We see light at the end of the tunnel at syrias President Donald Trump striking an optimistic tone but a leading medical official warns americans the hardest moment of their lives is coming. Meanwhile in australia a criminal investigation into whether the operator of a cruise ship downplayed potential coronavirus cases causing deaths amid the despair. So the news out of london is that britains Prime Minister bars johnson has been taken to hospital as he continues to battle a Coronavirus Infection a spokesman said hes been admitted as a precaution because he still has symptoms 10 days after testing positive earlier Britains Queen elizabeth made a rare address to her nation the 93 year old monarch urging people to remain united and resolute to. Overcome the virus over in the u. S. Americas top surgeon has told people to prepare for the hardest and saddest week of their lives at this point more than 9000 people have died in the u. S. Over 1200 of them on saturday alone which was the highest number in any single day but in europes hardest hit countries there is some response italy has seen the lowest number of single day deaths in more than 2 weeks down to 525. 00 and fatalities in spain are down as well and the infection rate appears to be slowing as. Well Maryam Namazie in london has more now on Prime Minister johnsons condition. The reason for his admission to hospital is the fact that he had these symptoms that were persistent over a period of time so theyve lasted for about 10 days and its not that his symptoms of necessarily deteriorated its just that the symptoms the crowd of are symptoms a cough a fever if it does go on for a period of time then typically a patient would be admitted to hospital for the test for a blood test for a scan if something persists and that might be enough of a threshold for a hospital admission but i mean despite those reassurances that it is a precautionary measure it is going to generate a lot of concern and they will be wirings about why the Prime Minister is not recovering from this infection some 10 days into it and then also concerned about the timing of all of this because this hospital admission is happening just when the country is on the cusp of what is likely to be its most difficult very difficult few weeks as the struggle against the coronavirus intensifies and in him in many ways what the Prime Minister is going through reflects exactly what were seeing across the country with an increase in the number of coronavirus cases and an increase in the number of hospital admissions but the timing is going to cause some concern about whether it could affect the governments response to the epidemic in some way particularly with some very important decisions coming up in the next few weeks about these lockdown measures about testing strategy and of course the economy but the now downing street is very clear that the Prime Minister is still leading the government he is still in charge more now on Britains Queen elizabeth and her rare address to the nation the 93 year old monarch urged people to remain united and resolute to overcome the virus the support from john holl. 2 weeks into the u. K. s lockdown and deserted city scenes are testament to a new way of life most people staying home for as long as science and the government decide they must also on lockdown in Windsor Castle her residence outside london the queen 93 years old reminded britons that this crisis too would pass we should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure better days are ahead we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again but the government is worried about isolation for tea and a minority of people embracing the warm spring weather to picnic and sunbathe in the parks on promenades and beaches the more people follow the rules then the faster we will all be through it so i say this to this small minority of people who are breaking the rules or pushing the boundaries youre risking your own life and the lives of others and youre making it harder for all banning all this the ability to go outside to exercise in public as the Health Secretary has said he might have to do would be intolerable to many particularly those who live in cramped apartments with no outside space only compounding the effect isolation has on physical and Mental Health but the argument goes that if people arent going to change their behavior themselves well then they might have to be forced to in order to save lives best friends in meal and gabriel a keeping in touch at a safe distance through the fence is still our best friend and were very good friends so i think thats one of the hardest things about it so were trying to be a sponsor for. And we just come for a walk once a day but this is really really difficult as far as i know like this is what the government has recommended you get outside get as much sun and its fresh air as you can obviously stay away from people so i think were doing the social distancing quite well with the police exercising Emergency Powers to move people on its expected that britain will get a pretty good idea where the lockdown efforts have helped reduce the peak when it comes in the next week or so but even then a way out of this crisis involving eventual Widespread Community testing and Contact Tracing to manage a 2nd wave is many weeks away yet jonah how aljazeera lumbered look at france now 41 severely ill coronavirus patients have been transferred on trains from paris to brittany some of the patients are in intensive care in a van where there is less demand for i. C. U. Its hospitals in paris and the surrounding areas have been overwhelmed and total over 500. 