And we will overcome this together i thank you. Thank you very much or at risk we will start with questions that will remind your analysts that we can take only one question per person so we can advance as much as possible so we will start with the loser news agency thats a portuguese speaking news agency can you hear us yes or can you hear me yes is it antonia yes this isnt on you thank you please go ahead well i would like to ask a question on the issues of birth and newborn care and breastfeeding does they dont do it just recommend any restrictions on breastfeeding presence of partners in the liberal rooms and skin and skin contact between mother and child because of the pandemic because of Health Authorities and country like my own portugal ban these practices for women that are infected thank you. Thank you for the question so we have recently published some guidance on Clinical Management of individuals who have covert 19 which includes pregnant women and lactating women Breast Feeding women it is very important that women are able to breast feed their children when theyre born there are certain precautions that that need to be taken place in terms of contact precautions but we outline the ways in which that could be done safely. Thank you very much dr Van Kerckhove i hope this answers the question i just. Been told that there was a little problem at the beginning of the odio for people who were on a zoom so please listen to your file that will send immediately after if you have missed those few 1st seconds we go to the next question do we have aljazeera on line yes. And if you can just speak little bit louder please go ahead. Think youve been here and any minute without you there im so going to ask you with regard to the corner virus and amec in the news. As of today there have been more than 1400 confirmed cases and 122 deaths in indonesia which is the most of any country and asia and do what needs to be done more the indonesian authorities in this case. Have a good question and maybe the director general supplement. While the pandemic is very well developed an escalating in many parts of the world particularly in europe and north america. There are countries who are still in the earlier parents of the pandemic and it remains to be seen how the pandemic will develop in those countries because with relatively no numbers of cases and i would count indonesia in that we have the opportunity to implement a comprehensive strategy focused on containment and on suppression of spread and strengthening the Health System for a likely increase in demand regardless of the scenario it is likely that the number of cases will rise and therefore that the mans on the Health System will grow therefore its really important that the Health System is prepared for any increase in cases at the same time you have to put pressure on the virus you have to go after the virus like other countries in the region are shown in Southeast Asia going after the virus detecting all cases testing also spray cases isolating cases and putting a contact identifying contacts following them and putting them into quarantine. Or home isolation is is the way to go and matching that with a Strong Community education and engagement approach and this needs to be built from the communities up saw and all of society all of Community Approach focused on both containing the virus where you have clusters and small numbers of cases where you have efficient or Widespread Community transmission to be sure about systems in those areas are prepared to deal will pop up with what will be a large influx of cases we believe the that that is what indonesia are attempting and we will do everything to support the government there in doing that. Thank you very much sir looked around and. Not thank you thank you so much i just wanted to add to what mike said we are working very closely with. Indonesia and we hand discussion with is the foreign minister and then followed with use excel and see if the president and we are aligned with is what their response should be and we will boost our cooperation with regard to the situation was indonesia thank you thank you very much of a round of next question is the mohamed from truckle can you hear a smile nod yeah. Well let me know if im going to. The World Health Organization to use a lot of them it was. I want to get him maria will do some more technical detail. So that were clear there is no proven effective therapy to go drug against go with 90 however there are a number of drugs that have shown promise either in previous treatment of chronic viruses like birds or sars in the fight against hiv or in other situations and there is some preliminary data from non randomized studies observational studies that indicate that some drugs and some drug cocktails may have an impact some of those drugs may impact the link of disease so may impact the severity of disease and the dosage of dosages of those drugs when theyre given to what patient at what stage of the disease has not been standardized and weve never had a Comparison Group where weve had a randomized approach to treatment with a drug or not treatment with the drug it is very important that we continue to accelerate the implementation of the randomized control trials that have already begun all over the world including the double hey joe coordinated solidarity one trial but there are other large scale tribes trials underway in various parts of the world and its also very important that those drugs are very very needed for the treatment of other diseases and that we dont see a situation where people who need those drugs for the treatment of other diseases cannot access them because people are just buying them up and using them and some countries may introduce compassionate