Pandemic forces the democratic republic of congo to shut down its capital and commercial. New attempts to treat covert 19 trials begin in the us using plans for transfusions for recovery patients. Britains Prime Minister has been moved to an intensive care unit with weston coronavirus sometimes Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday night after being ill for more than 10 days foreign secretary rob has been asked to deputize on his ear as worry chalons reports. The news came after a day of scant information and repeated lines the Prime Ministers hospital stay was just a precaution so downing street Boris Johnson himself tweeted i went into hospital for some routine tests as im still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i mean good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we Work Together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe but the reality was his condition was worsening later on monday doctors moved him to the intensive care unit thats in thomass hospital in london during the course of this afternoon the promise his condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team whos moved in to a Critical Care unit so in light of those circumstances the Prime Minister asked me as secretary to deputize for him where necessary and driving forward the governments plans to defeat Coronavirus Support for the Prime Minister has come from across the british political spectrum and beyond terribly sad news tweeted care starmer the new leader of the u. K. s Opposition Labor Party my thoughts are with you and your family so the breaks it negotiated Michel Barnier im from frances president macron all my support to Boris Johnson his family and the british people in this difficult moment. Heres a view inside one of britains covert 19 wards bournemouth on the south coast of england doctors and nurses are fighting to save lives here every day and. That. We still have to do. It in. Between getting out the way but then also having that my thesis contest the u. K. s patient deaths rose by 439 on monday but many more deaths are happening outside hospitals in london specialist teams of police fire and Health Services have been set up to respond to these we are anticipating about 30 percent of the mortality in london will be involving deaths within the Community Government scientists a stay at home measures do seem to be working to limit hospital admissions but its still too soon to say how much we need a good long time series of data on on all of these stages of infection in order to be able to tell what the impact or the measures that came in on the 23rd of march are going to be we its too early to tell yet when we need we need people to carry on following those instructions so that we can work out 3 weeks later what actually happens in hospitals and its still not known when the peak of coronavirus will be in the u. K. Will reach alans down to 0. 0 and a barber joins us now live from london the dame what do we know about just how ill the Prime Minister is whats the latest on his condition. Well a journal we havent had any updates in the last few hours but things have moved to very markedly as weve been in a whole lot over the last 24 hours or a chance and went into some thomas his host was so in Central London on sunday evening and that was sent to beef as a precautionary step because he was still suffering symptoms of coronavirus including a High Temperature and a cough of course he was the 1st would lead up to be tested positive for it not a team that was on march the 26 than he had a week or so on solution then he was supposed to come out of that well he was trying to last friday then he released a video in which it became clear that he was still suffering those symptoms and he also urged the public to stay in those during that video release but on monday he himself tweeted that he was in good spirits and paid tribute to the stars who are looking after him and that that briefing by dominic the foreign secretary on monday afternoon mr rob said that Boris Johnson continued to lead the government to get regular updates well a short while later that became it became clear that hed been moved to intensive care he wasnt on a ventilator there was one ready for him and he had received hed been given an oxygen during the day off to noon or evening of monday so its clear that its serious its clear that he has taken a turn for the worse in the last few days a lot of people now in fact saying that he wouldnt have been admitted to hospital on sunday evening unless it had been serious because he wouldnt want to avoid any kind of drawing of attention away from that National Address a very unusual and dress to the nation like we know is a bit which you know went on television and screens around the country on sunday evening to some people wondering if in fact how much the government knew at the press briefing on monday that chief medical officer was asked directly by the reporter does Boris Johnson have any money and this is what he said. Im absolutely not going to discuss any individual patient nor to be clear do i actually have all the details nor should i cause this is an issue between him and his medical advisors i can give a general answer which is the majority the clear majority people who do end up im going to ospital all the way they end up going into a general bed they may or may not need oxygen or other things and they dont need to go further than that but that is absolutely not a comment on his personal situation which should be completely inappropriate for me to comment on its just a general comment on how things tend to progress in hospital so where does the Prime Ministers absent absence leave the u. K. s covert 1000 response well its likely a journey its clear johnson has asked rock to deputize for him Dominic Graham says he will continue to implement the culture of 19 which Boris Johnson and set in motion that plan