And han where the outbreak began and the number of virus deaths are revised up by 50 percent. Below africa has so far escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the United Nations warns that wont last long it says that at least 300000. 00 people will die when the virus takes hold there and thats unless hundreds of billions of dollars are spent the World Health Organization says the situation there is probably worse than thoughts in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does. With the current challenge of obtaining testing kits its unlikely that the real numbers are higher than reported but here are there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths that says Italian Police broaden their investigation into dozens of deaths at the countrys largest rest home but there was good news from germany where the Health Minister announced the outbreak there had become controllable and china announced a drastic profession to the number of People Killed 50 percent more in the city where the virus was discovered but that number has still been questioned including by the us president himself hes continued his fight against state governors to reopen his countrys economy thats despite a staggering 4 and a half 1000 more deaths in the past day and he begins our coverage with the latest in europe. Disinfecting a nursing home in both remote in the region at the center of this it is called big 98 outbreak these pictures show Russian Military doctors helping out their italian colleagues but a scandal now surrounds italys largest nursing home in nearby milan where at least 143 people have died since the beginning of march families of residents there are demanding answers following reports medical staff was stopped from using protective gear prosecutors are now investigating that facility and more than a dozen others italys officially recorded over 22000 coronavirus deaths but most care deaths are not included in some doctors suspect the real figure could be twice as high. In spain the government ordered the 17 autonomous regions to unify their criteria on counting the dead the official toll stands at almost 20000 but it doesnt take into account the deaths of people who had covered going to symptoms but were not tested including thousands of people who care whose. Meanwhile in germany dramatic footage has emerged along with hopeful news here medics who grisoft to take to the coronavirus patient transport him by helicopter to a special Isolation Chamber nationally new figures show the number of people infected by every person who called to going to school and from 1. 00 to 0. 7 in just a few days meaning transmission is slowing markedly germany has the worlds 5th highest caseload but has kept fatalities relatively low thanks to early and extensive testing that was all this time toit or the outbreak has as of today become controllable and manageable again i believe the very encouraging figure is also that as of the 12th of april more people recover and get infected we currently have more than 80000 people who are recovered out of some 130000 who got infected based on figures from the robert caution to choose. While in portugal where the death toll is lower than 700 parliament has approved the president s request to extend the National State of emergency for another fortnight but will he has a can present extension of the state of emergency set in such a way to give time and room for the government to decide on criteria to study and prepare for the gradual opening of society and the economy after the end of april. Over in belgium theyve also extended restrictive measures for 2 weeks in the capital brussels as part of a europe Wide Initiative the head chef an up market restaurant conscious work has been cooking meals to give to hundreds of Homeless People not the regular dishes that cost up to 300. 00 but theyre welcome a small sign of how people are trying to make a difference and trying to cope with life under lockdown but aljazeera so thats the situation in europe lets now bring in our White House CorrespondentKimberly Halkett for an update from the United States 1st can really give us a sense of the scale of the coronavirus problems and care homes over at the u. S. It continues to be a problem so much so that there are an increasing number of calls for the federal government to begin isolating their data with regard to krone virus deaths and infections to specify just how many of those are coming from care homes you have to remember that the outbreak in Washington State. Where corona virus really started to take hold in the us occurred in Washington State in a care home they went on to have dozens of deaths and weve seen that as recently as in new jersey where there has been a case even of bodies piling up and being discovered in fact sort of an effort because many of these care homes are in fact privately run and for profit theres been an attempt to kind of conceal now there have been efforts to mitigate all of this at the National Level in terms of banning visitors to care homes even discouraging Group Activities but at the same time this still seems to be one of the most vulnerable populations the hope being if there could be transparency and data this could just sort of shed some daylight on the problem that really goes even broader than just krone virus but to the culture of kind of the western notion of warehousing the elderly something that may need to be rectified in order to make sure that there are future outbreaks and and with the governor is now over in the u. S. Really wrestling with how to open their states with pressure coming from the u. S. President on where we were valid and what of the governor saying. Well theres been an awful lot of surprise if you will at some of the statements that have been coming from the u. S. President hes been tweeting throughout the day and hes been pointing the finger consistently at governors that they need to step up their testing specifically to andrew cuomo the governor of new york state that he asked for far more resorts is than he actually needed and most interestingly are a series of tweets that have come out sort of pointing the finger against democratic governors specifically in virginia in michigan and also in minnesota the u. S. President saying liberate those states now its interesting for this president to say this on a number for a number of reasons number one you remember just 5 days ago the u. S. President himself was acting like a bit of a dictator saying that he had the ultimate and total authority to reopen these economies now 5 days later hes saying lets liberate these states taking a completely opposite tact whats going on in those states essentially is that there is some protesting going on many of them are Trump Supporters who are protesting what they see as some of these agreed or arbitrary stay at home orders that they feel has gone too far that this is government overreach and so theyre pushing