A. Breather news and current affairs. Out of lockdown china lifts restrictions on the city where the coronavirus pandemic began 4 months ago but is it too early and water the lessons for the rest of the world this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and Bernard Smith much of the world is now imposing strict lockdowns to stop the spread of corona virus but the chinese city where the pandemic began is easing restrictions after a sharp fall in new cases 11000000 people who have been sealed off from the outside world since late january a giant light show counted down the moment when people were allowed to leave the city once again chinas government is handling this as a milestone in the global fight against covert 19 but questions have been raised about whether china has been underreporting its number of infections and Deaths Health officials a keeping a close watch to avoid a 2nd wave of infections a sarah clock now reports. Packed and ready for departure tens of thousands of pe
Out of lockdown china lifts restrictions on the city where the corona virus pandemic began 4 months ago but is it too early and walk to the lessons for the rest of the world this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Much of the world is now imposing strict lockdowns to stop the spread of corona virus but the chinese city where the pandemic began is easing restrictions after a sharp fall in new cases 11000000 people who have been sealed off from the outside world since late january a giant light show counted down the moment when people were allowed to leave the city once again chinas government is handling this as a milestone in the global fight against covert 19 but questions have been raised about whether china has been underreporting its number of infections and Deaths Health officials a keeping a close watch to avoid a 2nd wave of infections a set a clock now reports. Packed and ready for departure tens of thousands of people from the city of woo han are on the move after
New border restrictions are being rolled out in europe as it becomes the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the past 2 hours germany has increased controls with 5 of its neighbors its just gone 10 am this is the town this is a town at the border with germany and austria france and spain are also reported to be considering shutting their borders this after hundreds more deaths were recorded in italy it confirmed 368 on sunday its worst single day its death toll is now past 1800 lets go live to london 0 as long as aljazeera is lawrence lee can tell us more border about these latest border controls across the continent. Yes sage and obviously the greatest prize the European Union ever achieved thus of the move between countries. Is now under severe strain because of the virus and as of 8 oclock central europeans on this morning the germans announced that their borders because theyd there go 5 countries that border all stress whistlin france luxembourg and denmark so the north ap
China is the manufacturing workshop of the world and its shrinking, manufacturing, shr k shrinking at its fastest pace ever. This is an astonishing move into the safety of tenyear u. S. Treasuries. At one stage that yield had dropped all the way down to an alltime low of 1. 03 . Right now, we are at 1. 08 . Historically very, very low. The virus is the problem. We do not know how much our economy will slow if large numbers of people are quarantined and people are unwilling to go out and shop and travel and mingle. We have these developments on the virus. Deaths, two deaths in what appears to be a cluster of cases centering on a nursing home in kirkland, washington. Firefighters who went to the home are now quarantined. There are confirmed cases in nine states. Florida has declared a Public Health emergency. Theres this bombshell from iran. A Senior Adviser to the Supreme Leader has died from the virus. Several members of the top leadership are infected. But iran has done little to rest
Thousands of people are already living in squalor with little medical care now there is risk of a potentially devastating outbreak our correspondent reports from the notorious camp on the island of les pauls. And politics in the time of pandemic despite the health risk 3 large u. S. States hold president ial primaries democratic frontrunner joe biden strengthens his lead over Bernie Sanders. Hello im monica jones of berlin good to have you with us. Travel into europe the current a. P. Center of the coronavirus pandemic its been severely restricted European Union leaders have agreed on a 30 day ban on travel entering the block the decision will affect most citizens and nonresidents of the European Union with some exceptions it will be up to each Member States to implement the new regulations german chancellor Angela Merkel said the e. U. Would do whats necessary to protect the Publics Health and the economy. All across Europe Movement is grinding to a halt in berlin chancellor merkel an