more on this we can speak now to dale fischer he's a professor of infectious diseases at the university of singapore also the chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you for joining us here on t.w. you have saudi in some of those asian countries. thanks so so what you're saying at the monitor is. is really what was expected we knew what happened in the moon and the rest of china and the lockdown in china really allowed her to look for a lead time for the world to prepare so much of the world hasn't prepared and now there's a lockdown in those countries and i really hope that they prepare because when they do who are this could come back if they don't practice what thing practiced in large parts of asia. and these are the things that was floated about many times before this is the early detection of cases it's lots of testing it's it's quantifying your contacts but it's most importantly it's isolating the cases asia will not let a positive case back into the community until the test is clear and this is a large practice that this is a practice that is by an

of airlines scramble to cut flights to europe. joining me now from singapore is dale fisheries a professor of infectious diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you for joining us a flurry as we heard of action across europe in the past hours lost downs and france and in spain school closures here in germany is europe making the right moves do you think now to slow the spread. i believe there is other things they could do i think that is there's a lot of lessons to take out of the response to. being implemented elsewhere in the world. i do think there's more that can be tough i want to ask you about what the u.k.'s doing is taking a different strategy from many other countries here in europe i mean there's very few are structures in place it's not canceling mass gatherings shutting bars the theatres are still open schools are still open what do you make of the approach of the u.k. . the most important part of this response is in in keeping the number of cases as low as you can the most important things are early taste texture and isolation

oh joining me now is the elfish a professor of infectious diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the world health organization global outbreak and response network professor south korea and china have seen the number of new cases for only does that offer some hope. yet most most definitely it does there are there are big lessons to learn there because they're one of the few countries with numbers coming down while most of the rest of the world which have slightly different approaches. going out and losing control we now have lockdowns in france and spine school closures in germany similar measures in parts of the u.s. with all of that are we doing enough of the right things to slow the spread the most important thing to do is to the virus out of the community. sir this involves early test section and isolating people that are positive in countries that are doing that i see the numbers getting worse but even with the major numbers in china and korea they did not let positive patients go home there was no such thing as home current saying all so current saying are any

professor david fisher is from the vast universe of singapore and he was part of the team that visited china in february professor fischer thank you for joining us the report commends china for the kind of response it had to the coronavirus outbreak my question to you is is the world ready to follow the china playbook. well that's a good question dear ish in fact one of our comments was that we had major concerns about whether the world was ready and some of the interventions that were acquired in china. really work required a lot of community engagement and a lot of foreigners the decisiveness and we thought some countries could struggle. would you like to mean these countries is most of the world ready to follow the china response you know that the world is full of countries with completely different contexts so you know i think they the countries that are being taken by surprise you know the the ones with many cases at the moment. you know in many ways the lucky ones they were the 1st ones tested and more and more now the people can say what happened in italy which is not completely

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 cases we have 1st get out there as you compliment cases in early february march iliad and the rest of the world because that's the case in 4 to 4 main that 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 stayed in it was foreign countries they turned back on and we have a record rise of them to cases they have much more number in point to cases and also staff who have some noble infected cases but at the hospital the isolation facilities are almost nil but most of the cas

thomas kaufman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fight the coronavirus outbreak. >> this virus keeps jumping from place to place. >> it certainly has that potential. and because of our, the global society, and travel, and linkage between countries, the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world and telling people to stay in your homes? >> i think the initial phase is yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do something like what china did,

thomas kauffman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fight the coronavirus outbreak. this virus keeps jumping from place to place. >> certainly has that potential and because of our, you know, the global society and travel and linkage between countries, the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world? and telling people stay in your homes? >> i think in the initial phases, yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do

in london and head of aviation at the university of west london and from singapore brendan so-be fund of be aviation and former chief analyst at the center for aviation welcome to you all brendan in singapore are we talking about the survival of the fittest here. well hi that's a bit extreme i would say i think all airlines are under extreme pressure right now and i mean firstly no airline can survive no international passenger travel which is what we're looking at pretty much now for the month of april and beyond so no we're going to really survive that for better or more than a couple of months and so everybody's under pressure and really it comes down to what governments can can support their own airlines and their own aviation sectors such because every airline needs some kind of support. from about a dozen countries around the world and we're going to need series a lot more countries in the coming weeks in order to write about bankruptcies and there's some confidence that in the industry that that will happen and that and that their lives will be there when this crisis is over to

