The worst is over possible signs of hope in the u. S. Coronavirus at the center but the new york governor warns its no time to relax. And americans line up for miles that food banks across the country trying to feed their families during the virus lock the. Welcome to the program the number of coronavirus case is now nearing 2000000 worldwide but theres some signs of light at the end of the tunnel china has approved 2 new experimental coronavirus vaccines to be tested on humans Clinical Trials are also under way in the United States elsewhere india is extending its nationwide lockdown until may 3rd more than a 1000000000 people there have been ordered to stay indoors and all nonessential businesses have been closed in the u. S. President trump and his top disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci say that. A the number of new infections is not growing as fast as before more than 1500 americans have died in the past 24 hours alone bringing the total number of dead to over 23000 is the highest anywhere in the world and meantime the World Health Organization says countries should be cautious about lifting restrictions that now is the time to be vigilant and careful well the wealth World Health Organization has urged countries to carefully consider any changes to social and economic restrictions their way down is march slower than the way up that means control measures must be lifted slowly and we scoundrel it cannot happen all at once controlled measures can only be lifted if the right public and the measures are in place including significant capacity for Contact Tracing well well speak of elizabeth purana min indias capital new delhi shortly but 1st lets go live to sarah clarke in Hong Kong Sara so what more do we know then about these experimental chinese vaccines. Well this announcement has been made on the shin one news agency this is a government controlled media operation are based in china what they say is that chinas approved 2 experimental coronavirus vaccines that were into a Clinical Trial now the vaccines will be developed in partnership with number one a beijing based Biotech Group and the other part that will be a i will hand biased pharmaceutical group and again thats but thats very scant data but what we do know is that its been released by the news n. Z. But should say china has already announced another Clinical Trial and that was made or given the go ahead back in march its now started its 2nd phase of the Clinical Trial the 1st lot 1st trial looked at the safety the 2nd phase of the trial is looking at the efficacy and its already signed up about 500. 00 volunteers and the focus for that particular trial will be in we hand and out there are not there are no effective drugs clearly to deal with the crime of virus and globally at the moment but china certainly does have the advantage simply because it number one the crown of our outbreak started in china but secondly theyre the 1st to actually map the genome sequence of the crime of virus as a result of the 2nd Clinical Trial its been announced on tuesday by the shin wa news agency and sara talk us through the numbers in china with reports emerging of more infections in us whats been happening. Well in the last couple of hours weve had some numbers being released again by that government controlled Media Organization they are saying that were going to 111 new cases of the crime of arson fiction coming out of the city in one giant one jos a large city in the south of china and the at these particular infections are reportedly people of african origin now over the last couple of days weve seen a number of social media reports from members of the African Community within one job reporting it with claims of Inhumane Treatment they saying theyve been mistreated addicted from their homes denied access to hotels and restaurants weve had one student say shes been thrown out of a home living on the streets and denied food now those claims were picked up by a number of african countries have condemned china the chinese authorities for what they describe as Inhumane Treatment of chinas responded saying they dont discriminate against the African Brothers but in the last couple of hours as i mentioned weve had the new cases reported by the shin one news agency of 111 cases of people of african origin but weve yet to have that clarified of confirmed by the National Health commission which holds its press conference out of beijing on in the afternoon weve also seen a spike of cases in the northeast in a province called the heilongjiang now this particular city it borders russia and weve seen a spike in cases of chinese nationals coming from russia back into china as a result weve got a key city on that on the border there its been put into a Strict Lockdown weve also got the capitol hop and its been forced stay at home orders weve got public gatherings banned in parts of that province mandatory Health Checks have also been put in place for those chinese nationals coming back into china from russia and they are included metric coronavirus testing as well as a 28 day according to rules so chinese authorities are also deploying a number of medical teams as well as their resources from the south to that particular region as it looks like to looks like the new battleground state of the chinese authorities to try and stem the spike or rise in number of infections in Mainland China or at a sort of plot line for us there in Hong Kong Sara thank you lets cross over now to new delhi and talk to aljazeera is elizabeth purana elizabeth Prime Minister modi has extended the lockdown what more did he have to say. Thats right daryn so extended for another 2 and a half weeks to the