includes creating many more intensive care beds and temporary hospitals around the country ramping up as they said in the number of tests that can be done on. Health workers as well as the general public but in the meantime those restrictions on Peoples Movement set to stay in place for probably several weeks at the very least a day many thanks indeed down to 0 is that he and bob are there reporting live from london dr Annie Sparrow is an emergency and Critical Care physician shes also a professor of Health Science and policy at mount sinai hospital and she joins us now live from london good to have you with us dr of course Prime Minister johnson isnt the only person requiring intensive care treatment what is happening in a coronavirus patients body that leads them to require intensive care. Well there are basically 2 possibilities and and the premise is that they can they live in denial and during the 1st week 5 to 7 days of these disease that is characteristic we see that there is certainly an ephemeris for it to tap into the limbs are quite compliant there is an oxygen primer and and as that within that we come into the 2nd phase and we think a credit trying to hide a cold i was going on the symptoms that means was an insurance a grand increase in oxnard requirement which is usually there by this is always very hard by taking a blood guess which measures the level of oxygen or not just the level of oxygen levels or the level of cabin outside church or those or how were you able to get rid of. No clothes were its a miracle mentalizing and and we also measured the of stupidity of the blood so of course its a its a very worrying sign that hes been moved into critical kid but at the same time at this stage of the disease day 10 and 11. Its encouraging that hes not on a ventilator already ringback because we would really expect to see that at this stage it was in no sense yet the other thing i would say that its great to not be possible that he has a secondary infection which we think quite probably environment is in fact that was almost certainly responsible for you know how to do this in spanish influenza and so it could easily be your secondary bacterial i was going to ask you that the Prime Minister doesnt match the profile of patients who tend to worst once their condition requires intensive care he has as far as we know no Underlying Health conditions could the fact that he has kept walking throughout his illness of contributed to him progressing to this point. Its possible we didnt want to that would use all the stress on the body refused to work completely register it to work on the hot like it like you say and. Knowing if you put it in but im not privy to his medical history of course as far as we know theres no comorbidities. Hes persevering or pretty much any of dunking which we know that that is not necessarily a great. Factor and but apart from that hes not 60 which its also very protective he is however manal and we do know that in normal was to have was outcomes for reasons that we dont entirely understand but as you say he doesnt quite fit the profile and i think thats a reason to be encouraged and the better hes not being delayed to do it and that is that he had very smartly to militant into i thought he knew if you consider. That there is a risk that he may need it because the last thing he wanted to use had to do that and the crash cool you want to be able to do that you know a controlled setting where you can injure beijing or ventilate to. Control manna and certainly he may not even come to that he could go on its just the going to nation example really good to talk to your doctor many thanks indeed dr any spyro that live in london u. S. President donald trump says that hes saddened to hear the Boris Johnson has been moved to an intensive care unit trump is holding a steady press briefing as we speak as the number of deaths in that country some 10 1000. 00 or a sharp response he joins us now live from washington d. C. The president is still talking shahab what does he have to say. I think an International Perspective there are 2 threats one on course johnson and all tromping very tributes to johnson were also saying that hes been in touch with all pharmaceutical companies in the us who are making very few ticks for the crew of virus and he said at least 3 of them out been in touch with artist johnsons docs. To offer their help promote it was that he was you know was a classically trained statement long flourish i suppose for the new secretary but its automatically what exactly means but it would seem then that some of us almost couplets and yet you dont deputized by all trying to try to put up our assortment much help as they possibly can so thats one thing the 2nd thing is a story that were following at the end of last week pretty serious disagreement manufacturer 3 m. Trouble ministration accusing it of profiteering exporting b. And 95 respirator masks to all sorts of countries but many more of us dont try without an alcohol agreement has been reached this is important because there are probably just rationing words apparently on friday at least forcing 3 have to stop all exports of respirators are still being made in the United States 2 markets in calendar and in america which is that 3 have to say wait a 2nd what about front line workers that theyll know and will have the equipment they need to combat the great virus add an additional 3 and put it up this could lead to retaliatory measures from calender and others who actually supply us with medical equivalent in the nets the could be a net loss for us he says but ive told i was with my malibu removes dreams of my 50 5000000. 