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Welcome here with your global news update this is r. T. International. Lets start by getting the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic the number of confirmed infections worldwide has passed 1600000 the death toll is approaching 97362000 people have recovered. Only people seem to be at greatest risk from covert 19 and an alarming picture is emerging from care homes across europe theres been a surge in mortality rates the numbers are still unclear due to a lack of testing and delays in reporting in italy the Health Director of one nursing home says that there are no resources to cope with the crisis. Describe whats happening as its not losing so many people in the same time its terrible to have not even had time to not only happened and mourn for those who have died or Retirement Homes are to provide optimal conditions for the forests to spread and in many European Countries residents are being left behind by Health Care Services receiving little to no treatment in france almost a 3rd of all corona virus deaths happened in such facilities to charlotte has more as the grim toll from couvade 19 continues to mount official figures often amid deaths outside hospitals including those in nursing and care homes a picture is now emerging of how the virus is laying waste to some of the most fragile while many older people have been self isolating at home and hopefully safeguarding their health as much as possible it seems that others in care homes are more a true risk in france the death toll rose rapidly off due to merge how many people in care homes had lost their lives to the virus those deaths now account for more than 30 percent of total fatalities but this isnt surprising from the very start we were warned that older people were at highest risk the most important task would be to protect our elderly and most Vulnerable People during the peak weeks didnt assume it to put the priority of the nation is to protect our elderly we must do it responsibly with commonsense and discipline drawn words from those in charge yet words that some say have wrong hollow as the elderly bear the brunt of the virus in spain nursing and care homes have been struggling to stop the spread of covert 90. Its estimated that a march alone nearly 5000 people in cash in madrid region died thats thousands of deaths higher than normal a correspondent from our sister channel spanish francisco got you to told me that in some places care homes have become defacto hospitals when the euros spread out. And its very deep equal to keep in that receive and there were different parties. There is a lot of activities they were defined inside is the type club us bases a coffee 9 team and it. Is this equation becomes very difficult for care homes because. For them they need to act nice to host the tells franciscos mother was living in one home but following complications shes been transferred to a hospital where shes fighting pneumonia although its not yet being confirmed she is also being treated as if shes been infected by kuwait 19 as a reporter francisco knows the drill but as a son he says the hardest thing is to not be with her in person. 19 is very cruel because you cannot hack your mother you cannot piece here you cannot be weak pair and. Its very tough for the patient and for the relatives we cannot be close to her in these super spences when you are in the middle of these and then yeah i think its very difficult but there were some messages that they were saying for example that all. That it was not true you know was not true and its clear with the facts that you see how. Many people. Die in the last week. Thousands of people of all people are dying because of. The outbreaks in care homes in spain have led to a collapse in staffing last month the military was called to help but a retirement home and it found elderly residents whod been abandoned and in some cases dead in their beds meanwhile in a chilly investigation has been launched after dozens died at a nursing home alone while you work at the facility said the true extent of the risk of infection had been played down what stocks had been told not to wear masks. And. This situation isnt good this covered everything up there were even for people who included a female doctor who terrorized we didnt have to use masks in the u. K. Government guidelines say 1000 patients can be safely cared for in care homes if precautions are taken but some care home managers say that by doing so the government is sacrificing the elderly. That would be tantamount to importing into care homes and i think to add insult to injury to take over 19 positive patients is asking us to basically make Health Suicide notes for people in care we are taught from a young age to respect our elders to look after our elderly yet as the panic has ensued with a pandemic those key lessons those reassuring overtures from leaders feel like in some cases they have evaporated show that even ski auti paris. Hospitals around the world are having to suspend Vital Services they focus on covert 19 patients from story still to come. The u. S. Has the worlds Fastest Growing death toll from covert 19 the figure is approaching 17000 and is expected to overtake italy within days in new york state 7000 lives have been lost morgues are unable to cope in this video here you can see contract laborers in protective gear burying the dead in a trench on heart island in the bronx the area has traditionally been used to bury those with no relatives to teach others