set of may and he said that they will be more guidelines issued tomorrow on wednesday about exactly who will have to do what where but we are expecting the nationwide lockdown to continue at least to the 3rd of 3rd of may now he acknowledged down to start off with he acknowledged that this lockdown has been really particularly difficult for indias millions of poor and especially the daily wage earners he said that they remain his top priority acknowledge that many have been hungry that a lot of them are far away from their homes and he also spoke about the need for 1st imposing the lockdown on how india had a lockdown in place when there was Something Like 500 confirmed cases and that much more developed countries who imposed a lockdown later than india are in a much worse off situations if it was he said talked about the need to do it and now the need to extend it because even though there were 500 cases 3 weeks ago and there has been a lockdown in place there are needing 9000 active confirmed cases right now so the numbers have grown exponentially in saying that thats why the lockdown had to continue and again talking about the daily wage earners who need the support and also at the moment india is facing a possible agriculture crisis because of the lock down Something Like 50 percent of indias population depends on farming farmers have been havent been able to harvest their winter crops and havent been able to plant their summer crops because of the lack of labor and this could really affect the Food Supply Chain in india so this is a problem thats really come up over the last few weeks of the lockdown and he said that its something that hes going to be working on again guidelines and more information about all of these things he said will be announced over the next few days but for now another 2 weeks of lockdown for india is 1300000000 people all right and is about iran and for us in your daily elizabeth thank you. To the u. S. Now john hendren has more on President Trumps defense of his administrations handling of the pandemic and what he plans to do next now he has got a new council that he plans to announce on tuesday which will be a number of Administration Officials and business officials who would come up with the plan for when to go back to business he hasnt given us a date but he did say in the News Conference just a short while ago that he would within the week the president talked about the change in cases plan towing mirroring some of the language were hearing from Governor Andrew Cuomo of new york and governor j. B. Pritzker of illinois who both say that there does seem to be a bending of that curve this is what the president said just a short time ago america has continued to make critical progress at our war against the virus over the weekend the number of daily new infections remained flat nationwide flat hospitalizations a slowing in hot spots like new York New Jersey michigan and louisiana this is clear evidence that our aggressive strategy to combat the virus is workin on sunday you have anthony found the director of allergy and Infectious Diseases the point man on this pandemic for the administration who was asked if the administration had acted earlier would lives have been saved and he said yes he couldnt deny that well in his News Conference one of the 1st things the president did was trot out anthony who had to walk back all of those comments saying that in fact in the only 2 times he actually confront the president were in mid march when he recommended that there be some kind of lock down in business closing and then 2 weeks later when he recommended that that be extended for another 2 weeks and he said that when he said there had been pushback back in february that that was probably a bad choice of words. Now new york has registered more than 10000 coronavirus related deaths but the states governor says theyre all signs the worst is over kristen salumi has more. As all but essential businesses remain closed and new yorkers stay home there are signs that strict social distancing measures are working the governor says the state is seeing fewer hospitalizations for the coronavirus we can control the spread feel good about that the worst is over here if we continue to be smart Going Forward but even as President Trump expresses his hope to get americans back to work in may the governor warned against lifting restrictions too soon new yorks governor said hell be listening to experts in Public Health in the economy not politicians as to when it will be safe for new yorkers like me to leave home and return to work but how do so in consideration with governors from neighboring states. That includes one to reopen schools the mayor of new york city thinks they should stay closed through june but i need to do to protect kids and parents and families and educators theres not going to be a context to reopen schools with so much were going to have to deal with on the health front to get to a better place and a more stable place but the governor says ultimately that will be his decision one he has yet to make kristen salumi aljazeera new york. Our time for short break here now to 0 when we come back concerns over Human Rights Violations as rwanda enforces restrictions on millions of people. In the big cleanup after multiple tornadoes hit parts of the something not suspects for that statement. And there is a fairly unsettled picture across much of the middle east on sunday for the south across the radian peninsula but all see as you can see this band of cloud is spring producing some showers even some thunderstorms and there are more in the 4 calls now 3 cheese day is a slightly calm across a picture we have got areas of scattered thunderstorms across Northern Areas a saudi very strong winds coming through the interior again further to the south and yemen also saying a fast scattering of showers that touches a come down in the wake of those latest polls 28. 