thomas kaufmann is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore, and helping the city fightus keeps jumping from place to place. >> because of the global society and travel and linkage between countries, the potential for spread is really substantial -- >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world and telling people, stay in your homes? >> i think the initial phase is, yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do something like what china did, lock of continues of millions -- >> have soldiers bringing food to the door? >> if there are big outbreaks in -- confined to specific areas, that's a strategy that can be used. the alternative is to just let it spread. and the problem with that is, the number of people who will die can be quite substantial. >> inevitably, in late february, the coronavirus reached the united states. >> authorities today announcing the first u.s. death from the deadly coronavirus spreading across the globe. >> coronavirus and the first death reported in the united states. >> a man in his 50s died in a hospital just out

thomas kauffman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fightvirus keeps jumping from place to place. >> certainly has that potential and because of our, you know, the global society and travel and linkage between countries, the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world? and telling people stay in your homes? >> i think in the initial phases, yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do something like what china did, lock up tens of millions of people? >> no. >> have soldiers bringing food to the door? >> if there are big outbreaks in confined to specific areas then that's a strategy that can be used. the other -- the alternative is to let it spread and, you know, the problem with that is a number of people will die as it can be quite substantial. >> if we get a major outbreak of this coronavirus in this country, that would mean, perhaps, closing schools temporari temporarily. getting people to do more teleworking. canceling events where there is a lot of crowds i

thomas kaufman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fightoronavirus outbreak. >> this virus keeps jumping from place to place. >> it certainly has that potential. and because of our, the global society, and travel, and linkage between countries, the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world and telling people to stay in your homes? >> i think the initial phase is yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do something like what china did, lock up tens of millions of people? >> no -- >> have soldiers -- >> if there are big outbreaks in confined specific areas, then that's a strategy that can be used. the alternative is just to let it spread and the problem with that is the number of people who die could be a crisis nature. >> if we get a major outbreak of this coronavirus in this country, that would mean perhaps closing schools temporarily. getting people to do more tele working. canceling events where there is a lot of crowds in confined places. canceling unnec

thomas coffman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fightus outbreak. >> this virus keeps jumping from place to place. >> well, it certainly has that potential. and because of our, you know, the global society and travel and linkage between countries, the -- the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world? and telling people stay in your homes? >> i think in the initial phases, yes. >> do you think the united states would have do something like what china did? lock up tens of millions of people? have soldiers bringing food to the door? >> if there are big outbreaks in -- in -- in -- confined to specific areas, then that's a strategy that can be used. the other -- the alternative is just to let it spread. and, you know, the problem with that is the number of people who will die can be quite substantial. >> inevitably, in late february, the coronavirus reached the united states. >> authorities today announcing the first u.s. death from the deadly coronavirus that is spreadin

thomas coffman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fightonavirus outbreak. >> this virus keeps jumping from place to place. >> well, it certainly has that potential and because of travel and leakage between societies, the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world? and telling people stay in your homes? >> i think in the initial phases, yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do something like what china did? lock -- lock up tens of millions of people? have soldiers bringing food to the door? >> if there are big outbreaks in -- in confined to specific areas, then that's a strategy that can be used. the alternative is just to let it spread. and, you know, the problem with that is the number of people who die can be quite substantial. >> inevitably, in late february, the coronavirus reached the united states. >> authorities, today, announcing the first u.s. death from the deadly coronavirus that is spreading across the globe. >> coronavirus. and the first deat

