An impact on the coronavirus. And reducing and rising and south africa troops deployed in cape town to enforce a citywide lockdown. Now the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 relief bill to keep Small Businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and also to provide funds for hospitals now passed with big bipartisan support and will now go to donald trump for final approval it follows a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package that was already passed last month u. S. Workers are struggling as the outbreak takes a toll on the economy in just 5 weeks all of the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out more than 26000000 americans are now unemployed. It really can change my life drastically. Yes not so well my mom i put it away. Into like my savings account hinske its going to get drained almost immediately its a struggle i feel like im losing my mind sometimes just trying to. Start. Well as his Daily Briefing on the Coronavirus Response us president said the economy would bounce back quickly but insisted that the lockdown measures will continue until theres a drop in the number of infections. Or economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and thats happening as we speak and its actually very exciting and. People are just its just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether its a demonstration or just in talking to people theyre going to get back to work and theyre going to get back to work very fast but financially americans even when their states open back up they wont have a job to go to right away and one of those people in Sarasota Florida he was laid off from his bartending job after bars and restaurants were closed due to the coronavirus thanks for joining us im sorry these have been such difficult times let me start by asking you how are you holding up. On things for men are holding up pretty well one of the things that this is maybe realize is that im very fortunate to have a lot of people moderates who been able to help me and my partner get through this and the government has passed a number of initiatives to try to support people in your position i understand that the unemployment benefit is now larger than it would be outside of the pandemic what does that actually mean for you practically is it enough to get by. Every little bit helps. 1200. 00 that they gave us wont help very much and i think it will definitely help get us through the next months i havent received mine yet so i have its basically just been waiting for it. Fortunately i have i guess a side hustle i work with my sister making masks and we sell them and we buy one we also donate another so there is a little bit of income coming in for me but its not much and the government benefit is almost nonexistent so on time to stand there have been kids around the corner tries to apply for this benefit how easy was it to try to access that from the government well the federal benefit was easy i believe if you just pay your taxes they send you a check or direct deposit but the state. Unemployment benefit is really difficult in florida the unemployment benefit actually made National News because its so ineffectual the website is very old even though they revamped it in 2015. It failed every audit every year since then and when this came it just crashed it took me a week constantly trying to get through the unemployment process before i was the my information is even accepted by the government and it took exactly a month almost for them to tell me that i was in had a notable to receive any Unemployment Benefits goodness running on land on time i believe you with and moved to florida quite recently from new york city how old colleagues in the Hospitality Industry that typing now. They are struggling everybody is struggling and in different ways most of my friends are out of work and for somebody working in the Service Industry in new york its better than a lot of places in the United States but still its almost impossible to have savings of your own. And so matagorda friends are really struggling but then some people do still have their jobs where theyre open for takeout especially i worked very closely with the Beer Industry and a lot of theories are still open and its reduced hours for everybody but at least they do still have something but the downside to that is most of them are still dealing with people day to day and that in and of itself is very dangerous so theyre struggling with just having to go to or to be exposed to potentially explosive providers and its just its a lose lose all the way around so i and i get an incredibly difficult balance that out i believe you also born and raised in georgia and the governor there is youre testing for quite a rapid reopening of the economy as someone who has lost their jobs years of the lockdown how do you feel about that. Understand the desire i suppose to reopen businesses and get everything back to normal but youve got to realize nothings normal and its not going to be normal for sometimes trying to bring everything back on mine and get people in bowling alleys of all places all at the same time its not a great situation for anybody. Let me finish by asking you what you know what are your plans now and you said that youve got people around you supporting you and normal times what happens now. We just do the best we can. Were trying to avoid going to the Grocery Store as much as you can our miles but that isnt often were. Trying to make sure that we maintain our so she decides this in were doing with the masks we have masks that separate us that like people without facial hair and then we made some from my beard because i didnt want to get rid of it and you know were hoping to get those to as many people as we can and really i think thats all we can do as society just the best we can. Span of a speaking to us from Sarasota Florida thank you so much for joining us on time we really do wish you all the best thanks for having me you know she did miss as well. Now lets take you back to that White House Briefing which was mostly dominated by President Trump and his head of science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security now they are presenting information about how the virus reacts to heat humidity and lights now the research is preliminary and has not been Peer Reviewed at a time when the sign says far from being conclusive to prove if the virus is actually seasonal every 18 hours the virus the life of the virus is cut in half so if you start with a 1000 particles of the virus in 18 hours youre down to 518 hours after that youre down to 250 and so on and so forth the temperature increases as the humidity increases with no sun involved you can see how drastically the halflife goes down on that virus so the the virus is dying at a much more rapid pace just from