turned out to have the infection last night after an in-depth discussion with the president regarding corbett 19 testing he elected to proceed this evening i received confirmation that the test is negative so apparently the virus hasn't got into the white house but it's having a devastating effect on the lives of the 156000 class who are known to be infected with the consequences rippling through jobs businesses and with schools of the thousands canceled as people are told to stay at home reporting next his equal stand of. fear is growing and fear is that someone discovered an actual jumanji aboard the real world in an almost biblical like game of pandemonium. taking place right here in. europe and locusts are actually swarming the middle east and africa as you're watching this but one crisis is of course overshadowing all others the coronavirus and the world health organization is confirming our worst fear is in the plans 2 weeks the number of cases of corbett 19 outside of china as includes serves to unfold. and the number of affected countries. we have that for the mid be our system and th

countries to refrain from using that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of corbett 19 the history of medicine is strewn with examples of drugs that would on paper or even a test you but didn't work in humans or where actually harmful migrants arriving on the greek island of les paul say that being given no support with the country and locked down due to the corrupt virus in a 60 people have recently landed the plan to set up their own camp they said they have been given clubs all mosques to protect themselves camps are already overcrowded and operating out of capacity and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness next. in the midst of a coronavirus demick china is in lockdown. when i want to report from inside the quarantine market place. on al-jazeera. sure. leave. me alone i think. it will be. because i. want to play and all my heart and i am. just looking. whoa cost. of war. she has expressed. i know you know by now. by now one of them i. don't know myself on a similar way to say that i can see how a couple of people. my. only th

said just a few hours ago more of the city 100 cows and cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to double. from almost every country. in the world. that's heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases. and him germany the country's leading public health institution the robot costs insitu says new data suggests that the rise in corona virus cases might be leveling off here and for now concerns that chance angle america may have caught the virus half and just felt. tourist magnets like the brandenburg gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but lockdown may just mean people are out of those only for essential reasons like going to work shopping or walking the dog. but germany's robert costa institute says there's reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. the indian turned we are seeing signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on we

or happen to be the most vulnerable demographic when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus or corbett 19 so social media and pop culture is playing a humongous role in spreading the message to last of the young people on the african continent and in kenya and uganda as well particularly so young people acting as multipliers of the message there now that message itself it seems quite simple wash your hands stay home but neither of those things are easy for everyone . indeed access to water is not readily available to millions of people around the african continent and that in itself is a challenge especially in the informal settlements in a lot of areas the rural parts of africa say in kenya today what the government is trying to do is ask the water supply has to be a little bit and weave their customers not up their bills and also and do not switch off the awards the connections in a bid to help people flock to the cove of the coronavirus spread that water will be readily available to the people and that even though they might be having a rear is this still going to be able to wash th

pandemic ever rising toll and its geographic shift from the east to the west more than 132000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to deadly joe from 123 countries and territories 5000 people have lost their lives a tragic milestone europe has now become the epicenter of the pandemic with more reported cases and theirs is than the rest of the world combined apart from china more cases out of now being reported every day than were reported in china at the highest of its epidemic. well before that announcement from the world health organization e.u. commission president joseph on the line detailed steps to keep the blocks economies afloat as the virus spreads and shutdowns take effect the pandemic would be tough she said but europe was up to the challenge. so the coronavirus and i make is testing as all institutions governments health systems economies but the coronavirus pandemic is most of all testing people. this is not only an unprecedented challenges for our health care systems but also a major shock to our economies the shock is temporary but we must work together to ensure that it i

more than 300000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to w.h.o. from almost every country in the world now it's heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases and just 4 days for this. 100000 cases there's some disturbing numbers there for more i'm joined now by christiane lyn meier he is a spokesperson at the world health organization and joins us tonight from geneva switzerland because then the w.h.o. is saying that the pandemic is exhilarating where is it spreading at the most rapid pace for. what was seeing right now while china has nearly serial cases we saw iran as one of the top countries italy and a slow to do us this catching up tools of the prominent 3 countries though europe in general is unfortunately the most spending area spain france germany italy all together make for a good portion of of all the of all the cases worldwide but to look at china we concede there is hope if we're doing the right measures to curb this outbreak and to

