now dominic rob taking over. it is curious in the press conference today, kate, it was noted by several journalists that the prime minister was underscoring how the nhs and beds and hospital is as britain nears the peak of the outbreak,. and one asking is he fit and well enough to lead the country at this point or so sick that he requires one of those precious beds that so many people need at the moment in the united kingdom. so i think that kind of question which was struggled to be answered by those at the press conference certainly started people asking that question. which one is it? boris johnson is somebody who always goes out of his way to project a vibrant and strong leadership. he's exuberant and he also doesn't like to divulge personal des. but clearly the health of the prime minister now is absolutely integral to the health of the nation. so people were asking questions this afternoon trying to discern is he well enough to be making decisions not just on a daily basis, kate, that pertain to this countr

limit but dominic rob 25 and he think made it (she?but dominic rob 25 and he think made it ( she? like olivia i understand his reticence with having hostages to fortune and saying things that cannot be delivered. but the five tests, my mind goes back to gordon brown when he was chancellor of the air, the tests that had to be met if we were going tojoin the url, the dreaded euro and of course he knew perfectly well as did those around and that they never would that. but in this case, you hope real progress would be made and frankly if it is not made and then it is very seriously wrong.|j frankly if it is not made and then it is very seriously wrong. i want to know what your thoughts were on police guidelines which seem to vary from one source to another. i think they have been clarified in the last few hours as well but they are still pretty complicated aren't they? you can sitand pretty complicated aren't they? you can sit and have a sandwich with yourfamily if can sit and have a sandwich with your family if you have a long walk somewh

just to stay in hospital overnight sunday into monday but now it seems for some while that so dominate rob we hear from the number 10 downing street spence president has been asked to deputize for the prime minister at least for the time being. and as i was mentioning the fact that he is and now in intensive care is it being widely reported of course be getting more information on this developing story for the moment on a team with the latest from london thank you. the democratic republic of congo's government has shut down the capital's main commercial hub for 14 days kinshasa is the center of the r.c.s. outbreak many of the 12000000 people who live in the city will be impacted by the session because they also work or do business in the district of columbia the current virus has infected 161 people and killed 18 nationwide. we pray to god that he will look after this country to lift these measures because if it continues like this it will be a catastrophe and people risk of dying from sickness and stress the not the coronavirus. but the u.n. says there's been a horrifying global surge in

and now dominic rob as you said in the introduction has been asked to deputize for all the prime minister now an interesting detail but it's emerged just in the last half an hour or so is that buckingham palace in queen elizabeth being kept informed all over or is johnson's condition by 10 downing street but dominic rock clearly saying that he's been austin deputized but all the while still saying that is cabinet will continue to put into practice directions on how to tackle and in his words defeat covet 19 that boris johnson has given that 87 according to a lot of commentators a legal great area as to exactly who is in charge when dominic robb as well as being the foreign secretary is the 1st secretary of state but that does not mean that if boris johnson were incapacitated for any time the dominant rug would naturally be a replacement prime minister there is a different process the woods are coming into play we do know that dominic robb shared the cabinet meeting on monday morning the previous more than a week or johnson had been doing that via video link so that was a sign that he wasn

the cabinet has lots of autonomy that is going to pretty much carry on dominic rob is going to be doing some jobs but most of them i think you're going to be. because the key decisions it seems when it when it comes to cope with 19 have been taken and most of what on iraq we were doing is actually making sure that those are implemented properly one decision that is coming down the track. in about a week's time there's a review of. the united kingdom is going to carry on with the kind of social distancing restrictive measures that it has been for the last few weeks and some decisions will have to be taken about whether that's to continue or not but of course boris johnson would need to be still ill in i.c.u. for dominic rock to be taken that one. would leave it there thanks so much rory chalons. spain has recorded an increase in daily corona virus infections and deaths for the 1st time in 5 days the health ministry says 743 people succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours compared to $637.00 reported on monday the rate of confirmed cases also increased slightly go now to mark in madrid

if the government is holding its daily briefing on the current virus led by dominic rob let's take a look right now at what's happening at downing street action plan is aimed at slowing the spread of the virus so few people need hospital treatment any one time and that will protect the n.h.s. is ability to cope at each point we've been following scientific and medical advice and we've been very deliberate in our actions taking the right measures at the right moment we're taking unprecedented action to increase the n.h.s. his capacity by dramatically expanding the numbers of beds key staff and equipment on the front line to give people the care they meet when they need it most but some say we're instructing people to stay at home so that we protect our n.h.s. and save lives. i can report that through the government's ongoing monitoring and testing program as of today 208837 people have now been tested for the virus 51608 have tested positive the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms now stands at 17911 and of those who have contracted the virus 5373 sadly hav

