headlines on al-jazeera new york's governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks. one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a freight train coming across the country we're now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly u.s. president says he would like to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically in also has met skepticism from health care specialists. ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we were in the way. i said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. i think that would be a great thing for our country and we're all working very hard to make it a reality. after 2 days of declining deaths rate the number of a toilet is in italy has risen again by mor

thing or 2 about learning on the fly we're doing pretty good for day one christians believe me al jazeera new york well you can watch the reports kristen is filing from new york on our web site al jazeera dot com there you'll find the day's top stories and all the updates on the coronavirus all that al jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera india as 1300000000 citizens have been told to stay home for 3 weeks prime minister narendra modi says a nationwide lockdown will be enforced from midnight india has so far reported more than $500.00 confirmed cases and 10 deaths would it visionary. listen carefully the whole country from today to midnight the entire country it will be in a complete. order to save india in order to save the citizens of india and to save itself save you and your family today at 12 midnight there will be a total ban of then shooting out of your home it's going to work every state every every district every village every look at it is being put on lockdown the death toll from the corona virus and is rising in europe france has just reported more than a 1000 death

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sun at this time on al jazeera i. think. new york state records more than $5000.00 new coronavirus cases in a single day as the us congress in just wars a 2 trillion dollars package to fight the pandemic. fully back to will this is i'll just 0 live from doha with in-depth coverage of the coronavirus been dead making polluting spain asks nato to help with medical supplies and equipment as its death tolls are passes china is. there is only one wars that is necessary if you think it's a war against the foreigners the u.n. secretary general tells outages iraq will countries need immediate support as the appeals for $2000000000.00. and 400 tons of freshly caught fish is said to be thrown away in sri lanka because of coronavirus the of. us senators due to vote in the coming hours on a 2 trillion dollars package to fight coronavirus the monies for helping frontline medical workers and keeping the world's biggest economy afloat the vote comes after republican senators flagged what they call drafting issues which had to be amended before the

hello i'm dennis in doha and these are the top stories here at al-jazeera new york's governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a freight train coming across the country we're now looking at a bullet train. because the numbers are going up that quickly. the u.s. president those continuing to strike an optimistic tone saying he hopes to have the situation under control by. ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. i said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and we're all working very hard to make that a reality but top u.s. health official anthony found he downplayed the president's. timeline. that's really very flexible we we just had

election campaign on al-jazeera. new york's central park becomes a giant field hospital and donald trump talks of very tough days ahead i made predictions of up to 240000 coronavirus debts in the u.s. . i'm about to sin and this is all just 0 live from doha also coming up. italy remembers its thousands of dead the highest virus toll in the.

on al-jazeera. new york state recalls over $5000.00 new coronavirus cases in a single day as congress continues to debate a 2 trillion dollar plan to fight the pandemic. working to our jazeera live from joe. and it's also coming out. spain asked for help with medical supplies and equipment as the number of deaths there.

al-jazeera new delhi. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories new york's governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state and local most says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks the us president meanwhile says he would like to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically the announcement has met skepticism from health care specialists and after 2 days of a declining death rate the number of fatalities in italy has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed on a virus cases. now there is concern that there is too much indifference towards the pandemic in africa's most populous nation nigeria has imposed restrictions in its administrative and commercial capitals following a shop rise in cases and its 1st fatality but streets are still packed with people as i'm editors reports my butcher barrister liberal short and his wife are forced to work at all th

al-jazeera new delhi. reminder the main stories here at al-jazeera new york's governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks. after 2 days of declining death rates the number of fatalities in italy has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed cases. india's 1300000000 people have been put under lockdown for the next 3 weeks people are banned from leaving their homes but the government says essential supplies will be made available. residents in major cities across latin america will soon be ordered to stay home to try to contain the virus colombia will go into a full nationwide lockdown a wednesday alison around b.s.e. reports from the capital bogota. despite the mayor's order to stay at home hundreds of poor citizens of bogota as well as venezuelan migrants crowded central plaza believer there asking for help saying they can stop working to protect themselves from coronavirus we live h

