kong kong the coronavirus has forced people to either south korean team or work from home on the instructions of their employers will one family dealing with confinement at home so we have some rice talk about 3 or 4. hours ready for a possible walked on water you know very central to our family have been spending a lot of time indoors as the city battles to contain the coronavirus parents have a battle with boredom on their hands. for. which schools caused the children digging into studies or lauren and with derek's company telling stuff to work from harm the kitchen table has become a co-working space. hong kong is still free to go outside though the virus is a rival brought an abrupt end to large gatherings like the months of political protests that gripped this city in recent months. to see if i was i try i fall it's a good time you know where where you know where where we are sort of 5 or you know a couple months ago i hope that you know this. virus hopefully will bring us i tried to get there but some say the quarantine conditions have strained divided families in the past before the they can still like state as day old and then to avoid the like corals with the family members but these days they have to stay at home and without any choice is the they have to like days like this situation or somehow it will also create more tension within the family. the broader social impact of these measures it may take longer to emerge but for now the al family is coping fine with the confinement. sports news now an international olympic committee president almost back remains confident the tokyo games

kong! long live hong kong! benjamin: he doesn't have any trust in the communist party and the hong kong government. he's saying to regain hong kong, and the younger generation is going to battle with the older generation in fighting for democracy but also authority and citizens, the protestor and the police. [indistinct chatter] [shouting in cantonese] [shouting] airin: i was shocked when i saw the news at home. i was like, "what?" i didn't imagine that hongng kong peopople could do sh viviolent thin o on the strereet like burning stufff, throwing bricks, attacack the police becauause it's susuch a big cont to umbrerella prototest. it was rereally peaceful, but that t n, it was r really violenent, and i think people try other ways, other peaceful ways already, and they realized thatat it doesn't wwork, so they had to i it. i's kind of ththe governmement forcd peopople to be vviolent. i'm sick of it all. this is too ridiculouous. it's like a group of rerely stupid people who are controlling the city. on the roof, you can see a lot of working robots, walking around without any purpose. then you think,

kong hong kong had been under pressure to close its borders particularly after taiwan and singapore announced they were banning this sitters and short term travelers and transit passengers and the hong kong is doing the same and of course compiles as you say touches on the whole travel industry you know we've seen emirates and turkish airlines obviously cathay pacific based in hong kong and singapore airlines the decisions made by politicians in countries like home called impact or the much more global business which is having a problem right now. absolutely and as you say there are the aviation industry is taking the brunt of that with many airlines grounding their fleets because there's simply no passengers because borders are being shut down and also people are less likely to travel in times like this singapore airlines as you say grounding 96 percent of its flights quantas had done that previously grounding all of its flights kathy pacific many budget airlines yeah they reverberations are going to be felt across the globe particularly now with the talk of a global recession also coming into place not only are people not travelling people are not spending economies are hurting across

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kong —— hong kong's open half bridge dust have a percent higher, and nikkei is currently up by nearly 1%. in the overnight session, the dow staged a 596 overnight session, the dow staged a 5% reach around stomach rebound while s&p 500 and nasdaq each jumped by more than [1%. michelle flaherty has the latest from new york. us financial markets enjoyed an enormous rally, all three major indexes rose more than 4% after falling every day last week, recovering more than 40% of recent losses. the 0ecd cutting their global fourth forecast this year stomach the fastest rate be on record. traders are now ready, the us federal reserve will cut interest rates soon to block the outcome of the outbreak. but that doesn't quite explain the scale of the rebound. increasing numbers of coronavirus outside china... 0n increasing numbers of coronavirus outside china... on monday, investors jumped at the opportunity to buy oversold stocks with shares in apple and walmart among those enjoying the biggest gains. as michelle has mentioned, the paris—based group ecd. .. michelle has mentioned, the paris—based group ecd... have house demographics output democrat look this year because of the coronavirus. here's the chief economist. europe, and asia, like japan. in which case he would have the same guarantee and travel banks as we have seen in china, or similar. and that would slice the work that we were working at down to 596. work that we were working at down to 5%. meanwhile, central-bank work that we were working at down to 596. meanwhile, central-bank bosses in the us,japan 596. meanwhile, central-bank bosses in the us, japan and europe are all standing ready to help prevent an economic meltdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. in economist i spoke to earlierfrom coronavirus outbreak. in economist i spoke to earlier from analogous caution that the influence central banks can have over economic economy will be very limited. even if you lower taxes, it doesn't really mean that people will consume. they have to be confident when they consume, especially consumer durables, which is collapsing. i think what you need to do is to keep the economy working, not necessarily immediately lowering taxes. at the beginning of this outbreak we thought it would be limited to china. now we all know that this is much more global. where do you expect the impact will hit the most? a lot of what is happening isa the most? a lot of what is happening is a supply shortage from china, because china is the largest producer of immediate goods in the world by 33% of intermediate goods globally coming from china, which means that everyone will suffer from shortages in the supply chain. and i think that is a key shock coming from china. we can't forget that a lot of what is happening, dragging down economies, the upset of china comes from china. staying with the coronavirus, british airways and ryanair have coronavirus, british airways and rya nair have both coronavirus, british airways and ryanair have both cancelled hundreds of flights as demand for travel drops amid fears about the spread of coronavirus. the affected destinations include new york, italy, france, and ireland. both airlines have declined to comment on how many flight or passengers will be affected. here in singapore, a major financial hub in the be affected. here in singapore, a majorfinancial hub in the region, one of the first outside china to adopt a stringent measures such as restricting visitors to the country to contain and control the spread of the disease. there are some clues on how other countries can respond. 0ur correspondent reports. celebrating life after surviving the coronavirus. julie is more thanjust one of more than 70 people in china who have recovered. she told me it was an experience she never would forget. it felt like i was fighting to breathe, like... like it was pumping airlike this, to breathe, like... like it was pumping air like this, and it was very ha rd to pumping air like this, and it was very hard to lie down flat. i thought i stopped breathing in the middle of the night. as the disease spreads around the world, questions are being asked as to how to contain it. some answers might be found here in singapore. we are a highly connected transportation hub, we are densely populated city. so therefore it is important for us to be prudent and proactively take measures to prevent the spread. because control ofan prevent the spread. because control of an outbreak is easier right at the beginning, and and relatively few cases it is much harder later on. less than a week after its first case, singapore sent its borders to travellers from china and put in place strictly enforced quarantine measures. it also began tracing eve ryo ne measures. it also began tracing everyone who had been in contact with those who had the virus and began setting up official websites and government run whatsapp groups to combat fake news. within two weeks, home—grown test kits were sent to public hospitals. now, charles for a possible vaccine or in the works. arguably not many countries can do what singapore is doing. it is small, tightly controlled, and with an extensive camera controlled, and with an extensive camera surveillance network. most people here will do what the government tells them to. and it is one of the few places in asia where you have top scientists connected globally that are indeed, and companies that can make vaccines right here. these public health interventions start to unwind, we need to look out to see whether there will be a resurgence in a numberof there will be a resurgence in a number of cases. it is not possible to say it right now if they will happen, but it is something we certainly have to look out for. singapore's strategy has been successful so far. schools here have remained open and businesses run as normally as possible. it is numbers of the infected rice, it's strategy will be put to the test and it is an experiment the world is watching. christian of the swanee, bbc news, singapore. now to china, where much of the country is still on lock down. many businesses in beijing remain closed because their employees are either unable or choosing not to return to the city. 0ur china correspondent steven mcdonald walked through what used to be some of the city's busiest streets. it's a beautiful afternoon, this is normally a busy street. look at all these businesses. closed. that one, close. next door — closed. the restau ra nt close. next door — closed. the restaurant here, not open. this is a shop open. let's see if we can get someone shop open. let's see if we can get someone to talk to us. it's like a wine shop. let's have a look. at the moment, the only customers they are serving are those they can deliver to. so you know what you want, you tell them, they will deliver it to your house. but they don't want people coming in and potentially contaminating the shop. the problem with the shopping is touching everything. now i've got some apples here. i've got to touch the screen. who know where's that last hand has been? a quick update on the markets before we go. hong kong'ss trading higher by half a percent, while japan's nikkei is currently up i also have a percent. so not a big jump, we saw wall street where we saw the dow jumping jump, we saw wall street where we saw the dowjumping by over 5% and two other major industries rising by over 4% as investors hunted for bargains. that's it for this edition of asia business report, thanks for watching. let's bring you up—to—date with our top stories is our. the head of the world health organisation says the outbreak of the new coronavirus has entered uncharted territory, but that it can still be contained. 0fficial that it can still be contained. official results yet to be announced, but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has claimed victory in the country's third election in a year. dozens of homes in east yorkshire are still underwater after the river air ove rflowed are still underwater after the river air overflowed its banks following unprecedented rainfall in recent weeks. the water remains in