today it was pretty much identical to was dominic rob just now said that boris johnson is getting that the best possible that he is in a stable condition that he has had standards oxygen treatments he's had no ventilates and hasn't had any device itchy put into his lungs to help help him breathe he's in good spirits and they'll be updates if anything changes after that he gave a slightly more emotional response she said. it's not just out boss speaking for his colleagues there on the cabinets he's not just our colleague but he's also off friends. scribed him as a fighter and said that he was confident that he would pull through and addressing that that the british people he said this doesn't mean the government's is any less resolute in its nation to fights and he says defeats 19 he said we will not blink we will flinch in the tosca and at defending at defeating. 9 c. there was an update as well on the number of deaths in the u.k. which is going up by just get my notes out i think the total now is. 6001 second 6159 which is an update of an increase of 750 or so so that i think makes th

the foreign secretary dominic rob will stand in for jobs and when necessary chairing the government's daily coronavirus meeting in downing street he's an experienced politician but there's been little time to prepare the government's business will continue and the prime minister is in safe hands with the brilliancy sometimes his hospital and the focus of the government will continue to be on making sure the prime minister's direction all the plans for making sure that we can defeat coronavirus and pull the country through this challenge will be taken forward messages of support have been flooding in for the prime minister across britain's political spectrum including the newly elected leader of the labor party we will support the government where we can do that but we will challenge the what is necessary but the purpose of the challenge is to make sure that all mistakes they can be put right or things need to happen more quickly that can happen more quickly president of francis wish johnson a speedy recovery and the us president donald trump described johnson as a good friend i found.

foreign secretary meanwhile has been asked to deputize where necessary for mr johnson dominic rob saidthe prime minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care and in other news a strain is high court has overturned a senior catholic cardinals conviction for child sex abuse cardinal george pell has now left jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. . so let's return to the coronavirus pandemic and a look at how the virus. has spread around the world we use the virus tracker from johns hopkins which gives us a good snapshot of any one time more than 1300000 confirmed cases of which over 270000 now recovered from the virus but of course that may number in white there is 74 and a half 1000 deaths the majority of those in europe france of course one of those countries with a rapidly growing number of dead the country recorded its highest number of virus related deaths in a single day taking the total number to almost $9000.00 but there are signs at least in other parts of the continent that the mortality rate is beginning to slow this report from

has extended restrictions right least 3 weeks to contain the spread of over 19 foreign secretary dominic rob says lifting curbs early could damage the economy over a longer period. in brazil now president also narrow has fired his health minister but he said they came and their time and boss narrow had clashed for weeks over how to handle the corner virus outbreak the president has repeatedly paid down the risk of 1000 calling it a little flu and opposing social distancing advice on many health workers on the front line of the pandemic of being a product around the world others are becoming the targets of abuse in chile there are increasing reports of discrimination and attacks by people afraid of medical workers that they might infect but a lot america jealousy and human reports from santiago. health care workers are a godsend during a medical emergency but to chilean ambulance driver of the city and again it out if you do longer seems to feel that way we're going to open now and some people 3 years they're treated as though they are contaminated they should realize we have families too and

he has designated a stopgap, dominic rob. is where the cabinet, if boris johnson is not there, can show they have to act collectively. >> europe's coronavirus number has passed 50,000. thousands have been diagnosed with the virus, but there are signs the numbers are leveling up. lowest. recorded its number of deaths in days. we have reports. reporter: europe passed another significant number on monday. the death toll from coronavirus exceeded 50,000 people after a vast majority of the world that that's over. in other countries, there is a sign the contagion is starting to stabilize. austria has allowed shops and garden centers to reopen on april 14th, with restrictions on on mayike hairdressers, 1. all depends on the infection rate. >> the week of easter will be a deciding week for us. it will be a week that will decide whether the resurrection of easter, which we are all hoping for, can actually happen as planned. reporter: the spanish government is also studying how to gradually ease the lockdown it has imposed since march