perhaps more importantly new cases in the united states are still on the rise kristen salumi al-jazeera new york well it's not just the u.s. tightening travel restrictions european countries sitting on the continent that's the new epicenter of pulling up their drawbridges denmark is blocking and free to most foreigners while other states impose border checks as a maywood report spain has declared a state of emergency. closing for the foreseeable future spain is in the grip of the coronavirus crisis and didn't madrid restaurants and shops are being told they'll have to shot only promises in supermarkets will be open from saturday across space a state of emergency. is though there are emotional needs to mental in the state of emergency is a legal tool recognized in our constitution to confront a crisis as extraordinary as that which now faces the entire world and our own country in italy where public life has come to a standstill an entire nation some 60000000 people remain under quarantine but the spirits are important one of these the desperation to not tell us we must have hope we must be stron

al jazeera, new york. primary organization that operates for seniors, he joins from tampa.kype you and your organization were ahead of the curve, so to speak, as far as the coronavirus is concerned. you started to take action pretty early on. >> yeah. we needed to. we focused on elderly care. is 72, 74e patient years old. so back in december, when we about thised hearing coronavirus, we created a task task force ledng by an infectious disease doctor and we started preparing at that time. take things like this very seriously. we take the flu, for example. that this flu season was going to be busy. and based on reports that we had from australia, so where in the country, the average american 42%, 43% vaccination flu, patients seen by one of our doctors are 90%where between 80% and with flu vaccination. we took this very seriously. to takeyou started action back at the end of last year, were you criticized for it? you were beingk overly caution at the time? do,ith a lot of what we we're dealing with the elder

still ahead on al-jazeera a shortage of doctors and hospital beds in new york which has become at the center of the outbreak in the u.s. and how the pandemic is affecting how the town's economy the world. how they are off the best part of a week of significant rain for tunisia sicily southern italy greece and turkey the crowd that brought it is now dispersed you can't really see is circulating like they will be for the showers in those same areas and they've gone further into cyprus and into turkey the rest of the european plain is quite warm really and largely sunny but there's an all the wind which is always a bit telling it will knock the temperatures down for example in germany but in goes under 6 figures a 6 single figures and the same is true in warsaw with that cold front if you pick up but it is a specific example of the forecast it stays relatively cover the next 3 days and goes subzero at night so spring frost has returned now the quite strong winds and blustery weather there around the northwest of africa's more or less got most of got showers in the forecast for the atlas

al-jazeera new delhi. right half a 2nd look at the top stories here about 0 new york's governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks after 2 days of a declining death rate the number of fatalities in italy has risen again by more than 714 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed cases india's 1300000000 people have been put under lockdown for the next 3 weeks people are banned from leaving their homes but the government says essential supplies will be made available. there in china's hu bay province where the outbreak began restrictions are being lifted off the several days with no reports of new local infections it's a similar story in the rest of the mainland but the authorities in hong kong a clamping down again over fears of a 2nd wave their vehicle palin reports a new milestone in china's battle against the current a virus outbreak nearly all locked down restrictions on who bay the province at the center of th

in new york is just the beginning of the crisis for the united states with other densely populated areas soon expected to follow christian salumi al jazeera new york south africa has started a 3 week lockdown after a significant increase in infections the country recorded a 6 fold rise in 8 days taking the confirmed number of cases to more than 900 that's the highest rate in africa police and the military have been deployed to enforce the law which includes bans on dog will cain and alcohol sales for me to miller is a correspondent in johannesburg and says there's been some confusion about what the mission is actually involved. south africans have welcomed this lockdown they do understand that it's necessary but i imagine that it will take a couple of days for many people to abide by the restrictions because there is a lot to get used to there are police and our soldiers on the streets august are expected 'd to support police activities but even as we headed to the slap down at midnight south african time there were a large number of cars on main highways like the in floor this is a highway that leads to neighboring muslim baek the govern

economy gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york now a bit of positive news china has reported only one new domestic car on a virus case the other 20 reports on monday where of travel is arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was reported in the original epicenter of the outbreak in the capital for a province local authorities have begun easing restrictions from a 50 day lockdown 30 new deaths were reported across mainland china which brings the total to more than $3000.00 that speak to soccer in hong kong for us an overall launch death toll sad but the good news is that the number of new cases is still going down. it's a summary of the latest numbers coming out of china $21.00 confirmed cases of the corona virus infection from monday that's up from 16 earlier another total number of cases in milan china now as id 1881 as you mentioned of the 21 you cases 20 of them were for imported cases so not local transmissions and this is the biggest or the new battleground for china trying to stop the importation of the krajina virus infection our government there has got a numb