so as hong kong hong kong government has sent out what they call a red alert notice a red notice which means all passengers now who come in from abroad will have to go into quarantine hong kong experts are also warning of an increase in communities spread as people have lowered their defenses here and the fact that many people from abroad many hong kong residents are coming back now into hong kong so there was also a warning that we could see what you're calling a 2nd wave singapore it's also struggling with that mostly from imported cases they too will not be quarantined quarantining anyone who comes in from abroad now south korea some relief there the number of cases are 86 the number of new cases they're broken the snap of more than 100 a day this week they're breathing somewhat a sigh of relief but there is still a lot of danger and warning from people coming in from abroad they're also struggling to contain the spread in there they're going to not. car testing anyone who comes from europe meanwhile neighboring japan which hasn't seen the spikes we've seen in the region the olympic torch has just landed there. japanese insist that the olympics will go ahead the torch rel

kong for us davey a kerry lamb announcing some very tight restrictions there not only on nonresidents but potentially also on alcohol i understand. these are the widest ranging measures hong kong hong kong is imposing since the outbreak in china even at the height of the outbreak home kong did not even close its lab or border with mainland china and now kerry is saying all international passengers all international travelers even those trancing through will not be allowed only residents will be allowed into hong kong and those that are allowed into long kong in the next starting from wednesday for the next 2 weeks will definitely go into quarantine to underline something she did not say but clearly implied was that only residents will be allowed into the city implying that people from mainland china will not be allowed to come in and that is a huge hot hot potato for hong kong which has so far voided trying to stop people from coming in banning people from across that land border from mainland china to hong kong but she's calving placed the caveat saying that all decisions are not political but are based on science she also went on to say that shops story restaurants pubs most places se

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you're talking about south korea, hong kong, singapore. hong kong and singapore are small countries but they took corrective action very soon and used testing to help make their decisions. we are seeing that in germany now. the german government has done quite well at tackling the problem. it hasn't been perfect. eventsssed two important where young people congregated. so there's been in interaction of the virus into younger populations. but those younger populations are probably responding better than what we are doing here in the united states. they are sheltering at home. they are practicing social distancing. in germany they don't allow gatherings more than two people. so that's very aggressive and they are using the testing to identify the cases, workup the contacts. we have not had that to that extent here. we are doing the best we can with what we have now. but what i want to keep coming back to his we need to learn from this. it can't be just episodic cyclic attention to a crisis like ebola or west nile in the past. gue that happened in hous

kong needs to get more into digital. china is so far advanced with digital. in hong kong, we can supply that. the other strength for hong konge greater bay area. it is something that china has been promoting. 70 million people all within a two hour radius of hong kong and macau. of $1.5 a gdp last year trillion. the economy is really great. hong kong will remain as the financial center. it will be the i.t. center. kind of like silicon valley. the potential is literally the greatest in the area. when it comes to your tenants, i know you have offered a parental support. are you seeing the pain points so play out? of the people who lease your properties, how many will survive? >> the problem is i have already seen some closing down. -- i have had to give concessions for rent. tourism has really hurt the city badly. we used to have 100,000 people a day coming to hong kong. today, because of the closure of the border, we have 3000 people. that hurts very dramatically. going forward, it will cause a lot of pain. in the last two weeks, we have seen a slight uptrend in people starting to come out again. people in hong kong are weari

