Week of lockdown and fears of on rest are growing Armed Police Guard supermarkets as people run out of food and money. Plus tracing the virus by smartphone a new app here in germany aims to cut infections but are we making a choice between Public Health and personal privacy. Im Claire Richards and thanks for joining us the number of coronavirus cases around the world is approaching 1000000 with more than 200000 factions the United States is by far the worst hit country new York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered the shuttering of all the citys playgrounds to keep people apart and save lives president john will trump says america will soon have more ventilators than it needs and will be able to help other nations for now the emergency at home is still getting worse the epi center of americas corona Virus Outbreak the streets of new york are deserted. But ambulances are a constant presence on the streets the states death toll has doubled in just 3 days a refrigerated truck was brought in
Latest target is the World Health Organization his criticism mounts over his response to the pandemic. Ethiopia declares a state of emergency warning of grave illegal measures against anybody who undermines the fight against. A bleak prognosis for African Americans and a plea to learn the lessons from current are. So then the uns a chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian town of the men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily can jet. Its civilian areas including a hospital the report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy lets cross straightaway to our diplomats at the james base who joins us from the U
Of all of us in this difficult hour pandemic has encouraged senator Bernie Sanders to drop out of the democratic president ial race. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with corona virus but the government says his condition is improving. And u. N. Experts point the finger at syrias government for carrying out chemical weapon attacks on civilians. So then the head of the World Health Organization has defended the agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic this follows President Donald Trump accusing the w. H. O. Of being chinas centric and threatening to cut funding the organizations chief says now is not the time for such threats. The focus of all Political Parties should be to save the people to please dont politicize this mindless it exploits the differences you have at the national level. If you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more. Body bags then you do it if you dont want many more body bags then you the frame from politicizing it my
In the run up to easter coronavirus Restrictions Mean this years celebrations will be more muted. And so again welcome to the program the United States now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country including china overstated 6000 people in the u. S. Have become infected and then the 1300 have died the crisis has hit the American Economy hard fuelling the record unemployment claims and the countrys biggest city new york is struggling. These are desperate days in new york with more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases in the last day alone medical facilities are critically overstretched a long line of worried people will. Outside this hospital in the borough of queens just to be tested for the virus. Almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the Current Health care system. Thats why the authorities a trusted please stepping up their response this hospital in manhattan is setting up a makeshift morgue getting ready for a wave of deaths or more
Could see hundreds of thousands of deaths if lockdowns are relaxed after a month plus. China has recorded an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the streets as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. We began here in germany where the federal president has urged the german people to show solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised address a friend vulture steinmeyer asked of germans to do their part by staying at home over the long easter weekend his speech also looked beyond germany to the Global Response to the pandemic. And will we search worldwide for a joint way out of the crisis is will we fall back into isolation and unilateralism tiled in view to let us pool all of our knowledge and all of our research so that we can find vaccines and treatments more quickly. And live this ensure within the Global Alliance that the poorest and most Vulnerable Countries also have access.