Senates lack of progress on a coronavirus to miss bill pushes Global Stock Markets into the red and italys daily coronavirus death toll falls but still exceeds 650. 00. Thank you for joining Us Singapore Airlines and its regional and low cost arms are grounding 96 percent of their feet aviation is reeling from collapsing passenger numbers and border closures due to the coronavirus been dead make the United Arab Emirates home to the International Hub dubai is suspending all passenger flights including transit travelers meanwhile japans Prime Minister shinzo lobby has conceded a postponement of the tokyo games must be considered thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event could go ahead in july as planned and lets take a look at the global snapshot this from the u. S. Base John Hopkins University about 336000 infections since the outbreak began just under a 3rd of those almost 99000 have recovered more than 40 and a half 1000 people have died. Now when i speak to Andrew Herdman about the travel restrictions across asia hes the director general of the association of asia pacific and lines and his vice kite from singapore thank you very much for joining us is no doubt serious the going to be a disruption due to the travel restrictions that saw it with singapore and lines what can travelers expect i mean Singapore Airlines is one of the biggest and i was in the region yes indeed its a catastrophic situation it was pretty normal but every numbers traffic in asia fell by about 50 percent and thats deteriorated further as we go through march because more and more countries are oxy focusing on fighting the current a Virus Outbreaks and those the result of those the more and more borders directions to the point where now Major Airlines as you mentioned like so youre violence got a pacific emirates are effectively grounding their pleats theyre all operating its. Services to maintain connectivity to keep points right so thats a very serious situation and so what does this mean then for passengers and you know what do they do as they navigate this changing travel landscape. Well past years and a face to. A list of measures and. Recommendations from governments not to travel printing them from travel and even if you want to travel its very hard to navigate your way through and thats left a number stranded in this place. To get people back home. But the effect on the industry is serious because from a financial point of view on this in terms of potential job losses so i think the key is you for governments like now if theyre going to take steps theyre support peoples livelihoods and secondly to Financial Support and the form of loans or loan guarantees of Industries Like ours like aviation and other sectors that are being effectively shut down by the measures to combat the virus governments need to take action number of governments of doing so a number of other governments are considering what to do i think its a question of what to do not whether to do something so its theres a lot of pressure on governments around the stem but these are necessary steps to make sure we can rebound as when things unfolded and that lets talk about singapore more specifically he specifically and the effect the impacts that this could have i mean Singapore Airlines normally relies have any connecting passengers from market cycle in europe and india to north america through its hob what effect is this going to have on the company on staff short term and long term. Well heredia and zeros just one example but if youre if youre only operating a handful of flights clearly revenue thats more or less dried up completely you dont have to buy fuel to operate flights if you cancel flights but the problem is you have a lot of 6 costs which cant escape that include stop costs though a number of airlines have astar to leave i think well see more d airlines a month but more business is awesome stuff and i got the stock reports its and some of the some prepaid thought so but i think we need to try and minimize the human impact in terms of whats d that like the herbs and preserve the work its not just an aviation but another sector its because there will come a time for recovery and relief and one thing not just the assets but the people learn the systems so that we can come back so thats the brush events and of course governments out of provide the funds assistance whats most the fact that were doing it and its something where our industry and governments need to work together. Thank you very much andrew for talking to us Andrew Herdman is with the association of asia pacific and im starting us today from singapore thank you very much for your insight but now markets across much of asia have continued their drop in early trade as the Global Pandemic continues using and market dropped by more than 9 percent as the country announced a 4 week down and speak to a debate opponent who is live in hong kong forests in this uncertainty of a coronavirus continuing to affects markets across asia give us that picture. Thats right fully that and the fact that the us congress could not agree on a trillion dollar stimulus package to help the Worlds Largest economy is affecting markets across the age of pacific you mention new zealand for the very same reason astray in markets are also down the benchmark a. S. X. Is down earlier in the day nearly 9 percent on the opening its claw back some of those some of the gains now down 6 percent with banks leading the losses thats the 5th straight week of losses for the australian markets hong kong to taking a head to the hang seng index is down