kong index up down by almost 1%. hong kong index up by down by almost 1%. hong kong index up by half a percent.to life with the dow and the snp both in the by more than 4% overnight because after vice presidentjoe biden strong showing in the super tuesday. that is it for the programme. thank you for watching. —— snp. this is bbc news. the top stories this hour. california's governor declares a state of emergency over the coronavirus after reporting the state's first death and confirming at least 50 cases. britain's biggest regional airline, flybe, is on the verge of collapse, putting 2000 jobs at risk. rock band genesis are reuniting, and have announced their first tourfor 13 years. david sillito reports. # she seems to have an invisible touch, yeah... genesis, from ‘70s prog rock to ‘80s and ‘90s chart success. # i can't dance # i can't talk... they've been around for more than 50 years. but a reunion was, according to phil collins, highly unlikely. ill health had stopped him from drumming. but in recent years he has returned to performing and his son nick can now fill in for him on drums. and

travel restrictions announced in hong kong hong kong chief executive kerry lamb it's put the city on red alert this means all international travelers arriving into hong kong will now have to go to self isolation for 14 days the id exemptions she's my travels coming from a cow mainland china and taiwan so certainly heavy restrictions coming into place as of wednesday midnight so from thursday march 19th and airlines in the markets have been struggling across the region as a result. well these huge heavy hitting travel restrictions globally are clearly affecting the airlines and quantas the chief executive alan joyce in an e-mail to his 30000 staff said this is the single biggest shock the global aviation industry has ever experienced that it's not announced a cut of 90 percent of its international capacity and 60 percent of its domestic capacity and that's a done to at least the end of my any zealand's also cut its capacity or flights to australia due to australians new travel restrictions from any travelers arriving in australia 14 days of self selection they've cut their flights by i.v. percent and that's from march to june and cathay pacific which is on

this area of hong kong in causeway bay you can see shots that have closed that are shuttered are not going to open a reminder that you know this fire is taking its toll on hong kong hong kong paying a very heavy economic price actually because you know the border with the mainland now remains closed it has been now for around a month that of course schools are going to be closed until april the 20th one flicker of positive news though 880000 civil servants have returned to their desks although some experts warn that having so many people returning to work at the same time does raise the possibility of secondary infections we feel ok a train derailment the latest from hong kong adrian thank you. so ahead on al jazeera ending his attempt to solve the libyan conflict the u.n. special envoy steps down after the failure of the latest talks. you know where to run muslims in india's capital say they're being targeted the police have done little to help. the. alladin a satellite tells a tale over north america at the moment if you watch this streaming cloud here the fact is streaming is what's relevant repechage else wordlessly is something of a winter storm running through the ea

kong hong kong is an al-jazeera cameraman in china's horbury province they went home 2 days before restrictions were put in place on january the 23rd he's been in quarantine ever since he says life has changed considerably since the initial lockdown. the highway was closed the train station was closed. the community the residential community the compound i live was you know sealed off all the gates were sealed off just. you know manned by this community workers the number than cheers so basically everybody stays at home that was that was that was a real real lockdown so nobody would be able to you know get out from on these county you know the whole bay provisional government has removed the deadlocked on in the region in this province except the capital city was so basically people can move around can walk out of home can move around and go back to do a normal life so you are outside or. if you just came here and got stopped you can you can go you can go back to your own place your own provinces and to work where you but you can either go there you know buy a car you drive yourself or take these you know chartered bus you know this government arranged bus to go there. but still the activities evolving big crowds are not allowed in this county. up to 50000000 jobs in the global travel and tourism sector added west because of the corona virus pandemic and in mexico right now the easter holidays are critical john horgan travel to the coastal town of acapulco to show us how the income of thousands is in jeopardy. miscarry sun and sand give more than 4000000 people work its tourism industry is vital for the country now it's under threat. man these are years in the resort town of acapulco is wondering if this easter usually high season it will instead look like now. i mean. this is my work my family depends on it i have a wife and children who depend on me so i hope they can control the coronavirus and we have a good easter. the 1st signs are great some cancellations already magda and family here but plan to cut their holiday sure can bring out some of it yeah but not here . we're going back home tomorrow because we're already nervous and seeing on the t.v. that something could happen and the truth is there's very few people here. other famous resorts like cancun cozumel and los cabos depend on international visitors especially from the neighboring u.s. but no cruise ships are coming from flights or down this beach or many other parts of mexico would usually be full of tourists come easter instead this time around a lot of people are going to be wondering if their jobs and their means to provide for their families are going to be able to survive this. i could pull calls taking measures spraying down buses with chlorine checking tourists they going to hotels will be it with this fall to the moment are instructions from authorities who are similarly ineffective misapply ones ordering bows to close state ones then reminding the. restaurant owner salvatore says this is the law. place he wants to be right now but he's got little choice. we're not a new neither and we're scared too but someone's got to serve the tourist because if we don't die of the virus will die of hunger instead. some remain optimistic the acapulco room temperatures and humidity will offer protection but an i.e.d. is not known to coronavirus is not going to arrive in a couple but on a virus just gets too cold climates and here is too hot even got a sales pitch have a look at the merchandise here in acapulco it's warm come here to pass your quality . even if it's head in the sand thinking it chimes with the rest of the city's attitude to hope and hold out john home and how does it or i could pull cookie. cutter says every effort is being made to protect its foreign workers during the coronavirus pandemic most of the $417.00 factions in the gulf nation are among migrants many of whom live in labor camps they've been quarantined as a precautionary measure in some areas cordoned off to contain the outbreak qatar has long face criticism about the treatment of migrant workers in the case of the industrial area let me assure you that the government is doing everything in its followers to support. the local residents and safeguard your health and well being extra medical services were mobilized to the area and idlers checkups are being taken and peace let's all remember that this is only a temporary period that should be over soon or later a nation wide curfews come into force in jordan people are being told to stay home unless it's absolutely necessary to leave all shops across the kingdom have been ordered to close the information minister says those who violate the curfew will be jailed. to afghanistan now what at least 22 people have been diagnosed with cut on the virus but with limited checks along the border with iran with the virus is spreading rapidly health officials worry the number could quickly grow killer was all the reports. these refugees are back home in afghanistan their life in neighboring iran came to a standstill when the new coronavirus spread across the country with no jobs and a growing pandemic they decided to leave the moment because i'm put on my friends and i we all came back to afghanistan we left even though that we were still old months worth of unpaid salary the situation is very serious there i saw with my own eyes how people were buried in mass graves. about 3000000 afghan refugees live in iran health leaders now fear many of them could be bringing the virus both with them. when refusing started to come back in light february we had about 1300 people every day just yesterday we had over 13000 people we used to make that around 90000 people have returned to afghanistan voluntarily the biggest cluster of infections has been recorded in the western province of herat which shares a border with iran many refugees returned unchecked raising panic in nearby communities and reports emerged of infected patients fleeing hospitals modern they've got to make out their carers are they coming back in a russian and a chaotic 2nd start says those who are infected with the virus would definitely contaminate their friends it's a really serious issue for the ministry of public health. to try and limit infections clinics have been set up along the border stephens checking temperatures and teaching groups just how easily the virus spreads forswear one of my well water fortunately we increased our staff we are registering people depending on their provinces now we have temperature guns and we will install a scanner to check them. but with thousands of people returning from iran health officials fear this pandemic will spread further into afghanistan. lucidly young al jazeera. still ahead in al-jazeera we're going to take a look at how people in france are adjusting to restrictions on movement because of the pandemic. that's already been through a cholera epidemic now the poorest country in the americas is having to confront the coronavirus. welcome back will begin in northeastern parts of asia you see this rain moving from eastern china the yanks across the east china sea and clipping the southern parts of japan system likely here cheri day i think for many areas but you know said pretty warm day for tokyo highs of 24 degrees celsius as you move the forecast through into monday we're going to see a change of wind direction for tokyo so a big drop in temperatures for still a fair amount of dry weather at times and a lighter rain across more southern parts of china all that just towards the coast we could see a pepping up here in the course of the day hong kong should be largely draw and fine with temperatures of $26.00 degrees a few showers likely into northern parts of vietnam into southeast asia looking pretty wet across at the moment so i sort of course a sunday some heavy showers here a few showers to singapore in kuala lumpur. about general though southwest will see some heavy downpours and so the ways it looks to be pretty wet at times into south asia through the course of sunday some showers across eastern parts of india up into the poor through towards bangladesh otherwise the draw i just wanted to show us in the south and then as we head on through sunday into monday will see a rain developing across parts of pakistan but still staying dry night poor guys of 37. london broker to special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people and there's no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes with opposition if you're not. for her. there is not a fam

