korea. when i hear so much about south korea -- so in eight days, in eight days we do more testing than they did in eight weeks.

and business owners here have been suffering immensely so. korea has a competitive global legend the fashion industry and its products are high in demand overseas but now that foreign buyers kaante even enter korea coupled with slowing fabric shipments and fewer visitors to the market overall it's having quite a large ripple effect. in addition to the rent reductions market managers have also coordinated strict public health responses some landlords have provided up to 50 percent off in rent although smaller reductions are more common but even those providing the discounts argue for more state led measures. complementing revenues of the merchants biggest concern so tax remedies are needed although the government has announced new tax breaks a lower income tax means little if merchants aren't making much to begin with so many want to see a decrease in value added tax. the large traditional markets rely on both tourism and elder shoppers both of which have dried up although more assistance may be coming merchants here in schools an empty moon market

complacent and they're not observing the degree of social distancing that they were before here in south korea so the korea hasn't implemented a complete lockdown that we've seen in other cities and and other countries but they have been gauged in intense government sort of p.r. campaign they've also said that they're going to charge people and there perhaps will be suits brought against people that go out with the virus there was a mother and daughter pair that traveled around you i learned in south korea and spread the virus there and they may be liable for a suit of up to $100000.00 so 3 is also 'd implementing some closure some parks were closed with cherry blossom festival is coming in this week the government is going to decide what to do with schools there they're set to reopen on april 6th but that's likely going to be extended are there still then enough encouraging signs do you think in south korea we've been holding up south korea as a success story what do we make of the of the recent numbers and numbers and how south korea has dealt with the pandemic well one thing that's happened in

so korea mobilizing against the spread of a new coronavirus the country has reported the highest number of cases outside china and has launched a massive offensive against the spread. the virus. european and american airlines tourist operators and companies are canceling all non-essential travel to south korea and the region's 3rd biggest economy is expected to take a significant hit the country is also mobilizing financial weapons in the war on coronavirus.

drive through testing has also been an innovative way so korea has battled the corona virus outbreak despite fewer coronavirus cases in south korea in recent days medical intern part john sue argues for rapid testing. the number of confirmed persons is gradually decreasing. the most important thing to get rid of the epidemic is to identify the suspect to patients as soon as possible and have them self isolate overseas necessary treatment if you have even a little fee for suspected symptoms it's recommended that you go to the hospital and get tested when done people it's about after examining thousands of patients drive through and booth testing have only uncovered a few cases of the coronavirus but they have offered a lot of reassurance to a nervous population. joining me now is al edwards he is a professor and immunologist at the university of reading in the u.k. . now south korea's method seems to be working so why aren't all affected countries doing mass testing if they can. it's a really good question i think that the video you just saw gives you some glimpses as to why testing it

so korea has managed to flatten the curve in reduced new pieces of the corona virus in recent weeks although health officials here still worry about potential new clusters. well from seoul south korea i'm now joined by professor john one son associate professor at the bar school of fleming university college london professor after a peek at the beginning of march south korea has kept new infections very low you say besides a testing program that's due to surveillance how yes tracing through through surveillance technology played a pretty part in this fight against a corner. if the country has pretty be complicity with testing if you don't know who to test the testing capacity has only limited use so to find out who to test disobedience technology was really cool so they're cool east to find though that it would be one in every single one patient to come from the patient contact in the past so ted way you can find out who this patient could fighters from and who this patient could have been by just to what kind of data exactly has the government there gathered. because the initial data is the

although more assistance may be coming merchants here in stores now empty moon market and around so korea are soon likely to get some more help from the federal government the national assembly is set to pass a multibillion dollar supplementary budget to support small businesses and to help contain mitigate the qubit $900.00 brick the so-called nice landlord trend has also brought banks into the movement with low interest loans as south korea copes with a deepening covert 19 crisis this is d.w. news and he's our top stories. the german government is partially closing borders with france austria denmark luxembourg and switzerland as it fights to control the spread of coronavirus the government is sets to berlin at traffic on monday. and as all that its 47000000 citizens to stay at home for the next 2 weeks police are patrolling the spanish capital madrid and sending people home who refused to obey orders to self isolate corona virus has killed more than 290 people in spain. to me was president donald trump has congratulated the federal reserve for cutting interest rates to help shore up th