use rules which allow physicians to use those drugs in certain situations off label that is a matter for national regulate free authorities we dont we dont encourage that if it leads to widespread use because it will in effect divert drugs away from the diseases that these drugs are used for and we really want to accelerate that trials that will give us the actual answers that we need we also need to look at how to scale up the production of those drugs that will prove effective in the clinical trial. Thank you michel to run. One question thats that is the World Health Organization giving its Daily Briefing a regular briefing on the latest developments on the current virus can demick just to give you a recap of what was spoken about the w. H. O. Says its come up with a detailed practical manual about how to set up Screening Center is and Testing Centers makeshift hospitals repurpose a hospital setting up Field Hospitals its come up with a practical manual. Says its looking at ways of addressing the chronic shortage of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies around the world the importance of looking after vulnerable groups at this time. We also heard from the director general talking about the importance of how of humility at this time he said that we are connected to each other were dependent on each other and this viruses has shown that and just finally we heard about the fact that there is no proven treatment for corona virus that there are some drugs that have been shown to be effective for other. Incidents like the use of to treat hiv and some drugs and call tells of drugs may have an impact on corona virus but there has been no proven treatment i want to bring in sunny gale go who has been monitoring that briefing and who joins us live from london sagna talk to us about what the w. H. O. Had to say about the fact that there is no proven treatment. Well sensibly so its really a work in progress ready and while there are all these combinations that have been. That have been worked on a course this is still a way from actually coming up with one singular. Identifiable kill that can actually. Kill this properly but of course that side effects is that one of the reasons why kodak 19 and certainly the spikes that weve seen around the well the straining several Health Systems around the world is as weve seen really quite tragic as well where its just put an enormous pressure on the house system that it has one of the most advanced Health Systems in europe but it also has been affecting. The medical stuff the frontline medical staff who have who have been desperately trying to sort of keep up with the deval instead of being put on the Health System already at least 50 medical Frontline Health workers initially have died from 1000 as well so that just gives you some i did all of just the pressure that these people are facing and this is something that other countries are having to look at as well and having to consider is how to protect the Frontline Health care workers which is something that was also mentioned in the press or as well how to give those Frontline Health care workers the equipment that they desperately need to be able to engage successfully in the fight against coated 19 speaking of which also. Dont touch wrestle so mentioned how he was pleased 20000 retired medical workers in the u. K. Are now going back into the system to look as well as medical workers in russia as well an idea of maybe some of the tactics that some other countries may have to take on in order to be able to fight this off as well and also. The w. H. O. Has issued that medical light like City Construction manual in it gives also ideas of some long term benefits to Health Care Systems after the pandemic in order to be able to try and crush any sort of spike up to that the lessons to be learned from the outbreak im sure be dissecting for some time to come thank you for that sonya gago with the latest from the briefing she joins us from london lets go now to spain which for the 3rd consecutive day has recorded coronavirus deaths in excess of 800 smarter it all is live for us in madrid lasted just bring us the latest in terms of the numbers but also put in context for us if you can think in percentage wise about the infection rate is slowing or is it continuing to increase. While especially storage is contemned today 85000 total of cases of people infected by a truck or on a virus in spain in the past 3 days weve seen how these fevers has been have been decreasing a little bit and in the last 24 hours we had a 9. 39 percent of these distinct decrease so these these are good news but on the other hand weve got again for the 3rd day consecutive more than 800. 00 fatalities from coronavirus in spain 812. 00 and well still have to bear in mind that from all the total cases of people infected nationwide 14 percent of our Health Care Workers nurses and doctors that are buckling in the front line of coronavirus in the hospitals with weather emergency units are all crowded and completely overwhelmed with the whole situation we had from the World Health Organization about guidelines to repurpose hospital setting up Field Hospitals evidence i thought of the almost wartime like measures that are being taken around the world what is the situation there in spain in terms of efforts to increase the capacity of hospitals. Well exactly the same as what they are mentioned here in spain especially madrid that became the at the center of the outbreak of the pandemic oswego started to being started to be overwhelmed or were overloaded with people and they had to build these Field Hospitals in this Exhibition Center imagery they had to medicalize hotels but what weve seen weve seen since then to date i think in the past 24 hours