Pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Are covering the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. World Health Organization calls for unity after trump cuts its funding. We regret the decision of the president of the United States to order a hold and funding to the world Health Organization. The u. K. Pledges to do more sting as anger grows over deaths icare homes. Children return to school in denmark as more countries in europe relax their lockdowns. Welcome. Another gr statistic of our more than 2 micaion confirmed s of coronavirus globally. That is t accordi figures from john hopkins. In the u. K. , there were 761 deaths in the last 24 hours. Most of those in hospitals. More on that a little later. In the u. S. , almost 27 thousand people have died from covid19. Donald h trump been criticized for Holding Funding for the world Health Organization. I am instructing my administration to ht funding of the world health organievtion while aw is conducted to assess the world Health Organization role in mismanaging and covering uphe spread of the coronavirus. This is a time for us to be united. The virus exploits the cracks between us. We are committed to serving. With the resources we are entrusted. The world Health Organization s primary role is to defend the health of the worlds population. A crime againstit hum as a systematic attempt to hurt the health and wellbeing of a population. Trump has clely committed that crime. As well as accusing the who of a coverup, trump failed to assess the outeak. The who took chinas assurances and they took it at face value. They defended the actions of the chinese government, praising ina for its socalled transparency. I do not think so. Here is chinaseaction. The pandec is growing. Is is a critical moment. The u. S. Decision will ioaken the decto handle the pandemic and will undermine the cooperation against covid19. All nations, including the United States will suffer. The u. S. Hashe highest number of cases and deaths worldwide. This is a blame game. Lets bring in anthony, who is in washington. Trump doeshy not away from a blame game. You have to view this as a long line of different attempts by trump to shift blame to other parties. Whether it is the world Health Organization, china, local governors who have not prepared adequately, democrats in congress, the media. You have to remember tmp wasd elecesident being distrustful of global agencies. He criticized the wto and drew parallels beten the wto, the world Health Organization, and some comments recently, even though they ar not at all linked. He does not view internationaler coive organizations as effective. For him to single out the who now, he is looking for people to ble is not entirely surprising. How much of the criticism leveled ainst him personally will stick . That will be the big question going forward. You saw a bump inhe opinion polls supporting donald trump. After he started t t dose press conferences, americans had a better view of his handling of response to the virus. He is back tohere he was before. That is a reflection of the polarization of american politics. People are going to viewng his handf this virus generally csitively. People inclined ticize him are going to sharpen their mcriticise. Lets assess trumps criticism of the who. I am going to get some help from a familiarace. Our outside source is joining us from his home. Good to see you. My family and i are going to stay home for a ittle while. Good to be back on the program. Lets look at trumps criticism. We start with the world Health Organization. It is a u. N. Agency, based with an annual budget of over 2. 5 billion dollars. America is the largest donor, pledging 400 million annually. It is in arrears on its contributions. The second largest contributor is bill and melinda gates. Trump e. S money is suspended because the who has worsened the outbreak with mismanagement andr has c up chinese mistakes. Bill gates argues trump costs move is dangerous and adds if the work stops, no other organization can replace it. They dont agree, but it doesnt necessarily cancel each other out. Some of the statements have raised a few eyebrows. In january, he said there was no evidence covid19 could be transmitted from human to human, but it was already happening. In january, it declared a public heal emergency. Countries then introduce them all the same. They said theyould not wear we did not need to wear face masks, then weeks later it said it was reviewing that advice. Critics say the who is being too soft o china for political reasons. The who says we have to be diomatic to get china to cooperate. The who arises mem states, not instruct them. The most crucial decisions have been taken by countries like china and the u. S. There are a couple of additional issues. Americas place on the international stage. Here is samantha, imagining putin seeing this w decision as the destruction of credibility that goes beyond he has taken theout of list of things. He is suspicious of supranational bodies like the who. Itha president who prefers unilateral or bilateral actions rather than working with bigger groups. This decisions entirely inline with that. If we can combine tha with the political calculations ahead of the u. S. Election better understand this announcement from trump. You. We will be back with you later on. In the u. K. , the government has been responding to criticism about the situation in care home where Charities Say the virus is running wild. A heartbreaking gadbye from family unable to visit their grfidmother. Theil words read by a care woyoer. I knowill always be with us in our hearts. We have done what we can. I can sleep well at night knowing i did give them all of the love and care i could. Behind the doors of care homes, the consequences of the virus are devastating. I cannot tell you how hard it is to lose 16 residents in three weeks. It is horrendous. It is horrendous. We have set out to do what we can do. We are doing it because we care. The government has announcedt st guidelines to increase the isolation of people. Tat same time, they have loosened restrictions on people able to visit dying relatives. I have been moved andpset i e heartbreaking stories of people dying. As the father of a 13yearold the reports of ishmael dying without a parent at his bedside made me weep. At the sight of his coffin being lored into a grave without his family present was awful. Working with the health sector, we are iocroducing new ures so we can limit the risk of infection while giving peoples closest loved ones the there is concern deaths and care homes are being overlooked. The daily death toll rose by 760 one. That brings the count to almost 2000. They only record deaths in hospit, not