00 and the same across into riyadh way you will notice a lot of rain some snow against the mountains is pushing on into afghanistan and on into Northern Areas of pakistan but have a look at wednesday by wednesday we could then see another resurgence really an activity in the showers and thunderstorms they could be very heavy at times we could have some torrential downpours of course coming on theres dry ground this could well lead to some flash floods 26. 00 in doha but as i say a very wet day potentially and then down into Southern Africa really the heaviest of the rain for the next couple of days will be through Central Eastern and particularly coastal areas as south africa the rains a further to the north but they very well scattered and really quite leisel wednesday still those showers and heavy rains plaguing coastal as the tanzania and is improving picture in south africa. Crossing borders breaking boundaries recording injustice hunting inequality from. Africa and asia to europe and use exile as a wine lover of st every virgona for me is one country aljazeera world meets for refugees whove come to your touched peoples lives and made a difference. A hard road from home photographers and activists on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour Chinese State media says beijing has approved the testing of 2 new experimental virus vaccines on humans beijing has reported 89 new cases in the past 24 hours or for approved. India has extended its 3 week lockdown until may 3rd Prime MinisterNarendra Modi said restriction is only partially eastern areas without coronavirus cases from next week india has recorded more than 10000 confirmed cases and over 350 deaths. And us President Donald Trump and americas top disease experts say the rate of new infections is starting to slow more than 23000. 00 americans have died from the operate with more than half a 1000000 reported infections from. Now the coronavirus is impacting the meat and Dairy Industries in the United States as work has become sick Meat Processing plants are being shut down and with cafes and restaurants close Dairy Products are going to waste particle hain explains. Its happening across the Country Rivers of milk dumped down drains and ponds millions of leaders wasted by farmers who say they cant sell it the reason about half of their customers are closed restaurants bars School Cafeterias all shuttered but at the same time store shelves are mostly empty theres very little milk to be found and those that can find some are being limited to how much they can buy Wisconsin Dairy farmer Marty Hallock says the problem is that milk package for restaurants is not the same as the kind they can sell in stores now. Plants were sent out to our bottle now in certain containers so i. E. The schools where Small Computers you know a lot of people buy them small containers and store a minute and then to be honest with the. Issue from storage in trucking and now there is a new concern about the countrys meat supply meat packing plants are tight quarters and his workers get sick but the coronavirus plants are closing across the country analyst steve meyer says he expects more plants to close especially as it peaks in certain states at the end of may but he says the country will not run out of meat remember that a plan to get out does that mean that the hogs disappear i suppose hogs are still out there they will have to be slaughtered and processed at some point and. So as long as the plants are permanently down were not running out and all of this is happening while tens of millions of americans go hungry with so many out of work this is what Food Bank Distribution now looks like all across the country from california to pennsylvania florida to texas miles of cars lined up for a box of free food were looking at an increase of 17100000. 00 people over the course of the next 6 months when they see that access coming into that are some of them smile and some of them cry its been an increasing trend up until now americans have spent more money at restaurants and bars their Grocery Stores that is what the supply chain was built for bringing the country to this point so much fresh food wasted when its desperately needed the most political gain and jazeera washington. So europe now in spain has taken the 1st step to ease its nationwide lockdown hundreds of thousands of nonessential employees have been allowed to return to work italy is also easing some restrictions from tuesday when it came reports now from berlin. For many thousands of people across europe this is the reality of the coronavirus for many millions more it means locked down and the loss of their freedom of movement and for many weeks thats been the case in france now its a president says it must stay that way a lot longer. Need a false. Hospitals are saturated everywhere in france in the French Overseas territories the system is under strain and the epidemic is not yet under control so we must continue our efforts and continue to respect the rules the more they are respected the more lives will be saved that is why the strictest lockdown must continue until monday may the 11th. But elsewhere monday meant a return to work after weeks in lockdown as here in madrid because in this and a few other sectors of the economy the toughest restrictions have been lifted and some spanish politicians say now is not the time to relax the vigilance even to this small extent and in most other regards