00 people have now been moved out to other regions. In the us President Donald Trump fronted his daily Coronavirus Briefing with some optimism claiming the end of the outbreak is in sight as we mentioned earlier deaths are approaching 10000 and most experts warn the worst is actually years to come i did your caster as a reporter. Conflicting messages from the president of the United States we see light at the end of the tunnel things are happening these are happening and the countrys Top Health Officials the next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment its going to be our 911 moment and its going to be the hardest moment for Many Americans in their entire life the u. S. Surgeon general warns many more people will die in the coming days the expected surge adding urgency to the cries of state governors asking the federal government for deliveries of life saving equipment. Trump says ventilators from the federal stockpile are in route to several states and claims the u. S. Has conducted more coronavirus tests than any other country per capita though testing in the u. S. Is still far behind south korea and germany trump says the u. S. Has stockpiled 29000000 doses of the antimalarial drug that is being used experimentally to treat kovac 19 the president says he has so much personal confidence in the treatment that it was his idea to have patients were the right to sue if the drug ends up doing them harm thats hydroxy chloroquine and. His rhythm eisen. And again you have to go through your medical people get the approval. But. Ive seen things that i sort of like so what do i know im not a doctor so when reporters later tried asking the doctor anthony felt she the governments top Infectious Disease expert trump stopped him from answering and was able to weigh in on this issue of hydroxy for when would you think about this is one of the one of the limitations you know i maybe of his doctor 15 times. Meanwhile doctors and nurses across the country continue to plead for donations of more masks and gallants bracing for the apex of cases still to come castro aljazeera maryland so as we heard there and hide his report donald trump continues to promote the use of medication that is not actually proven to treat coronavirus and could endanger Peoples Health however the president says americans have nothing to lose we have. Purchased and we have stockpiled 29000000 pills of the hydroxy chloroquine 29000000. A lot of drugstores have them by prescription and also and theyre not expensive and also were sending them to various leds our military was sending him to the hospitals were sending them all over i just think its something you know the expression ive used it for certain reasons what do you have to lose what do you have to live well the drug he talks about hydroxy chloroquine it is an anti malarial drug which is also used to treat lupus and authorize but it has potentially severe side effects especially for the hops and no major study has found it is effective against covert 19 in fact the chief immunologist on trans Pandemic Task force has warned against taking. Many of the things that you hear out there or or what i had called anecdotal reports they may be true but theyre anecdotal so the only thing that i was saying is that if you really want to definitively know if something works that youve got to do the kind of trial that you get the good information then youve got to think about knock on effect start to say a rush to buy the drug would create shortages for patients who currently need it while the World Health Organization has spoken of the dangers of false hope using untested medicines without the right evidence could raise false hope and even do more harm than good but even with all those warnings President Trump has asked to india to release shipments of the drug that the u. S. Has already ordered but it has banned all exports well dr jihan ill buy you me is the executive director of the Rodham Institute this is the George Washington school of medicine and Health Sciences and she says it is dangerous for President Trump to give the public a false sense of hope. We are used to sort of the double talk from the president so that he always leaves himself an out so that if something as are not being true that he can kind of say why didnt say that or something is true then he can get the credit but yes and another aspect of giving people the idea of a false sense of hope that there may be a treatment and ive seen this with aides and the aids epidemic is that people then start to not take the preventative practices seriously and soul there are many unintended consequences and of course thats why you have the scientists the Public Health officials the clinicians the Health Care System thats really supposed to weigh in and talk about unintended consequences and what are the unintended consequences with the heidrick lot of hydroxy chloroquine drug itself is that it initially started as an anti malarial its not really being used that much because there was resistance so it is just so in my mind arrogant if not outright criminal to make these statements where were talking about peoples lives more on the coronavirus pandemic to come including this. Sometimes you can say well how can i tell the truth my child or so young yet how do you explain a Global Pandemic to a 5 year old the challenges