now about 4 percent hong kong is facing a 2nd wave and an unprecedented surge in corona virus infections the finance secretary has given a grim indictment of the economy saying that the worst is yet to come and giving a very gloomy outlook china on the other hand also down not as much as the rest of the region down about 2 percent the benchmark shanghai composite index taking those losses of the back of the fact that china will be facing the brunt of a global recession chinas Governor Bank governor said that the real economy has improved but with a global recession its casting a shadow on any record recovery for chinas economy meanwhile south koreas cosby index thats also down about 45 percent is the 2nd most affected country in asia as far as the current of our spread goes another market i need to mention is indias b. S. E. Sensex thats about down about 8 percent india is now battling the outbreak there coming out of a 24 hour curfew and there is speculation that the government will be placing more restrictions on businesses and movements and thats hitting the stock markets there hard hards the only market here thats managed to buck the trend some want to japans nikkei thats edged up slightly as its coming off a holiday but analysts say the outlook is set to remain gloomy for the rest of the week for markets in the Asia Pacific Foley thank you for that update david upon live for us in hong kong. Now as if you mentioned u. S. Futures tumbled on monday amid political wrangling over an american car on a virus relief package battles between Democrat Party senators and their Republican Party rivals prevented an economic rescue package from advancing as that goes on in washington the mayor of new york city has warned people will die needlessly unless a shortage of medical equipment is resolved within days. Reports. New york saw dramatic increase of nearly 5000 new coronavirus cases in one day with hospitals facing critical shortages of protective masks in new york citys mayor placing the blame on President Trump the president is states is from new york city and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown and ill get it my order limits public gathering so no more than 10 people more than 95000000 americans are now under lockdown with additional shelter in place orders issued in ohio in louisiana new yorks governor had strong criticism for residents choosing not to comply its a mistake. Its insensitive its arahant its self destructive its disrespectful to other people and it has to stop and this has to stop now its a terrible thing thats going on in the meanwhile President Trump announced federal supplies are on the way to new york california and washington states whose governors have not publicly criticize the president s response but were really backing up the governors the governors have to go do their things and you have a lot of governors have done a fantastic job you have some that havent usually is the ones who complain that have the problems maybe in the not too distant future on capitol hill senator rand paul a republican from kentucky announced hes the 3rd member of congress to have tested positive for corona virus which for the majority leader hours later his Senate Colleagues fail to advance a trillion dollar economic rescue package the negotiations continue but economists say a u. S. Recession is now inevitable and doctors warn current shortages in medical supplies will cost lives heidi joe castro aljazeera maryland now having spent weeks insisting that tokyo and amp exclude go ahead in july as planned japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay now concedes postponement must be considered japan and the International Olympic committee will spend up to 4 weeks discussing whether or not the delay should be applied to the games athletes and National Bodies have been pushing for that or cancellation however the i. O. C. Says calling it off altogether is out of the question. While the International Community is being severely affected in a negative way weve hoped to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that cancelling them is not an option a toll on the decision not to be made by the committee is in line with what i just said but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider postponing from sydney nicola gage has more on the growing International Pressure to postpone the games being a big question mark over the olympics and whether it will go ahead in. Time now with the coronavirus escalating right across the globe and. Has made its position pretty clear now the Olympic Committee has told its athletes to start preparing for 2021 essentially ruling out any athletes going to the olympics this year in july it has told its athletes that there really is a problem with uncertainty we need to remember that just in a stray we are lauren athletes all of the glory training in Different Countries management there as well and that makes it very difficult when we have travel restrictions like what weve been seeing and some countries going into lockdown and thats even before we mention help the Olympic Committee has said that its putting its athletes 1st that is the main priority and even without crowds at these major events it does not believe that they should be competing and. Making a similar decision canada will not be sending any athletes to the Olympic Games if it does take place in 2020. Now canada as you heard they has already withdrawn from competing in the games jules boy cough is a professor at Pacific University and author of power games a political history of the end and thanks he says