exposure to higher temperatures and just from exposure humidity. Well lets speak now to dr allen hes the chief Program Officer with the National Association of county and City Health Officials he joins us now via skype from washington d. C. Dr alan lets start with the study the department of Homeland Security itself says that its inconclusive and had also previously warned about jumping to conclusions as a medical professional yourself can i ask you how do you feel about todays press conference it was very interesting especially when you have to weigh the benefits of experimental studies against what is will work conditions on understandably the desire to put out information is to address not only health and safety but its always important to make sure that we understand that theres always going to be that nuance especially with the virus that is so new and that were still learning more information about use you speak there about nuance and the gaps in knowledge id like to play something that President Trump said about press conference that he seemed to have some suggestions on how some move forward with fighting the virus thats having us im supposing we hit somebody with a tremendous whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful late and i think you said that has him a check that youre going to test it and then i said supposing you brought the lady inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. In some other way and i think you said you can attest to sounds interesting right in that i see the disinfectant but not yet in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do Something Like that. By injection inside or almost a cleaning as you say gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number of so be interesting to check so that you can have to use medical doctors with dogs or can i ask you your thoughts on that. Yeah the the World Health Organization others have come on board didnt really mention the need to really be very cautious as to the use of u. V. Radiation or u. V. Exposure as a disinfectant we know that it works on things such as a mask and other things of a nature but when you speak about exposure of the human being in the body its not something that is fine its recommended we do know that the happy life of the current a virus called 900. 00 source coffee to is roughly about 2. 7 hours in a narrow slice fashion that much is now in typical temperatures and at one for 65 percent relative humidity we know that the virus persistent different surfaces whether its plastic metal carb or and on the skin and other surfaces and different different time different what we dont know is truly the impact of seasonality is there really going to be a difference when we see sort of the summer climates or timeframes of temperatures versus the more spring like conditions or the winter conditions that some of us were coming out of now you think about that and even look at where viruses spread across all across our country our world not only in our country where you think about florida as well as new orleans which tends to have higher miti but also the the caribbean in other parts of africa and latin america and even south insatiate rich or warmer more than you know relatively humid and were still seeing the spread of the virus there so there is always going to be caution in making statements that are absolute but as we learn more and the the need for us to be very aware and to continue to gain more information about the virus and its not only so the 1000000000 euro in temperatures but how well were able to not only address Community Mitigation other efforts to stop it spread so you are talking now about being very cautious about the information that when. As read and also that were sharing and i i know that some commentators have already started using the word reckless to describe todays press conference particulars many are looking to the white house for guidance and not just in the United States but also people who are abroad people around the world will be watching this is there a worry as someone who works and Public Health that Something Like this could encourage more people to head out into the sun and potentially spread the virus further. Yes theres always going to be concerned about the message and risking that issue and how we really are providing as much information as we can well be in very sentences that we dont know it all so its always going to be concerned to say hey weve found just you updated as data says this and then in a few weeks another day that only comes to we learned the new things so its very important to very out these recommendations these findings under the umbrella that until we learn or this is what we know but dont necessarily mean that its an absolute truth until of course we get better information to inform our Decision Making process and obviously in the meantime we should be trying to follow w. H. R. Guidelines and specially destines dr alan there with the National Association of county and City Health Officials thank you for joining us on out of there. Thank you. Well still ahead on al jazeera. Latin America Covered 1000. 00 cases begin to sow ecuador and peru start to see the effects of the outright. Hello the weather is looking bright and breezy for japan at the moment weve got some bands of clouds and shabby rain just pulling out of the way but with stooges ragman and northwest leeway in the chance of want to see showers into that western side of honshu as a result of that crane potentially generally try and find dry and fine as the northern parts of china to beijing on the warm side for friday at 28 celsius its never 22 as we go on through saturday sunshine coming back into much of japan by this day southern parts of china will still see a few showers particularly down towards the southwest into those northern parts of vietnam a scattering of showers to into india china its a fair amount of cloud still lingering here at present so youll see some showers there into laos and cambodia into thailand struggle to thailand some rather wet weather usual rash of showers through much of Southeast Asia somewhat dry there for indonesia for a time but a dry weather into south asia we have got some lively showers still lingering there around bangladesh the fall northeast of india the snow showers there the kabul shock is there continuing to a rumble away some of them on the backside there will see some of that wetter weather just pushing towards kolkata for a time elsewhere its fine dry im hot. But. In the far reaches of the New Siberian Islands gold rush fever is in the air and. Hunters searching for priceless woolly mammoth tusks of on earth the holy grail. An incredible journey into the realms of Science Fiction where cloning and Synthetic Biology have scientists playing god. Witness genesis 2. 