00 post must come up to the us so we have to see whether that means now that that restriction on exports to the rest of the world has been rescinded look at the small print out to syria she had potentially there live in washington d. C. Many thanks she have staying in the us the Supreme Court of wisconsin as ruled that the president ial primary cannot be disposed and the democratic governor tony of us have been seeking a delay to the process and a ban on voting in past because of the threat posed by the corona virus pandemic. We expect more cases we expect more deaths that we expect more tragedies with that in mind i cannot in good conscience allow any types of gathering that would further of the spread of this disease and to put more lives at risk i have been advised by Public Health experts at the department of Health Services that despite their hurlock efforts and good work of our local Election Officials poll workers and National Guard troops there is not a sufficiently safe way to administer in person voting to more live out of chicago and a serious john hendren can tell us more at the Supreme Court in wisconsin disagrees with the governor john why. Thats right it is Supreme Court said that the governor exceeded his authority that the authority to oversee the elections lies with the legislature so the governors efforts have gone on he has asked the Republican Legislature in the past to postpone the election they said no he is a democrat they are republicans and then he went on to ask on friday if if they would allow it to be male only elections and then now on monday hes asked the state Supreme Court if it would just postpone the election until june 9th that court which is dominated by conservatives that is republican leni leaning appointees said no. And the political element to this is that true democrats there is a president ial primary here so most voters would choose between joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for all of the local officials this is also a general election so primary for the presidency general for local officials and republicans at least according to democrats have a cynical reason for wanting to go forward to the election and that is that they believe that in the urban areas like milwaukee big cities those crowded polling places will cause people to stay home and they wont want to vote but that would be less so so the thinking goes in the rural areas where republicans dominate so theres been this back and forth going on ultimately it probably wont make a huge deal in the president ial election because joe biden has been substantially ahead and wisconsin wont put him over but there are 15 other states that have postponed their elections and now wisconsin is going to go ahead or is there as john hendren that live in chicago many thanks joe. Weather update next year out 0 then well find out why venezuelans are making the long walk home from colombia with no food or little guarantee of safety at the end. I didnt know that corruption has reached a level like nothing ever before in our country. Rank outsider. To president of the United States. The power was in the data we will moderate the American People with the truth and nothing else discovered. For winning the white house unfair game on aljazeera. I dont get so well get a Weather Forecast little later this is al jazeera lets for much of the top stories this hour the british Prime Minister has been moved to an intensive care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worse and Boris Johnson was admitted to a London Hospital on sunday more than 10 days after testing positive feels. The u. K. Foreign secretary has been asked to deputize where necessary Johnson Dominic rob said the Prime Minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care. Lets take a look at how the virus is spreading around the world right now according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker there are more than 1300000 confirmed cases now more than 270000 people have recovered from the virus and that but over 74000 deaths the majority of those in europe or france is one of those european nations with a rapidly growing number of dead the country recorded its highest number of virus related deaths in a single day taking the total number of deaths to almost 9000. 00 but there are signs of other parts of the consulate that the mortality rate is beginning to slow paul brennan reports was 2 europe passed another significant number on monday as the continents death toll from corona virus exceeded 50000 people thats the vast majority of the 70000 who died globally so far but while the infection is still on an upward curve in some European Countries in others there are signs that the contagion is starting to stabilize austria hopes to allow small shops and Garden Centers to reopen on april the 14th with restrictions potentially lifted on larger shops and hairdressers on may the 1st. But speaking from behind a protective per spec screen the austrian chancellor warned that everything depends on the infection rate the also double could be done in 2 weeks of a star will be a deciding week for us and it will be. Week which will decide whether the resurrection after 8th which we are all hoping for can actually happen as planned. The Spanish Government is also studying how to gradually ease the lockdown it imposed since march 14th Movement Restrictions have left poor and vulnerable residents relying on charitable groups like this one in seville to bring them food parcels. But on monday spains or 4th consecutive days drop in the number of new deaths and the number of new infections rising just 3. 