And the u. S. Secretary of state makes a surprise visit to afghanistan to salvage a deal with the taliban. But convulsions there are a lot down of indias major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital by and cities such as chennai and calcutta monks them curfews are also in place nationwide and International Flights have been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo now says the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be perspire and thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july the dozens also of cuban doctors have arrived in italy to help Italian Health workers italy is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 people have died. Lets join elizabeth purana mark ora spondon in new delhi youve been following events obviously been whats been going on obviously in india of the past 24 hours indians woke up to a new reality on monday morning its not just up to. Well into the afternoon how is india coping at the moment and what are people saying there about this lockdown. Well so nearly 28000000 people are under lockdown just in the capital and as you mentioned that is the same picture all over the country in terms of all the major cities 80 districts have confirmed cases are under lockdown no one being allowed to go outside except for those who are involved in essential Services Like health care most indians do understand the need for this and that is because even though the number of confirmed cases in india 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among the affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 it was a it was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns for the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians are bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Centers government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday in both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lockdown elizabeth just what a week ago we saw the indian Prime Minister have a Video Conference call with his counterparts in the region south Asian Countries are having the same sort of problem but with india as well there is is huge distance or it isnt there between rich and poor those that can and cant afford to get tested and those who cant get tested because it is such a struggle to try and get somebody to test them when they are on the lowest rung of society. Yes so and were seeing that disparity being played out really starkly so in the last 2 days you know there was that 14 hour voluntary could if you which much of the country observed on sunday and its now being enforced the people i said most people understand the need for the lockdown while the people with we have seen crowds it is by all those Migrant Workers there are so many people in india who are from one state and work in a different state there they cant work anymore theyre desperately trying to get home and they have flooded transport hubs like bus stops and you know train stations up until yesterday just trying to get back to where theyre from but all trains buses this is metro stations have been canceled so were now seeing the kind of scene that the government didnt want you know really large crowds desperate people and while the Prime Minister tweeted saying that people some people arent taking it seriously well these people are stranded and they have nowhere to go and now that the government has introduced on the other the subject that you mentioned about testing and access to health care the Public Health system is not equipped to deal with this theyve brought in the private sector theyve set guidelines like the private hospitals arent allowed to charge more than around 70. 00 for tests but there are so many people who simply wont be able to afford that so the Indian Government is urging people private sector to conduct these tests for free but well wait to see if that happens and also so what the Indian Government itself is going to do waiting to hear from the finance ministers to support all those hundreds of millions of daily wage earners and the poor for them to get through this time indeed it seems its just the beginning of a very long road for india and south Asian Countries for the moment Elizabeth Banks joining us from new delhi lets go from asia to europe because it remains a big concern with italy taking over from china as the new hot bed of the pandemic as the number of infections and increase more lock downs are in place across the country is the u. K. Seeing a significant rise with 5700 infections and more than 290. 00 deaths the Prime Minister or as johnson says hes considering restrictive measures like e. U. Nations. Lets join again barbara he joins me now from Central London nadine really it seems that transport links seem to be the focus of the governments needs to protect the public on monday thats right so hailed theyve announced that effectively theyre nationalizing all of the railways in england and wales taking over all the financial risk involved although private operators will still be running the services but whereby Liverpool Street station one of the the main stations here in london which would normally be very busy throughout a monday morning earlier on we went in and how to look and it was almost empty it was very very noticeable the difference between now and a normal a normal working day of course he says that the start of the working week and just not far from here the financial district and the london stock exchange. So. We are hearing that the the emphasis. On the rails services is keeping essential workers on the move people like Nurses Police officers and members of the Emergency Services there making sure there are Early Morning and late night trains and so on so that people can get to the shifts if thats if thats what theyre doing. But at the same time they are reducing the number of. The number of train journeys because the whole point is reducing Community Transmission the big thing here is though that people are being see not to respect social distancing that 2 meter distance between people that theyve been no advising people to do over the weekend weve seen parks full of people weve seen holiday resorts with their car parks full weve seen in fact drive cycling in the smalling i saw people queuing up at a fresh food outlets here in south in south london with people right next to each other and the government is saying if people continue behaving like that they might have to bring in curfews fairly soon. Actually touched on the stock market because what weve seen overnight certainly of the weekend is the u. S. Senate couldnt agree on a financial package to help fight the pandemic that reverberated in the asian markets they were down on monday whats it like on the stock market or certainly the market has opened in london on monday. Also the London Exchange was down around 4 percent weve seen or other asian markets down weve by by a number a percentage point hong kong 5. 