Care system struggled to cope last ignoring the warnings why the coronavirus message is not getting to many in africas most populous nation and the tokyo legs have been postponed for a year because of the global spread of the disease. Thank you very much for joining us new york has become a major battlefront in the fight against sea coronavirus found dead make the largest u. S. City has more than 25000 confirmed cases and the number is rising rapidly medical facilities are struggling to cope and if facing potential shortages of bad staff and equipment that the u. S. President says he hopes to have the situation under control by easter is on the reports from new york. Sobering news for new yorkers the situation is worse than 1st start with the coronavirus rate of infection doubling every 3 days we were looking at a fruit tree coming across the country were now looking at a bullet through. Because the numbers are going up that quickly speaks to the issue of the governor says the white house has not prioritized health to the state and the needs of the most new yorkers 25000 cases it has an times the problem that. California hands 10 times the problem that Washington State has you prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they are needed. New york will need 140000 hospital beds to care for the ill they currently have 50000 available new york citys Largest Convention center has been converted into a makeshift hospital but it wont be enough. York is also exploring converting colleges and hotels to hospitals as well recently retired nurses and doctors are being asked to come back to help fill the need and global event to leaders are in short supply new york now needs 30000 or the governor urged the white house to send him thousands more that the federal government has in storage and that are not being used as for the streets they remain mostly empty of both people and cars new york is essential e on lockdown and given the increased cases of coronavirus it likely remain like this for at least many weeks to come. April sunday oh how did your. Well yes donald trump says hed like to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically specialists arent so optimistic mike hanna has our report from washington. The New York Stock Exchange on an unprecedented rebound despite the fact that one in a 1000 people in the city are infected the dol posted a gain of over 2000 points the best day since 1933 investors apparently believing that congress was near agreement on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus bill President Trump asserting that the reaction was also linked to his expedited timeline for ending the shutdown across the country. Today as you probably saw the dow surged over 2100 points at sea all time record history of the exchange is very encouraging and i think part of the reason is they are looking at what is close to being passed and i think a very big part of it is they say that we want to get our country open to soon as possible one economic adviser supporting the president s hope that anti pandemic measures could be eased within 3 weeks if we can target zones where. The virus is less prevalent things are safe were not abandoning the Health Professionals advice but there is a climber to try to reopen the economy and. Perhaps are caught less of a shot in but the Health Experts are being a lot more cautious in discussing timelines insisting that there is insufficient data to decide on even a partial lifting of shutdowns at present we need to know whats going on in those areas of the country where there isnt an obvious outbreak is this something underneath the surface that says wait a minute you better be careful and really clamp down or what looks there that you dont really have to be as harsh as you are in other areas so its looking at information that up to this point john we never had so its a flexible situation at the end of the day no agreement in congress either effect that could temper any renewed surge when the stock market opens again mike hanna aljazeera washington account line held man is a professor of politics at Occidental College in asuncion as she expects Alan Trounson will rating to go down because of his handling of the and then. With 55 percent last week and 60 percent this week as soon as he actually started to take action heres the thing about his polls though and this is why i think his Reelection Campaign is in jeopardy as the body count goes up which it surely will because we have not dealt with this pandemic and we should have in our country and i would argue in most parts of our country were still not dealing with it in the way that should be a leisure in new york with Governor Cuomo or urine and you know california as i am with other new some where Washington State with governor inslee you have governors taking more leadership on this than the president of the United States and if the estimates are anywhere close to what you know the 2. 