Catching coronavirus. Taste of home we need to syrian family celebrating ramadan manes that house. The u. S. President s handling of the Coronavirus Crisis is on the even greater scrutiny after accusations he sought quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients and as the death toll passes 70000. 00 from says hes considering winding down the task force set up to respond to the pandemic mike hanna has the latest from washington no facemask for the president while visiting an Aerospace Company repurposed to produce masks this in defiance of his administrations guidelines that masks should be worn in public at all times. The president confirmed reports that he was considering shutting down the Coronavirus Task force that has been responsible for the federal response to the pandemic as far as the task force my pension the task force and done a great job but were now looking at a little bit of a different form and their former safety and opening and well. Have a Different Group probably set up for the more you saying Mission Accomplished no no no no the Mission Accomplished is when its over while the president was on his travels this document was handed over to the office of the special counsel an 89. 00 page whistle blower report alleging the trumpet ministration ignored early warnings about the coronavirus the authors dr rick bright the former director of the biomedical at vance research d and Development Authority the countrys controlling body pullbacks in production he alleges he was unfairly removed from his job following complaints about the administrations lack of urgency in reacting to the pandemic he also specifically mentions resisting pressure from senior officials to fast track the use of the drug hydroxy korak when and chloroquine itself in treatment for the virus or think the drug was heavily and repeatedly touted by the president himself as a Task Force Briefings i think its going to be very exciting i think it could be. The game changer and maybe not and maybe not but i think it could be based on what i see it could be a game changer dr bright contends his opposition to this position led directly to suspect of demotion as officials sought to placate the president now a lot of what dr great a whistleblower complaint is about or demonstrate it the extent to which the government at the higher level is committed not to solving the problem but to keeping down trump happy today keeping him happy to morrow and thats not a way to address a very major problem it was only a week ago that the f. D. A. For me cautioned against the use of these drugs for the treatment of coronavirus despite the warnings that dr bright made back in january perhaps the most damning allegation in the report is that the administration ignored or pushed back against dr brights emails warning of the severity of the virus and insisting that the National Stockpile of masks and ventilators needed to be augmented unlike other government officials whove been demoted or fired dr bright is demanding his job back and congress will now get involved dr brights lawyers confirm hes been invited to give evidence to a House Committee on thursday next week mike hanna aljazeera washington. Steve clemons is the washington editor at large for the hill he also hosts aljazeera as weekly politics show the bottom line he believes the white house will try to disparage rick writes character. This is a person who was the best in class in what he was tasked to do he had great insights into what the threats to humans all over the world but also to americans were and he had the greatest grasp of how to quickly begin processing the partnerships to get to the kind of vaccines and therapies that americans would need and by the obsession that the administration apparently had with heidrick hydroxide or equipment which is the controversial drug at the core of this debate we saw associates of the president like Rudy Giuliani coming out in hawking hydrox acorah quit on things like facebook and fox news and you know it kind of broadly and we saw the Veterans Administration begin to stockpile a hydroxy couric when very quickly so those who were able to be influenced by the president the white house move very quickly to move on a drug that had not been vetted had not been tested and that we have now seen the National Institute of health in the United States invalidate as a drug that looks as if it has any positive impact in fact they think it may have negative impact on patients that are suffering from cope at 19 so i think right now youre going to see a battle about science and i think the big thing right now that we have to look at is scientists like tony Deborah Burkes folks like rick bright are beginning to have political weight in an election season this is not just science versus lack of science these are people that are threatening the president and he believes that theyre acting politically not necessarily just because of the science that may be motivating them south korea is further easing kind of virus restrictions as it continues a trend a few i cases tuesday in from pole to its lowest tailing crease in fact and since february well business is reopening and social events can take place South Koreans thought of returning to work last month. South koreas containment of the virus is being praised soon after the 1st infection was confirmed in january 1st thing kids were quickly approved and patients isolated