Of the corona virus that could have a devastating impact in africa where most hospitals are desperately short of the twins and train staff we go to kenya where the corona virus is also causing financial uncertainty for many. And how much of an impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on society and the way we work we take a look at what happened after the spanish flu outbreak more than 100 years ago. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show the pope has broken with centuries of tradition and live streamed his Easter Sunday mass for the 1st time as the worlds 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holy day under coronavirus lock down pope francis devoted his traditional or be at or be message to what he called this years easter of solitude and calls for Global Solidarity. He swapped his normal audience of thousands for empty pews and the echoes of an empty set peters basilica. Pope francis delivered his easter message behind closed doors amid the ongoing lockdown in coronavirus hit italy
Health experts warn that grown a virus could have a devastating impact in africa or most hospitals are desperately short of a quick end and train staff to go to kenya where the current virus is also causing financial uncertainty for many people. And to better understand what long term impact the pandemic may have out of work and life habits we look back at what happened after the 918 flu outbreak. And why im glad welcome to the program for the 1st time in centuries the pope has held Easter Sunday mass largely alone a live stream was made available for those who want to watch as most of the worlds 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holy day under coronavirus lockdown pope francis called this year an easter of solitude. He swapped his normal audience of thousands for empty pews and the echoes of an empty set peters basilica. Pope francis delivered his message behind closed doors amid the ongoing lockdown in coronavirus hit italy. And hes called for Global Solidarity to fight the virus. I
Watch this viral genome mutate as it spreads around the world. It is critically important. Welcome. We have a talk with mike davis it is exciting to see people joining from all over the country and really around the world. And its exciting to have this chance to hear and engage with mike tonights talk with mike is cosponsored by verso and haymarket books. The longtime comrades as independent radical publishers in the United States we are also both publishers of mike davis very proud publishers. And we are teaming up to try to do a series of things during this pandemic also because we are on lockdown. Were trying to find new ways for us to share information and you might have caught the excellent teaching last week. They started to pioneer the online form. Novelist event super informative even inquired some 15,000 of us participated in that. And this is aiming to be a kind of series that haymarket put together. They have already organized a followup to the previous talk and they are goi
And han where the outbreak began and the number of virus deaths are revised up by 50 percent. Below africa has so far escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the United Nations warns that wont last long it says that at least 300000. 00 people will die when the virus takes hold there and thats unless hundreds of billions of dollars are spent the World Health Organization says the situation there is probably worse than thoughts in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does. With the current challenge of obtaining testing kits its unlikely that the real numbers are higher than reported but here are there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths that says Italian Police broaden their investigation into dozens of deaths at the countrys largest rest home but there was good news from germany where the Health Minister announced the outbreak there h
Markets react positively is a drug developed for ebola shows potential for treatment of patients with over 19. And residents in ukraines capital are told to stay indoors as wildfires near term noble cause pollution levels to soar. Hello thanks for joining us africa has so far escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the United Nations warns that wont last long it says that at least 300000 people will die when the virus takes hold there unless hundreds of billions of dollars are spent the World Health Organization says the situation there is probably worse than thoughts in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own going to. And a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does with the current joe volpe doing testing kits its likely that the numbers are higher than reported well fewer than 2020000 cases have been reported across the continent to date but the World Health Organization is concerned there could be 10000000 in t