Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

A nationwide lockdown. And as new zealand says it eliminated the virus and restrictions eased officials warn against complacency. The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over and that it could indirectly harm the lives of millions of children who are missing out on vital vaccinations for other Infectious Diseases but says 21 countries are already reporting shortages of some vaccines every year more than 116000000. 00 in funds are vaccinated or 86 per cent of all children born globally but there are still more than 13000000. 00 children around the world who missed out on vaccination. We know that the number will increase because of course weve 19 already polio vaccination campaigns have been put on hold and in some countries routine Immunization Services are being scaled back or shut down. As european nations begin to ease their lock downs the w. H. O. Has repeated its call that they must track and trace or suspected coronavirus cases the warning comes as italy announced a phased reopening of its economy but the u. K. Says its too soon to relax any measures and the hayward takes a look at the situation across europe britains Prime Minister back at work after recovering from coronavirus with a warning that there will be no letup in the lockdown yet i can see the long term consequences of looked done as clearly as anyone and so yes i entirely share your agency its the governments urgency and yet we must also recognise the risk of a 2nd spike more than 21000 people have now died from coronavirus in new k. Hospitals and one of the worlds worst outbreaks the government has announced that the families of National Health workers who died from coronavirus during this crisis will receive a 75000. 00 payout. The number of tests being offered in the u. K. Is being expanded but the government has faced criticism for the slow rollout of mass testing and there are growing prostrations and questions even within Boris Johnsons own party about how soon the economy can reopen italy has set a date to start easing its lockdown the longest in europe factories and Building Sites can reopen next week bars and restaurants cant bully reopen in june while schools will stay shut until september. And many parts of europe are grappling with the impact of this crisis. There is anger in some of princes poorest suburbs the lock down and restrictions on movement in communities where people often living cramped conditions has led to an arrest the police have been accused of being heavy handed in their approach racial slurs were allegedly used to mock a man trying to escape arrest Malcolm States that we. Was going you know all are against you but it seems like france is at war against. You know it is you know so its difficult because people are suffering from there is suffering from. Economy and social impacts there is optimism in some parts of europe but the worst of this crisis may be over but the still no unified approach in how to keep safe Going Forward in most parts of germany people have to wear face masks in shops and on public transport. Elsewhere some families are all seeing one another for the 1st time in weeks albeit through the glass put together all the same m. O. He would aljazeera. Nigerias president says lock downs in cities including lagos and a bridge or will start to be eased next week but all nonessential travel between states is to be banned it will face masks have been made compulsory in lagos the governor of the city says the precaution is needed because the city if the virus is continuing to spread in the community those who fail to comply will be sanctioned lagos is home to more than 20000000 people all 35 people have been killed by cave in 1000 in nigeria with nearly 1300 cases. Of prove faced and agreed to an easy of look down measures of city legace and organs to its effect to from one day forth or be 22. 00 in 3. However this will be followed strictly with aggressive reinforcement of testing and quantity trees measures managers is in a bit just to tell us more about how it will work this particular phase of things in nigeria. Well basically the phrase out of the restrictions will happen in only 3 of nigeria is 36. 00 or 37. 00 states including the administrative capital of georgia remember these 3 states lagos and ogun state where the 1st to be hit by a complete lockdown of the cities because of key economic and administrative importance in that region scheme of things so gradually after the face out of the looked out on the 4th of may the Nigerian Government will also put in place a curfew that runs from 8 pm in the evening local time to 6 oclock in the morning and then like the president said wearing a face mask will be very mandatory on everybody in the public space so one interesting aspect of this speech will address by president obama bloody is the issue of china which has been on the on the burner for a very low temperature all for the last one week this is a state where weve seen hundreds of deaths in this piece of one week unexplained dents call the local authorities saying that these desk mostly are not connected to compete 19 but there are some misgivings about that so the Nigerian Government is sending a team of experts to reinforce local Health Workers there to have been dealing with the situation in kind of state this is a state with a population of more than 15000000 people that comes probably a proud legal 2nd to lagos so the Nigerian Government is worried that if congo is down and its in that washed Case Scenario then you at the center of the. Under nigeria then the whole of Northern Nigeria will be impacted already the pieces of people who travel from the parts of nigeria. People and more people infected so the government is sending additional medical staff there and in forcing a 2 week lockdown in that area as well as we activate the center for Disease Control offices that were shut down due to lack of Testing Facilities lord minister thank you very much indeed new york has become the 1st u. S. State to cancel its democratic president ial primary because of the code 19 pandemic the vote which had already been postponed was meant to take place in june meanwhile Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to extend the current arsenal down in many parts of the state beyond may the 15th but restrictions could be relaxed in some areas if theres sufficient tracing and Hospital Capacity quinn that also