A homecoming for South Africans stranded in the chinese city of ruhani where the corona virus was 1st reported. The growth of virus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life for billions of people is a global snapshot of whats been happening the United States has declared a National Emergency and a travel ban is in effect for most europeans who are planning trips to the u. S. Canada has suspended its parliament while Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau advised citizens against any foreign travel and he himself is under quarantine after his wife tested positive now in europe which has become the epicenter of the outbreak spain has declared a state of emergency as people in italy get accustomed to living life on the lockdown its a pretty mixed picture though in asia with a jump in cases in indonesia and the philippines but chinese authorities are declaring the worst of the outbreak there over with only 11 new infections confirmed on friday in fact chinas who bay province where the 1st cases were reported a 50 day lockdown is finally starting to ease we have correspondents around the world covering this story katrina you begins our coverage from beijing. People are starting to celebrate the Chinese Government says the peak of the outbreak here has passed and the province wide lockdown is easing for the 1st time in more than 50 days residents of show county are enjoying a day out for leo it feels like winter is finally over to me and her were having our very very very happy today is a bright sunny day and the flowers blooming lockdown is over so im taking my dog for a walk in the park also relieved to walk outdoors recovered coronavirus patients in on medical workers there are celebrating the closure of the citys last makeshift hospital daily numbers of new virus cases and deaths nationwide have dropped to Single Digits but the Chinese Government has been accused of rushing to declare victory to help its political image state media a working to convince the public that life is returning to normal but psychologists say the transition will be challenging. People will need time to adjust they have been inside for so long i will feel awkward both physically and mentally some people may react to this freedom by panicking saw me how potential psychological problems. Citizen who they factories and businesses have been given permission to resume operations. Re tongues company is one of them the hardware engineer is eager to return to the office he hasnt been able to work from home and is worried about his income. Company is definitely reducing the money of course this affects our personal income we dont know how we get paid for february not all counties have lifted restrictions millions are still under orders to stay home. He just has been making the most of her time indoors with family but is struggling to contain her excitement. Oh you know on the day thats i have full freedom im going to feel like an excited bird flying out of his cage. For now shes getting ready for her day under the sun katrina you aljazeera beijing lets take you live now to hong kong and i was there as sarah clarke who can bring the substrate the situation there pretty mixed picture across asia regarding the coronavirus. It certainly is but the downward trend in china and south korea continues the latest number of cases in Mainland China 11 new cases and 13 deaths in the government this is that the recovery rate is increasing now looking to south korea with another record low in the number of infections at the lowest since every 21107. 00 you cases taking the total number of deaths to run 8086. 00 people and 5 more people have died and the total number of deaths in south korea is 72. 00 so basically the mom the philippines has got 34. 00 new cases that was confirmed on saturday that takes the total to around 98 and the philippines has also put in place some quite tough restrictions on the residents in manila and particularly the president there has declared a not curfew which will start this weekend and is also said that anyone residents in manila should not leave their homes unless its urgent that all travel to and from the capital that will now be suspended that land air and sea and basically the Domestic Travel scenario and the curfew will come into play this weekend i can also confirm in japan. Has declared or certainly passed a bill that will allow his government to declare a state of emergency if required now that will allow him to basically all the governments across the regional governments across japan to enforce School Closures that also be able to force people to stay at home if need be live also confirm that i vaccinate when it does or if it does become available that will also be accessible to all japanese citizens under a publicly funded campaign a program that has also said its cautious to declare this particular state of emergency but this is an old law thats been revised to try and curb or certainly control the crowd a Virus Outbreak in japan so far 26 people have died in japan so many thanks indeed sarah clarke reporting live from hong kong as we reported earlier u. S. President donald trump has declared a National Emergency and his promise to sign a sweeping bill just passed by the house of representatives of the provide paid sick leave and free widespread testing once the bill reaches his desk trump has been accused of playing down the seriousness of the pandemic which is there as im fishing reports from washington from the u. S. President a dramatic announcement officially declaring a National Emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus emerging every state to set up Emergency Operation centers Effective Immediately im also asking every hospital in this country to activated some urgency prepared this plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasnt more widely available no i dont take responsibility at all because we were given a. A set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasnt meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that were talking about. The trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell people if they need the test and we have to get it whats missing is when these new measures will kick in the governments top expert says he hopes these steps will shorten the epidemic speaker what youve seen now with this order is that were going to be able to remove the constraints so that people at the state the local level the individual physician all the way up through the federal government will have as many constraints as possible removed for them to do everything they possibly can so that we can implement the things that weve been talking about across the city and capitol hill the house of representatives passed a relief bill to help people impacted by the virus it will provide paid sick leave for those who have to skip work and provide free widespread testing the 3 most important parts of this bill are testing testing testing this legislation to sell a taste for a coronavirus testing for everyone who needs a test including the uninsured. The senate is not expected to vote on the bill until monday the president has indicated he will sign it President Trump was forced to take action as public life across america was being impacted with Sports Events canceled schools closed events perspire and its a remarkable step from a man who initially claimed coronavirus was being hyped to politically damage him and his reelection efforts alan fischer aljazeera washington and stand out from under serious rob reynolds who is at the International Terminal of los angeles airport and heres his report on the confusion surrounding that ban. Im standing outside the International Departures area at Los Angeles International airport and its fairly busy tonight you can see that a lot of travelers are Wearing Masks that does seem to be the norm for travelers these days and of course now that the President Trumps travel ban on 26 european country says come into effect theres a lot of questions there are a lot of questions in the travel industry and among travelers themselves the president announced this ban in a speech on wednesday it was rife with errors and misinformation and many travelers were confused a lot of people in the industry were confused as well so officials had to eventually come out and say that the ban on traveling from europe does not apply to u. S. Citizens or permanent residents they will be allowed to call home but they will be checked given Health Checks at the airport on arrival and they will be asked to go into a 14 day quarantine now lets look at some of these numbers here and theyre quite large last year there were 550 flights between the u. S. And the shane going area of the European Union thats the 26. 