And im sure all the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to or turn to more normal times i also want to thank those of you who are staying at home that by helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones together we are tackling this disease and i want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute then we would overcome it i hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge and those who come after us will say the britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self discipline of quite good humored resolve and a fellow feeling still characterise this country the pride in who we are is not a part of our past it defines our present and future. The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud it scared an essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our National Spirit and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children across the commonwealth and around the world we have seen heartwarming stories of people coming together to help others be it through delivering food parcels and medicines checking our neighbors or converting businesses to help the relief effort and those self isolating met times be hard many people of all face and of none are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down pause and reflect in prayer or meditation it reminds me of the very 1st broadcast i made in 1940 helped by my sister we as children spoke from here at windsor the children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety today once again many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones but now as then we know deep down that it is the right thing to do while we have faced challenges before this one is different this time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavor using the great advances are science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed and that success will belong to every one of us. We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure better days were written we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again but for now i send my thanks and warmest good wishes to all so that was Queen Elizabeth here in the United Kingdom addressing the nation as the country combats the coronavirus pandemic she began by thanking the ne the n. H. S. The Health Services here in the u. K. And she asked for resolve in the face of this pandemic this was a recorded message it was broadcast simultaneously on Television Radio as well as social media also important to know that it was filmed by a single camera man wearing protective clothing and with all the other technical stuff in a different room thats what were hearing about that record message by Queen Elizabeth lets bring in mary and joining us here from london via skype so merriam it was really a message by the queen intended to reassure and rally the nations resolve in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. You know i mean obviously the queen trying to comfort people in the difficult time and it really has to be said that a broadcast like this from the queen is extremely rare of course we are from there every year when she delivers her christmas message but this speech that weve had just now is very different its really a sign of how extraordinary this national and Global Crisis is actually she referred to the Global Nature of the crisis and that this is what distinguishes it from the challenges the countries faced in the past and the fact that shes speaking out now in very much it really shows the sort of historical significance of what is happening now of course she trying to console people she said that she tried to console people who suffered personal grief she also mentioned those who have suffered from Financial Hardship she also paid tribute to frontline n. H. S. Workers and also people that work in callans we mustnt forget that its not just about doctors and nurses who work inside hospitals ambulance workers who are going to be called out to deal with suspected cases of over 1000. 00 but also those people who are selflessly continuing to go into work in old age care homes in those facilities and care for the vulnerable so she paid tribute to them and this is really important because these are the people that are about to go into a very difficult few weeks when the n. H. S. Is expected to face really up precedented demand and trash and already were seeing in many hospitals in parts the country facing that pressure with intensive care units becoming full with patients so the queen really paying tribute to all of those people and then also expressing her gratitude to those who are following government guidelines and so she really throwing her weight behind the government message that even though its very difficult even though people are suffering obviously compromising on that personal freedom it is important that they remain at home so yes and message aimed at boosting confidence and morale a right to marry in a muslim thank you very much. While the corona virus has infected more than 1200000 people across the world its killed over 68000 so far nearly 600 new deaths have been reported in new york thats the epicenter of americas outbreak and more than 1100 people have been killed nationwide the countrys top doctor says americans must brace for the hardest and saddest week of their lives but death rates are falling in the worlds 2 worst hit nations italy has recorded 525 deaths in the last 24 hours thats its lowest toll in more than 2 weeks and spain has reported 674 new fates alice he is the 1st time that number has dropped below 800 in a week from says daily death death toll also fell however here in the u. K. Its emerging as europes next hotspot 4934 people have died in the government as youve been hearing is pleading with people to observe social distancing rules but many seem to be ignoring that to enjoy the warmer weather. Has more from london. Well it was that the Health Secretary matt hancock giving the daily government briefing and i think everybody was listening the 1st signs that he intends to crack down further on the restrictions the lockdown restrictions now 2 weeks in in place here particularly with fears in the sunny weather that people too many people were taking advantage of it to picnic and sunbathe in the park and hence undermining the whole effect of the lockdown in the day said that avoiding sunbathing in picnicking was not a request but a requirement so certainly a strengthening of the language there everything up to now has been a guidance. However in this press briefing he said he wasnt planning any changes to those rules for the moment but urged people to strictly follow them nonetheless it was a question about oxygen supply in hospitals after a leading london Teaching Hospital announced earlier in the week that around a week