Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. Infections and deaths from coronavirus continue to mount the contagion shows no sign of slowing. Switzerland and the uk report their first deaths. While italys death toll has gone up to 148. The who suggests some governments arent taking the crisis seriously. This is not a dream. This is not the time to give up. This is not a time of excuses. And as the virus spreads so too has misinformation. Well explain why a video of a woman eating a bat added to some
of the false reports of the origins of coronavirus. I will not be running for president of the 2020 but i guarantee that i will stay in the fight. We saw that one coming. Elizabeth warren has ended her bid for the white house. That leaves Bernie Sanders and joe biden to battle it out for the democratic nomination. Londons High Court Rules the billionnaire ruler of dubai, lets take as long as we need to give you an update on the coronavirus. The global death toll is passed 3000. Swipe and there are more than 96,000 confirmed cases in 80 countries. 80,000 of them are in china. We should also say more than 50,000 of those people whove been infected, have fully recovered. This is the world health
0rganisation earlier. This epidemic is a thread for every country rich and poor. And as we have said before, even the high Income Countries should expect surprises. The solution is aggressive preparedness. We are concerned that some countries have either not taking this seriously enough or have decided that there is nothing they can do. Lets start moving around the world. South africa has reported its first case. This is its health minister. Arrangements are being made to the patient so where they can be treated and designated hospitals so that treatment is going to take place in that area. We are therefore going to be dealing with the members of the family and take them to the necessary quarantines. An important element of south africas situation is that it has the Worlds Largest hiv epidemic and there are concerns that millions of people who are hiv may be more vulnerable to the coranavirus. Heres Andrew Harding injohannesburg. Here in south africa, you have more than 7 Million People living with hiv. About 20 of adults and 50. And that virus weakens and is known to wea ken that virus weakens and is known to weaken peoples immune systems and people with respiratory problems are likely to be more vulnerable if this virus is not successfully contained, this new coronavirus. Iran next it has over 3,500 cases, over 100 people have died. The government has launched a National Mobilisation plan that includes closing all of its schools and universities. Also here you can see Public Places in tehran being disinfected. These are unverified pictures from a hospital in the holy city of qom. This appears to be bodies lying in bags and waiting to be buried. This is baran abbasi from bbc persian on this video. 0fficials officials are saying that we do not know yet whether or not they have day from corona and are keeping the bodies and request of the families to make sure that the cause of the death is and give the permission for the burial. But the person from the footage has been arrested and in the latest development the person in charge with the morgue is located has also been removed from his post. In europe, switzerland has reported its first death. And bosnia has reported its first case. The paris marathon has been postponed until october. By far the biggest outbreak in europe remains in italy. Today, all schools and universities closed for at least ten days. Heres bethany bell in milan. People across the country who have children are now having to think about childcare and the government has promised to look into measures for deal with those issues and they do not know if theyll give them Financial Aid or ba by sitters do not know if theyll give them Financial Aid or baby sitters or allowing people to stay, one parent to stay at home and work and it should be said that schools and universities north of the country have already been closed for almost two weeks now and yesterday, in light of the rising number of infections, the government took this decision to close schools and universities across the country until mid march. In the us, the primary focus has been an outbreak close to seattle. Now, though a state of emergency has been declared in california. One person has died there and they had been on this cruise ship. Its the grand princess the passenger had disembarked in san francisco. The ship is now being held at port
there because several passengers were taken ill. This is californias governor. We have with this i see you patient that passed away, entered in the next phase that is required under the circumstances to advance a proclamation and a state of emergency in the state of california. Cbs correspondent jamie you cas has this story from san francisco. We were told that there was about ten passengers in the living crew members showing symptoms of the coronavirus. That is why theres so much concern and the governor of california said they will be dropping tests often make and should people test them before the lie that ship to come into port in san francisco. What happens next is anybodys guess. Amazon is asking
its employees to work from home for the rest of the month every worker tested positive there for the virus in here in california, the governor said that the state would reach out to every county with passengers on that cruise ship to keep local officials updated. Meaning that these are people who wouldve travelled outside of the us and wouldve recently returned. Let us move from the us to the middle east now. The palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has declared a 30 day state of emergency after coronavirus cases were reported in the west bank town of bethlehem. The Palestinian Authority is closing churches and mosques in bethlehem, including the church of the nativity. Anna foster is there. This is a major scale to the next square and there are times you cannot even see the ground too because it is so packed with tourists. It is never as quiet, all