economy gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york and a bit of positive news now to china has reported only one new domestic on a virus case on monday the other 20 were of travelers arriving from overseas than you know could be transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was on the capital of hervey province now call authorities have begun easing restrictions from a 50 day lockdown 30 new deaths were reported across mainland china which brings the total to more than $3000.00 speak to sakaki about this series in hong kong for sarah so the numbers continue to go down and in china this is good news no doubt for the authorities. if the downward trend does continue in mainland china 21 confirmed new cases on monday and as you mentioned 20 of those cases were imported cases so those people returning to china or traveling to china or the infections coming from abroad the death toll there were 12 confirmed deaths on monday and 12 of those from her by province this is where i had is by easter this is where the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak but the biggest ba

economy gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york now a bit of positive news china has reported only one new domestic coronavirus case on monday the other 20 were involved it involved travelers arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was on the capital of hope a province local authorities have begun easing restrictions from a 50 day lockdown 30 new deaths were reported across mainland china which brings the total to more than $3000.00 let's speak to those in hong kong for us so cyrus some good news there with the numbers of cases still dramatically falling. here's the good news does continue out of mainland china 21 confirmed cases of the crown of virus infection on monday and that's up from 16 the die earlier but we have the 21 new cases 20 of those cases were the imported versions of the virus so what the biggest battleground now is for china is to stop the virus from coming back in with arrivals international travelers coming to china some trying to bait some the travel restrictions which have been imposed globall

in new york is just the beginning of the crisis for the united states with other densely populated areas soon expected to follow christian salumi al jazeera new york india's government is unveil a $23000000000.00 stimulus package to help the country's poor during its lock down millions of low income families will receive cash payments and food staples on the plan the government would also pay for medical insurance for frontline health workers 1300000000 people have been put into lockdown across india john stop the spread of the virus. we're just days after the 2020 limpid games with the spam tokyo has become japan's epicenter of infections the capital recorded the biggest one day increase on a wednesday with at least 40 people testing positive. reports. japan's famed cherry blossom is in full bloom and tokyo's residents are making the most of the spring spectacle while they still can. coming just after japan took the painful decision to postpone the 2020 summer olympics everyone here has been given a reminder of why their government took that step a sharp increase in the number of coroner virus cases in the japanese capital has led tokyo'

the end you're watching al jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories new york's government has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state and drew como ses as many as 14000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks u.s. president on time meanwhile says he would like to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically the announcement has met skepticism from health care specialists and after 2 days of a declining death rates the number of fatalities in italy has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of corner virus tests and confirmed cases that sent to other news now and a sikh temple is under attack in afghanistan's capital the interior ministry says unknown gunmen and suicide bombers are targeting the religious complex security forces of cordoned off the area as it tried to bring the attack to an end we'll have more on this story as information becomes available 92 chaldean soldiers have been killed

economy gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york well robert scott is a senior international economist at the economic policy institute he believes the hits from coronavirus will be disastrous for the u.s. . hard to tell about the market you can never guess but this looks to be perhaps the worst recession since the great depression in the 1930 s. here in the united states could be worse than the one we had to in 20078 after the housing crisis because it's so who are needed it's going to have such a pervasive effect on the economy even back in 20078789 the stock market fell about 50 percent in value so far the markets have lost about a 3rd of their value just in the past month at this point to cutting interest rates is going to have very little beneficial effect on the economy nobody's going to invest when you're looking at an economy that's contract and sharply there's not going to be any demand for new products or some time to come what we need now is a really huge fiscal stimulus bill that passed the house was a short term measure it was a total of $50000000000.00 sounds big but in the

