Restrictions lebanons Government Orders a full closure of the country one week after easing measures. In back on track the busiest around that red gets moving again as india begins easing its 7 week coronavirus lockdown. Now its been a deadly day in afghanistan with 2 attacks one on a hospital another on a funeral a suicide bomber is believed to have set off an explosion among mourners and the province thats in the east at least 20 people were killed there and in the capital kabul 14 people including 2 newborn babies died when gunmen stormed a hospital alexy obrian reports. Ambulance. And the military raced to the scene of an attack on some of afghanistans most vulnerable. Gunman storming a hospital compound in the capital kabul with the i dont deny zation Doctors Without Borders france and the tennessee clinic new mothers and babies are among the victims. But not bad but it really brought Sudanese Army were the men wearing military uniforms look like a wrestler into the clinic and opened fire and patients relatives of. Other attack is reportedly threw grenades provoke a panic inside. And a gun battle with security forces. An image of on to the attackers was shooting at anyone in this hospital for no reason its a Government Hospital and a lot of people bringing their women and children for treatment. While the fire fight was underway dozens of people will lead to safety the injured transferred to other hospitals that were similar but shes going to work you know i brought my newborn grandchild for a vaccination and suddenly the explosion happened i dont remember anything after that i was in the middle of the hospital but then i found myself outside and hit by a bullet. In. The neighborhood in the west of the city is home to the Shia Community a frequent target of attacks by both the taliban and i sold into groups. And at a hospital in the Eastern Province of named more chaotic scenes after a suspected suicide bomber targeted a crowd gathered nearby for a funeral. There were a lot of bodies lying on the ground some of them were dead and some of them were injured. The victims bundled into ambulances taxis and pickup trucks anything to get them to medical help quickly. Some of the injured were treated on stretchers on the floor the hospital overwhelmed. And the surviving mourners left planning more funerals elixir brian al jazeera. Now the World Health Organization is warning countries to be extremely vigilant as more coronavirus restrictions are lifted and one of the leading members of the u. S. Task force says the country could experience needless suffering and death if it reopens to soon dr anthony found she will go before a Senate Committee very shortly lets for now speak to our White House Correspondent kelly how it can be we will be hearing from dr ouchy very shortly but we already have a pretty good idea about what hes going to say so what kind of an impact could that have. Its going to have a tremendous impact given the fact that he is a highly respected Public Health official in the United States in fact people have been turning to him you know throughout the years decades really when they are looking for sort of measure Public Health advice so in terms of gravitas dr anthony has it and whats notable about this setting is not only is he going to be testifying by Video Conference but hes not going to have president by his side now typically thats when weve last seen dr anthony found she is in the White House Briefing room with the u. S. President thats led to some speculation that he has held back on some of his thinking in order to not embarrass the president in a very public setting but this is an opportunity for Dr Anthony Fauci to speak freely and many expect he will do so kimberly i say the president trumps stormed out of his press conference yesterday and he does seem rather agitated these days and given want to anthony found he is likely to say how is his testimony likely to be received by the white house. Well the u. S. President likes to get the last word and we expect that he will there will be a White House Press briefing today at 800 g. M. T. With the White House Press secretary that will be an opportunity to counter anything that the white house doesnt like and although there is a close press event at 20 g. M. T. Where the u. S. President will be meeting with some republicans that often opens up of the u. S. President feels he wants to get across his message so the president was agitated in the rose garden with some of the questions coming from reporters on monday afternoon if he doesnt like what dr anthony found she has to say and we know that some of it will be disturbing to the u. S. President given the fact the u. S. President has argued for reopening of this economy and for the state governors to reopen their economies we expect that dr anthony found she will say that some of this may be happening in haste theres some governors maybe still getting oversteps that his court a virus taskforce has recommended for example a reduction a test a reduction in document cases and a reduction in hospitalizations before a state should open up weve already seen some states skipping those steps and we expect that dr anthony found she will caution against doing so and warning of the grave consequences if that is to happen can be i say the doctor felt she and 2 other members of the Coronavirus Task force will be testifying today via video link because they themselves are in self isolation so there has been a bit of contagion at the white house itself how is that being managed now. Well ive noticed that more people are Wearing Masks today for the 1st time not quite sure why it took so long given the fact that the Coronavirus Task force itself advised ordinary americans to be Wearing Masks that for example in