3 percent of the population may lose their lives over this that body count enough is going to be will cost in the election and it feels crass to talk about intellectual terms but i would anticipate that that support for his handling of it will decline as the body. The pandemic is overwhelming Health Care Systems in some European Countries italian and british governments opening makeshift facilities and then ice rink in the spanish capital has been turned into a temporary morgue all run and has more. One in 5 spanish residences age 65 or older so the devastating impact of coronavirus in the country is no surprise whats shocking is how the caste system collapsed so quickly under the onslaught of military emergency units of disinfecting premises as fast as humanly possible as here in madrid the care home staff have been overwhelmed with desperate consequences speculate mentality and i know the majority are fulfilling their duties they are paying attention but listen this has to be said the army in some of their visits to the care centers ive seen elderly people completely abandoned even dead in their beds. With madrids hospital morgues fall this ice rink has been requisitioned to receive and store the bodies of the corona virus victims so infectious even in death that the staff are wearing full protective suits its only the latest clinic repurposed as a coronavirus unit has opened in rome every single patient requires truly intensive care intensive in terms of staffing and intensive in terms of equipment and there is simply not enough to go around why do we so i learned by no more than a growing number of italian town mess of recorded video messages angrily ordering the public to stop flouting the lockdown rules one math threatens to send in the cabin yet he with a flame thrower to break up a plan the Graduation Party a critic of the shortage of Critical Care capacity in the u. K. Is being at least partly addressed with a brand new temporary hospital being created in just one week at a huge Exhibition Center in london rules the n. H. S. 1000 go hospital will comprise 2 wards each of 2000 people. With the help of the military and with n. H. S. Clinicians we will make sure that we have the capacity that we need so that everyone can get the support they need. The 1st time coronavirus restrictions are now having a tangible effect on millions of u. K. Citizens a stay at home order has replaced the previous advisory guidance but not everyone seems to have grasped the urgency this Grocery Store here in red hill is about the only shop that we found open in this town but the lockdown is far from being strictly observed here and maintaining it over what could be 3 or even 4 months is going to be a real challenge and construction workers in particular show little sign of social distancing or other precautions for example of this site in Central London was far from unusual across the u. K. But religious services of all denominations are banned wedding plans and baptism ceremonies are on hold only funerals will go ahead this virus robs the joy from society and leaves only their grief paul brennan aljazeera redhill not cut ties sending ventilators and other medical supplies to libya after it confirmed its 1st case of the virus libyas Health Care System is highly vulnerable after years of conflicts curfews are in place and schools have been closed as authorities try to prevent a large scale outbreak and there is concern that there is too much indifference towards the pandemic in africas most populous nation nigeria has imposed restrictions in its administrative and commercial capitals following a sharp rise in cases in its 1st fatality but stories as telepaths with people as a force member. But are still liberal social and his wife are forced to work at all this city lagos accounts for nearly 66 percent of all confirmed cases of the color virus in nigeria he doesnt think hes getting the right information about the pandemic. I will ride up take my destiny in my hand on. That which. Does not even have to get to me for 2 days ill just that i was unable to get comments from Nigerian Government officials in both lagos and the capital abuja government offices have been largely deserted but not the streets and markets. More than half the nigerian population lives on less than 2. 00 a day. Most have to go out every day to earn a living and the most skeptical about the coronavirus pandemic in this category of nigerians is that on sunday night it is then its you know the government of ariel reach me on my somebody so we have me and who can set you free is this what you should have no doubt they didnt think that was the. Owner of the army but on my staff like i want. You to weigh the. Room or. Not its attitudes like this that Health Workers say is a bigger challenge than the lack of capacity to deal with a virus that is also concerned about what they see on the street. For passengers crammed into this small taxi cab. The buses also arent any better with Health Systems in desperate conditions experts say most african countries im not prepared to deal with this pandemic and i did it for example only 5 molecule laboratories for 200000000 people although the government says its building more. The government has announced a series of measures to contain the spread of the virus these include closing all and land borders providing more testing kits and asking residents to stay at. That has not delayed concerns and fears of a big jump in the number of infections and fatalities in the coming days and weeks. Algis iraq object. To any. A recap of our top stories on aljazeera new yorks governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies one of the koran advised is spreading rapidly in the u. S. State andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks u. S. President donald trump says it might to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically the announcement has been met with skepticism from health casts specialist and after 2 days of a declining death rate the number of coronavirus fatalities in italy