President unveils his plan for reviving the Worlds Largest economy but there are doubts about whether it will work. And the rush to make masks in kenya as the World Health Organization walled 300000 people could die across africa. And canadians come together to help societies most vulnerable get the goods and services they need. Welcome to the news hour its 1500 g. M. T. 6 oclock local here in doha welcome to the news hour we begin in china where the coronavirus pandemic has stopped decades of Economic Growth the countrys g. D. P. In the 1st 3 months of this year shrank for the 1st time since records began on the news comes as the government revised the death toll in the city of where the pandemic began officials now say 50 percent more people died than. Its the reported from beijing our correspondent katrina you reports. The coronavirus pandemic has Strained Health systems around the world and now its caused the uninterrupted growth of the worlds 2nd largest economy to falter for the
Reported the news comes as economic output drops for the 1st time in 30 years. And decades of economic mismanagement and devastating drought of left zimbabweans living hand to mouth now the coronavirus lockdown is adding to them is a ring. Of honesty this is it is the poor. Indian also our own does he roy speaks to w. W. In an exclusive she tells us Prime Minister Narendra Modi is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to incite the persecution of muslims in the majority majority in do nation. Welcome to the program Germanys Health minister says his Country House now got the coronavirus pandemic on the. Told this comes as the country plans to gradually ease lockdown measures in coming days spahn said Germanys Health care system has at no point been overwhelmed the country has seen one of the highest numbers of infections in europe but by comparison low death rates Officials Say thats down to rest of testing in the early stages of the outbreak germanys Public Health institute the whole web
About whether it will work. And canadians come together to help societies most vulnerable get the goods and services that they need. Hello welcome to the program the w hate show have just been giving of their Daily Press Conference from geneva and talking about the upcoming concert a global concert that will be that many will be participating in from the music world a world that continues james bays our diplomatic editor joins me now from the u. N. Of course a lot for the w. H. O. To talk about not just the Upcoming Events change and also their Daily Briefing along with the u. N. Lets just start with what the w. H. O. Had to say about the general pandemic news that were facing. Well all weve really had from the w. H. O. Of this briefing that happens 3 times a week is their latest figures 2100000 cases 140000 people dead around the world we know that the numbers that they publish are not going to be the complete numbers we know that many people are not being tested so certainly the numb
They usually report later. But we are very close to them, inally around number three the country per capita. We have done over 225,000 tests. Probably by the end of the day, we will be about 235,000 completed tests with results. One of the things we wanted to do early on was provide easy access for testing for folks. The first place we worked in conjunction with the Florida National guard and local officials was in Broward County when we did the first drivethrough testing site, one of the most successful sites that anyone has done in the country. We will have leaders from the National Guard, and watch to see the best practices. Uniformly they say this is one of the best. It has been incredibly successful. All of the drivein sites throughout florida have done 56,000 plus tests just in those drivethrough sites. People are being tested in the hospitals. They go to their doctor, the doctor will send it to a lab. That is happening all over the place. This has been a force multiplier for us.
President trump and members of the White House Coronavirus task force spoke to reporters about the outbreak in the latest projections from health officials. As of yesterday, the u. S. Now has the most reported cases of covid19, surpassing china and italy. President trump hello, everybody. Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you. Beautiful day. Very good, what youre doing. Look at all those empty seats. Never seen it like that. Oh, boy. How the world has changed. How the world has changed. Right . But its going to end up being better than ever. I want to thank you very much for being here and i want to update you on the steps were taking on our ongoing fight to the virus. This morning i spoke to the leaders of the g20. Had a great meeting. We have a lot of different ideas, a lot of good ideas. Were working together. The leaders gathered virtually around the world to discuss the whole subject of the problem now, 151 nations have got. We had president fernandez of argentina, Prime Minister