dominic rob is the man in charge and there is talk though of a legal line of succession is do we therefore need to be clear although you saying the 1st minister is meant to be in charge. yes i think it's pretty clear and i have a very reasonable question to ask what happens if he falls ill and there's a suggestion which seems pretty reasonable to that the chancellor of the exchange should be then will then take take over if he falls ill which is probably likely unfortunately in these terrible circumstances then the have to be in agreement about who was the the number 2 but i don't think at the moment it's that there's a huge problem here and clearly there are interesting conversations but the cabinet secretary who i would think is running the country almost as much as mr robert lots of him or so is still i think in business the civil service is still effective so the machinery of government is still there i don't think too much should be made of the prime minister's absence yes so as you say this isn't a huge problem so why then are we seeing things being stirred up when as you say we've g

dominic rob who is the foreign secretary and also the 1st secretary of state is acting on behalf of the prime minister at the moment that has been agreed by the 2 men at that it's still unclear exactly what powers he has he was at a press conference today where he was also repeatedly is he in charge until he could say was that he and the cabinets and those of the top ministers who he surrounds a boris johnson on at in unity they are taking responsibility the problem is the longer that boris johnson is out of action the mood difficult that may well become that will be decisions that will have to be made and somebody will have to make them and will that be dominant rob you know we saw alex there a collection of sound bites with boris johnson and his infamous defiant stance towards the coronavirus it is a stance that some would say has landed him in intensive care in a london hospital but we certainly hope that the prime minister recovers but once this pandemic is behind us do you think that the public in the u.k. do you think that the public will demand answers about how this government p

days while boris johnson was isolating so it clearly has been a lack of leadership already and dominic robwill have to work with that right now today we've been also hearing should dominic rob become incapacitated there is a plan c. let's say and that would be. the finance minister who would then take over. briefly because there's been some criticism on the rollout of testing for former medical what's the state of the conference responds to the coronavirus right. well it's been slow and the peak is about to come in about a week or so doctors and nurses are already at their breaking point and the hospitals are filling up quickly there's several makeshift hospitals that's been built but the question really is will there be enough to treat all those patients and you mentioned the death toll is rapidly rising so really an ongoing crisis here in the united kingdom. and thank you. you're watching the w. news so join now for our coverage 19 special coverage with monica actions. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our

will have to work with that right now today we've been also hearing so dominic rob become incapacitated there is a plan c. let's say and that would be. the finance minister who would then take over. briefly b.'s there's been some criticism on the role of testing performed by medical what's the state of the conscience responds to the coronavirus right. well it's been slow and the peak is about to come in about a week or so doctors and nurses are already at their breaking point and the hospitals are filling up quickly there are several makeshift hospitals that's been built but the question really is will there be enough to treat all those patients and you mentioned the death toll is rapidly rising so really an ongoing crisis here in the united kingdom. and thank you. as the number of new corona virus infections in japan continues to grow japanese prime minister shinzo aba declared a state of emergency to stop the spread of the virus a state of emergency was enacted for tokyo and 6 other prefectures which accounts for about 44 percent of japan's population measure that gave authorities mor

you're watching our desire with me said a reminder of our top news stories british foreign secretary dominic rob has announced lockdown restrictions will be extended for at least another 3 weeks rob says he's been advised that relaxing measures too soon would risk damaging public health and the economy at least $22000000.00 americans have registered for unemployment benefits in the last month as a result of the pandemic that's after another 5200000 filed jobless claims in just the past week. and in nigeria at least 18 people have been killed by security officials who were enforcing strict lockdown measures last month the government ordered restrictions in several major cities to counter covert night. now the news the united nations in yemen and voice says he expects the country's warring parties will formally agree to a truce in the immediate future what gryphus says he's been negotiating with both sides for the past 2 weeks our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations we certainly have had positive developments in the past but this is a moment i think where yemen faces a ve

foreign secretary has been asked to deputize when necessary for johnson dominic rob said the prime ministeris in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care. with amber of corona virus links deaths in europe has now passed $50000.00 there are signs that the rate is leveling off spain germany and the u.k. recording their fewest deaths in several days. making news this hour stretches highest court has overturned for vatican treasurer george pell's conviction for sexually assaulting 2 teenage boys in the 1990 s. the ruling allows the 78 year old cardinal to walk free from jail immediately we'll take you live to sydney a little later for updates. new york state governor andrew cuomo says the coronavirus cases in the state may be starting to plateau but he's warned against complacency that extended a closure of non-essential businesses and schools to the end of april and says that hospitalizations have declined and so have admissions to intensive care more than 4700 people have died in new york the highest number of any american state if we are applied tom we we are proud towing at a very h

kingdom in the last 24 hours due to cave in $91.00 highest since the outbreak began for inspectorate dominate rob you standing in for prime minister boris johnson is people to stay indoors this easter weekend as the weather warms up rob is warning people to stick to the government's lots of rules those that lines got more news here on al-jazeera after my cuba hail to. the wedding planner i've not. make. me go us a little i don't know. tossed i want to eat. i mean i'm hayride isolated and.

