Industrialized world disproportionately affecting africanamerican mothers since our film at the racial gap is growing wider and many mothers continue to experience this tragic loss thats why weve chosen to air this important investigation again from aljazeera as faultline series here is americas infant mortality crisis. Every year in america over 11000. 00 babies die on the day that theyre born. Most are just born too early their vital organs hearts and lungs still on form. Even those who survive beyond 24 hours often die before their 1st birthday. But if the baby is africanamerican they are more than twice as likely to die. Faultlines travels to Cleveland Ohio to look at whats causing these deaths and to try to find out why the United States has the worst rates of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands Metro Health Hospital d taking. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into the neo natal intensive care unit close to me curious. Weighing just
New kill with more on these people that were finally able to get off this hour roaming cruise ship way. Yes certainly an air of celebration as the 1st of those passengers were able to disembark up to spending 14 days in that ship the westerdam now they will be that now taken to the airport boarding charter flights paid for by the Holland America line the owner of the ship and then flown back to their home countries its going to be a very slow process with so many people on board the process of issuing cambodian visas so they can disembark is still going on and again the charter flights have to be organized as well so the company that owns the ship is saying that that process could take 2 or 3 days said the frustration for many passengers on board will still continue but as they came off the ship they were greeted by the cambodian Prime Minister who spoke to those gathered on the port but also those gathered on the ship on the decks and on the balconies of their cabins and he was greete
Antarctica temperatures hit a record high adding to a growing fears about global warming. Hello for the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus cases has now surged in the chinese province at the heart of the outbreak officials in who base a nearly 5000 new infections were confirmed on thursday and the rest of china reported fewer than 300 new cases who they also had a 160 more deaths on thursday the new cases had served by almost 15000 on wednesday after doctors and who changed the method of testing for the onus. And passengers from a cruise ship turned away by 4 countries because of coronavirus fears have now finally been allowed off the Prime Minister in cambodia presented flowers to the 1st people to leave the m. S. Western it arrived there on wednesday but the 2000 passengers and crew stayed on board until any cases of the virus had been ruled out so when they will join us from cambodia in a moments well speak to him on that cruise ship but 1st lets get more details on the new
A pivotal week in fighting the outbreak may seem to be changing things up a little bit so as you mentioned theres been a change in the how theyre diagnosing these cases of the new coronavirus all curve of 19 doctors no longer have to rely on one single type of test they can now use things like chest x. Rays and c. T. Scans to be able to confirm that people who do have suspected cases other symptoms that they do have the coronavirus so were seeing this huge jump 15000 on wednesday 5000 in the last 24 hours because many of those people in the suspected cases lift list has now have now been moved to this confirmed cases list and theyre also giving doctors a bit more flexibility in trying for different treatments it seems one hospital and is reporting that they are asking patients who have recovered from the corona virus to come back and actually donate blood some doctors there are saying that their blood has a certain type of antibody which will be which seems to be effective in treating
Simple and digging for the truth families of mexicos drug war victims accuse the government of failing them in the say for their relatives. Coming up in sports 2 giants of african football play form of the continents major titles away from home soil as the super cup kicks off in qatar. Thank you very much for joining us the Chinese Government has confirmed that 6 healthcare workers have died from corona virus more than 1700 others have been infected most of them in a province c. F. The center of the outbreak this raises concerns about the shortage of medical resources. The National Health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control. Corona virus infections within medical institutions and weve given a special notice of virus controls to key areas and the fever departments of key hospitals through these documents we have opposed to special requirements on hudson the personal protection of medical workers now there are nearly 6500