number of indians confirmed coronavirus cases has surpassed china's climbing to nearly 86000 infections but so far the death right in india appears better when compared with china indian health officials say that could be because most people infected are either asymptomatic or had mild symptoms the country's swift and vast shutdown is also credited with preventing a worse outbreak the government is set to decide on whether to extend india india's nearly 7 week lock down of more on this now i am joined by india correspondent maisha giants fan from delhi nimation the caseload is higher than in china now does this mean the country's likely to extend lockdown measures. but a record looks like the opposite in fact right now yes turned off its long and strong moral on sunday and. indicated that all of that using is likely on one day already over the last 2 weeks people have been allowed to come out more in private their offices are started off in some capacity and it seems that just what steve actually might bring some limited public transport background at all it seems have already started running it seems that the government seems fairly confident despite the hike use the word a

climbing to nearly 86000 infections and so far the death rate in india appears better compared to china indian health officials say that could be because most people infected were either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms the country's swift and vast shutdown is also credited with preventing a worse outbreak the government is set to decide on whether to extend india's nearly 7 week lock down. take a quick look at some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic spain's government says it will seek a fresh extension of its state of emergency that will last about a month until the transition out of lockdown is completed british research as a launching a trial to see whether dogs can use then noses to detect coded 19 in humans before they show symptoms and russian healthful farty say they've registered an additional 9200 corona virus infections in the past 24 hours. this reminder of the top story we're following for you in corona virus infections on the decline into laze government has announced that tourists will again be able to visit from june 3rd a 14 day mandatory quarantine period will a

china. the indian government has been saying similar things. it's understandable if you're a national leader, you want to make sure it's your population that gets perfected first. the best strategy may be to protect health workers around the world first, to protect hot spots. not to do it nationally but globally. that's the tension you're going to see unfold, i think, in the next few weeks and months. >> yeah. and particularly because people are transient. a lot of first responders are going from country to country. it's just not within a nation. lots of big concerns. >> that's right. you won't cut off all travel particularly between the number one and two economies, the united states and china. at the moment you open up the air travel, you're opening a new path way for infection. the president talks about cutting the travel off in january from wuhan and other areas. all it did is buy us time. when we start, it will create a new pathway. so they need a strategy, global strategy. i don't hear many governments talking about what that should look like. >> all right. david sanger, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> great to be with you. >>> all right the struggles that the meat processing plants are fac