so as you just heard there dominic rob has suggested the measures are working quite well and that the government has seen some positive impacts though it's too early to say that definitively and for that reason the lockdown measures will by and large remain in place until there's enough evidence that we have indeed passed the peak of the virus now of course dominic rob the foreign secretary was joined by now familiar faces chris witty and surpass vallance here with the chief medical and chief science officer for the government now along the way since the outbreak began in the united kingdom the government said that all policy would be led by the experts and today they're saying that easing the social distancing measures would actually throw all the good progress out of the window this is not the shop stroup the big increases in numbers it's a steady increase in numbers which might just might be beginning to flood north but it's certainly not accelerating. that means that the n.h.s. can cope it's got the right numbers of beds with the new expansion in order to cope with if we were not

at well over 26000 now that is a huge increase from the government's figures just yesterday but dominic rob the man standing in for boris johnson who himself is not in action because his fiance has just given birth dominic rob standing in his place is denying that this number is a massive search from today we're moving to improve daily reporting systems the deaths so that deaths in all settings are included wherever the individual has tested positive for coated 19 rather than just those in hospitals and those figures show that up to yesterday on the new measure which we have recorded an additional $3811.00 deaths in total and i think it's just important to say that those additional deaths were spread over the period from the 2nd of march the 28th of april so they don't represent a sudden surge in the number of deaths. so as you can see on your screen in the last 24 hour period there's been a jump in the united kingdom of the daily death figure which came to $765.00 now that is indeed an increase from yesterday and showed it what about easing those look at the measures well today in prime mi

foreign dominic rob is temporarily taking over.sts are expecting the peak of the outbreak to be in the next seven to 10 days. >> the government's business will continue. the prime minister is in great hands. the focus on the government will continue to be making sure that we can defeat coronavirus and hold the country through this challenge. the next stimulus bill from congress will be worth at least a trillion dollars. that is according to nancy pelosi on a private conference call. she said that extra funding should include payments to individuals, food stamps. global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. oil continuesup, to gain. signs that the world's biggest producers are moving toward a deal. we discuss the prospects for an agreement. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is "daybreak: europe ." the risk rally is gaining steam. green on the screen and asia. s&p futures in the green. they were in the red earlier. the yield back above a 70 handle.

boris johnson is still the captain although he's now incapacitated he's handed over the tiller to dominic rob but the course has already been set and don't they drop rob's job is basically to. to maintain that course he conte's. minister there is still this kind of principle of collective responsibility in the cabinet when it comes to many masses of states and particularly matters of national security so what else we're hearing about the numbers in that friends and. they are still very very grave in the u.k. . i don't think that is going to change for some time to come the. the indication from the government's chief scientists is that it might well get worse before it gets better 796 is the most recent figure that we have for a daily death toll that takes up so you 5 pm time yesterday. and that brings the total in the u.k. to 6159 and speaking at the press conference. an hour or so ago the chief scientific officer said you know because it's a lie in death. you all the people who are dying at the moment are essentially the people who were admitted to intensive care also perhaps 10 days ago. we

no rory the sort about the country and how it's being run now to what extent does dominant rob take over decision making. well the british system with the prime minister and a cabinet is is obviously very different from the american system where you have a president and a vice president so there isn't a kind of automatic deputizing system built into the constitutional makeup of the u.k. it's a bit more ad hoc than that and that's what we're finding at the moments where what we're being told is the yes or a certain is still prime minister of the country but that dominic rob is deputizing where necessary i mean obviously now that he's in intensive care and is much less able to carry out his prime ministerial g.t.s. than he was before when he was a bit a bit more healthy still with coronavirus still in the in his isolation don't rob will be doing some of those toss that most of that will be administrative but there is one decision that is coming down the road in about a week's time and that's whether on this review of all of the rest districts of measures that the country is living under wh

