Spain and italy edging towards easing their shutdowns of france could be about to go the other way. The economic fallout is hitting aid budgets the World Food Programs cutting rations for more than a 1000000 refugees in uganda also on the news or. In other news fighting intensifies in libya between the warlords after the internationally recognized government and in support professional baseball has made its 1st appearance of 2020 taiwanese hosting games behind closed doors with mannequins replacing real spectators. The russian president Vladimir Putin says the Coronavirus Crisis is worsening in russia and the Defense Ministry may have to be involved in containing it and made those remarks. After the country had its biggest daily increase yet in infections 2500 new cases the total number of infections has now gone beyond 18000 the government says 148 russians have died as cross live now to our London Bureau and correspondent covering all the european aspects of this need barkha soni for a reading of what mr putins been saying. Well our general reading is the president putin is very concerned indeed as you mentioned there a jump of 2 and a half 1000 new infections we know that 18 people in the past 24 hours have died bringing the death toll there to 148 russia is noticed a real acceleration across its huge landmass and the number of people affected by the coronavirus which is why there are these words of warning now from the president and from the russian leadership suggesting that the next 2 weeks in the russian capital moscow could be very critical indeed a suggestion also that the Russian Military and forces from the Emergencies Ministry may be brought in to help shore up support for the countrys publicly funded Health System which is pretty good its a legacy of the soviet union but in many places it is old it is creaking and is likely to be under huge strain from a sudden influx of people being deeply affected by this virus also some strict rules and regulations to be brought in as well president putin suggesting people who flouted restrictions could face lengthy prison sentences of 7 years we also believe that according to the russian leadership that as many as a 1000000 people have been tested for covert 19 and that doctors have been ordered to treat all cases of pneumonia as if people already had the virus a critical situation appearing to get much worse of course russia and today also in europe may have were seeing contradictory different approaches between the Spanish Government and the french government we think emanuel macron tonight will unknowns no more locked down for perhaps the next 3 or 4 weeks where as the spanish are slightly easing the whole thing off. Its a very very very difficult balance so peter it very much depends on where you are along the coronavirus trajectory we know that for instance italy and spain are deciding now to ease their restrictions allowing heavy industry workers to return to work d obviously those people not able to work remotely during this period of lockdown we know that denmark that introduced restrictions 12 days ahead of the United Kingdom is tentatively easing restrictions there so children of the age of 11 on wednesday will be able to return to schools and kindergartens the Prime Minister saying that the border lockdown remaining in place of the border will remain closed and if there is a return to an increase in cases that restrictions will immediately be reintroduced a similar situation in norway and austria in austria were hearing that some shops will be able to reopen followed by restaurants and finally hotels here in the u. K. The government has to decide by thursday what it wants to do its legally bound to do so we gather though there is a difference of opinion in the british cabinet as to what to do next particularly given that the countrys chief Decision Maker Boris Johnson is still recovering from his bout of the coronavirus but as you mentioned there the suggestion is from those close to the elites a palace that later on in the day the french president emanuel macron may and around picking up on restrictions possibly for several more weeks possibly for even longer this coming only days after france said that it entered a deep recession maybe mention Boris Johnson there are reports circulating i notice on newspaper websites some people saying hes actually being pressured by his own members of his own cabinet to join in that meeting by remote on thursday but other people might say no its just far too soon for him to get back on that horse again. Were judging by Boris Johnsons character he comes across at least as the kind of person who want to get back to work as quickly as possible he appeared over the weekend giving a televised address. Thanking members of the National Health service for essentially saving his life is it perhaps too soon to force the band back to work well he is now saying that hes going to follow the advice of his doctors 1st and foremost theyve already warned that he could be away from work for many weeks does that mean he could be dialed in remotely to join in with conversations members of the cabinet we know that dominic robb the foreign secretary is playing the role that johnson would play at coronavirus cabinet meetings and also holding the at the Daily Briefing at downing street but as were hearing that do seem to be different opinions about the lockdown thats costing british businesses billions and billions of dollars the question is how do you strike a balance how do you find the right line between whats proportionate and whats potentially reckless nieve many thanks or lets stay in europe monday morning in spain a scene some non essential business is reopening after. Almost 3 weeks almost 517 deaths linked to the virus were also reported thats fewer than on sunday the loosening of the lot done has been criticized by spaniards who are worried about a resurgence in the disease more than 17000 have died so far with close 2170000 confirmed cases martyred aero joins us on skype from madrid hi there marty good to talk to again here on the news hour what kind of businesses are we talking about that a now open for business. Well peter were talking about construction manufacturing were talking that nonessential businesses we were keeping the supermarkets pharmacies and of course Health Care Workers Police