released the results of expanded testing which suggests that almost 15 percent of the state carries antibodies to the coronavirus you want to reopen a region what is the Health Care Capacity in that region how many beds will you have available if that number goes up how many i. C. U. Beds will you have available and are you contemplating whats going to happen when the flu season kicks in september. Were we could potentially now be dealing with corporate cases on top of cases you have to test for. And possibly have Hospital Capacity for. Christian salumi has moved from new york governor says he is working on criteria to open up parts of the state possibly after may 15th those shelter at home orders will stay in place at least until then after that he is going to be considering things like Hospital Capacity Testing Capacity tracing of active cases capacity and so on on a county by county basis he says that its likely the 1st sectors of the economy to reopen will be manufacturing and construction but in areas that have not been highly affected by the virus so parts of the state where there are fewer infections fewer fatalities will likely reopen sooner than places like here in new york city where they have seen well over half of the 280000 cases reported statewide so he is talking about a. An opening that will be very cautious and very slow considered on a county by county basis throughout the state but also in coronation with neighboring states because he says if one opens quicker than the other that could send people running over state lines and so on and so forth so its only the very beginning of a plan and it will not start until may 15th but the beginning of a light at the end of the tunnel for people who are wondering how long this can and will continue. More than 500. 00 garment factories in bangladesh have been allowed to reopen it comes after hundreds of workers went back to work on sunday in defiance of a month long shutdown they said they were facing starvation without their wages under their fears it could lose around 6000000000. 00 in export revenue this Financial Year because of the shutdown well Garment Industry is a central part of the bangladeshi economy more than 4000000. 00 people mostly women work in thousands of factories around the country each earn around 100. 00 a month many of them are their families main income provider last year the factories shipped out 35000000000. 00 of apparel to retailers such as h. And m. Czar and indeed techs and walmart labor leaders are warning a return to work could spark an explosion of code 19 cases there almost 6000 confirmed 1000 infections in the country with 152 deaths but a lack of testing means those numbers likely to be much higher the time to chandra has more from dakar on the conditions workers will return to. The Prime Minister has a stimulus package of 588000000. 00 now this was promised some time back many of the work has been protesting for the last several days many havent been paid for months some are on the brink of starvation. To join some of the factories that. Factories are opening all across the country is in a limited way. Because theyre under pressure from International Buyers to fulfill their obligation many buyers on the other hand have cancelled their order resulting in billions of dollars of loss another factor of main concern for the garment workers are their safety and of course their salary as you just mentioned garments owner of a short theyll get paid and its guaranteed by the government and i spoke to one of the activists and leader for the garment workers she said the main concern is safety and of course their salary as well because many of them work in close compartment 3400. 00 workers in each floor they live in a densely populated area sometime in slums if an epidemic spread it is a potential time bomb for the Workers Health experts in the u. K. Are investigating possible links between a red but dangerous condition affecting children and the coronavirus in the last few weeks hospitals in london it reported a rising number of children with stomach pain vomiting diarrhea said some in the into what doctors call a multisystem in family tree state requiring intensive care symptoms include information of the haunt the countrys Health Minister says hes very worried by possible links to the virus off to some of the children tested positive. But comes as a further 360. 00 people died from the virus in british hospitals taking the total number of deaths to more than 21000. 00 but that figure does not include coronavirus deaths that have taken place outside hospitals British Government is facing growing criticism for not acting sooner to contain the outbreak the u. K. Death rate is now set to overtake both spain and italy the u. K. Death per 1000000 is about 311. 00 in comparison germanys is only 72 both countries have just under 160000 confirmed cases of covert 94 factual is the cofounder and director of edge health which uses data to help the u. K. Health care system he joins me live via skype thanks very much indeed for being with us so from what youve seen in the modeling youre doing where is the u. K. In terms of the peak so it looks like the peak in the happened around the 10th of april and what and where does that. Leave us now in terms of the possible changes to restrictions so it looks like the number of people that have been affected is is actually still quite small were certainly probably there are 50 to 60000000 of us who havent had the disease and as we start to think about releasing some of the lockdown restrictions that been very effective or actually reducing the spread of the disease theres still a very real risk of a 2nd wave of coded a 2nd peak. That coming back say is very treacherous time at the moment can you tell us how it works in terms of the modeling how reliable can any model be if you dont know how many people are actually already been infected. So thats really good question the modeling is only as good as the data in the evidence going in and when theres something that has so many unknowns as covert 19 where we are still learning every day and weve never seen the effects of things like the lockdown before and we never modeled pandemics like this or probably never will model them again but what we can say with some certainty is that we know much more about it now and then we did at the beginning of march early april so we have much better ability to model things Going Forward i think