kong. we will stay with hong kong in terms of the recovery that we are hoping to see. we will be speaking exclusively to the hong konge and economic development. will be joining us live. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: this is "daybreak asia." to start publishing data on how many people are infected with the coronavirus without showing symptoms. local authorities are being told to track and treat cases of asymptomatic infection. this follows domestic and international criticism. local media says the data will be released soon. u.s. jobless rate expected to set a record for the second week. the figure may double from last week's 3.3 million. it is seen as a more cogent barometer. week's number was already more than quadrupled the previous record. inlions of migrant workers india as the virus lockdown ravages the economy. the benchmark stock market index fell on monday. the government's response may not be enough. it is set for a three-month decline of more than 30%. there are growing fears that the tokyo economy may stall if there are new virus infections reported. japan has remained relatively free of the pandemic but th

kong, $15 billion u.s. everything from the recurring tax breaks we get each year, also some money earmarked for the technology industry, talking about potential expansion of the hong kong science park and growing research clusters there. there's also money earmarked for the tourism board, 700 million hong kongmote hong kong once if and when the virus outbreak dissipates. sherry: the impact of the coronavirus forcing the bank of korea to downgrade its growth forecast for the year. but surprisingly, it didn't cut benchmark rates. was it the right decision? daniel: the first thing that has to be said is it is not so much whether it was an unexpected decision. it is the discordant note that it strikes with the rest of public policy in korea and how that is responding to the virus. president moon called this an emergency, and instructed his officials to draft a new stimulus package. well, ok, if it is an emergency, let's have monetary policy also respond. instead, what do we get? not only do we get no response, we get a jarring response from the market perspective. anna: italian opposition leader matteo salvini accuses prime minister giuseppe conte of underestimating the threat of the coronavirus. mr. salvini: [speaking italian] translator: the entire economy was already the weakest in europe, i

lockdown let me bring you to hong kong very quickly and in hong kong life is slowly getting back to normal for the 1st time i've seen traffic on the streets in weeks but hong kong skater's is likely to rise in the coming days experts here are warning government officials are warning because the bridge. bringing back hong kong people that were stranded hong kong residents that were stranded in one about 400 of them arrived yesterday and they're now in quarantine centers others will be another 400 and a chartered plane government chartered plane is due to arrive today also there from hong kong thank you. the democratic field of candidates to take on donald trump the november's presidential election has narrowed to just for the search and support for former vice president joe biden made him the big winner on super tuesday putting him had a bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination earlier on wednesday billionaire mike bloomberg ended his campaign and endorsed by arnold's has more. appearing confident and relaxed joe biden listed the states he won on super tuesday with victories in texas virginia north carolina arkansas alabama tennessee oklahoma .

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your properties going to be expanding paris london all the big cities across the world hong kong maybe hong kong as might be falling apart now but that money printing is what is causing that sense of injustice of an in there thinking it's an economic injustice when in fact it's and a monetary and justice that is happening so i want to turn to this other thread that kind of went viral and you know it's one guy's take on some data that was released recently from the government so you know it's one take but we're going to look at this take because i think it brings up some good points it's a tweet stream from oring cass he's the executive director of american compass who's stated mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family community and industry to the nation's liberty and prosperity so there is that here's this 1st tweet i'm going to read some of them of this 16 thread tweet how is it that our economic statistics suggest workers have been making slow but steady progress in recent decades while popular perception is that their family finances are coming unde