3 theyre all continuing to reflect the worry that governments in europe and not getting on top of the problem and not heeding the advice of experts medics and epidemiologists in countries like italy which have put their countries in lockdown but are still seeing a surge in cases with the numbers actually accelerating and thats partly because of testing here in britain the government is saying that they are ramping up the number of tests but one of the key areas is darth who work in the National Health service theyve said that they need testing now because they want to be able to continue to work and not get taken out if they are infected of course and theyre also appealing for protective gear nurses and the like have been on social media saying that theyve had to buy their own equipment now the Health Secretary on monday has been on the airwaves saying that will be sorted imminently to make sure that key Health Workers are protected and continue to do their jobs but beyond that theyre very worried in the Health Service that theyre going to run out of space as weve seen in italy and theyre going to have to start making. Absolutely horrendous decision soon about who will be able to get a ventilator and who wont when it comes to saving lives we weve seen a correlation here between britain and italy perhaps a couple of weeks behind matching the curve which is seen the right in the number of cases of that and in deaths so people here have been told whats around the corner but the government is now saying to the public if you dont change your behavior we will have to bring in more draconian measures to try to limit the number of cases and the number of deaths effectively while for the update from Central London just outside Liverpool Street station dean barber thank you. Lets talk more about europe and join lawrence lee joins me also from the british capital and lawrence really concerns continue as nadine touched upon it the numbers rising across europe everybody really equating their own situation to whats happening or what has happened in italy. In italy and spain obviously is whole in the hills for all of the worst reasons really just released from madrid another leap of life nearly 5000 cases in spain 460 new deaths in the last 24 hours so thats starting to track exactly the pattern that we saw last week in basically whether figures went from sort of monday or tuesday from my recollection 400 full 5475 and then let up to 750 or so the end of the day before falling back to 600 or so in the last in the last day so there is this really grim fear that spain is now on the on the same trajectory and with exactly the same problems in trying to cope with the numbers the some extra pictures emerged of beds being laid out in a huge Convention Center in the spanish capital just atrocity all within the army inevitably going to have to get involved i think increasingly in these in these countries because the hospitals called students are being colin retired doctors are being called back the deputy Prime Ministers been taken to hospital where there are spiritual infections as she in the shes got it as well. And so you know its not out of control just in the same way that it was in its early converse leigh and this is potentially a small ray of light in the in the darkness germany the Health Experts are saying that they think the peak must be starting to flat so that out in the numbers of really the done metric opposite in some way so countries like spain or italy nearly as many cases in germany 25000 but only 94 deaths and a lot of questions being asked about how how this can be so is it because health is could say rich an elk as i was so good well says the Italian Health care is because they got more ventilates as possibly is it to do with must testing possibly its do with the policy that goats of only allowing 2 people to be outside at the same time as each other also possible. I think theres as this gets worse countries which happen yet seeing these peaks like spain and italy are going to be looking to countries like germany are thinking well maybe that could be the way forward because if germany has got over the crest of this only 94 deaths thats thats a pretty significant achievement particularly a fairly old country what do you make of the fact lawrence that you know obviously were not seeing airline fleets grounded borders going up National Train services being requisitioned by governments i. E. Is it whats happening in the u. K. At the moment whats your general feeling being in london and seeing whats going on around you and what youre hearing from europe frog global audience because obviously were looking at a continent by continent. Well i mean theres the old rules being broken on every level i mean certain sense of think that people on National Governments in countries like the u. K. Which believe in things like free markets and and impose austerity on countries for years and years and years while by any other banks the idea that theres prepared to throw as much money as possible and do things like nationalizing lines and railways and these sorts of things it just flies straight in the face of any sort of perception the people lots of found about how economics work and the whole idea that these countries say you have have said for here is theres no money to pay for things i mean its not true is it because if you can find the money if you really need to in the most extreme circumstances but theres also the the issue of behavior and how you get people to behave in an appropriate manner during the time of an interNational Health kelk rices and certainly in in places where there has been really draconian measures and people talk about the murders of Police States and people being fined for using a pastry in the street. You know it is having the effect of keeping people inside to some degree if you make it voluntary and say to people come on lets do the right thing were all in this together dont read the supermarket shelves please dont go out in large groups people are still tending certainly in the u. K. To ignore us so there are lots of lessons being learned its a question of whether lessons are actually to lead to contain at this point and evil from london lawrence lee thanks very much will be joining lawrence through the day. Well airlines around the world are grounding their fleets as the Global Health emergency hits International Travel as we mentioned Singapore Airlines is the latest to cut back operations taking 96 percent of its planes out of commission it follows decisions by emirates and Turkish Airlines to halt nearly all of their passenger flights and major travel hubs continue to close their doors the United Arab Emirates which is home to the International Hub to buy is suspending all of its passenger flights including transit travelers the International Air transport Association Says industry stands to lose more than 100000000000. 