foreign secretary has been asked to deputize where necessary johnson dominic rob said the prime minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care. let's take a look at how the virus is spreading around the world right now according to the johns hopkins university tracker there are more than 1300000 confirmed cases now more than 270000 people have recovered from the virus and that but over 74000 deaths the majority of those in europe or france is one of those european nations with a rapidly growing number of dead the country recorded its highest number of virus related deaths in a single day taking the total number of deaths to almost $9000.00 but there are signs of other parts of the consulate that the mortality rate is beginning to slow paul brennan reports was 2 europe passed another significant number on monday as the continent's death toll from corona virus exceeded 50000 people that's the vast majority of the 70000 who died globally so far but while the infection is still on an upward curve in some european countries in others there are signs that the contagion is star

now to nadine baba who is in london dame let's let's pick up on what we were hearing there from dominic rob what else is being said about the prime minister and his and this illness and how much work he's actually doing. well reseller think it's fair to say that it's not entirely clear how it will or is johnson is or how much work he's doing what has been doing in the last few days he did actually tweet the promise to tweet in celt from hospital on monday saying that he was in good spirits now dominic rob his foreign secretary at the present briefing sent the boris johnson continues to lead the government in his receiving regular updates on the covert 19 situation he said that he was taken into hospital and remained there overnight sunday into monday as a precautionary step but we know that he was taken into hospital because he still has symptoms of a corona virus which we think include a high temperature of coughing and that he has been undergoing what downing street cold a routine checks and we're also hearing that he has been given an oxygen we're not sure in power has been administered

dominant rob gave a couple of hours ago he was joined by that the government's chief scientists and they were saying that because of this lag because we're only just seeing just saw and to see that the tail off in numbers of you admissions will still see an increase in deaths i think for perhaps another 2 weeks to come so the situation is going to get worse before it gets better all right all right talents live in london or thank you very much. for the rest of europe now where spain also saw spike in the number of crown of virus infections paul brennan has wore. the arrow points down but the sign just caution after 5 consecutive days of fewer and fewer new deaths spain source sharp increase in coronavirus fatalities on tuesday. and the last the rise was attributed to weekend deaths only now being recorded and that overall the trend remains downward spanish firefighters are playing a vital role in support of the medical professionals fire crew volunteers are decontaminating ambulances and other public authority vehicles which have been carrying coronavirus patients the most important of t

to make that decision and it might be contested inside a cabinet the question that arises does domineer rob have the all star at c 2 to make that decision my guess is that it's only a guess that he doesn't even know the answer to that question by the way is yes he does is the acting prime minister mr johnson. is hopefully said to be in high spirits i'm sure he would be consulted if at all really massive decision had to be made what about michael go beyond that question who's in charge of the nuclear button here is our national security really threatened surely no one's going to launch a military attack at the moment. the i think most ago was as quite often happens with this to go talking mischievously and without proper knowledge and i don't think that there is going to be a in the event in the event of a new killer. threat. i'm sure 'd all those systems would sones emotion but to be honest of you i think over the next few weeks the threat is coronavirus. spoke to talk to she's already harper about the spread of coronavirus across britain and she told me that the latest figures aren't neces

dominic rob who is deputising at the moment for rudd prime minister barak's johnson with the british government's daily coronavirus briefing he said there are positive signs from the data we are starting to win this battle mariam is still with us let's get some analysis from her marriage in the magazine in london what do you make of what you heard then aria. well i suppose a fine secretary there really trying to emphasize the importance of people sticking to the lockdown and of the social distancing measures because even though the police have the power to enforce these measures they are really depending on people behaving rationally and responsibly and perhaps quite so somewhat complicated messaging by the government there because they want to get the message out to people that what they're doing is having a positive effect but at the same time they don't want people to become complacent and think that things will be going back to normal anytime soon. by at 717 so in terms of the the daily death toll that's a little bit less than some of the rates that we've seen over the past few d

has extended restraints least 3 weeks a contain the spread of covert 19 foreign secretary dominic rob says lifting curbs early could damage the economy over a longer period more than $13000.00 people have died in the u.k. in there over 100000 concerned called infections in brazil president also narrow has fired his health minister police in the u.k. mandates a clash with boss narrow for weeks over how to handle the kona virus outbreak the president has repeatedly downplayed the risk of call the 19 calling it a little flu brazil has latin america's worst outbreak with nearly 2040 deaths. and the united nations envoy for yemen says the country's warring sides are close to reaching a formal troels negotiations have been taking place for the past 2 weeks after the saudi u.a.e. coalition announce a unilateral cease fire a spokesman said saudi arabia wanted to support un efforts to reach a political solution and help stop the spread of coronavirus you are seeing with headlines on al-jazeera al-jazeera world continues next to stay with us. it was even better known as abu jihad was one of the