there is a been an increasing amount of global pressure to cancel this years event were witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes seeking out against the International Olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum youve seen athletes in sport bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable basically its a defacto boycott theyre saying they will not attend the olympics in tokyo this summer if they happen this summer absolutely remarkable it depends on how the corona virus is corralled or isnt but at this stage many people are giving the olympics a 2nd thought in terms of attending it it all depends how it perceives the pace of the coronavirus right now there are the cases of coronavirus in japan itself are still rising and so who knows what the case will be a year out hopefully everybody starts practicing social distancing in a very rigorous way and we can work collectively to get this under control you know ive said that people within the Olympic Movement can show a sense of Global Solidarity by canceling these olympics and not holding him this summer and it looks like that maybe is whats going to happen i said ahead on aljazeera. I usually test treat and trace the golden rules to stop the pandemic but a global shortage of test cases and map supplies is making it difficult to pass how coronaviruses impacting palestinian workers living in the occupied west bank. How low the weathers looking rather like the across parts of the middle east at the moment that cloud of grain just around the gulf thats pushing further east was through iran is heading towards pakistan towards in the us we go on through the next couple of days afghanistan seeing some of that western weather as well some long spells of friday could see some really heavy rain there just pushing into pakistan as we make our way through monday and going on into choose they can link that rain all the way back into a mob for a time it will sink further south was yemen will see some showers along the spells of rain here as well back up towards the levant not too bad as we go on through the next couple of days and im hopeful by the time we get to choose day because the temperatures touching 22 celsius in beirut was unpleasant sunshine present sunshine across a good parts of the horn of africa we have got a few showers just around the ethiopian highlands joining up with the the showers that are now spreading across into the gulf of guinea some lively downpours coming through here just around cameroon gotbaum southern parts of nigeria pushing across towards gonna heavy showers too when they are the cause for parts of angola he snares the country could see some wet weather sweater weather to ensue pass and be a for a time in the arch in eastern areas south africa. So me al jazeera london broke our suntan to special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people right and theres no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes with the position if youre not upsetting people youre not saying anything and for her needs any oh. There is not a family in britain i believe has not been touched by empire studio b. Unscripted on aljazeera. The over. The a. Reminder of our top stories on aljazeera this hour a Singapore Airlines and its subsidiaries are grounded 96 percent of their fleet in response to the corona Virus Outbreak both emirates and take share lines have also significantly reduced their operations the International Olympic Committee Says its in talks with japan about postponing the tokyo games canada has announced its athletes wont compete a mess as a delay and australians have been told to prepare for a 2021 and things and a u. S. Senate bill to help me Economic Impact of the coronaVirus Outbreak has had a stumbling block democrats have been demanding more funding and will now renegotiate with republicans more than 30000 americans have tested positive for the virus now daily coronavirus death toll has fallen but the country still reported 651. 00 deaths on sunday it comes as countries around europe are putting in place increasingly strict mashas. Reports. It is a mark of the severity of italys situation when its latest coronavirus daily death toll can be viewed as good news 651. 00 new fatalities more than anywhere else in the world but still fewer than the nearly 800 italian dead announced on saturday. Unfortunately today again we register a death toll of 651 people numbers are lower than what we reported yesterday but we must not lower our guard. Prime minister koizumi is calling it the countrys toughest crisis since world war 2 all nonessential businesses are being shut for the time being russia is dispatching called airplanes of military medical aid to italy. Germany is banning gatherings in public of more than 2 people and chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine after contact with an infected doctor. Spain the state of emergency is being extended till april 11th after the governments announced nearly 400 new coronavirus deaths and the pandemic appears to be taking a particularly high toll on Health Workers. But another figure that is with Morning Hours and the one that is affecting the most people involved in the Crisis Response is the number of Health Care Professionals affected these are 3475 and it represents 10 percent of all cases. That greece with more than 600. 