thomas kaufman is the dean of duke university's medical school in singapore and helping the city fight's a virus. it keeps jumping from place to place. >> it certainly has that potential. and because of our, the global society, and travel, and linkage between countries, the potential for spread is really substantial. >> are we going to have to start quarantining people around the world? or telling people to stay in their homes? >> i think the initial phase is, yes. >> do you think the united states would have to do something like what china did, lock up tens of millions of people? >> no. >> have soldiers -- >> if there are big outbreaks in confined to specific areas, then that's a strategy that can be used. the alternative is to let it spread. and you know, the problem with that, the number of people will die as a result will be quite substantial. >> inevitably, in late february, the coronavirus reached the united states. >> authorities today announcing the first u.s. death from the deadly coronavirus that is spreading across the globe. >> coronavirus. and the first death reported in t

outbreaks of the virus singapore has banned cruise ship visits and mass gatherings effective immediately france has joined a growing list of european countries closing schools and universities japan's parliament has authorized the prime minister shinzo ave to declare a state of emergency to combat the spread of the coronavirus. and environmental activist gratitude burke has called on campaigners to avoid mass protests as the corona virus spreads but she says her fridays for future movement will organize online strikes instead coronavirus is having an impact on pollution in china where the disease originated there it has led to a decrease in carbon emissions as economic activity slowed but many believe the effect will be temporary. surgical mask a popular home remedy against airborne threats until a few months ago smog and car fumes were the greatest concerns to urban dwellers such as those in vietnam but now the corona virus has taken over as the biggest worry for many as air pollution has dissipated the virus has emptied the streets of china's megacities and manufacturing has slowed. drastic quarantine measures implemented by chinese authorities have resulted in significan

outbreaks of the virus singapore has banned a cruise ship visits and mass gatherings effective immediately france has joined a growing list of european countries closing schools and universities japan's parliament has authorized prime minister shinzo abi to declare a state of emergency to combat the spread of the corona virus. and her for all the latest on the corona virus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected go to our website dot com let's get a round up now of some other stories from around the world wiki leaks whistleblower shall see manning has been released from a u.s. prison manning had been in detention since last may for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating wiki leaks manning's lawyers say the release comes after she attempted suicide officials in egypt say heavy rain and floods have killed at least 5 people across the country and inundated roads in the capital cairo further south the driver was killed when his car was blown into a canal and several people were injured when floods demolished their homes. new zealand is marking one year since the christ church massacre $51.00 people were killed and dozens injured in the

outbreaks of the virus singapore has banned a cruise ship visits and mass gatherings effective immediately france has joined a growing list of european countries closing schools and universities japan's parliament has authorized prime minister shinzo abi to declare a state of emergency to combat the spread of the coronavirus the environmental activists gratitude is called on campaigners to avoid a mass protests as the virus spreads but she says her fridays for future movement will organize online strikes instead the coronavirus is having an impact on pollution in china where the disease originated there it has led to a decrease in carbon emissions as economic activities have slowed but many believe the effect will be temporary. surgical mask a popular home remedy against airborne threats until a few months ago smog and car fumes were the greatest concerns to urban dwellers such as those in vietnam but now the corona virus has taken over as the biggest worry for many as air pollution has dissipated the virus has emptied the streets of china's megacities and manufacturing has slowed. drastic quarantine measures implemented by chinese authorities have resulted in significantly c

of tourists and foreign visitors. businesses schools and universities will be shot only essential services like supermarkets will operate the late night announcement from malaysia's leaders sparked panic buying in neighboring singapore authorities say there's no danger of food supplies running out as the border between the 2 countries would remain open for transporting goods. in indonesia where cases are also steadily rising the president urged people to change their behavior. with this current situation it's time for us to work from home to study from home and to pray for her . it's a suggestion not an order the president says the time isn't right for a national lockdown yet in asia has tested around a 1000 people for the virus in a population of more than 270000000 the world health organization has urged authorities here just scale up their testing to get a better understanding of just how widespread the virus is in hong kong you travel restrictions will start later this week all foreign arrivals except those from taiwan will undergo quarantine for 14 days all medical surveillance. the. whole we are doing this to make sure the achievements with made from now if it's over the past 2 months don't go to waste. in who

