And next week and theyll be a lot of debt unfortunately the u. S. President warns of americas toughest week in the battle against coronavirus living on the edge some American Farmers are getting nervous about the coronavirus spring planting season begins. Lets begin in spain where theres cause for a little hope as the latest coronavirus figures are released Officials Say another 674 people have died there but its the 3rd day in a row that the death toll has fallen down 135 the previous day been flat faction rate is also slowing the Prime Minister is asking parliament to extend lockdown measures though by 2 weeks. Iran will allow low risk Economic Activities to resume from saturday 2 thirds of government Sector Workers will head back to work this point warnings of a possible 2nd wave in the us President Donald Trump says americans should prepare for the toughest week yet hes deploying the military to new york which is seen has been hit the worst rather were going to be airing a tremendo
We listen to after the war saying youll be in to go build United States of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the ground 0. How will africa deal with coronavirus the pandemic is slowly reaching the conference for Public Health care week infrastructure and an inability to enforce law whats the impact going to be this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program peter davi now its taken the coronavirus longer to reach africa than other parts of the world but experts are warning of a possible large scale outbreak on the worlds poorest continent of 1200000000 people and if europe or the u. S. Were struggling to contain the pandemic the potential consequences across that continent are possibly devastating if not catastrophic one example mali has 56 ventilators for a population of 17000000 africa is still reporting low numbers of cases compared to europe and china but that could change and change fast coronaviruses r
A 2nd wave of infections. I will explore the idea of socalled immunity passports for people who for cover even though questions to remain about resistance. Began in europe are coronavirus numbers are giving some calls for hope spanish Officials Say another 674 people have died there that is an awful number but it is the 3rd day in a row that the death toll has fallen down 135. 00 from the previous day the infection rate is also slowing the u. K. Has announced another 621. 00 deaths which like spain is fewer than the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes and in the u. S. New york states had almost 600. 00 further deaths taking the total to about 42000. 00 that is partly 40 percent of the u. S. Is death toll. We have 2 correspondents this half hour mike hanna in washington they say. London lets go to mary have now. Yes thats right michelle so we had from the u. K. Government today in that briefing another robust message about social distancing measures war
3 week ago of virus lock down and they arent forcing it and at the same time the countrys 1st 2 deaths from the virus have been announced. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program british Prime Minister Boris Johnson has the coronavirus hes the highest profile political leader confirmed to have the virus so far on thursday night johnson joins the nation and applauded workers in the National Health service a day later after receiving the positive test results he posted a video in which he said that hed been isolating himself but he said that he would continue to lead the nations response to the pandemic. Hi folks i want to bring you up to speed is something thats happening today which is that i developed tomorrow symptoms over the corona virus thats to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer ive taken a test that has come out positive so i am working from home im so far isolated. Lets go straight to d. W. Correspondent arrogant mass who is st
Prices and out of intensive care about british Prime Minister voice johnson remains in hospital britains death toll is nearing 8000. Thank you very much for joining us millions more people have been added to the queues of americas jobless us the wider effects of the coronavirus pandemic become clear and now the 6600000 claimed Unemployment Benefits last week alone that takes a total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and theres fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the Great Depression in some cities drive ins have been created for people to collect unemployment forms john hendren has more from chicago. The president came out saying that the u. S. Was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an Unemploym