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it's sunday the 12th of april the headline stories of the week from r.t. international president of syria moscow will from tomorrow need digital permission to leave their homes as the mayor says too many people have still not been complying with self isolation as medical staff talked to r.t. about efforts to stay on top. are you scared of working here now why what's the point of things won't change anything shouldn't just stop coming to work you know when i go home i start thinking i should have stayed longer. infections take a devastating toll on care homes across europe with residents dying without treatment or their families with them to say goodbye the director of a retirement home and italy describes the diet conditions. i would describe what's
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happening as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible. and harrowing images from overwhelmed new york mass graves and makeshift morgues in a city struggling with huge numbers of deaths. hello there this is art international from moscow my name's kevin owen i'm here with a weekly now 30 minute roundup of the main stories of the last 7 days and of course one the subject continues to totally dominate our coverage as you'd expect and we'll start with the latest figures on the covert 1000 pound demick than the number of cases around the world are still on the rise with almost 1.7000001.8 it's been revised in fact this people now infected another group milestones been reached to more than 109000 of succumbs to the. iris with billions sitting on the lockdown
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over 409000 people have recovered and there's some encouraging news to report she was well the 1st trials of a vaccine now under way some experts are confident that it could be ready as early as september. so other developments from next week people here in moscow will need to start getting special digital passes to travel around the region right now the russian capital accounts for 65 percent of all infections in the whole country the numbers almost reach 10000 here the mayor has been giving more details about how the permit system will work it will be introduced in stages 1st for people wanting to move around what is europe's largest city in personal vehicles or public transport among a few exclusions our military service employees medical staff and journalists taxi drivers can only take passengers if they've got a valid q.r.
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code it won't for now be needed by people who are shopping for food or visiting a pharmacy or a hospital the mayor says it's being introduced because too many people despite the order to stay home have been going out on the streets the number of confirmed corona virus cases here in russia currently stands at 15770 with 130 people having died president putin says the peak is still yet to come here this week he announced a pay rise for all medical staff involved in combating the outbreak and compared medics treating coronavirus patients to the military fighting on the front lines giving them the same insurance guarantees indeed as military personnel boast of r.t. serious the epidemic spent a day with russian hospital staff. all right let's have a look at the patients this patient has tested positive for coded 19 wasn't a viral treatment so you give it here it's calyptra hasn't been effective it has sort of the fever has gone how will the city he's 38 when we received the 1st group
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of patients and started analyzing the cases we were shocked i understand because all of them were under they expect the bache yes but you want to thank you so much guys for your work thank you. for the night between april the 1st and 2nd it took us just a few hours to organize the clinical it was emotionally draining. and so as i wanted to make my own contributions to the fight against the pandemic i wanted to help the doctors. volunteered because i saw the to my house was greatly needed there is a shortage of medical stuff when i go home i started thinking i should have stayed longer which. i want to do usually where there's a protective suit of great britain the longest time was 6 hours you get used to it . the worst case is. the sports indicator low intensity.
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is this how viral pneumonia. the way he thinks there isn't dangerous for the person but what is frightening is actually might be contagious. are you scared of working here why what's the point is being scared it won't change anything should i just hope coming to work. as a footnote to the chief doctor from that hospital tested positive after the filming was done there and immediately transferred to working from home a crew also wanted to solve quarantine as a precaution. in the week we told the world health organization's representative here in russia about the challenges ahead and to get her assessment of russia's containment measures right now. and there is then midwives are in the center in the very at the center of the fight against coverage
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not only fighting against the coronavirus but also maintaining all other house services which are necessary trango eyeing her thoughts are all going reproductive how needs are of the planet are not the initiating and they have to be maintained via live the same time we're seeing that also many devices pregnant women are getting in fact it but births go wrong. epidemic does not have a life of its only people can change it and this is the critical moment this is why russia has been searching to see spared for many weeks because the measures taken were early on very good obviously at some point we had a group of unrecognized contacts which always can happen but this is now being dealt with russia has increased its testing to $61000.00 of test for
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a day so this will enable really identified not only people who are sick or dare immediate contact but also to identify potential carriers of people who are completely healthy but have been in contact and also there is a possibility opened up to do testing request so people who may think that there have been in contact somewhere but cannot really put their finger on it also be able to test that is by large going to enhance our knowledge about their device is finding it's he didn't ways. coronavirus to take the greatest toll on the elderly the picture of devastation emerging from care homes throughout europe deaths of the facilities of surge but exact numbers are known because of a lack of testing and delays in reporting in italy the health director of one nursing home. says there are no resources to help them cope with the crisis. so. i would describe what's happening as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible i have not even had
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time to process what happened and mourn her those who have died the close proximity of residents all of whom are in the most vulnerable category the risks of infection the severe in care homes but in many european countries they're being left to cope alone by health services receiving little or no treatment and shahla do bensky reports next. 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