welcome now south korea's method seems to be working so why aren't all affected countries doing mass testing if they can it's a really good question i think that the video you just saw gives you some glimpses as to why testing itself is a very valuable tool but it's quite labor intensive and it has to be done really carefully because if you do testing in a way that isn't properly and safely controlled there is a risk that you can also spread the virus or put your health workers at risk when they take those samples so it's a delicate balance and it needs a lot of manpower. well because of the complexity of this task we can imagine that not all countries are able to enroll this kind of mass testing what would you recommend for those countries. so i think the most important thing is to spread the resource you have wisely so what's really important is to 1st of all prioritize people who are in hospital and also health care workers because these are the most vulnerable people and also the most exposed people and by prioritizing the use of your testing results and by using that smartly as

so we're seeing now this ripple the economic effects of the kona coronavirus ripple throughout the south korean economy frank what lessons if any you think other countries crittur learn from the way that south korea has handled its break well i think you know a couple of things need to happen so 3 is really communicating quite well they are engaging in some public outreach to let people know how they how they should behave and trying to get the public to cooperate they're also using some new technologies such as drive through testing and messaging emergency messaging regarding the whereabouts of of previous corona virus infections to prevent people from going say through those subway to stations or to those various destinations and they're trying to room you know maintain this kind of open transparency about how they deal with the crisis to maintain again public support which is so vital to battling the the coronavirus here in south korea correspondent frank smith reporting for us air thank you very much well for all the latest on the coronavirus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected you can visit our website. for now we're going to move on to some other news j

measures japan's prime minister has imposed a mandatory quarantine on over sitters from south korea and china but so has protested against that calling for it to be revoked and morning it may launch countermeasures it's also protested against similar restrictions and forced by vietnam and singapore south korea has more than 6000 confirmed cases local color new corn team for visitors from both countries will be strengthened and the be required to be quantified 2 weeks of the location designated by the quarantine director to be asked to refrain from using public transportation in the country. will rip mcbride has more from software he says the coronavirus is rekindled all disputes. increasingly south korea is feeling like a pariah nation and it puts up with it largely it does object to some of these travel restrictions but it does accept grudgingly that for a lot of countries especially developing countries they simply cannot afford 2 important outbreak of coronavirus from south korea they don't have the medical resources to deal with such an outbreak but there's a feeling here that japan is a big sop

reporter: three service members have been identified as infected with the virus, including south korea, so korea, and in the u.s. >> we have a lot of capabilities in this building. our national military command center has the ability to go for weeks at a time if they have to be locked in the building. if we have some type of outbreak. >> reporter: they are taking steps to ensure the virus does not spread amongst troops. the army has announced, troops and their families will not be able to leave south korea or come to south korea through may. >>> in china, rescue workers continue to search the rubble of a collapsed hotel that housed people in quarantine for possible coronavirus. 10 people died and at least 23 are still missing. several people were staying in the hotel under quarantine. the city has recorded 47 cases of the virus since the outbreak began. no word yet as to what caused that hotel to collapse. >>> a former mayor of san jose has denied how the current mayor is remembering her tonight. >>> a different kind of week this week. last week, we had record warmth. this week, not so. i have t

have been trying to get from turkey into greece after ankara said it would no longer stop them so korea's president has ordered all government agencies into emergency mode after declaring war on the coronavirus least 28 people have died there and more than 5000 others have been affected. straightly a central bank has reduced its interest rate to on the record low trying to help the economy weather storms including coronavirus the reserve bank says the economic fallout is looking like it will be significant particularly for history is tourism and education sectors which rely on asia. well earlier world economic policy the o.e.c.d. warns global growth could shrink this quarter for the 1st time since 2008 financial crisis the corone seen measures in china have hit supply chains worldwide companies like foxconn which me examples i phone say the virus will hurts their bottom line hong kong based airline cathay pacific has put 25000 staff on unpaid leave and around half of its planes are sitting on the tarmac it's among dozens of airlines forced to suspend flights when the courtroom is filipe l