lot done hypothetically speaking would basically go through there sometimes and recover from from corbett maintain within that into one days and in that period when they're in fixes they're likely to be under lockdown not going anywhere or in a health care setting where they're being treated and in a way that theoretically from a public health this big tip that helps to contain the virus to the few that already have it and it helps us to be able to to break transmission basically so the way i've learned so much in the last couple of days just look at how south africa is dealing with the corona virus crisis for instance business inside of south africa you are legally required to report on labor as a crime if i was in south africa if you don't you could face time in prison so i think i can explain thanks to me and i think it's look i mean these i'm president at times i think you know they lee and in south africa and as such you know you're seeing an unprecedented amount of support for all the measures that have been put all introduced a new bit that have been put in place and so what we've

health organization is confirming our worst fear is in the plans to weeks the number of cases of corbett 19 outside china has increases so as to unfold. and the number of affected countries. we have that for many of the our system and that quoted 19 can be kind of. a pandemic it's been a nightmarish shock week for stocks to the worst plunge in decades wiped trillions of dollars from the market for the average american it meant the crisis lifted more than $20000.00 out of each citizen spock it also fueling the quick fire sale of season donald trump's announcement that all european holidaying plans are to be cancelled to keep new cases from entering our assures we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days the u.k. being one of the few countries to evade the initial ban was perhaps some very sad irony when london publicly and apparently gave up on all efforts to contain the disease eventually vice president mike pence thought better and added the country on the banned list too but america's major indices kept reeling as if it were the stocks themsel

we have that made the assessment that corbett nineteen can be characterized as a pandedemic. well some of te measures that that have just been announced by governments around the world in the last hour or so over the u. s. all public schools are being closed for two weeks in the city of seattle washington state has moved up two hundred and fifty confirmed cases the highest number. two s. m maple in n denk alall schools a and univeversits nationwiwide are being closed immediately and all employees in the public sector that with non critical jobs are being sent home on friday. germany has confirm some thirteen hundred cases and three deaths chancellor angela merkel has been accused of fuelling anxiety of the she said that she believed betetween sixty an- 90% the german population would eventually become infected with. but almost won first and then it's important to understand that if the virus is present. and the population is not yet used to it. and there's no vaccination and you know treatment. the high percent of the population since experts say 6270% will be infected if the

declared that the corona virus can now be labeled as pandemic in the past 2 weeks the number of cases of corbett 19 outside china has increases surged to unfold. and the number of our fixed countries has tripled we have that for the med be our system and that quoted 19 can be contacted are used as a pandemic. now the number of infections has topped more than 118000 across the globe with more than 4000 deaths corona virus has spread to 114 countries with numbers growing up by the day in the race and to find a vaccine for the virus scientists in london are now on the lookout for human guinea pigs to in fact for money in the 1st test of its kind. we can announce that we have commenced the development of the world's 1st commercial human coronavirus challenge study model also known as control human infection model we are pleased to be able to try and assist in the battle against coded 19. the study will in fact $24.00 people with 2 strains of corona virus similar to covert $1000.00 but causing milder symptoms as scientists try to develop a vaccine against the outbreak volunteers will be paid as much

infection here's what the head of the w h l said just a few hours ago more of the city 100000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to double. from almost every country in the world that's heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases. and here's some of the more of the latest developments on the global covert 19 condemning for the 2nd straight day italy has posted figures suggesting the spread of covert 19 in the country is slowing down italy is europe's haddest hit country u.n. secretary general antonio tabish has called for an immediate global ceasefire that's to protect vulnerable people in conflict zones from the ravages of the virus and britain's supreme court building is closing justices will switch to video conferencing to hear cases and hand down judgment. and he enjoyment of the country's leading public health institution the robot caucus institute says new data suggests that the rise in corona virus cases might be leveling off here and for