the foreign secretary dominic rob will stand in for johnson when necessary leading the government's daily coronavirus cabinet meeting and a briefing in downing street he's an experienced politician but he's had little time to prepare it comes as a shock to all of us he's not just the prime minister for all of us in cabinet he's not just our boss he's also a colleague and he's also our friend so all of our thoughts and prayers are with the prime minister at this time with kerry and with his whole family and i'm confident he'll pull through because if there's one thing i know about this prime minister he's a fighter and he'll be back at the helm leading us through this crisis in short order. this was johnson a week after being diagnosed applauding health workers for their efforts he's shown persistent symptoms for 2 weeks. soon after arriving at a hospital he tweeted i went into hospital for some routine tests as i'm still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i mean good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe but his symptoms wo

extension of social and economic restrictions for at least 3 more weeks the foreign secretary dominant rob says that now is not the time to give the virus a 2nd chance more than 13000 people have died in the u.k. and there are over 104000 confirmed infections if barker has more from london. britain's financial capital quiet empty the wards meant to be the height of the working week it began as a novelty but it's fast becoming an uncomfortable reality and now a bleak message from the british government that while the virus looms and lingers there will be no return to normal if we rush to relax the measures that we have in place we would risk wasting all the sacrifices and all the progress that has been made. and that would risk a quick return to another lock down with all the threat to life that a 2nd peak of the virus would bring and all the economic damage that a 2nd lockdown would carry the government's been asked repeatedly for an exit strategy from current restrictions the answer continually given it's too soon to tell in a major new study by the office of national statistics half of a

s foreign secretary has been asked to deputize when necessary for johnson dominic rob said the prime minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care. during the course of this our need the promises condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team who's moved in to a critical care unit so in light of those circumstances the prime minister asked me is for a secretary to deputize for him when necessary in driving forward the government's plans to defeat coronavirus australia's high court has overturned a senior catholic cardinals conviction the child sex abuse cardinal george pell will now be freed from jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. he is the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse of them or of corona virus links deaths in europe has now passed $50000.00 there are signs though the rate is leveling off spain germany and the u.k. recording their fewest deaths in several days that is well a migrants in colombia choosing to return to their homeland many have been struggling to find work because of colom

foreign secretary has been asked to deputize where necessary for johnson dominant rob said the primeminister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care and france has reported its highest number of deaths in a 24 hour period taking the total number to almost $9000.00 but there are signs in other parts of the continent that the mortality rate is slowing. the number of coronavirus think deaths in the u.s. is now past 10001 of the country's hotspots there are some encouraging signs of origins in new york so the mortality rate has been dropping even though it was gabriella's on the reports the hospitals are still overwhelmed. the stress is evident to working on the front line of the corona virus outbreak in america on monday nurses outside a hospital in new york protesting the lack of face masks downs and other personal protective equipment available to them new york's health care system is cracking under heavy strain dystopia apocalyptic i've seen people die every day. meaning my we don't have the space that we need we don't have the staff that even there refrigerated trucks

extended restrictions to contain the kobe 900 spread by at least 3 more weeks foreign secretary dominic rob says lifting curves early could damage the economy over a longer period. by returning now to our main story in china's economy suffering its shop this fall since it opened up to the world in the 1970 s. gross domestic products g.d.p. in the 1st quarter profit it by 6.8 percent this raises yet more pressure on beijing to prop up growth are made mounting job losses and falling exports and it's not the only country being battered by the coronavirus over the past month more than 22000000 americans have filed for unemployment claims wiping out a decade of job gains the u.s. has not seen this level of job losses since the great depression in the 1930 s. about a night 195000 people in south korea also lost their jobs in march it's a shop its monthly decline since 2009. well let's speak to pauline long about this she is the managing director of the recession consultancy asia analytic and is via skype from hong kong very good to have you with us on our just let's start with china and its g.d.p

those are all over to dominic rob. >> the premise asked me to deputize for him where necessary and driving forward the government's plans to defeat coronavirus. >> reporter: johnson's condition deteriorated quickly after he was admitted to st. thomas's hospital for precautionary tests yesterday. in the middle of the day or rather today he tweeted saying he was in good spirits and running the country and reading government documents. a few hours later he was rushed to the icu. he is in extremely serious condition. they say he is conscious and not on a ventilator. donald trump spoke about his condition earlier today. >> we contacted all of boris's doctors and we will see what is going to take place but they are ready to go. when you get brought into intensive care it gets very serious with this particular disease. >> johnson first tested positive ten days ago. colleagues including the health secretary, boris was unable to shake the high temperature. videos from downing street when he was in isolation categorizing how he felt saying it was difficult for him. he is 55, has no known underlying