what we're seeing here at elmhurst hospital that breaking point might be now paperless on doe al-jazeera new york well as reported there's been a steep rise in the number of virus deaths and it's and it's overtaken china in both the number of deaths and confirmed infections francesco jhumpa tony is a journalist based in milan he says the actual number of infections is believed to be thought and what's being reported. it's really hard to say when the peak is going to come here in italy we expected every day but then we must delude ourselves today deadliest day since the beginning of the break it's $919.00 people died in the last 24 hours the civil protection said it is a massive increase after last week when the losses attested around between $6790.00 day the death toll now reached 9134 the confirmed cases are around 6000 today bringing the total number of positive people over 86000 and. the situation is still extremely serious more than a 3rd of today's deaths come again from nor embraced here in the northern region in this area there could be as many as 10 times more people actually infected the

of us a thing or 2 about learning on the fly we're doing pretty good for christians the me al jazeera new york. so this is al-jazeera these are the top stories in the world's biggest sporting event has been perspiring and for up to one year to safeguard the health of athletes and everybody else involved in the coronavirus pandemic tokyo summer olympics would do to begin in july if i killed off. first of all once again i confirmed with i.o.c. president park that there will be no cancellation of tokyo olympics or paralympics furthermore as the host of the tokyo olympics taking into consideration the current situation for the athletes the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one which is safe and worry free for spectators i asked if it would be possible to consider perspiring the games for approximately a year. indian prime minister nuri andhra modi has announced a nationwide lockdown will be in force at midnight $1300000000.00 people will be affected india has reported more than $500.00 confirmed cases of coronavirus 10 deaths

what we're seeing here at elmhurst hospital that breaking point might be now paperless andro al-jazeera new york. is the chief medical officer at the association of state and territorial health officials he explains america's approach to health care is affecting its hands and make response. the united states has a public health system that is based on the activities jurisdiction of state governments and so that's what you're seeing fall into place now and i think that system has worked well in the past and i think that as we watch state governments are stepping up they have the capacity they have the expertise to do what's necessary to intervene with this situation you know at the same time they're working closely with the federal governments and that's what's going to need to happen going forward and frankly that has been happening so far and that's a good thing the issue that we're having with protective equipment for help assholes is a major problem and we have to overcome that. you know we're doing everything we can in the united states to increase manufacturing of this equipment we do have

perhaps more importantly new cases in the united states are still on the rise kristen salumi al-jazeera new york brazil's president says he has tested negative for coronavirus terrible sorrow it was screen after one of his aides contract of the illness the president's communications secretary was part of also narrows entourage during a visit to the us which included meetings with president and vice president mike pence european countries sitting on the continent that's the new at the new at the center of pulling up draw bridges denmark is blocking entry to most foreigners while other states impose border checks isn't a word reports spain has declared a state of emergency. closing for the foreseeable future spain is in the grip of the coronavirus crisis and didn't madrid restaurants and shops are being told they'll have to shots only promises in supermarkets will be open from saturday across space a state of emergency. it is though that out of my sunni islam into the state of emergency is a legal 2 recognized in our constitution to confront a crisis as extraordinary as that which now faces the en

needed time is of the essence the worst isn't supposed to hit for another 2 weeks gabriel's onto al-jazeera new york and now to europe where france is struggling to deal with a virus sarah thousands of people in hospital on life support the country's reported its biggest daily jump in. with 418 people killed in just 24 hours the death toll has now passed 3000 more than 44000 people there infected making it the 4th country in europe. correspondent in western france and she says officials are expecting the number of cases to rise. it is a huge leap more than $400.00 deaths and only the past 24 hours a very worrying situation indeed but one in a way that we have been about the french prime minister it was really just a few days ago said that the 1st 2 weeks of april and we're going to that very soon of course he said that they would be a very very difficult time to france indeed the frog's could be reaching its peak at that time the coronavirus at this stage has been really concentrated the cases have been concentrated in the north east of france in the alsatian region but the prime minister had warned

continue to wipe everything down to try to wipe out any corona virus worries gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york. well among the places working to contain the fire risk is bethlehem the israeli military has sealed off the city in the occupied west bank and isn't allowing people in or palestinian president mahmoud abbas so they are declared states of emergency the. there after 7 cases of the virus were confirmed 2 wrists and pilgrims are banned from the area for the next 2 weeks when these abraham is live for us in ramallah she joins me now needs a drastic measures are clearly being taken where you are what sort of impact is that having on everyday life well i can tell you driving this warning to the office from a lot sounded more like or looked like a ghost town it's a friday it's a weekend usually not many people are out on the streets on this hour of the morning but you could definitely see the effects of the declaration made late on thursday by the palestinian prime minister mohammed to stay he said that all educational facilities more churches forests will be closed for a month in an attempt