facing parents and caregivers as millions of children stay at home. I want to explore the idea of socalled immunity passports for people who are covered even though questions do remain about resistance. And i know that the woman really is taking place now across more central and Northern Areas of the United States and up into central areas of canada but theres a lot of chatter. And the severe storms are on their way out of the picture the has been a fair amount of cloud even up into new york this is looking across at new york from new jersey and you can see some fairly dog clouds now mondays dot a bad day tour across much of the northeast clear skies tom it is not too bad 17 degrees celsius but youll see quite a bank of tat across the Central Regions it should be mostly dry and as i say tom it is really have come back up into the low twentys the denver even calgary and winnipeg now quite a few degrees above freezing where were not going to say a great deal of change in the weather is across much of california some very heavy rain into Southern California on monday but of course hes seen a fair amount of snow as well we will see is that in through the rest of sunday on into monday across the nevada range up to a meter is a forecast on the rain could be fairly heavy widespread by cheese day it does really begin to lighten those temperatures a little bit lower and i just 18 degrees celsius and by then we are going to see a system working its way through Eastern Canada and pushing this rain once again across much of the midwest so are all the damn day but not a cold day 23 celsius in chicago on a warm day in atlanta. In 2011 ill just to reggae and rare access to the pyongyang film academy and some of north koreas brightest young stars. What did it take to serve a National Propaganda machine. A compelling portrait of the privileged life of the countrys elite rewinds north korean cinema of chremes on aljazeera. The latest headlines on the coronavirus pandemic this hour and britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has been admitted to hospital 10 days after he was diagnosed with corona virus his office says its a precautionary measure because Prime Minister johnson has persistent symptoms earlier versions Queen Elizabeth made a rare address to the nation on television the 93 year old monarch of each able to remain united and resoluteness and u. S. President donald trump has expressed some optimism that cases in certain hotspots have been court leveling off this is after new york state reported a slight drop in the number of virus linked deaths however the u. S. Surgeon general was warned americans to prepare for the hardest and saddest week. In australia a criminal investigation has been launched into how hundreds of passengers were allowed to leave a cruise ship even though some were showing flu like symptoms 11 deaths and 600 corona virus infections have been connected to the ruby princess which docked in sydney last month more than a 1000 crewmembers remain on board with reports that up to 200. 00 of them a sick government is only letting the critically ill enter australia they gauge in sydney now to talk us through this one nicholas 1st of all where is the ship right now and what more do we know about whats happening on board. How laura will the situation here is changing every day but at the moment the ruby princess is south of sydney at port kembla at the moment what we do know her is that at least 200 crew members of the 1040 on board a currently sick and theyre not allowed to disembark unless they are critically ill the New South Wales police says that they are receiving medical attention on board that is why the ship was able to dock at port kembla so its easy a full medical professionals to give those on board the help that they need so people are being saved in by medical professionals on board we understand that the ship were mine docked there for at least 10 days after that all fortys will be looking at how to repatriate these workers to the 50 Different Countries that theyre from but as these Health Situation seems to be escalating there is also a criminal Investigation Underway police and homicide detectives in a strategy are looking at whether the operations of this cruise ship deliberately misled these charlie and golf dolphin meant and downplay the number of people who were sick on board this ship that was last month that 2700. 00 passengers disembarked despite some having flu like symptoms they flew to other parts of the country and since then nearly one 3rd of coronavirus death scene astride have been linked to the ruby princess and its also being linked to about 600 cases so if we look at the overarching picture in australia this really is significant as of monday morning weve had 37 coronavirus deaths in the country and there are about 5600 people infected but there are still a very strict social distancing in isolation measures in many businesses are closed and any public gathering. Of the 2 people are banned but the government has been more so positive in the last few days saying that we are starting to flatten that that we are seeing or a reduction in the right of infection but these strict social distancing measures will still remain in place for many months to come thank you for all that information nicola gage in sydney the number of infections in latin america has jumped jumped sharply in the last few days more than 25000 cases have been registered in the region brazil has been hit the worst so far