reports from the city. Here today the coronavirus continuing to take a dramatic toll on new york its like a battlefield behind your house the number of coronavirus cases and now more than 150000 with more than 7000. The buyers having the biggest impact on some of the york citys poorest areas the disparities that have plagued the city this nation there are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain. And causing people innocent people to lose their lives its just abundantly clear its sick its troubling its wrong new data showing Jackson Heights elmhurst and corona queens have higher numbers of coronavirus cases than in wealthy mostly white parts of manhattan. Its terrifying here because were downwind of this of the hospital its a percentage of the death of the National Crisis while queens the epicenter of the outbreak in new york city accounts for more than 3200 factions many are still forced to continue to go to work. Want to be. Working. Many low wage workers on the front lines from Grocery Store employees to Public Transportation workers all deemed essential working around the clock during the pandemic right now everybody who are here if you are the still working the m. T. A. Confirming the corona virus has claimed the lives of 41 transit workers in 5 weeks and more than 6000 have fallen sick or self quarantined this as new Research Shows that the Novel Coronavirus likely circulated in new york for weeks undetected with more new york infections coming from europe and not asia critics pointing out that the findings contradict president trumps argument that is ban on travelers from china in late january delayed the arrival of the virus to the u. S. Reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. The opec Oil Producing nations plus russia have agreed to cuts global output in a bid to stabilize prices however the deal hinges on mexico which just so far refused to play along with the stall court has details. This is certainly a store agreement thats in the works right now between opec plus and russia saudi arabia and russia have already agreed to cut global Daily Oil Production by 10000000. 00 barrels of oil and thats after a 2 after a month long price war between saudi arabia and russia actually that began after saudi arabia had dramatically boosted its Oil Production resulting in record low Global Oil Prices on thursday opec plus called on its Member States to assist in efforts intended to stabilize the Global Oil Market and that was after marathon negotiations on the issue we also heard from Russias Energy minister who said that these intended cuts in production are crucial to the Global Economy because we have seen a substantial slump in demand 10 to 15000000 barrels a day demand could full even further in the Near Future Oil Storage Facilities and nearly full to capacity and thats a cause for concern this could have serious consequences for the oil sector and the Global Economy as a whole range now mexico isnt seeing eye to eye with everyone else though right now the agreement is hanging on that countries consent according to opec and even saudi arabia which not long ago was against cutting global Oil Production is trying to get mexico into the fray. Mexico can see the benefits of this agreement not only for mexico but for the whole world the entire agreement depends on mexicos consent now theres still another round of talks ahead so nothing set in stone yet but of course well let our viewers know of their decision as soon as the details become available. We heard from currency analyst jimmy locke might he believes that the tentative agreement between pressure inside the rabid is a reassuring sign for the market they are on the same page and its a good thing that it was only a month from this generally speaking both economies and countries benefit from struggle oil prices but with oil prices now for 20. 00 nobody benefits from the situation and theres a lot of job study going to be at risk and theres a lot of economic implications so generally i still think that that might be some underlying difference of opinion behind the scenes that no longer both sides beats in their chests saying that we wont stand down and this is a very good message to send to ok we will collaborate we will unify together but once again youre seeing that mexico thats not even a huge producer of oil by any state is still able to provide an influence and sense of destruction the still. The world bank has warned that Subsaharan Africa resenting a recession for the 1st time in 25 years due to the pandemic and that could mean millions of people pushed into extreme poverty and unable to meet their daily needs looks at the global shock waves and how theyre affecting the continent. The world has now realized its facing not just a Health Crisis but also potential economic collapse Global Growth will turn sharply negative in 2020 in fact we anticipate the worst economic fallout sees the Great Depression these numbers are america over it is. There a sense with 2008 financial choices and even the Great Depression of the thirtys are inevitable in the us and asked me to 16000000 people have filed unemployment claims over the past 3 weeks and know if that is happening to the worlds economic superpower what bleak future awaits everyone else take africa for example the World Bank Says that covert 900 is threatening to tip the continent into its fast recession in 25 years we will see a complete collapse of the condom is and livelihoods livelihoods will be wiped out in the way we have never seen before