The outbreak began in december. Close for business how the pandemic is affecting millions of workers in thailand. And then for the English Premier League is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the ways of trying to complete its season the worlds most watched football competition is already off until at least april the 4th. Ok lets get going it is almost 2 weeks since italians were ordered to stay at home as this of the battles its worst National Crisis since the 2nd world war the lockdown has crippled the worlds 8 biggest economy but the Prime Minister says its the only way to fight a virus thats killed nearly 3000. 00 italians the Prime Minister says every county says he will extend the locked on italy report. A record 475 more than any nation on one single day it is the worst affected country in europe outside europe malaysia has put 31000000 people under a partial lockdown until the end of the month the government says it could deploy the army to enforce the measures the country has reported 2 deaths and 900. 00 infections meanwhile china is easing some of its restrictions after no new homegrown infections were reported on weapons day all new cases where people returning home from other countries and here are all the numbers on our interactive bleeds of the Johns HopkinsUniversity Website it gives live updates on the total number of individual cases worldwide country by Country Region by region weve just seen a major spike in cases in germany weve got 2 correspondents following those stories this hour later in the program well talk to katrina you in beijing 1st lets go to the u. K. For more on the picture in europe and our correspondent at the shard in london Lawrence Leigh so a significant 24 hours in italy lawrence. Yes and obviously for all the wrong reasons very alarming rise in cases in as you say a country thats already been in lockdown for a fortnights the World Health Organization seems to suggest its because there were so many cases already in the Health Care System and obviously is theyll to the population the oldest in europe and so the Prime Minister saying theyre going to be no choice but to extend the lockdown. In other countries a bounce of follow france 16 percent rise interior minister saying theyll have to get a lot done for longer friends and even a lot there for 2 or 3 days big rise in germany to it he said of the 2800 cases 20 deaths 111000 cases now in germany. And the question plainly that everybody in these countries is going to be asking themselves as well how long is exactly is going to last and as i said before if you take a as any sort of guy hates it when since a lot in the middle of january around the time the Chinese New Year its now in the middle of march thats a whole 2 months and it does appear very much at this is the probably the sort of timeframe at least that all these European Countries are going to have to accept and are people there in the u. K. Still having to go through this process of interpret seeing mixed messages from 10 downing street you know this idea of well you shouldnt go down to the pub but you can if you want you shouldnt go to the cinema or the theatre but if theyre open you can if you want. Yeah this is the bit is called is because many people get very angry indeed so theres clearly an enormous difference between a country insisting and demanding that people stay at home and some allow Boris Johnson the Prime Minister say look you really ought to and we urge you not to because it makes it voluntary to read out a very very quick tweet that emerged the most that overnights from a guy whose wife is a nurse my exhausted fiance has just come got in from the hospital shift he said 13 minute chat with. Anyone still going to pubs its true that their actions are the stupidest and most ludicrously selfish thing they will ever do in their lifetimes get indoors and you know the but then again there are still people saying well you know they need our Financial Support in the primaries hasnt told us we absolutely cant but if you listen to the language lets play the sound bite from Boris Johnson last night in the language its still sufficiently vague to give people those choices theyve been absolutely no doubt that these are very very important choices that were now making in our daily lives and the more closely in the more strictly more ruthlessly we can enforce upon ourselves our families the advice that were getting about avoiding unnecessary gatherings about staying at home when we have symptoms all that advice which is good advice then the better we will be able to protect our n. H. S. The fewer deaths we will have and the less suffering there will be in the u. K. Of course everyones still waiting to find out exactly what the lockdown of london which everybody expects is not going to happen will look like might be friday might be saturday might it be monday next week there are varying reports in the newspapers how heavily policed will it be some newspapers say theyve been told by officials that theyll be Police Officers guarding the supermarket stop them being looted other newspapers say that people will still be able to get around on bicycles and in their cars so its this lack of definition and lack of clarity is also affecting the value of sterling by the way the markets dont like this lack of clarity its all and its causing sterling to drop a lot as well so theres a lot of people now saying the british companys been much much more clear on enforcement and the worry of course is that the lack of clarity this week will lead to a much bigger spike in cases in the next few weeks lawrence thanks very much ok lets go back to the events coming to us out of italy joining us on skype you jump yellow thats about to use in order to cut the no thats about 60 kilometers outside of rome. Welcome to the news hour here on aljazeera just take us through what its really is like what life in italy is like as of today. Oh. Hello hello can