before it had almost run dry of oxygen with the number of people coming in who required managed breathing with ventilators and breathing assistance with mosques the n. H. S. Response at that time was to tell hospitals around the country to look at what they could cope with as a maximum in terms of the number of people getting breathing assistance and stick to that effect effectively limiting those numbers and having to make very very difficult life and death decisions about who should be able to breathe and who should not. And back to the u. S. Because new york state has now reported more than 8000 new infections in the last 24 hours and as weve been saying the state remains the epicenter of americas outbreak making up more than 40 percent of the countrys death toll lets get an update from the hes joining us from washington so the numbers continue to be worrying out of new york in particular. Indeed yes new york state at the epicenter of the pandemic here but there was Interesting Data released by the governor of new york state andrew cuomo in the course of his daily news briefing yes the death rate is still an acceptable he says but significantly perhaps the death rate has dropped for the 1st time since the pandemic hit new york state now the governor says its too early to make any predictions out of this he says the statisticians tell him that they want the results in the next few days to apply to what is happening today but he said it is a significant moment perhaps the possibility is that new york state has reached that apex that has there has been so much talk about and so much focus on to stu repeat though the governor saying its too early to make extrapolations from this particular data however you pointed out to that 75 percent of those who were admitted to hospital in new york state have now been discharged the c. Describes as a very encouraging sign of new york continues to be hit hard as to neighboring states such as new jersey and of course other parts of the country as well and the u. S. Surgeon general the countrys top dr jerome adams issued a bleak warning in the course of the day the next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment its going to be our 911 moment its going to be the hardest moment for Many Americans in their entire lives and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten that curb and get through to the other side Everyone Needs to do their part 90 percent of americans are doing their part even in the states where where where they havent had a shelter in place but if you cant give us 30 days governors give us give us a week give us what you can so that we dont overwhelm our Health Care System over this next week and then lets reassess at that point. Now the white house virus coordinator has said recently that the apex of the virus is likely to hit within the next 7 days and she predicts that it could hit in separate locations creating a logistical nightmare and other hot spots weve been looking at new york state certainly great concern about states such as louisiana a 20 percent rise in infection rate then 24 hours new orleans the city has a death rate which per capita is twice that of new york state so certainly these hot zones continuing to occur across a number of states a very bleak week has been promised by the Surgeon General as indeed by President Trump within the past 24 hours all right mike hanna thank you for that update from Washington Well the number of People Killed by the coronavirus in canada has increased by 20 percent in one day bringing the death toll there to 258 the number of confirmed cases stands at just over 14500 canada has appealed to volunteers to support Frontline Health care workers and is offering full time jobs to reservists. Here with al jazeera coming up in just a moment fears for those living on the edge of American Society and how they will survive the pandemic. Maybe good stuff. Also ahead meet tommy the robot one of many high tech machines now being used to protect medical stops in the battle against terror a virus. And are there some very nice weather across central and Western Areas of europe whether in place of my sunshine the weather itself in terms of rain and snow that is across the southeast meanwhile across the north some pretty strong winds and some rain as well but for the time being it is being held at bay by this High Pressure sober so this warm weather just look at this this is the Cherry Blossom avenue in bone in germany and theres a couple of pictures of that it is glorious and has helped that come on temperatures across central western there was a john even about 10 degrees above the average quite the difference a cross into as a mainland greece just have a look at this snow will just come down very recently so looks more like winter than this time of the year and that system across the southeast as we go through monday it will continue to die away taking with it that rain also that snow pushing across into Western Areas of turkey still a bit cool in the wake of that system most guys across central and western europe but that high beginning to break down as we go through monday we have also sheilds coming through the temperatures will get damage because of that if you want spain and some heavy amounts of rain across areas of portugal that will work its way east was on a choose day and then were back to mostly dry conditions and in terms of temperatures here its a good example just look at this over the next few days 21 celsius by wednesday its 22 and that is 11 degrees above average. That corruption has reached a love like that before in our country. Count side. To president of the United States. The power was in the data we will the American People with the truth and nothing else just go. For winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. Kind of again the top stories on aljazeera you case it was a bit has addressed the nation as a combat of the coronavirus pandemic praising Health Care Workers and calling for a united efforts the monarch has asked people to follow social distancing rules rigorous vigorously as the National Death toll nears the 5000 mark. Meanwhile 594 more deaths have been reported in new york the percent of the outbreak in the u. S. Countrys top doctor says americans must brace for the hardest and saddest weeks off their lives but death rates are falling in the worlds 2 worst hit nations italy has recorded 525 more deaths its lowest poll in more than 2 weeks and spain has reported 674 new deaths the 1st time that number has dropped below 800 in a week. Iran has reported another 151. 