Officers fire men and now all of these Construction Industries and manufacturing especially construction also has been limited to new construction buildings not construction in the same building where you can find someone neighbors or People Living there where you can get involved with so after these 2 weeks of tougher measures in the lockdown have to remember that spain has been in a state of emergency down since march 14th 2 weeks later it due to the overwhelmed of the intensive care units the Health Care System Spanish Government decided to toughen those measures and ban nonessential workers were talking Manufacturing Industries and and construction workers buying them from work so with been having tough measures imposed for 2 weeks this was in the agenda and it was also the ones who wanted to embrace that is to what it is trying to be able to avoid not a dairy into the restrictions of the lockdown because weve seen plenty of people traveling to the coast to 2nd homes so this was in the in the governments agenda today lifting these measures doesnt mean were deescalating at all the lock down this is just a little bit tougher measures 15 days after that look i mean spain today in 24 hours just seen since yesterday in 24 hours it has reduced it to 517 new the talent these and 3500 new positives these figures are showing that the lockdown measures that being effected are bringing down the numbers steal steal very slowly its a progressive slowdown and as Prime Minister health minister. Have a spanish minister stated today in a press in the daily press or he said were ensuring conference were entering a face of this that belie sation we also have to add that the. Well that are going back to or returning to work today were given by the Spanish Government to guidelines to the point of what they have to do to supply to the workers personal protective equipment they need to get to sort of his distancing up 2 meters between each other and also they have to take him at least transport public time and transport is one of the hotspots of the spread of the corner virus because everybody will are gathering together closer than that what they should be and Police Officers were distributing or handing out these morning masks to all the people that were going back to work people are really afraid they see that its very very very early to leave these tougher lockdown measures by not only people who were just going back returning to date were also Political Parties president s of other regions and many many experts criticizing its very early to leave this stuff a lot of the measures but we have to insist that spain has faced a 3500000 unemployed thats only 2 weeks 100000 jobs were lost though the creation of julie years of jobs in spain was lost in 15 days at the end of march so spain is strike now facing a very critical situation economy a critical situation the worst scenario seen as a spanish civil war so these may be the reasons why this line of government has decided to live these measures we will see the consequences of these leave in 2 weeks time want to see the reflection of the ongoing for a fatality for people ok martin thank you very much at least a 116 people in south korea who were cleared of the virus of again tested positive 51 similar cases were reported there last week is raising concerns in the government as it tries to stamp out infections right mcbrides and so he says this is significant. It is a worrying development this is a phenomenon that epidemiologists in the center of Disease Control here have been studying for quite a while the months this Large Population of people here who got sick towards the end of february beginning of march who got the virus who were there not the treated in hospital or treated at home and some 7000 of those people have recovered and as part of their own going treatments of gradually being retested and worryingly there has been this trend of finding now wall that 100 cases amongst this population of several 1000 people who have tested positive again so these were people who were clear and they hit had tests either in hospital look at clinics Testing Centers it proved to be negative and more than 100 now 3 have now tested positive 7 questions here for the experts is what is causing this is this a reinfection d people coming into contact with a carrier and getting the infection again or more worrying they use a reactivation that somehow they were may not have been asymptomatic at they may not have been its certainly on the face of it infectious but seem to have possibly still being carrying the virus in some dormant form possibly deep in body tissue that somehow has managed to become reactivate so it is a worrying trend here does that mean that there has been a problem in testing and does it mean certainly that there are many more questions about this virus that the experts simply dont know about it. Watching clements is a professor of Infectious Disease epidemiology at Curtin University in australia heres what he had to say about this new infection rate a little earlier. Firstly i dont think there is any evidence emerging that its becoming symptomatic again if that. Was the case then that would be very concerning but i dont believe that theres any clear evidence that that is the cause. I think even with a very very large number of people being tested for rape in the issue but one of ours and and in most countries that is still anything infecting a very small percentage of population you will see a high. Positive right and i think that is to be expected you need an almost perfect test to avoid that situation what the critical thing is is that people need to interpret the data correctly and so you know when youre monitoring population of. The 20000000 people as you do in south korea and you guessed it up a 1000000 people you will expect a number of false positives. But usually in a pandemic with things are rapidly him changing way and learning more about the bars needs to be expected that the diagnostic test will have limitations the important thing is the Public Health response so. And then of course erring on the side of caution so it would testing positive that need to be are isolated the content pricing needs to happen. And so much of the something made continue certainly recession this thing is this thing may stay in for a considerable time