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Who the latest global News Headlines this is r. T. International thanks for joining us. Lets start this hour the latest figures in the global covert 900. 00 pandemic more than 720000 cases have now been confirmed globally thats an increase of around 10 percent in just the past 24 hours 34000 people have lost their lives and more than 150000 have recovered half of them in china. Well here in moscow and now into the 1st day of a citywide partial lockdown it was announced by the just last night people are required to stay at home whenever possible to prevent the spread of the virus he said to try to reports from the city center well for a whole bunch of reasons including early border restrictions testing and quarantine measures for everyone coming into this country and also pure luck the outbreak of covert 19 in this country in this city in particular wasnt as disastrous as in some other places round this world which gave the russian authorities a chance to try and balance between a light
Sort of the sense that is easing conditions ok well we have a phone Service Although its been quite controversial trying to get through to it were also putting thousands of beds 4000 beds in a Conference Center in there and east london here but what advice would you give given that you just talked about protective equipment should doctors and nurses and cleaners should they wear dustbin bags what should they do here because we have a shortage of Protection Equipment in this country for a front line National Health service yet they did think of a shock they had to ask if protective equipment i use they use any a show what. You need to do it out and i live they use of them so they use them exactly as the days that i commanded and we really with were getting reports of the doctors and nurses are reusing the protective equipment because there just isnt enough here in britain we had over. Or are very much what a day about to the masks which are important to back to these vitals its the same
Bringing the days biggest news stories this is our international. Lets start with taking a look at the latest figures in the global covert 1000. 00 pandemic more than 735000 cases of now being confirmed globally an increase of around 10 percent over just the last 24 hours more than 34000 people lost their lives and 156000 have recovered half of them in china. Here in moscow and into the 1st day of a citywide partial lockdown it was announced by the met last night people are required to stay at home whenever possible in order to try to prevent the spread of the forests and the reports from the city center. Well for a whole bunch of reasons including early border restrictions testing and quarantine measures for everyone coming into this country and also pure luck the outbreak of covert 19 in this country in this city in particular wasnt as disastrous as in some other places round this world which gave the russian authorities a chance to try and balance between a lighter measures and very
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