washington d. C. Where many of these westway staffers live that is a requirement of the local government here in the District Of Columbia so perplexing why there are so many still refusing to wear masks including the head of the coroner virus task force the Vice President mike pence who we noted arrived for work on monday not wearing a mask even though his own press secretary had tested positive now that is the reason that many of these Public Health officials will be testifying via Video Conference they are putting themselves in voluntary self isolation given the fact that they were working with this press secretary and there are concerns that they may have been exposed we should also point out that some of them are in that advanced age group where there are concerns and there are particular vulnerabilities so dr anthony found she is among those he will be testifying via Video Conference and of course will be watching carefully we will indeed White House Correspondent kelly house at that thanks very much candy well lets take you live to the room where that Video Conference is going to partially take place and you can see they have their all set up an obviously as soon as that Video Conference begins we will bring that to you live here on aljazeera. A week after it is restrictions levanon is now preparing for a 4 day nationwide shutdown government ministers made that decision after the number of new daily cases rose to its highest level in more than a month and thats prompted concerns about a 2nd wave of infection our correspondent is in the capital beirut and explains just how daily life could change. More economic losses for the people of lebanon this country already in the midst of a deep economic recession and the financial crisis shops reopened just a few days ago people were hoping to make up for their losses and now the lockdown the cabinet announcing a 4 day lockdown that begins Late Wednesday and smothered a warning because of this sharp rise in the number of infections according to the information minister 109 cases in the past few the 4 days now 109 may seem like a small number when you compare it to whats happening elsewhere in other countries but this is a small nation of 6000000 people there have been nearly 900. 00 cases since the 1st case was the tech that on february the 21st but this is a country a state which is facing almost bankruptcy and the public and private hospitals just 15000. 00 beds that is what is available and already the state to all those millions of dollars to these hospitals so what the government the authorities have been trying to do is flatten that curve make sure that everybody doesnt get sick at the same time in order to be able to treat people in hospitals so now this lockdown has been announced definitely more economic hardships for people here more and more businesses have been posing really in recent days and weeks and unemployment is on the rise now in the u. K. Has released its latest figures and that shows the highest death toll from 1000 in europe these latest numbers confound the u. K. Is amongst the west hit countries wild wide Prime MinisterBarak Johnson was criticized on monday for whats being described as a mixed message of easing that countries that are down our correspondent john how has all the nations from westminster and. Well theyre worse than previous counts of course because the death rate is going inevitably further up but they are better than previous accounts in that the percentages are getting smaller the office for National Statistics of course produces its numbers weekly for deaths in a particular week in this case up to the 1st of may coming as this country takes very tentative some say slightly confusing steps out of its lockdown with the hope that some workers in some sectors might be able to go back to work today the governor i think will take heart at these numbers they are relatively this is all of course relative theyre still awful but relatively better than the week before the measure that they look at is the number of excess deaths as the most reliable measure of the overall impact of covert 9000 on society not just test positive cases but suspected cases and related cases people have not been able to get the treatment that they needed for other conditions and have passed away as a result and so on and the excess death toll up to the 1st of may according to these numbers was 8012 that is down from 11 and a half 1000 the week before so thats going in the right direction of course albeit still steadily upwards for an overall excess death toll of 50000 during this crisis now the official death toll that is for registered cases of coded 19 and suspected cases is also just topped 40000. 00. So as i say the number still going dreadfully upwards but i suppose the trends improving well india has reopened its involves strain on that track off to almost 2 months of restrictions there but there are fears of new infections if people dont respect social distancing rules Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is expected to speak within the ella trains began running between the capital new delhi and 15 other cities on Tuesday Morning it will be up to passengers to keep those distancing requirements when they travel theres a problem as reporting for us from outside the train station in new delhi. Were at new Delhi Railway station where people have been lining up even hours before their trains departure to make sure that they get on one of the trains after a 7 week since Indian Railways one of the Largest Railway Networks in the world shut down passenger trains 30 restarted on tuesday travelling between the capital new delhi and 15 major cities around the country tickets sold out in minutes tickets are only sold on live people have been told to come 90 minutes before departure to ensure theres enough time for thermal screening everyone must with face mosques at all times the trains are running at full capacity around 1800. 