headlines now if we can cross lied to the government and daily briefing on the coronavirus with dominic rob good afternoon and welcome to today's downing street press conference i'm joined by chris witty chief medical officer and supply treatments the chief scientific advisor. can i start with an update on the prime minister he's still in intensive care but he continues to make positive step forwards and he's in good spirits. and i can also report from the government's on going monitoring and testing program that as of today 243421 people have been tested for the virus 65077 have tested positive and the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms now stands at 16784 and of those have contracted the virus 7978 have sadly died and our thoughts and our prayers are with their families and their friends. the whole country has been practicing a stringent form of social distancing for 3 weeks now precisely because we're doing everything we can to minimize the bleak numbers that i just read out. and for that i want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has gone the extra mi

pneumonia he has tweeted that he was in good spirits and remained in touch with his team for mr dominic rob will be deputizing for him where necessary. correspondent bigot mazas monitoring developments there in london biggest what is the latest on the condition of forest johnson. had the latest information is now if you i was also on tuesday morning here in london we have had what do you just said that he is in intensive care but that it was more a precaution that he wasn't on a ventilator but of course this all happened quite quickly all through last week downing street had maintained that the prime minister is leading the fight against corona virus that he's leading the government and it came quite suddenly that he was then rushed into hospital on sunday evening and then not much later admitted into intensive care as a lot of people here in the u.k. will be waiting anxiously for more news on their prime minister and that now there is news that another senior minister has gone into self i so they should who is that tell us more. well that is michael gove who probably the most senior member

johnson is pretty much out of action for the time being and as we heard there in needs reports dominic rob is deputizing where necessary now the united kingdom does not have the same kind of constitutionally or danes chain of command as say the united states for its president vice president etc it's a bit more vague here but dominic robb is deputising for now if he is incapacitated then really soon as the chancellor of the exchequer steps in and i suppose with dominic we can look at it as you know the prime minister is still the prime minister he has set the course dominic rob has been given the tiller for a while to keep the ship on track basically he can't hire and fire ministers and any matters of national security are being decided by the cap on the principle of collective responsibility rory talk to us about this new report this modeling that's come out from the university of washington regarding the outbreak in the u.k. is that cause for concern. well i think it certainly is because these figures from the university of washington the institute for health metrics and evaluation of the

kingdom in the last 24 hours due to cave in $91.00 highest since the outbreak began for inspectorate dominate rob me standing in for prime minister boris johnson is people to stay indoors this easter weekend as the weather warms up rob is warning people to stick to the government's lots of rules those that lines up more news here on al-jazeera after my cuba hail to. the wedding planner i've not. i mean. a lot of going to i don't know. i mean i'm hey about us and i don't get out of it if i'm. going to single man. look at a lawn on the. last save on saturday said you know going to go in with. the estimate was a tough time winning. also will not. against the west a lot of them and. you know the kneeling. i don't know got the info and still be getting asked of. me or was that given a bit of common yak mostly across. the board thought i wanna know it out but i'm not going to start an ecosystem but all my early could go to our local. mall but i also need to know c.m. though what no one knew. about it a little bit and when it's not one of the real quote i would put out of. us this look at play and say.

hospital and later in the intensive care there's certainly been a lack of leadership at the moment dominic rob the foreign minister is deputising for him but boris johnson's leadership is missing he is now on the mend we're hearing he's still in the hospital he's watching kevin alone at home playing sudoku as we're hearing he thanked the national health service but his recovery we're also hearing might take a month or so so he's not completely out of the woods yet a long road ahead charlotte there have been nearly 10000 deaths in the united kingdom so far how is the n.h.s. the britain's national health service system coping with the load. over the weekend we saw the highest daily death toll in europe nearly reaching $1000.00 a day and the national health service is extremely under pressure especially the issue of protective gear doctors and nurses complaining that they just don't have enough one in 3 saying that they are not protected and that they can protect themselves from the virus and nearly 20 doctors and nurses from the national health service have died so far so protective gear one of