if the analysis proves right coronavirus could cost the continent up to hof of its g. D. P. And 2020 why while africa is one of the most export dependent regions in the wild but with countries shutting their borders the continent cant trade like before thats on top of reduced tourism and no oil prices the number of coronavirus cases in africa is so far relatively no around 11000 but there are concerns its just the calm before the storm case numbers here increasing exponentially and there she can region he took 16 days from the 1st confirmed case in the region to reach 100 cases it took a further 10 days he reached the 1st sad isnt 3 days after this there were teas hasnt cases in 2 days later we were at 3 says and if this pattern continues african nations which already have Fragile Health Systems will just simply be overwhelmed. Dont have the hospitals the i. C. Use or the ventilators to deal with massive amounts of people so if the spread is comparable to that scene in europe or china the outcome could be devastating the coronavirus would actually affect their Health Care Services across the world but more so african countries who are clearly market papers who clearly have lost because the underfunded and ill equipped many of them are the cause the labor market expected to docs and nurses very short supply so a truly problematic issues for many of your complaints coaches right now to try and get ahead of the pandemic many countries have been forced containment measures like lock downs curfews and travel bans but that has led to its own knew of problems overzealous policing has already cost lives in kenya there are reports of Police Beatings and the president himself apologized for the death of a 13 year old boy at the hands of an officer is straight but meanwhile south africa has taken the unprecedented step of going into a military patrolled lockdown was. Was human Rights Groups also allege these lockdowns are being taken advantage of by authoritarian regimes to consolidate their power and also to snort social uprisings as joblessness continues to rise the timing of the pandemic is taking to be bad for africa a number of its nations only now is recovering from the Ebola Outbreak and in the east a small of the locusts is threatening to devastate crops. If we fail with the current regional control operations because of the lack of pesticides then we could see 4000000 more People Struggle to feed their families so while the coronavirus is making life around the world difficult for the 1. 3 been. And living on the african continent it threatens to undermine individual freedoms collapse Health Care Systems and bring about economic ruin africa is meant to be an Agricultural Produce the continents i mean many crazies many countries in africa how so its the in the element of mineral wealth. Weve seen that that doesnt actually play in good turns so if people who live on a on a dollar a day nearly 70 percent of 1000000 population size its going to a dollar a day those people will be lost to stay at home if were told thats the case whos actually going to take care of them and their bread lines are going to be affected the ability to be able to feed their families and themselves are really straight on move them likely the African People who will suffer when supply chains are terribly affected which they will im voting seemed not to be the case. So to come this hour preying on fear we look at the folds this trying to cash in on the power. To. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see if that. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. High. Salacious community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. 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Welcome back hospitals around the world are having to focus their resources on treating covert 19 patients and that means many Crucial Services are being neglected in the us for example hospital admissions for Heart Patients have dropped by up to 60 percent and in spain theres been a 40 percent cut in emergency procedures not relating to covert 19 hong kong is reporting major delays in accepting patients and a doctor in new york told us patients are refusing to be sent to Emergency Rooms for fear of catching the virus housing the hospitals its overcrowded over 9000 patients are going to have to wait for a long time just to get upstairs to a bed with a problem to share a room or going to hallways with other covert action patients ive had patients come in to crying and screaming but they dont want to be sent to the virgin from the nursing home because they had a fever theyre screaming that they dont want the virus to take me back take me back but they go theyre being sent to certain do. Because theyre going to just fill the air of an emergency room where the patients are 90 percent of the testing part of called in a team coughing and sneezing. We heard from david bill a british doctor and former member of the European Parliament he thinks the patients should never have to be scared of going to hospital when they need treatment. Really key advice to people is the hospitals remain open if you have a serious condition so for example if you have on china if you have chest pain if you have anything that you are really really worried about then you must seek medical help because actually strangely the public are actually listening to the advice thats being given a many of the wards are relatively quiet at the moment so if you are concerned if you have a life threatening illness then please make sure that you go to