00 deaths but also a decrease in the total number of new infections for the 5th day in a row it comes as the country tries to get back to normality as a bus ravi explains from wrong. Weve heard from Health Officials over the last few days and weeks that things can go back to normal too soon but the president when he made this announcement president rouhani began by saying i should all branches of government are on board with the plan that they have witnessed or were so making it clear that the government is according to him speaking in one voice despite the warnings of normalizing too quickly from Health Experts saying that that could bring on a 2nd wave here president Hassan Rouhani did say that in terms of the details of what is considered low risk and high risk those announcements will be made over state t. V. In the coming hours but we can surmise that what they consider low risk is anything that doesnt compel too large of a crowd to form people can work from home they can open Small Businesses remember this country is a place where the majority of businesses are small to medium so really those environments will begin to see life coming back to life returning to some kind of burma he said that even though those shops and other organizations may begin to start their engines again they have to observe Health Protocols social distancing that still has to be the key element of how to go about doing this is always going to balance between fighting a Public Health crisis and making sure the countrys economy does not go bust he also acknowledged that iran and iranian people are still operating in unknown territory they dont know whether or not this will continue for a long period of time whether the country will become a kind of reservoir for the virus so he said things will be taken one step at a time but we have to remember that the countrys main concern all along has been that the virus might do what sanctions could not which is bring the countrys economy to a standstill and thats really what theyre trying to fight against at this time a 2nd refugee camp has been quarantined near athens after 53 year old man tested positive for the coronavirus about 800 People Living in mud across a camp are now being screened johnson rubble as has more. This is the 2nd camp thats been placed on lockdown in a space of just 3 or 4 days as a result of a positive test the great concern here is for the greek government is to move with speed because this can holds about 1800 people the entire thats more than the entire infected population in greece right now which stands at 1673 so you can see how that such a camp with People Living in close quarters might very quickly overwhelm medical authorities by doubling the number of infections and the fact that this is the 2nd camp is also concerned the 1st one proved to produce about 24 cases 24 infections partly because were lucky the 1st case was a pregnant lady who gave birth in athens hospital and was diagnosed by a stroke of luck while she was giving birth. Speed for with the camps is key so that you can quickly isolate families that are affected and prevent it from spreading to the entire camp nigeria has confirmed 4 deaths and more than 200 cases of the virus aid workers say close to 2000000 people in camps in the countrys north east are extremely vulnerable and i did Research Reports from. A sprawling county for the displaced in my degree its one of dozens dotting the landscape of the old eastern nigeria. And some of the camps aid workers hand out soap and water in the race to improve personal hygiene as more Coronavirus Infection sent deaths reported people are complaining very well the level of complain as you can see. It is at they get around trying to insult in fact they say to somebody who wanted. Still get access to the camps and then to fasten actually declined to wash and i was he was denied access. But the residents here are undernourished with some having to wait in lines to fetch Drinking Water overcrowding is another major problem making social distancing on most impossible level to let the darkling theres no support or any donation that will encourage hygiene and Healthy Lifestyles but yet they are still making emphasis on coughing and sick its good personal hygiene so how do you expect the less privileged in the camp to cope with this situation. We are always praying that through we can do this is a test from almighty god so we ought to accept it with good faith 10 years of war with boko haram the Group Fighting against nigerias army has forced more than 2 and a half 1000000 people from their homes into camps like this. The United Nations and i was to magnus a response may just mitigate the spread of corn of others among the most vulnerable in the northeast but organizations such as Doctors Without Borders say the situation in the camps is dire its made worse by the continuing broke autumn attacks not only in northeastern nigeria but in neighboring cameroon chad and michel the public. Many fear a corona Virus Outbreak in these camps could be cut as traffic i fear thats becoming more real with Health Facilities crumbling across the country public increase ill just. Its been a tough year for American Farmers theyve dealt with massive floods a trade war with china and theyre now classified as high risk for the coronavirus many of them fear sort of has if the virus spreads into their Rural Communities so 100 reports from americas midwests. Here in americas bread basket the corona virus has yet to descend in force on the nations farms. But john keep your nose its coming and the timing could hardly be worse some people are going to get sick the numbers are out there the history of this virus is were not going to avoid it like most farmers keefe nurse who raises corn soybean and chickens is already socially isolated but the average u. S. Farmer is 58 and a half years old putting them in the High Risk Group for the Global Pandemic that is yet to reach much of Rural America a lot of younger farmers arent worried about it all im of the mindset that im probably not going to avoid it im going to get it and id rather get it now ill. In the past Year American farms have endured damaging floods a trade war with china and now a virus that threatens their workers and their ability to transport food to market if we shrink the labor pool this year thats going to be terrible all the emphasis is on the supply chain and my biggest fear is the Transportation Industry we constantly have a shortage of Truck Drivers so Truck Drivers need to avoid this virus. On chicagos Mercantile Exchange and throughout the midwestern farm belt agricultural income fell nearly 10 percent compared with last year and that was before the virus then theres the worry about getting livestock to market meat packing plants or labor intensive that would be the biggest problem would be at least it would have processing plants lets say had to shut down even temporarily its going to drive down price for a while because youre going to have a back in the supply chain. John key for says