00 cases is to impose a curfew on monday in the United Kingdom as you can see its quiet but there are still people out on the streets and thats because even though the government to shut down many businesses its advice to stay inside and socially distance yourself at the moment fall short of an outright order but Boris Johnson is hinting that if people continue to ignore this tougher measures could follow i take this is vice seriously follow it because its absolutely crucial and as ive said throughout this process we will keep the implementation of these measures under constant review and yes of course we will bring forward further measures if we think that is that is necessary the u. K. With 281 deaths could be just 2 or 3 weeks behind italy says the Prime Minister. Al jazeera london. Saudi arabia will impose a curfew from monday night state media says it will be in place between 7 pm and 6 am for the next 3 days 3 weeks rather the kingdom saw an almost 25 percent jump in coronavirus cases on sunday pushing its total to 500. 00 the highest number in the gulf now the World Health Organization says testing people with symptoms of the corner virus lies at the heart of fighting the pandemic but the world is fast running out of testing good said mavericks henris dont have enough supplies or the capacity to detect suspected cases experts say the result could be catastrophic Priyanka Gupta has a story. A new virus with no known treatment or fact seen after covert 901st emerged in china governments around the world face to staggering challenges 1st to contain it spread and 2nd detecting people who have it isolated test treat and trace the World Health Organization says the most effective way to fight the pandemic is to test every suspected case the wood is not manufacturing testing kits and lab supplies fast enough to keep up with the rising demand but 20 percent of people that have the fires dont show any. People are responsible. Out there so its very important that we ramp up the difficulty right now is that agents. Are running short all around the world so there are shortages of walkouts in many countries Health Workers are depending on whats called true questions to prioritize those who should be tested that includes travel history contact with an infected person preexisting conditions like diabetes Heart Disease among others and symptoms if you dont aggressively test and i saw a light people as has singapore and taiwan and other raised i think countries you build up as a significant legal pole of people who are carrying the virus and then its no longer possible to contain it you can only rely infection you must stop it and unfortunately italy has got to that critical point countries such as china and south korea raced a dead lab a Rapid Testing kits early on. South korea was one of the foot. To set up make should drive to centers in and around the country. Thousands of people are being tested every day by many countries like the u. K. Are having to ration their testing supplies i do time when tens of millions of people are in the lot down the push to test as many people as possible has never been more agent Priyanka Gupta disease or. Asterix measures to stop the coronavirus are having a devastating impact on workers with the food hospitality and Entertainment Industries being hit particularly hard Many American workers are taking to the internet to share their stories and reports. Yet. The lead singer of a country rock zac brown shared this message with fans. Like about 90 percent. Explaining why tour dates have been cancelled and why he had to let go of most of his crew. Across the u. S. Performance artists and those behind the scenes are suddenly without work that includes 95 percent of performers and staff from Cirque Du Soleil the entertainment companys revenue last year was just shy of a 1000000000 dollars a number thats dropped to 0 according to its c. E. O. Sit in this extra animals unfortunately this decision is our only option as we are forced to position ourselves to weather the storm and prepared for everyone chill at the openings a hard sell for those who just lost their only source of income got laid off from a job 2 to. Corona virus these kinds of posts are increasing by the day from recently dismissed employees many are sharing their stories online but also to get advice about applying for Unemployment Benefits in their state. Florida wife is a Hotel Manager and was told she needs to dig unpaid weeks coming up just got sacked i thought i would be safe as im in accounting but beyond the Hospitality Industry so i sort of understand i got laid off today on the drive home i got a text from my partners saying her company is filing for bankruptcy quite the day the Largest Hotel chain in the world Marriott International is planning to temporarily dismiss tens of thousands of workers sending them home without pay over 19. 00 is having to mow more severe and sudden Financial Impact on our business the 911. 00 and the 2009 financial crisis combined the Hotel Industry in the u. S. Is seeking 150000000000. 00 in relief from the government then one by one that was some sectors of the economy are collapsing wall Street Investment Firm Goldman Sachs issued a dire forecast on friday saying u. S. G. D. P. May shrink by 24 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year. Sports and entertainment spending may decline by 85 percent according to economic forecasts millions of americans can lose their jobs in the months ahead. And the hotels empty arenas and empty theaters 120000 workers in the Film Industry are already out of work in hollywood according to one labor union and millions of people will be forced to temporarily switch careers to make ends meet but there is good news some companies are hiring including the worlds top 2 retailers amazons adding 100000 workers in the u. S. To meet the surge in demand from those now staying at home while walmarts adding 150000. 