reportedly suffered breathing difficulties and has been given oxygen he has asked foreign secretary dominic robo fill in for them as necessary rob b says johnson is receiving excellent care about the work of the government will continue >>> here at home, cvs opening rapid testing at a store in atlanta and another in lincoln, rhode island the tests are free, but patients must preregister on the cvs website. >>> honda extending its halt through may 1st. the japanese automaker shuttered its plants on march 23rd fiat says it plans to restart some of its u.s. and canadian facilities on may 4th and tractor supply trying to hire 5,000 new workers. they service a large number of rural communities and is offering increased health benefits and pay as it tries to meet the needs of the farm community. as always, you can get more on the coronavirus coverage by heading to cnbc.com. back to you. >> thank you very much, sue herera our next guest is a renowned virus hunter that's how he's actually known he advised the -- university for center and immunity. he visited china this year study coronavirus outbreak t

it's worth remembering this is a brand new we have just been hearing from the foreign secretary dominic rob giving the government's daily coronavirus something he said that the prime minister remains in intensive care but that he hasn't received ventilation rob said that he was confident the prime minister would pull soon the boris johnson was a fighter and meanwhile the daily death toll reaches its highest number he said he has more all for us from outside the hospital with a promise to is being treated so is any further word on the prime minister's condition at the moment. but we know the prime minister has had well had tested positive called 911 days ago and his situation has deteriorated to the point he's now in a intensive care we had from dominic rob who is now the acting prime minister for all intents and purposes day he's taking over the running of government while boris johnson is out of contention although some said to be in good spirits and still conscious now we know dr you mentioned that rob is in charge for now should he get sick the responsibility would then cost to the child

the extension of social and economic restrictions for at least another 3 weeks foreign secretary dominic rob says now is not the time to give the virus a 2nd chance more than 13000 people have died in the u.k. and there are over 140000 confirmed infections the very clear advice we've received is that any change to our social distance social distancing measures now would risk a significant increase in the spread of the virus that would threaten a 2nd peak of the virus and substantially increase the number of deaths it would undo the progress that we've made to date and as a result would require an even longer period or the more strict of social distancing measures. brazil's health minister has tweeted that president jaded both so that all has fired him the 2 have clashed for weeks of how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic also merrill has repeatedly played down the gravity of the outbreak calling it a little. nigeria's a security forces have killed 18 people while enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures that's according to the national human rights organization that's more deaths than the

kingdom has extended restrictions to contain the code 900 spread but at least 3 weeks from secretary dominant rob says lifting curbs early could damage the economy over a longer period. brazil's health minister. came and has been fired by president both snoring the clash for weeks over how to handle the corona virus outbreak or sonora has repeatedly played down the risk of covert 1000 little flu brazil has lost in america's worst outbreak with nearly 2000 reported deaths al-jazeera is her son masood is in sao paulo and he says the pair were sending conflicting messages to the public the president decided to remove monday from his position and this is because of the disagreements between the president and the man death especially about social isolation and quite entirely and here in brazil since the brazilian presidency was not a wants to retire to life the normal life here in brazil he air once and support that idea of vertical isolation another has until as a nation he think that the only and the people that they are in danger it must stay at home at home must be isolated but all the other peopl

. >> dominic rob, they have no official post of deputy prime minister, but, he has been designated to take over if needed.>>> developing this morning, an antibody test developed at stanford university could be released as soon as this week. the test uses a blood sample to see if someone has been exposed to the coronavirus. antibodies develop in the blood is the immune system fights off irises and infection. >> is all part of figuring out whether or not people have immunity, people have the kind of antibodies that will allow us to process new protocols in order to get people back into the workforce or at least back into society in more traditional ways. >> it is one of a number of tests being developed around the country. uc berkeley is one of those stews lips a school studying the antibody test. >> the problem is not all antibodies are protected so you might have a positive antibody test and not be protected, or you might have a positive test and then the antibodies might go away over the next six months or year or two years. >> it could help inform the development of a covid-19 vacci

is going to be no 2nd peak of the current virus outbreak until those 5 criteria have been met to dominic rob there will be no lifting of the lockdown well of course this is all driven rory by the science and dominic rudd was very insistent during that press conference we watched it here live also that it was the science that was driving the government decisions and i think people have faith in the science sometimes they lose faith in their politicians. well yeah this is the tension that is at the heart of how these governments and the u.k. being one of them responds to this outbreak how much of it is scientific how much of it is politics the u.k. government from the very beginning has said we act all the advice of the scientists and every time you see a government minister coming out and giving a press conference which is daily they are always flanked on either side by a couple of scientists now those can be chris witty who is the chief medical officer they could be patrick vallance who is the chief scientific officer or any of their deputies but basically the governor's message is the scien