it is fair to say so at the moment what figure is more important is its the death rate of the rate of infections so the death rate is the only real metric matters its the only one that we know for sure is accurate across Different Countries and by following other countries death race when theyre releasing some of the locks and measures we we can learn quite a lot about which locks are measures are likely to bring back further wave of cave it definitely following the death rays i think following infection race is really tricky because of the way the testing is being done at the moment because testing is being ramped up is very hard to say whether when we see an increase in the number of infections whether thats because were just testing more or whether there are actually more infections and is the government modeling or the n. H. S. Modeling for the effects of the lockdown at all have you been asked to find out how many people will be extra people be dying from say heart attacks or cancer and so on from all the other effects of the lockdown. So its definitely something that weve been looking at and its certainly i imagine something the government has been looking at what we have seen is that in the early part of april theres been a relatively high increase in the number of noncoding related deaths so these look like they might be from people that are choosing not to go into hospital if theyve had a small stroke what we will start seeing although not as quickly is the effect of canceling some of these these elective operations and diagnoses which will lead to people with cancers that go from being treatable with being untreatable and roop most likely start seeing increase in mortality from that as well just very briefly have you been modeling also that kind of you know you mentioned that the you obviously learn from other countries on whats happening with their as they ease their restrictions have you actually looked at what a particular scenario is for lifting lockdowns and if so whats the most effective way of doing it in terms of reducing mortality as well. So its a very is a very difficult question to answer to be perfectly honest there i think what is is clear is that there are a range of measures. Protective measures and processes that can be put in place so that when lock down is released it will not lead to as quick a spread of the disease if indeed one comes back so things like wearing face masks or perhaps returning to our limited periods of time or allowing Certain Industries to stop before others thank you very much indeed for your expertise thank you thank you. Im not our restrictions in new zealand have been eased for the 1st time in almost 5 weeks it means some businesses take away food outlets and schools can reopen but social distancing measures will remain a country of nearly 5000000 people has more than 1400 cases of coronavirus and 19 deaths from minister just in our dense as the tough measures have helped to limit the outbreak to succeed we must hunt down the last few cases of the virus this is like looking for a needle in a haystack and we need your help to finish the job we have started there is no widespread undertook to Community Transmission in new zealand we have won that battle but we must remain vigilant if we keep it that way that includes safely returning more New Zealanders to work and neighboring more businesses to reopen miller and some of the recreate it to police weve missed in the past 4 weeks when he joins us live from auckland when what will this change mean for New Zealanders. Well the reality is that the move from level 4 to level 3 on the 4 stage alert system of the government introduced in late march is a very little will change for them and what we saw at the end of the end of march was the government introducing this 4 stage system and straight away throwing the country into the highest level level 4 when there were only a handful of confirmed coronavirus cases in this country so that meant for the past 4 weeks or so that new zealand has been under a form of Lockdown People have been told to stay home unless theyre going to the supermarket theyve also been allowed to go outside in the neighborhood only to have some sort of outdoor exercise but all nonessential businesses have been closed now the government feels that the time is right with only as you say just over 1400 confirmed cases and 1000 deaths that they can transition to the next level level 3 and that means that people can go to work the government expects around 400000 people to return to work its really about an economic decision rather than a social one some of the businesses that cannot open though are retail shops unless theyre doing deliveries our response is well they can reopen only if they are doing contactless deliveries or pick up of food so what the government is trying to avoid of course is people going into shops or restaurants having contact with other customers or contact with staff construction sites can also restart which will of course be a big boost to the economy and as of wednesday schools can reopen but only for students up to year 10 and that is really designed only for children of parents who are going back to work and level 3 so the message is far as School Children goes from the government is that if parents can keep them at home to continue home schooling then they should do so so as i say this is really about an economic transition trying to get the economy of new zealand moving again rather than any significant social change from level 4 to level 3 when hey thank you very much indeed. Well as we reported earlier lockdown restrictions have triggered on rest in the french capital 2 Police Officers have been suspended for allegedly racially insulting a man they arrested a man was detained in a poor suburb of paris where violent protests broke out last week stringent restrictions on Public Movement have worsened deep seated social tensions in deprived neighborhoods around the french capital the government says its being extremely vigilant following the protests. We have. An antiracist activist an english teacher living in noisy to say its a suburb in paris she joins us from there now to tell us a little bit about the atmosphere where you are and what its like for particular teachers in the suburbs well the atmosphere is video clear actually and things are really shouldnt be nice and Classes Online for their students were facing many problems and hours students