of these visitors, this is the church of the nativity were christians believe that jesus church of the nativity were christians believe thatjesus was born. Thousands of people pass through your every day, the crowds, this nickel lawn care, the snake onto the square. But this place is being closed down, the whole of bethlehem is being closed down after reportedly for cases of covert i9 among Hotel Workers in bethlehem. Coronavirus. Lets remind you what we know about coronavirus. It shares some similarities with seasonal flu. People can be infected for around two weeks before symptoms appear, and it passes from person to person through the air, often through coughs and sneezes. Among the symptons are a fever, tiredness, a dry cough, shortness of breath and muscle pain. This is one woman from singapore who has recovered. It felt like my lungs are going into overdrive and theyre really making an effort. And it was like normal
days where we are not even conscious of how we breathe. One thing we dont yet understand is why some people can be infected yet show no symptoms. During the sars epidemic in the 20005, scientists could easily identify someone who was infectious because they had symptoms. Not this time. Karen and jason honey from melbourne were on the diamond princess cruise ship that was quarantined in japan. They both tested positive but while karen suffered from a severe fever and coughing, jason felt fine. He spoke to abc australia. No fevers, no cough, no nasal problems and i have not at his single symptom of any sort. So some people will have symptoms, while others will not. I should add both karen and jason remain in hospital injapan. Karens symptoms eventually disappeared but she recently tested positive again. Now these are just two cases medical experts say about 80 of people with the virus will recover without needing special treatment. For more on how best to protect yourself, heres our global health
correspondent tulip mazumdar. The one thing everyone can use and thatis the one thing everyone can use and that is washing their hands regularly as we have seen for 22nd several times a day. Also important remember that the World Health Organisation is saying, look, this thing can still be contained. We saw what happened with china, theres so many cases and i looking very frightening there and cases are in decline now. There are hotspots pppin9 decline now. There are hotspots ppping up decline now. There are hotspots popping up in other parts of the world now which is a major concern. Of course it is. But theres still hope there for some of the worlds leading scientists that this thing can still be contained. Here in the uk, a patient with Underlying Health conditions has become the first person to die. Borisjohnson spoke earlier. 0bviously, sympathy is with the
victims and their family. But the situation is pretty much as it has been since we are still in the contained phase. 0ur scientists are trying to make preparations for the delay phase. There are now 115 cases in the uk. Health officials are concerned about the pressures this virus may exert on the National Health service. And the government is still to decide what, if any, restrictions, it will place on school, big events and so on. Heres the uks chief medical adviser. By by delaying the start of a significant amount of transmission and a variety of other measures, we can push back from which you have the peak of this epidemic. Whatever strategy the uk government adopts, it will ultimately be down to local communities to implement it. This report is from the bbcs lucy manning in brighton. Brighton has already been hit by coronavirus. It contain the outbreak well but like everyone else in you uk, it was now tackled delaying any further spread. Those living here have questions about how moving to this mainly delay phase will affect them. They tell us to all work from home, left to make the decisions ourselves . It will be good to know how long this thing will be going on for. It was very simple message about washing your hands stop with the schools, this is now a growing challenge. We have to make sure that they are staying at home. People wa nt to they are staying at home. People want to know how long its going to last. Live we may expect expect a three month period with a peak in that. One of the things you want to do is push that far into the future to the delay phase so he comes later in the year. During his tests, so we
have to know for him if he is going to be able to go to school to take his exams. There is no plan for the schools to close. A train to prevent you from getting together in public spaces . The full programme of events, hes going ahead. Everyone is keeping and repeating the message. We are taking it seriously, but we are also trying to get on with life and life us to go on. In the delay phase, the authorities will have to make a decision about sporting events like football matches and in italy, all sports are being played behind closed doors and players are already being restricted from shaking hands, doing high fives are posing for selfies with supporters. But one of the calculations is if fans are not in stadiums, with a dispute passing on
the virus watching in pubs instead. The most severe measures will be for when the virus its peak and its message at the moment is that there are no benefits to cancelling large offence if people keep following the health advice. Stay with us on 0utside source, still to come. The spread of the coronavirus continues to rattle World Markets so well have the latest from new york where theyve just closed down again. The duke and duchess of sussex are carrying out one of their last official engagements before they quit royal life this evening in london. Sarah campbell is there the significance of this visit, it is the firstjoint royal engagement that the couple of carried out since they dropped the bombshell statement onjanuary they dropped the bombshell statement on january the 7th, basically saying that they were going to step back as
