For the 58000 High School Students in chinas coronavirus epicenter will han are back in class for the 1st time since the outbreak began after being closed for 4 months more than 120 schools have now resumed middle School Students though they are still at home in a province where is located has gradually eased its lockdown sent a full no new cases have been reported for nearly a month has the details from beijing. This is being held as a milestone here in china the epicenter of the outbreak here the residents had to experience the strictest measures in terms of lock down controls this year and more stood the deaths and cases of the current virus took place in city and now for the 1st time students are streaming into their classrooms after weeks of not being able to go to school and there is a lot of relief and excitement from the students being able to go back to classes only the oldest High School Students will be attending class the seniors theyve been part pirate us as they have to prepare for their University Entrance exams that are taking place this coming july. And this is just one of the indicators of life going back to normal here in china we also heard the news in the last few hours that shanghai is disneyland will also be reopening after weeks of being closed albeit they will limit the numbers of customers who will be able to enter and also Chinas National Peoples Congress the most important event of the political calendar here in china will take place later this month and it comes off to dwindle in corona virus cases here in china according to official figures in a province the has not been a new coronavirus case in the past 31 days and nationwide there have been Single Digits in terms of new coronavirus cases daily and most of these are imported cases so the government does seem to have things under control theyre off to a lot of quick coronavirus precautions that are in place around the country everyone does need to wear a mask when going to work will be out and about and public. South koreas also lifting more restrictions only reported 2 new cases on tuesday both for people who arrive from abroad its containment has been widely praised lets talk its talk about some of the details of how they did this soon after the 1st infection was confirmed in january testing kits were quickly approved in patients isolated mobile tracking abstract through testing and quarantine violation fines to test tracing contain the virus were all introduced very early on the number of infections had a peak on february 29th in the kerf latin significantly after that amid april new cases were reduced to Single Digits along the parliamentary election to be held 255. 00 South Koreans have died and more than 10000 cases recorded robin bryant as more from inside the museum of modern art in seoul. This is a further indication of restrictions here in south korea gradually being lifted as the country emerges into this strange new post virus world here at the museum of modern art along with other museums galleries libraries across south korea they are all being allowed to open but only with very strict precautions being in place we have the usual temperature checks of everyone entering the numbers here are strictly controlled 1st of all you would have to have registered online to visit your museum of modern art and with no more than 100 people at any one time allowed inside its basically all part of whats known here as every day life quarantine basically the new normal but its one the South Koreans weve been speaking to seem to accept as part of the recovery from this outbreak and they are certainly welcoming the fact that they can now get back into public venues hound them are limited the number of people here which is good because its not so crowded and that means not what it is people are still aware of the distancing measures also being allowed for the 1st time religious gatherings sporting events all those occasions that bring people together as long as theyre still practicing the basic principles of social distancing then theyre allowed to do so. Spains parliament is debating whether to extend the lockdown for a 4th time a minister Petra Sanchez wants the state of emergency to stay for another 2 weeks and opposition m. P. s have signaled that they are not willing to approve that and just doesnt hold a majority and his government has been accused of reacting too slowly are to herero as a mentor and explains why process and facing a backlash. Opposition parties in spain are blaming weather sanchez says the outbreak of a coronavirus off centralizing the government the power for mismanagement of the crisis and not consulting or even reporting to the to the rest of the political groups any action or any decision that it was he was going. To see him pellets go now to London Boris Johnson is in parliament he will be taking questions for the 1st time since recovering from the curb in 1000 facing questions from the opposition mr speaker when the Prime Minister returned to work a week ago monday he said that many people were looking at the apparent success of the governments approach but yesterday. Tragically the at least 29427 people in the u. K. Have now lost their lives to this dreadful virus thats now the highest number in europe its the 2nd highest in the world. Thats not success or apparent success so can the Prime Minister tell us how on earth did it come to this i mean it. Mr speaker 1st of all of course every death is a tragedy and hes right to draw attention to the. Appalling statistics not just in this country but of course around the world i think i would echo really you know answered his question what weve heard from professor David Spiegelhalter and others that this stage at this stage i dont think that International Comparisons and the data is is yet that to draw the conclusions that we want what i can tell you is that at every stage as we took the decisions that we did we were governed by one overriding principle and and that was to save lives and to protect our n. H. S. And i believe that of course there will be a time to look at what decisions we took and whether we could have taken different decisions but i have absolutely