are facing many problems to next and and. So did the people there do young people in the in the body of feel that theres a disproportionately affected by coronavirus and the lockdown yeah i actually know that in the. Chorus traits you know we have forest People Living there and we have the highest number living here and we know that the lockdown is changing the lives. Goals and. They have to face many problems that they have had or that but now its just. Even more difficult for them to get food and you have them the lights what about the the Police Response is it whats your experience of it. Well. About the police we know that for example Police Violence has always existed and on here and its not a surprise actually but what we know now with a lockdown is that. They use this particular situation as just a few cation for their violence. And nobody saying anything about it because everyone will like its normal its for the safety of everyone but the police is being more violent in love on this and all the places for example in the center of paris. We know that the identity checks have always existed. Not on here but 9. You know theyre being very violent right now because they feel they they are free to do so you know what you have but you specifically do you feel safe well i dont know if i can say that feel safe but i actually i know that i didnt check for example. The police or i get a lot of black and arab men there are the main target of the police that we saw that during the lockdown even when men were targeted by Police Violence so i dont know if i can say that im safe but what i can say is that i am worried about for example my students i dont know what can happen to them im worried about my brother when he gets out and something was said by my mother is in love on you which is quite relevant its actually they said our children in the home you can either die. Coronavirus or are there Police Violence which is really striking actually we have thank you very much indeed for joining us from san thank you. More still ahead including kings day at home usually boisterous best say festivities for the dutch one of our new to the fair coronavirus restrictions. Coronavirus opportunity for control is china using the trusses as a smoke screen for geopolitical ambitions so i want all of the hollywood. And the pakistan Radio Station thats broadcasting vital coronavirus information to some of the countrys most isolated listeners. Hello has been very dry april so far for Central Europe and its still fairly dry as you see from the satellite picture all the clouds around the outside but this down here is about to invade so taking rain across france and cross the border into germany low countries and this will be welcome right now the blue is obvious the rain is spread all over it cities come up to spain and portugal you go to drawing scene here for the rain invoke is heading in that direction and example then the forecast for vienna for tuesday wednesday and thursday increasingly like to get rain obviously when see the hit day its still quite warm on cheezy above average thats been the case throughout austria germany denmark for example so this is a big change tempered down to around about the average and rainfall is what you might expect to spring and just havent seen it and thats the case for wednesday is also the case for thursday which means that the few showers you see druggy across the as mountains and now geria are on their way out this is been a fairly wet period recently and i think that also will change was more sunshine and slightly rising temperatures the breezes coming down through egypt is larger than it was the temps in the sahara still in the middle fortys and the showers a study coming up in west africa reaches far as free time in sierra leone. Becoming a Living Legend of a young age was simply not enough. He transformed his influence on the pitch into political clout the book piece to the ivory coast. Hosted by eric cantona. Rebels begins with a look at the life of did you get shot by the form of who succeeded with politicians not. Deviate from the ibori and civil war on aljazeera. The time had come for the p. L. O. To seek a new and peaceful solution. Pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed withdrawal from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children killed we couldnt believe our eyes chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p. L. O. History of a revolution on aljazeera. Well again a reminder of the top stories here now as are more than 3000000 cases of great of ours have now been reported worldwide thats as the World Health Organization warns the pandemic could indirectly harm the lives of millions of children who are missing out on vital vaccinations for other Infectious Diseases. 500. 00 garment factories have been allowed to reopen in bangladesh for those hundreds of workers on sunday defying the month long shutdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak there are the workers said they faced starvation if they were not paid. And hospitals in london have reported a rising number of children with a rare but dangerous condition they think may be linked to corona virus is that some into what doctors call a multisystem inflammatory state requiring intensive care. Ward highly for have to has declared the end of all political talks with the u. N. Recognize government after says the scare out political agreement which aimed to bring about a National Unity government is to be abolished but one of the will head is in tripoli and says have to comments could be nothing more than grandstanding. Has been saying. Big news but everybody here is familiar that this is not very significant especially has been repeating all the time the abolishment of the libyan political agreement this high about agreement that brought about the current you and the recognize the government of National Accord he has been always speaking here and trying to announce the end of this libyan political agreement to but this has been interpreted in terms of his last defeat his forces lost many parts in the west of libya especially along the coast the coastal way highway that links the capital of tripoli to the tunisian borders after they controlled it for the past 3 years also his forces in southern tripoli have been retreating and the city of the horn or his main a stronghold in the west of libya has been besieged by the Government Forces so on the ground have