Can the coronavirus curve be flattened some countries say their fast responses managed to slow the pandemic but the disease is still spreading so what will it take to control it this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dobby now the number of people infected by courbet 19 is more than 1000000 globally the number who have died is almost 60000 the United States currently has the highest number of infections italy the biggest number of deaths yet some countries appear to be succeeding at flattening the curve the number of new cases each day appears to be falling in nations such as taiwan canada south korea and iceland theyve all shown that the rate of infections can be slowed down the u. S. Which has been criticized for a slow and ineffective response seems to have now become the main center of the pandemic but the u. S. President all trump says he has just the man to help tackle the crisis his Senior Adviser and son in law jared cushion or is leading the Coronaviru
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Explosions ahead of the swearing in for afghan president ashraf ghani his rival of dylan has held the secretary to integrate himself. And joining us go with the sport asian well cup qualifiers at the spine and tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is called off over corona virus. So now its only has reported a big jump in the number of corona virus cases as a lockdown of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 more than 111000 cases are confirmed globally 62000 have recovered so far so when you go begins our coverage. A city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history will look as thats richard in then i mean what is happening in my c
This disconnect between what were hearing from the scientists and what the president of the United States said to the democrats to try to turn a virus into a political attack president trying today. Im sure from previous statements they should cleric a National Emergency 3 words hello richard gives birth in europe the listening post among the media stories that were covering this week donald trump dissin from ation and the coronavirus the white house and its sidekicks at fox news have been producing fake news of the most dangerous conflict felt the more i learn about this the less terrorist worry i was about the same thing china throws out more american journalists as the media battle between beijing and washington heats up and uprising in lebannon where protesters want to bring down the political establishment and that includes the news media and the biggest captive audience ever so many people in lockdown producing so many quality me. With the coronavirus grinding life to a halt arou
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