farmers can get through the short term but the longer the crisis lasts the more strained americas food supply will be if this becomes a long to law endemic its going to be a lot of people relying on us farmers until then keefe naren farmers like him are doing their best to stay isolated and in good health john hendren l. Jews era chicago well they live on the margins of society and their affairs for how undocumented workers in the u. S. Will survive the pandemic along with their families they have little access to health care and often less chance to avoid the virus or brunells has more from los angeles one son to yon is a day laborer im with and the. I work day to day so i have to work its at them with them up if i dont work in the kind of a home with no i i want to have enough to cover the basic necessities in a city that has nothing. At the nonprofit Outreach Center where something yon goes to find work staff are preparing bags with soap tissues and information packets about covert 19 who are really concerned specifically for workers that are elderly were really concerned about them we look at that we have a Huge Population of workers that are 60 and while it work many undocumented workers cant even practice basic virus prevention our workers who dont have access to Running Water can even wash their hands at the month senior osco romero clinic in los angeles dr don garcia treats low income families many of whom are undocumented they live in the shadows their exposure i could very well say on an epidemiological site could even be higher than the ordinary resident or person of the United States just because of their employment stands garcia says some undocumented people ovoid interacting with Public Health systems for fear of being caught like immigration authorities and deported doctors say if the situation remains in which undocumented people stay in the shadows away from the Health Care System during the pandemic it poses a grave risk to the population as a whole theyre becoming a transmission vector to all those other individuals that theyre exposed to unless government policy encourages undocumented people to come out of the shadows the danger of infection could increase for everyone robert oulds Al Jazeera Los Angeles well one of the Biggest Challenges posed by the corona virus is restrictions on contact between people but now Artificial Intelligence is being used to replace the human toll its real mohammads explains. Doctors and nurses in italy need all the help they can get including from tommy the robot. Made. That robots like tommy operate in the most infectious wards staff here hope hell reduce the risks of catching the disease by avoiding direct contact with patients. It allows us to use less protective clothing like masks and overalls which at this time are in scarce supply the advantage is there for double. The Northern Region of lombardy accounts for most of italys known coronavirus cases here the robots help real a Vital Information between patients and doctors remotely and that any time of the day. Share your time on the top of this robot helps us monitor some clinical parameters of the patient for example heart rate respiratory rate oxygen saturation Blood Pressure and also mechanical aspects of respiration. In galle in belgium hospitals are testing whether robots equipped with ultraviolet lights can disinfect wards to keep patients safe even in hard to reach areas. Place and stuff and this infection the machines ultraviolet light quickly kills bacteria we want to make sure that we touch every surface which by the lights and this can be done by the robot as if to drive itself. To the streets. In indias Southern State of tom im not do robots are lending a helping hand by delivering vital supplies they dont like to get people and also available for the. Giving in to them and medicine to their patients because of it it would be an issue to pay me if we should have the others on Security Patrol in tunis he has capital. That this one dubbed robo cop is guarding empty streets ensuring no one breaks a lockdown imposed last month without. Spotting unmanned drones is slowly becoming a regular occurrence many are being deployed as part of coronavirus awareness campaigns. As well as making sure that everyone stays indoors and maintains social distancing while the human touch remains essential in times of crisis robots are stepping in where people cant read them mohammeds aljazeera. Hello again the headlines on aljazeera britains Queen Elizabeth has paid tribute to the countrys Health Service workers in a rare televised address in the message seen in the u. K. And across the commonwealth she warned that there may be more to endure in the corona Virus Outbreak she also thank people who are staying at home saying they were helping to protect the vulnerable. We will succeed and that success will belong to every one of us. We should take comfort that while we may have more still to indio better days were written we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again but for now i send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all well people in the u. K. Have been warned outdoor exercise could be banned if they dont hear its a very virus restrictions warmer weather saw groups of people in parks in london and other cities despite more than 600 new deaths nearly 4 and a half 1000 people have been killed by the virus in the u. K. And 594 more deaths have been reported in new york the epicenter of the outbreak in the u. S. More than 9100 people have been killed nationwide the countrys top doctor says americans must brace for the hardest and saddest weeks off their lives comparing the crisis to 911. 00 on the bombing off pearl harbor. But death rates are falling and the worlds total worst hit nations italy has recorded 525 deaths in the last 24 hours its lowest hole in more than 2 weeks and spain has reported 674 new fates the 1st time that number has dropped below 800 in a week. A 2nd migrant camp in greece has been placed under quarantine after an afghan man tested positive for the corona virus the 53 year old has been taken to hospital while all thor days are now tracing how the virus entered the camp youre up to date with the headlines on aljazeera the United Nations tells us about global efforts to stop the virus next on talks. Itll be good to see. How low the. U. N. Headquarters in new york this is a building i would kid most days and i have to tell you if hes very early now normally theres about 10 new files some people come into this compound every single week day now at the moment theres only about 300 people accessing this building every day they all the skeleton staff most of the working trying to get the Video Conference and systems working to allow the rest of the u. N. To continue its vital functions those peace keep