3 percent offers some cause for hope relaxing the restrictions cant come soon enough for those living beside Lake Constance the barbed wire which once separated the german town of constance and its swiss neighbor critically and was torn down after world war 2 and residents mingled freely ever since now a new fence has created a coronavirus no mans land separating friends relatives and lovers pierre and his german girlfriend is a very well thought. That if weve been speaking to each other on face time in recent weeks and thats ok for a while but after 2 or 3 weeks you realize that thats not good enough we need to see each other and hear each of this voice like there was no the way but to meet here at this fades in its elise long body region despite reductions in both infection and death rates or fortys of actually tightened restrictions and residents now have to cover their mouth or nose whenever they go outside its an order intended to prevent complacency but a shortage of face masks is creating a problem in the future of i know we cannot find protected mass i havent found them so i made one myself and Authorities Say mass will be available in 3 days but theyve been saying that for a month restrictive measures are having an impact on the spread of the virus and collective discipline and a sense of civic duty are helping to save lives at canberra. And more people like this woman leaving intensive care are surviving but there are many thousands who will not make it to this stage of. Recovery and the voiding infection in the 1st place still remains the safest strategy. Told brennan aljazeera venezuelan migrants in colombia are choosing to return to their homeland many have been struggling to find work because of colombias virus lockdown nearly 600 people return to venezuela at the weekend many of them are making the journey on foot which could take up to 2 weeks lets go live now to chiles capital latin america at its. Lucy and newman joins us from. As if the journey for these people wasnt obvious enough to see what is going to be waiting for them when they get back home. Exactly. 136 crew long journey just from the capital of colombia look bad to the border with venezuela but you know they know full well these people that they are returning back to a country thats in the same situation that drove them from the country in the 1st place and were talking about a dire economic crisis terrible Public Health but what isnt making them do this are 2 things 1st of all unemployment they have most of them lived by hand to mouth anyway as migrants in colombia which has the largest number of than his waylands and is also on the border so its these people kind of least walking back. A very very long journey but there is a Street Vendors there no longer people on the streets to sell tool because theres a quarantine in the capital people they say are not treated in that set the same way they were being expelled from the places they rent because they cant afford to pay for the rent any longer and so at least when they return home they have a family people they know people who love them people who can. Get together helping each other out as much as possible and they will no longer be treated as outsiders as many people say they are now being treated in colombia here in chile in argentina in many parts of latin america where venezuelans have fled over the last few years 4000000 of them in fact but now those countries too are in an acute crisis because of the coronavirus and unemployment is soaring by the millions in all the countries that are surrounding that as well as well im not in america this isnt even reporting live from santiago many thanks indeed lucilla. The democratic republic of congo shut down its Capital Commercial hub for 14 days kinshasa is the epicenter of the outbreak 12000000 people live in the city many in cramped conditions reports. Kinshasa has turned to go sleep quiet fears of the corona virus spreading has brought businesses to a standstill in the democratic republic of congo the capital is a financial and diplomatic cub for around 95 percent of the citys population. The situation is terrible and we dont know what to say we are praying to god they need to cancel this measure otherwise it will be a humanitarian disaster. Only Police Patrol the streets setting up checkpoints to the entrance of a district now under lockdown as governess says its the epicenter of the virus teams on standby to screen patients and disinfect buildings. We are in the process of controlling the movement of people they must be surrounded which is the 1st objective of tracking down cases there were people with intense fatigue and vomiting Authorities Say only people with certified passes are allowed to enter or exit for medical or emergency reasons thats angered residents here who. Were disappointed down is disorganized we were given special branches by the governor so that we can access the town work to denying of access for those living in the district theres growing uncertainty. This was badly planned how they can call for without given us the possibility of living with our family this is not the way things should happen. Inside the township its still busy with many living in cramped conditions unable to he calls for social distancing or isolation. This town. Is put in place so how can we find the cost of virus in these conditions. The countrys Health Care System has a long struggle to deal with a measles cholera and ebola epidemic thats killed thousands of people president kennedy has declared a state of emergency closing the countrys borders one official is trying to contain yet another crisis the mounting threat of covert 19 is adding further pressure to many living here. Japans Prime Minister has pledged a one trillion dollar stimulus plan in an effort to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus that the package is expected to be confirmed by shinzo based cabinet on tuesday and will see Cash Payments made to households and Small Businesses is also expected to declare a state of emergency within the next 24 hours 85 people have died with the virus more than 3 and a half 1000 cases have been confirmed there are no proven drug therapies or effective vaccines for the virus yet but the u. S. Food and Drug Administration is looking into the treatment that show promise during previous epidemics after chappelle explains shortly after stepping on board this mobile clinic for instance wars became the 1st person in florida to