the existing lockdown will remain in place for much of the next 2 weeks in italy a small number of stationery shops book shops and Childrens Clothing stores can reopen from choose day because here the number of new infections remains considerably lower than joining the worst days last month but as in spain the mortality rate remains high a point pope francis referred to in his Easter Monday address at the vatican or g. Recorded. During this easter week i would like to remember with closeness and affection all the countries strongly affected by the coronavirus some with large numbers of infected and in a special way italy United States bahrain france the list is long. And many other countries are worried to the latest figures from russia show the infection and mortality rates are on a steep upward curve. As you can see the situation is changing almost every day unfortunately its not changing for the better the number of infected people increases and there are more through view cases as well the upcoming weeks would largely be decisive that means that all our actions including. Vention measures should be optimized here in germany the abundance of intensive care and wide scale testing have helped to keep the mortality rate much lower than in much of the rest of europe which explains why some politicians now want to relax the restrictions here so as to reduce the economic damage as much as possible because some projections suggest that in this quarter alone the economy may shrink while most 10 percent if the lock downs are to ease and we should get the 1st news of it on wednesday right angle america will discuss the problem with the Prime Ministers of the 16 german States Dominic kane aljazeera burl in. Now rwanda was one of the 1st countries in africa to impose a lockdown over the coronavirus but human rights campaigners accuse Security Forces in several states of using heavy handed tactics to enforce the lockdown conference or reports of. Security forces are making sure people follow lockdown orders in the capital kigali anyone who doesnt can be arrested and fined. With valid reasons such as visiting a hospital in market trance for food have their temperatures checked before being allowed to proceed alone or when there are people who do not understand the problem they just come here to walk around we continue to tell them to stay at home they can infect the whole population here those who will come to buy food must respect the regulations were in there no undercurrent of the social distancing is critical but difficult to implement this landlocked country has one of the highest density of population in africa most of the 12000000 people here are poor at the start of the Lockdown Police shot dead 2 people they said the man attacked a Police Officer soldiers have also been accused by several slum dwellers of human rights abuses including rape of their land and military says its investigating and has arrested some soldiers. Security forces in several other countries on the continent such as kenya south africa and uganda also been accused by human Rights Groups of using Excessive Force on civilians while enforcing government restrictions. And is different from a. Security force now. Of. Soldiers only how to fight wars. Volunteers are distributing food paid for by the government to the most vulnerable families across the country towns and other businesses are shutting down and thousands of people are likely to lose their jobs program is that there is no show security should those that we have to send a whole. Theres no support financial support. Already today 80 percent of my staff is home for now the government plans to ensure transmission of the disease is leamy teds poor families are fed and the lock down is respected randoms we talked to remain hopeful they survived the genocide in 1904 prevented their ball epidemic in neighboring democratic republic of congo from crossing the border and they say this crisis will also come to pass catherine soy aljazeera and south korea more than 100 people are treated and cleared of the virus have tested positive for a 2nd time south Korea Centers for Disease Control said the virus may be reactivated rather than patients being reinfected other experts believe 40 tests may be the cause comes as the government prepares to ease some restrictions on social gatherings u. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has indorsed former rival joe biden the president in a joint live stream back in comes less than a week after sanders dropped out of the race to become the democratic nominee the former u. S. Vice president called the endorsement a big deal today i am asking all americans im asking every democrat im asking every independent im asking a lot of republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy of course to make certain that we defeat somebody who i believe and im speaking just for myself now is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. Well cleanup is underway across southern u. S. States after a storm swept through the weekend killing more than 30 people Americas NationalWeather Service issued more than 140. 