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the region and speak to sakaki in hong kong let's start with hong kong way you are what's the latest from there any improvement in the situation. well the hong kong chief executive carrie lamb has held her weekly press and she's actually announced the fact that she's now concerned about the doubling of cases in the last week in this is obviously the hong kong residents returning to the city as countries around the world close their borders we had $41.00 new infections confirmed on monday and as you mentioned that's takes the total to $682.00 now most of these cases being brought back into hong kong are imported cases so not the local transmission or the hospital martin here has a suggested that they can't situation is severe says it struggling to cope with the overwhelming number of cases in these hospitals and as a result the afghan government to consider other facilities like sporting facilities and stadiums to be used as isolation wards to look after or consider cater for those particular people who got the mild symptoms and don't require the oxygen facilities now a carrier has said the government will make this wait to try and consider how to

from wednesday on words we will this allow hong kong residents coming from overseas countries arriving at the hong kong international airport saw enter hong kong so you have to understand we have a different regimes and in the last 2 months in leading this fight against the virus i have time and again emphasized we are basing decisions on science on the facts and figures on evidence and also have the expert advice of the 4 professors on the expert advice re panel the politics of pressure are not something that come into the formula now the international olympic committee says it's considering postponing the 2020 tokyo games by up to a year it's been under mounting pressure from athletes and national bodies to cancel or to delay the event japanese prime minister shinzo are best says he does not believe the games can be held under the current circumstances of course i said no uma while the international community is being severely affected in a negative way we hope to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that cancelling them is not an option at all and the decision that will be made by the committee is in

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hong kong which is also trying to get back to normal many government offices in english or centers opening they will be brought back to hong kong and be put in quarantine for 14 days now the go hong kong government also stresses that they are very much keeping a lot of their measures in place but trying to get the city back to normal back to business did they go pollard live in hong kong thank you the field of democratic candidates contesting to take on donald trump in november's presidential election has narrowed just for a surge in support for former vice president joe biden made him the big winner on super tuesday and that put him ahead of bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination earlier on wednesday billionaire mike bloomberg ended his campaign and indorsed biden has more. appearing confident and relaxed joe biden listed the states he won on super tuesday with victories in texas virginia north carolina arkansas alabama tennessee oklahoma. going to go to massachusetts and just sort of we heard we won maine as well right. michael bloomberg dropped out of the race and endorsed by offering financial and organizational support to the former vice president i've always

doesn't count much after all many of the hong kong restaurants don't live in hong kong of course so they're outside of hong kong so the population of that is maybe 20 percent of that is. naturally going to be the right markets you know made the point already written sorry to interrupt you you've made the point already about how long this crisis goes on we'll define the ultimate effect 2nd or mclay for everyone not just china. 10 years ago more than 10 years ago the whole world was in a financial mess global financial crisis there are some suggestions that the impact of this could be in the realms of that eventually do you agree with that if the crisis were to go on for an extended period of time that we could be looking at a financial crisis era problem no i think the one of the crisis of 2000 and. 3 for the very funny mark for you mark the financial crisis around the world i think the fact is this one is going to be harder for us because the resource of the problem is is here. is so the source of the problem for regatta imported problem but. we are in the hot seat so therefore the effect of this will be harder

kong. hong kong is an al-jazeera cameraman and china's hu province they went home 2 days before restrictions were put in place on january 23rd he's been in quarantine ever since is as life has changed considerably since the initial lockdown. the highway was closest the train station was closed. the community the residential community the compound i live was you know sealed off all the gates were sealed off just. you know manned by this community workers than ever than cheers so basically everybody stays at home that was that was that was a real real lockdown so nobody would be able to you know get out from these county you know the whole bay provisional government has removed the deadlocked on in the region in this province except the capital city will hon so basically people can move around to walk out of home to move around and go back to down normal life so you are outside or. if you you just came here and got stopped you can't you can't go you can't go back to your own place your own provinces and to work where you but you can either go there you know buy a car you drive yourself or take

but currently trading abound 1% lower while hong kong has just opened about an hour ago, down 1.5% kong has just opened about an hour ago, down1.5% and kong just opened about an hour ago, down 1.5% and let's look at how australia is trading at this hour, now up 3%, so reversing some gains of yesterday, reversing some of the losses of yesterday when they fell nearly 10%, that was the biggest one day paul since 1987. hussain has more from new york. the city that never sleeps as grading to a halt, despite 8 million people living here, there were very few people roaming the streets of manhattan. during the lunch hour rush, this food court would normally be packed. city officials have closed all public schools and instructed restau ra nts public schools and instructed restaurants to do the same, and offer only takeaway or delivery. movie theatres, bars, and gems are all shut and could be for a very long time. as people work from home, local businesses are already bearing the brunt. the business. zero business. this is supposed to be my rush—hour. this is a time to make money. not making money and even is not covering my costs, i don't have any

kong. speaking of hong kong, pretty brutal numbers are expected to be coming through. we just heard chief executive areie lam talking say they expecting a record drop in retail sales in february. the blue line is the estimate. they are expecting a 4% contraction for february. we have seen double-digit contractions since last year, since the protests started. governmentom the saying that perhaps in new round of relief measures could be coming. let's look at some of the movers in hong kong, everything from your jewelers, your luxury makers, cosmetics. still seeing decent gains today, but still something to watch out for. and perhaps some bright spots as well. you see people stocking up on toilet paper and different types of essential goods. so the likes of this index year tracking medicines and consumers enter the trees, it could potentially be a positive sign. also when it comes to they could sales, if see a decent bounce as well which would have seen since basically the start of this year. joining us now exclusively, i want to bring in our hong kong secretary for food and health, sophia chan. secretary chan committed to so much for joining us. the retail sale picture is not looking pretty, this as we see the government strengthening its social distancing measures for the weekend, limiting social gatherings to no more than 10 people. how effective do think these measures will be crucial mark i know it is early days, but are you looking at more potentially, too? guest:

hong kong, from midnight all non-residents will be banned from entering hong kong. let's hear from our correspondent. reporter: hong kongjor route into mainland china and othe countries across asia and it looks like there is the beginngs of some evidence that hong kong may be experiencing the onsets of a second wave. the trend now is ticking up in terms of new cfirmed cases so what we're seeing is an even further tightening of restrictions on the borde. is as close as you can get to cutting hong kong off from the rest of mainland chi that remains politically acceptable to the bosses in beijing. anchor: i want to go to australia because new containment measures there have come into effect. there are threeou states, australia, western australia and the northern territory, which will b shutting their borders. queensland will follow in the xt 24 hours. all those entering these states have to isolate themselves for 14 days regardless of where they've been traveling from. australia stepped up its containment measures on sunday, after these particular pictures went viral. this is bondi beach saturday, absolutely pd, jammed, ev