it's employing world class standards embeds in screening in preventative measures and so on by comparison south korea has accused japan of falling short so this is getting very betty between the 2 and you've got to remember that from south korea's point of view just 2 weeks ago japan seemed to have a far worse crisis with the cruise ship and yoko hama and the quarantine that went wrong hundreds of people falling sick whereas in south korea we hadn't had the big outbreaks that we are now dealing with down in the south of the country and then all through that period south korea didn't take the same kind of blanket ban that japan is imposing now surreal feeling here of injustice of being unfairly treated by its neighbor ok on their private the latest from seoul rob thank you. and new cases of corona virus have risen significantly in parts of europe more deaths are reported in italy the netherlands france and u.k. on thursday several public events have been cancelled and all schools in italy are closed for at least 10 days the economic impact continues to worsen with the airline and tourism industry bear

korea is that a very active hot zone outbreak as is northern italy and so we have been ramping up our testing and actually where we will stand in the next week to week and a half in terms of bail ability of testing will place us far ahead far far ahead of similarly impacted major countries around the world so we've actually been progressing with this on par with all of our peer countries in europe for instance cimbali impact to german he says there that today the united states should be far ahead far far ahead of some really impacted major countries around the world is the united states there. absolutely not brand i wish it were so if those words were accurate it would be fantastic and it's misleading in the sense south korea perfect example they learned a lesson from 2015 when the murders out took place are related sir viral cousin to the current code. and when they had $38.00 deaths their economy and was one into recession they decided afterwards they were going to do something about it they passed regulations that allowed them to super fast testing when china reported the 1s

so korea's president declares war on corona virus the infection rate there is the highest outside china hello i'm hella heads and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up here in netanyahu declares victory after israel's latest election but once again looks to have fallen short of a majority. greece reinforces its land and sea borders to stop another influx of refugees and migrants crossing from turkey. and joe biden's white house bed picks up steam but for.

sitting people by and large did so so so what specifically is it the south korea's done that has helped keep the death toll much lower than other countries and some of the positions so one of the things is that they opened up testing centers that people could drive in and go through they made it all 3. and you know once they identify people they they put them into quarantine and that early that ability to identify people who might be infected to isolate them was probably very important and more difficult to do in setting like in italy where it looks like there are actually a lot more there was a lot more spread that was not noticed or in the united states for instance in the nursing home in seattle where you had to see a lot of deaths before you realized that there was actually something going on in the community you mention the importance of testing in south korea you mention the united states where you're from how is it that south korea was able to has been testing something like 20000 people per day i think there's been 5000 tests per 1000000 people in a country of just over 50000000

long run i'm up to mystic that we'll put this behind us just like china has put it behind us so a south korea so has singapore we'll get over this and. we'll bounce back like we always have phil i thank you very much for joining us under trying circumstances always great having you with us. always going to join you. we thank bill press for his time today and we thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and tweet me at kings things and that's all for this edition of politicking. tariff long russian airlines. i'm a journalist it's all i know being a truth teller people say i make among come from good uses like a jackhammer good drill down to find the true news with rick sanchez because it's time to do news again and question more. aeroflot russian airlines. know what i mean yet they're still on they can act on many innocent chrome and not need our for. that kind of where i want it on course if not the now i think it's higher than our. members of the african mafias conway's th

long run i'm optimistic that we'll put this behind us just like china let's put it behind us so the south korea so in singapore will get over this and. we'll bounce back like we always have bill i thank you very much for joining us under trying circumstances always great having you with us. larry always good to join you. we thank bill press for his time today and we thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and tweet me at kings things and that's all for this edition of politicking. tariff long russian and like this. i'm a journalist it's all i know being a truth teller people say i make among come from good news is like a jackhammer good drill down to find the true news with rick sanchez because it's time to do news again and question more. tariff long russian and lines. all the past 5 or 6 years very aggressively people have sold dollars to buy these emerging market currencies because they can get a better yield on those currencies suddenly when all liquidity disappears dur

