Battling the new disease. More on westbound on lockdown in the french capital with some of pariss poorest suburbs registering some of the highest mortality rates from kovac 19 in all of france also ahead. Of a stop the export of these viruses from china the virus was spawned in china as the largest state sponsor of pandemics washington ramps up the pressure on beijing with threats to sue china over the pandemic that of donald trump says hell cut all u. S. Ties to a chinese virology lab which was significant Financial Support from the a bomb a administration. A very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me nick. Lets begin with the latest figures on covert 19. Since the outbreak of the new virus in december last year over 2500000 have been infected with it the number of fatalities currently stands at over 179000 but more than 704000 people have managed to recover from that deadly disease. The u. K. s Health Secretary has responded to allegations that medical staff
All continues to clash with state governors who have imposed these walked onto a wall of some not willful narrow has come under criticism for joining these protesters and want social isolation policies to end this week the u. S. Is still the country with the largest number of confirmed cases globally with more than 810000 factions on the death toll now more than 43000 governors of georgia South Carolina and tennessee all said they will scale back restrictions and they plan to reopen businesses by this week this comes as governors and President Trump continue to quarrel on how and when to reopen state economies well on tuesday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to meet with President Trump to discuss more testing the tristate thats whole top 20000 states are still struggling to get their hands on these tests meanwhile President Trump announced his plans to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States as the country. Paddles the pandemic but for more numbers and inform
Condition are battling the new disease. More unrest on the long down in the french capital with some of paris is forced suburbs registering some of the highest mortality rates from covert 19 in all of france also ahead. Of a stop the export of these viruses from china the virus was spawned in china as the largest state sponsor of pandemics. Washington ramps up the pressure on beijing with threats to sue china over the pandemic lots of donald trump says hell cut all u. S. Ties to a chinese virology lab which was the thinking i think in Financial Support from the on the administration. A very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me making arun lets begin with the latest figures own. 19 since the outbreak of the new virus in december last year over 2500000 have been infected with it the number of fatalities currently stands at over 178000 but more than 704000 people have managed to recover from the deadly disease. The u. K. s Health Secretary has responded to allega
The 1st time and in other news we will meet some artists from east africa are attracting global attention for their work. In the United States the trumpet ministration is stepping up measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic President Donald Trump says the military is being deployed as many states complained they are ill equipped to handle the outbreak at this stage more than 300000 people are known to be infected with the virus in the United States over 8000 have died and trump is warning of a tough week ahead he says quote there will be a lot of death. Were going to be adding a tremendous amount of military to help supplement the states thousands of soldiers souses thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors. And itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next version a period where theyre going and theyre going into war theyre going into a battle. Over in the u. K. The number of people dying continues to increase 708 in the last 24 hours which is th
Latest on the corona virus the virus continuing it spread around the world today brazil reporting its first case a man from sao paulo tested positive after spending time in italy. Pakistan algeria and greece or putting their first cases of the virus this wednesday now the death toll in iran has climbed to nineteen. But media watchdogs say the government is concealing information on the virus Kathy Clifford puts. This tehrans and buses against corona virus alone job being carried out in constant rotation. Meanwhile some residents are panic buying supplies as youll be killed in colombo some arent worried but others have taken it seriously under buying things like beans rice and tissues. Demand has gone up the best touch on with there just causing panic among. Theres no need for this subterranean president Hassan Rouhani said tehran has no immediate plans to quarantine cities though the government warned against nonessential travel to west hit areas in an online statement the president sa