Could have you with us welcome to aljazeera the tolls on the corona virus pandemic continues to grow as countries try to stop the spread of the disease spain has Just Announced more than 100 deaths and 2000 new infections 46000000 people that are now on lockdown told to remain in their homes except to go to work or buy food and medicine in the middle east iran has also reported a jump in deaths bringing the total to 724 nearly 14000 cases into iran says its response is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions in the philippines the capital manila has been sealed off 12000000 people have been told they cant travel for a month schools are closed and large events banned and lines continue to scale back their shared jewels American Airlines as part. Most of its big jets suspending 75 percent of its International Flights until at least may. Be his following developments from tehran the 1st lets cross over to paul brennan in our european Broadcast Center in london and of course paul the real concern is this in figures in spain a very worrying development. Yes the latest figures coming out from the last hour from the Spanish Ministry of health 152. 00 additional deaths overnight they tell us taking the total of deaths to 288. 00 and thats an increase of 2000 infected cases with 7753 now weve actually spoken by telephone with the ministry of health and they explained that it wasnt necessarily 152 people had died in the last 2024 hours they seem to suggest there is a kind of a lag in data being transmitted from the hospitals to the ministry nevertheless its a worrying. Rise in the death toll there and gives evidence as to why it is that this state of emergency thats been declared by the Spanish Government by the Prime Minister hadra sanchez is necessary this 15 days where shops restaurants shops which arent selling essential items that is bars theyre all closed for 15 days and people are being to stay at home as a live camera that the Reuters Agency is providing giving an overview of profit away out in the center of madrid and its deserted apart from a police car which is cruising around challenging the want to handful of people who are strongly across it as to why theyre actually there its sunday that should be that should be busy on a spring sunday in madrid it shows you just how much of an impact the restrictions are going to have and various e. U. States paul a closing the border its really an unthinkable scenario just a few months ago those Member States really do feel perhaps now that theyve got no other alternative but to act until in some sort of coherent policy vis different isnt it because the situation is different from one european country to another. Indeed and there isnt a concerted coherent approach which is a pan european approach each individual country is put in is setting its own standards in many ways and in the Border Closure issue that youve mentioned that obviously there are contradictions as well with the European Unions shang arrangements you know this guarantee of freedom of movement for all the European Union citizens in the schengen arrangements means that you dont need a passport to travel from austria to italy or austria germany or any of it within that area they decision by individual governments to introduce border controls border restrictions Border Closures to vary in different degrees Czech Republic for example preventing people moving in or out other countries choosing less restrictions is really challenging the political consensus that there is within europe as well as challenging the conventional wisdom in regards epidemiology enviro logy and the Health Conventions that are in place here paul thanks very much to pull brennan there in a london new center also it looks like in europe lets cross over to the middle east where we can join saying basra views than the iranian capital tehran and really more truly dreadful figures coming out from iran it seems obvious the of the authorities just simply havent got an idea how to control the virus especially in the capital. Thats exactly right its been a struggle for the government from the start to try to stop the spread of the corona virus throughout the country tragically today its been another record setting day in the country another spike in the overall number of deaths from people who contract the coronavirus as well as a spike in the overall number of cases of covered 19 here in iran the figures that we saw also show that teheran province in the capital to iran continue to be the new happy center of the spread of this illness and despite that and despite the talk of the military stepping in to try to control Mass Gatherings to try to control the movement of the population the government continues to say that the capital to iran will not be quarantined it will not be shut down they will not stop all of the normal traffic and businesses and things that are going on despite calls by some lawmakers from the government to do just that the present government adamant about the fact that the capital will not be shut down struggling to balance how to maintain the Economic Health of the country and how to address this Public Health crisis now the Coronavirus Task force set up by the president did announce the next phase of what they would try to do to try to stem the flow and the spread of this illness he said the Health Official at the briefing today said that there will be checkpoints set up at city limits and what are going to start doing is temperature screening passengers in vehicles coming in and out of the capital but they made the point while people should stay at home offices will not be closed and streets will not be shut down to prevent people from carrying on about their normal lives in terms of than the numbers that of danis zain the demographics are slightly worrying certainly on sunday because they include a much larger number of younger people what are the Authorities Saying about. Thats exactly right that was sort of the highlight from the briefing today that really stuck with a lot of people who are hearing is a Health Official who is a member of the Coronavirus Task force set up by president Hassan Rouhani said that the virus in iran is quote deadlier and wilder than theyve observed in other countries hes not the 1st Government Official throughout this crisis to suggest that what is happening in iran the virus thats spreading in iran may be of a more virulent form maybe something that hasnt been seen before now certainly the dead in iran include a number of people that are around the age of 4015 percent of the dead or around the age of 40 this Virus Outbreak was already a Major Health Concern for the population in iran that has a significant aging population but the median age in iran is 31 years of age 60 percent of the country are considered to be in the youth demographics are certainly a worrying development for the entire population the same striving into iran thanks so much for joining us the french president omar karami has defended his decision to hold local elections despite the current virus pandemic now the government has issued guidelines to polling stations us people to stand at least a meter apart from each other a partial lockdown is in place in france which has at least 4 and a half 1000 cases in a small from paris. Brawled says virtually down if you think of some of the scenes youve seen from italy well i mean were pretty much nearly there and from where everything has been shot apart from food stores and pharmacies so people can still get food and medicine schools universities are businesses closed the government telling people to work from home to not go in the streets to not take transport and in fact the transport transport minister has today announced that transport will be limited increasingly over the next few days until it basically grinds to a halt and once that happens there are no connection between