what we're seeing here at elmhurst hospital that breaking point might be now paperless zonda al-jazeera new york talk to final site is national director of primary care for chan med an organization that operates 59 sentence for seniors in 39 cities across the u.s. he joins us now via skype from tampa florida good to have you with us you and your organization were ahead of the curve so to speak as far as the coronavirus is concerned you started to take action pretty early on that we needed to we focus on elderly care our average patients in 7274 years old so back in december when we 1st started hearing about this chronic virus we created a task force an amazing task force led by an actress disease doctor and we started preparing at that time we take things like this very seriously i mean we take the flu for example we knew that this year's flu season was going to be busy and based on reports that we had from australia so where in the country average american adult we probably already to 43 percent vaccination rates with our patients that are seen at our at our centers are seen by one of our docto

states will continue to rely on each other as there's no longer any 2nd to waste gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york city's declared a state of national emergency is the number of corona virus infections increased by a 3rd in the past 24 hours there are 238 cases there the most in latin america chile's government has closed all borders and banned gatherings of more than 500 people to try to contain the spread of u.s. troops in iraq are being relocated to larger bases to protect them from an increasing number of attacks the most recent sousa rocket strikes targeted a base north of baghdad killing several coalition personnel some of holton reports from baghdad. the body of it is laid to rest the 23 year old was one of 6 people killed in what the u.s. called defensive persuasion strikes on the type hezbollah in southern iraq but his family says he wasn't a fighter but a daily laborer working at the airport who had nothing to do with the iranian backed group. he worked inside the airport getting paid $8.00 per day now that he's dead who is going to think about his kids his wife his mother where's their

gabriels dando al-jazeera new york. 4 passengers have died on board a cruise ship that sank off the coast of panama more than $130.00 people on these on a reporting flu like symptoms to have tested positive for the corona virus the ship has been receiving medical supplies the operator of the vessel holland america line plans to transfer healthy passengers to another of its ships as south africa reports its 1st coronavirus related death police have struggled to enforce the 21 day nationwide lockdown which came into force after midnight on friday on the south africa's new restrictions people are only allowed out of the homes to buy groceries or for health emergencies but large crowds have continued to forment poor townships where social distancing is difficult due to the cramped living conditions serious form of the miller reports from johannesburg. we are still seen people going out of their homes despite the government telling them to stay at home despite the government giving them a few days ahead at the top down to do what was necessary in terms of the shopping and and preparing for the

tables and oh al-jazeera new york. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then defying a curfew south africa for hours he's struggled to keep people indoors as they try to contain the spread of the coronavirus there. and we hear from doctors in france who are trying to save as many people as they can. from. hello it's raining again and it looks like looks like you'll be persistent we're going to have to call this the proper spring rain that may you by your frontal system as a curl of cloud he would suggest is developing so the next batch of rain is developing to catch up with a loss was on the way i would say on saturday a tokyo you might get a shower to even a thunderstorm but the real heavy rain is a long way southwest that will work its way out through honshu and i think will be some heavy stuff during sunday but at least behind then probably 24 hours of fine weather which has been the case anyway so the korean peninsula a much of central and northern china once again beijing is warming up to 80 degre

what we're seeing here at elmhurst hospital that breaking point might be now paperless andro al-jazeera new york. still ahead on al-jazeera. learning how to cope with an outbreak aid workers prepare displaced syrians. now help technology is being used to help tackle the coronavirus and that. we have seen some flooding into parts of indonesia recently particularly around java and a little further west off plenty of showers just around the equator want to see showers into southern parts of the philippines over the next as if much of the philippines is fine and dry not dry weather too across india china cambodia could catch wanted to shout chelsea want to those showers just running their way towards thailand in this usual mixed bag as we go through monday hey to the day shall was for many will be across parts of malaysia and back across that western side of indonesia so you want to show us to into the east coast of australia long spells of rain moving through the bite with this weather system just rolling through quite brisk winds just coming in here as well for a time they'll be some showers that

