shouldn't. cook door for the one who's doing. residence in moscow will from next week need a digital person mission to travel around the city to the nearest too many people are still not complying with self isolation medical workers i've been speaking to r.t. about efforts to stay on top. why what's the point of being scared it won't change anything should a just stop coming to work 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 with treatment for their families and able to say goodbye to the director of a retirement to initially dire condition. i would describe what's happened as

a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible. horo images from overwhelmed new york musgrave's a makeshift morgues in a city struggling with huge number of deaths. with stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on our team international hello and welcome i mean i know you. well let's start with the latest figures on the kobe 19 demick the number of cases around the world continues to rise with more than 1800000 people now infected while more than 110000 have succumbed to the virus with billions sitting under lockdown there is some good news over 412000 people recovered additionally the 1st trials of

a vaccine are now under way some experts are confident they could be ready as early as september. let's start with some updates here in russia where from next week people in my school will need to start getting special digital posses to travel around the region right now the russian capital of cons for some 65 percent of all infections in the entire country the numbers reached almost $10000.00 the mers being giving more details about the permit system how it's going to work now it's going to be introduced in stages 1st for people wanting to move iran what is europe's largest city in personal vehicles or public transport among the few exclusions or military service employees medical stuff journalists taxi drivers can only take a passenger if they have a valid q u r code it won't be needed by people on thoughts for instance shopping for food or

visiting a pharmacy or hospital but other restrictions do apply the mercedes it's being introduced because too many people despite the order to stay home are going oh it's on to the streets. the number of confirmed cruel virus cases in russia currently stands at just under 16 fellows and with 130 people having died lattimer putin says the peak is yet to come this week the president announced a pay rise for all medical stuff involved in combating the outbreak compared medics treating coronavirus patients to the army fighting on the front lines giving them the same insurance guarantees as military personnel the host of our t.v. series 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 cope with 19 wasn't a viral treatment are you giving him it's calyptra has it been effective it has the

fever has gone how well the z. he's 38 when we received the 1st group of patients and started analyzing the cases we were shocked i understand because all of them were under they expect the bache yes. thank you so much guys for your work thank you. launched the night between april 1st and 2nd it took us just a few hours to organize the clinic it was emotionally draining. and i wanted to make my own contribution to the fight against the pandemic i wanted to help the doctors. i volunteered because i saw the to help was greatly needed there is a shortage of medical staff when i go home i start thinking i should have stayed longer. how long do you usually wear this protective suit for the longest time was 6 hours

but you get used to it. the worst case is. the sports indicator low intensity. is this how viral pneumonia. the way it takes there isn't dangerous for the person but what is frightening is that it might be contagious. are you scared of working here you know why what's the point of being scared it won't change anything should i just hope coming to work. just on this story the chief doctor from the hospital tested positive after it was . merely transferred to working from home our crew also went into south quarantine a precaution. in the week we talked to the world health organizations representative in russia about the challenges ahead and to get her assessment of russia's containment measures. there is the big

5 are in the center in the very at the center of the fight against coverage not only fighting against the coronavirus but also maintaining all other house services which are necessarily going. on going reproductive health needs of the planet are not diminishing and they have to be maintained rhyolite the same time we're seeing that also virus pregnant women are getting in fact did 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 a day so this will enable really identifying not only people who are sick or share immediate contacts 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 finding its he didn't ways. across the virus is taking its greatest toll on the elderly with a picture of devastation emerging from kerr homes throughout europe deaths in the facilities of surge but the exact numbers aren't yet known because of a lack of testing and delays in reporting in this lee the health director of one. nursing home sees there are no resources to help them cope with the crisis. so.

i would describe what's happened as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time is terrible i have not even had time to process what's happened and mourn for those who have died. be close proximity of residents all of whom are in the most vulnerable means the risks of infection or severe in care homes but in many european countries they are being left to cope alone by health services receiving little or no treatment surely 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 a home and hopefully safeguarding the health as much as possible it seems that

others in care homes are more a true 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. to put the priority of the nation is to protect elderly you must do it responsibly with commonsense and discipline strong words from those in charge yet woods that some say have wrong hollowing as the elderly bear the brunt of the virus . nursing and care homes 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 madrid region died a correspondent from our sister channel r.t. spanish francisco told me that in some places care homes have become defacto hospitals. spread out. and it's very cool to keep. there were. parties. there is a lot of what they were defined. as viewers. 19 and it. is this equation becomes very difficult for care homes because. for them they need to act as our 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 couvade 1919 is very cruel because you cannot hack your mother you can not piece here you cannot be weak hair. is very tough for patients. for the relatives we cannot be close to her in the soup was fine says 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'd been abandoned and in some cases dead in their beds meanwhile in a chilly infestation has been nuanced after dozens died at a nursing home in milan one who work at the facility said the true extent of the room. risk of infection had been played down what star had been told not to wear

masks and. this iteration isn't good this covered everything up there were even 4 people who included a female doctor who terrorized a scene 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 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 show that even ski r.t. paris. in the world's worst the phone did covert country every us state has no under what's called a disaster declaration which means federal funds can be used as a local level to deal with the crisis more than 20000 deaths now i've been recorded more than any other country health care workers in many areas save their own able to cope with the influx of patients on a lark of protective equipment it's most keenly felt in the country's infection redzone 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 a sheep 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. yeah the figures really are startling more than a dozen lives have been lost in new york state alone among efforts that cope with the rising number of bombings dozens of refrigerated trucks have been parked up musgrave's are being dug a city morgue has become overwhelmed by the huge numbers of dead well a new study suggests that black americans are the worst affected demographic for a range of reasons not been 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 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 and. excess job access and community investment it would be naive and in fact scandals to ignore the point that the virus there is a disproportionately negative impact on the low income you oftentimes are afraid to say so that 8 people in a native american whole living it sort of the rewards so yes this is a question of a book quiet us and rates but it's not only in terms of direct infection 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 goss doubt between labor 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 coated 19 and require treatment you could be 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. hospitals have been closed clinics have been eliminated oh and you have a disproportionate number of poor people who like those basic health services the