to come. China reporting its highest number of new virus cases in almost 6 weeks the Authorities Say 108 people were infected over the past day and most of the travelers returning from overseas while that number is low its adding to concerns of a possible 2nd wave of cases the economic fallout of the pandemic is making it harder for International Agencies to raise money among those the World Food Program which says its been forced to cut rations for more than a 1000000 refugees in uganda after failing to secure additional funding lets go to malcolm webb World Food Program which says its been forced to cut rations for more than a 1000000 refugees malcolm so what kind of impact beyond the obvious will this have on those people with the uns work through program has been calling for donations to help them feed refugees in uganda since the end of last year donations havent been forthcoming and while it is normal for the World Food Program to not receive as much money as it requests in this case the shortfall is critical thats why theyre cutting rations by about a 3rd so thats going to maybe a hard life even more difficult for those 1200000 refugees in uganda these camps are not good places to live even at the best of times in northern uganda hundreds of thousands of people who fled the conflict in south sudan a living there in a landscape thats dry for much of the time that farmed the land is not suitable for farming it makes it difficult to be able to produce their own food and so they depend on the food from the World Food Program which is now going to be cut welcome thanks very much. Well have more on the pandemic later here on the news hour for you how have oil prices reacted after a groundbreaking deal by opec and other major big producers plus. Theres the this is that as a possible opportunity to actually make more money. Health insurance in the United States the pandemic is highlighting confusion across the industry. And in the sports news with andy in about 30 minutes well hear from a leading voice in the lympics sport who believes the delay in perspire winning the 2 games will put athletes lives at risk. Forces loyal to libyas internationally recognized government be making gains in the fight against the warlord holy father have to theyve been to the city of sore man thats west of tripoli and they are continuing their advance earlier the tripoli based government launched airstrikes against half his forces killing 7 his fighters have been trying to capture the capital and overthrow the government there for the past year. Lets talk now to jason pak hes a nonresident fellow at the middle east institute and founder of Libya Analysis l. L. C. A Libyan Affairs consultancy he joins us from new jersey in the United States just impact welcome to the news hour how have the forces fighting after he managed to pull this off because theyve been on the back foot for a long time now. Well thats right its been a year or 2 weeks thats how tar sees the addition of an attack preferably in violation of International Law and his previous promises and even in january of this year when the berlin conference with many major leaders like merkel and putin announced an embargo it appeared that the violations of the embargo were favoring the neck of the emirates and egypt and russia were introducing mercenaries and drones that benefited whats been happening there were over the past weeks is that the balance has shifted turkish drones and turkish aerial support and turkish training has helped the g. S. A. And now theyve had already or maybe even supremacy in the air and they are undercutting d. L. And they supply lines on all directions so the evelyn days forces that tac tripoli require tarhouni and the watch the air base in the west and those are now both under threat is hell soon may be fighting a losing battle on the other end of his military calculation and could it possibly be that his external backing countries have taken their eye off this particular ball because theyre dealing with the coronavirus back home. You know some people are saying that and i dont think thats actually true the corona virus has affected Global Dynamics everywhere so to some extent its changed things in libya but there are still arms shipments arriving so what it is is that the g. S. A. Has a financial and diplomatic advantage and the ever they initially had and it bet if youre terms of Foreign Military support now the l n a is on the verge of financially and thats for its own dynamics because of the oil blockade because of a range of factors and the g. N. A. T. Has cut caught up in terms of its air support so weve seen a big shift does that mean that theyll continue to shift who can say what seems likely to happen use one of 2 scenarios either the u. A. E. Egypt and russia will match what the turks have introduced and then youre going to see a larger regional conflict or the l. And i could fracture internally in which case the assault on aaa will and a centrally the g. N. A. T. Recall saying this is solved and then a new kind of stalemate and a new kind of politics will come into being i hope its the latter and ironically it wont really be the coronavirus or Even Oil Prices that has made it so well talk about oil prices a little later here on the news one last brief point please just unpack can the tripoli forces sustain what theyve been doing and what theyve achieved just in the past week or so well the defense has an upper defense has an advantage of this type or so i dont think theyre going to sweep through or push the l. N. H. Back because they lack the capacity of the training in fact if they can just. Make it so protracted that the advance cant continue with another counterattack they they want so yes we could be moving towards partition of libya and weve been seeing those dynamics for a long time briefly briefly put to just sum up. Were going back to the status quo ante before the tripoli war was launched and maybe a fracturing of the power blocs thats what seems likely we will wait and see just in part good to talk to you thanks very much thank you pleasure. A total of 661. 00 taliban fighters have now been released by the Afghan Government after it freed another 361. 