cities a people simply cant move around. Late on saturday night the french Prime Minister then decreed that all restaurants bars are shut so as i said effectively we are in a position where where very very little is running only those essential services yet in the midst of all this the french government have decided to press ahead with the 1st round of local elections which of course is causing much concern for many people wondering whether its sensible to be doing this sort of time of great risk as you pointed out french president saying this is the worst Health Crisis france has faced in a century. Now the pandemic is fools the u. S. State of georgia is president ial primary to be postponed until may that also big changes on the kind of its all complaining. The stories little sunshine as. You know from. Campaign rallies canceled a debate without an audience personal campaigning suspended the coronavirus pandemic has swiftly changed the way the race is being run most politicians thrive on crowds and the joy that. They feed off of them Traditional Campaign behavior could speed the spread of the disease lots of typing lots of shaking Hands Holding on to the rope lines and lots of crowds and lots of people thats what happens during normal political campaigns and that is unfortunately the perfect setup for a pandemic because thats how these things are spread all of the candidates have canceled upcoming rallies that could affect donald trump who gets a jolt of energy and ego boosting from packed arenas he gets a lot of. A lot of support from those crowds but he goes to his people to his base and you know he speaks for an hour an hour and a half and convinces himself that hes very popular Bernie Sanders also thrives on boisterous crowds and joe biden is famously a touchy feely hands on politician who loves handshaking on the rope line so in the age of covert 19 whats a candidate to do so to be responsible i think the candidates have to take a step back and start doing more campaigning virtually biden tried a virtual town hall interacting online with voters in illinois it didnt go well. Technical glitches made the candidate sound like a mel functioning robot but its just its sort of. The to. All details will probably get ironed out but Big Questions remain what happens to the Party Nominating Conventions if the virus is still circulating in july and august and how about the november election itself long lines and crowded polling places are nobodys idea of social distancing voting booths and polling places are also places that concern me very much if the virus is still rampant at that time im going to recommend that we do mail in voting despite the changes that the pandemic may force candidates and their campaigns to make they can still reach the vast majority of voters through Television Ads and online through social media robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. Still had him on to serve well tell you whats behind kenyas blood shortage and the impact its having on people waiting for treatment plus. The fall of. The. One year old christchurch is marking the shootings that killed dozens. Of. Hello again theres another big area of low pressure dominating the weather across northeastern parts of asia so its a fairly wet one in parts of japan with the threat of some snow elevation of the western side of honshu in particular but by the other day that system should be swinging it into the Northern Pacific tokyo looking at highs of 13 degrees following conditions across the Korean Peninsula and generally fine across much of central and Southern China although this area of rain you can see behind me that is going to develop during the course of choose to see for southern areas it does become quite wet and that rain just begins to slide into northern parts of vietnam certainly for the hills and only those should stay largely dry with highs of 28 degrees moving down into southeastern parts of asia weve got conditions for kuala lumpur and singapore there temperatures into the low thirtys but plenty of showers expected for java and also for more western parts of borneo some very wet weather is likely here into south asia pretty fine at the moment weve got to bore weather for delhi their highs of 28 degrees across more southern areas the chance of the old shower for sri lanka and i think as we head on through into a tuesday we will eventually see wanted to showers developing across central parts of india but it should stay largely dry night for high sierra or 33. 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Other countries have been implementing tough measures to stop the virus from spreading malaysias Prime Minister well had a special meeting on monday to discuss what needs to be done after 190. 00 infections were reported so more on asias response. The philippine capital manila has begun a months lockdown thousands of police sealing off the city by blocking major roads the quarantine means Domestic Travel in and out of manila this is suspended with a few exemptions from our need to butt out and that theres so much traffic the containment measures are disruptive but its ok its for the good of our own health. From monday minute his 12000000 residents will be under a nightly curfew and are encouraged to stay a time during the day schools are closed most government jobs will be suspended and large gatherings are to be banned in. The philippines is taking some of the toughest measures yet in the region while Peoples Movement is being restricted efficient hope it will prevent a bigger spread of the virus. Theres also been a jump in the number of coronavirus cases in malaysia most of them a link to a 4 day event that was held in february at a mosque near kuala lumpur and. Among the 16000 attendees there were nearly 1500 foreigners who went back to their countries majority of cases found in neighboring brunei and now links to that gathering in australia has strict travel measures are being implemented anyone arriving from abroad must self quarantine for 2 weeks cruise ships entering Australian Waters will soon be banned from docking 30 days Prime MinisterScott Morrison says the restrictions are necessary and is called for an urgent meeting of the g 20. Promised im only used to organize i link up between all the g 20 leaders i think thats i think thats a Commendable Initiative a struggle obviously supports that and even more urgent maybe that would be needed would be a further meaning of the g 20 finance ministers and Central Bank Governors this is a whole crisis but it has very serious Economic Impact zealand the number of people infected has gone up after person travelled from australia despite having tested positive for corona virus itself isolation period of 2 weeks to travelers entering new zealand has come into force but those coming from small South Pacific island countries with no reported cases are exempt. Were going to step up there in force and things like spot checks to ensure people are self isolating and if you dont like there are quarantine powers at bailable until new zealands east coast passengers on a cruise ship docked in akra town are not allowed to disembark 3 people on board a quarantined with one showing symptoms. Pope francis will be leading and the public is to celebrations of the vatican because of the corona Virus Outbreak worshippers will be able to follow his prose through the internet and t. V. The leader of the Roman Catholic church had already canceled some public audiences after catching a cold but there will be a full shutdown until easter on april 12th. Some mosque the 3rd holiest site in islam has been closed in a rare measure aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus religious Authorities Say the gates to the compound will remain open but the mosque and the dome of the rock will remain closed muslims recognise the site as where the prophet mohammed ascended to heaven. Israeli Prime M