00 passengers in each train and Indian Railways has said that its up to the passengers to ensure social distancing and also up to the states to decide on the protocol upon arrival Prime Minister modi has said that the restarting of trains is an important step up to the economy but there is concern especially from some state leaders who said that this is happening. Well hundreds of thousands of people in russia returning to work after the president eased the nationwide lockdown their nonessential workers can return to their jobs from tuesday but regions may choose to keep some sectors closed if the threat of further outbreaks is just too high russia is currently still recording more than 10000 infections head day now still ahead on aljazeera. Im dorsetshire pari at a temporary drive through Testing Center in doha where the qatari government scientists are helping to better understand the pirates and how to ease restrictions here. And why astray in seaford supplies are being forced to seek new ways to get their catch on to peoples plates. However remains very dry now in japan except for the north coast of honshu city pancoast that is and her car there were a few showers but temperature wise you do not see 29 in tokyo and thats the same in most of northern china on the Korean Peninsula and there will be colder in seoul it will be a warming trend and most of china is seeing the cloud building again and the rain developing its an inland system once more which is right at the time the u. S. Will affect were hot and probably shanghai less so hong kong a few showers here is rather humid but stopped to sundry this is a thing to watch tropical depression probably turn into a Tropical Storm which means it gets rather more windy around the center but its mostly a story of rain heading into the central philippines in the next day or so and it will be particularly wet if not windy elsewhere standard issue some storms to borneo sumatra less so in java and the sort of crust to develop in the song by a bengal which could turn into a tropical site then thats when well have to watch start obviously it for the climate there as well more cloud around than weve seen recently so on the coast of carola in the north of india and northern pakistan showers and big ones seem rather more likely. As the world fights the corona pandemic were learning more about this every day its a new package and join our Global Community its up to us on how we come together to fight im sorry your questions can i just as you start to see directly whats coming on on you tube as you were saying im concerned about the front line phone thats the great quiet and keeping you up to date im using countries beating back and beating back successfully the stream on 00. Hello again i am the star lets remind you of our top stories this hour dozens of people have died in 2 attacks in afghanistan 14 people including 2 newborn babies were killed when gunmen stormed a hospital compound in kabul 20 others were killed in a suspected Suicide Attack in the Eastern Province of nonhome. Members of the u. S. Coronavirus task force testified very shortly before a Senate Health committee you can see that meeting has already begun these that live pictures from washington d. C. That committee is trying to weigh up reopening the economy against the risks to Public HealthInfectious Diseases expect dr anthony found she has warned that doing so too soon could lead to needless suffering. Lebannon is preparing for a 4 day nationwide shutdown only a week after easing some of its coronavirus restrictions government ministers made that decision after the number of new daily cases rose to its highest level in more than a month. Well singapore has begun to ease restrictions there some businesses including head dresses and pet stores on our open and next week small groups of students will be allowed to return to school the Health Ministry says restrictions are being lifted gradually in order to avoid a 2nd wave of infections its reported nearly 24000 cases florence really has more from kuala lumpur. Singapore is taking tentative steps to reopen its economy home based businesses and barber shops have been allowed to reopen but dined in services and restaurants are still not allowed and most people will still have to continue working from home now it is true that singapore has reported a high number of corona virus cases the vast majority or around 85 percent of Migrant Workers living in dormitories. The Health Minister says the number of new cases in the Wider Community has been in decline especially since strict measures were put in place the 3rd in the 3rd week of april now the w. H. O. Has listed 6 conditions for countries that are looking to ease restrictions and this includes the ability to detect tests trace and isolate and treat coronavirus patients and Singapore Says it intends to ramp up testing to conduct as many as 40000. 00 tests a day and its also building more facilities to isolate and treat coronavirus patients but of course as with many other countries around the world thats very much a sense that this is also driven by the economy the central bank has for cause that growth will shrink between one and 4 percent of this year they call myths are predicting that job losses is going to be of historic proportions this year and the central bank is also for costs that singapore is expected to suffer its worst recession ever. Now African Leaders are asking what china can do for them as the current a virus pandemic threatens to destroy economies there and wipe out about 20000000. 