00 tornado warnings from texas to virginia thats an 8 year high reports the tornado touched down in northwest georgia income after an 8 kilometers path across the land in its way to mobile home parks and the pritchetts home imran chiles built it themselves 49 years ago now they must start again or you dont know how long how low it took about 5 so i think. It will. Be really handy to say my home town. A native town. Their home one of 23 in the state that was destroyed dozens more were damaged in a disaster in or out in like out it you got a house there and 4 for go to the good school you had a while then you had gotten. The storms tore across the south on sunday and monday there were reports of 60 tornadoes and more than 400 incidents of Severe Weather one tornado is just a major to have ripped a 250 kilometer car across South Carolina in mississippi 2 tornadoes a few kilometers apart carved parallel paths of destruction President Trump said his administration governors and the federal Emergency ManagementAgency Working together to bring help its a tough deal it was a bad bad. Level 5 that was a bad group thats as high as it gets was a bad grouping of tornadoes something thats something credible power the horrible destructive power. Not. Heavy rain compounded the damage causing flooding and landslides how was knocked out to 1300000 people from texas to pennsylvania with us in the wake of a. Time a week when i would. Have been in the bathroom to share. With the the damage piled upon hardship from coronavirus georgias governor said some victims had lost their jobs and now their homes alabamas governor suspended social distancing rules so people could how to get there in storm shelters now hundreds of americans cannot abide by stay at home or does it look for what they can salvage and prepare to move on shall a boundless aljazeera new york is dealing with the largest number of infections in the United States putting an enormous strain on its hospitals and medical workers Melanie Malloy is on the front line of the citys virus epicenter thats brooklyn and queens and she explained the many pressures shes been facing both at work and at home. Im on my way to work i have just had a very nice and cathartic dance party in my car which is a good transition to work from home because i had a little bit. Of a stress warning with my children trying to get them set up for homeschool i am a widow so i dont have a partner to help me with and i dont want to send them to my inlaws or my parents because theyre getting older and some of them have Health Conditions that might put them a little bit more at risk for coated. Most of our you know. You cant leave on their own and who are on the ventilator with everybody. Almost everybody has a. Lot of ambulances about by we have a full i. C. U. We have every patient in here on a ventilator but he. Looks like hes having a lot of respiratory distress. Breathing at like 48 minutes hes got a non reprieve theyre on but he looks really bad so were going to Congress Party down and were going to interview him were going to put him on a ventilator everybody has coronavirus. People also have heart attacks at the same time sometimes its kind of like. My hospital days over. There wasnt the worst day its hard to bring some of your patients thank you very today may not be here tomorrow when you come back here tomorrow is going to be tough because i am going to home school all day and i work overnight and hope i can get a nap in at some point but like i said its just me so. Really depends. For example question of the headlines here on aljazeera china has approved 2 new experimental coronavirus vaccines to be tested on humans thats according to state media 89 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours nearly all came from abroad from Hong Kong Sarah clarke of spain what china is doing to tackle the number of new infections this particular area where the now looking at all focusing on is in the north east of china its called a long jan province and this is an area that borders russia and this is become almost the latest battleground of the focus of china theyre now trying to deploy more resources from the south up to that region including medical teams as well as resources theyve also put in place and strict quarantine rules to try and stay more certainly focused on those increasing the spike in numbers in that region and the capital harben of that particular province theyve got to stay at home orders in various compounds the residential compounds public gatherings have been banned at Train Services have been stopped also in parts of that province india has extended its 3 week lockdown until may 3rd Prime Minister nuri and remotely said restrictions will be partially easing air was without virus cases from next week india has recorded more than 10000 cases and over 250 deaths u. S. President donald trump and his top disease experts say the rate of new infections is starting to slow more than 1500. 00 americans have died in the past 24 hours americans continue to make critical progress in our war against the virus over the weekend the number of daily new infections remained flat. Nation wide flat hospitalisation just flowing in hot spots like new York New Jersey michigan and louisiana this is clear evidence there are aggressive strategy to combat the virus is working and that americans are following the guidelines its been incredible what theyve done in europe spain has taken the 1st step towards easing a nationwide lockdown hundreds of thousands of nonessential employees have been allowed to return to work its unease also easing restrictions on some businesses well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after counting the cost by fidel throughout history behind has come together in our darkest moments this is a moment pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours ringback. Hello im daryn jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week its been a little more than a decade since the financial crisis will the pandemic push the banking and financial industry into another meltdown more jobs a loss than joining the entire Global Financial crisis and millions more on the line as 2000000000 people go into lockdown. As rich nations pick up