which will compare the safety and effectiveness of different drugs or drug combinations against corbett 19 this is a historic trial which will dramatically cut the time needed to generate robust evidence about what drugs work more than 45 countries are contributing to the tran and more have expressed interest the more countries who join the tram the faster we will have the results in the meantime we call on all individual the same countries to refrain from using type you dicks that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of 1000. the history of medicine is strewn with examples of drugs that would on paper or in a test tube but didn't work in humans or were actually harmful getting the most recent ebola up epidemic for example some medicines stat we had thought to be effective were found not to be as effective as ours and medicines when they were compared during a clinical trial we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts we also need to ensure that using unproven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven e

countries to refrain from using that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of corbett 90 in the history of medicine is strewn with examples of drugs that would go on paper or in a test you but didn't work in humans or were actually harmful during the most recent ebola a pediatric for example some medicines that were thought to be effective were found not to be as effective as ours or medicines when they were compared during a clinical trial and we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts we also need to ensure that using unproven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven effective to the u.s. now where the governor of new york state says hospitalizations a doubling every 4 days it is the epicenter of the u.s. outbreak there are now more than 44000 confirmed infections there alone hospitals are being asked to double their capacity in order to cope in temporary hospitals are being built kristen salumi joins us now via skype from new york kristen what else has the governor had to say. well 1st of all there's a

diagnostic tests to improve surveillance and to invest in research and development to give to the corbett 90 in solidarity response fund go to w.h.o. dot i n t and look for the orange donate button at the top of the page we time and google facebook and the individuals who have already contributed every dollar donated is that dollar toward the saving lives we are all in this together i thank you. the dress. as we speak the press release on of the 1000 so that your response fund is being sent to you just to remind everyone that dispraise briefing is being broadcast on various platforms from our sides your facebook twitter account you tube channel as well as on linked in so we will start questions. from journalists who are listening us who have i do dialed in or who are watching us to resume so we will start with. joey from yahoo finance. you can hear me out who have. been great thanks so much what i just wanted to know in terms of all the social distancing techniques that are awaiting use and i would say there's been fine criticisms that i'm going to have you know put in by anybody who's go

countries to refrain from using that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of corbett 90 in the history of medicine is strewn with examples of drugs that would on paper or in a test tube but didn't work in humans or were actually harmful. getting the most recent ebola epidemic for example some medicines that were thought to be effective were found not to be as effective as ours and medicines when they were compared during a clinical trial we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts we also need to ensure that using unproven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven effective. even though the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in syria remains low there are concerns that this will change and very quickly millions of displaced people live in the north western province of idlib which has a weak health system eroded by years of conflict 5 covert 19 cases have been reported but many are concerned that the virus could soon reach them 7 crossing over reports. hundreds of thousands of tents an adlib lined up by t

that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of corbett 90 in the history of medicine is strewn with examples of drugs that would on paper or even a test you but didn't work in humans or were actually harmful during the most recent ebola epidemic for example some medicines start were thought to be effective where found not to be as effective as ours are medicines when they were compared during a clinical trial and we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts. we also need to ensure that using proven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven effective or china has reported another increase in what it calls imported infections 54 cases involving people who caught the illness overseas were recorded on friday the increasing number of imported cases comes as new restrictions on the entry of foreigners come into effect when sarah clark joins us live now from hong kong sara so let's talk 1st about china there's now a ban on foreigners which starts today and also we're seeing some new cases there. is 54 new cases on

it synthetically made in a chemical plant used corbett acid probably in china.here's a fascinating story about that vitamin c cartel and that story still continues to this day. same playbook. they were american european and japanese producers of this corbett acid the active ingredient in vitamin c a couple companies dumped on the world market, drove our competitors and when they were gone, raised the price again spectacularly. clear violations of antitrust we could have a whole session today on the vitamin c cartel because that story continues. lawyers are still arguing over it and they have enormous applications for a lot of our medicines and other products we get from china. we have penicillin and vitamin c cartel what does this tell us? it tells us that we are losing control over the supplies of our medicine. we as a country are losing control, others are dictating the price and they are dictating the supply and we have to ask ourselves, is this a situation that we want to be in? what was driving it? what were some undercurrents? we identify two, the first is