00 jobs beijing is both the top trading partner and also the top lender on the continent mamata di reports from the kenyan capital nairobi. Days of to the government the most on easing of some looked on restrictions traffic on the streets of mabel be slowly picking up. But many shops in the Central Business district remain closed. Those will reopen say business is still bad all of a sudden the streets went quiet after the announcement of the lockdown. And so that is completely offer to a business if a good measure each would be about 90 percent drop in sales. The economy crisis caused by the current ovide us all break is forcing hard choices not just here in nairobi but across africa many governments are struggling to find the money to fight the pun demick and shore up their commies the world bank and the i. M. F. Of us lenders to suspend the payments for african countries struggling under the covered 1000. 00 outbreak petain these Officials Say they will deal with african debt on a case by case basis what happens next depends on china which is not only africas top trading partner but also its lender according to the World Bank Chinese government and funds have learned from african governments and state owned enterprises more than 100 and 50000000000. 00 between 2012018. Most of this money has gone into the development of Infrastructure Projects such as the roops Railway Lines and ports journalist in the army because they want to be able to continue to lend to us through the 19th to make money and influence but i do seem time to want to be able to. Hear to be on how the africa is going to in time more than 100. 00 International Nongovernmental organizations have been forced calls for consideration of all debt payments in 2020 but many banks are reluctant to risk their Credit Ratings and private bond holders are likely to do so but even if all debt payments was suspended this year they still trouble ahead for african countries most collect relatively little tax and driven these have decreased because of the locked arms so once this crisis is over a lot of repayments will have to be made to all just the area maybe because theyre. Home with travel restrictions now easing worldwide europes biggest budget carrier ryanair has announced that 40 percent of its flights will resume on july 1st its been working with a Skeleton Service since mid monsters of the pandemic the iris carrier and tends to run almost a 1000 flights a day because everyone on board Must Wear Masks and also path temperature text. Is predicting an 80 percent fall and annual profits next year thats off to an 86 percent fall in 1st quarter profits this year the japanese vehicle manufacturer expects the Global Market will bottom out around now but also warns it will take a long time for sales to recover. Well the u. S. President has california to allow can make a test to reopen its plant the firm has told employees in the state to defy a local Government Order and to return to work chief executive elon musk says hell be on the Assembly Line and hes ready to be arrested hes also suing the county which is home to the test the factory for insisting that lockdown measures must remain on the state governor has given permission for manufacturing to restart both the demand and price of a seafood around the wild as plummeting as the pandemic disrupts supply chains in a strain the industry is being forced to reassess just how it gets its product to consumers nickel gauge reports from sydney the Hawkesbury River is well known for its fresh always stews shared employment has been operating here for more than a decade but now its in survival mode earlier this year she lost about half her crop to floods and hot weather then current of hours heat closing restaurants and wholesale markets and she cant sell whats lift its been a very difficult time for everyone and thats everyone in this area as well and in the oyster farmers are probably going through the same thing given that 90 percent of our oyster is probably a sold to restaurants directly like others sheridan is being forced to quickly adapt looking to sell online delivering directly to consumers but shes still navigating exactly how it will work. Downstream lobster prices have plummeted when exports to china halted Mark Cranston was forced to shut down costing the business about 200000. 00 hes now selling to local markets but its hard to make a profit prawns and abalone have also lost value the astroland seafood industry as a whole is predicted to fall in value by at least 400000000. 00 this Financial Year the lacing process and weve already pied is 10. 00 less than what were getting for a lobster boat a Tommy Trotter run by its. Pretty much running at a loss theres lobsters would normally sell for about 50 u. S. Dollars each now theyre worth about half of the us and despite some International Markets like china reopening the lower prices and high freight costs mean that for many its just not profitable to export them charter flights have been delivering some produce to International Markets but the cross is expected to radically reshape how seafood reaches consumers plights in the future i believe strongly trying. To change where. We dont know for shared in beaumont navigating new markets is daunting but also promising she hopes that will lead to more opportunities in the future at the moment she just wants these oysters to leave the Hawkesbury River and make it on to customers plates nicola gage aljazeera sydney. Now a drive through a Testing Center here in cata is one of the ways that government scientists are hoping to better understand the corona virus and also when to ease restrictions more than 25000 cases have been recorded here but the mortality rate is relatively low with 14 deaths most of the people infected have been Migrant Workers who are concerned for their jobs dosage of r e reports. These men are survivors of covert 9046 year old money or is a limousine driver is the only one here who needed to go to hospital when he became ill in early march the bleeding problem body will. No help when both in the book from. Nobel and body nobel and. Abdomen your lives in a compound with 40 people he shares a bedroom with 6 others who have all tested negative for the virus. So deem is a 34 year old driver for qatari family an outbreak at his local supermarket led to Contact Tracing and he tested positive he was then placed in government corn teen for 21. 