Spread. The u. S. President s travel ban on 26. 00 european nations comes into effect hours after he declared a National Emergency. China says the worst of the Virus Outbreak is over as the number of fatalities dips and life starts to return to something approaching normal. On a virus that wipes out most of the world that may just Sports Events the English Premier League the Boston Marathon a formula one all off try in the global sport calendar into chaos. The coronavirus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life for billions of people in iran theres been a spike in new deaths with 97 reported in one day that brings the total death toll there to 611. 00. There are more than 12700. 00 infections colombia is shutting its land border with venezuela its a crossing used by thousands of venezuelans every day looking for food and medicine during the devastating economic crisis there in the u. S. A travel restriction affecting 26. 00
Has ordered the closure of cafes pubs gyms and other businesses brand has a story from london. Across europe coronavirus lockdowns of largely empty to streets to reduce the chances of person to person infection in paris residents face a 150. 00 fine if caught outside without good reason exercise is permitted even encouraged but new restrictions have been imposed along the river seine and around the eiffel tower you often see we are at the start of this crisis as i have reminded the french people in the beginning of this week we put in place measures to resolve this 1st wave its a race against the virus. Despite nearly 2 weeks in lockdown italy has seen the numbers dead and infected hitting record new highs people are only allowed out for work medical reasons or emergencies and those allowances are expected to be made even tighter this weekend this is just a snapshot of life in Central London but compared to the lockdowns in france and italy the difference is striking shops are still op
President ial race over to research and joe biden on super tuesday. And then spoil him pick president thomas tells assy its full steam ahead for this years games back insists the Tokyo Olympics are still on course to begin in july despite the color Virus Outbreak. The head of the World Health Organization has warned that shortages of protective gear like mosques are leaving Health Workers dangerously ill equipped in the fight against coronavirus south koreas president has declared war on the corona virus after nearly a 1000 people were infected in one day taking the total to more than 5000 there iran says 800 new infections have been discovered there including the countrys Emergency Services chief 23 m. P. s also have the virus italy has seen its highest number of deaths in just one day 79 people fell victim to the virus and authorities warned they may quarantine more towns and japans olympics minister said. The tokyo games could be postponed until later this year globally more than 90
Lip explains the level of anger among the senior members of the turkish government has been a National Security meeting presided by president. For how to deal 2 whos the Communications Director said that the Turkish Military has started an operation targeting Syrian Government positions in northwestern. Those operations will continue talking now about revenge the spokesperson of the ruling party said that from now onwards Syrian Government should it will be considered the enemy of the state of turkey now while you have this escalation this looks like a decides if moment a Pivotal Moment because the the the large number of turkish soldiers killed in a single day is definitely going to shape the future relation between turkey and russia other turkish government has been blaming russia for providing military assistance to Syrian Government and for undermining the chances to defuse tension to implement a cease fire and to push the Syrian Government behind the Demilitarized Zone it is defin
Month new cases of the virus have been reported there but theyre doing this out of an abundance of caution if you go to ohio state in the midwest fairly big state the governor there says the one percent of the population has the virus if that is the case thats around 117000 people with this and if you look at the number of positive tests just 5 if you come closer to maryland there the governor has again declared a state of emergency he said that there will be no schools for the next 2 weeks lot of american schools will be looking at spring break but for the next 2 weeks no one will be in class and hes called up the National Guard what theyre going to do not entirely sure but clearly this is a fluid situation. And the top u. S. Official who deals with Infectious Diseases says the government is failing to account for what could be thousands of infections because of ongoing problems but testing anthony made the comments to members of congress the system does not is not really geared to wh