and announced europe is now at the epicenter of the coven 1000 pandemic more than 132000 cases of corbett 19 have no been reported to deadly chill from 123 countries and territories 5000 people have lost their lives a tragic milestone europe has now become the a.p. center of the pundit make wheeze more reported cases and days is done the rest of the world combined apart from china more cases of now being reported every day than were reported in china the highest of its appeal to me. this comes as top health official for the company ministration dr anthony foushee said the disruptions from the corona virus could be prolonged and last up to 8 weeks adding it's going to get worse before it gets better the death toll in europe continues to rise as spain declares a national emergency and more countries are joining in shutting down schools there implementing travel restrictions and taking other emergency measures in hopes to avoid becoming the next italy france is also taking some action french president manual mccrone took to twitter and announced president trump and 7 other world leaders are

here when it ordered all indication institutions to close for 5 weeks to help stop the spread of corbett 19 this was critical basically because we didn't know why the sudden within 45 minutes we were told schools are closing to the 20th of april it's not like a corporation where you can put a few fires in the drawer and say we'll come back to you these are children all schools in sri lanka are no closed as it braces for a rise in coronavirus numbers there are usually around 3000 students coming to this school every day but fears of the corona virus has kept them and more than 4000000 like them around the country at home the authorities hope the decision to close schools will help minimize the potential transmission of the virus among children. sure loved his health chief says the sheer number of pupils interacting with each other within school grounds would make it difficult to contain the virus not that much as to how to behave in a situation like this you know can you ask your kid do you know where sure hands and you send you an ad does it great so it's not easy dr johnson his confiden

more of the city 100000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to double. from almost every country in the world that's heartbreaking the pundit micky's accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the furthest 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases the death toll in italy has declined for a 2nd day as governments across europe scramble to contain the corona virus outbreak 601 people died there in the last 24 hours while spain's death toll has risen by another $462.00 a total of $2182.00 and the u.n. is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic that's a syria confirmed its 1st case humanitarian groups a major outbreak in the war torn country would be particularly catastrophic. the u.s. senate has failed to agree on a trillion dollar stimulus bill and that boosting the economy during the pandemic it's the 2nd time the legislation hasn't cost politicians are under increasing pressure to prevent an economic collapse but they've been divided on what

last few days they've just actually called out you was president donald trump tweeting and calling corbett 19 the chinese virus they're furious about that and say that donald trump has smeared the chinese people because of it but we have to remember that also follows a insinuation by the chinese foreign ministry that the virus was actually brought to china in the 1st place by the u.s. military so there does seem to be a bit of a war of words between the 2 governments the health authorities have also been reminding the public that china is fast on its way to doing trials clinical trials for a new vaccine so analysts say that they're also does seem to be a bit of a health race between the chinese and the u.s. governments to see who can be the 1st to discover a cure or discover a vaccine. katrin e.u. with the update from beijing thank you we look at iran now which is close 3 of its holiest sites to visitors despite strong opposition from protesters shrines in the cities. were shut down to contain the spread of coronavirus 853 people have died in iran from the virus with almost 15000 confirmed

speaker, the best of my nose all the corbett were sending out is up the creek static i be happy to lookt the case that he mentions. as i said earlier to the house we currently have stockpiles of ppe and making huge efforts to make sure we have enough for the outbreak ahead. >> the chancellor yesterday unveiled a wide range of mesh to dr. koek coronavirus. does my right honorable friend agreed with me it's a vital we do whatever we can to get through this as a country? >> mr. speaker, i wholly endorse what my honorable friend said. we will do whatever it takes and we will beat it together. >> apart from renters, , evictin from a private tendency of section 21 no-fault eviction is the biggest reason for homelessness. on friday i met a 77-year-old woman who would live in her home for 15 years i met a couple caring for a sister with down syndrome both of you for eviction today. can ask the prime minister to ask the court to stop section 21 eviction, to take the pressure off hard-pressed counsel and of these really worried family? >> mr. speaker, she's absolutely right to raise this and that