no doubt that what the people of this country want us to do now is as i said just now to suppress this disease to keep suppressing this disease and to begin the work of getting our countrys economy back on its feet and i got 4 to working with him and colleagues around the house to do just that. Mr speaker the argument that International Comparisons can really be made when the governments been using slides like this for weeks to do International Comparison just really doesnt hold water im afraid that many people concluding that the answer my question is the u. K. Will slow down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow in the supply of protective equipment and i want to go to yesterdays figures that show that whilst happily in hospitals it looks as though deaths affording deaths in care homes continue to go up the press conference last night the deputy chief scientific advisor said and i quote what this shows us is that theres a real issue that we need to get to grips with. In relation to whats happening in. I couldnt agree more. But 12 weeks off the Health Secretary declared that were not a Health Crisis i have to ask the Prime Minister why hasnt the government got to grips with this already. What actually mr speaker i mean hes quite right of course to look at the crisis in cannes and ts actually right to say that there is an epidemic going on in care homes which is something ive been bitterly regret what weve been working very hard for weeks to get it done and a huge amount of effort has been go into by literally tens of thousands of people to get the right p. P. To care homes to encourage workers in care homes understand what is what is needed and i can tell him actually that hes hes not right in what he just said about the state of the epidemic. As he looked at the figures in the last few days to be a probable improvement and we must hope that that continues and we really should be done continue to stop mr speaker im grateful for that i was using the slide to government put up but its press conference last night which shows sadly that an irish accent was a lag to the 24th of april because of the reporting position but that subtly to us in care homes have been rising every time theyve been reported by the awareness and i have heard before from the 1st secretary that numbers were falling he said that a week ago sunday thats not borne out by these slides we will wait to see what it slides. Mr speaker on the 30th of april the government claims success in meeting its 100000 tests a day target since then is the primes to knows the numbers falling back monday there were just 84000 tests and that meant 24000 available tests were not used. What was the promise to think was so special about the 30th of april the met the testing that day was so high profits were actually i think the right honorable gentleman was right last week when he paid tribute to the amazing work of the n. H. S. The Logistics Team everybody involved in getting up from 2000 tests a day in march to. 120005 the end of april and yes hes right that capacity currently exceeds demand were working on that were running at about 100000 a day but the ambition clearly is to get up to 200000 a day by the end of this month and then to go even higher and he knows in her whole house will know testing a fantastic testing regime is going to be absolutely critical to our long Term Economic recovery. Mr speaker i did pay tribute last week and until i had the Prime Minister is now set that the target now is 200000. 00 tests a day by the end of this month but of course just having a target isnt a strategy what is needed is testing tracing and isolation thats the strategy Contact Tracing was happening in the u. K. But it was abandoned it bit march. We were told at the time that this was because it was quotes the appropriate mechanism but yesterday the deputy chief medical officer said that it was to do with Testing Capacity so could the Prime Minister just clarify the position for us why was Contact Tracing abandoned in mid march or not restarted sooner Prime Minister as i think is readily apparent mr speaker to everybody who studied the situation and i think is the scientists would. Confirm the difficulty in mid march was that the. Tracing capacity that we had been that had been useful is he as he rightly says in the containment phase of the epidemic that capacity was no longer useful relevant since the transmission from individuals within the u. K. Meant that it exceeded our capacity that now the value of the test to track and trace the operation that were setting up now is that as we come out of the epidemic if we get a new cases done we will have a team that will genuinely be able to track and trace hundreds of thousands of people across the country and thereby to drive down the epidemic and so i mean it be in a nutshell its easier to do now that we built up the team on the only way out than it was as the epidemic took off and i think most people with common sense can see those particular difficulties that we had at the time. Thank you mr speaker i think the promise just confirmed it was a capacity problem because i wish the government well on the tracking of tracing down on the app thats being trialled in the art of white we all want to succeed we all support that in hopefully succeeding cannot turn to protective equipment where clearly there are ongoing problems just this week the. B. M. A. Survey said that 48 percent of doctors had to buy their protective equipment for themselves all rely on donations thats clearly unacceptable and its obvious that this problem is going to get even more acute if and when the government ask people to return to work were clearly going to need a very Robust National plan for protective equipment. Kemah promised to reassure the public that they wont be asked to return to work until that plan is in place Prime Minister yes mr speaker i i certainly can i share his frustration about b. P. And the frustration that i think people have felt across the house and across the country its been in raging to see the difficulties that weve had in supplying p. P. To those who need it but i do pay tribute again to the work of hundreds of