to have to have been losing on the ground so his speech today as a kind of as you know that couple of days ago. Minor demonstrations not very big demonstrations in the east of libya were calling on have to take over power in the country kings day is a Major National holiday in the netherlands but celebrations this year have been toned down due to the coronavirus order 4500 people are being killed by covert 900 there with more than 38000 confirmed cases but a step 1st in reports the dutch government is under growing pressure to loosen restrictions. Sad tones of the National Anthem fill the empty streets of amsterdam due to the covert pandemic all mass outdoor celebrations of kings day have been cancelled and everyone has been urged to stay at home parties are restricted to balconies. Really big square with everybody else and today we have to keep our distance to everybody but increasingly people are ignoring the dutch socalled intelligent lock down which means keeping a distance of one and a half meters they run the risk of a nearly 400 euros fine despite road blocks some have even found ways to enter the famous dutch Flower Fields normally visited by millions of tourists at this time of the year compared to some other countries dutch people still have a lot of freedom while theyre discouraged from visiting these flower fails theres no official lockdown that forces them to stay indoors nor is there any obligation to wear masks but this bide all this increasingly people appear to be getting fed up with the restrictive measures in place and urging the government to restart the economy. In contrast to the cheerful chorus of their fields flower farmers are suffering millions of juleps and other flowers had to be destroyed after borders were closed and the mastic the month collapsed how much is thrown away here in this place we think about 2 millions of. Value but the value was around one half 1000000 euro. Instead of taking them to flower auctions fundal son and his colleagues are now selling flowers by the side of the street. What we see is economy it goes on the wrong way so lets hope that our government will release very sure little by little. Restrictions but Scientists Say lifting restrictions too soon will lead to a 2nd wave of death instead they argue the government should follow neighboring countries and start to test more people and track their contacts i think its really does believe in in our situation with our culture we want to be free in a way to our citizens we dont want to be tracking down our citizens. And and also because they have chosen this direction seem to be afraid of losing the i would you say we would say in that you would say would you lose your face. The government has urged people to remain patient at least until may 20 when some measures could be lifted but it is predicted that the dutch free spirit even after this date will have to be confined and that the one and a half meters distance will stay in place step class and aljazeera and so that. Youre suggesting it might pompei or has accused china of exploiting the worlds focus on the code 19 crisis by continuing what he called its productive behavior in disputed territory in the South China Sea the area is a strategically important shipping route with rich fishing grounds and potentially Lucrative Oil and gas reserves in the latest exchanges a chinese ship is reported to have locked its weapons radar on a philippines vessel and china has Just Announced a list of 18 newly named geographic features in the area perry has condemned the actions saying the u. S. Strongly opposes chinas bullying and we hope other nations will hold them to account the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman responded saying china will is resolutely safeguard its sovereignty security and development interests and matter what no matter when. Which it had daryn is a columnist and author of asias new battlefield u. S. China and the struggle for the western pacific he says china is using its control of the distribution of medical supplies to further its cheap political agenda what we have seen in the past 2 months or so what b. S. Is what many critics see as a brazen act of strategic opportunism for instance and what were seeing also here is what you can call offensive charming so on one hand china is in gauging in a facemask diplomacy going around the region giving p. P. East and medical equipment and mass to indonesia the philippines and Different Countries who are struggling with this epidemic which of course originated from china but at the same time we see also china in march and increasingly in april has also stepped up its efforts in a jason waters to dominate those waters for instance we see the chinese sinking a vietnamese fishing boat after ending 2 augers now harassing immolation west capella Activities Oil exploration activities we see china further militarizing the artificially created islands like the brief and deploying munster coastguard ship to discard arsenal and all of this lets be very careful all of this is happening while the neighboring countries including top generals in the philippines have caught the virus and had to be drawing to quarantine and more importantly the us navy and the pentagon had to put suspension on overseas deployment and in fact one of american aircraft carriers u. S. S. Roosevelt is now completely grounded because of the epidemic outbreaks create the new strategy vacuum thats how a lot of china to push the envelope in an even more accelerate the moment. A musical tribute from china to the philippines celebrating a partnership to fight the corona virus has been criticized as propaganda some of the 160000 people who disliked it online many of them filipinos say its really part of a power play to control the South China Sea i mean island took on reports from manila. That there you know is on you tube and the song is called ethan that got which in the filipino land which means one scene the song was written but we interrupt our coverage of that to bring you President Trump hes about to speak at the white house in the rose garden lets listen in thank you very much thank you. Today id like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus thanks to our comprehensive strategy an extraordinary devotion to our citizens weve had such tremendous support all over we continue to see encouraging sizer progress cases in new york area new orleans detroit boston and used to in our declining