And. Its really puts a quarter of its population into currency to contain the corona for a should all the countries follow suit or is it too little too late to stop the spread this is inside story. Hello im james is with the number of dead rising fast the 3rd highest number of cases worldwide and 16000000 people forced into quarantine italys government has ordered some of the harshest measures outside china to try and contain the coronavirus its in his economic heart is under strain the financial and fashion capital milan resembles a ghost town or weddings funerals football matches and other large public gatherings of canceled everyones been banned from leaving 16 provinces in the north many flocked to train stations and airports before the lockdown came into force its at least until early next month but not because theyre such an enemy than what is happening in my city is worrying me and its also saddening because milan is a lively city and to see it like this today is almost a defeat
Reporters asked about recovery and mortality rate, the risk to the elderly and Health Care Workers and how china and italy are handling the virus. It will be a little change from what we have had so far. We have to remain flexible. The time being, we are looking at it. Let me get to the doctor for his opening marks. Thank you. I hope you have had a good weekend. Good afternoon. I would like to start with a brief update. It is now three weeks since the last cases were reported. We are now in a countdown for the end of the outbreak. The security situation in the north remains fragile. Previous outbreaks, we have seen flareups even after the end of the outbreak. Keeping teams on the ground to respond quickly to flareups, if needed. Might be ending, but our determination is not. Nor is our commitment to the epidemic. Over 100,000 cases of coronavirus. T is certainly traveling now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real. The first pa
This is one hour. Good afternoon. We are waiting for a doctor to join us and then we will start the press briefing. , we are planning to have press conferences mondays, wednesdays, fridays. A little changed from what we had so far. We have to remain flexible. The time being, we are looking at monday, wednesday, and friday, all at the same time. Let me get to the doctor for his opening marks. Thank you. I hope you have had a good weekend. Good afternoon. I would like to start with a brief update. It is now three weeks since the last cases were reported. We are now in a countdown for the end of the outbreak. The security situation in the north remains fragile. Previous outbreaks, we have seen flareups even after the end of the outbreak. Keeping teams on the ground to respond quickly to flareups, if needed. Might be ending, but our determination is not. Nor is our commitment to the epidemic. Over 100,000 cases of coronavirus. T is certainly traveling now that the virus has a foothold in s
Coronavirus its in his economic heart is under strain the financial and fashion capital milan resembles a ghost town or weddings funerals football matches and other large public gatherings that counselled everyones been banned from leaving 16 provinces in the north many flocked to train stations and airports before the lockdown came into force its at least until early next month right now because thats a change in an enemy action than what is happening in my city is worrying me and its also a saddening because milan is a lively city and see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen you flew from are the able to leave because there were no instructions i asked the Italian Foreign office and other than taking all temperature they cant really do much. If it is government is asking the European Union to implement urgent measures as the virus spreads quickly across the continent the u. K. Is imposing 2 weeks of mandatory self isolation for any
Where they have Good Public Health system and you can make critiques about some aspects but china was able to jump on it quickly. That wasnt true in 2014 when people appeared in west africa. There was no Health System and for three months we were unable to know if it was evil and it turned into an explosive epidemic. We have to have no communities left out. We have to think of this not just as a development or equity issue but a Global Health security issue. If you get sick in one of those communities, you are likely to have side effects or die or have that disease spread among you. For all those reasons it is a good community. 75 , 13 large fractional countries, we are going to get granular with a metric, try to take away at that but also a metric on how those 0 dose children get incorporated into a system and we want to build a resilient Health System for everybody. We have to be more differentiated and targeted. We have to go subnational. There is a reason communities are being reac