while tracking apps drive through testing and quarantine violation fines all introduced from early on to test trace and contain the number of corona virus infections hit a peak on february the 29th the infection curve flattens significantly after that though by mid april new infections reduced to Single Digits allowing parliamentary elections to go ahead 255 South Koreans have died more than 10000 cases have been recorded Robert Wright has more from outside the museum of modern art in seoul. This is south korea emerging from the coronavirus and entering a new phase as it recovers were at the museum of modern art here as with many other public venues from today wednesday other museums libraries galleries are all reopening but doing so with some very strict precautions are in place here at the museum of modern art so we have the usual Temperature Check as people come in if you do come in here you will have had to have registered ahead of time online to come and visit a man is just being told i think to put a mask on. You have to register ahead of time and were told that about 70 people are in the museum at the moment are there have a 2 hour block where theyre allowed to visit then you have a rotation if theres a sudden surge of people wanting to get to see some bob not there know in the floor here the already in place the markings to make sure that any lines keep their distance from each other its all part of this every day life quarantine as its referred to here basically it is the new normal this is south korea lifting some of these restrictions other things like religious gatherings are now being allowed sporting events the kind of events that attract gatherings of people and they can do that but as long as they still follow a social distancing guidelines from the government not as strict as they were before but certainly still in place here. Cambodias political rivals have held a rare meeting but officials around them say to avoid discussing politics opposition figure kim carr went to pay his respects at the prime ministers home after his mother in laws death is facing Treason Charges over a video showing him talking about receiving advice from u. S. Prodemocracy groups. The Living Conditions of low paid Foreign Workers in singapore on the scrutiny theyre seen as being particularly vulnerable in a country with almost 20000 cases of covert 19. This is what home looks like for 200000 Foreign Workers who live in government licensed dormitories migrants account for 85 percent of all covert 19 tases here aljazeera spoke on the phone to a Migrant Worker living in one of the dormitories he asked not to be identified for fear of being sacked when. Hes tested negative but still worries about contracting the virus right now. I. Want. An academic in new zealand whos done research on Migrant Workers in Singapore Says the inability to maintain physical distancing can cause a Workers Health to suffer. The way. It gets. Here only because. It is a great deal and safety in. Its place thousands of healthy or recovered workers have been moved to Floating Hotels or military barracks to curb the spread of the coronavirus the singapore government which already has one of the highest testing rates in the world is planning to boost its capacity to 40000 tests a day the manpower minister has promised to improve the dormitories as soon as the virus crisis easons but a Migrant Workers Rights Group SaysLiving Conditions are a sign of a much bigger problem. Even though. We dont its. All of this problem he says workers often pain allies to by employers probing absent which could have to ted some from seeking medical attention about 20 percent of singapores population are Foreign Workers there and relatively low paying jobs such as construction and manufacturing the city state doesnt have a minimum wage activists say the government has not only needs to reexamine its reliance on cheap imported labor but also the level of protection workers have lawrence louis aljazeera. Still ahead on aljazeera as russia struggles to contain coronavirus 3 medics fall from windows after complaining about their working conditions. And the u. K. Overtakes italy to become the country with the most virus deaths in europe. We just had 2 or 3 days of pretty big thunderstorms and the Higher Ground of not is missing the satellite picture here as you can see and in the forecast i think weve seen the end of the night thats not true for the west so in yemen and the mountains in southwest to saudi arabia both wednesday and thursday could see the other couple of days a big damper and the finger of cladistics that was bahrain and qatar my particular rainbow i think mostly is going to be cloudy skies it will feel quite sticky 3738 in dubai and then the winter into a northerly and those temps will eventually drop fairly quickly and the breeze will pick up and it will feel rather less humid now beyond that its a picture of mostly dry weather the last few showers disappear out of iraq and weve got sunshine coming up to warm things up in jerusalem and very less so in turkey it is still the time of year where you get some pretty big downpours of rain in kenya and tanzania now although they disappear after the day is done they come back the next day and the coast once again to tanzania produces some pretty heavy downpours that breeze is going up the coast now this is the start of the southwest monsoon on its way to india a few