you hear us. Yet not not too well but ok. Well the question is what did it easily its about today. My correct yes please. Well i think and you know all my. My equation i mean even. In the countryside in a small village about the bitter north east of row. We are accepting things and they are now 10 days we are. Told. Whether it is ok so is cheating on you know. Sunny days and again the countryside. Is nonsense and us as bad as the being in a city. Ok generally. Not more than once. All our dog. Shops are. Stuffed with we are not having problems. Getting from little shops around here. And. We can. Do remediation we can. Move to another. If we need to go shopping. And altogether. You see very little or around. We are following on t. V. In. A lot on the other hand we trials. Overwhelmed by. The danger kim part of your country has had such a significantly. Tough 24 hours with the latest death toll figures coming to us from the authorities in rome are you convinced that your government is handling this in the best way occam. Personally i think they are doing well and the people seem to follow a commendation. He said. To see many doctors and worker. Losing their lives. Is something that very disturbing. But. Everyone is doing it. And there is confidence around that. We can overcome this by sticking to. A comment by the government i see a lot. And a lot of what the government say. Ok well have to leave it there jim as about to thank you very much thank you well as europe does grapple with the pandemic the World Health Organization has stressed that testing must be the foundation of the Global Response laura but manley picks up about aspects of the coronavirus story. As the number of recorded coronavirus cases to sponsor 200000 the World Health Organization announced the 1st client of that seems underway the start of a long battle this virus is presenting with president target but its also an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy an enemy against humanity as the worlds some countries own story enough testing to stem the virus italy has reported the highest one day death toll in any nation so far 475 who killed by the bars they have 1st of all are quite the army to join in in the area a bit early where the outbreak has been. At its worse so the army has set up a hospital camps and that was not seen before there is a great worry china officials because of 8. 3 percent of how care practitioners have been tested positive to the virus in the german city of frankfurt has been queuing to get a free test that covered 19 and the losing patients here in frankfurt is a socialist organ is it so badly organized as the man behind me who waited for 6 hours yesterday when he actually belongs in bed in a televised address to the nation and glimmer appeared to the public not to underestimate the crisis is else this is serious take it seriously we have not seen a challenge like this in our country since reunification i know since the 2nd world war which depend so much on us acting together and in solidarity with each other. In some parts of europe the Health Service is just cant cope because of a surge in cases in the same fronts 6 through the virus cases had to be flown by military plane from mulhouse to the south of the country for treatment. In france is a big incentive not to be out in public if you dont have a certificate allowing me to leave the home the police can fine you up to 150. 00 per hour in spain theyve already arrested dozens of people the going out since in lockdown started at the weekend but its not stop these housebound madrid residents from protesting they demanding the former King Juan Carlos donates millions of dollars he reportedly received from saudi arabia to the spanish help system. In london its quite unusual that nobodys been told to go home but in parliament Prime MinisterBoris Johnson faced demands to take a more proactive stance more ill be waiting so lonesome must testing im wrong i also show distancing measures maybe just a gesture and a way said Boris Johnson did make one long expected announcement after schools shut their gates from friday afternoon they will remain closed for most people for the vast majority of peoples until further notice so different stages in the outbreak and different responses but the challenge for the medical world emphasises in general is immeasurable about a man the aljazeera. Ok lets stay in your picture alan is a freelance journalist covering french county fairs he joins us on skype from paris pretrial and welcome to the news hour here on aljazeera so if you go out and about where you are youve got to have this piece of paper with some sort of stamp or a signature on it how does that work. Its actually selfregulating the idea is that hugh downloaded in the internet you printed out a poem or you can actually light it out yourself which sounds extraordinary in this day and age what you can ive done it myself it kicked about 12 minutes to like out and then you simply sign it yourself its called an on steam document again that might sound bizarre to your you its. Still seems out of law to me that i consult wiki late when i pop down the shops when i go out to get some exercise or neighbors go out to take their dogs for court it will be a better restrained state of affairs what good does it do i mean seriously misson like a silly question whats the point of it. Its a very good question your idea being that people french citizens businesses to plants tourists i meant have a think about why theyre going out and whether its really necessary interior ministry a stock thats not had a beating last night and he said he doesnt really want people to go out once and stay at home but if you do have to go out the course everybody has to go out at some stage it has to be a slight get that you have to think about what youre doing to spend time getting this document to get youve got to date and signed a document and if your. Your at the gate its well us got 135. 