Yet planning to postpone even as pressure grows. Closer violence in getting ahead of a controversial referendum the could extend the president s term in office. Good to have you with us welcome to aljazeera a lockdown of indias major cities has begun and one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital moment by as well as chennai and calcutta amongst them curfews are also in place nationwide and International Flights have been banned for a whole week and so grounding their fleets as the crisis hits International Travel Singapore Airlines for example is the latest to cut back on operations taking 96 percent of its fleet out of commission and it follows decisions by emirates. Turkish airlines to hold the all passenger flights japanese Prime Minister shinzo has conceded that the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be possible thats after weeks of insisting that the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in jul
To perspire on even as pressure grows. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. And a coronavirus patient shares the story of her long road to recovery. Welcome to aljazeera a lockdown of indias major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital mom by and chennai and calcutta among some of the curfews are also placed nationwide and International Flights have also been banned for a week. Grounding their fleet says the crisis hits International Travel Singapore Airlines for example is the latest to cut back on operations taking 96 percent of its fleet out of commission now that follows decisions by emirates and Turkish Airlines to halt the early all of their passenger flights. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo has conceded that the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be perspired and thats after weeks of insisting that the major sporting event would go ahead in july as planned and dozens of cuban
And the u. S. Secretary of state makes a surprise visit to afghanistan to salvage a deal with the taliban. But convulsions there are a lot down of indias major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital by and cities such as chennai and calcutta monks them curfews are also in place nationwide and International Flights have been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo now says the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be perspire and thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july the dozens also of cuban doctors have arrived in italy to help Italian Health workers italy is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 people have died. Lets join elizabeth purana mark ora spondon in new delhi youve been following events obviously been whats been going on obviously in india of the past 24 hours indians woke up to a new reality on mon
India 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 that was a was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns of the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians a bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Center the government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lock down for the number of dead has
Secretary of state mike compares in afghanistan to help salvage the deal between washington and the taliban. Hundreds more people have died in spain and thousands more have been infected as europe struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak more than 460 people have died in spain in the last 24 hours pushing the death toll there to nearly 2200 a state of emergency has been extended and foreigners are barred from entry well Singapore Airlines has grounded nearly its entire fleet and follows decisions by emirates and Turkish Airlines to hold nearly all passenger flights many major travel hubs are closing down hong kong is banning all tourists from entering including those from Mainland China and india is looking down major cities to slow the spread of the virus curfews and. In place nationwide with International Flights banned for a week and in the coming hours the u. S. Senate is set to vote on a trillion dollar stimulus package but democrats say that republican proposals favored cor