kong, hong kong reporting its fourth coronavirus death. relatively speaking, still quite low compared to other nations we have seen. hong kong its fourth coronavirus death. we will see if we can get a full confirmation on that. havensseeing the selloff. bond yields are taking higher. it does not seem like these are the textbook plays you should be seeing. you sense this is something that is technical or is there something more fundamental here when it comes to the problems in financial plumbing? >> i think it is fear. everyone wants to go to cash. part of that is driven by margin selling. much of trade is driven by algorithms these days. approach toward a safe havens would make sense. the fact it is not points to this is much more technical and margin driven selling that is happening. it will eventually bottom up it is hard to call that at the moment. what are you looking for when it comes to policymakers? what can be done to stop the bleeding? >> it is going to be very tough. the first thing i would say is there needs to be an integrated monetary and fiscal approach from central banks and governments to provide support for

kong between tourists and locals. have aboutnt you 3000 people a day. has come down to almost 300. the economy here was built around chinese tourists coming to hong kong, shopping at the big brand the retail shops. around thewas built ritz, the high rents that landlords were able to get, was really based around the economy, the retail economy. huge change, a big change. i think what hong kong will be going through will be the same as the rest of the world, kind of a meltdown if this does not stop pretty soon. yvonne: we did speak with hong kong's black sheep restaurant group, its founder. he is projecting a difficult year ahead. i want you to listen to what he said earlier -- >> 15,000 restaurants in hong kong, i anticipate by this time next summer there will be less than 10,000. we are looking at three successive quarters of financial losses. we are squarely between a rock and a hard place. for us specifically we have done good work in hong kong. we created a lot of goodwill over the last eight years. in some way, shape or form we will be here when the dust settles. yvonne: there are seeing a difficult year ahead and expecting more closures, may be a wave of layoffs. even after the 14 days, how quickly do you expect people to get back to lan kwai fong? or will it take longer to feel safe? allan: it will take time. the alcohol ban is more than 14 days. facinghe nonresident

kong and spread from hong kong to the rest of the world, including the united states. influenza is ar, problem in our communities and i'm sure it is in yours soto. why are we so concerned about it now? >> that's a very good question. we are concerned because in the other countries in which it has appeared and even in the outbreaks we have had in this country, the attack rate has been 15 to 20%. this attack rate occurs in four to six weeks. in metropolitan pittsburgh, with approximately one million people , if we had this flu strike here you would have approximately 200,000 people who would become ill in a four to six week period. this, of course, would make a tremendous impact upon the economy of this particular area. carl: that's understandable. we've all heard of outbreaks here in this country, dr. bernie. how far has it spread? >> it spread all over the united states. the first cases occurred on the east coast rather than on the west coast among navy personnel in rhode island. the second occurred in navy and civilian personnel in san diego. the first time, since of june, it has spread in localized outbreaks through the , louisiana,mboree and all of the states in the united states. carl: i didn't realize that was asian flu that hit our own jamboree in our own state. >> it was. carl: not many people have died as the result of -- many people have died as a result of asian flu in other parts of the world. do you think the same will hold true in the united states? >> we have the belief now based on the experience of asian influenza in other countries, south america at the present time where it is at epidemic proportions and as a result of the outbreaks in this country so far that it is a mild infection with a very low mortality rate, and we believe it will continue to be both a mild infection and a very low death rate. carl: is there the possibility asian flu might turn into a killer? that is a possibility, of course, and it has happened in preceding years, in 1888 when we had a large epidemic, and eventually the 1918-19 epidemic when we had a mild influenza epidemic in the spring of 1918 and in the fall, we had a large outbreak of very virulent influenza followed by serious complications and another wave hit us in february or march of 1919. time, in that whole period, we had about 20 million cases in the united states and deaths.0,000 beds -- in the first place, we had a mild strain of influenza. in the second place, we have the antibiotics to combat any complications that might arise, which we did not have in 1919. carl: dr., with the disease spreading so rapidly, what exactly now are we doing to combat it? dr. burney: actually, we are trying to do three things. one is to develop as rapidly as possible the only preventative agent we have against influenza and that is the vaccine against this particular strain. done in six of the pharmaceutical manufacturers in this country. team in tokyoal sent it back to this country and given to the public health services, we distributed is to the manufacturers and they began vaccineacture the before we had the first case in this country. now, our job is to get more the vaccine available and to get the it.ic to use number two, we have to be prepared to take care of the individuals that become ill. have been working since early june with the american medical association, the american hospital association, voluntary groups, and others, to prepare for taking care of those who become ill, and finally, the matter of having an alert and informed public. one who will be aware of the facts without being unduly alarmed. certainly this program of the totinghouse broadcasting have an alert, but not an alarmed public. >> well, you and your public health service crew have certainly seemed to make great strides in order to get us ready for this possible epidemic in such a short time. dr. burney: we've had a lot of help, i can assure you, in doing this. it hasn't been a one man or one organization shall. -- show. cooperation ofl the american medical association in the educational and medical care part and then in working who the manufacturers, manufacture the vaccine and stop other activities and develop their staffs. i think we can all be proud of the industry which we have in this country. it is another example of the know-how and expeditious way free enterprise through american industry can do i a good job. the vaccine was given to the industry's middle of may, and within three months, the vaccine was being released to our national institutes of health as being a safe and effective vaccine. that gives me a good example of teamwork and very expeditious work by the manufacturers. another example of this teamwork and to illustrate this isn't a one-man show, we have with us this evening, dr. james a crabtree, an associate of the university of pittsburg public health who will help explain how asian influenza spread throughout the world. >> how do you do, dr. crabtree? the asian flu has covered a lot of territory in a short time, but i would like to know how did it all get started? the jack origin of the influenza virus is not unknown, but the current epidemic had its beginning, as dr. burney indicated, in hong kong and singapore. this was in early april. the disease had become indeed epidemic in both of the cities and are means so throughout the rest of the month. from hong kong and singapore, the disease rapidly early may of -- andhe island of almos here, it is estimated as many as half million people were infected within a short amount of time. in may, it next made its appearance in borneo and japan. centers major shipping from the several areas, the disease very rapidly scattered into widely separated places as indonesia, guam, and the philippines. the first cases also in late as, the disease was reported far away as australia and on board several ships en route from australia to san francisco. appearance of the disease in the united states was on june 2. this date is important, because it means only a short six weeks from the time the curse -- first cases were reported in china, they were in the united states. this indicates the rapidity with which influenza like diseases can spread over the