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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 our elderly and most vulnerable people during the peak weeks didn't assume it to put its 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 her. this have been struggling to stop the spread of covert 19 it's estimated that a march alone nearly 5000 people in care homes in the trade region died
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a correspondent from our sister channel r.t. spanish francisco got you 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 received and there were different parties community crowd there's a lot of the t.p.t. is they were defined by. its type of u.s. bases they could be 19 and it. be this equation becomes very difficult for care homes because. for them they need to add 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 1919 is very
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cruel because you cannot have your mother you cannot piece here you cannot be repaired. it's very tough for the patient and for the really keeps we cannot be close to her in the soup was francis the outbreaks in care homes in spain have led to a collapse in staffing last month the military was called to help but over time 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 a new watch after dozens died at a nursing home alone one who worked at the facility said the true extent of the risk of infection had been. what stocks had been told not to wear masks. this iteration isn't good this covered everything up and there were even 4 people
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who gave including a female doctor who terrorized us see 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 tantamount to importing into care homes and i think to add insult to injury by asking us to take over 19 positive patients is asking us to basically make health suicide notes for people in care we are taught from a young age to respect our elders to look after our elderly yet as the panic has ensued with the pandemic those key lessons those reassuring overtures from leaders feel like in some cases they have evaporated so that even ski arty
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paris. in the world's worst affected country every u.s. state is no under what's called a disaster declaration which means federal funds can be used at the local level to try to deal with a crisis more than $20000.00 deaths of no been recorded which is more than any other country health care workers in many areas say they're unable to cope with the influx of patients and the lack of protective equipment it's most keenly felt in the country's infection red zone in new york. we are demanding that we get all of the hoarded supplies that exist a p p e so that we can protect ourselves our families and our beloved patients and communities we can't do it if we're dead every day when i go to work i feel like i'm going to slaughter my colleagues and i are writing our last will and testament i'm 28 years old we fear that we may not survive this pandemic and yet we show up every day to this hospital more than 8000 lives have been lost in new york state
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alone among efforts to cope with the rising number of bodies dozens of refrigerated trucks have been parked up mass graves of being dug a city morgue become overwhelmed by the huge numbers of dead new studies suggest that black americans are the worst affected demographic for a range of reasons the scale of mopin explains. someone rich and famous referred to the pandemic as being a great equalizer. doesn't care about. the great equalizer well the queen of pop was dead wrong as the united states tops the world in terms of coronavirus cases and voices compare it to $911.00 or pearl harbor it's anything but equal and who's being affected we are seeing the disparity because right now slightly more than 70 percent of all of our deaths are among
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african-americans and that's a state where less than a 3rd of the population is black these kinds of disproportionate results are playing out throughout the country in michigan african-americans are only 14 percent of the overall population but they are 40 percent of coronavirus deaths in illinois 15 percent of the population is black but so far african-americans account for 29 percent of coronavirus cases and 42 percent of deaths the mayor of chicago a major city where african-americans represent over half of coronavirus cases and 70 percent of deaths did her best to explain the situation this is not just about racial and ethnic disparities in the outcomes the distribution of this disease is tells a story about resources in any quality a story about unequal health care access job access and community investment it
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would be naive and in fact scandals to ignore the point that the virus there is a disproportionately negative impact of one of the low income you oftentimes of afraid to say so that 8 people in a native american poll living in sort of 3 was so yes this is a question of a bow quietness and rates. but it's not only in terms of direct introspection the unemployment rate is expected to go as high as possibly above 30 percent and for many african americans losing a job doesn't only represent loss of income it also represents a loss of health care this is a post from a nurse in new york city that went viral who's going to pay for it last words i'll never forget the response my patient gough's doubt between labored breaths to me and my team have to explain that he needs to be intubated and placed on a ventilator. if you test positive for coded 19 and require treatment you could be
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financially devastated hospital bills for coronavirus patients usually add up to between 42074004 those who are uninsured or for those who get treatment that is deemed out of network by their insurance company and even for those with insurance using in network providers out of pocket expenses can add up to $21000.00 or even 38000 dollars that's not a bill most americans can afford and because of our of for profit health system. how spittles have been closed clinics have been eliminated oh and you have a disproportionate number of core people who like those basic health services and so what we are seeing with this pandemic is that supports the fact that is the pandemic itself but the pandemic has exposed the structural contradictions of economic system this is
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a fake issue that goes across communities of their real serious clients current fictions in the us that this pandemic is is exposing in a very graphic ways growing numbers of observers are saying that the u.s. mishandling of this crisis isn't simply about a shortage of masks and ventilators it's about the long standing inequalities and the irrationality of the profit based health care system kaleb up and artsy new york. thank you for watching us today richard didn't run the world's appreciated by man the tame all of the headlines of the last 7 days to heartbreak in fact today put all the coronavirus victims' bodies having to be left in the street and cardboard boxes used as improvised coffins desperate residents tell their stories when the weekly returns.
