Virus. A councillor that tested positive discusses his experience. And your text and tweets. Washington journal is next. Us coronavirus cases have jumped. Returns at noon as they return to push a response package totalling over 1 million. Good morning, welcome to washington journal, this friday morning. March 20th. Well open up the phone lines, hearing from you, and your experience, response to the federal effort on the coronavirus. Of you in the central time zone, the line is welcome to your input if you are a medical professional tell us your name and where you twitter, ing from on facebook posts. There is a reporter from the mike baker, mes, stationed in the northwest. Part ofg the northwest the us, mike baker tweeting on the numbers, more than he said on the 132. More than 4,000 new cases in the us. Youll see his number at the there 12,336. When we started the programme 9 4509,450. 9,450. Checking the map. 245,484. 10,000, th toll over with 86,000 confirmed recoveries. 14,250. Us i
Drinking water became a toxic strain. So its really iran and south korea are all imposing restrictions on tens of thousands of people as they try to contain coronavirus south koreas president raised the disease alert level to its highest in an effort to get more resources to the south of the country thats where Health Systems are being really stretched nationwide 556 people are infected and 4 have died and across iran schools and Cultural Centers theyve been shut the death toll there has risen to 630 people are infected in the cases alike largely linked to the holy city of qom meanwhile in italy 50000 people are on the lockdown thats in the north of the country to have died and there are 80 cases of infection and that makes italy europes worst affected country. In a moment well talk to asad baker correspondent in the iranian capital 1st lets go to robin wright is in daegu in south korea and rob the president and his cabinet been missing and so on theyve decided that they need every oun
A debate about medical ethics how much should we spend on expensive treatments especially when theyre so new that its not certain theyll be as effective as hoped. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with what appears to have been a breakthrough in efforts to secure a truce in the civil war in libya German Foreign minister heikal moss has announced that the powerful rebel leader star has agreed in principle to abide by a cease fire now the country and its backers they are split between 2 rival governments one of those governments is in tripoli that is the seat of the u. N. Backed government of iraq the other is based in tobruk which is the base of the Libyan National army led by general holly for huffed are germany and the European Union are pushing for stability in libya to help stem the flow of migrants who are making the journey across the mediterranean but it is a multilayered conflict and there are no easy solutions. Our strongman general highly for hafter wa
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