0 the hunt for the woolly mammoth on aljazeera. Hello again im a star. A reminder of our top stories this hour the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 relief bill to keep Small Businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and provide funds for hospitals and follows a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package that was passed in last one. A record 26400000 americans have lost their jobs since the end of the month in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out. European Union Leaders have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect their Single Market from the effects of the coronaVirus Outbreak they have agreed on the need to Work Together to find a way out of the crisis but seemed less united on what that should actually look like this as some countries begin to ease restrictions the Czech Republic for instance has lifted a ban on overseas travel while others are pushing ahead with the search for a vaccine. Reports. In this laboratory in oxford a glimmer of hope she when trials have now begun here with the vaccine. Researchers are confident that it could take just months before they know if it would work manufacturing it on a large scale could take much longer but hopefully this will give us some good data and then hopefully in a couple of months or maybe a year or so we would be able to protect more people with us. In germany the 1st day back at school but nothing like these peoples could have imagined. A partial reopening for older peoples only carries many restrictions social distancing is tightly in force between their designated desks the usual hive of energy replaced by a more careful serious mood despite having the 5th largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world germany is slowly relaxing its lock down but a desire for things to return to normal as well as fears over the Economic Impact of the pandemic have come with a warning from the chancellor Angela Merkel is that going in there is not going to often targeted i will therefore tell you quite frankly that i fully support the decisions taken by the federal and state governments on wednesday last week but the implementation since then worries me in part it seems to me very brisk some of it seems to me to be quite brisk if not to say to praise. For the European Union the full extent of the damage the pandemic has caused the block wont be revealed for months but it is preparing for a slump the like of which has not been seen since world war 2 the European Commission has suggested a 325000000000. 00 Recovery Fund for his forthcoming budget as well as borrowing another 350000000000. 00 from the Capital Markets for further spending dont reveal to me stitch because even if its difficult even if of course the last difference in cities in europe and goes into the surprise there is a very strong pretty to able to Work Together and to succeed to build compromises. On the political strains are already evident wealthier countries such as france remain under pressure to provide aid to the blocs less well off members as a test of solidarity that could define the very future of the union itself so yeah go. The World Health Organization is warning the number of malaria deaths in Subsaharan Africa could double this year due to the corona virus pandemic and the malarial campaigns the distribution of insecticide nets and medicine have all been disrupted by locked down measures the w. H. O. Is urging governments to keep up the fight against malaria or risk seeing the west death toll in 20. Well to latin america now and cases in ecuador have almost doubled to 22000. 00 after a backlog of tests was analyzed its now the 2nd west hit nation in the region to brazil the government has begun storing corpses and refrigerated contain is as morgues fell up it could or has nearly 600 deaths well perus coronavirus cases have also said past 20000 double that of last week hospitals are struggling to treat the said youve covered 1000 patients bodies have been kept in hospital hallways and medics say theyve been forced to repeatedly reuse mosques the nationwide lockdown there has been extended until may 10th and is been a mass burial for those who have died of the virus in brazil these images from the mouse the capital of amazonas state the death rate in the region has more than tripled since the outbreak began the local mayor is warning of a public calamity as already strained hospitals deal with a rising number of patients brazil has reported more than 46000 cases and nearly 3000 deaths. Well in europe why some schools in rural areas are reopening after being closed for a month attendance still wont be made compulsory that decision was made after a decline in the number of daily infections well lets now go live child correspondent John Heilemann his in mexico city for us john countries across the region have had very different approaches to dealing with this pandemic and is that being reflected in the number of infections that withing. Is a lot of times isnt a pretty big depend on which countries weve focusing on if we talk about pap so salvadoran costa rican Central America whove managed to keep the case told relatively down theyd say that was because they acted firmly and quickly to try and resolve this but then you mentioned that group which has had a really explosion in the number of cases and that country was also praised internally and externally to try and win the president trying to get rid of it fairly early on as well but obviously that hasnt quite worked out for them as well and is that hope to put this over facts as well here you so mentioned ecuador which is had so many cases it killed its biggest city when it just had people be left to the streets there was no way to put them and its been said that in that case that country had a lot of flights to spain where there was obviously a lot of cases as well so that also. Could involve with the time to there and you get brazil which is the worst affected country in the region we definitely have to say that that it was a correlation between. The president in brazil hes a superstar some coronavirus was very has been very last 8 days basically said 70 percent of us are going to get it so lets just get all the get out to work just leave the elderly and the sick at home and john as you say the west affected country in the region is still in brazil whats. Being down now. I think theres been a real discrepancy in desire between what the president also not of has been preaching which is weve just talked about he wants people out hes really concerned about the economy and then what state governors and local municipal authorities of many of the states especially the big ones like south Janeiro Brazil has 2 biggest cities which has been trying to stay in as much as possible so theres a real sense of back to work there. Between the president and the state governors but in parts of the country as you mention this specially right now and now start something that everyones looking at that city in the amazonian region in which weve seen video over the last week from the hospital where theyve had life patients by the side of that bodies in the hospital itself they say that theyre intensive care units are at Maximum Capacity at more at the moment politicians from the state have gone and asked for the federal interventions so presume right now seems to be. The hot spot sort of in latin america obviously followed by peru and ecuador is still a real hot spot to mention here in mexico as well this country says its just going into and its going to reach the peak in may the case is still the record about 10000. 