A 1000000 coronavirus tests are being rolled out across africa as the continent steps up its fight against the pandemic. Could again be set for a truce the countrys u. N. Envoy says he expects want to be agreed in the immediate future. Hungry and exhausted hundreds of bringing the whole rescued but others starve to death on a refugee boat. Good to be with us and welcome to the news are the wide long term effects of the coronavirus pandemic are becoming even clearer as lockdown measures begin to show an effect on infection numbers the British Foreign secretary says easing restrictions now could undo progress thats been made and a few hours ago the u. K. Extended lockdown measures for at least another 3 weeks. In the u. S. The number of unemployed continues to rise rapidly a further 5000000 people have registered as jobless in the past week and thats on top of the 17000000 who applied since the shutdowns began and its also hope that some of that Economic Impact will be shouldered by 7 of
Remedies and political conspiracies how misinformation into nial are complicating sudans fight against the pandemic. France has become the only the 4th country to register more than 10000 deaths and the coronavirus pandemic its Health Ministry says its latest fatality count as 1417 almost 80003 actions have been reported across the country joins us now from Southwestern France with more on this in a to show what else do we know about these numbers. Yes of trumps passing that 10000. 00 death toll mark of course a very sad news indeed for the country and for all the Health Workers that are battling to try and save lives on a daily basis ever since this a Coronavirus Crisis and how its pandemic began now the director of all Public Health and fraud scheme and hes Daily Briefing its and its a briefing each time in the evening french time and he says that in the past 24 hours france has registered another 1001400 cases now its important to understand those figures because in fact that doesnt
People from minority backgrounds more likely to get seriously ill from covert 19 in the u. K. An inquiry attempts to find that. Nigeria Security Forces killed 18 people while enforcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of Rohingya Refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Thank you for joining us we begin in the u. S. Were 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched the trams guidelines are being revealed in just hours after unemployment figures showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since president from the cleared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago. 22000000 americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett so kimberly we are exp
Diplomacy and here in these mostly now empty corridors weve shaped a bipartisan agreement on the largest rescue package in american history, which was sealed last night a few minutes after 1 00 in the morning when leader mcconnell and i came to the floor to announce we had an agreement. It was not a moment of celebration but rather one of necessity. Facing an unprecedented crisis, it was the duty of the senate to produce Bipartisan Legislation to send an immediate infusion of resources to our Public Health systems, state and local governments, Small Business and American Workers. As i said, from the start democrats had two main goals, a Marshall Plan for Public Health workers and hospitals on the front line and putting workers first, not corporations. Had we not asked for the Republican Party to recognize us by not Going Forward on those first two votes, this bill would have been much worse. Our actions made it much better. Not everything we wanted but much, much better. And were proud
A virtual prison as bangladesh locks down hundreds of thousands of refugees. And the siege at a sikh center in the Afghan Capital of kabul as gunman stormed a 7 minute. Walk into the program the largest lockdown in the world this wednesday is in india where 1300000000 people have been told to stay home the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the order which is expected to be enforced for the next 21 days airports roads Railways Services and ports have been closed in an effort to stop corona virus spreading through the dense population its feared 1000000 people could be affected by mid may lets join elizabeth prong of our correspondent in new delhi who joins me now from the indian capital a major lockdown as we said elizabeth across india and the reaction sort of being housebound with dawning on millions of people. Yes so and they have had a few days to get used to it because remember sunday was this voluntary curfew that was then extended to 10 percent of the country on monday it became