senior royals. The week after that, there was the summit with the family, the queen, prince williams, Prince Charles and harry got together to thrash out the details. People were thinking that this is one of the last times that we will see them in this kind of situation. People are referring to this as their farewell tour and then engagement at Royal Albert Hall for the festival and then, they will join other senior members of the royal family join other senior members of the royalfamily for join other senior members of the royal family for Commonwealth Day at Westminster Abbey on monday. This is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story. The who says the coronavirus epidemic can be contained and controlled, but only with a concerted response by all the worlds governments. Italys death toll has gone up to 148 in the past day. Other stories around the bbc. The United States secretary of state, mike pompeo, has denounced the International Criminal courts decision to authorise an investigation into alleged war crimes in afghanistan by us and other military personnel. The icc said alleged abuses by all sides in afghanistan could be investigated. Egypts oldest pyramid has officially reopened after many years of restoration work. The step pyramid in saqaara was built during the third dynasty of the pharaohs dating back four thousand seven hundred years. Bbc arabic. Pop star katy perry has revealed that she and her fiance, the actor orlando bloom, are expecting their first child. She announced her pregnancy in the video for her latest song, never worn white, revealing her baby bump at the end of the four minute clip. Ms perry has been dating the actor since 2016. We knew this was coming Elizabeth Warren is out of the race to be the democratic president ial nominee. There was no other option. She didnt win any of the 1a states on super tuesday that made both the maths and the politics just about impossible. That leaves two contenders, joe biden and Bernie Sanders. Gary 0donoghue is in washington. We think back to just before the South Carolina on Fridayjoe Biden had all of the line, everyone was expecting him to do well and to run through super tuesday and Everything Else just changed. Extraordinary pace, not just the else just changed. Extraordinary pace, notjust the least else just changed. Extraordinary pace, not just the least all of those people pulling out and putting the weight behind joe biden. That is for Elizabeth Warren. She enjoyed a brief moment where she was on top of the polls, but she has made it clear that she thought there wasnt any room to run and elaine between the progressive wing of the party and
modernises and she thought there was room there but there wasnt enough. Three weeks ago,joe but there wasnt enough. Three weeks ago, joe biden was doing what he does and people were saying he was thinking and now he has not done anything new on the surface notes read back and it. A couple of things. One, the African American vote, that only really kicked in and the South Carolina primary really came home for him. Massively back to him. He went there after New Hampshire when the polls are closed if put his whole reputation on South Carolina. A significant member of congress, he put his backing behind joe biden. That made a huge amount of difference in those people pulling out, people pulling out of South Carolina and that made another huge difference to the whole
momentum thing thatjoe biden has had and it is an extraordinary turnaround and i would caution something slightly that joe turnaround and i would caution something slightly thatjoe biden still does have these what you might call va ca nt still does have these what you might call vacant moments. Of those things could play kim during the campaign. But in terms of the money in the structure that is going to get now is restructure of what is happened. He could not be in a better place. It also confirms that, once again, america will not elect a woman as president it never has. Authorjessica valenti wrote this article, in it she says and Elizabeth Warren was asked
about this issue earlier. Gender in this race. You know that is the track a question for everyone. If you say yes, there was sexism, everyone. If you say yes, there was sexism , everyone everyone. If you say yes, there was sexism, everyone will call you a whiner and if you say no, about a million women will say what planet do you live on. I promise you this. I will say more on that subject later. On this part of the campaign, here is gary in washington. Similar debate on the time barack 0bama was running, first, certain questions were raised and a lot of people come out and say well, there is no electability question for a woman running against donald trump and Elizabeth Warren took that on the debates and said there are five men on the stage and all of them of
lost ten elections between them and theres two women here weve never lost. So she hit this pretty head on. There is a difficulty sometimes the people who imagine a woman being commander in chief. That is a reality that political pundits, political operatives think about here. I do think things have changed. There was a lot of discussion around the tenth Hillary Clinton possible his candidacy were a lot of young women were supporting Bernie Sanders are you asked them why arent you supporting hillary, they said we will think there will bea they said we will think there will be a woman president one day, we just do not want that one. The Aviation Industry is seeing the cost of the coronavirus outbreak spiral. The industrys trade body iata says the virus could Cost Carriers up to 113 billion in revenue. Of course here in the uk,