so what we are seeing with this pandemic is net so most of the fact that is the pandemic itself but the pandemic has exposed the structural contradictions of economic system this is a issue that goes across communities there are real serious. contradictions in the u.s. at this pandemic is is exposing a very graphic waves 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 up and artsy new york. more of the headlines of the past 7 days to come heartbreak in ecuador where coronavirus victims bodies are having to be left in the street cardboard boxes used as improvised coffins of desperate residents tell their stories when the wiki

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the outbreak of the 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 recession will last it's going to get worse before it gets better. 20 minutes into the program welcome back ecuador is now one of the worst hit coronavirus countries in south america officially 315 people have died all of the disease but testing is still limited and even the president admits the actual figure is much higher with hundreds reportedly dying at home on

a daily basis and in many cases grieving relatives have nowhere to bury their loved ones. 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. yet. i'm sleeping here outside the building i have on taking care of my bones hurt and all that because i want to bury my mother in law. was.

taken that you know. that they believe they did good donating those things but they are worthless they're worthless because they. went to relatives bodies they can't belong in the concord coffin couldn't they get wet but if they go when kabul gets wet what happens it disintegrates doesn't it imagine transporting a corpse and it starts raining it will disintegrate. the hospitals across ecuador say they are all naval to cope with the influx of covert 19 patients many have been refused treatment and died at home the ecuadorian president has ordered an investigation into the handling of the bodies of victims

we spoke to a doctor who asked to remain anonymous he ses dozens of medics have also. 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 and will have to be closed as there were simply no protective equipment the situation with abandoned again bodies will cause the pandemic to worsen due to diseases caused by the decomposition of corpses if i could contact the w 2 in the pan american health organization i would ask them to intervene in ecuador and provide this distance to the city of gaia quill needs. in the last few hours it's been confirmed that the british prime minister has been

discharged from hospital after being treated for corona virus boris johnson last spent time recovering at the p.m.'s official country residence checkers want to immediately return to work he spent a week in hospital including 3 nights in intensive care during which britain dealy number of deaths reached the record high more than 900 on both friday and saturday in total the virus is no known to have claimed more than 10000 lives in the u.k. after coming out of intensive care and johnson praised hospital staff saying he owed them his life the prime minister received oxygen treatment but did not require a ventilator. well with concerns that prison conditions are ripe for spreading coronavirus the u.k. is releasing reasons of low risk prisoners but it's standing firm on keeping the wiki leaks founder behind bars even though an inmate at london's belmarsh prison

died from that the seas on tuesday to m.p.'s from julian assange his native a stray or a paling to britain to transfer him to hostile wrist. so they've agreed to release papal who. are standing nonviolent and people who only have a few weeks to go of the sentence now julian assange is not a violent prisoner 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 clear and that's what a lot of people including mr amin parliamentarians assigning u.k. prisons have coronavirus ripping through them i've spoken with juliana songes mother she has told me that julian does have preexisting health conditions which my came i guess a bigger target for bang at critical patient for banks someone who. 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 jonas and should be replaced and put in home detention. mr sloan is awaiting a hearing on extradition to the us there he could face a 175 year sentence for publishing leaked evidence of u.s. military wrongdoing in iraq and afghanistan a british court has ruled that a sun just hearing will still go ahead in may this by the current locked on his lawyer for a postponement he argued he's been unable to communicate with his client for 3 weeks because of a pandemic it will be impossible to hold a for trial next month the judge refused saying it's too early to tell whether the courts will even be in operation in may wiki leaks editor explain to our to you why the hearing should not go ahead on current conditions. it is absolutely absurd to not take into account the situation and not to move

here 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 without their presence in the courtroom also keep in mind that now for 3 weeks the lawyers have not been able to see julian awesomes 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 a client he was not even able to take part in the hearing of the video link because it's simply not safe to move around inside the prison to go to a holding cells and then into the booth were other prisoners are using to appear the video. let's get some of this easter sunday as world news the

pope has delivered his easter address and st peter's basilica but with the usual cried of catholic worshippers the faithful to watch it from home services are being held on her lockdown restrictions pope francis said he was sending a message of hope having compared the current fight with the pandemic to the suffering of jesus. and the temptation to get outside during the sunny warm easter holiday has proved too much for people in some european cities despite advice to stay home people in london are still heading out into parks well in berlin similar scene showed busy green spaces making social distancing all but impossible for these people shown here. just briefly away from curled a virus or a russian. cosmonauts on the international space station marking

a pioneering date april 12th is cosmonaut commemorating the 1st time into space it's exactly 59 years since cosmonaut yuri gagarin made the world changing trip usually there are public events to celebrate here in russia but this year the culture it's exhibitions are being. like. you know what if you they have modern medicine very much in the spotlight currently isn't it a world scrambles for a vaccine for dean. on worlds apart today oksana hears from someone devoting her life to looking beyond the. discussion begins with.

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