Down the country almost all retail is shut down apart from food shops and phone. Or the biggest Basketball League in the world its been shut down because of coronavirus. And definitely after player tests positive for the virus. Welcome then to the new live from doha were bringing you extended coverage of the Coronavirus Crisis deepens the billions of people around the world only one word masses this hour and this is it after holding back for weeks the World Health Organization has now declared the outbreak a pandemic the World Health Organization defines a pandemic as the world wide spread of a new disease for which people have no immunity our coverage this spans confidence will have reporters in the u. S. And europe in asia the middle east africa and latin america will be live for them in just a moment but. 1st lets give an update on how the pandemic looks right now the number of cases has topped 126000 worldwide it all began here in china which has seen more than 80000 cases but new
Are still seeing this outbreak around the clock. Deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread severity and by the amount of mean levels. We have that for a man to be our system and that. Can be. Used as a pandemic. Under me is an old award to use lightly. Carelessly. Italy meanwhile has announced just under 30000000000. 00 of spending to fight the coronavirus the outbreak there is the largest outside china and more than 10000. 00 people have been britains finance minister has pledged more than 30000000000 dollars of measures to support the countrys economy from damage caused by the virus. In well an uptake in the number of cases recorded in south korea has dashed hopes that the country had its large outbreak under control just under 100 employees of a call center and some members of their families were diagnosed with the disease in the capital so. The hundreds of millions of people are in some form of isolation due to the outbreak the World Health Organization says that its import
Primaries as he takes a dominant lead over Bernie Sanders in the race for the democratic nomination and in School Coronavirus threatens the opening race of the formula one season 3 f one team members placed in quarantine in melbourne ahead of sundays race. So coronavirus to start off and the fears that europe may in fact slip into a recession countries are trying to limit the damage resorting to sweeping measures to fight the epidemic germany 1st of all with a chance less as Health Care Systems will be tested she is warning it is likely the majority of the population will become infected and so im glad merkel has urged european governments to implement measures that will slow the spread of the. Iris as germany now reports nearly 1300. 00 cases but time was one 1st in the north of you will start the have to understand the virus is here there is no immunity in the population against these vitals there are no injection possibilities north head of peace and it means that. A High Percentage
Rape and Sexual Assault a punishment praised by his accusers. The corona Virus Outbreak has been labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Says he is alarmed by the spread and severity of the flu like disease and the lack of action to combat it Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. But worldwide infections of well over 125000 china has the most followed by italy iran and south korea almost 67000 people have recovered from the illness but 4615 have died and stocks have taken another hammering on wall street the dow jones and s. And p. 500 indexes have fallen roughly 20 percent and just 3 weeks christen salumi is in new york she will tell us more shortly were also going to speak to White House Correspondent kimberly how had a National Address by u. S. President donald trump 1st though this report from neve barker. This is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing patients protection and distance all Good Measures that country should practice according to the World He
Hit in the rocky base housing u. S. And Coalition Troops killing 3 and ensuring many more. Has announced travel from europe to the u. S. Will be suspended starting on friday for 30 days and order to fight the corona Virus Outbreak the unprecedented restrictions do not apply to the United Kingdom though the president made the announcement in a National Address during which he accused the e. U. Of not responding quickly enough to the virus taking early intense action we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in europe. The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots as a result a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from europe hours earlier the head of the World Health Organization described the outbreak as a pandemic for the 1st time expressing alarm at the spread in the severity of this disease Johns Hopkins university in the us says infect