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the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person if there is. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. the outbreak and spread of the corona virus has become a black swan event for the global economy is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession the question now is how long the
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recession will last it's going to get worse before it gets better. again ecuador is now one of the worst hit countries in south america and officially 315 people have died of the corona virus but testing is still very limited even the president admits the actual figure is much higher with hundreds dying at home on a daily basis and that many cases grieving relatives of noah to bury their loved ones.
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yeah i was i came here to look for my dead relative with all the papers i can't find the body one day she days 3 days 4 days 5 days and they called find it. i get this i'm sleeping here outside the building i have fever and taking paracetamol my bones hurt and all that because i want to bury my mother and only. yeah i. know that he was. taken that you know. that they believe they did good donating those things but
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they're worthless and worthless because they put on our relatives bodies they can't belong in the concorde coffin bus so could they get away but if they go you know when kabul gets wet what happens it disintegrates doesn't it imagine transporting a corpse and it starts raining it will disintegrate. hospitals across ecuador say they're unable to cope with the influx of coded 1000 patients many have been refused treatment and have done to the ecuadorian president sort of an investigation into the handling of bodies and covered victims he spoke to one dog 2 asked to remain anonymous he says 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 unfortunately we often had to wait for one patient to die to give another his bread
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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 and will have 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 quil needs. elsewhere the british prime minister's praised hospital staff for saving his life from corona virus appears to be on the mend right now in a week when britain's daily number of deaths reached a record high more than 900 on both friday and saturday in total the virus has claimed almost 10000 lives there in the u.k. johnson's brief comment was the 1st time people are directly heard from him since he left intensive care he was admitted to hospital
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a week ago when his symptoms deteriorated the prime minister received oxygen but apparently did not require a ventilator meantime with concerns that prison conditions are ripe for spreading coronavirus the u.k. is releasing thousands of low risk prisoners but it's standing firm on wiki leaks founder julian assange he's still behind bars even though a fellow inmate london's belmarsh prison died from the disease on tuesday so 2 m.p.'s from gina songes native australia are appealing to britain to transfer him to house arrest. so they've agreed to replace paypal. as per my understanding nonviolent people who only have a few weeks to go of their sentence now julian assange is not a violent person he's not been accused of any. and in fact he hasn't even been sentenced yet so that's why he should be added to this list i think that's that's
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clear and that's what a lot of people including australia parliamentarians assigning u.k. prisons have coronavirus ripping through the spike i'm enjoying a songes mother she has told me that julian does have preexisting health conditions which my came i guess a bigger target for being a critical patient for banks someone who catching this war so could potentially be fired will and that's why we assign that the appropriate precautions now need to be taken by the u.k. government and join us and should be released and put in home detention. during the songes awaiting hearing on extradition to the u.s. right now they could face a 175 year sentence for publishing leaked evidence of u.s. military wrongdoing in iraq and afghanistan a british court has ruled a songes hearing will still go ahead in may despite the current lockdown his lawyer had asked for a postponement that he'd been unable to communicate with his client for 3 weeks because of the pandemic and that therefore it would be impossible to hold a fair trial in may but the judge refused saying it's too early 'd to tell whether
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or not the courts will even be in operation in may we said it explained why the hearing shouldn't go ahead in the current conditions. it is absolutely absurd to not take into account the situation and not to move the hear in which is planned for may 18th further down the road it's not just the situation probably will be still very bad and there's a lot of witnesses that have to fly it's not possible to to continue with their presence in the courtroom also keep in mind that now for 3 weeks the lawyers have not been able to see julian ourselves they have not been able to meet him documents on and actually discuss the case how on earth can you continue as nothing has happened when the lawyers have not been able to confer with with their client he was not even able to take part in the hearing the video link because it's simply
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not safe to move around inside the prison and to go to a holding cells and then into the booth were other prisoners are using to appear video only. so this easter sunday is world news in brief the pope's delivered as easter address in st peter's basilica but without the usual crowds of catholic worshippers it's a strange scene to see isn't it the faithful as they watch it from home as services are being held under lockdown restrictions pope francis said he was sending a message of hope having compared the current fight with a pandemic to the suffering of jesus. the temptation to get outside during the sunny warm easter holidays prove just too much for some people in some european cities despite strong advice to stay home people in london as you can see for yourself a still been heading into the parks while in berlin similar scenes showing busy green spaces making social distancing all but impossible for these people seen here
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. just briefly of the destruction away from it all away from a phone a virus here our russian cosmonauts on the international space station marking a pioneering. date april 12th today is cosmonaut 6 days commemorating the 1st time and ventured into space it's exactly 59 years since solve it cosmo made that will changing trip usually there are big public events to celebrated here in russia but this year of course all very different concerts next officials are being online as best they can. hire their guys were strange times aren't they but it's all stayed through together i'm kevin over here at international h.q. in moscow reminder that we live bulletins at these times every day for you to keep you posted and that our web and social media teams are working around the clock as well because if you download our apple get any breaking news as it comes straight to mobile device for now do stay well and thank you for watching this weekend.
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