Denver Seattle philadelphia washington d. C. Atlanta nashville indianapolis and st louis are all stable and declining all parts of the country are either in good shape Getting Better in all cases Getting Better and were seeing very little that were going to look at as a superseding hotspot. Things are moving along really a horrible situation that weve been confronted with but theyre moving along as we express our gratitude for these hard fought gains however we continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from a spy the invisible enemy we grieve by their side as one family this Great American family and we do grieve we also stand in solidarity with the thousands of americans who are ill and waging a brave fight against the virus were doing everything in our power to heal the sick and to gradually reopen our nation and to safely get our people back to work they want to get back to work and they want to get back to work soon there is a hunger for getting our country back and its happening and its happening faster than people would think ensuring the health of our economy is vital to ensuring the health of our nation these goals work in tandem they work side by side its clear that our aggressive strategy to slow the spread has been working and is saving countless lives for those who are infected weve taken unprecedented action to ensure they have the highest level of care anywhere in the world the federal government has built more than 11000. 00 extra beds shipped to or delivered hundreds of millions of pieces of personal protective equipment as you know in fact some of the people here are going to be talking about it some of our greatest executives some of the greatest anywhere in the world and distributed over 10000. 00 ventilators and we now have in a very short period of time many have been delivered and hundreds of thousands are being built and frankly every governor. Has more ventilators right now than they know what to do with theyre actually shipping them to different locations and were shipping some to our allies and others throughout the world because we have ventilators like the job that theyve done and getting this very complex piece of equipment built is actually incredible you dont hear about ventilators anymore except in a positive way weve launched the most ambitious testing effort likewise on earth the United States is now conducted more than 5400000 tests nearly double the number tested in any other country more than twice as much as any other country think of that moments ago i came from a meeting with some of our nations largest retailers including Walmart Walgreens c. V. S. Rite aid and kroger were joined by the leaders of those Great Companies and we also have with us the leaders from the worlds top medical Diagnostics Companies and suppliers Thermo Fisher lab core quest u. S. Cotton and the American Clinical Laboratory association these are great Great Companies. These private sector leaders along with other such as roche Abbott Becton dickinson all logic and cephas fest sefl hyde. Have been exceptional partners in an unprecedented drive to expand the states capabilities and our countrys capabilities the job theyve done has been incredible the testing thats been developed and being developed right now its been a truly amazing thing i want to thank Abbott Laboratories for the job theyve done i want to thank roche and in particular those 2 have really stepped forward abbott with a 5 minute test that people can take in in 5 minutes they know what the what the answer is id like to ask if i could the executives of these Great Companies and the are they have really helped us a lot over the last 45 day period were talking about a 45 day period when many of us met and since then what walmart and the others have done has been nothing short of amazing so i just want to ask them to come forward and say a few words about their company plus theyre going to make a big contribution to our country please come forward please thank you when things. Thank you mr president and thank you for all of you for being here day in and what wed like to talk about is the progress we made the last time we were here was 13 and weve been tremendous progress and none of that progress could be made without the 47000. 00 people at Quest Diagnostics that are working around the clock working up the test and running the test into the liver in the results that we need as far as results weve made tremendous progress we are currently at qwest gnostics test tube of 50000. 00 tests per day weve been pushed by the task force to bring up that number by the end of may well have 100000 tests per day about 3000000 tests and these are the news conferences and at the white house the president saying that all parts of the country are either in good shape or Getting Better in terms of coronavirus and there is a hunger for getting our country back tons of reignites bring in our white house parish correspondent kimberly hellcat so it can really the president did talk about the mourning the thousands of victims you didnt mention the numbers did he. No as the numbers are getting high in terms of infections in the United States the United States is quickly approaching a 1000000 well over 50000 in terms of deaths. There are a couple of things going on here 1st theres the news and then we need to talk about what the president is doing holding this in the rose garden 1st the news what we expect the president to talk about he is in the middle of letting some of these c. E. O. s speak from some of the nations retailers that we understand the purpose of this Rose Garden Press Conference is to announce a ramping up of testing in the United States because of course as the president said there you cant open the economy back up unless youre testing to make sure that people are safe to go to work to not reinfect their families those sorts of things so we know when you hear the president talking there about how he feels per capita the United States is ahead in testing of course that has been disputed south korea being another big site for testing in terms of countries but what this purpose of this press conference is essentially is to release a blueprint for testing in the states this will be a Rapid Response program that will happen through some of these retailers that are present there in the rose garden and what we do know once again is that the president wants this to be a state led endeavor her devore in other words get