Steps yet as infections rise. The Drug Administration is promising up to a trillion dollars to help the u. S. Economy whether the coronavirus pandemic the proposal includes a 1000. 00 check for every u. S. Citizen within 2 weeks the number of u. S. Cases of the respective 3 illness has surged to meeting 6000 and the death toll has reached 100 thats a growing number of cities for schools bars restaurants and theaters to close. Tens of thousands of police all of these. Teachers basically. This isnt well the message is that this was something that happened its nobodys fault it happened and were going to take care of it will be bigger stronger better than ever before and it wont take that well the president wants to emphasize this is a situation where we have requested that many people stay home so we dont spread this disease this is not like a normal Economic Situation the government has requested that parts of this economy shut down and the president is determined you can think of this a
Thousands have been asked to stay home although the total number of cases outside China Remains relatively small we are concerned about the number of cases which is more clearly tickling so i just travel history to jail all contact with her valid case were especially concerned about the increasing cases in the Islamic Republic of iran where there are no 18 places and for those in just the past 2 days. But pride is in the Southern City of daegu with more on the white reaching impact on south korea. These latest figures do make for very grim reading once more showing a doubling of this basically a pattern now has been established over the past few days that we have a doubling each day it seems this time last night friday we were talking about just over 200 cases in south korea were now talking about well over 400 and the focus still is very much on this area daegu and the adjoining chung go county where we have a number about half of all of the cases are now reported to be members of thi
Loud to end an important caveat though as it seems that normal one residence if you dont have a specific reason for having to leave the city youre not going to be allowed to leave still so its not like were going to see a massive exodus but this is a significant significant change and it does signal some positive movements meanwhile south korea is still on high alert over the outbreak its announced another big jump in new coronavirus cases the number of deaths from the virus in south korea stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday the Israeli Military has carried out strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the Palestinian Group Islamic Jihad fired 21. 00 rockets into southern israel to the groups members were killed in the strikes the group said it launched its attack after Israeli Soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of its members forces in west jerusalem he says the israeli airstrikes came as no surprise. Well certainly the strikes inside gaza
And tens of thousands of italians have been told to stay home as a precaution if. There is a high level of panic now where in a mosque is the right thing to do but i think there is too much paranoia plays now on the streets going too far thats an attack at that on a woman that of course there is a lot of panic the situation mariza us all we can do is wait and see what happens doctors suspect a hospital near cafe have helped spread the virus and theyre trying to limit the outbreak. In the avian to meet this. We are working to identify the people who came into direct contact with those who are confirmed to have the virus these tests weve done so far appear to show 3 more cases of the coronavirus. The corona virus has spread to 8 countries in europe including germany france and the u. K. Catherine stansell aljazeera. Meanwhile china has reported an increase in new krona virus infections at the epicenter of the outbreak in hoop a province 630 more cases were confirmed on saturday from almo
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