Now working to prevent the virus from spreading. And also hungry and exhausted hundreds of writing rescued but others starve to death on a refugee boat. Lets take you straight to the United Kingdom where the foreign secretary is about to speak to the nation and to the world about the current covert 19 and lets listen in let me update you on the steps were taking to defeat the coronavirus and also the decisions that weve taken today. Step by step action plan aims to slow the spread of course and a virus so good fewer people hospitalized treatment at any one time and thats the way we can protect the n. H. S. From becoming overwhelmed and it is a step in this way when you follow the carefully and deliberately the scientific and medical advice that we received so that we take the right steps at the right moment in time. At the same time were dramatically expanding and modjeska paths still in terms of the number of beds key staff life saving equipment on the front line so people get the car
Movables and. Its been over a month since covert 19 was declared a pandemic. More than 120000 people have died and more than 2000000 are infected worldwide. The Health Emergency has also affected the Global Economy and diplomacy one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the pandemic is spain. Its had more than 800000 deaths despite the weeks long government imposed lockdown its already weak economy has declined further. And despite concerns by the World Health Organization of workers unions and opposition leaders the Spanish Government has announced a partial lifting of the restrictions. Prime minister Petro Sanchez has asked the European Union for help to tackle the economic fallout. Spain along with italy france and other e. U. Nations want to share the cost of the crisis through euro bonds that all you nations will have to pay off. But countries including germany in the netherlands opposed that plan saying it will be a burden on their taxpayers. In an article published by ne
Hundreds of writing guard rescued but the others starve to death on a refugee boat. Welcome to the program the British Government has announced it will extend its partial lockdown to curb the spread of covert 19 by at least 3 weeks foreign secretary dominic rob says social distancing measures must continue in order to keep the number of cases from rising the advice from sages that relaxing any of the measures currently in place would risk damage to both Public Health and our economy patrick and chris will be able to go into further details on all of this shortly but based on this advice which we very carefully considered the government has decided that the current measures must remain in place for at least the next 3 weeks. Our correspondent is live for us in london while the lockdown continues in the public well well just have to live with the new reality a little bit longer. Yeah the high streets like the one you see behind me this is a certain high street here on the southern outski
Violating the curfew as more than a 1000000000 people go under lockdown for 21 days if it. So and spain has recalled its worst day yet of the coronavirus pandemic with more than 700 new deaths that means more people have died in spain than in china where the virus began in the past 24 hours the number of deaths that surged to almost 3500 nearly 48000 people have been infected and its really seen a greater loss of life and martyr who is live for us in madrid so just behind its an even in terms of loss of life mount so its getting more and more serious by the day. Yes figures today were quite quite grim and according to the spanish officials today 738 new devs have been reported that means we are overtaking china and being used to coming to the 2nd. Half to interrupt marta there because were going to london and down the street where the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has become greece which he and the chief scientific advisor suspected balance from the very beginning of this crisis i
Chief scientific advisor, patrick valans. From the beginning of this crisis i followed the advice of our world leading scientists to defeat coronavirus by taking the right measures at the right time. What Everybody Needs to recognize is that our n. H. S. Like any World Class Health service, has only limited numbers of doctors, nurses, and specialist equipment. So the more people who become sick at any one time, the harder it is for n. H. S. To cope. And so its vital to delay the spread of the disease and reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time. Thats why we have given the clear instruction that people must stay at home unless they have one of the reasons we set out. And with your help we will slow the spread of the disease. I want to thank everyone whos been following the clear rules that we set out on monday, and i want to thank everyone in nhs, the frontline of the fight against coronavirus, and of course all our public services. Our teachers and our sc