thousands of people involved in the logistics of supplying literally billions of items across the country in a timely way the be no National Stock outs of any. Item and we are now engaged in a massive plan to ramp up our domestic supply and hell be familiar with what dikembe is not work so that to get to his hes probably question we already do in the long term and it may be the long term to satisfy the domestic needs of this of this country. These are the from the 1st time that youre right british Prime Minister of course johnson is taking questions in Parliament Since he has recovered from coal fired 1000 in the questions are being put to him by the new leader of the opposition care starmer a basically you know asking questions about the way the response has been saying that what you are saying Prime Minister polls are not actually a strategy and theyre continuing to kind of go back and forth on a house and listening to us live from london as well so john what have you been hearing. Well look this is something of a spectacle its a weekly spectacle in normal times of course in which the house house of commons is packed with fees and the Prime Minister and the head of the opposition the leader of the opposition go that each other for a period of 10 minutes or so an opportunity for the Opposition Leader to ask difficult questions of the Prime Minister well thats not something. This country has been used to seeing at full throttle for quite a long time now this is a very different Opposition Leader standing up opposite johnson now secure stahmann recently elected head of the labor party very different ways be decisive Jeremy Corbyn who was frequently accused of missing the opportunity of those difficult questions of really making the government sweat in these circumstances has thomas is a prosecuting lawyer by training and youve just seen him in in action in his 1st pm cues opposite Boris Johnson recently returned to work of course off to suffering a 19 and missing no opportunities to ask a lot of very difficult questions of the government kissed ahmed theyre accusing Boris Johnson as head of the government of being slow in going into lockdown slow in tracing slow in testing slow in the provision of p p protective equipment for the health care frontline. Deaths in care homes of particular issues still going up said kissed on a Boris Johnson said that wasnt true because thomas said it was true these are all very difficult questions and this is a very difficult time for the government theyve got their Prime Minister back there is of course still a major epidemic going on here there will be a continued period of socalled constructive criticism from the opposition so as not to break the sort of common cause or the publics confidence in whats going on but the build up here is clear the evidence is mounting it is being collected by the opposition and for the 1st time in years the labor party has a leader who will really be able to hold the governments feet to the fire in the weeks and months ahead and more about that about the way he is trying to hold the response to the fire the government to the fire there were im certain things that Boris Johnson said that care starmer literally had the paperwork they are saying the things you are saying actually are not true come expect more of that from him. Well i think that that probably probably is testament to his background professional training as a prosecuting lawyer hes asking questions based on evidence theres lots of evidence around us to say its being gathered accumulated now in real arguments are being built around it and aimed at the government the government has very difficult questions to answer Boris Johnson came out and said you are probably wrong about care home deaths theyre improving their pin improvements in recent days. No last night at the government briefing one of the slides put up indicated that there have been a rise in care home deaths week upon week yes i think in short we can expect to see more of this the government can expect to face more of this sort of forensic questioning which i think as i say in time will only grow more and more uncomfortable and the death toll stands at about 29000. 00 john a whole live for us from london jonah thank you very much and the u. S. President s handling of the crime of virus crisis is under greater scrutiny after accusations he sought quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients and as the death toll passes 70000 in the u. S. Donald trump says hes considering winding down the virus taskforce set up to respond to the pandemic i cant i has the latest from washington no facemask for the president while visiting an Aerospace Company repurposed to produce mosques this in defiance of his administrations guidelines that mosques 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 them are 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 Advanced 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 in 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 her demonstrate the extent to which the government at the higher level is committed not to solving the problem but to keeping donald trump happy today keeping him happy to morrow and thats not a way to address a very major problem if 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 mosques and ventilators needed to be augmented unlike other government officials who being 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 say plans as the washington editor at large for the hill and he also has aljazeera us weekly politics show the bottom line he believes the white house will try to disparage dr 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 i have any of 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 hydro 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 and hawking hydroxy couric went 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 fouty Deborah Burkes folks like rick wright 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. In the philippines human Rights Groups and journalists say the governments decision to shut down the leading broadcast network is a grave assault on Media Freedom activists light candles outside