00 on monday part of an agreement with the u. S. Towards talks to end the war on sunday the taliban released 20 government prisoners in the province of kandahar the u. S. Special envoy to afghanistan says its an important step in the Peace Process Zalmay Khalilzad urged both sides to accelerate efforts to free more prisoners. Time whether he was ever to thank peter has been a while and when the tornado season we would see the storms really kick in but as for the easter weekend a really has been a rough one for parts of the states you can see this large area a cloud here thats been swirling away brought some very active weather down across the deep south of the u. S. Say mississippi louisiana pushing up into tennessee singson nasty conditions around a dozen storms also have been reported could be plenty more than that when we do get the final count having said that its now making its way further eastward and we are going to see some very heavy rain also associated with that knoxville in tennessee this early 6 hours 76 millimeters of rain coming down in only 6 hours and 70 percent of the april average should see about 110. 00 millimeters of rain for the entire month of april i will continue to drive its way further east was we will grassy season quater weather coming in behind me you can see these 2 blue fronts here these are cold fronts forgot the cold dry dry air coming right out of canada warm moist air fading up from the gulf of mexico and less those those to me thats where we get the the very violence the very active weather that weve seen swirling away so through the remainder of monday were going to see more of that wet weather that windy weather Stormy Weather the tornadoes theyre going to continue making the way a way through the eastern seaboard late in the day shouldnt be too bad actually but new england just hanging on for longest so we go on into tuesday and things start to quieten down quite nicely by the time we come to wednesday is looking fine and dry peter also pleasant sunshine everson thanks very much well see you later. Lets go back to one of our top stories here on the news hour the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic is making it tougher for International Agencies to do their job they have to raise money of course among those most worst affected the World Food Program which says its been forced to cut rations for more than a 1000000 refugees in uganda after failing to secure additional funding for just martin as the uns World Food Programme spokesman for east africa he joins us from nairobi welcome to the news hour here how many people will be affected by this and how quickly will that happen the number of people affected by this cut which was a short 2 percent cut in the ration and we also give refugees in uganda. Cash either shrewd russians or cash so its a 30 percent cut and it will affect 1200000 refugees but we assist in 13 settlements in uganda is there anything else is there anything else you can do to help these people. Theres a lot more that can be done as long as people have funding but the difficulty is we will 137000000. 00 short of what we needed to give the refugees in uganda which is the country that is hosting the largest number of refugees in all of africa. To give them a full russian for the year 2020 so we had to make this cut otherwise we would have had to make more severe cuts later on in the year if we didnt receive more support so it was unrelated to 19 but its a symptom of a difficult situation in funding globally for humanitarian operations if its not related to the coronavirus pandemic can i ask you if your organization saw this coming or has it come as a bolt out of the blue. We saw it coming in many ways in as much as uganda is a situation where the refugee situation is relatively stable and donors find it very difficult understandably when there are low margin sees in the world where lights need to be saved to keep giving refugees enough fruit to eat when the operations with other emergencies come up they are required to also commit chance to lose arms so now weve covered 19 the situation is even more difficult globally for humanitarian operations and more longstanding refugee operations so your i guess refreshing your appeal for liquidity for more money from those donor countries is it a simple as money or is there Something Else that you can utilize it is in many ways as simple as money but the difficulty with the refugees in uganda the refugees elsewhere in east africa which hosts an inordinate number of refugees compared to other parts of the the world the difficulty with them is that they will also be impacted by code 19 and thats coming on top of the present problems that they face of Poor Health Facilities only comes very little employment very shoe livelihood opportunities and very poor very poor Living Conditions in many cases where they live very close to one another theres not much space and not much of the facilities provided for them. With the un World Food Program there in nairobi thank you thank you. A life was tough for indigenous and substance farmers in malaysia before the virus now they cant sell their products because of the lock down traditionally malays speaking people have a higher risk of catching a disease because of their lifestyle is lawrence living. Keep out the signs say indigenous communities in the laser have set up roadblocks preventing outsiders from entering their villages these are photos and videos we obtained from the center for our concerns a local Nongovernmental Organization that works for Indigenous People the only which means original people in the main language are more vulnerable to disease like the krona virus because of poverty and malnutrition. Like ameena think so now its safer to return to the forest many indigenous communities live in remote areas with no access to Running Water and electricity. And as malaysias tough restrictions on movement continue these communities face additional crotchets many only enough to live on and have little savings i needed my income is mostly from women grass i have lots of plants around my house its not a steady income i make around 90. 00 to 100. 