showers still seem like in somalia and ethiopia otherwise were still talking about kenya c. A. R. And they are congo where again we have seen some flooding. As the world fights the corona pandemic more than learning more about this every day its a new adventure and join our Global Community its up to us on how we come together to fight im sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is me directly thats coming on on you tube as you were saying im concerned about the front line phone thats a great quiet and not keeping you up to date amusing countries beating back and beating back successfully the street on 00. Im. Not come back youre watching out this time to recap winds trump administrations handling of the coronavirus pandemic is coming under scrutiny once again the former top official is accused of seeking quick fixes while rushing drugs patients south korea is further easing coronavirus restrictions as it continues to have cases. At its lowest actions. Russia has reported the largest number of new daily cases in europe with total infections exceeding 150000 now 3 health staff complained about working conditions fallen out of windows they. Were digging graves instant petersburg russia 2nd city for victims of covered 19 a scene thats becoming more common in choosing the country reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases in europe and now there are disturbing questions over Health Workers whove raised the alarm about their working conditions that after 2 years i would have a look sandridge this video on twitter shows dr alexander shoot off on the left and a colleague whos explaining how she had been forced to keep working despite having covered 19 the colleague had previously criticised the Hospital Management for protective gear shortages and was questioned by police for allegedly spreading fake news but another video made 3 days later apparently of their hospital seems to show of by now being treated for the virus retracting their complaints. I feel right my temperature is not rising my disease is a symptomatic of a runny nose otherwise all is well what we said was said when we were high on emotions. On saturday according to local state television quoting Health Officials surely. Fell from a 2nd floor window at the hospital hes now reportedly in a Critical Condition in intensive care after suffering skull fractures the same sources say hes the 3rd russian doctor to fall out of a window in the space of 10 days the 2 others died all 3 incidents which are being investigated by Law Enforcement or thirtys have prompted intense discussion in russia about whistleblowers in the Health System everywhere we have a lot of problems then are a lot. Of hospitals and. Enough. Doctors we dont have enough lets dont have enough equipment. Across russia the number of recorded covered 1000 cases stands at more than 155000 officially the diseases killed almost 1500 people mostly remains the countrys worst hit region accounting for more than half of new cases and here 90 percent of patients are younger than 65 several cities remain on lockdown and while much of europe looks to ease restrictions the russian government says theyll stay in place until theres a vaccine. Aljazeera. India is launching one of the Worlds LargestInternational Repatriation missions flights to 13 countries will start on 1st day while warships of already been deployed to bring back hundreds of thousands of workers stranded overseas victoria gave them the reports. There are an estimated 70000000 indians who Work Overseas now some of those who desperately want to return home will be able to have gone to the Indian Government has given the go ahead to bring back indian citizens stuck abroad the travel will be done either by airplanes or naval ships all flights into india was suspended in late march because of the coronavirus pandemic since then those affected by the restrictions have been vocal in calling for a change of policy if you look at the difficult and what all the missions and the peace because they have been flooded by these indians what in saying that the. Other countries have been thinking oh that is an act why arent you being you know so this is basically a type of dignity in that the Indian Government says arriving passengers will be screened segregated and quarantined but critics are warning the virus may still spread. According to the information from the Central Government people be put on a plane without testing 1st with or they have coronavirus this is dangerous a plane has more than 200 people if one or 2 have the virus all the passengers will be in trouble the subjects the whole country and raises the possibility of the disease spreading further. There are also concerns that poorly paid migrants may not be able to afford a ticket home which could cost the equivalent of more than 200. 00 from the gulf and more than a 1000. 