a. B. S. C. B. And headquarters despite the lockdown in manila president ricotta territories frequently attacked the companys News Coverage but denies having anything to do with this Closure Order managers have 10 days to appeal the governments decision to mail alan going to manila says this is not the 1st time the channel has gone off air. There is strong opposition online and also in other interviews where government officials specially those in congress have actually in a way apologized to the network for failing to pass and help renew its license early enough weve been listening to different interviews with lawmakers here and they basically said that theyre going to try to find and vote within the next 10 days as required by this order in order to hopefully renew the license of a. B. S. E b. N. However in other platforms for example a. B. S. Event is still able to air both in cable and online and even if the government perhaps denies that they have something to do with this for example the solicitor general the governments top lawyer has submitted that with titian in the Supreme Court against a. B. S. E b. N. And just a little over a week ago also cautioned the National Telecommunications commission of issuing a provisional authority that me allow the network to continue airing and basically a provisional authority for its franchise while the while congress the liberates so we can see very strong outreach here at this point re largely online by those who see the network as something that has been critical in providing information and lastly a most important part about this according to rights group is that this is not the 1st time that maybe a c. B. S. Been shut down it was shut down in 1972 when president marcos declared martial law it remained close for 14 years until the Marcos Dictatorship was toppled in 1986 so this is basically people saying history may be repeating itself at this point. Migrant workers in singapore are particularly vulnerable to a coronavirus and he sleep in overcrowded dormitories where social distancing is impossible singapore has nearly 20000 cases of coburg 19 Lawrence Louis reports. This is what home looks like for 200000 Foreign Workers who live in government licensed dormitories migrants accounts 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 but. Like. Hes tested negative but still worries about contracting the virus right now and. I. Want. Like an academic in new zealand whos done research on Migrant Workers and thinkable says the inability to maintain physical distance can cause a Workers Health to suffer. The way. To practice it is simply that structure of the. Practice. Is a great deal and safety and. Expressed 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 signs of a much bigger problem. Even. Among. Housing conditions. Either. The same. Oh this makes well its he says workers often penalized by employees for being absent which could have deterred 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 is not only needs to reexamine its reliance on cheap imported labor but also the level of protection workers have Florence Louis aljazeera Health Workers are going door to door and one of the slums in argentina is capital try to contain the spread of krona virus and faction number shot up from 0 to more than 150 in just 2 weeks there is concern the virus will spread quickly among residents who lived in cramped conditions argentina has reported close to 4900 cases and 260 deaths so far. Im Richelle Carey these are the headlines right now on aljazeera thousands of High School Students who returned to their classes in china sohan city after months and walked out of a province was the initial epicenter of the outbreak were the corona virus was 1st detected in december with a few exceptions life and south korea is returning to normal as more businesses reopen and entertainment sports resume schools will restart next week as the country reports a consistent decline in factions a former top u. S. Official has accused the white house of seeking quick fixes i recommend an unproven drugs to treat chronic virus patients are to rip wright says he was fired for raising concerns about trumps policies. One of the most Senior Scientific advisors to the British Government has resigned after breaching the chrono virus lock down rules he helped create the press or Neil Ferguson was one of the leading voices on the Scientific Advisory group war then 32000 people have died overtaking italy is the highest number and europe and Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has just been speaking at his 1st Prime Ministers questions since recovering from the virus it was forced to defend the number of deaths in care homes and he did make i go you know in cash games which is something id bitterly regret to do but weve been lucky very hard for weeks to get it done and a huge amount of effort has been i go in to buy the tree tens of thousands of people to get the right p. P. To can use to encourage well as you can use understand what is i would is needed and peace in spain are debating whether to extend the walk down for a 4th time Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez wants the state of emergency imposed for another 2 weeks but opposition m. P. s are against it and accuse the government of reacting too slowly to the crisis in the philippines human Rights Groups and journalists say the governments decision to shut down the leading broadcast network is a grave assault on Media Freedom activists lit candles outside a. V. s c. B. And headquarters despite the lockdown in manila managers now have 10 days to appeal the governments decision so the headlines keep it here on aljazeera much more news throughout the day in the meantime were going to hand it over to the team at inside story on our web site aljazeera dot com. Is there a global backlash against china for its handling of coronavirus a strongly a once an International Inquiry into the all regions of covert 90 pounds china lost an opportunity to display Global Leadership kind of a calming creasing suspicion of its motives this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and its attempts by chinas leaders to dive