00 temporary workers whether stocking shelves delivering food or figuring out how to make those face to face interactions online Americas Service sector is being transformed and or chapell aljazeera. A new zealand will go into lockdown for a month as it out tends to stop the virus spreading from minister just into our den announced that all nonessential businesses and schools must close and residents must stay home the government has frozen and renting creases are now more than 100 mostly imported cases of the virus in new zealand and janine cassani is a recovering coronavirus patient after having been diagnosed over a week ago shes just left hospital and is not home in oakland i spoke to her earlier and asked her how she found out she had the virus my 1st symptoms were that i had a sore throat. And then i started getting a bad cough. I couldnt tell which of your lies with the cough was was real or there was this anxiety because you know i was reading of a lot of reports and it was making me feel very anxious. And there excavated to the point where i realise i was too isolated where was i made my way becht or clones and my husband had hired a camper van to cut now a driveway and i moved there and my sentences got worse and worse and i went to see my g. P. Who hadnt seen anyone had touched anyone and no they werent anybody and they swaps me and the next day and that i had i had a virus and the day after that my coffin got so bad that i couldnt breathe and i was well wishing from it. That i got hospitalized and so ive been in hospital for the last 4 days and i just got that the just to have a nagger all right so you got tested at your g. P. s right well i didnt get to go into the g. P. I had set my cat and they came to me and hazmat suits and they did scrubs and then i got a cold that the next day from the department of health to let me know that i had buyers. So when you were in hospital and i know you just got out what sort of treatment did they give you there what you know what did you take. A look. I had 6 very old web blogs. Make sure that. Cells row doing the things that this person most they i hear its better though and. They gave me anting xyzzy medication so obviously im required while going. I was the only patient in that hospital with a current affair. Thanks but as i was programmed to taste i mean for them to. But is there not much more than that i could tell when i wasnt in things like stage. Thank you and was the and the headlines on aljazeera Singapore Airlines and its have series a grounding 96 percent of their feet in response to the coronavirus pandemic both and theyre its an taking share lines have also significantly reduce our operations palin has more from hong kong its not surprising considering the fact that singapore just sent a new directive saying that no new short term passengers transit visitors are allowed into the country now as they tighten their border controls now Singapore Airlines as he said is dropping its capacity or grounding 96 percent of its flights. This follows Cathay Pacific who did this earlier announced that mind the pro 5 percent of the capacity would be dropped meanwhile you have airlines like quantize those trillion National Carrier that has said that the grounding all flights the International Olympic Committee Says its in talks with japan about postponing the tokyo games canada has amounted sadly swan compete unless theres a delay and australian athletes have been told to prepare for a 2021 and then picks other countries have suggested calling the games off altogether by the i. O. C. Says thats out of the question a u. S. Senate bill to help question the Economic Impact of coronavirus has hit a stumbling block democrats have been demanding more funding and will now renegotiate with republicans more than 30000. 00 americans have tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile its lees daily coronavirus death toll has fallen but the country still we forded 651. 00 deaths on sunday the government has increased lockdown measures shutting almost all factories and banning internal travel new zealand will go into knock down for a month as it attempts to stop the virus spreading from minister just into our day and announce that all nonessential businesses and schools must close and residents must stay home there are now more than 100 mostly imported cases of the virus in new zealand thats it youre up state with headlines on aljazeera as always plenty more now upside. Dot com the listening post is up next stay with us. Counting the cost come italy cope with a coronavirus come to me without a bailout 14000000. 00 Older Workers in europe has been told to stay at home we talked to b. M. W. About the future of the industry plus Airlines Fight for their survival as governments and pose problems come to the cost on others or. What were hearing the scientists approach it straight to the. Democrats to try to turn a virus into a political attack president truck today ill be his shift from previous statements. Clearing a National Emergency words hello richard gives birth in europe the listening post among the media stories that were covering this week donald trump dissin from ation and the coronavirus the white house and its sidekicks at fox news have been producing fake news of the most dangerous calm i feel it the more i learn about this the less terrorist war i was about the same thing china throws out more american journalists as the media
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