has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed case. Now the largest lockdown in the world has come into effect after indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi ordered a population of 1300000000 people not to leave their homes it comes after the country reported more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus and 10 deaths and as a random reports of new delhi. After 2 days of heavy restrictions in most of the country promised in that in the more dispel talk of the situation facing all 1300000000 and. Listen carefully the whole country from today 12 midnight the entire country it would be in a complete lockdown in order to save india in order to save the citizens of india and to save yourself save you and your family today at 12 midnight there would be a total ban of venturing out of your homes every state every territory every district every village every locality is being put on lockdown. Mode he said that was the only way to stop the spread of the virus but even before the Prime Ministers announcement police were out in force in the lockdown around the country and the capital in new delhi police dismantled all the protest sites against the governments citizenship law including ensuring bad people have been gathering there for 100 days to show they opposition to the legislation which fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims ladybird even the budget we never know about in 5 women was sitting there nobody else was sitting there to seize them and damage the protest site the people are very angry because of this there is the issue of growth of ours we are supporting the measures but the women who the police are detained should be released. Police detained 9 people after a van in groups of more than 4 people gathering youre talking about. This is a very dangerous environment because of coronavirus and some trouble makers are trying to create problems but we detain them and took actions to clear the protest site. But some people who were out buying groceries said they were attacked by police. We came to buy vegetables at about 5 or 6 oclock but Police Chased us off with patterns there is this disease we except that there is this disease in the lockdown is necessary i agree but there will be a time when people dont have food to eat if they dont let us buy vegetables then how will we eat the transportation of essential goods will continue but passenger flights trains buses metros and taxis have been ordered to stop their services. Despite Prime Minister modi saying people will still be allowed to go out to buy essential supplies people have rushed to Grocery Stores around the country uncertain of what the next 3 weeks will bring and while modi announced the government will spend over 2000000000 dollars on health care to fight the virus millions of the countrys poor who lost their livelihoods a still waiting to hear how the government will help them elizabeth aljazeera new delhi. Now residents in major cities across latin america will soon be ordered to stay home to try to contain the coronavirus colombia will go into a full nationwide lockdown on wednesday. Despite the mayors order to stay at home hundreds of poor citizens of as well as venezuelan migrants crowded Central Plaza believe theyre asking for help saying they can stop working to protect themselves from coronavirus we live hand to mouth they want is to isolate they want to put is in a quarantine for how we supposed to survive we have no food lots of people to take care of the government is promising food and shelter for anybody in need but only some has materialized just hours before the start of a 19 day Long National shut down closing all but essential businesses in the main the people stay at home. The Central Military hospital which for decades was crowded with victims of the countrys internal conflict is being fitted with generators supplied tends to house coronavirus patients in the meantime in brazil more than 2000 cases have been confirmed in its largest city so the usually gridlocked streets were quiet as was its metro system. Other countries that had so far avoided major restrictions are now announcing new measures on the island of cuba with 40 confirmed cases the government banned citizens from leaving the country closed schools and can find thousands of tourists in their old tales. In mexico where the president has resisted ordering confinement all large public and private gatherings will be suspended for a month while support will be extended to Small Businesses mexicos minister of health said the country seeing an increase in on imported cases tells us i want to be clear we will continue having infection as we dont expect ending the epidemic quickly i also want to be clear that the reduction of transmission will not mean a short epidemic but a longer wants but its important because we will be able to administer the risk of this by the different approaches whats clear is that all governments in the region are bracing for a worsening of the outbreak and are struggling to find solutions to a crisis that could have devastating consequences on this already fragile economies i listened to. Now a further 122 people have died from the virus in iran where the death toll in years 2000 around half of all Government Employees are staying at home in a bid to contain the spread as a number of infections nears 25000 Health Ministry says the number of cases is likely to rise because of testing and screening in huntsmans iran the worst affected country in the middle east and as