will continue to rely on each other as there's no longer any 2nd to waste gabriel's on dough al-jazeera new york. has declared a state of national emergency is the number of corona virus infections increased by a 3rd in the past 24 hours there are 238 cases there the highest number of confirmed cases per capita in the region today as government has closed all borders banned gatherings of more than 500 people trying to attain the spirit. a british cruise ship with 5 confirmed cases on board has docked in cuba after it turned it was turned away from multiple ports in the caribbean the ship had been stuck at sea for more than a week the u.k. foreign minister thanked the cuban government for their passengers disembark as many on board a british citizens several flights have been chartered to fly them home the m s braemar is carrying more than a 1000 passengers and crew u.s. troops in iraq are being relocated to larger bases to protect them from an increasing number of attacks the most recent series of rocket strikes targeted a base north of baghdad killing several coalition personnel some on faulty

a thing or 2 about learning on the fly we're doing pretty good for day one christensen amy al jazeera new york. to take you now where the demand for sanitizes hygiene products has caused prices to soul country is nearly $1600.00 confirmed cases including $37.00 deaths in the senate because hillary reports from istanbul men's cologne is also high in demand carrying a cologne that's important for both hospitality and hygiene in turkey it's not popular because it's. lemon to kidnap senate saris or is for turks struggling to control the spread of coronet virus after the 1st diagnosed case was announced earlier this month panic buyers swamp supermarkets and pharmacies demand for the germ killer has leapt 5 fold the other feel that out as the global demand rose turkey's stocks begin to melt as well and to fix our prices we are doing our best to resist us we don't know how much longer we can continue to accuse the pentagon foreign suppliers for dick long which contains 80 percent ethanol the turkish government scrapped through corn meant to add ethanol to gasoline for 3 months in a bid to boost disin

hello i'm dennis in doha and these are the top stories here at al-jazeera new york's governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u.s. state andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a freight train coming across the country we're now looking at a bullet train. because the numbers are going up that quickly. the u.s. president.

their forecast for economic growth market watchers say it is a worrying sign christine salumi al-jazeera new york people have now been infected with corona virus and 114 countries around the world the number of cases outside of china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks in parker continues our coverage. this is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing patients protection and distance all good measures that country should practice according to the world health organization but not enough as they declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. has been nicer seeing this outbreak around the clock and we're deeply concerned most may be alarming levels of spread and severity and maybe a lot of mean the level is in action. we have that for a med be our system and that 19 can be. used as a pandemic was started in china has now spread to more than 100 countries but 90 percent of cases are spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than 300 people have died south korea is another where efforts to stop the spread of the virus have so far failed it seems the world has missed the window of c

economy gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york. china meanwhile reported only one new domestic coronavirus case on monday the other 20 were of travelers arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was on the capital of will be a province local authorities have begun easing restrictions from a 50 day lockdown 30 new deaths were reported across mainland china which brings the total to more than $3000.00 now this panic buying in singapore after neighboring malaysia decided to close its borders kuala lumpur says cision follows a spike in corona virus infections authorities there reported $125.00 new cases bringing the total to $553.00 france's president emmanuel mccoy is describing you know down measures across the country as unprecedented for 2 weeks residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries travel to work or to seek medical care across as anyone ignoring the rules will be punished. we are at war healthwise not against another country or another nation

al-jazeera. think. new york state records more than $5000.00 new coronavirus cases in a single day as the u.s. congress in just wars a 2 trillion dollars package to fight the pandemic. fully back to all of this is out just 0 live from doha with in-depth coverage of the coronavirus been dead making clothing spain asks nato to help with medical supplies and equipment as its death tolls a passes china is.