with 11000 ecuadors government has begun storing the bodies of victims of corona virus in giant refrigerated container this because hospitals and morgues just struggling to cope the port city of kiev has emerged as a regional hotspot for infections president lenin moreno has set up to 3 and a half 1000 people could die in the region in the coming weeks and a son he is monitoring developments for us and he says the government has had to send additional refrigerators into some areas. The city of guayaquil remains the worst off area in all of latin america sort of worst Case Scenario for the entire region the hospitals the Health Care Services in the more experience have been completely overwhelmed by the number of cases of could be 19 and the number of deaths the government is trying to do something about it it started sending these special refrigerated containers to store the bodies that were piling up in the main hospital there or that people were storing in their houses or even on the streets also saying were starting to same 2000 cardboard coffins and a special hotline phone has been set up for people to call if they need help or if they need the bodies to be picked up the Vice President of ecuador is publicly asked for an apology for the way theyve been dealing with the crisis especially at the beginning when they really havent been able to enforce a quarantine in the city of guayaquil but the number of that keep going up another 180 confirmed cases on sunday in the government saying that the that number is probably below the real number of the victims of this virus and this u. 2 asian in ecuador is also becoming very worrisome for the neighbors of ecuador both colombia and peru have sent the military to the border to try and stop people crossing illegally leaving ecuador even if the borders are closed. Street musicians in mexico city is singing the blues to cheer up people bracing with the coronavirus when. They marry and shes traditionally gather at the gullible the looking to be hired but canceled events and social distancing measures mean fewer opportunities even many who get paid by the song unable to support their families. Now instead of corona virus has been relatively low in africa however the African Union predicts the pandemic could lead to the loss of more than 20000000 jobs study shows the continents economy could shrink by one percent this year and Foreign Investment could slump 15 percent trade may also drop by 35 percent which would lead to a loss of more than 270000000000. 00 tourism in the Oil Industries could also see big losses in the billions of dollars as well the u. N. Secretary general antonio terrorist says there has been a horrifying rise in Domestic Violence across the world during the pandemic and he is warning leaders against the dangers of inforce lockdowns for thousands of women around the world i urge all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women it keep part of the National Response plans for coverage 19 that means increasing investment in Online Services and Civil Society organizations making sure judicial systems continue to prosecute abusers setting up emergency Warning Systems in fantasies and groceries declaring shelters as essential services and creating safe ways for women to seek support without alerting their abusers over 300 pilots in the Czech Republic a volunteer their private planes to distribute medical equipment around the country have offered to bring materials to any hospital clinic or frankly any where its needed in 2 hours the service is often free of charge its even paid of a few. Well governments try to keep ahead of they are bright theyre also planning how to get people back to work one idea centers on something called an immunity passport Priyanka Gupta explains how that would work the coronavirus has transformed the world where empty streets and shuttered businesses are the norm and billions are under lockdown but researchers around the world are developing tests and conducting clinical studies to explore if people who have been infected and cured are no longer at risk the aim is to eventually allow people to go back to normal life. Idea behind this is that if people get him you and natural infection they would have a similar situation to someone having received a vaccination and we could use the protests as nice proper antibody tests become available we could use antibody tests to document that immunity exists. Britain which is struggling to speed up testing has floated the idea of a socalled immunity passport a certificate for those who recovered and declared immune to the virus in the minute to region of italy infected doctors and nurses are being tested to see if they have developed resistance to the virus so they can return to work. And millions more italians will be tested for natural antibodies but its unclear just how reliable and effective the tests if you know who are we dont know what kind of immunity people are going to have so that will say yes youve got these antibodies but what we are know is how predictable. At a time when government lockdowns have dropped so many people off their livelihoods they also concerns about criminals forging immunity documents this passport can be the equivalent of yellow fever. That allow International Travel to resume if countries recognize such a certificate but there will be a problem that i see that its a wrong counterfeit certifications because individuals communities urgently want to return to Economic Activity there