blamed us sanctions for preventing it from containing the outbreak more than 1600 people have been arrested in jordan over the past 3 days for violating an indefinite curfew people are banned from leaving their homes under any circumstances and local council have begun delivering basic supplies michael sofie is among the amman based reporter for the Guardian Newspaper he told us most people are respecting the restrictions. Weve been stuck at home now for 4 days that means no leaving any reason at all not for groceries not pharmacies not even to walk around the block but actually 10000000 people under house arrest now in jordan that decisive faster as a high people same time to stand why this is necessary and ive been listening that in other countries this sort of confusion over what is allowed and whats not in jordan theres no confusion nothings allowed no ones allowed out of the house everyone gets that except for those people who are being arrested so far but at this point we simply sit and white instructions from the government about when we are allowed to eventually leave our houses again theyve left questions of whether you can take your garbage out if you leave something in the copy go and get it generally they think that they can do things like that anything that involves leaving your house to go somewhere else is completely bad i have to say those rules of science are relaxed today because they just started to trial a system to deliver things like bread water and gas to people so ive just been out to the front of my house there are people all up and down the strait waiting for was a delivery trucks for bread delivery trucks you know unfortunately what were seeing here is is some crowded as these buses full of bread show up people from a neighborhood will crowd around to try to get some bread for that day of course that defeats the purpose of the lockdown so its a system that were seeing has a few kinks in it that hopefully wont be government will be able to iron out next tuesday. Now rwanda has announced 17 new cases of the virus its highest single day increase in the number of infections that brings it to 36 only one of the new patients was locally infected 19 had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates 3 from kenya and 2 from the u. S. And one each from india and qatar sudan meanwhile has ordered the closure of all is orders in response to the pandemic one person has died in the country and 2 cases of cold in 1000 have been confirmed here morgan reports from a refugee camp in where people are feeling particularly vulnerable. For nearly 10 months 16 year old sylar and her sister have been inseparable now registered in sudan as eritrean refugees the 2 fled their country with help from smugglers solera says the deal is for the smugglers to bring them to sudan but what happened next didnt go as planned. The smugglers from our country demanded more money when we told them we didnt have money they treated us to smugglers on the sudanese side of the border so lera now lives here in the Eastern States of along with other refugees according to the United Nations more than 120 refugees are in sudan most of them are in castello and unless registered refugees and Asylum Seekers arent allowed to leave the camps as a result if you know about the global coronavirus pandemic with those who do our read. Were afraid we dont know much about the virus if it comes to the camp will get infected because we live like one family here and we interact with each other since the detection of the 1st corner virus in sudan the countrys Transitional Administration issued several directives to try to contain it this is one of the border crossings between sudan and eritrea so dense government has ordered the closure of all of its borders due to coronavirus fears which here in have been shut for years but away from government sanctioned crossings most of the border is open making smuggling of people and goods easy. Most parts of the nearly 700 kilometer border look like this open land with Little Movement during the day and according to local authorities smuggling during the night the military carries out patrol but the local government says there are challenges in keeping the border completely shut. Off there are tribes in the border area that interact with each other only by preventing them from complete movement so the best we can do is raise awareness. Back at the camp solera says she doesnt progress leaving eritrea despite the security and Health Threats she now faces on the other side of the border people morgan al jazeera east and sadam at the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed for up to a year and the Japanese Foreign minister asks for the tokyo m. P. Games to be put off saying when it happens it will be proof of victory over the coronavirus so next year brian reports. Theres been weeks of speculation about whether the tokyo games would go ahead the corona virus pandemic thats caused chaos the world over by the event increasingly unlikely now japans Prime Minister says tokyo 2020 will be held in 2021 i feel the money as the host of the Tokyo Olympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes for the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one in which it is safe and worry free for spectators i asked if it would be possible to consider perspiring in the games for approximately one year this week in saying several countries signaled they wouldnt be sending teams to the event originally planned for july several input qualifiers had to be postponed as a result of the outbreak putting many athletes at a disadvantage and the increasing restrictions on Global Travel made even getting to the competition nearly impossible it was becoming increasingly difficult any way in which it could be you know this year. You know the thing about the route so many different levels. To levels around the world which one train is something that youre not sure about well its going to help a lot theyre all d in lockdown many are in lockdown scenarios japan had warned that putting off the games but its 1000000000. 