Good to have you with us the credit has claimed the lives of more than a 1000000 people but experts caution that the true figure is probably much higher the tragic milestone has been officially recorded by the Johns Hopkins University Database it shows the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and the fatalities have been rising through most of all this and september after weeks of gradual decline many countries are seeing a resurgence in corona virus cases including here in europe experts say the crisis is far from over. Most of the countries with the most deaths resulting from coated 19 they all are the u. S. Brazil india mexico the u. K. Italy spain france peru spain and iran but. If we look at the number of deaths as a proportion of the population of each country we get a slightly different picture and a better indication of the impact of the virus you can see that it includes peru belgium bolivia spain ecuador chile the u. K. Brazil italy and the us lets focus on just one of
This is trumps doctors where whether or not to beliefs the president from the hospital. Security forces are going to the square. Lots of lots of balls protesters try to storm Kyrgyzstans Parliament after the opposition rejects sarah the results of the parliamentary votes. The battle between armenia and azerbaijan intensifies for a 2nd week despite scoring calls for a cease fire plus the scientists behind the discovery all the hepatitis c. Fires get the 2020 nobel prize for medicine. But we begin this news hour with the breaking story out of the u. S. White House Press Secretary kelly. Can any has tested positive for corona virus shes the leases among president Donald Trumps inner circle to be infected over the weekend she gives several press briefings with once wearing a mask the white house says doctors will decide in the coming hours whether the president is fit to be released from all spill where hes currently recovering from 19 his chief of staff says theyre optimistic about his pr
Is the day. So he may not entirely be able woods yet the team and i agree that all are a valuations and most importantly his political status support the president safe return home we all remain cautiously optimistic. And on guard we have worked very closely with the walter reed team to ensure that we are looking very closely at Infection Control Prevention Strategies and the right posture so that the president can safely return to his residence we try to get patients from the hospital. As quickly as is safe and reasonable every day a patient stays in the hospital unnecessarily is a risk to themselves he has never once pushed you can anything that was beyond safe and reasonable practice that we all 1st. Also on the day by Opposition Leader took on a sky out visits germany to meet with chancellor im going to what is she looking for a bird to broker talks with alexander lukashenko. We need. Help in mediation negotiations with authorities and we think that. It is going to be extremely hel
If you had. Money to spend and you wanted to use that money to underwrite isolation of those people who have been in contact with infected people if you want to get on top of the. The current upsurge in new reporting cases they need to support people in isolation if theyre finding it difficult so most people ive spoken to throughout the spectrum are academics to through to politicians appreciate that the only way that were going to really elude or mitigate peak deaths in the secondary wave is to Contact Trace and support people in isolation so there could be many people who just cannot isolate either because they have dependents or they dont have sufficient space in the house so these people need supporting so thats an important aspect of Contact Tracing this is you know i think one of the main messages that know a 3rd lever that the government has yet to pull in order to prevent a 2nd wave of morbidity and mortality is to get out there and empower and enable Public Health teams not ju
Can it really be said that the government is guided by the science one of the worlds most frequently cited neuroscientists prophetical 1st in news modeling has helped to educate the world about the realities of coronavirus and its impacts says were already falling off the knife edge here in britain and he joins me now from london garth thanks so much for coming back on as i said 10 days ago you said were falling off the edge of the knife since then Boris Johnson is in active new policies are closing bars at 10 pm instead of 11 satisfied with his response. Yes i think thats a very understandable response predicted by our modeling studies it reflects one of the 3 leaders that the government has access to. Best described i think in terms of changing or reducing the contact rates through specialists and saying look like the rule of. The curve for you the 2nd kind of leader is clearly. The copulation immunity which hopefully will be substantially augmented by vaccination but thats something