yeah, ted corbett, a new yorker.hole island, we started at the united nations, we ended there, is 50 kilometers. so i ran that with him. >> stephen: is it eye nice run? >> it was a nice run. it's not so nice under the f.d.r., as you're coming in for the home stretch. and it was raining, and no one had told me about, like, chafing. >> stephen: oh, no. >> and i was actually fine in every other way. i was totally prepared. i was-- you know, so when i was 39, i trained for when i was 40. >> stephen: sure. >> it's something i do every decade. and you're supposed to put, you know, on all the places, you're supposed to put some stuff. >> stephen: you're supposed to lubricate your nipples. >> yes, you are, and your armpits and your groin. i didn't do any of it. and i was wearing these short-shorts, and it was raining so it was just... ( slapping ) and for the home stretch the only thing on my mind was get all of my clothes off of me and just like do that. >> stephen: was there anything left from the rubbing when you got ther

health officials do want people to get out and exercise and hello corbett do whatever they can.warned them not to do is gather into any kind of group.>>> we need the weather to help us out. watching out for somewhat of a dry powder and setting up over the next few days. today that we had a little bit of everything. tomorrow we still have a possibility of a shower, but not a rainy wednesday. still the possibility of a few showers out there with mostly cloudy skies. temperatures in the cool side. on the in the low to mid 50s for tomorrow afternoon. this was the radar earlier today. all of the clouds in thunderstorms across parts of the bay area. think starting to back off and covered. still some snow showers though as you can see here the radar from earlier today showing all of the action. especially in the south bay and the east bay right around the livermore area a bit of a chill in the air with temperatures right now in the upper 40s to write around 50 degrees. here is our live camera looking toward san francisco tonight we were still cloud cover and once again there could be a

we know that santa clara county is the epicenter of this outbreak in the bay area and we know that corbett 19 is spreading rapidly these new orders direct all individuals to shelter at their place of residence. >>and maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet from any other person went outside the resident. >>the virtual public lockdown comes as the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the county has climbed to 114 with 23 new cases announced on sunday, 3 people have died the latest deaths occurring in your voice is mayor roland velasco. >>10 sworn members of the san jose fire department have tested positive for 57 others may have been exposed. >>the basque in community centers being deep cleaned after someone at an event on saturday tested positive. he must move aggressively and immediately. >>the time for half-measures is over. and history will not forgive us for waiting an hour or more. >>public schools are now closed across the county. many shopping center parking lots are empty. >>more signs like this one are popping up on restaurants. >>reminders about hand washing

again 460 people have died in the past 24 hours with a total of 2182 more of the city 100000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to double. from almost every country in the world that's heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases the u.n. is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic that's a syria has now confirmed its 1st case humanitarian groups say a major outbreak in the war torn country would be particularly catastrophic women and children and people with disabilities the marginalized and displaced by the highest price they also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from poor feed $19.00. let's not forget that in war ravaged countries now systems of collapse else professionals already few in number and often been targeted refugees and other these placed by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war if you see why today i am calling

here when it ordered all indication institutions to close for 5 weeks to help stop the spread of corbett19 this was critical. basically because we didn't know why the sudden within 45 minutes we were told schools are closing to the 20th of april it's not like a corporation where you can put a few fires in the draw and say we'll come back to you these are children all schools in sri lanka are no closed as it braces for a rise in coronavirus numbers there are usually around 3000 students coming to this school every day but fears of the coronavirus has kept them and more than $4000000.00 like them around the country at home. the authorities hope the decision to close schools will help minimize the potential transmission of the virus among children sri lanka's health chief says the sheer number of pupils interacting with each other within school grounds would make it difficult to contain the virus not that much as to how to behave in a situation like this you know can you ask your kid do you know where she hands and he did this and you and i does great so if it's not easy dr jasser his confi

addicts that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of corbett 19. the history of medicine is thrown with examples of drugs that would go on paper already in a test tube but didn't work in humans or where it actually had a full getting the most recent up epidemic for example some medicines that were thought to be effective were found not to be as effective as a medicines when they were compared during a clinical trial and we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts we also need to ensure that using unproven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven effective now you could read this warning from ted rested on him as some kind of dig president trump of the united states in the last week or so has been talking up the possibility that couric widow hydrochloric went to medicines which she used in the treatment of malaria could be a game changer in the fight against covert 19 and corona virus and i think that was ted was a dynamite saying is please don't use that sort of language don't use drugs