A funding cut countries show support for the Global Health agency. And russia reports a record rise in a new code with 19 infections for the 4th day of the u. N. Security council edges closer to backing a cease fire in global conflicts that will tackle the pandemic. And unsporting day after it was a new day its have been announced for the Tour De France the worlds biggest cycling race war now will start at the end of august. Thats 1300 g. M. T. And we begin this news hour with the world on the brink of reaching 2000000 confirmed cases of covert 19 well this is the tally by the u. S. Based Johns Hopkins University According to its count about 500000 people have recovered more than 128000 have died as governments continue to grapple with the growing pandemic President Donald Trump has halted u. S. Funding for the body leading the fight the World Health Organization he accuses it of mishandling the outbreak his critics say hes deflecting blame for his own failings. Heres our live Coverage
Havent got enough test kits for everyone we have patients going on meters in hospitals without being tested weve got weve got all these Health Care Workers that represent a 14 percent of these 94000 people. That are of the percent or 14 percent of people infected in spain they have the symptoms of going to work to hospitals here in the major city in the emergency units working dont know when where the journey infected are now now is really has held a minute of silence to remember its victims of crime in a virus. 812 new deaths were reported on monday reversing a 2 day downward trend the country is the hardest hit in the wild with over 11 and a half 1000 deaths and more than 100000 people infected. Japan has extended its highest travel warnings and is adding its citizens not to visit places where Coronavirus Infections are escalating the countrys reported more than 2000 cases and 59 deaths. Spoke to nancy snow she is a professor of Public Diplomacy at the kyoto in university of foreign
Officials in india are looking for more than a 1000 people who attended an event that may have exposed them to covered 19. And as a german city makes people west surgical masks in public we examine just how effective this strategy is. The head of the International Olympic Committee Says next to his games in you will be a light at the end of the total and we get our 1st look at the breathing aids patients being developed with the help of formula one engine is. Now spain has recorded its west single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities just in the past 24 hours its now the 4th day that the countrys announced the deaths of more than 800. 00 people this brings the total to more than 8100. 00 spain is the 2nd last hit country in europe off to italy. Joins me from the spanish capital madrid looking at these new figures and i know we speak every day about the trajectory of this but is there any kind of a sense of where the peak might actually be in spain. Well in the session we were serv
Remembering the victims across it and watching those live pictures there from that moment of silence being observed in rome well lets get more on whats happening around the country our correspondent francesco jumper tony is in milan for us francesco yet another sobering moment today but at the same time i see some potential optimism i see some Health Experts are predicting that italy could now reach its infection peak in a week or so. Where were they thats thats where. The latest on official forecasts based on different researchers are saying that the daily could reach the peak in 7 to 10 days and see the new cases hitting 0 in the 1st 2 weeks of may but of course this is not sure yet what is sure is dead 812 people died yesterday bring in the total death toll to over 11500 and the confirmed positive cases are more than 100000 but the growth appears much slower than last week did ailing crees is now costs unduly under the 8 percent and the recoveries never been so many so there is yes
But barely holding it together a warning from japans interior minister as a surging cases builds pressure for a nationwide lockdown. France germany and the u. K. Sent medical aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u. S. Sanctions. A strain has recorded its worst single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities within the past 24 hours now this is the 4th day in a row the spain has recorded more than 800 deaths and it brings the total number of those whove died to 8100. 00 spain is the 2nd worst hit country in europe after italy. Lets go to martha editor is joining us live now from madrid and martha this is a terribly grim milestone isnt that weve seen a consistent level of of increasingly high numbers of deaths but the numbers of people who are becoming info infected with covert 19 is actually flattening out am i right. Yes youre right that i think so those give us a little bit of a break for those terrible figures that were released today 94000 of people infected by cor