the coronavirus takes a devastating toll on care homes across europe presents dying with no treatment and no families allowed to see them we speak to a director of a retirement home in italy and i would describe what's happening as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time as terrible. meanwhile new york starts digging mass graves after malls in the city are overwhelmed by the huge number of dead that as the health crisis that spins out of control. major oil producers to finally reach an agreement which will see production slashed in a bid to stabilize the global market mexico had been against the move but is now come on board.

so good evening you're watching r.t. international where it has just gone eye to cock here in moscow now let's start with the latest figures that we have on the cope with 19 pandemic the number of confirmed infections worldwide has passed 1600000 and the death toll stands at more than 100369000 people have recovered. well the virus is taking its greatest toll on the able to leave a picture of devastation emerging at care homes throughout europe deaths of surge but exact numbers aren't yet known due to a lack of testing and also delays in reporting initially the health director of one nursing home there says that there are no resources to cope with the crisis. i

would describe what's happened as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time it's terrible to have not even had time to process what happened and mourn for those who have died. in many european countries care home residents have been bypassed by overstretched health care services in france almost a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths there have happened in such facilities. reports. as the grim toll from covert 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 at home and hopefully safeguarding the health as much as possible it seems that others in care homes are

more a true risk in france 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 and most vulnerable people during peak weeks. to put the priority of the nation is to protect our elderly we must do it responsibly with commonsense 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 a macho. nearly 5000 people in cash in the trade region died that's thousands of deaths higher than normal a correspondent from our sister channel spanish francisco get you to tell me that in some places care homes have become defacto hospitals when they're spread out. and it's very cool to keep. there were. throwing parties. there's a lot of activities they were defined inside. years casey's. 19 and at that time 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 been 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. 19 is very cruel because you cannot hack your mother you can not piece here you cannot be weak hair. is very tough for haitian and for the relatives we cannot be close to her in the soup of spices when you are 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 'd it's a priority that it was not true you know was not true and it's clear with the facts that you see how many people you. homes in

the last week. thousands of people of all people are dying because. the outbreaks in care homes in spain have led to a collapse in staffing last month the military was called to help but a retirement home and it found elderly residents had been abandoned and in some cases dead in their beds meanwhile in a chilly and investigation has been launched after dozens died at a nursing home alone while you work at the facility said the true extent of the risk of infection had been played down what stuff had been told not to wear masks. and remember. this situation isn't good this covered everything up there were even 4 people who gave including a female doctor who terrorized 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 asking us to take coded 19 positive patients is asking us to basically make health suicide notes for people who care we're taught from a young age to respect our elders to look after our elderly yet as the panic has ensued with a pandemic those key lessons those reassuring overtures from leaders feel like in some cases they have evaporated shoulder jeevan ski r.t. paris remarked hospitals around the world are having to suspend vital services as they focus on cope with 900 patients we'll have

a look at the details of that story a bit later in the program. ok let's just bring you some news coming out of moscow this evening because the mayor here has announced that starting from monday special permits will be needed for people to move around the city the new measure will initially cover those needing to travel to work and at the same time all but essential service companies have to suspend operations for a week that news just announced by the mayor of moscow. now the u.s. is going to be an enviable wreck or of having the world's fastest growing death toll from the pandemic the figures approaching $18000.00 is expected to overtake italy within a matter of days in new york state 7000 lives have been lost and morgues have been overwhelmed in this video actually you can see workers in protective gear there they are burying the dead in a trench on hot island in the bronx the area has traditionally been used to bury

those with no no no relatives this report from the city his trinity chabris. i know that i am. taking. care of it here today the coronavirus continuing to take a dramatic toll on new york it's like a battlefield behind your house but the number of coronavirus cases and now more than 150000 with more than 7000 deaths. the virus having the biggest impact on some of new york city's poorest areas the disparities that have plagued this city this nation that are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain. and causing people innocent people to lose their lives it's just abundantly clear it's sick it's troubling it's wrong new data showing jackson heights elmhurst and corona queens have higher numbers of coronavirus cases than in

wealthy mostly white parts of manhattan. people. with. it's terrifying here because we're downwind of this of a hospital that's a percentage of the death of the national crisis while queens the epicenter of the outbreak in new york city accounts for more than 3200 factions many are still forced to continue to go to work if you want to be to. our keep out of. washington. many low wage workers on the front lines from grocery store employees to public transportation workers all deemed essential working around the clock during the pandemic right now everybody you are here if you are the still working at the m.t.a. confirming the corona virus has claimed the lives of 41 transit workers in 5 weeks