00 a month. But farmers have no means to get to the markets and have not been able to sell the produce. I can so in now my produce now eliminate. Chimeric economy so prince which used to be my main practice the government has promised assistance to poor communities while the restriction order is in place the director general of the department of our asking development told al jazeera that the agency has applied for an imagine see ground to help those in need but the center for our concerns says not old villages are officially registered with the agency and those which are not will likely be left out the n. G. O. S one of several that are now raising funds for indigenous communities the donations are paid to local Community Coordinators to purchase food which is then distributed to the villages its not a perfect system but its one way to ensure that aid reaches those who need it most florence gluey aljazeera. The Worlds Biggest Oil producers have agreed to the biggest output cut in the history prices rose on the news but gains were limited because of the move will be enough to stabilize Energy Markets ravaged by coronavirus ballasts. Own pick a cool his abandoned in vienna in stede the group and its allies meet virtually remotely agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by the largest amount in history 10000000 barrels a day thats about a 10 percent reduction. Oil producing nations agreed to the cut last week mexico wouldnt sign refusing to drop its output so our lawyer President Trump weighed in the United States in discussions last night with mexico city arabia russia. Dealing with opec nations. We tried to get mexico as the expression goes over the barrel trump then offered to reduce us production further to make up for mexico conscious that loyal prices could be terminal for americas shale industry. He tweeted sunday the big oil deal with opec plus is done this will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States there are 10000000. 00 jobs associate with this shell industry in the United States and that so huge constituency for President Trump President Trump doesnt need any more job losses in the last 3 weeks alone weve seen 17000000 jobs lost because of the. Global demand for oil has evaporated by around 30 percent to zuko that 19 planes are grounded streets deserted and just as the virus forced entire nations into hibernation saudi arabia exacerbated the imbalance ramping up its oil output in a bid to northcotts picture rival russia out of the market the glass seemed to us benchmark west texas intermediate promising from 63. 00 a barrel in january to 20. 00 a barrel in late march more than 2 decades lower we see this as really a monumental achievement i mean if you told us were going to half ago that saudi arabia russia you know it states were going to come together to forge and agreements to cut 10000000. 00 barrels a day and that actually have more of the market at it most people would believe that. But pulling prices back to profitability may still they need months off even with the biggest oil cut in history theres still an oversupply or the numbers are i popping the decrease its perhaps not enough and when the outlines of the deal was announced on thursday after an initial spike prices actually fell produces banking that of countries stick to the deal or oil back as a wanted commodity in 2021 shallow ballasts aljazeera. Lets stay with that story and bring in silver hes nigerias minister of state for Petroleum Resources he joins us live here on the news from mr silver welcome to aljazeera even asked for emergency funding of 7000000000 u. S. Dollars are you going to get it. We dont know we dont know yet if were going to get it but we hope to get it if you dont get it what do you do then. What we have door and i said we have readjusted a budget. In the light of day realities that according to realities what we did was to the president set up an Economic Team to see how we can readjust the budget rebase the budget do budget for this year was initially based on an oil price of 57. 00 where would we brought it down to 30. 00 well also brought down the. Production benchmark from 2100000 barrels a day to 1700000 bios so would we actually virtually quite awkward according to our clock to know we believe that well be able to manage but you did take the decision your critics might say the wrong decision to go with a costly oil subsidy scheme several months ago now you cant sustain that can you so thats part of where the economizing is coming in if you will because youve decided to jettison that as well. Yes by a big yes but of that one of the things we did during quit 19 is to take out this subsidy so weve taken out effective deduce disability and for now the people are actually having benefits because oil prices came down to such a low that their product prices also dropped to such a low that the pump prices actually reduced so we had to transfer that benefit to the people before now. Prize was 145. 00 that was a subsidized price but with the drop in oil prices you could Land Petroleum and p. M. S. Here for about 225. 00 so we decided to take that benefit to the people but we believe that as prices begin to go up we have already told our people that we are out of subsidy which which is one of the things that we were able to do to i just really but when it comes to assessing revenue as opposed to your g. D. P. That figure was extraordinarily low anyway why didnt somebody anticipate this because you simply didnt have the money in the bank to sustain what you now have to sustain thats why youre asking the i. M. F. And the world bank for this big loan. Of course its not as if we didnt anticipate it but it was a balance you know you you its about people as well the nigerian people as well and the president is appropriate for president so he was not very minded to removing the subsidy initially because you felt that that was going to bring too much as you point to people but at this point its beginning inevitable so we had to go to the people and explain to them and i think they understand with us and this is the right time weve taken it out evil ready had one recession what do you do if this tips over into being your 2nd full blown recession in less than 5 years. Were doing everything to prevent a prevent recession but of course as you know this is a global problem and we believe that were disabled with everybody else this time so that which which is the difference before before now were out we were on the boat alone but right now were in december but with everybody else you know the everybody is struggling the u. S. Is struggling. Europe is struggling are we are also struggling