As the coronavirus pandemic spreads worries the poor nations wont be able to cope Health Systems are weak in many of these countries and millions of people dont have access to clean water or sanitation so how can we avoid a catastrophe this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and its corona virus infections have now been reported in nearly every country in the world and the number of people getting sick in europe on the United States is rising rapidly. But scientists warn the next big spike could occur in developing nations we already weak Health Systems Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Has been tracking the pandemic for the past 3 months now theres a huge concentration of cases in china iran europe and the u. S. Few are infections in latin america and across africa but those numbers are ticking up in countries like nigeria for instance africas most populous nation is also battling the Worlds Largest outbreak of last a fever a viral disease more fatal than covert 19 libe
Such as its worst day more than 3 decades as investors panic over the pandemics Economic Impact. Welcome to the program the Global Response to the corona virus pandemic is ramping up but the World Health Organization is improving governments to test far more people with a suspected infection the french president has declared war on the outbreak and is closing frances borders from 1100. 00 g. M. T. On tuesday to some ongoing we are at war healthwise not against another country or another nation the enemy is there and its advancing and that requires our general mobilization we are at war. All the action of the government must now be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us well the European Union has proposed a ban on all done essential foreign travel to the shang. The president of the European Central bank Christine Legarde has pledged to do whatever she can to stop the eurozone from breaking up while the British Government which has been und
Trees between the u. S. And the taliban gains into effect in afghanistan the 1st step towards reaching a long lasting deal with. The head of the World Health Organization has warned of new clusters of corona virus infections with no clear link to china its a live report it its 1st death there is 16 infections south korea the worst affected country outside china has almost 350 cases and the w. H. O. Is concerned about iran where theyve been for deaths and 18 cases of infection to others infected with the virus in iran have since traveled on to canada and to lebanon. Although the window of opportunity is not only to contain the outbreak we still have a chance to contain it but while doing that we have to prepare at the same time for any eventuality because this outbreak could go any direction it could even be messy. But what im saying is its in our hands now if we do well within the not only window of opportunity we can reverse any or we can have very good any. Serious crisis all right l
It really puts a quarter of its population into quarantine to contain the corona virus should other countries follow suit or is it too little too late to stop the spread this is inside story. Hello im james is with the number of dead rising fast the 3rd highest number of cases worldwide and 16000000 people forced into quarantine italys government has ordered some of the harshest measures outside china to try and contain the coronavirus its in his economic heart is under strain the financial and fashion capital milan resembles a ghost town or weddings funerals football matches and other large public gatherings of canceled everyones been banned from leaving 16 provinces in the north many flocked to train stations and airports before the lockdown came into force its at least until early next month when not is that such an enemy than what is happening in my city is worrying me and its also saddening because milan is a lively city and to see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i ne
Is the minimum 50 he stands so what i did if we had a we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay when we need it least from each other and then you know everything if closed but he really a bit about the east side meanwhile the European Commission says all of its 27 Member States now have confirmed coronavirus cases European Union leaders are due to hold an emergency Video Conference later on tuesday but coordinating their response to the outbreak china has announced the closure of all temporary hospitals treating coronavirus patients and rouhani president xi jinping visited the eppy said for the 1st time since the outbreak was discovered that it december the number of new reported sections in china also has continued to slow Margaret Harris a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization she says other countries should learn from chinas experience. We cant necessarily say what happens in one country always ups and happens in another country but there are really