Nation is helping us in our hour of need. A navy ship with a 1000 beds on board arrives in new york to help provide relief in the u. S. Epicenter. And having brought things pretty much to a standstill here on earth the virus is now at 10 a pending fire and inspects. The World Health Organization has expressed hope that corona virus infections in hard hit European Countries like italy and spain might be stabilizing but its late as it were quick to add that it doesnt mean tough measures to limit the spread of the disease and track it should be reduced we should start to see stabilization because the cases we see today really reflect exposures 2 weeks ago. And going down isnt just about a lock down and let go. To get down from the numbers not just a village requires a redoubling of Public Health efforts to push down not it went down by itself it will be pushed down well yes spain announced deaths in excess of 800 for the 3rd consecutive day another 6400 cases of the coronavirus that were
And we will overcome this together i thank you. Thank you very much or at risk we will start with questions that will remind your analysts that we can take only one question per person so we can advance as much as possible so we will start with the loser news agency thats a portuguese speaking news agency can you hear us yes or can you hear me yes is it antonia yes this isnt on you thank you please go ahead well i would like to ask a question on the issues of birth and newborn care and breastfeeding does they dont do it just recommend any restrictions on breastfeeding presence of partners in the liberal rooms and skin and skin contact between mother and child because of the pandemic because of Health Authorities and country like my own portugal ban these practices for women that are infected thank you. Thank you for the question so we have recently published some guidance on Clinical Management of individuals who have covert 19 which includes pregnant women and lactating women Breast F
Takes. Joyce stop. The trajectory what what what what we know is that the measures that are being taken are having a very big effect on contacts and i showed you the data on transport you can see dramatic reductions in the amount of transport being used you see dramatic get reductions in footfall we know of course that things like restaurants and pubs which are places where people are going to be in been closed so we are seeing a big change in contacts that is predicted to have a very significant effect on the socalled are the r. Value is the number of people on average infected by one infected person and the idea is to get that number below one at which point the epidemic stops and starts to go down on the basis of the contacts you would expect that are value now in terms of the early phases of transmission in the community to be coming down or below one so that we think that that has had the effect thats the desired that takes 2 or 3 weeks to to feed through into the number of people
Un chief until no good terrorists arrives in conflict torn Central African republic hes calling for more peacekeepers on the ground but the uns legacy there is tainted by scandal. Of them truly we dont know this is live from london also coming up strengthening ties the french president hosts egypts leader Abdel Fattah Elsisi in paris human Rights Groups to brest. Sending a message washington and says its withdrawing military aid from the amar over its treatment of working journalists. And she ching pengs political thought it trying to chinas constitution cementing his status as one of the most powerful leaders in the countrys history. If ever warm welcome to the program the u. N. Secretary general has just touched down in Central African republic his first visit there since he took office in january until now youll get a raise says his visit is to draw attention to violence there she says is often ignored by the worlds media in august the uns aid chief warned that violent clashes in th
Good evening, the rain came coming down today but the storm is moving on. This is a live look at downtown oakland, this is the first in a series of three storms. Right now there is still a Flash Flood Warning for Sonoma County and Castro Valley creek. The rain is ending for now, we are getting breaks, this was a significant weather system. We got 3 inches of rain in santa rosa, almost 3 inches in san rafael. Urban and small creek flood advisory. The big green area is the urban and small stream advisory, that gets dropped at 10 30. So, its all about the breaks. Right now shows but they are winding down. As we look forward. This is fridays system. System number two comes in and packs a wallop. When i come back, i will detail it for you. We go to ktvu fox news, in marin county where the rain came down very hard this evening. It packed a strong punch in marin, it intoeded this underpass and smith ranch road was closed. Our last storm was a primer on being prepared. Reporter singing in the