00 nation area that allows travel free of visas and passports within the borders of that area thats about 125000. 00 travelers each and every day and of course this is going to wipe out billions of dollars in revenues for airlines for hotels for travel agencies rental car agencies you name it anything involved in the travel industry delta which is one of the largest u. S. Air carriers and told its employees its asking them to take unpaid leave this is going to idle 300 planes out of its fleet and cut down the capacity by 40 percent overall over this 30 day period of banned from european try. Although European Union leaders have condemned the travel ban they say they werent even consulted by the white house is saying now is the time for cooperation rather than unilateral action and president probes own former Homeland Security adviser thomas said that the travel ban will do little to spread. To stem the spread of covert 19 and its more or less a waste of time and effort thats going on from your opponents here is that he joins us now live from london things upright changing pretty fast there in the u. K. Najim tell us more. Absolutely a. J. And you just heard rob talking about the ban on travel to the u. S. Will in fact the u. K. Might soon be added to that list its not on it at the moment but its got a. Large number of known cases of covered 90 roughly 800 at the moment but the government are saying that it could be as high as 10000 the real figure now they are doing something of a change in approach to see the outbreak up until friday they were resisting calls to ban Mass Gatherings as some of the european governments have done but now were hearing that in the next week Boris Johnsons government will do so it comes after some organizations have taken their own a unilateral action like footballs premier league suspending matches like the London Marathon postponing the event until october and around the country now doctors surgeries that actually telling people not to come in and actually giving them advice and consultations over the telephone in the 1st instance there is a live debate about the governments approach of trying to build up what they call herd immunity in the population to stop the virus coming back a 2nd time people are worried about the effect on the National Health service the government is now talking about trying to draft in volunteers in some sectors so i think there is a realisation that the public is still quite worried but also some that people are looking for further measures and theres talk as well that there might actually be some School Closures coming in the near future here and one of the latest developments in the rest of europe again. Well the w. H. O. Of course is saying that europe is now the epicenter of the outbreak we are hearing that cambodia has banned flights now from italy germany spain france and the us for a month not the u. K. Interesting glee but obviously a lot of concern about how governments are getting on top of it here well its really has been the hardest hit they had the largest rise in deaths in the 24 hours to friday 2 150. 00 people dying of covered 19 and the total number of deaths is now around 1200. 00 that they are struggling to cope with their Health System of course theyre in total lockdown several countries now have moved to close their borders to to foreign nationals including poland so there is a feeling now that governments on their own a starting to take harder action as the days go on al jazeera is not in baba reporting live there from london many thanks indeed were going to weather update next here on aljazeera then the coronavirus death toll takes a drastic jump in iran as Security Forces are ordered to clear all streets. Its been yet another Rocket Launcher attack on an Iraqi Military base housing u. S. And u. K. Troops. Welcome back as we look at weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia you see this weather system moving away across japan and then out into the pacific so as we look at the forecast there it is clearing away so brought to conditions for a time we have another area of low pressure moving across the sea of japan e. C. Into wards western parts of japan across Mainland China weather conditions the most part looking fine plenty of sunshine there in shanghai 23 is a high down in hong kong moving the forecast on the low Pressure Center moves across japan said looking like a fairly wet day and i think for tokyo well see some rain at times has moved from there into south asia cherry weather conditions are looking fine we have got this area of low pressure just working its way across more eastern parts of india and into bangladesh but it weakens as it does so so looking generally fine for the most part during sunday 27 in delhi but we are like to see heavy showers developing across sri lanka as head on through into monday here in the Arabian Peninsula things are still looking over and south weve had this massive area of low pressure moving across from egypt moving through into parts of iraq at the moment still a lot of lift the dust extending across iraq down through parts of saudi arabia down on to the western side of the red sea. From. A nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power to. How has this radical transformation. I mean. I mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and their unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. On which is 0. Again this is 0 lets take a moment to remind you of the main news this 30 day ban on all flights from parts of europe to the United States is now in effect president on will trump has declared a National Emergency freeing up billions of dollars to fight coronavirus in china authorities have begun to ease travel restrictions for residents in full bay province the former epicenter of the virus it means that Healthy People will now be allowed to move within the region who bears been on the lockdown since january. Theres been a huge jump in the number of deaths from corona virus in Iran Iranian State Television says that a further 97 people have died pushing the death toll to 611 state media says that shops streets and groups of been all been emptied the country is struggling with a lack of lifesaving equipment its asking for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the International Monetary fund aljazeera same bus ravi in toronto says that iran struggling economy is making it difficult for authorities to effectively deal with the virus. These figures certainly tell the tragic story that people here in iran are facing on a daily basis now its difficult for us to go out and to try to speak to people directly but on social media you can see almost every day people talking about losing relatives losing loved ones even nurses and doctors who have lost family members but go back to work the next day to try to help those that are seeking treatment that are seeking care and im certain that leaders must be asking themselves here into iran would of the circumstances here have been different had it not been for us sanctions us unilateral u. S. Sanctions placed on the iranian economy now if iran had been able to continue to sell its oil it would have had more money to throw at this problem sanctions have truly had a compound an effect on irans ability to deal with the spread of the corona Virus Outbreak here in the country businesses have businesses individuals and the Macro Economy at large simply doesnt have that buffer of extra money that is often required to throw at a problem that is straining the Health Care Industry that is straining peoples pocketbooks that is straining the countrys overall financial reserves now weve seen iran get help from countries like qatar one of its only and closest allies in the middle east from china from russia from the Wo