your own task we will really be the provider of last resort so those are the headlines in terms of what the president s talking about but i think another headline in all of this is you have to remember this is a president we havent seen for a number of days who has spent the weekend targeting the media accusing them of being the fake news and really frustrated over that Public Relations disaster that occurred last thursday when in the White House Briefing room when he suggested that perhaps covert 19 could be eradicated if you shine light on the human body by u. V. Light or perhaps even injecting some sort of disinfectant which of course horrified Public Health officials the president was giving that kind of a message. Since then the president has been blaming the media for that plunging poll numbers the rissoles searching at the white house in terms of perhaps scaling back these briefings thats what we thought was going to happen today in fact we heard the 5 oclock to 20 when Task Force Briefing we normally have was called off and then it was abruptly called back on but it wasnt the white house Task Force Briefing instead what it was was a press conference in the rose garden so it appears the president is trying to control the narrative is once again something that he has up until now been adept at doing but has been less successful in recent days and so it appears that this is an attempt by this president to regain control to be in the spotlight to get in front of the messaging after many days of negative headlines communicant thank you very much indeed. Well as several u. S. States start to lift their coronavirus knockdowns one of the priorities will be repairing the nations Food Supply Chain the outbreak has significantly impacted americas meat and Dairy Industries with staff getting sick and products going to waste and gaga has more. Across the u. S. Meat packing plants have been hit by the spread of the coronavirus many of our the suspended or being forced to slow production with one of the biggest manufacturers warning that millions of pounds of meat will disappear according to the union that represents food workers 13 of their members have died and at least 6500 have been exposed to the virus many plants have been criticized for not doing enough to protect their workers. In agriculture to the picture is of an industry in dire straits farmers are unable to sell their stock as meat packing plants reduce production. That break in the Food Production chain is affecting some of the most vulnerable as lines for food banks grow across the country high unemployment rates are forcing many families to turn to organizations like 2nd harvest cars lined up here 3 hours before the food drive started and kept coming an hour after it closed were pretty stand by the response today but certainly glad that everyone heard about it you know this is really indicative of the need were hearing about here and can really pull out. Many of those fighting the virus on the front lines are also looking for help even as they put their own lives on the line to tackle the pandemic i was recently torques back to the field every day. But just still trying to get the houses and start off as a Food Production industry navigates a way to safely get production going again Food Insecurity is now a growing issue according to feed america the number of people facing Food Insecurity in 2018 was 37. 1000000 the long term effects of the coronavirus could millions more to that statistic some economists say if businesses dont we by the end of the month the effect will be catastrophic President Donald Trump is talking to Industry Leaders many from Food Production who face the task of feeding the country safely its a delicate balancing act with those facing Food Shortages now among the high risk category and gallacher aljazeera matters across colombia have moved to block a government decision allowing some people back to work the country remains under lockdown until the middle of next month but the construction and manufacturing sectors have been allowed to restart local leaders say its too soon and have taken matters into their own hands and send the amputee reports from bogota. Building sites in the capital remain this by the amount spent by president construction and manufacturing were due to gradually restore on monday. Thats because late sunday nights the mayor of bogota managed to postpone the return to work of almost a 1000000 people in this city alone now you heres a thought i had my nobody stops working tomorrow nobody no businesses no construction sites the only thing starting tomorrow is the ridges tree of the businesses to approve their protocols i the political infighting shows just how difficult it is to safely restart work in populous then cities like will be. The measure might delay reopening spring another 2 weeks as companies wait for their security and mobility plans to be approved by the city. Something that worries intrapreneur who are eager to restart. We had already informed our workers and it was a surprise to find out that we couldnt work and that we had to fill a lot of new paperwork well bewildered its clear the Different Levels of government are not working together and this damages everybody. Has been in full lockdown for over a month which has helped slow the rate of infections but has also badly hurt explora citizens. For the government the biggest worry lies here in the Public Transportation system which they say cant operate past 35 percent capacity to avoid putting people at serious risk some workers say safety must remain paramount in what is really going to pick up some things that were expected to start today but instead will work and her mental longer is tough but its worth it to avoid the worst Health Crisis economy. Is finding the right balance will be difficult to meet to allow people to start working is very high. And local governments and the National Gallery need to balance the act in of the trick try to avoid a large increase in the number of people come to it or. Basically create social embrace coming from the lack of income this conundrum is not colombias alone ecuador chile and argentina are also trying to use some restrictions to restore part of their economy well also extending the lockdowns it shows just how scared everybody is to botch what the restrictions have achieved so far alison that im just. Around 500. 