countries france has joined a growing list of european countries closing schools and universities the german states but barry and have decided to follow suit singapore has banned cruise ship visits and mass gatherings effective immediately new poll has closed mount everest and other himalayan peaks to mountain climbers. the wife of canadian prime minister justin trudeau has tested positive for the corona virus sophie gregg watre though has just returned home from a trip to london when she experienced mild symptoms according to an official statement prime minister trudeau himself is in good health with no symptoms of the virus but we will be self isolating he says and working from home for 2 weeks as a precaution kind of the has reported nearly 150 coronavirus cases and one death. well here in germany the credit death toll has risen to 6 stands for i'm going to medical met the country's state premiers on thursday evening to coordinate further measures to contain the spread of the virus she told reporters that her government accepted the advice of germany's leading medical experts michael said there would be a court unaided effort to ensure medical fa

university of washington, but first let's turn our attention to the markets: there've been huge falls around the world and in the past couple of hours the markets have opened again in asia. mariko 0i is in singaporest? it is not looking good at all. it is not looking good at all. it is not looking good at all. it is yet another brutal day. asian markets are well and truly in the red. the japanese market is down by nearly 10% and that is the worst fall since the tsunami of 2011. but markets all over the region are all in the red that follows wall street ‘s shop fall where the dowjones wall street ‘s shop fall where the dow jones lost wall street ‘s shop fall where the dowjones lost more than 2000 points, the worst single day loss since the market crash of 1987. we have been comparing a lot to what happened during the global financial crisis but i was just talking to an a nalyst i was just talking to an analyst who said the back then we did not have a virus outbreak with any of these travel restrictions or travel bands. that is starting to affect a lot of airline shares as well as the tourism sector and that is why we are seeing a series of sharp falls across the world in the share markets. let's g

of tourists and foreign visitors. businesses schools and universities will be shot only essential services like supermarkets will operate the late night announcement from malaysia's leaders sparked panic buying in neighboring singapore authorities say there's no danger of food supplies running out as the border between the 2 countries would remain open for transporting goods. in indonesia where cases are also steadily rising the president urged people to change their behavior. with this current situation it's time for us to work from home to study from home and to pray for her. it's a suggestion not an order the president says the time isn't right for a national lockdown yet in asia has tested around a 1000 people for the virus in a population of more than 270000000 the world health organization has urged authorities here just scale up their testing to get a better understanding of just how widespread the virus is in hong kong you travel restrictions will start later this week all foreign arrivals except those from taiwan will undergo quarantine for 14 days all medical surveillance. the. whole we are doing this to make sure the achievements with made from now if it's over the past 2 months don't go to waste. in who

of tourists and foreign visitors. businesses schools and universities will be shot only essential services like supermarkets will operate the late night announcement from malaysia's leaders sparked panic buying in neighboring singapore authorities say there's no danger of food supplies running out as the border between the 2 countries would remain open for transporting goods. in indonesia where cases are also steadily rising the president urged people to change their behavior. with this current situation it's time for us to work from hard to study from harm and to pray for her . it's a suggestion not an order the president says the time isn't right for a national lockdown yet. indonesia has tested around a 1000 people for the virus in a population of more than 270000000 the world health organization has urged authorities here just scale up their testing to get a better understanding of just how widespread the virus is in hong kong you travel restrictions will start later this week all foreign arrivals except those from taiwan will undergo quarantine for 14 days all medical surveillance. whole we are doing this to make sure the achievements with made from now if it's over the past 2 months don't go to waste. in who b

the director of the center for policy outcomes and prevention at stanford university and he joins us via skype so we've heard a fair bit about the response from china south korea singapore tell us more about how taiwan despite its proximity to the epicenter of the initial outbreak has managed has such a low number of cases. i believe one of the things they did was to prepare for the next crisis sars in 2003 so in 2004 the established a national health command center and that's a countdown that could host a 100 people so they activated the very quickly in january of this year. all the data all the information could gather in the same place and people could discuss and figure out the next steps so in a mirror of 5 weeks they were able to act 124 action items through different facets of civilian life to protect the public and that and this is a control center was there because of what they've been through before from what you're saying they were already prepared because of the sars epidemic in 2004 but the you know countries like us and then in europe we don't have the same experience with a pandemic like this correct. because they had the sars experience and also it's $1.