00 budget at risk its chief Organizer Says he still. Isnt worked out how much the delay will cost or who will pay. And done and. Im sorry about it and i regret it but in a way its also a sigh of relief Prime Minister and president had a cool and short notice and gave us a sense of direction so thats a relief but it doesnt solve everything right this could be a good pretext for us to go forward and we can prepare for an even better olympic and Paralympic Games and what we plan for this year. Its Realistic Games have been canceled before because of the world wars but its the 1st time in the games 124. 00 modern history that a competitions being delayed during peace time japans Prime Minister says when the event does go on it will be proof that the world has overcome the virus while the International OlympicCommittee Says it will leave the flame burning until then as a symbol of commitment and hope brian aljazeera. Now the legendary musician who pioneered afro jazz man would bangle has died at the age of 86 after a contract at the coronavirus in france and was hospitalized last week norbert manley takes a look back at his life. A musician and sex often is known as pappy. The prophetic name from ahmedabad who pioneered afro jazz music and enjoyed a career spanning 6 decades the french culture minister from greece to pay tribute to him on social media saying the world has lost a legend and his talent knows new frontiers. His music inspired generations musicians and hes a cool genres from seventys disco to modern pop and hip hop. Born into our cameroon in 1933 to bangor moved to france when he was 15 and was dating jazz music in europe by the early fiftys. But he was this 972 hit the one group of recognition. The sounds of soma kosar pumped out of musicals accost me york leading to his 1st tour of the United States and france tracked his music to Global Recognition its also earned him a glass the nomination over his music was known to inspire many musicians in bar to the legal past with Michael Jackson riana in 2009. Everybody knows this song that was plagiarized by the great Michael Jackson. Everybody knows that but my throat is tight because life is strange life is really strange man of the bangle todays gone. To bangor toured across the berg throughout his career and collaborated with this including lady smith black mambazo Peter Gabriel and Sinead Oconnor sit down listen not only is it a talent thats gone its a part of africas musical history thats gone. To by this music was in part and spy about the native founds of this country but the practice music truth spiration from across the globe he said to have a home in football and 100 in fear with cameroon and where. Headlines on aljazeera new yorks governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u. S. State andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks. One of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly u. S. President says he would like to start lifting coronavirus restrictions in less than 3 weeks but with infection numbers rising dramatically in also has met skepticism from health care specialists. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we were in the way. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality. After 2 days of declining deaths rate the number of a toilet is in italy has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed cases the thais sending ventilators and other medical supplies to libya after it confirmed its 1st case of the virus the countrys Health Care System is highly vulnerable after years of conflicts curfews are in place and schools have been close as authorities try to prevent a large scale outbreak there is concern that theres too much indifference towards the pandemic in africas most populous nation nigeria has imposed strict measures following a shop rise in cases and its 1st fatality on the streets are still packed with people indias 1300000000 people have been put under lockdown for the next 3 weeks people are banned from leaving their homes but the government says essential supplies will be available and the tokyo 2020 and then picks have been postponed for a year japans Prime Minister shinzo abyei says he is determined to hold the games by the summer of 2021 as a symbol of the whilst triumph over a coronavirus those are the headlines on aljazeera coming up next its walls of shame distilling this. One a Prime Minister takes a lump of coal into his own all of that coal means a lot to the countrys fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world were living. In that whatever the problem is of course just counting the cost on aljazeera. This is the u. S. Mexican border a harsh landscape thats become the focus a bitter debate between the 2 countries. Yes ok ok well built along. Athens all of the right got it right. In the film were about to show you the 1st ad in 2007 it questions a policy thats become even more contentious today. The sonora