00 here in mexico at the moment but its another country its just said the government openly theres at least 8 times more cases than those reputed so were going to be keeping an eye on what happens here as well. John holland. Thank you. Well to the situation in the gulf and another 623 corona virus cases have been confirmed here and cats are pushing the total number of infections to 776410 people have died most of the newly confirmed cases are amongst expectorate workers the emir of qatar has added for more Global Cooperation to combat the pandemic and its effects. Well to wager if you had been with us or i seize this opportunity to address World Leaders in one leap advanced economies and concerned organizations i call on them to cooperate not to compete for developing a vaccine and cure to the virus i stress that the economic and social aftermath of the pen gimmick will not be achieved without global coordination and cooperation at the highest possible levels and in the u. A. E. Jubei is easing lockdown measures to reopen cafes and restaurants Shopping Centers can also trade again but for limited hours and with fewer shoppers 4 more people died there on thursday taking the number of fatalities to 56 more than 8700 people there have tested positive for the virus while south africas president says he will gradually ease a nationwide lockdown there starting early next month so rama poses says some parts of the economy will be allowed to reopen and has also called on all south africans to start Wearing Masks outdoors he says restrictions will be lifted slowly to reduce the risk of a spike in infections people there have been under some of the strictest quarantine measures in africa with an unprecedented deployment of troops beyond thursday the 30th of april we should begin a gradual and phased recovery of Economic Activity we will implement. What we call a risk adjusted strategy through which we take a deliberate and cautious approach to the easing of current lockdown constrictions from johannesburg for me to explains just what these measures will mean for south africans the president to use the sadrist to outline 5 key phases of a lockdown or a reopening of Economic Activity and an easing of restrictions and moving from level 5 with south africa is now which is you know at the end of that spectrum the the harshest restrictions so far south africa would move to level 4 which the president has said would then still include some pretty tough restrictions for south africans but i think the key difference would be the reopening of Economic Activity and even then companies would be forced to only allow a 3rd of their workforce at the places of employment at any given time now borders in south africa will remain closed besides repacked rating south africans will be no travelling between individual provinces for south africa all gatherings will remain prohibited by the government but sides funerals so there is some change but i think not the kind of relief millions of south africans were hoping for given that all that rick is now entering the 5th the week of very strict lockdown. Now the World Health Organization has dismissed a herbal tea towels as a cure for the virus by the president of madagascar the drink contains the musea plant which is normally used to treat malaria president under the resolution it claimed the tonic would cure a coronavirus patient within 7 days its currently being given out for free to the countrys most Vulnerable People the w. H. O. Is want to theres no evidence that alternative remedies can cure the virus and says some may not even be safe to consume that many in madagascar ignoring the advice now a red sea mammal is enjoying the lack of tourists in thailand have a look this had a few gongs was seen cruising slowly in shallow waters south of the country the shy mammals are close to extinction and already seen because of increasing boat traffic and pollution but coastal regions are now mostly undisturbed due to travel restrictions. Hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 relief bill to keep Small Businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and to provide funds for hospitals the bill is now with President Trump to sign and follows a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package that was passed last month a record 26400000. 00 americans have lost their jobs since the end of last month in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out u. S. President and trump and his head of science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security used to Coronavirus Briefing to present preliminary and unreviewed information about the effects that he said humidity may have on the virus the science is far from being conclusive to prove if the virus is seasonal. Every 18 hours the virus the life of the virus is cut in half so if you start with a 1000 particles of the virus in 18 hours youre down to 500. 00 in 18 hours after that youre down to 250. 00 and so on and so forth temperature increases as the humidity increases with no sun involved you can see how drastically the half life goes down on that wire so that the virus is dying at a much more rapid pace just from exposure to higher temperatures and just from exposure humidity. Does have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect the Single Market from the effects of the corona Virus Outbreak they are seeking a joint Financial Fund of up to 2 trillion dollars to boost the economy and last in america cases in ecuador have almost doubled to 22000 after a backlog of tests were analyzed its now the 2nd west hits nation in the region after brazil well those are the headlines day join me for more news here on aljazeera the inside story stay with us. How much of a threat is coronavirus to the worlds food supply is there a serious warnings of a global shortage as the pandemic spreads so how can the availability of food be safeguarded and kind of famine a crisis be averted this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im burned its me was part famines of biblical proportions the u. N. Is warning covered 19 could cause