kong, where for midnight nonresidents will be banned from entering hong kong. our correspondent is there for us. let's hear from correspondent is there for us. let's hearfrom him. hong kong a major route to mainland china, but also a route for other countries across asia. it looks like there is the beginnings of some empirical evidence that hong kong may be experiencing the onset ofa kong may be experiencing the onset of a second wave. the trend now is kicking up in terms of new, confirmed cases and so, what we are seeing is an even further restrictions on the borders. this is as close you can get to cutting hong kong off and the rest of mainland china. at least, that remains politically acceptable to the bosses in the chain. i want to go to australia now because new containment measures that have just come into effect. there are three states, south australia, western australia and the northern territory, which will be shutting their borders. queensland will be following in the next 2a hours. all of those entering these states have to isolate themselves for 1a days, regardless of where they have been travelling from. australia stepped up travelling from. australia steppe

kong. the portrait capital -- peter, ray to have you with us. looking at the damage that has been suffered by the sector in hong kong. we have seen this 12 month losing streak. street corner in hong kongwe get a shrinkage of mainland visitors but also a collapse in consumer confidence as well. how does this and? this is pre-coronavirus stuff. six months of ongoing protests adding to the situation there. >>>> that's exactly right. bad news usually comes in threes. the coronavirus is really following on six months of protests as you say. the china trade war, which actually hurts the hong kong economy substantially. i think the numbers in february will be devastating in terms of retail and tourism. we look at retail figures, sales figures, the later figures for january are down about 21%, which is consistent with the last six months. but in february i think we see the numbers way down more than that. the recovery that we normally see after chinese new year this year has not happened. i think you will see many retailers looking at 80% downside in retail sales in the month of february. that's going to be pretty painful. for the tourism sector as you mentioned. haidi: alan deming has been i

kong because hong kong was a place that really kept this under wraps early on, learning some lessons from sars, but now that they've let people come back into the country from abroad, they're seeing the cases tick up again. is that an indication for the u.s. if we relax too soon? >> i think that's exactly right. hong kong saw a doubling of the number of cases that they had in just a few days, and again, they were being held up as sort of a model of success, and they were, but it's just evidence that, you know, you got to be diligent about it until you get through that entire curve. now, there may be second waves that come later on, but you have to stay diligent at least a couple weeks. also, jim, there is this acknowledgment as i listen to these public health experts even at the lectern yesterday, and dr. birx said over time there is a chance that 40 to 60% of the nation will be exposed to this virus. a significant number, jim, as we've talked about. so why did these social distancing measures make a difference, you might ask. they made a difference because it's the pace at which these people become infected, the pace at which they become sick and the pace at which they access the medical system if they need the medical system. you don't want them coming all at once. that's what this is all about, to s

kong dr r. is seen as the president of the hong kong public doctors association in singapore. he's the dean of the source we hawk school of public health. off of the national university of singapore and in cambridge massachusetts in the u.s. talk to in great cats she's the assistant faculty director of the harvard global health institute welcome to you all and funks for joining us are seeing i'm off 1st of all i know we have to ask you this you have at the moment treating people with a corona virus how is that how challenging is that for you. actually in hong kong we have repartee increasing number of the cases we have 1st get out there as you compliment cases in early february eliot and the rest of the world because that's the case importer for main there however we can keep the number going very very still leave for a long while till recently all of those arrests in country. and. hong kong people who say in it was foreign countries they turned back to hong kong and we have a rapid rise of them to cases we have much more number of equal to cases and also staff who have some noble in fact that cases but at the hospital the isolation facilities are almost nil but most of the cases out quite well because the i have good cost how but we learn that these start to spread through the local setting and get out believe and patients with chronic illness get in fact that they are all they really know that much situation we have full cases that i call is 2 months old now off. and also with chronic illness ok you're going to go in singapore what how singap

kong at the height of the outbreak in mainland china hong kong was an example of how to contain the spread of corona virus but now the city has become a lesson in what happens when you let your guard down too soon last week the numbers surged more than doubling in just a few days prompting authorities to enforce the toughest measures yet to stem the rising number of imported cases non-residents will not be allowed to enter hong kong as of wednesday even transit passengers will be banned and to address locally transmitted infections the government says limiting the sale of alcohol i see if i get most likely being highly the regarding consumption restaurants and bars the most concerning behavior is taking place in bars around 10 confirmed coronavirus cases are related to activities there so we're focusing on this area. the government found that after months of self-imposed confinement and vigilance many people started socializing again this is line quite a following it's one of hong kong's most popular nightlife districts and it's also at the center of some of the city's recent cluster infections so with the restrictions that are called sales areas like this will come to a standstill nearly $9000.00 pubs and eateries will be affected raising concerns about the impact on hong kong's already struggling economy. many hong kong businesses were hit hard last year by anti-government protests that lasted for months and an

