A start balancing and us Prime Minister better scientists said yesterday the country is close to passing the peak of infections the death toll has increased 212400 with 674 fatalities since yesterday this is the lowest number in the past 10 days so a little bit of optimism there in. Iraq is reporting another 151. 00 deaths but theres also a decrease in the total number of new infections for the 5th consecutive day president Hassan Rouhani says low risk Economic Activities will resume on saturday thats despite warnings of a possible 2nd wave of infections. Donald trump is warning americans to prepare for the toughest week yet of deaths from the coronavirus as the number of cases surpasses 310000 nationwide the military is being sent in to help the new york city 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
Monday doctors moved him to the intensive care unit thats in thomass hospital in london during the course of this afternoon the promise his condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team whos moved in to a Critical Care unit so in light of those circumstances the Prime Minister asked me is for a secretary to deputize for him when necessary and driving forward the governments plans to defeat Coronavirus Support for the Prime Minister has come from across the british political spectrum and beyond terribly sad news tweeted care starmer the new leader of the u. K. s Opposition Labor Party my thoughts are with you and your family so the brakes it negotiator Michel Barnier and from frances president mccrone all my support to Boris Johnson his family and the british people in this difficult moment. Heres a view inside one of britains covert 19 wards bournemouth on the south coast of england doctors and nurses are fighting to save lives here every day i have. That. We still have to d
Unity and the best of society. American held welcome pope francis has said a live streamed easter mass as the worlds 1300000000 catholics civil rights holiday under lockdown but it is traditional it will be a message to what he called this years easter of so he spoke in front of a small audience in some pages basilica instead of the 10s of thousands who normally gathered in the Square Francis called for Global Solidarity in fighting the coronavirus the pontiff also appealed for debt relief for poor countries and cease fires in all conflicts. Lets cross now to. Religious Affairs Correspondent martin what issues did the pope touch on in his speech. Clearly we have got a problem that will come back to martin if we can well its not just the pope for whom the coronavirus has forced a dramatic we think of face to celebrations but for christians of all denominations so lets take a look at how theyre marking a holy day lord jesus we love you today this texas church holds more than 16000. 00 wo
At the world darts championship. We have had more rain on already saturated ground. Plenty of Flood Warning and plenty of mist and fog. Essentially, a day of sunshine and showers. More detail on that in the next half hour. Its sunday the 22nd of december. Our top story the authorities in australia are warning people its still not safe to return to areas devastated by wild fires, even where the flames appear to have been extinguished. The countrys Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who was criticised for going on holiday during the crisis, has now conceded that Climate Change could be have contributed to the fires. Our sydney correspondent, Shaimaa Khaliljoins us now from balmoral in New South Wales. Good morning. We can see behind you, these fires still have a hold on the countryside . Good morning. Balmoral has been one of the worst hit villages from saturdays fires and many people have been told it is still extremely dangerous for them to come back and you can see why. Just behind me, l
And commercial on the ground floor. The two people who were hurt have injuries not considered to be lifethreatening. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Now we sent a push alert on the abc 7 news app earlier this morning on the fire. Download the abc 7 news app and enable push alerts to get the latest. Lets get over to meteorologist Frances Dinglasan for a look at the weather. She is in for lisa argen. Good morning, frances. Good morning, everyone. The fog so thick this morning. Its making a difficult drive for all of you people out on the roads right now. I want to show you live doppler 7 and the satellite image. You have extensive cloud cover and thick fog in spots. There is the dense fog advisory until 9 00 this morning. You can see how thick it is across the san mateo bridge. The dense fog will be dissipating by 9 00. Temperatures in the 50s. It will becoming sunny in the afternoon hours. In fact temperatures will be warming up as well compared to yesterday. Some 70s in t