into the gate economy where a lot of people are casual temporary workers don't have formal sickly singapore has done something very interesting which is to establish universal sickleave even improve economy were as i think that's something the government should be thinking about. there is a movement afoot to articulate tax filings and to accelerate a tax rebate you can approach that we have a low income rebate for a low income household rebate for value added taxes so keeping the money flowing into the hands of the low income households to keep consumption up i think is really important but he said something interesting and i know it promised to last on a last question but i've got to ask you one more does this have the potential to reshape the way in which the world does business in terms of supply chains working from home you talked about universal sick pay that's something. so i think in terms so the it has been some sense that this points to the risk of global of globalization i see that when the dust has settled on this that we will recognize that in fact a globalized economy is more resilient even if there are supply chain shocks now as china is comin

hopkins university reported 145,000 cases of the coronavirus and more than 5,000 deaths in over 100 countries. more than 70,000 people have already recovered. in places like hong kong and singapore recovering from the disease is starting to catch up with or out pace the daily number of new infections. they did this by acting quickly and free testing and cancelling schools and banning mass gatherings. restrictions have been in place for february for passengers coming from mainland china. they he haave been testing flu cases for weeks. this may have worked for hong kong and singapore, the united states can implement some of these across the cities. back with us is dr. azar. dr. irwin ledwetter and austan golsbee. maybe the president is watching right now. donald trump tweeted. biggest stock market rise in history yesterday. as is always the case when trump says something, there is fact checking to be had. it is not -- as you know, we tend to measure things in percentages. i think it may be the eighth biggest percentage gain. austan, the day before was the biggest percentage loss and-point loss. 1987. >> percentage loss. >> we went down 10%. we went up 9%. i wish the president woul

singapore, south korea, both having some success. it is a bit difficult to make a comparison because every other developed nation in the world has some form of universalither single-payer or multi-payer system, with greater control of costs. i think it is inarguable that even if the public health response isn't entirely dependent on it, the personal cost to people and also the conditioning, many americans have spent years being conditioned to avoid care because of cost. if measures aren't taken to prevent that, it will lead to both financial toxicity and greater spread of the virus as people don't get tested and don't seek help. vonnie: there's a sense that anybody espousing ace in the espousing awon't -- single-payer plan won't get elected into office. does this change the mathematics that even pulling will suggest it is more attractive to voters? max: i think that is the case as they are very visibly confronted with the unfortunate realities of the american health care system. from a pure electoral perspective, it is hard to make the case that president has done anything but the response to the virus -- but botch response to this virus. also, if you

singapore. it was a near universal public wearing of masks and the rapid testing of people. if we are to gradually reopen our economies we need to make sure people have access to masks to wear in public and people have access to testing. that being said, there still needs to be social distancing with enforcement so no handshaking, people staying six feet apart. i think we would like to see churches open but that probably won't be able to happen by easter. i think that for the next two months, the unit of worship will have to be the family. stuart: i want to talk to you also about domestic travel restrictions. the white house seems to be in favor of anyone who leaves the new york city metropolitan area should spend 14 days in quarantine wherever they are going to. that's quite draconian, i would say. >> so dr. anthony fauci estimates that 1 in 1,000 new yorkers is positive for covid and we know 60% of all new cases in the u.s. are coming from new york city. in fact, they have 5% of the global cases. in the rest of the u.s., about 8% of people who come for testing are testing

a waiver to summer burning gasoline >>> scientists in singapore associate d with duke university say they have developed a way to speed up testing of vaccines for the new coronavirus. they say in a recent study, their method needs just days to evaluate potential vaccines by tracking genetic changes they are partnering with arctic therapeutics and duke's infectious diseases program. the study is continuing. we're going to watch it closely. as always for more on the coronavirus coverage, you can head to cnbc.com back to you. >> sue, thank you so much for that as always. we've got about 22 minutes left of the session and we are higher by just under 10% on the dow 8% the s&p 7% for the nasdaq. nt, wllupexe' discuss whether this rally is for real or if we could see more volatility ahead. ♪ you should be mad they gave this guy a promotion. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don't get mad. get e*trade's simplif