as so often in north korea appearances are deceiving. this is the country's largest fertilizer factory which kim il sung's honored with more than 30 visits. it's recently been modernized in a bid to increase the productivity of the country's co-operative farms. co-operative farms like this one with its familiar ox cards geese and ducks and the omnipresent red flags. i. another visit to a collective farm a year later. it's raining and everyone has gone to seek shelter. the productivity chart proudly displays the farms yields. we take shelter in the living room of one of the farm workers she tells us about the bitter cold winters hot summers and the fact breaking work in the rice fields her son is 14 small for his age she admits but the family has been through hard times. her son was born just as the great famine was ending. behind her one of the country's ubiquitous historical melodrama says playing on t.v. . then she launches into a vivid description of her visits to pyongyang. who sent him to the nothing in addition to the muslim of the

so ben it looks like korea is joining the list of countries that are whipping out the a.t.m. cards in order to proper of their respective economies obviously said softly as $9800000000.00 is actually not very far off from singapore as a $13700000000.00 budget that is meant to stimulate the economy our hong kong has also prepared one x. $15400000000.00 closer to singapore malaysia also announced a mole modest budget of $4800000000.00 and indonesia after announcing a $700000000.00 stimulus package is sending a 2nd one with no kin numbers just yet elsewhere in asia pacific australia is a suspected to announce something in the next couple of weeks and pilot as well is going to launch some kind of stimulus budgets with no real numbers just yet a lot of money being thrown around where will it land how will it help well in the case of korean hong kong for example a big chunk of that is going to health the health and that's for obvious reasons now in singapore is also doing the same and as with hong kong as well a lot of that money is going to directly to the people as well as local

coronavirus in asia under control there's a real concern that you're going to import reinfection so south korea is having a long hard hard look at other parts of the world that are now considered to be more contagious and obviously europe are we know is the epicenter globally so number of countries were already facing tougher screening measures in europe but now that's been extended to all european countries and interestingly south korea rather than banning people or saying you must go to a designated place and have 2 weeks of quarantine it takes a far more sophisticated approach that maybe other countries around the world may look at adopting themselves and that's relying more on technology when you arrive at an airport a point of entry you have all the usual screening they have temperature check health questionnaire but then the authorities say let's see your app let's see your device be it's a hand phone or a tablet that it's going to work in south korea that you then have to download your app that basically you interact with for a 2 week screening period and every day you have to fill in al

. >> so then, on north korea -- so, in recent days, leader kim jong-un has visited mount paektu on horseback.tht's a backdro is used for propaganda, and oftentimes, it foreshadows policy development or an event, an upcoming event. what do you think is going on in north korea right now? >> i think he's trying to push our buttons. sthink he's trying to get to move on the fact that he wants us to lift the sanctions. any sort of posturing is not going to get us to move, and we have to make sure we hold the internatnal community together ay isolating north korea. there's only oneut for them, anthat is for them to be willing to denuclearize. at this point, they're asking uo o what they've asked multiple times before, and we're doing somethingan different e've done multiple times before, which is standing strong, saying, "we're not gonna lift theanctions until we see better actions from you. something that hapat thend u.n. this week, because at the u.n. this week, the united states ocked a u.n. security council meeting on north korean human rights. it is really hard to imagine ambassador nikki haley o

don't get sick and if you do get sick then with south korea's extensive testing you would be identified and isolated and treated very very quickly so because of the extensive testing they have here in south korea they're able to have the confidence to do this and it's all a way of rather than closing borders trying to keep them open at least the other thing that people have been looking at this monday here in south korea is how the markets are going to react to the ongoing crisis of course last week was a wild ride as all of the markets extended huge losses across asia it is the start of the week and even after the u.s. fed's rate cut which has been followed by other central banks here in asia all of the markets have gone extended heavy losses all heavily into the red the nikkei ending 2 and a half percent down the cost b. that's the south korean index more than 3 percent down and more than 4 percent of the hang seng index in hong kong so the markets. think lee underwhelmed by any of these rate cuts and possibly heralding the start of another volatile week al-jazeera as robin bride reporting live from seoul robin a thanks indeed in