00 in revenue this year. Well still ahead here on aljazeera. Is elite terrorists treat and trace the golden rules to stop the pound i think photo global shortage of test kits and supplies is making it difficult. On fear and frustration in bangladesh 40 people say the country is not ready to deal with a pandemic. And theres still plenty of rain across more southern areas of china that continue to stream really from the west pushing east was of course taking their showers again it to the east of japan still one of 2 passing showers as we go through chews day and time which is not too bad the feta close to the average but of course it has been fairly mild in see one or 2 shows like it really is china where we say most of the rain temperature wise not too bad 24 celsius in hong kong and that rain becoming actually a bit heavier as we go through wednesday weve had plenty of rain in the forecast for the last several days so we could have some localized flooding but its of any warm day wednesday across the Korean Peninsula 18 celsius in seoul with some nice sunshine and again we should see some pretty good sunshine throughout much of japan india is warm particularly through the interior but its a mostly calm picture but we have got plenty of rain with some mountain snow into Northern Areas of pakistan that doesnt mean a whole for the next couple days could see some rain showers and that she new delhi as well the chance of scattered thunderstorms over the next couple of days and by wednesday we could well see some rain pushing once again into Carola States and this could be fairly heavy particularly into those coastal areas scattered showers moving through the interior maybe some showers in sri lanka and of 33. The logic in the middle ages. Weaponized throughout history was transferred its head with me and started fighting developed by nation states there could be another country that. Now within reach of those seeking chaos was the most toxic substance in the on the land me in physical threat on al jazeera. More lose. Book about if youre watching aljazeera with me cell robin a reminder of our top stories india has extended a curfew across major cities to fight the spread of the coronavirus theres been a rise in the number of cases in the past few days a 1000000000 indians stayed home and a 14 hour lockdown on sunday. In spain the Health Ministry has confirmed there are more than 30000 cases of current virus and the number of deaths is now over 2000 on sunday the Prime Minister extended the state of emergency for another 15 days. The World Health Organization says testing people with symptoms of the virus lies at the heart of fighting the pandemic but many regions are running out of testing kits in the bar trees dont have enough supplies to detect cases so countries having to ration their kits and that means less testing pretty good gupta explains. A new virus with no known vaccine after covert 901st emerged in china governments around the world face to staggering challenges 1st to contain its spread and 2nd detecting people who have it eyes only 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 about 20 percent of people that have their buyers sure and. People are responsible we have. Out there so its very important that we ramp up the difficulty right now agents. Are running very 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 taste 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 do a lie infection you just stop it and unfortunately italy has got to that critical point countries such as china and south korea raced to develop a Rapid Testing kits early on. South korea was one of the 1st to set up may. 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 at a time when tens of millions of people are in the lockdown the push to test as many people as possible has never been more urgent Priyanka Gupta aljazeera. Terrorises a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization she says always successful Contact Tracing requires time and effort its never too late to start. Contact tracing is a fundamental its really a Gold Standard of prevention as an outbreak in any outbreak its a Gold Standard in Something Like in a bowl or outbreak as well and what it really means its detective work its its like being an investigative journalist but in health terms each person who is infected has been in contact with a number of other people so you go you ask them 1st who they contact so who have they been in contact with during the period when they were likely to be infectious and this is quite difficult you know you have to have a long conversation people dont remember everything that i remember every where they were and so its its not easy work it takes people who are trained people who are very persistent people who will ask the exhaustive inquiries and it also takes a lot of openness from the person whos infected who may be ill who may be tired so you might have to go back to them several times all find other ways just go to their work place look at where they see it you know who is sitting 2 meters away who would have been in contact with them for 15 minutes because thats what were looking for somebody who is within 2 meters all that person for 15 minutes so you can 15 minutes or more so you can imagine thats quite a lot of people in other countries because theyve not got a lot of experience of large outbreaks like this is this is really the 1st time in europe were seeing a huge up wreck like this. They may not have the capacity or they may not have the people that they need to repurpose that takes time that ticks planning that takes thinking through but it is something that needs to be done by every country. Japans Prime Minister shinzo rb now says the perspire moment of the Olympic Games must be considered alexia brian explains. After weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese Prime Minister cannot close i said ok weve hoped to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that cancelling them is not an option at all but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider postponing. The games us it to be held in july but the virus thats caused both human catastrophe and economic crisis across the globe is threatening the worlds biggest sporting event canada became the 1st country to announce its and then pick and paralympic teams want people to surprising in the games urging the International Olympic committee and the tokyo organizes to push back the event by at least a year were witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes speaking 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 and sport bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable tokyos olympic chief is warned that the games 1000000000. 