al-jazeera new york airlines across the globe are making unprecedented cuts to flights and stuff things lockdowns and travel restrictions take their toll virgin atlantic is grounding up to 85 percent of its aircraft and asking staff to take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave budget carriers ryanair an easy jet also announced plans to ground most of their fleets. french president emanuel micros describing new lockdown measures across the country as unprecedented for 2 weeks residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries travel to work or to seek medical care michael says anyone flouting the rules will be punished. on game we are at war healthwise not against another country or another nation the enemy is there and it's advancing and that requires general mobilization we are at war all the action of the government must now be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us. in mainland china there's been only one case of locally transmitted infection on monday it was detected in the capital of central province where the flu like disease appeared in hum

their forecast for economic growth market watchers say it is a worrying sign kristen salumi al-jazeera new york people have now been infected with krone virus in 114 countries around the world the number of cases outside china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks and barker continues our coverage. this is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing patients protection and distance all good measures that country should practice according to the world health organization but not enough as they declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. has been licensing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned by the a lot of mean levels of spread and severity and maybe a lot of mean the level of an action. we have that for the med the our system and so that 19 can be. used as a pandemic what started in china has now spread to more than 100 countries but 90 percent of cases are spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than 300 people have died south korea is another where efforts to stop the spread of the virus have so far failed it seems the world has missed the window of

paper rolls on dough al-jazeera new york. you know a lot of people around the world saw all the skate at the moment so they're using self medication they're reported to be listening to room as for advice and we want to go through those and really deep bunks on them for example in iran when any 300 people have actually died from drinking industrial alcohol now donald trump meanwhile has described an anti malaria drug as a game changer in the treatment of cova 9 same bat though it's been widely disputed by doctors and his government's most senior immunologist is there any evidence to suggest that as with malaria it might be used as a prophylactic against code to know the answer is is no and the evidence that it's talking about john is anecdotal evidence without seeing too much i'm probably more of a fan of that than. maybe than anybody but i'm a big fan and we'll see what happens and we all understand what the doctor said is 100 percent correct it's early but we've you know i've seen things that are impressive to see we're goin

a thing or 2 about learning on the fly we're doing pretty good for day one christian salumi al jazeera new yorkyou've got to keep those classes going and that's it for me the clock for this news will be in london in a couple minutes with another 4 half hour of news media truncates. join the global conversation off the bubble you'll be able to expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue women in cambodia are in fact telling their here we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a war right here in the space we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progress and not perfection on al-jazeera. display of opiates and fantasy fun to camps fashion it isn't only a lesson in creativity but also in sustainability all these clothes are made from recycled 'd fin teach all riposte fabrics were leading the way to make string to be the new the new normal because that's what it used to be some of the world's most prest

perhaps more importantly new cases in the united states are still on the rise kristen salumi al-jazeera new york brazil's president says he has tested negative for corona virus terrible sorrow was screened after one of his aides contracted the illness the president's communication secretary was part of his entourage during a visit to the us which included meetings with an all trump and vice president mike pence a 30 day ban on by the u.s. on all flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland is due to come into effect at 4 g.m.t. that's just under 2 hours from now there been reports of long lines at airports in europe as people try to beat the deadline president trump announced the ban on wednesday he said that you had been slow to react to the outbreak and blame travelers from europe for infections in the u.s. speak to a channel is kyle bailey who's a former pilot he joins us via skype from butler in the u.s. state of new jersey that is pretty close to a major virus hotspot and the city of new rochelle so before we get to all these aviation questions 1st let me ask you being only 70 kilomet

economy gabriels andro al-jazeera new york for robert scott is from the economic policy institute he believes the impact from coronavirus will be disastrous for the u.s. . hard to tell about the market you can never guess but this looks to be perhaps the worst recession since the great depression in the 1930 s. here in the united states it could be worse than the one we had. in 20078 after the housing crisis because it's so who are needed it's going to have such a pervasive effect on the economy even back in 200787 than 89 the stock market fell about 50 percent in value so far the markets of lost about a 3rd of their value just in the past month at this point to cutting interest rates is going to have very little beneficial effect on the economy nobody's going to invest when you're looking at an economy that's contracting sharply there's not going to be any demand for new products or some time to come what we need now is a really huge fiscal stimulus bill that passed the house was a short term measure i think it was a total of $50000000000.00 sounds big but in the context of a 20 tri

pandemic and the economy both seem certain to get worse before they get better rob reynolds al-jazeera new york is the real focus in the united states and even though the city's on the lock down it's also struggling with a lack of police stuff maybe 3000 called in sick on wednesday which is nearly 3 times the daily average just under 200 officers and 39 civilian employees have been infections the entire state of new york has seen more deaths in infections than any other in the u.s. on to south africa now which is reported its 1st 2 deaths from corona virus it also has the highest social of confirmed infections in africa more than a 1000 police are warning anyone who violates the 3 week lockdown faces 6 months in prison i mean a miller in johannesburg to talk us through this 100 family to the latest on these deaths and infections. well we've understood from the department of health here in south africa that those 2 deaths happened in the western cape province one in a public facility and the other in a private hospital one think for many south africans the it really hits home and that's electric