00 refugees and migrants have been left without shelter after 2 fires tore through their camp on the greek island of some us officials in the blazes broke out overnight during what they called internal disputes between the camps residents tents housing migrants and medical facilities were burnt forcing a partial evacuation of the site they have a crowded camp built to house a few than 650 people is home to nearly 7007 card is a doctor with Doctors Without Borders a field coordinator based on the island of some us he says the camps die a Living Conditions increasing tensions among its residents. Its very difficult because we had yesterday 2 pirates breaking out in the campion but the hundreds of people lost their shelter there was a lot of tension yesterday evening and also today in the morning there was a lot of tension another fire broke out again people a lot of producers up at. The camp here on the on the on going mountain so i was 7000 people are sleeping there in small tents they dont have really access to hygiene and water and good food this makes it really difficult and. The governments answer European Union they dont take care of the people and the christians sometimes staying here for long type for years and they are not taking to. The mainland what m. S. F. Is really pushing for a salvador Security Officials have been authorized to use lethal force against gang members following a surge in violence during the pandemic a state of emergency has been imposed in prisons with inmates now locked in that overcrowded cells all day long but many reports. Is ok maximum security prison is on 24 hour lockdown but the out with social distance new rules dont apply to inmates. Crammed together theyre banned from any contact with the outside world the government says almost 13000 gang members and locked out you know south of those prisons following the recent spike in murders some of the most dangerous gang leaders have been sent to confinement too strict their access to the outside walls and most of my old alice is still there make glare they will not receive sunlight they will be in total confinement 24 hours a day in the 7 maximum Security Prisons that are in this country this was an order from president naive ok we are complying with that order. A state of emergency came after 53 murders were reported throughout the country absolute can in Northern England regular soul we have taken the decision to mix and imprison in each of the cells the different groups of the criminal gangs that are causing so much damage to the country the government will not bow down to any terrorist structure. The president tweeted hes ordered Prison Guards to use lethal force as a form of selfdefense and as you saw position parties to support his directive. Im selftaught has one of the highest per capita mud rates in the world many linked to the illegal lets take. President look at he said the rate has fallen dramatically since he took over in june he meeting him post tough measures on street gangs known as matter. And the crew of our small town has helped out to reduce the murder rate curfews and trouble with directions help halt the rates between february and march a country wide lockdown was imposed the march 22nd 2 brights groups warn massive crowding in prisons lately to an epidemic in sight. As well as gang members the International Crisis group since many of the knocked on the simply looking for something to eat all of the president says hes made history say he also says danny does it take you beyond his at the crown of ours emergency in the full results nor does a man the aljazeera. Lets take a straight back to President Trump and have a listen in our country open and the testing is not going to be a problem at all in fact its going to be one of the great assets that we have today where releasing Additional Guidance on testing to inform the states as they develop their plans for a phased and very safe reopening our blueprint describes how states should unlock their full capacity expand the number of testing platforms establish Monitoring Systems to detect local outbreaks and conduct Contact Tracing we have it all other countries are calling to find out what are we doing and how do you do it and were helping them were dealing with a lot of countries helping them on testing. Just like we did on the ventilators i directed our Medicare Program to make it easier for seniors to get the testing that they need in the pharmacies as you know we are allowing pharmacies now to do testing and we have other testing locations that were going to be allowing also but having pharmacies get involved in testing is a very big deal were also asking governors to the same in their Medicaid Program so theyre going to be able unauthorized to do the same in medicaid so its a big thats a big deal so were deploying the full power and strength of the federal government to help states cities to help local government get this horrible plague over with and over with fast this Tremendous Energy in our country right now is energy like people havent seen in a long time a spirit that they have not seen and were doing very well very well considering what happened to us and considering if you look at what happened to others. This is something that the world has not seen for a long long time you can probably go back to 1917 where it was a terrible period of time you all know what happened in 1970 and thats over 100 years ago with that id like to introduce a by my. Dr brooks if you could come up and then youll come up and between the 2 of you youll explain the entire process and how much progress weve made and where were going thank you very much. Thank you mr president so the blueprint lays out the roles and responsibilities to enhance our partnership between the private sector and the Public Sector bringing together their state and local governments with the federal government to ensure that we can accomplish and chief our Core Principles and objectives begin at the 1st slide the core elements of the testing plan include both. 3 elements robot robust diagnostic testing plans developed in partnership with state and i just really want to thank the governor is and Health Officials both at the state and local levels have been working with us day and night to work through these issues and also all the Laboratory Directors in many of the states as well as the American Society for microbiology have been working with us to ensure that the plants where efficient and effective within the robust diagnostic testing play