the hospital we have ramped up medical provision we have cold backed lots of retired doctors lots of retired nurses back onto the front line so weve also built these other bigger units like the nice ingo hospital which is to 2000 beds wards i mean thats extraordinary so the capacity of the n. H. S. Has increased dramatically but that means there are still many doctors around to deal with those conditions that are nothing to do with corona virus itself. Despite those assurances there are signs that the n. H. S. Is under severe strain and billions waiting times of tripled in london many hospitals have outsourced key services to private clinics we heard from nick lamar to live its a cancer patient. Operation shut your next week it was camps on recurrent breast cancer. A lot of. Treatment about 5 years ago and ongoing treatment and unfortunately its returned and it needs an operation sooner rather than later this will be outsourced to a clinic but its an n. H. S. Clinic. And the the consultant hasnt operated before so its very. Being very very cautious and very careful to make sure that i think say. Of course a still no cure or vaccine for covert 19 of the w. H. O. Has said that the search for it will take months if not longer that gap in the market has allowed fraudsters to step in offering fake treatments arties where i guess the explains. Its always like this isnt it especially in times of desperation when mankind is gripped by fear and despair they crawl out from under their rocks the charlatans the prophets years that the slimes and the sneezers even among them are those of exceptional shamelessness im asking for a brief further 3 months to assist in Research Work uncovered 19 been released to the covered world is no solace to even the incarcerated martins corellis a former drug industry executive a liar of fraud a ponzi scheme creator but those were his official crimes whats correctly really became infamous for is. Creating a monopoly over a parasitic infection drug used to treat pregnant women babies hiv victims he got his hands on this drug and he hiked the price from 20. 00 per pill to 750. 00 per pill it was ingenious and utterly soulless you either paid or you died Health Care Prices are inelastic they could have raised it higher and made more profits were this is a couple a Society Couple system a couple of rules the way these vultures those promising promising a cure medicine or a secret formula to to ward off coronavirus spirits and for a pretty penny theyll tell you it came from god god gave us this product i believe yet youre saying that silver solution would be effective theres no Silver Bullet theres no silver pill and i promise you there is no silver toothpaste yes toothpaste thats not a joke patented now we have the pentagon has come and documented in Homeland Security and said this stuff kills the whole sars ran a family at point blank range ludicrous were his claims that authorities in new york had to step in and to tell him to stop this charade its easy to blame the victims here you can call them silly or stupid we could try to understand them the elderly especially who are trusting who are told daily on television that theyre in the high risk category that theyre likely to die 1st of course theyre desperate can you blame them for for grasping at straws no what you can do is you can blame the the core not ists who are waving these straws in front of their faces not only do they create the cure but this pill right here is the. Prevention we can go on and on there of thousands of these charlatans all over the world more every day though just walk by report them make a complaint that facebook and twitter if you see a post just scroll on the only thing worse than waiting for a cure is being fooled into buying one only to learn that its fake and someone jerking a bad demick profited off of our collective misery when ever something happens of a catastrophic nature you see a number of sometimes altruism but oftentimes despicable for example price gouging in this country there were people were selling pure around these these and the lotion types of things for 200. 00 a bottle was ridiculous facemask so thats one example then you have televangelists or others who ply their spiritual where maybe legitimately im not equipped with the ability to tell whether theyre correct or not thats for others to decide then you also have a variety of people who during this will make statements about the cause of this so called conspiracy theories now again im not saying anybody in particular but youre going to see everybody from every walk of life use dish now i have heard radio promotion sometimes tawdry despicable so whatever the human imagination can provide thats what youll see. And as the pandemic continues he would r. T. Are here for you with all the very latest information with coverage on our website r. T. Dot com and the various forms of social media plus round the clock live broadcasts from our numerous studios stay informed stay with r. T. Join me every thursday on the elec so im unsure when ill be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business im sure. Ill see you then. I would say we could have prevented this pandemic we werent ready for a number of reasons because you know the problem is that companies. Are making vaccines and theyre as they want to make a profit so they dont make them if there is no virus to make them against them so after sars one of these secured very quickly there is no incentive. And. 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