00 budget and years of planning are at stake and that cancelling would be bad for both stakeholders and athletes that just seeing a little lego you we never intend to talk about a consolation but japan and International Olympic committee will talk together about what to do postponement to only be one of the many scenarios like the increasing pressure from athletes to call off the games is not just because bringing hundreds of thousands of sportsmen and women coaches and fans together could help spread the virus but they argue that having them continue high level training is putting them and their families at risk i think again it should be postponed and i think its the best option at least worst option available to us no so theyve got an amazing opportunity here in the games and then they will together we see the back of this bonus. Just a few weeks ago the idea of postponing the olympics was unthinkable now its looking more and more likely and now the victim of these unprecedented times the i. O. C. Says it will make a decision within the next 4 weeks from now the Olympic Torch Relay is set to go ahead from thursday but without the usual fanfare with crowds aged not to attend. An al jazeera well in bangladesh there are 27 confirmed cases tomba child reports. There are nearly 10000000 bangladeshis working abroad many of those bangladesh is a scramble to dhaka from kobita 19 hit countries and elsewhere have not been subject to compensating quarantine some are found roaming freely in their community and possibly spreading the virus she helped shark is frustrated it has been a week now he is still unable to get a cold in 1000 tests done Health Professionals say they have seen a sudden spike in a typical pneumonia where patients are coming with lung infections. But with life had a fever and serious congestion for months now ive visited several clinics and they told me to come here for a coronavirus test doctors here examined me and gave me a few tests to be done outside but they are the only ones who are supposed to do these tests Health Experts say poor and limited testing rate may be masking the true number of coronavirus cases the institute of epidemiology Disease Control and Research Center is the only place in the entire country of 160000000 people that has facilities to test it in 1000 virus. They have very limited number of kids Health Professional ill theres questioning governments readiness to prepare for a looming epidemic on the horizon top Government Health officials however say that till now the situation is under control and it has taken necessary measures to combat the deadly virus at the beginning of that any outbreak the these has to be centralized because you need to win every case will be detected you need to follow the case you need to find out that all the contacts contain them keep them in a quick in a supervised me so thats why we cannot delegate these to anything i made growing concern over the course of my virus a large number of people are leaving dhaka and traveling to rural areas. But if the overall situation in the country is bad theres a sense of panic and my family wants me to come home by leaving the crowded city maybe i can protect myself. Despite a recent ban on large gatherings a massive corona virus procession with tens of thousands of devoted is in southern bangladesh sparked an outcry in the country wouldnt stay as a country reported its 1st that from the Global Pandemic the bangladesh Health Ministry says the pandemic spread to the level of Community Transmission and will spread quite rapidly though the government in says that it has taken all out preparations there is growing concern here about whether the country with the limited resource can cope with whats to come tundra chaudhry ill just dhaka bangladesh. Secretary of state has landed in afghanistan on an unannounced visit to help solve a deal between washington and the taliban but it comes as the 1st direct talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban have taken place on exchanging prisons. What you have is there of me is a homerun the reminder of our top stories india has extended a curfew across major cities to fight the spread of coronavirus theres been a rise in the number of cases in the past few days a 1000000000 indians stayed at home in a 14 hour lockdown on sunday Elizabeth Rodham has more from new delhi and most indians do understand the need for this and that is because even though the number of confirmed cases in india 414 does seem really lawyer for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 it was a it was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns for the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases in spain the Health Ministry has confirmed that there are more than 30000 cases of coronavirus and the number of deaths is now over 2000 on sunday the Prime Minister extended the state of emergency for another 15 days Singapore Airlines is the latest airline to cut back its operations taking 96 percent of its planes out of commission it follows decisions by emirates some Turkish Airlines which decided to hold nearly all of their passenger flights the International OlympicCommittee Says its considering disposing the 2020 tokyo games by up to a year its been under mounting pressure from athletes and National Bodies to cancel or delay the event in other news u. S. Secretary of state mike ponto has landed in afghanistan on an unannounced visit to help salvage a deal between washington and the taliban but it comes as the 1st direct talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban have taken place on exchanging prisoners last month the armed group signed a deal with the u. S. In qatar aided ending the 18 year conflict. Those were the headlines and more news in here on aljazeera next its inside story do stay with us. Its elise coronavirus catastrophe the death toll is rising at an unprecedented level the government is taking more drastic measures but will reduce the number of people dying and what lessons can all the countries learn from. This is inside story. Hello welcome to the program i am Bernard Smith hospitals and morgues overwhelmed bodies piling up in churches and just on the aid