did build a tent outside the main hospital he removed as a provisional side to good there the people infected because they cannot cope anymore so with her and that in the Field Hospital in the Exhibition Center the picture is really dramatic completely overcrowded. Health care workers dont have the proper equipment protective protecting a quick mend and they are threating government to to do not not showing up tomorrow if they dont product provide immediate the on the other side the government has given as a has reported that during these weekend they have distributed at least 2600000 of mask 10000000 units of other material set to google. And they have distributed the these nationwide to all the regions but the problem is not only madrid to that along its facing exactly the same problem another 6 regions and that and others that we dont know yet because they have to they have to tell in themselves and what the government started to to to think about is moving all these people that are infected from one region to the other so maybe we see in the next days patients moving from form from one region to the other nation like. 3rd it all with the situation in spain. Hungarys parliament has approved a bill that gives Prime Minister viktor orban government unlimited post to deal with the pandemic is no time set for these emergency measures to end olsons critics accuse him of a power grab but the government insists its necessary to protect people the law was passed in a parliament dominated by organs policy hungry and e. U. Member states has previously been warned about the by the blog about obama imposing increasingly autocratic rule when yorks Health System is getting a lifeline via the sea a u. S. Navy medical ship is arriving in new york city to help relieve hospitals which are filling up with coronavirus patients a 1000 bed ship will treat people with known virus related ailments. At the new york cruise ship terminal and joins us now live to tell us whats happening there. Well this giant floating hospital just arrived here pier 90 in the last few minutes you can probably see some people going to get some views of it there behind me the last time that this particular floating hospital is called the comfort of the u. S. Navy came here to new york was 3 days after 911 to help with people that were injured then this ship is massive it is about 894 feet or about 275 meters it has 12 operating rooms over 1000. 00 hospital beds inside and it will have about a level 11200. 00 nurses and doctors and staff on it that will be helping here in the coming weeks and perhaps even months in new york city what theyre going to use it for is taking patients that do not have coronavirus out of some of the new york City Hospitals bringing them here to this hospital at least some of them to clear out bed space for coronavirus patients that are needing urgent care in new york city so just to give you an idea though of how much this is needed and how much still needs to be done according to the new york governor they need about 150000 hospital beds in the coming weeks right now they have about 50000 so theyre short about 100000 hospital beds this ship that you see as big it is it is is only going to have about a 1000 so theyre still short tens of thousands of hospital beds that are needed in this city in the coming weeks to meet what is going to be the peak of the most amount of people coming that are infected that are going to need urgent care. As a state is the epicenter of the outbreak in the u. S. To. Tell us whats the latest in tens of numbers and in terms of the infection rate and also when that apex that peak is expected to hit. By all accounts the peak is about 2 to 3 weeks from right now that is why so much work is being done by local officials and by the federal government to try to prepare for that peak were not even close to the peak get still 2 weeks away the latest numbers are a new york 59000 people infected with corona virus its doubling about every 4 days now why is the number so high because new york is testing about 17 to 18000 people a day thats by far more than anywhere else in the United States so thats why theyre building these makeshift hospitals throughout the city one of them i can show you i think right now this is one that is in central park in new york city a small 10 hospital for about 75 people is being constructed there but there are 8 other sites including a Convention Center in new york that are also being converted into hospitals and about a 1000 beds each as well so new york is certainly at the epicenter most of the cases of the 59000. 00 in new york state by for more than half are about 70 percent are coming from right here in new york city and if you think its only here just across the hudson river behind me is new jersey there are numbers have increased by about 600 percent just in the last week they have over 12000 cases just to new jersey so the northeast region of the United States is by far the epicenter and were still a couple weeks away from seeing the worst of it. I was down there live from new york thank you. News coming out of israel now Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is going to self isolation after coming into contact with an aide who tested positive for corona virus high force that has more from western islam its been a somewhat mixed message coming from the Prime Ministers office through the course of the day emanating from the news that one of his senior advisers rivka politics that her husband 1st of all was hospitalized with coronavirus then she tested positive for the disease initially the Prime Ministers office said that he hadnt netanyahu hadnt met with her for the past 2 weeks and therefore would not require to go into self isolation but there was a t. V.