so its not really look a minister just a question for a 2nd so if i may i totally understand and accept what youre saying about the broader picture there but the reality is surely you do not have the resources to finance a stimulus package its just not there where its not there but what i said we have actually. Put into our clock definitely at this point and the president has also actually sent about we started a lot of economic stimulus package packages to try to see how we can stem manty the tide of economic problems on the people of nigeria and i think we are going to be able to wear that through this you want me to live it will wear that to it pardon me for interrupting again minister i think we just lose the satellite so one last question. Both fitch and the s. And p. Are saying that your 10 banks all of your main banks are at risk haughty if the coronavirus leads to literally the people the voters youre discussing that leads to them staging a run on the banks. That is very far fetched. The nations will always see everything but i cannot show you that we are going to where that would draw going into a recession and we will survive 19 mr banks was of article written and understood to mean 3 silver in a budget good to talk to you so i think you very much u. S. President donald trump has a call to fire the countrys top Infectious Disease expert it comes after dr anthony she said more lives could have been saved if the u. S. To taken containment measures soon upness to folks she has also contradicted and corrected mr trump in the past including about what medicines may be effective against the virus live now to the White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat in washington so the relationships going south between mr trump and mr folks you can really. Indeed there have been notable differences of opinion that have been in full view but this is the 1st time weve seen the president come out in such a strong way he spent much of sunday defending his response to coronavirus but that tweet where there was the hash tag firepower that the president read tweeted has really piqued attention here in the United States because of course the u. S. President is irritated that Dr Anthony Fauci one of the nations top Infectious Disease specialist said very publicly that many lives could have been saved if more stringent social distancing policies had been put in place much sooner and that seems to have caught the ire of the president now the u. S. President for his part in this retreat is differing with the opinion fact he did a follow up tweet where he said its all on tape i banned china long before people showed up late january and whats significant about this is the president to say i put in some travel restrictions of late january that took effect in early february but the point that has been made is that that wasnt enough that there needed to be more wise protesting we know that is something that is still a challenge here in the United States as well as the social distancing policies and this is what the criticism has been one that the u. S. President is taking enormous exception to now publicly even suggesting potentially that the top Infectious Disease specialist should be fired but mr trumps come back on twitter can be in the past 24 hours kind of releasing what he said before isnt he saying look in effect sealed off from china before lots of other countries did that and they should have done that because hes got a sense and understanding for this new you get a hunch and he wants to go in the right direction. Yeah but we should point out that even under that policy its been noted that 40000 people have still come from china many of them were u. S. Citizens who were allowed to come in and it could have had that potential exposure now in terms of the epicenter outbreak of new york state it is believed that many of the travelers that ignited that one came from europe but still the u. S. President is feeling sensitive and there is this sort of closer scrutiny now being paid to what the president knew when he knew it did he ignore intelligence in fact i should point out there are some top democratic lawmakers on capitol hill that late last week called for a commission to look back at this response as something sort of in the nature of what we saw after the september 11th attacks feeling that there may have been some missed signals and examining government prepared miss moving forward to ensure that there is nothing like this again of course this is a unique situation but already there are concerns that the president may have deliberately ignored key intelligence that may have saved lives because he is so keen about keeping the economy that was at the time very healthy he wanted to maintain that because of course this is also an Election Year the president was sort of hinting his reelection chances on a Strong Economy of course that is now all been obliterated understood kimberly good to talk to you thank you very much almost 560000 have been infected with the virus in the u. S. And more than 22000 people have died in the epicenter new york the mayor is demanding much more help from washington john hendren picks up that story. Across the u. S. It was a somber largely silent easter is millions of American Christians celebrated their risen savior in a nation that has fallen on hard times the good deed to do the risen christ. I bring all this up because we hear plenty about emptiness these days. Thanks to the dreaded pandemic. In the nation that on friday recorded more coronavirus cases than any other and on saturday tallied more deaths no state has suffered more the new york home to one in 3 u. S. Coronavirus deaths new york citys mayor has blunt words for washington do more we pleaded for weeks and weeks for the federal government provide testing upfront in the kind of quantity that could have helped us contain this crisis and change the whole course of that we never got that help we continue to plead for more testing but on a day when virus cases and deaths reached yet another grim milestone the governor of new york state saw signs of hope a lot of pain a lot of suffering. But also when things are out their worst sometimes people are at their best and sometimes just when you need it people can really show you how great they can be. In illinois to the governor seems hope of a plateau when the virus is stratospheric rise ive spoken before about a stabilizing or a bending of the curve and today is one more piece of evidence that it may indeed be happening the percent of those tested that came up positive is almost exactly the same as it has been for the last 2 weeks and the death toll today is lower than it has been in 6 days. Easter sunday was the day President Trump originally set for american businesses to go back to work but that date is commentor congo when other major cities are still on lockdown as soon as that could happen now would be may 1st and a lot of experts have their doubts about that. Were looking at may 1st obviously we want that to happen as soon as possible i cant predict at this point because as i said things are happening very rapidly according to the head of the u. S. Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases fewer americans might have died had the government moved earlier. On a day when Many American celebrated together that separately people are hungry during these times reports for the presence of god the people know it was a religious holiday fraught with perhaps more meaning than its head in years john hendren and you 0 chicago. Health Insurance Companies say theyll cover testing and treatment but some doctors say theres a lot of confusion about who will really end up covering the bills she has explained for a pos when donald trump announced this earlier this week i met with the leaders of Health Insurance industry who have agreed to waive d copayments for coronavirus treatments it just highlighted a particular confusion the u. S. Faces as it deals with the pandemic alone among developed countries the u. S. Health care system isnt universal but run by for Profit Health Insurance Companies even after the Affordable Care act or obamacare was passed in 20 term 30000000 remain without Health Coverage and the number of under insured those whose out of pocket expenses for treatment is over 5 percent of their income has risen 50 percent over the last 9 years to an estimated 44000000 but if i was speaking in early march no Insurance Companies were covering treatments now congress has forced them to cover testing and some companies are covering treatment for a limited time but its a confusing patchwork for patients that leaves many Unanswered Questions but what if you just need to know is your bill going to be higher. It its impossible to that question in addition your coronavirus test is covered but your visit to a physician may not be if other covert diagnostic tests are conducted like a white blood cell count or chest x. Ray that old actual coded 19 tests they may not be covered the millions with employer supplied Health Insurance may face large out of pocket expenses even hospitals covered by Insurance Companies perform procedures not covered by insurance and the list goes on in the best of times patients and doctors often dont know whats covered until the bill eventually arrives my greatest dad ness as a physician is that i often dont have the answer to that question when someone asks me how much is this medication going to cost i often dont have the answer especially with the added layers of a hostile ization the pandemic highlights another issue that was already a problem prior authorization Insurance Companies requiring doctors to prove the treatment is necessary a process that could lead to delays of 1. 00 to 3. 00 days in freeing up hospital beds crucial time during a pandemic a recent American Medical Association survey found the process led to death or disability in 30 percent of cases and that was before the coronavirus a prior authorization its a question to the clinical saying are you sure and we dont trust you a little inappropriate for quick efficient Compassionate Care such practices have contributed to insurance companys massive profits since obamacare was passed and now according to former Health Insurance executive turned whistleblower Wendell Potter the industrys expecting to clean up as a result of the coronavirus theyre saying this is that as a possible opportunity for them to actually make more money and to have a net savings it will save some of the c. E. O. s and even told wall street financial analysts that theyre expecting that because spittles and doctors are canceling a lot of routine care also the executives are saying to the. All straight that if we have to spend more money than we had it dissipated this year we will just raise rates for everybody next year thats what they do and they can get away with it because there is no other game in town its a tremendous challenge this Global Pandemic how some specifically local characteristics here in the u. S. She returns the aljazeera washington. Some governments are embracing new technology to slow the spread of the virus digital tracking for example helps the monitor where people go and who they interact with they do this mainly through mobile phone location data as well as socalled Contact Tracing apps but there are privacy concerns if abused or data being collated could be stored and used by governments after the pandemic is over faiza patel is the codirector of the National Security program at New York University she says any app will be limited by how and if people decide to use it. Theres a number of things that are out there promising obviously the google akhil partnership that was or an ass at the end of last week seems promising theyve been very sensitive to 2 privacy issues you know the data is stored on your phone for the most part there are ways that they are making sure that its d. N. I. So that a coffee rian out of my ass so theres definitely you know potential over there but even with that. 