it's now more than 4 months since the corona virus started spreading from wu han in china and it's not stopped but some countries are beginning to see a decline in new infections so governments a slowly easing lockdown restrictions small shops and restaurants are reopening in a dozen countries across asia europe and africa some schoolchildren are returning to class a few more domestic flights are taking off and train services are increasing frequency but with all out come instructions to wear masks and keep social distancing our correspondents foreign zulu in malaysia and 1st scott hide in thailand tell us how it will work where they are it's a slow and steady process according to the government you know it's going to be every 2 weeks where they re evaluate how things are going and then we'll decide if a move forward in lifting some of these restrictions right now some more shops are allowed to open up restaurants are allowed to have people dine in but they'll be this so still distancing very strict social distancing measurements within those restaurants that we've always had a and enc

did a report about one of the so-called fact checkers for face book was actually an employee at the wu han lab who was receiving money there so how is that person then going back and checking journalists and deciding whether journalists are accurate of what they're reporting there's a huge conflict of interest there most definitely and according to the new york times the chief economist and indeed dot com said new listings for jobs in media and communications have fallen 35 percent in the 60 days before april the 3rd with the massive layoffs and these major losses and job openings what do you think the future of news media will look like after comit 19. well if it's addressed to me i think it's going to it's going to look a lot different a lot of these newspapers and print media that are feeling the hardest effects right now of layoffs and closing and firing etc pay cuts they were going down anyway they were a dying industry anyway and anybody who says we need to prop them up because of the virus that's just that's false and that's so that's going money don't have a dark hole so they were

famously also said he wanted to shake hands with corona virus patient in hospital he should be sent to wu han do you think it's by design. in this country that attending in poorer paid people to work while the rich quarantine themselves. if it is a bad habit is this is something that is in a very we designate jobs we don't like to people who feel unless unless this is something that happens in most countries to do anything to do immigration bar we just china in our country we have a way of making it seem as still. more distinguished in that we don't look at things that that we have more class about ourselves that we wouldn't deem anybody an undesirable law some a joke does not desirable but this is what we do this is why we believe people are expendable and dettori government unfortunately and it's not to take it to a political taking southwell the tory government is in power right now and whether they're running the government right now is based upon who can bring the most to the table and. the massive shift to majority the average man unfortunately doesn't fit that criteria so he's expendab

now a massive testing program is underway in the chinese city or wu han where the corona virus outbreak was 1st reported the 1st cluster of new infections since the lockdown was eased has been confirmed but as crowds formed at tests and some people were concerned that going for tests could expose them to the virus later harding has more. the people in this province have been battling the novel coronavirus longer than anyone else the virus started here in december last year and grew to epic proportions killing more than 4000 people in china alone after months of lockdown and one province the number of cases began to drop then this week there was a cluster of new infections a new testing campaign is underway to stop the spread the residents fear going to crowded testing centers could put them in danger. i think some measures should have been taken for example people should be separated when there are many of them is not very good to have too many people gathered in one place some paper wary moscow not safety has become a hot topic especially on social media among the 11000000 residents of

neither has the us president who 1st made the claim back in late april that this originated in a lab in wu han and that believe that this was something that he saw firsthand but the problem is with classified intelligence it's never shared so this is really been sort of perfect fodder for a propaganda war now between the united states and china we should point out the u.s. president certainly has a vested interest in blaming china given the fact that this is an election year he's trying to win reelection and had been hoping to do so in a strong u.s. economy one that now has been obliterated as a result of this pandemic so the secretary of state echoing the concerns of the u.s. president saying that china needs to provide answers but also continuing the finger pointing against the world health organization saying that it has been reluctant still to demand it investigation of china and in order to definitively find not only the answers to where this originated but even to track down patients 0 there needs to be that investigation and there needs to be a full transparency so once again this admin

for more than a month in wu han the city where the virus was 1st detected in december its national health commission says the new case was probably previously a symptomatic the capital of who province was the 1st city in the world to go into lockdown it's been slowly returning to normal since restrictions were lifted last month a province in southwestern iran has in placed under lockdown because of a 60 percent increase in the number of coronavirus hospitalisations restrictions have slowly been eased across iran against the advice of health officials in an attempt to revive the struggling economy where gatherings have resumed in 180 cities and towns and schools will open next week but the governor of kazakhstan province says people haven't been social distancing he's ordered offices closed and imposed travel restrictions for 10 counties in the oil rich province a new corona virus outbreak in seoul linked to nightclubs has led south korea's president calling for calm but he's also warning of a 2nd wave of infections later this year robert bride reports from seoul. south korea's response to

continues to cite that they say conclusively points to the fact that the virus originated in a lab in wu han the president was asked whether or not he had a difference of opinion given his statement initially to that end on april 30th the u.s. president saying no that's not the case instead continuing to point to china and blaming china for allowing this to escape and not adequately preparing the rest of the world at going to say minutes of the secretary of state and then he went much further asked about the future of that trade deal with china and whether or not he believes that phase one of that deal would hold the u.s. president saying that they are investigating now and they could have an answer in the next 2 weeks so when challenging pressed further about whether or not there would be additional tariffs against china as sort of a punitive action against china for the outbreak of coronavirus the u.s. president stop sidestepping that question saying that he will wait to see the outcome of this investigation into whether or not they have been abiding by the trade deal specifications and ca

consistent with what the president said. st he has seen intelligence suggesting it could be in the wu had han laboratory. >> they seem to lean into the idea that this started in a laboratory. whereas the statement that we saw from the dni said we're still investigating those two options that you just laid out. is the president in any way creating mixed messages by not saying investigate it. >> let me remind everyone, intelligence is just an estimate, essentially. it's up to policymakers to decide what to do with that information. the president of the united states, he'll make that decision at the right time. >> is the president getting close to deciding what to do about china? is he receiving any recommendations of the consequences? is he anywhere near a decision? >> again, i won't get ahead of the president's decision or timing of the decision. he takes this very seriously. the decisions of china that i referenced slow walking some of that information put american livers at risk. and rest assured, this president has one priority and that is the safety and well-being of american lives. >> tha