participate in an experimental treatment to fight coke in 19 hes also the mayor of miami who has recovered from the virus and has been symptom free for at least 14 days researchers hope his plasma can up a critically ill coronavirus patient nearby so i got 3 or 4 instagram messages that were very similar asking if i would be willing to donate blood or plasma and with the same number i was actually at my parents house because they were decontaminated my house and actually called back to patient right away the patients family right away and they were very emotional they were very very grateful and are very hopeful that with this donation hopefully he can he can be saved the American National red cross wants other recovered patients to do the same. Plasma is the liquid portion of blood thats full of antibodies that fight infections blood is drawn in pipes through a special machine to extract the yellow colored serum donors then get their red cells and platelets back in a process that takes a little longer than donating blood recipients will then in theory be able to share the donors active in unity. After 1st approving it for emergency use u. S. Food and Drug Administration has now authorized Johns Hopkins university and the mayo clinic to begin Clinical Trials to see if passive antibody therapy may shorten the duration of illness the severity of disease or prevent people from dying from it all together and to find a way to boost the immune system of Frontline Health workers for their egos. And banded together to try to Work Together for. And i think in the end science well went out the f. D. A. Gave new york States Department of health permission to conduct the experimental procedure last month though its only been used on a handful of patients die in a parents became the 1st potential plasma donor in her state and is working to connect recover patients to opportunities to save lives through facebook we are keeping a running list of every study that we can find around the country and making that was available in acting as a matchmaker of sorts between Research Institutes and survivors to make the system more efficient and extradite the process because we dont have time to waste lives are on the line this treatment predates vaccines and was used to fight the 1800 flu pandemic as well as more recent outbreaks of the corona virus family like sars and mares one donation can generate nearly 4 units of plasma i could help for people however its not known to be a safe and effective treatment for cover 19 we dont understand a lot about the immune response to this virus were assuming its similar to other viruses and there are good reasons to think that. And so we think that within 7. 00 to 14. 00 days after the onset of an infection that people will develop an immune response and benchley make high amounts of antibodies although exactly when the peak of antibody production will be we dont know and how long it will stay permanent we also dont know that either institutions in 20 states are coordinating their research through a National Code 1000 program to answer those question. Together they hope to discover therapeutic treatments that will help reduce the number of infections and hes pressure on hospitals and Health Care Workers and he should help out his or. Its good to have you with us hello Adrian Finnegan here in doha the headlines the british Prime Minister has been moved to an intensive care unit out to his coronavirus symptoms worsened Boris Johnson was admitted to a London Hospital on sunday more than 10 days after testing positive for the illness the u. K. Foreign secretary has been asked to deputize when necessary for Johnson Dominic rob said that the Prime Minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent cat. The man who will deputise for Boris Johnson foreign secretary dominic robb has just spoken and his little of what he said during the course of this afternoon the promise his condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team whos moved in to a Critical Care unit so in light of those circumstances the Prime Minister asked me is for secretary to deputize for him when necessary in driving forward the governments plans to defeat coronavirus. The Supreme Court of wisconsin has ruled that the president ial primary cannot be postponed democratic governor tony davis had been seeking a delay to the process of the ban on voting and passengers the threat posed by the corona virus pandemic the number of corona virus linked deaths in europe has passed 50700000 people have been infected but there are signs that the rate of infection is leveling off spain germany and the u. K. Recorded the fewest deaths in several days on monday. But as well of migrants in colombia choosing to return to their homeland many of them have been struggling to find work because of colombias lockdown some of making the journey on foot which could take up to 2 weeks. Japans Prime Minister has announced a one trillion dollar stimulus plan an effort to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus in his country the package is expected to be confirmed by sions obvious cabinet on tuesday that will see Cash Payments made to households and Small Businesses a base also expected to declare a state of emergency within the next 24 hours. Now those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after people in power are next. On counting the cost for nations seek emergency funding from the world bank and i. M. F. To battle the coronavirus pandemic argentina puts people before that crisis and from helicopter money to universal basic income what governments must do to keep the economy alive counting the cost on aljazeera. As you can carry in Prime Minister. Was how you. Read it these days hes routinely read of as a migrant bashing. Piece of flora terry. Democratic. July 29th teen people went 100 outlives assert the senate. 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