for example if you have on china if you have chest pain if you have anything that you are really really worried about then you must seek medical help because actually strangely the public are actually listening to the advice that's being given a many of the wards are relatively quiet at the moment so if you are concerned if you have a life threatening illness then please make sure that you go to the hospital we have ramped up medical provision we have cold backed lots of retired doctors lots of retired nurses back onto the front line so we've also built these other bigger units like the nice ingo hospital which is 22000 bed wards i mean that's extraordinary so the capacity of the n.h.s. has increased dramatically but that means there are still many doctors around to

deal with those conditions that are nothing to do with corona virus itself the current vice death toll in the u.k. is now approaching 8000 and overcrowded n.h.s. hospitals are having to source many lifesaving procedures to private clinics we heard from nick lama to live in seven's a cancer patient. operation shut your next week and it was cam saltus recurrent breast cancer. i had a lot of treatment about 5 years ago and ongoing treatment and unfortunately it's returned and it needs an operation sooner rather than later this will be outsourced to a clinic but it's an n.h.s. clinic. and the tet the consultant hasn't operated there before so his very. being very very cautious and very careful to make sure that he thinks

a. course of still no cure or vaccine for covert 19 and the w.h.o. is said that the surge will take months if not longer and i go up in the markets a lot of fraudsters to step in offering fake treatments at israel guess the of has more. it's always like this isn't it especially in times of desperation when mankind is gripped by fear and despair they crawl out from under their rocks the charlatans the prophets years that the slimes and the sneezes even among them are those of exceptional shamelessness i'm asking for a brief 3 months to assist in research work uncovered 19 being released to the post covered world is no solace to even been concentrated martin's correctly former drug industry executive a fraud

a ponzi scheme creator but lose his official crimes what's correctly really became infamous for is creating a monopoly over a parasitic infection drug used to treat pregnant women babies hiv exams he got his hands on this drug and he hiked the price from $20.00 per pill to $750.00 per pill it was ingenious and utterly soulless you either paid or you died health care prices are inelastic they could have raised it higher and made more profits were this is a couple of society couple system a couple of rules the way these vultures those promising promising a cure medicine or a secret formula to to ward off coronavirus spirits and for a pretty penny they'll tell you it came from god god gave us this product yeah i

believe yes you're saying that silver solution would be effective there's no silver bullet there's no silver pill and i promise you there is no silver toothpaste yes toothpaste that's not a joke patented now. the pentagon has come and documented in homeland security and so. disturbed the whole sorry strain of family it point blank range so ludicrous were his claims that authorities in new york cata step in to tell him to stop this charade it's easy to blame the victims here you can call them silly or stupid we could try to understand them the elderly especially who are trusting who are told daily on television that they're in the high risk category that they're likely to die 1st of course they're desperate can you blame them for for grasping at straws know what you can do is you can blame the the car not ists who are waving these

straws in front of their faces not only do they create the cure but this pill right here is the prevention we can go on and on there are thousands of these charlatans all over the world more every day they'll just walk by report them make a complaint that facebook and twitter if you see a post there which is. the only thing worse than waiting for a cure is being fooled into buying one only to learn that it's fake and someone jury in a pandemic profited off of our collective misery. when ever something happens of a catastrophic nature you see a number of sometimes altruism big but oftentimes despicable for example price gouging in this country there were people who were selling pirelli these these and who lotion types of things for $200.00

a bottle was ridiculous facemask so that's one example then you have televangelists or others who ply their spiritual wares maybe legitimately i'm not equipped with the ability to tell whether they're correct or not that's for others to decide then you also have a variety of people who during this will make statements about the cause of this so called conspiracy theories now again i'm not saying anybody in particular but you're going to see everybody from every walk of life use this some are how i am i've heard radio promotion sometimes tawdry despicable so whatever the human imagination can provide that's what you'll see. well as the pandemic continues we had our so you're here for you with all the latest information we have coverage on our website r.t. dot com as well as all forms of social media and of course around the clock live

broadcasts we will be here with more for you updates and often. with the coronavirus now officially declared dependent make the world faces the additional burden of an oil market collapse this comes at a time when demand for crude was already known some her calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all ends his buddies gets. in his community there are people who believe that it's ok actually it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with arguments there's

a lot of conflict within the game and between the 2 most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of them money is made. close one on each other. each other is good business the state of california alone makes 6000000000 dollars a year off to prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about you so you don't care might anything. these are legal issues everything is a concept as a colleague 19 any cripples or card holder and health care systems wildlife scientists are scrambling able to raise a horrific scene against an overlap. that is

a surveillance and needed even to our gas and rubber mallet genealogy as. a yellow scholars physicians and surgeons. and yellow professor of law or biology an immunologist currently university great happy with this preservation takes years for it seems he is out for it since well that's 6 years worth while as it takes a lot. well the key is you have to make a wreck scene that's not only safe but works. many years to figure that out you can't give people especially healthy people were targets of the vaccine you can't give them something it's going to make them sick and that's not going to work and so you have to test it 1st them elaborate story in animals and you have to test for safety and then finally you have tested to see if it prevents the disease you know you're looking for years is not bad it took 50 years to make

a polio vaccine so we're doing much better than we used to. societies are promising to haven't seen against current worries like age of 21 how do we know that it will be there for happens. well there are no there are no guarantees in beck's analogy but towards really encouraging is that i think there are over 60 kompany is working on for sars kovi to a vaccine using all different technologies so we have all sorts of approaches that we can use to develop vaccines these days we're not limited to just one or 2 kinds and so i think that really improves the likelihood that one of them at least or maybe 2 are going to work so i have pretty good confidence that out of those 60 different approaches and i was looking at the list last night it's amazing how many different kinds of vaccine approaches are being taken one of those should work since we have people who have contracted the virus and recovered last year which is

right there on to the original but cells or something and use that everywhere we can in fact that is one of the approaches that's being tried we can in a very fast approach we can take antibodies or serum from those people who are recovered we can give them to other people to try and resolve the infection but that's not a long term solution other companies are isolating the cells from those patients that make antibodies and perpetuating them in cells so we can have wong or term solutions but none of that is permanent immunity it's only temporary and if we want a vaccine to give you permanent community. you contract colleagues can you get a game do you have permanently to to call it if you have it once now that's a really good question and it we don't know yet because we don't have much experience with this virus but if we look at other corona.