Afghanistan stepping up its efforts to contain 19 but now faces an extra challenge from the thousands of people who are returning home from iraq also coming up tonight the coronavirus brings some good. Pet store around the world with millions of home in the. Millions of our 4 legged friends are getting some quality quarantine. In the shelters are also seeing a surge in adoptions in the. Viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world well we begin tonight on this april 1st in a new month with a new worries about the corona virus pandemic governments around the world are scrambling to find ways to stop the virus and that includes reese. Strictures on peoples movements italy is in its 4th week of a nationwide lockdown while this appears to be helping in the fight against the coronavirus it is also hitting the countrys economy hard people are losing their jobs and their earnings and fears are mounting that frustration and desperation could soon become something much wors
Improving but another environmental problem is piling up that is medical waste. And sport further talks are taking place to discuss English Premier League footballers taking a pay cut a deal is being negotiated that will see players salaries reduced by 30 percent. So the u. K. Government is holding its Daily Briefing on the current virus lets take you live now to downing street in central london. With covered 19 symptoms but the action of hospital admissions in england and wales has regional differences in the number of admissions folks like between the 1st and 2nd of april admissions a study in wales but in yorkshire and the northeast by 30 percent. And in the middle and the rate of hospital admissions has gone up by 47 percent 708 people have sadly lost their lives as a result of cover 19 the highest daily total yet recorded and that means that of those hospitalized in the u. K. The number who passed away now totals 4330 those numbers emphasize again the importance of maintaining soc
The coronavirus means some good news for the world at least with millions of owners stuck at home amid the pandemic our 4 legged friends are getting quality time in quarantine many shelters are also seeing a surge and i drop chickens to fill lonely la county. Thanks for joining us the number of coronavirus cases around the world is approaching one a 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 Donald 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 to help this Brooklyn Hospital deal
Italy as people were out of food and money local leaders say lockdown restrictions of movements on commerce simply cannot go on forever also coming up scientists at the french german border are turning that region into an open air coronavirus layout theyre trying to find out just how the virus spreads and how we can best be contained and tracking the virus with your smartphone a new app here in germany is designed to trace and limit new infections but already facing a choice between Public Health and personal privacy. Its good to have you with us we begin tonight on this april 1st in a new month with new worries about the coronavirus pandemic governments around the world are scrambling to find ways to slow the spread of the virus many have imposed restrictions on peoples movements italy. For example as in its 4th week of a strict nationwide lockdown this might help in the fight against the virus it is also hitting the countrys economy hard with people losing their jobs and their earnin
Officials in india are looking for more than a 1000 people who attended an event that may have exposed them to covered 19. And as a german city makes people west surgical masks in public we examine just how effective this strategy is. The head of the International Olympic Committee Says next to his games in you will be a light at the end of the total and we get our 1st look at the breathing aids patients being developed with the help of formula one engine is. Now spain has recorded its west single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities just in the past 24 hours its now the 4th day that the countrys announced the deaths of more than 800. 00 people this brings the total to more than 8100. 00 spain is the 2nd last hit country in europe off to italy. Joins me from the spanish capital madrid looking at these new figures and i know we speak every day about the trajectory of this but is there any kind of a sense of where the peak might actually be in spain. Well in the session we were serv