kong and spread from hong kong to the rest of the world, including the united states. >> uh-huh. well, every year influenza is a problem in our communities. i'm sure it is in yours, too. why are we suddenly so all concerned about it now? >> well, that's a have good question. we are concerned, because in the other countries in which it's appeared and even in the outbreaks we've had so far in this country, the attack rate has been 15% to 20% of the population. and this attack range occurs in about four to six weeks. for example in metropolitan pittsburgh with approximately 1 million people, if we had this flu here you would have approximately 200,000 people who would become ill and in four to six week of period and this, of course, would make a tremendous impact upon the economy of this particular area. >> that's understandable. we've all heard of outbreaks here in this country, dr. bernie. exactly how far has it spread? >> well, it spread all over the united states. the first cases occurred surprisingly enough on the east coast rather than on the west coast. among navy personnel at newport, ride ohlu rhode island. 9 sex case in navy and civilian personnel in san diego. since that time, of course, about the 1st of june it has spread and localized outbreaks from iowa to the boy scout jam berry b b jamboree in pennsylvania and throughout the united states. >> i didn't realize that was actually the asian flu that hit that jamboree in our own state. that it was asian flu. >> that's right. >> dr. bernie, not many died from asian influenza in the rest of the world. do you think the same will hold true here in the united states? >> we have the belief now based upon the experience of asian influenza in the other countries, in south america at the present time where it is an epidemic proportions and as a result of the outbreaks in this country so far. that it is a mild infection, and with a very low mortality rate, and we believe it will continue to be both a mild infection and have a very low death rate. >> well, is it a possibility that asian flu might turn into, if i might use the word, a killer? >> well, that is a possibility, of course, and that has happened in preceding years when we have had epidemics. back in 1888 when we had a large epidemic, and then many of us recall the 1989-19 epidemic when we had a mild influenza epidemic in the spring of 1918 and then in the fall we had a large outbreak, a very viralant influenza followed by serious complications and then another wave hit us in the february or march of 1919. at that time as you may recall in that whole period, we had about 20 million cases in the united states, and about 850,000 deaths. but i would like to add that conditions are quite different now than they were then and in the first place we have a mild strain of influenza, nos a virulent strain and in the second place we have the antibiotics to combat any complications that might i rise, which we did not have in 1918. >> uh-huh. well, doctor, with the disease spreading so rapidly, what exactly now are we doing to combat it? >> well, actually, carl, we are doing, trying to do three things. one is to develop as rapidly as possible the only preventive agent we have against influenza and that is the vaccine against this particular strain of the vaccine. of the virus. and that is being done in six of the large pharmaceutical manufacturers in this country. the strain was collected by an alert, u.s. army medical team in tokyo, and sent back to this country and then given to the u.s. public health service. we distributed to manufacturers and they, in turn, actually began to manufacture the vaccine before we had had the first case in this country. so now our job is to get more of that vaccine available, and to get the public to use it. number two, we have to be prepared to take care of the individuals who become ill. and we have been working since early june with the american medical association, the american hospital association, state health officers, voluntary groups and others to prepare for taking care of those who become ill, and finally, the matter of having an alert and informed public. one who will be aware of the facts about being unduly alarmed and certainly this program of the westinghouse broadcasting company is a good example of public service to have an alert but not an alarm public. >> well, dr. bernie, you and your public health service crew, if i can use that word, "crew," seemed to have made great strides to get us ready for this possible epidemic in such a short time. >> we've had a lot of help. i can assure you, carl. it hasn't been a one organization or -- previously we had the full cooperation and support of the american medical association in both the educational and medical care part and then in working with the manufacturers to get them to manufacture the vaccine and to stop other activities and to build up their staffs. i think we can all be proud of the industry which we have in this country. it's another example of the know-how and the expeditious way in which free enterprise through our american industry can do a good job. the vaccine or the virus given to the industries about the middle of may and with three months the vaccine was being released through our national institutes of health as being a safer and effective vaccinvacci. that's a good example of teamwork and very expeditious work by the manufacturers. >> uh-huh. >> another example of this teamwork and to illustrate this isn't a one-man show we have with us this evening, i'd like to present dr. james a. crabtree, a graduate of the pittsburgh public school of health to explain how this spread throughout the world. >> thank you, dr. bernie and grad dr. crabtree is with you tonight too. how do you do? we've been discussing the fact the asian flu covered a lot of territory in a short time, but i would like to know how did it all get started? >> well, the exact point of origin of the influenza virus is, of course, not known. but the current epidemic, had its beginning, as dr. bernie indicated, in hong kong and singapore. this was in early april. by mid-april, the diseases had become indeed epidemic in both of these cities, and remains so throughout the rest of the month. from hong kong and singapore the d.c. rapidly in early may had moved to the island here and here it's estimated as many as half a million people were attacked within a relatively short time. from formosa also during the month of may, the disease next made its appearance in borneo and japan. and from the major shipping centers from these several areas, the disease very rapidly scattered into widely -- such widely separated places as malaya, indonesia, india, guam, and the philippines. the first cases also in late may, the disease was reported as far away as australia and onboard several ships en route from australia to san francisco. the first appearance of the disease in the united states was on june 2nd. this date is important, because it means only a short six weeks from the time the first cases were reported in china

if you look at what happened in hong kong, and hong kong was locked down for over two months.d of started laying folks back in and they've seen a spike in the cases. if we reopen for business too early and then see another spike in death, americans confidence in our leadership and in just how we go about our daily lives will be undermined. so, let's let the health care experts drive this. >> neil: all right, senator, final word on that. thank you very much. >> yes, sir. thank you, neil. >> neil: you probably heard that the tokyo olympics are off for another year. what happens to the athletes? some unique insight and recommendations. ♪ save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ that gives me cash back onesome new aeverything.akuten that's ebates. i get cash back on electronics, travel, clothes. you're talking about ebates. i can't stop talking about rakuten. pretty good deal - peter sfx [blender] ebates is now rakuten, sign up today. the net

kong now has more than 270 confirmed cases. for more i'm joined by dr alfred wong a cardiologist in hong kong as saying yeah i doctor one thank you for joining me a senior health official in hong kong has described the new cases as scary how bad do you think things are likely to get there. well. i mean we have survived the 1st wave of influx of patients. the 1st plus wave of patients came from mainland china and we have been quite successful in containing that wakes we have the number of patients all around. 100. but but in the last. couple of days we huge waves of. students and expired coming back from europe and america and many of the. people in fact that with this corona virus and we have seen a search of patients in town and we have just. passed a number of 270 so so yeah it is scary. but we have been doing the good things we have been doing the right thing we have been bearing mouse everyone almost everyone walking in the streets in hong kong are wearing miles people have been very vigilant about their hand hygiene and you could see people staying away from each other i mean painting so shows that since and i think people who try that bastard do the same thing but this wave o