and more than 6000 have fallen sick or self quarantined this as new research shows that the novel crew. virus likely circulated in new york for weeks undetected with more new york infections coming from europe and not asia critics pointing out that the findings contradict president trump's argument that is ban on travelers from china in late january delayed the arrival of the virus to the us reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . the virus is having a massive impact on the global economy too for the 1st time in nearly a quarter of a century large parts of africa are entering recession juta the pandemic that's according to the world bank and it does threaten to push millions into extreme poverty they say. has been looking at the issue. the world has now realized it's facing not just a health crisis but also potential economic collapse global growth will turn sharply negative in 2020 in fact we anticipate the worst

economic fallout sees the great depression these numbers are america over it is. there a sense with 2008 financial crisis and even a group depression of they're going to be very sorry never in the us and asked to meet in 16000000 people have filed unemployment claims over the past 3 weeks and known 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 covert 1000 is threatening to tip 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 in 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. and 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 no oil prices the number of coronavirus cases in africa is so far relatively low around 11000 but there are concerns it's just the calm before the storm case numbers here increasing exponentially and therefore can region he took 16 days from the 1st confirmed case in the region to reach 100 cases it took a further 10 days he reached the 1st sad isn't 3 days after this there were tees hasn't cases in 2 days later we were at 3 says and if this pattern continues african nations which already have fragile health systems will just simply be overwhelmed when. i don't have the hospitals the i.c. use or the ventilators to deal with massive amounts of people so if the spread is comparable to that seen in europe or china the outcome could be devastating the

coronavirus would actually affect their health care services across the world but more so african countries who are clearly not prepared who clearly have lost because their underfunded and ill equipped many of them are the cause the labor market expected to docs and nurses very in short supply so a truly troubled problematic issues for many of the complaints 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 apologized for the death of a 13 year old boy at the hands of an office's straight meanwhile south africa has taken the unprecedented step of going into a military patrolled lockdown was. was human rights groups

also allege these lockdowns are being taken advantage of by authoritarian regimes to consolidate their power and also to thwart social uprisings as joblessness continues to rise the timing of the pandemic is particularly bad for africa a number of its nations are only now recovering from the ebola outbreak and in the east a small of locusts is threatening to devastate crops. 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 coronavirus is making life around the world difficult for the 1.3 been. and living on the african continent it threatens to undermine individual freedoms cannot 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 sort the in the element of mineral wealth and last we've seen that that doesn't actually play in good turns so if people who live on the another dollar a day nearly 70 percent of population size is. on the a dollar a day those people will be asked 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 strained on more than likely the african people who will suffer when supply chains are terribly affected which there will be a move forward seemed not to be the case but right after the break we will be with our correspondent live here in moscow he will tell us more about those new restrictions we told you about just today being brought in to the capital to fight the spread of the corona fires.

and we're going to fulfill the promises probably to the people. you know we've all pots the eagerness green. if you want to. know.

for the. coming coming coming. but again that within the last few minutes moscow's man has announced the russian capital will introduce a pos regime for citizens from monday that as the situation with the corona virus outbreak in the city has been worsening since the beginning of this week so let's get the latest now from. who is it a little time and has been there for a few days to jackie just run through them what this means for residents of moore. well this new system this is something that we've been more or less sort of expecting but now we have official information that is going to start starting as

of monday as you said and what we have from the moscow mare's website is he's saying that it's going to start in stages 1st they're going to roll this out in order to give people passes in order to go to work and then later on they're going to try and figure out how to do that for trips of other purposes and if needed if people are still not following the rules of what has been requested and it's possible that there would actually be a 3rd stage where people are asked to use these passes in order just to move around in their own neighborhoods which is something we've seen in other countries such as france and whatnot where people need passes even to go outside for a walk to take their dogs for a walk to go to the local pharmacy or grocery store but it's not clear i know whether that is going to actually be needed on the website it did say that this is of course difficult to see. taken but when it comes a question of health and the lives of so many people given the population of moscow that there really was no choice but to go ahead and announce this system and he