what we're seeing here at elmhurst hospital that breaking point might be now paperless andro al-jazeera new york. schools across the united states have been close most of them with little notice and the state and local officials are on show when classes will resume fact in virginia schools have been canceled for the rest of the year protocol hindsight so that now what that means for families and students. the fields are empty the playgrounds deserted and all across the united states school buildings sit empty more than half of the country students have been sent home leaving parents to try and become teachers instantly that's especially difficult for parents of children with special needs everyone is trying to figure this out and the real key is to be listening to special needs families and parents and kids to understand what their needs are so we can adjust to this new reality can she make should be in a better position than most he used to be a teacher but given his son his special needs he says it's been a struggle i was trained as a mathematics major. but it didn't teach me how to help someb

continue to wipe everything down to try to wipe out any corona virus worries gabriels sandow al-jazeera new york elizabeth warren has ended her 2020 bid for the white house the massachusetts senator was considered a front runner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single state during the primaries she lost her home state to rival joe biden i was drawn lee's 3 candidates in the race biden and bernie sanders are considered the front runners. i will not be running for president in 2020 but i guarantee you i will stay in the fight for hard working folks across this country have gotten short into the staff over and over that's been the fight of my life and it will continue to sell. particle has more now on warren's announcement. when she didn't win any of the early contests there was no longer a viable path for her to get the nomination so she came out and spoke to reporters in what seemed to be the alley behind her house with her husband her dog and she said at the beginning of this whole race that she was told that there were just too lame one for progressives that bernie sanders had

their forecast for economic growth market watchers say it is a worrying sign kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. so let's talk about the end markets in asia and for that robert reich joins us from seoul so what is a what are we seeing. that's right the markets have all been starting the selling of this selloff has continued across asia basically they're always going to open down following the lead from wall street and also the announcement of this being a pandemic and that's what we saw the markets were all trading and selling fast as president trump was speaking from the white house and that selloff has continued the nikkei is now down now more than 5 percent the korean stock index the kaspi that's down 4 percent in hong kong the hang seng index down 3 percent and one percent down on the shanghai composite i think all the markets have been extremely spooked by the travel ban that was announced from europe to the united states it really underscores just how much of a global crisis that is and investors have reacted accordingly and bear in mind of course that all of these markets have already ta

paper rolls on dough al-jazeera new york. the lines all major landmarks are on the wall the banks switched off a 60 minutes to mark earth hour that's when people are invited to think about how their lives and activities are affecting the planet and as anderson reports this year the coronavirus pandemic is making the event particularly significant. a symbolic annual event with powerful images earth hour has been a moment for millions of people to come together and think about our impact on the world around us this year's event takes on unique as billions take part in another shared experience in the night with all that is happening with the current virus the white house at 10 this into a super special activity with your household you can prepare a counter that then as it sat in the evening which of all of the trinity injuries have company and why not talk about all the wonderful gifts that mother nature has to offer you know the things that we look forward to doing once the isolation is lifted and we can all be able to move ag

have you new orleans is a resilient city used to dealing with natural disasters like hurricane katrina the next few days could be equally as challenging and agalloch al-jazeera even their new york is under lockdown the city is struggling with a lack of police staff why 3000 called in sick on wednesday and that is nearly 3 times the daily average just under 200 officers and 39 civilian employees are confirmed to be infected the state of new york has seen more deaths and infections than any other and the u.s. . 100 people in new york state have died from krone virus in the past 24 hours cuomo says officials are scouting for sites to expand hospital capacity but he's warned the state is not prepared to handle the rising number of cases almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current health care system we've approved a technology that allows one ventilator to serve 2 patients what they call splitting which is where you and it is 2nd set of tubes to a ventilator to do to patients it's not ideal but we believe it's workable friends government says it will pay self-employed workers up to 80 percent of their income during the pandemic they've been under