But its a one way street with people allowed in but not happy we have the latest from china. Plus south korea has been called a role model for flattening its coronavirus curve but fears of a 2nd wave of infections are growing as the country reports an uptick in cases our correspondent reports from seoul. Im michael thanks for joining us spain is the 2nd worst hit country in europe on friday it saw its highest one day rise in virus fatalities with more than 800 people die overall more than 72000 people have been confirmed to have covert 19 and nearly 15 percent of them are health care workers. A burial in hazmat suits. One of thousands of victims of the corona Virus Outbreak in spain. Hospital staff in madrid dont need to see the statistics to know spain does not yet have a handle on the epidemic. It has been a deadly week for the country 2nd and daily fatalities only to italy. Shortage of equipment and medical staff has left doctors and nurses overwhelmed Amnesty International reports that over 9000 Spanish HealthService Workers have become infected with the virus more than any other country. Even healthy staff face isolation once they return home careful not to spread the disease to their families. Having a hard time you feel very lonely and then you go home and youre alone again you remember all the images you saw during the day and you keep thinking and thinking and you cant rest. Home with the images in your head of everything you see here its very difficult to disconnect thats impossible because you also feel helpless and sad. These days but their work is not in vain thousands have recovered because of their efforts. At this Field Hospital in madrid 34 year old. Is going home. One of the local me. With 1000 and i was in this hospital for the last 4 days. I have to say that in the beginning i had a really bad time because i had that feeling of not being able to breathe. To all the support i received here all the measures that theyve taken it wasnt. No medicine that will go for a long the ordeal is over but for spain the path to recovery is still uncertain. Lets bring in journalist jaime of alaska as hes been following this situation from madrid. Let me ask you this we have to start with the numbers of course and they are sobering almost 800 dead in just 24 hours officially 72000 infected but experts estimate over half a 1000000 people are likely infected is spain now reaching the peak of the crisis. Well we hope so we hope that this is the crisis but we actually dont know exactly and we will have to wait for next week to see each. Patient keep on arriving to. Service is difficult to say at the moment well you live in the capital madrid thats where most of the cases are i imagine thats because its the most densely populated city. Yeah indeed there but it can also be you know maybe. People you madrid didnt. Maybe underestimated the consequences of these virus and also maybe the as well reacted lates lets remember that the 1st weekend of march demonstrations. Much is where played here. Life was carry on as you and just 3 days later we closed a school and a week later we decreased. Down so maybe we reacted to be a bit late maybe people didnt yeah baby people underestimated the consequence of the virus they didnt keep social distance as as well as day did later when they realized what was happening actually and to daily deadly consequences of the virus and also a lack of testing a lot of people have been calling and reporting to the whole Services Like im not feeling well i have some fever and they havent been properly isolated because the test will not arrive to those homes people have been maybe isolated in their homes in this nation not locked down beds leavin with the rest of the family without being properly isolated maybe they went to the supermarket to buy some supplies even being infected because there was not a test to confirm at those particular people had actually been infected. In madrid spain thank you so much for joining us. Heres a look now at more of the latest developments in the. Confirmed cases of the. Globally have now surpassed 600000 thats more than double the global tally in less than a week chancellor Angela Merkels chief of staff says germany will not loosen restrictions on public life before april 20. Second please have arrested thousands for violating a countrywide curfew meant to contain the spread of the virus and the World Health Organization says norway and spain will be the 1st countries to Start Testing drugs to fight over 19 Health Officials are testing for medicines considered to offer the most promise in combating the new disease the chinese city where the Global Pandemic began has eased travel restrictions the city of partially reopened after more than 2 months of almost total isolation the city was put on lockdown in january as covered 1000. 00 cases sword life is returning to hahn with trains allowed to enter half a dozen subway lines to be opening and the buses up and running again but once people arrive at one station they havent made it yet 1st they need to register at the Health Reception points. A green code on a mobile app shows whether they are considered to be healthy. Trains have been fully booked in advance for many people its the 1st chance to see their loved ones again after months of lockdown. This young man needs his mother again for the 1st time in 3 months. On cars it makes me very happy to see my family. My mother said we wanted to hug. But these are special circumstances so we cant hard or anything like that. Staff at one station im not taking risks they all wear full protective gear theyre paying special attention to people who are returning from overseas particularly as infections are increasing abroad. I think the resumption of work represents a kind of hope. It at least shows that china is victorious. I saw news on the train that china is now sealing off its borders the Chinese HealthCommission Says prevention is key to the all chinese regions should cordon it to efforts to prevent an influx of infections from a brought we should strictly implement various prevention and control measures. According to official statistics only one new case has been reported in the past week but until the 8th april han remains a one way street only then will restrictions be lifted for people wanting to leave the city. South korea is tightening border controls after reporting a spike in corona virus cases and now its in forcing to we Quarantine Zone all passengers arriving from the United States similar quarantines had already been in place for travelers from europe walk through testing stations have been set up capable of more than 10 tests per hour south korea reported 146. 00 new infections in the last day 24. 00 of them from airport. Screen still one News Agency Reports that the number of people who have recovered from the virus has for the 1st time exceeded the number of foreign tb patients. Lets now bring in frank smith in south Koreas Capital seoul frank south to rio one of the 1st countries to confront and then effectively combat this virus has now reported an increase in new infection that might be worrying to people watching from afar whats behind this resurgence well it definitely is worrying including for some people and officials here in south korea most of the new infections took place down in daegu in the South Central area of the country where john g. Cult religious group and patient number 31 really started a large cluster that cropped up there in early february also as you mentioned there are some new arrivals coming in from other countries that are causing that spike in the number of cases that had been below 100 for most of last week now obviously the risk of new clusters seems to be what the government was worried about and many other governments in the area. Thats right one of the problems here is south koreans now are perhaps getting a little bit complacent there was a there were Church Services held a previous weekend and a couple mother and a daughter traveled around children while and and spread the virus there they might be liable even for a fine or a lawsuit upwards of 100000. 00 so the government really now is trying to press this p. R. Campaign to get people to observe what you could call a soft quarantine they havent instituted the lock downs that weve seen in some other places they just want people to follow d their advice and and stay indoors frank i want to go back to something that i mentioned earlier we understand the number of people recovering from the virus is also now higher than the number of those who are still suffering from it is dissing turgeon news. Certainly it is encouraging we had words of 10000 cases here in south korea now almost 5000 people have recovered and are now virus free thats largely due to the governments efforts to really ramp up testing use tracking methods like this one that will tell you on your hand phone where people have been exposed to the virus where the virus people that have caught the virus where they went even and also korea has 5 Countries Companies now developing the test there being imported by many countries around the world 3 south korean. Coronavirus test kit makers have received approval according to one report approval from the u. S. F. D. A. For use of these tests in the United States so there are ways that countries and south koreas helping other countries develop methods to to battle this kobe had 19 frank smith reporting from seoul good to see you frank and thank you. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world. In a press conference on saturday japanese Prime Minister shinzo ave asked people to refrain from nonessential meetings to stop the spread of covert 19 hes also promised an unprecedented stimulus package to combat economic fallout from the coronavirus. Us President Donald Trump has signed the largest stimulus package in modern u. S. History the deal will allow 2 trillion dollars to be rushed to states and businesses struggling amid the crisis the bill will also send direct payments to tens of millions of americans. A plan to fly some 800 Cruise Ship Passengers from australia to germany this weekend has been due whale by a sharp overnight increase in corona virus infections on board the ship called the autonomy ease anchored south of perth and most of the passengers are german. This is g. W. News a reminder that before we go that you can get all the leaders news and information around the clock on our website. 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