also difficult ethical questions about where the sat so difficult will cause more prejudice and further restrict the most vulnerable in society you can ensure that people face lower risks and we reduce the death toll from this but you have to make more decisions about you know who will be allowed to work and who wont be who will be allowed to travel who want be the idea attractive and hopefully perhaps but also from with uncertainties as the wild hunkers down for yet another day of the Global Pandemic pianka could go on to 0. It is on lockdown schools closed and children at home many families and caregivers around the world are facing a real challenge of how to talk to their kids about coronavirus alexy or brian got some tips from a few experts. On the streets of gaza human sized virus works around raising awareness about 119. 00. An effort to make learning about the virus engaging and accessible was its a challenge caregivers around the world are facing as they try to explain the battle against an invisible enemy the pandemic is keeping around a 1000000000 children away from school its really important to be honest and tell the truth and sometimes people say well how can i tell the truth my child or so young and thats ok we can tell the truth using age appropriate language watching our childrens reaction being sensitive to the level of anxiety unicef has helped publish a story called my hero is you to help adults who may be struggling to find their own words to explain why the world has been turned upside down so the virus is basic rock looked at under a microscope it looks like a war with the dangling. New zealand science educator dr Michelle Dickinson uses videos to tell kids this superheroes of viruses on a mission to destroy the virus by washing their hands and she says the activities help children feel like they can control something when everything normal its been put on hold children are talking to other Children Online and finding rehab talk about the series youre in trying to shield your child from the well actually learning some summation from and maybe arent actually going to go up in these unprecedented times many homes are now also workplaces and schools and the hour. And cooped up inside and putting extra pressure on family she had to really follow what we say but they even more of what we do and how we act so we want to be aware of her own emotions and manage those. Im modeling not anxious which sometimes means acting a little bit calmer. But its so important to show her kids that we can and in a time of stress. We may not be like this by demand entertaining kids stuck at home but the experts say we all have super powers up our sleeves to find a supreme derek stay home be kind and use soap because basing the coronavirus really is in our hands. Brian al jazeera. Of past the hour on aljazeera and these are the headlines persons Prime Minister bars johnson has been admitted to hospital 10 days after he was diagnosed with corona virus his office says its a precautionary measure because johnson has persistent symptoms in france 41 severely ill coronavirus patients have been transferred on trains from paris to brittany some of the patients are in intensive care in rand where there is less demand for the i. C. U. Beds hospitals in paris and the surrounding areas have been overwhelmed and total over 500. 00 people have had to be moved out to other regions in the u. S. President donald trump has expressed some optimism that cases in certain hotspots have been quite leveling off it was after new york state reported a slight drop in the number of virus linked deaths but the u. S. Surgeon general warned americans should prepare for the hardest and saddest week trump also said testing has been ramped up across the country. I can report today that the United States has now tested and given results gotten results of 1670000 people thats far more than any other country has been able to do. And you remember we inherited a broken system so a lot of this has been developed by tuesday 1200 brand new rapid point of care testing kits has been produced by Abbott LaboratoriesGreat Company and theyll be distributed to all of our Public Health labs thats a 15 minute test even less. In australia a criminal investigation has been launched into how hundreds of passengers were allowed to leave a cruise ship just spied showing flu like symptoms 11 deaths at 600 factions have been connected to the review princess which docked in sydney last month and the number of infections in latin america has jumped sharply in the last few days more than 25000. 00 cases registered in the region brazil is the worst hit so far with over 11000 meanwhile ecuadors government has begun storing the bodies of victims of the corona virus in giant refrigeration containers as hospitals and morgues continue to struggle to cope the port city of new has emerged as a regional hotspot for infections president has set up to 3 and a half 1000 people could die in the region in the coming weeks now today with the headlines on al jazeera rewinds next. And for me to the point is good because the renowned for their courage on the phone. When i want to east finds out what it takes to join the elite brigade. On aljazeera. Hello and welcome to rewind this week where rewinding to 2011 and an episode of want to 18th which had secured unique access to north koreas elite Screen Academy a school where young actors were trained in how best to extol the virtues of the countrys then dear leader kim jong il