care homes. The number could be higher. The deaths in england and wales are up a third. Only around half of those deaths are reported as covid related. T most important number over the epidemic as a whole is going to be all cause of rtity, deaths of any sort an some of them have been diagnosed as having covid19. Diof thencnosed as covid19 in hospitalin now, easingly it will be true in other settings, tt will be based on testing. The accuracy of that will increase. An sco released figures where covid19 was registered. The Scottish First minister ss of allhe deaths in scotland, th have taken place in care homes. I am are this information is hard to hear. S itrd to report on. The numbers are higher than ybody would want to think about. We do need this information t understand the toll this virus is having, how and where it is progressing and to inform what we do next. It has made it difficult and the note care secrary is promising testing for all. Here is our assistance. It is a promise, butth it cos big response. There is no timeframe for deliveries. To thatt extent, i remains an aspiration and you have to say it is getting, amid some of the reports we have had, the virus really spreading tough some mes. Priorities testing has been given to staff. In today, we go to more detail on how testing will go. By the end of thise month, w u going to cover this large number of social staff and spital staff . Building capacity of testing all the time. The reason e figures and the number of tests de have been flat has been because not enoug demand rather than not enough capacity. That gives us the space to increa the numbeof people eligible for testing. Wnowe have Testing Available across the nhs and social path for those who need it. Hepposition party says testing well play a vital part in helping the u. K. Back out of meltdown. We need the public to comply. They need to know theovernment has a strategy for what comes next. They need to know the governments planning for that. This transparency and onness, you get the trust of the public. If you get the trust, the compliance levels though up. That is good. Keep the infection rate down is the right thing and we should support that. Jessica, critics of the rngont have been playing catchup when it comes to care homes. Ou what do make of these measures to catch up . The government is trying to show they have grip on this issue. Mini face some criticism over the last few days. A number of issues relating to care homes. E was testing the idea that frontline workers have been priorized for testing while care home providers feel left behind and the matter of personal protectiv equipment. Reports from care home settings, many across the whole of the u. K. Feel they are not getting the government says because the care center isd, fragment is harder to assess. They are talking aut distributing millions of items. More bt adly, wey were trying to do is to create togetherness. Tehe wto recognize the hard work care home workers were doing across theountry. There has been criticism of this because it was launched a year ago. It looks like they have been rking with the government to createra this. Some suggesting a badge is something, aha gimmick given hair comb what health combs what Health Care Staff want is a way tcobattle this letely. As danish children return to school we will look at countries relaxing their lockdowns. A 99yearold Second World War veteran was hoping to raise 1000 pounds by walking 100 laps of his garden before his birthday. Rhe hassed over 8 million pounds. There he is, talking about his success. It is in normas. I never anticipated wean would t hing that sort of money. It shows people have such high gard. It is amazing. From top t to bottoy work so hard and they are so humble. They are also brave. This is outside source. The world Health Organization has called for unity after trump stopped funding. The u. K. Health secretary has pledged to do more testing as anger grows over coronavirus deaths in care homes. The European Union has unveiled a roadmap to ease restrictions across the block italy, spain, and france reporting high death tolls. Here is the European Commission president. If Member States start slowly , stepbystep, to lift measure, t is of utmost importance they notify t commission and the neighboring countries so we do not have unnted effects. Good neighbors speak with other. Here is our editor on he strategy. What it is saying to member countries is, before you lift your lockdowns, can you coordinate. Dont think about it unless the number of infections is going down for a sustained amount of time, unless your plic Health System and deal with the spike of new infectis and you have Testing Capacity in place to protect the general public. The hope is to prevent a new wave of infections across europe. To normal. Ackbou it is about the easing of restrictions ath reintroducing if neces if there is a new wave of infections. Germany has extended social distancing rules. Some small shops will be ablet o open nek. Schools will be able reopen may 4. Germany has more tha 130 3000 confirmed cases. It is believe the high rate of testing germany has allowed officials to better manage the spread of the virus. We can only start slowly with schools. Stepbystep after may 4. It must be ismall groups. There must be a plan for school buseand break time. Will be a huge effort and needs intensive preparation. I believe it is necsary if we are livin with the virus during this pandemic. Other countries have started inoducing changes. This is the Prime Minister visiting one. She said she understood some parents might to do might want to do better. The government says the number of new cases is now falling. Here is Adrian Murray in copenhagen. The regulationsnd restrictio remain in place until around may 10. Included shutting the borders, livingmi ng the gatherings. Businessesad to close. Hairdressers, bars, and restaurants. Those remain closed the next couple of weeks. Yesterday, the Prime Minister sounded optimistic. She did suggest she might be able to move forward sooner than planned. Wh europe on lockdown, sweden has chosen not to introduceationwide restrictions. Restaurants open. Afes, the number of deaths and infection in sweden is higher than its neighbors, which have restrictive measures in place. Two weeks agothe figure was 282. O thing that has not worked well, that is why e death toll has increased, it the introduction of. We have said it is important to protect the what has been shown to us is the richness of the structure we have. It is not the basic sategy we have seen. That finishes our round of at has been happening in europe. I am online. This is outside source. 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