00 from the u. S. Could look at subsidizing are only discounting these tickets specially for people who get 95 to be people who do not have the economic ability of buying but use of ticket home is estimated there are up to a 1000000 indians waiting to go home in what will be one of the Worlds LargestInternational Repatriation missions Victoria Gate and be aljazeera. As the number of cases drops in some countries cancer is recording hundreds of new infections a day it has the 2nd highest total in the arab world despite a relatively small population talk to aljazeera spoke to carters Public Health minister who says most other countries havent tested enough to know the full extent of their outbreaks. Number of cases has gone up but thats only natural and i believe that actually its a result of our very strong testing measures so as youve seen we are testing a lot and at that so weve been testing approximately 40000 per 1000000 so thats quite significant thats one of the highest rates of testing and and that reflects a true picture of whats happening in terms of infection rates so the rates are not high theyre realistic or you will find that a lot of countries at the end of their pandemic will realize that their curve actually looks like ours so if you see the number of cases and that are maybe high but theyre actually a mild cases so 93 percent of the cases are mild only one percent end up in i. C. U. And another 5 percent end up in the admitted in the hospital and thats actually quite a very quite a good debate to have in the country and thats because we are very active in seeking the cases were very active in finding cases tracing them leyton them quarantining them and therefore managing the case and situation much better and you can watch the full interview with dr hamburg quadri on talk to aljazeera 1630 g. M. T. On 1st. Britain has overtaken italy to become the country with the highest number of coronavirus deaths in europe more than 1st 2000 people have now died there the foreign minister says accurate comparisons can be made to the crisis is over. I dont think well get a real verdict on how well countries have done until the pandemic is over and particularly until weve got comprehensive International Data on all cause mortality but i think theres 2 points id make about the way the u. K. Has approached things there are different ways of counting deaths as we know weve had that debate in this country we now published data that includes all deaths in all settings and not all countries do that so im not sure that the International Comparison works on the show can you or you reliably know that all countries are measuring in the same way and it also depends on how good frankly countries are in gathering their statistics. As john holl explains from london the figures dont tell the full story. The numbers by direct compassion dont tell us all that much what they do though is fuel questions which are being asked here almost every day of the government now or quite why this country appears to have been so ill prepared for this epidemic having had a good couple of weeks to look at with horror at the time of course what was happening in italy a country that had far less time to prepare and also a wider questions about quite why western countries in general in europe and in the United States were far less prepared or appear to have been than Asian Countries take south korea for instance after all of this only recording just in excess of 250 deaths from coronavirus so they feel all the questions they dont necessarily provide very much of where votes British Public are looking and listening all the time to pronouncements from government in the Daily Briefing and elsewhere from scientists and so on about when and it might be appropriate to start lifting the lockdown thats been in place in this country and others there looking of course at the reproductive rate of the infections from cocoa covered 1000 looking for that to remain below one this famous are figure the number of people that carries with corona virus infect it is currently below one but not sufficiently below want to give them much wiggle room but theres an enormous amount of pressure from industry for business on the government to restart the economy the war is that if you go too far down the road in terms of saving lives you end up going too far down the road in terms of being able to save the economy and then ultimately that causes more problems than it helps down the lines. Latin american countries have reported more than 370000 cases and more than 14000 virus thefts the majority of those falling ill are in hot spot countries like brazil and peru other regions are expecting a dramatic increase in cases in the coming weeks when you are appollo reports from mexico city. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across latin america the country with the highest death toll is brazil they are the number of dead stands at more than 7000. In sao paolo authorities have begun blocking main avenues in an effort to reduce contagion. Only an estimated half of the citys residents are obeying social isolation guidelines some say they have little choice imo it is going to help a lot because the number of deaths are just getting higher and we need to do our best so this is all over soon i think this is very important to be isolated just leave home those who really need to leave i left because i have to work but i avoid leaving the most i can and. Brazil isnt the only country bracing for the worst of the coded 900. 