00 euro flying there and they are issuing them and. There were about 4000 fines handed out yesterday so really its just a question of ever be suspecting on whats happening happening on the idea being that this bureaucracy gives people a chance to reflect but the reality i guess peter as well is what the french government was signaling or has been signaling about over the past couple of hours from Early Morning your time there in paris saying look the state of affairs as they stand at the moment we might have to extend them beyond the date that we were initially planning on absolutely right the initial. 2 weeks permanent tuesday 2 days ago which is where only lockdown was initiated its a very good chance that that is going to be extending it on medical advice and that of course the restrictions might become more severe maybe the reasons for going out will be limited to stocking up at a pharmacy or stocking up one of the supermarkets were just maybe not cut out exercise that kind of thing so it really is a bet and we eat prospect over the next few weeks peter thank you very much. Ok thats the picture from europe lets turn our attention to asia specifically china where the number of infections from the original epicenter theyre down to 0 the other cases are being reported elsewhere in the country katrina you is life for us here on the news out of beijing so katrina just unpack this for us its a little bit confusing on the face of it on the one hand the authorities saying look were beginning to ease the travel restrictions but were not easing travel restrictions in new hand because that was one of the epicenters and overall the umbrella figures are looking pretty good on the face of it. Thats right not just pretty good today weve had a bit of a milestone so 0 reported homegrown cases across china including in the epicenter of who bay and thats remarkable because its the 1st country thats affected by this virus thats the navel to say that theyve broken the chain of human to human transmission and also this is the epicenter of the Virus Outbreak the original location of it at its peak we had hundreds of new cases announced every day and theyve been tens of thousands of medical personnel from all over china florin into kuwait province to help deal with these cases well now because of this news and weve had single digit new cases for a few days now all those medical doctor personnel have been allowed to fly home starting from this week and the 16 temporary hospitals that were opened in one theyve started to close and indeed as you mentioned this lockdown on tuesday province which began 2 months ago theyve started to ease that many people within a few of a province have been able to leave their homes and travel within the county and weve even heard that in 11 provinces in china theyve announced that they will reopen schools starting at the end of march or the beginning of april so some very positive news server there how are people reacting to this katrina i mean is the government or the local regional authorities getting this word out there. Yes this is not something the Chinese Government is trying to hide i think its been all over state media theyve been lots of pictures of nurses flying home waving flags lots of people laughing and smiling all this footage has a very Mission Accomplished kind of feeling to it but at the same time there is a healthy dose of skepticism here in china because even though weve had 0 home grown cases weve still had 34 new cases in china mostly in beijing and these are imported cases the new fear now is that overseas travel is bringing the infection into china may start a 2nd wave of infections and people are very worried about that so as you mentioned mixed feelings and because of that theres restrictions here especially in the Capital Beijing a seemingly starting to tyson even beijing the capital city receives more than 5000 travelers flying into the city every day and what the city has done is put in compulsory to we quarantine periods if you fly in from beijing no matter if youre foreign or a local you must go to a designated hotel for 2 weeks at least at your own expense and theyve also introduced very strict criminal charges if youve seen if youll seem to be trying to bypass these restrictions or concealing symptoms you might have you may face up to 7 years in jail so this remains a very serious challenge here in china and i mentioned before in a province theyre starting to ease their research and that applies except in the city of wine and as you mention in one hand theres still a lot done in place residents still have not been able to leave their apartments for more than 2 months now and the city of the officials there say that they will not lower those restrictions until they see 14 consecutive days of 0 new cases in that city so very much still far from normal life and this is still very much a challenge here in china preventing the spread of this virus katrina thank you so much lets bring in dan wang an analyst for the Economist Intelligence units access chinas service she joins us on skype from beijing than wearing a so its not a quickly good news these numbers may tilt the other way but whats your reading of where china is this this particular. Wow i think the crown of our a situation actually improved a lot in china like the previous interviewer is saying that there are new no new local cases of infection and all of the new cases are pretty much imported but thats exactly why the Chinese Government actually cant really be relaxed and implemented their huge stimulus plan and thats one thing were worried about because the economic momentum is not there right now and in fact we just our g. D. P. Forecasts today for chinas 2020 g. D. P. Growth to 2 point one percent from previously its like point 4 percent when you talk about the stimulus plan is the plan and ready to go or can the government or should the government rely on what its got in the ban