00 days so deem is one of the majority of positive cases who do not show symptoms none of the people he lives with have tested positive no i dont have any symptoms taking in those. Would remember. Taking every day for. Morning even in my day and of fair game morning 4 oclock my body is very old no problem you have no you dont worry now they are all here to donate blood plasma they have antibodies in their system which can help others who are sick. This is a neighborhood in doha known as the Industrial Area it is home to nearly 50000 Migrant Workers it was the epicenter of qatars outbreak which began in early march. Until recently the entire. Our area was locked down aljazeera was granted access to film here but we were not allowed to speak to any of the men on camera officials said it was for our own safety since not everyone here has been tested yet government Officials Say the workers have been receiving their salaries during this time but there is the issue of those who work with individual business owners. Who are lets take you live now to a Video Conference being held by members of the u. S. Coronavirus task force thats including testimony from Dr Anthony Fauci as they discuss plans to reopen schools and businesses lets take a listen gnostics next to characterize and test their reputed and finally develop safe and effective that seems 1st with regard to diagnostics as you probably heard from dr Francis Collins last thursday in i. H. S. Develop their rapid acceleration of Diagnostics Program or red x. With an award to that specific program of 2 a half a 1000000000. 00 to support the development of covert 1000. 00 diagnostics is a National CallInnovative Technologies that will be evaluated at the shark tank like Selection Process to get to either success or failure rapidly. Moving on to the reputed x. Ill talk a bit about the rim desa be a success antiviral in a moment but let me emphasize that there are a number of Broad Spectrum antivirals that are in various stages of testing and it dition will be looking at convalescent plasma which is plasma from individuals recovered from call that 19 to be used in passive transfer either in prevention or treatment in addition i premium globulin which could be used as a gamma globulin shot well be looking at the purpose drugs as well as immune based therapies and host modify is finally monoclonal antibodies let me take a moment to describe them desa via the cboe control randomized trial which was done internationally with the power of more than a 1000 individuals and sites throughout the world it was a hospitalized patients with lung disease the endpoint was primarily time to recovery the result was that cystic least significant but really modest and we must remember it was only a modest result showing that the drug made a 31 percent faster time recovery we hope to build on this modest success with combinations of drugs and better drugs moving on to that scenes there are at least a candidate over 1000 x. Eans in Clinical Development the n. O. A. A. Has been collaborating with a number of pharmaceutical companies at various stages of development i will describe one very briefly which is not the only one but one that we have been involved in heavily developing with more dan or its a messenger are in a fight from you might recall in this committee that in january of this year i said that it would take about one year to 18 months if we were successful in developing a vaccine he had a trial movie. Very quickly on january 10th the sequence was known and january 11th the Vaccine Research center met and develop a plan on the 14th of january we officially started the Vaccine Development 62. 00 days later we are now in phase one Clinical Trial with the 2 doses already fully in roll it will be animal safety the phase one will directly go into face to 3 in late spring early summer and if we are successful we hope to know that in the late fall and early winter there are some important issues however in code 900 x. In development we have many candidates and i hope to have multiple winners in other words his multiple shots on goal this will be important because this will be good for global availability if we have more than one successful candidate we also as the chairman mentioned will be producing the exene at risk which means well be investigating considerable resources in developing doses even before we note any given candidate candidates work i must warn you it is also the possibility of negative consequences for certain that seems can actually enhance that negative effect of the infection a big unknown is efficacy will it be present for absence and how durable will it be and finally i want to mention the n. R. A. Has launched a Public Private partnership called accelerating covert 19 there appear to interventions and vaccines the purpose of that is to prioritize and accelerate clinical evaluation of therapeutic candidates with near term potential hopefully our Research Efforts together with the other Public Health efforts will get us quickly to an end to this terrible deal that we are all going through thank you very much happy to answer questions later. I could