00 pandemic. In perus capital lima Health Care Workers have held street demonstrations over a lack of resources and protective equipment. Or. Medical personnel also protested over the mismanagement of 20 bodies of coronavirus patients left unintended over the weekend in the hospital courtyard of them you know because the video has come out of the hospital with bodies 2 days ago it began to rain on all the bodies in the open air. Fears over kobe 1000 contagion have sparked unrest across many latin american countries in honduras hundreds took to the streets of the capital take on sunday to prevent the bodies of coronavirus victims from being. Transported for burial protesters blocked roads fearing becoming infected by the bodies of the deceased so. We dont want them to send people to be buried in the cemetery because those people are infected and there are a lot of families here. One of the strictest approaches to containment has been from el salvador to some policies like the forced long term detention of people accused of violating stayed home orders have raised an alarm over human rights abuse. You know we have been confined for 41 days in this Containment Center we only asked the government authorities to give us the results of the covert 1000 tests carried out in order to discharge us. According to the Pan American Health organization latin america is experiencing what europe did 6 weeks ago meaning the region is only now entering the peak of the pain demick. Al jazeera. The 7 people have been injured in a fire as a residential tower in the amorality city of sharjah residents were evacuated as flames ripped through much of the building and michele reports say the fire started on the 10th floor. A u. N. Report says syria has the largest number of this license because of conflict last year almost a 1000000 people fled a government offensive in december to seize far in march tens of thousands of people have returned to find their homes been destroyed or both mentally reports the celebrating the holy month of ramadan in the. Dark and his Family Finances from dusk until dawn now theyre breaking that fast in what was once their home. A splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. It says he fled his home marry her at the end of the year when the syrian army and the russians bombed this area. Now my family and i here on top of the destruction we are reliving a very difficult and painful memory i pray that god doesnt lead anyone else experience this his mother says with the kitchen destroyed they brought ready meals from outside the north area of the quay at the most important thing is that we relive our memories and eat in our own home. Ari how is situated in italy province a few kilometers west of the strategic m 5 highway. Healthy years by rebel forces it was the major target of the Syrian Government to capture during an offensive in december nearly a 1000000 people were displaced by the violence most fled north arriving at the Turkish Border where many live in makeshift camps a recent un report says in 21000 syria had the largest number of new displacement of any country almost 1900000 the situation for displaced People Living at the border was dire. When a cease fire was agreed between russia and turkey in march tens of thousands of people returned to their homes. Some like Abu Ziad Stanley found them completely destroyed but many found it easier to live amongst the ruins rather than return to the camps. As a manly aljazeera. And lets take you through some of the headlines now the trump administrations handling of coronaviruses again under scrutiny with accusations from a former top official that it looked for quick fixes by rushing on proven drugs to patients that included untested doses of a malaria treatment being pushed by the us president mike hanna has more from washington d. C. Dr bright was in fact the head of the biomedical Advice Research and development or thora t. Thats known as barter he was sidelined a few weeks ago after he repeatedly protested the un authorize uses the sword or the unauthorized cutting of the drug. Chloroquine for the treatment of the coronavirus now he was adamant that this was a not acceptable because it had not been properly approved by the f. D. A. This is going up against President Trump who at that stage was touting the. Chloroquine and the drug itself as an asset in terms of the treatment of coronavirus suffer career is further easing current virus restrictions as it continues to have fewer cases on tuesday it reported its lowest daily increase in infections since february more businesses are now reopening and social events are allowed to take place South Koreans started returning to work last month russia has reported the largest number of new daily cases in europe with total infections exceeding 150003 health staff who complained about working conditions falling out of windows. Britain has overtaken italy they have the highest number of corona virus deaths in europe more than 32000 people in the k. Have now died from cove it 19 cambodias political rivals have held the rare mazing but Officials Say they avoided talking politics opposition figure can soak up paid his respects at the prime ministers home after his mother in laws death so is facing Treason Charges its the stream back stay with us here on aljazeera. Talk to aljazeera we ask what your thoughts were when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying youll youll be able to go build United States we will but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on how does iraq. And the no money. System nurse many times in history an intern asked. Nonplastic what issues and wouldnt want me doing exactly. How much sense many of us need to know. The grown up virus. And my moms through instance his struggles now in science when i was teaching she was one that isnt his needs. And wants as he is it is not