world as a coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading how is it that south korea seems to have controlled it and why is the united states so far behind i'll ask a top scientist in seoul and the top republican in the us. south korea has more than 8000 cases of the coronavirus but so far remarkably they've managed to avoid the staggering death tolls we've seen elsewhere in the world from covert 19 the disease caused by the virus how do they do it and should other countries follow their lead joining me now to discuss this is dr jerome kim a leading american physician and research scientist based in the south korean capital of seoul where he's director general of the international vaccine institute drove kim thank you for joining me up front as the corona virus throws the entire world into unprecedented chaos south korea has been hailed as a success story as a model even for the rest of the world is that a fair description in your view so i think that every country will have its own approach you know the chinese exerted pretty draconian government control over movement of people it but then did the same thing that the koreans

so we are not korea. korea is in a very active hot zone outbreak. as is northern italy. and so, we have been ramping up our testing and actually where we will stand in the next week to week and a half in terms of availability of testing will place us far ahead, far, far ahead of similarly impacted major countries around the world. so we've actually been progressing with this on par with all of our peer countries. in europe, for instance, similarly impacted. reporter: do you think seattle should be shut down? the former f.d.a. commissioner said that for the good of the country, a city like seattle should basically be shut down. do you have plans for something like that? >> let me ask the c.d.c. if you might talk about community mitigation steps and what we're doing with the state of washington and king county and seattle. >> right. so -- when there's widespread virus transmission or community transmission, there's a different approach to controlling that disease that moves away from identifying cases and tracking contacts to moves that are more community-based. so we've se

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korea. we have a great relationship with president moon in south korea.si but when i hear so much about southkorea, so in eight days, in eight dayshe we do more testg than they did in eight weeks. and it's a very highly sophisticated test. we will be able to the point even more data-driven and targeted approaches to slow, ultimately, you know, it's a very devastating thing, but we will vanquish this virus. and it's, a lot of progress has been made. that's what earlier today i sent a letter to america's governors describing how we will be using the data to update existing distancing social which will be developed in close coordination with our nation's public health officials and scientists. because of the sacrifices of our great doctors and nurses and healthcare professionals, , the brilliance of our scientists and researchers, and the goodness and generosity of our people, i know that we will achieve victory and quickly returned to the path of exceptional health, safety, and prosperity for all of our citizens. we have to get back to work. our people want to work. you want to go back. they ha

korea. but when i hear so much about south korea, so in 8 days, in 8 days, we do more testing than they didt weeks. it's a very highly sophisticated test. we'll be able to deploy more data-driven and targeted approaches to slow the ultimately, you know, it's a very devastating thing, but, we will vanquish this virus and a lot of progress has been made. that's why earlier today i sent a letter to the america's governors describing how we will be using the data to update existing guidance on social distancing, which will be developed in close coordination with our nation's public health officials and scientists. because of the sacrifices of our great doctors and nurses and healthcare professionals, the brilliance of our scientists and researchers and the goodness and generosity of our people, i know we will achieve victory and quickly return to the path of exceptional health, safety and prosperity for all of our citizens. we have to get back to work. our people want to work. they want to go back. they have to go back and we're going to be talking about dates. we will be talking with a lot of

to happen we'll need to scale up our ability to rapidly test for the virus as they have in south korea. so we have a sense of where the virus is and where we must keep it contained. already america's public laboratories and companies are rising to the challenge processing tens of thousands of tests. but our ability to test must grow even faster and it is. we'll need masks, too, millions of them. and we'll need local personnel trained and prepared to do widespread contact tracing for those who test positive. we'll have to develop procedures for strict quarantines of those who test possible or those who have been exposed to the virus with zero tolerance for breaking quarantine and endangering our fellow citizens. once these elements are in place and the first wave of this virus is passed, then we'll be prepared to reopen our cities and communities while remaining vigilant but new outbreaks. these preparations will ensure we're ready to sustain our way of life until our scientists can create what we so das separately need -- we so desperately need, therapeutic drugs and ultimately a vaccine.