the outbreak has also taken its toll on the regional carrier flybe, which has gone into administration. Shara njit leyl reports from singapore. With the spread of the coronavirus, they are bracing for tough times. The Airline Industry is no exception. Its main Industry Association is projecting steep losses between 63. They base it on two different scenarios. 0ne involving a limited spread of the virus and another involving a more extensive spread. The associations chief Economist Says this will serve asa chief Economist Says this will serve as a warning to the industry and governance. They are really fighting too, fighting for survival in many cases. Piercing the stock market fall 25 of airline shares there recognising the challenges that they
are under. While theyre making dire predictions, another one is proving more dangerous. Cruise ships. 0ver 700 passengers became infected and a number died with the coronavirus on board the diamond princess injapan. You see the enhanced security measures that the authorities are put in place, essentially screening passengers and coming of cruise ships here at one of the main cruise terminals and using this medical tea m terminals and using this medical team here and white shirts, they are screening these passengers they also got the help of a temperature screening machine there there helping for symptoms, fever and these pastors to display some symptoms, will be taken aside to be swamped which im told is quite an uncomfortable procedure. A part of the precautions that putting into place. Singapore was on the first places outside of china to see infections in the coronavirus and
theyre determined not to see those numbers rise. While it is clear that travel will see a massive drop, a nalysts say travel will see a massive drop, analysts say to be among the First Industries to recover once the coronavirus is contained. And its been a tough day on the markets. This is the dowjones, which covers 30 big us companies. Its fallen 3. 6 . Michelle fleury in new york. Is it simply about the virus . That is absolutely at the forefront of everyones mind. They continue to work out and just like there is saying, looking into potential scenarios. Does exactly what we have. Every businessman and investor doing right now is trying to figure under what scenario, what impact might we see and we heard from the Airline Industry and you can talk
about that when it comes to the restau ra nt about that when it comes to the Restaurant Industry when it comes to cinema, but it comes to anything involving going out and travel and you can then see if this is a longer term disruption, because there is a short term one, what this temporary look like. How bad does that start to affect the supply chain and the goods coming down the pipeline . It is because of this uncertainty that youre seeing this movement in the markets earlier this week we saw them recording two of the biggest point gains over two days and here we are yet again talking about a big day of losses. Two types of uncertainty, how this virus is going to behave and to how theyre going to react. Are they going to constrain this virus with the economies of the country to continue to flourish and for people to still be able to move around and
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not watching friends. Coronavirus. From watching the situation in the uk, its really ramping up there where you are. It is. This time last week we talked about how we felt that this was about to become completely dominant in terms of political agendas, and nothing that they what is happened. Probably what was inevitably news that the first death of a patient in britain from coronavirus and it was announced a bit earlier today that the patient whod been in the hospital already in berkshire had passed away with coronavirus. The Prime Minister came out to give his response to the news. Obviously our sympathies are very much with the victim and their family. The situation is pretty much as it has been in the sense of we are still in the contains phase. So now our scientists and medical
advisers are making preparations for the delay phase, so what theyre looking at in the next few days in the near future is what kind of measures might be necessary to slow down the spread of the disease. As soon as down the spread of the disease. As soon as theyd decided the moment is right, to announce that, we will be absolutely clear with the public about what needs to be done. For the moment, things are as they have been and you know i will say this. The best thing to do is wash our hands, two versions of the National Anthem or happy birthday, hot water, bar of soap. This week it really has been cranking up, both in terms of severity and the government being very proactive in his public facing staffers. Hearing from the chief scientific adviser. Both from the
government because not perspective from ours, and from ours, a curious thing to wrestle with about getting the kind of scale right. I saw a tweet of the sad news of the death we reported talking about the comparison with the seasonal flu which killed lots of people every year, and if it was a rolling total of the number affected or killed by that, and it was in the news every day. It was the a far bigger scale thanit day. It was the a far bigger scale than it is, but getting that balance right, youve detected that speaking to ministers between being seem to be out there in warning the public of what seems to be severity, but coupled with not wanting to provoke a panic. Thats a really hard calibration. Is a very very tricky balance. The government mantra has been hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Some of the things they are talking about that we might
see emergency legislation