also commented on the fact that not everyone is following the restrictions that have already been put into place which is of course probably the most worrying part of this because in just the past day alone we've seen another 1786 cases here in the russian capital and 18 deaths which are really staggering numbers because things have been going pretty smoothly here in moscow pretty low numbers each day but over the past 34 days that really has been spiking giving everyone to understand that people have now been following those restrictions and of course another thing that's not helping is the pretty warm weather that we've been having over the fast past few days and just a look back at the 20th of march was when the who can actually announce the 1st week off saying there would be no work next week and that everyone should stay home and just a couple days later on the 30 of 30th of march is when the moscow mayor 1st said that we're going to impose some restrictions saying that people should only leave their houses and if they need have to have it need medical emergencies if they have

medical emergencies or to walk their dog to go to the local store or go to work only if they have to and of course it's now that non 7 work week people not going to work has been extended until the and april at this point and want to see if it gets extended past that as well so that's the information we have at this point of course we're going to be following along to long to figure out exactly how they roll out these passes how they're going to work and how people need to use them. sure. as we say those measures just announced there by the mosque over the last few minutes that was. a long way from her apartment she's in lockdown in moscow thank you. now in a bid to stabilize what have been plunging oil prices the world's. major producers including russia have finally reached an agreement to slash production makes you care had been the only country refusing to come on board however it was eventually persuaded to follow suit president clinton and trump meanwhile have said to have

just discussed the current situation and agreed on maintaining dialogue about the market on quarter has the details on the. the world's oil producing hard hitters have finally come to this is stork agreement to cut around $10000000.00 barrels of oil a day on the global oil markets in production now this plan means that puts the avoidance of a potential disaster for the world's oil markets and moscow has already predicted good things to come as a result of it the compromise between 22 countries will have a stabilizing effect on the global market there are no losers everybody has won from this decision producers consumers and the global economies will now this agreement comes after a month long price war between moscow and riyadh that started when saudi arabia dramatically increased its oil production and that sent global oil prices to record lows now on thursday opec plus called on its member states to assist in

efforts intended to stabilize the international oil markets and much mexico was actually the longest they took the longest to fall in line with this but after the country's president spoke with donald trump he said that they were able to cut a deal. we were in touch with prison trump i spoke with an agreement was reached to make cuts $100000.00 barrels per day the united states has committed to an additional decrease of 250000 barrels to compensate for mexico this is for what we already comply and. so now the world's major oil producing countries are on the same page will no doubt see a greater degree of stability in the international markets as a result of it. now with health services around the world engaged almost solely in the fight against the coronavirus it doesn't mean the focus has been taken off many of the crucial sector is in the u.s. there's been a drop by up to nearly 60 percent the missions for those suffering heart attacks in

spain seen a 40 percent cut in emergency procedures i'm patient seeking in hong kong have reported lengthy delays y a. you'll also reveal that patients are refusing to come in and the fees that they will be infected. housed in 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 covert 1000 patients i have patients come into crying and screaming that they don't want to be sent to the very dizzy room from the nursing home because they had a fever disagree with 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 attesting part of cold and i didn't coughing and sneezing british dr david bloom who's a foreman and he does say that no one should be scared of going to hospital if 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're 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 and 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 on 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. that

said though the u.k.'s national health service has been under severe strain and billions waiting times for example have tripled in london and many hospitals have outsourced key services to private clinics we heard from a cancer patient. operation shut your next week and it was canned 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 chest clinic. and the the consultant hasn't operated that before so his very. being very very cautious i'm very careful to make sure that it thinks a. full scientists are warning that

a vaccine for the corona virus is still likely to be more than a year away although that gap in the market has now allowed fraudsters to step in offering fake treatments more these might have guessed. 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 slides and the sneezes even among them 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 be incarcerated martins 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 victims 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 killed or this is a couple a society couple system a couple of schools be where 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 compared to. the pentagon has come and documented in homeland security and so. this stuff kills the whole sars family at point blank range so ludicrous were his claims that authorities in new york had to step in and 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 core 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 so just walk by report them make a complaint that facebook and twitter if you see a post just scroll on 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 the pandemic profited off of our collective misery when ever something happens of a catastrophic nature you see a number of sometimes out your mistake but often times despicable for example price gouging in this country there were people who were selling pure around east these hand the lotion types of things for $200.00 a bottle was ridiculous face mask so that's one example then you have televangelist .