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In the middle of may and theyre hoping that you know that people will develop apps that can be read and that youre looking at you know some period of time before even Something Like the google Apple Partnership will be online and you also have to contend with issues around adoption right so even in singapore we saw relatively low rates of adoption in the United States where you know even stay at home waters and become a partisan bickering point its easy to imagine that there will be a lot of people who wont want to actually download these apps and the 2nd thing to keep in mind is that different populations may or may not have smartphone apps right so well the lucians that are older who are most vulnerable to code that 19 are less likely to use marcos and younger populations theres out some discrepancies based on income level obviously so theres of those kinds of issues that you have to contend with as well coming up next the sport with be including football clubs and below so found a creative way of filling the seats and these here when we come back. Business leaders want to find a brush pile. From. Business leaders as well to buy no bras palm. Way. For. Time for sports piers and thank you so much pete so all the president s of the International Olympic committee has said the part spineless of this is child care goings will cost his organization hundreds of millions of dollars thats almost back admitted that japans organizers face paying an even bigger price tags that are like that could hit 6000000000. 00 in an interview with a german newspaper back also said the i. C. Did have insurance to cover the cost of the cancellation but not aspirants along critic of the i. O. C. Believes the delay in for spawning those games did put our fleets lives at risk rob killer of global athlete also says many sportsmen and women now need financial help while events are suspended global athlete is an independent body that believes competitors should have more of a say in how their sports are run. Were talking one percentile that is making making a lot of money and thats one percent of the entire population they mostly can barely get by and cover their rent a lot because its a really unique breed because they devote everything every hour of their day to achieve that dream and i was speaking with a few athletes were talking what it meant to postpone for another year and a half monitor things they said was we have 4 months to go through the games its been so tough ive been mentally and physically drained and now ive got to wait another year and a half so were concerned about Mental Health were concerned about their finances and thats where both National Committees and wed like to see the International Olympic committee and the Paralympic Committee step up and provide some support for all our fates that are going through this difficult time. Billions of reserves and i think theres a. Good nature to be happy to distribute some of those funds directly to the office that we have so many questions that wed like to see the International Committee be more transparent what are the cutoff timelines the date this time demick is hitting countries at a different time at a different rate in different people and thats going to provide an unlevel Playing Field for athletes globally depending on how long this goes may have some countries that are opening up we have a freer flowing society and others that are still shut down. We want to see some type of a roadmap has either cut off date or allows outfits that ability to successfully train before the games and to allow a safe and healthy preparation. A professional baseball has made its 1st appearance of 20 twentieths one is hosting games behind closed doors organizes a still the terms of create some sort of atmosphere so cardboard cutouts of mannequins dressed in team colors are filling the empty stadiums there are also drum playing robots somewhere a total of 240. 00 games are planned for the season silence football legal so kicks off on sunday something similar is going on in valorise the only Football League in europe where games are still happening fans arent bound births many are now staying away promising reigning champions dinner abreast to find some creative ways of filling their empty seats more than a 1000 real spectators that attend this game the world players you know 5th process that cant comprehend why the league is being allowed to continue in this way. Its a win for the league is making it sensitive plans for a return to action its hoping that players can be tested for coronavirus at the start of may with the intention of finishing all remaining sariel mix fixtures the league was suspended on the 9th of march for the eventis one point clear at the top of the table. English same sort of backtracked on a decision to cut the wages of their nonplaying staff last seasons European Champions League runners up to face huge criticism from many of their own fans spurs that earlier announced that more than 500. 00 of its employees would have their wages or just by 20 percent now say only Board Members will be taking wage cuts. Full time at sort of fronts when it chris froome says his recovery from a horrific accident last year is almost complete now the 34 year old was speaking during a virtual say many are strikes on sunday the british writer spent more than 3 weeks in hospital after breaking several bonds including his neck when he crashed into a war high speed during a training run for him is riding out the lockdown at his home in france over is going really well i dont go so far as saying its pretty much complete. I mean i am still doing some exercises off the bike just strength and that that right side which was injured but its back into normal or training load and thats going really well. Some vaguely positive news finish last they got it thank you so much will have 30 minutes of aljazeera world news for me come back in about 3 minutes i will see you very soon but my. Eyes only test treat and trace frank assessments why is it its only struggling to cope with the number of their own virus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind her informed opinions its going to be much more challenging in a place like eating where theres one then to later very relieved indepth analysis of the days global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of the one of ours in the inside story on aljazeera when the news breaks the word out for what started with the ins of getting more police on the presentation and Economic Development when people need to be heard but top leadership world where of the potential for barratry of the virus weeks before the public were told of those dangers aljazeera has teams on the ground the syrian army seems determined to defeat the rebels and continues advanced was this is a good day to bring you more Award Winning documentaries and life news. 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