apolo brian is the vice president for policy and advocacy at oxfam america is joining us now from washington d.c. we're pretty sure it's your time sir thank you very much indeed within the group that is most likely to be hit who is likely to be the hardest hit we think the concentrations of harm are going to be in north africa sub-saharan africa and in the middle east if you think of it in terms of the economic crisis is coming we're already worried that 40000000 lives will be lost but in terms of the economic crisis and you think of some communities like mumbai or in asia or in cheap down or in nairobi in africa or mexico city just slums in those 5 cities more than the population of the country that i come from and these are people who can't do social distancing who are overwhelmingly working in the informal economy who have no social protection there are more than 2000000000 people on the planet earth who work in the informal economy they don't get sick days. what do you think is the best solution for this i know that you've been talking about relieving some debts but in practical terms wh

we will get response from the head of oxfam america on how this could impmpact inteternatil cooperation critical to saving lives around the world and we will look at their new report that estimates the pandemic's economic fallout could push more than $600 -- 600 billion more people into poverty. in the coronavirus in indian country. the navajo nation is reporting nearly 30 deaths and 830 confirmed cases. >> it is shedding light on the disparities that have already existed the lack of federal funding to meet ththe demand of the health needs. amamy: and w we will gogo to mi, florida,a, to speak with ann african-amererican doctor who ws hahandcuffed and a attained o oe his home fridaday as he was wearing a susurgical mask and preparing for volunteer shift to test homeless peoeople for covid-19. all that and more, coming up. wewelcome to democracy now!, democracynow.orgrg, the quarante report. i'm amy goodman. president donald trump said tuesdaday he would c cut off u.. support for the world health organization, even as the dedeah rate from the coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate,

joining us now is paul o'brien he's vice president of policy and advocacy for oxfam america he joins us from washington paula brian good to talk to you again here on the news this feels counter-intuitive how can america be in a state where people are being limited on how many liters of milk they can buy and yet producers are literally pouring the stuff down the drain. we've been working with vulnerable communities around the united states including with food producers all of this is happening against that that the backdrop of a fundamentally broken economy and that's why it's showing up in these ways these heroic efforts by banks are are manifesting a terrible fact about how unequal the economy is in the united states before the crisis started 40 percent of americans didn't have or $100.00 that they could use for an emergency so when this week 6000000 people hit the jobless lines now we've got 17000000 you're exposing an economy where people were already on the edge of under ability and what's happening here is really a microcosm of what's happening globally our our global economy is

help bail out developing countries all o'brien is the vice president for policy and advocacy at oxfam america is edging rich nations to also step up and support countries in the. we're going to need new solutions because we've never faced this kind of crisis that is coming out us in so many ways and there's a real opportunity for leadership next week as the ministers of finance from around the world gather for a virtual meeting the g. 20 in particular has a real role to play there we think the solution next week can come in 3 forms they can agree to cancel the debts of developing countries this year the payments on those debts that would give them a trillion dollars so if you're sitting in ghana right now and those debts were forgiven they would have the ability to give $20.00 a month to the 16000000 kids who are in down or seconds we need to create some kind of international reserve what the i.m.f. call special drawing rights giving countries the right to draw down resources from the i.m.f. the pending on their contributions from the past pretty opiah that would mean if we get a trillion dol

died with in 24 hour period region is the worst hit in america but the state's governor says there are signs the spread of the virus is slowing. oxfam is warning the fallout from the corona virus outbreak could plunge half a 1000000000 people into poverty report by the charity concludes the economic crisis to come will be worse than the 2008 global financial crunch expects poverty worldwide just to increase for the 1st time in 30 years. the government in delhi has designated 20 so-called containment zones in the indian capital are considered hotspots where the coronavirus rapidly spreads other states in the country also to find such zones decision comes in the middle of a nationwide lockdown restricting free movement of more than 1200000000 people within the containment zones rules are even stricter as our correspondents know misha just explains now these containment zones are basically considered hot spots areas where it could on a virus cases have been identified and there is an expectation of a proliferation this is the government's effort to break the chain of transmission now india is already in the midst of the t.v. lockdown b