back but again many people finding a bit of surprise given the fact that the u. S. President is now joining in this fight when he was making similar overreach you can say essentially himself just a few days ago. Writes kimberly thank you very much for that update from the white house on the chinese city of will hon where the pandemic began the government has now revised the number of deaths by 50 percent thats an addition of nearly 1300 victims who a provincial official said the number of deaths had been changed because of late reports from medical institutions and the fact that some patients had died at home the announcement has led to further questions from World Leaders who accuse china of not being accurate about the scale of the outbreak. Well the coronavirus pandemic has brought decades of extraordinary Economic Growth in china its warhawk its its Gross Domestic Product shrank in the 1st quarter of this year for the 1st time since records began it comes as the government admitted more people died in the epicenter of the virus than originally thought katrina you has this report from beijing. The coronavirus pandemic has Strained Health systems around the world and now its caused the uninterrupted growth of the worlds 2nd largest economy to falter for the 1st time in decades for the 1st quarter of 2020 chinas g. D. P. Contracted by 6. 8 percent thats. The current external situation is more complex domestic demand remains comparatively Weak Companies still face difficulties such years insufficient demand and the drop in orders preventative measures so chinas Economic Activity slowed to a trickle 2 months local infections have eased and some businesses and factories have resumed operations but Many Companies are on the brink of collapse feed this situation is dire or for disastrous for me ive got no idea how i can get through this year chinas National Statistics bureau says the economy the 2nd quarter and long term growth wont be affected but Global Demand plummeting its economy faces an uphill battle the pandemic has been spread out early so which leads to a lot of countries including the us and European Countries into our recession so our lead to the increase in demand of chinas. Chinas central bank has cut Interest Rates and provided tax breaks and subsidies to businesses in need but at least say it would be enough to stabilize point finding work will be more difficult for graduates and Migrant Workers especially and well. Economic growth has plummeted chinas kovac 19 death toll has been revised upwards after a 4 movie review officials in the original at the center of increased the number by 1290 previous records were incomplete chinas coronavirus count has been adjusted several times in recent months this latest change is the feeling suspicion of the accuracy of government to get as many critics believe that the official tally is about 82000 falls well short of the real numbers on the ground between e. U. Aljazeera. Now Global Stock Markets are heading towards a 2nd straight week of gains after the u. S. President outlined his plans to reopen the countrys economy it comes after indications from other countries like the u. K. That theyre considering when businesses can restart its traders who are also hopeful after encouraging data on a potential treatment for a covert 19 lets get more on that from the whos joining us from jersey city thats over new jersey so the markets and investors are responding somewhat positively so hopes off a corona prospect of a coronavirus treatment. Yeah thats right theyve been saying actually for over a month now that there are 2 things that the markets and the traders want to see in order to get the the markets moving again in a positive direction and thats 2 things number one as a vaccine and number 2 they want the economy and business to reopen again not only here in the United States but around the world and were starting to perhaps see both of the 1st signs of both of those 1st with the vaccine you know this company out of chicago has been running these tests of this potential Coronavirus Vaccine rim deaths here is what its called an early early reports are that showing very good signs well you know of course it hasnt run through all of its trials yet this is just one of dozens of pharmaceutical companies around the world that are trying to get a vaccine but this looks to be the potential front runner so far so the markets are responding to that that perhaps we could be seeing a vaccine a little sooner than we perhaps thought they were thinking to be 12 to 16 months well keep an eye on that and also word out of washington from President Donald Trump and others about perhaps opening up the economy again as early as the beginning of may both of those things now have given a boost to the markets all of the main indices on the New York Stock Exchange are now in the green gaining off of these both of both of these issues here and meanwhile we understand that the curve continues to flatten over new york. It does the good news is that curve is flattening we just heard from the Governor Andrew Cuomo and within the last couple hours or so he also said that the number of hospitalizations are down the number of people going into the i. C. U. Intensive care unit is down and the people that are on ventilators is down as well thats a good news the bad news is that death toll in the past 24 hours has increased 630 new yorkers just in the last 24 hours have died from cope and 1000 thats up from 606 the day before still the death toll over 12000 so while the curve is flattening the death toll is still very much in the hundreds here in the epicenter in new york right deborah thank you for that update from jersey city. Still to come on aljazeera each step worth millions britons go the extra mile to raise money for the Health Service but what is a tax funded system needed its. Following the fashion kenyas tailors rushed to make millions of mosques after wearing them becomes law. And theres also a very nice sunshine across well central areas of year we house a bit more crowded also seeing a little bit of rain pushing in across the west and that will be something we will see more of over the next few days that in the meantime have a look at this this was regal mco sesson lovely kiss guys and also thought the south into berlin and germany some very nice warm spring weather and head across into switzerland look at this leavin out results the road in between those fields of rape and thats like hist obviously enjoying the warm sunshine are plenty more of that across central and eastern areas 22. 00 celsius for you in vienna on a saturday but youll notice out towards the west the rain really is coming in its very very scattered but within this we could have some. Heavier downbursts and sunny across into portugal and spain the rain really is that fairly persistent pushing across into the western end of the med and certainly by sunday that rain becoming quite heavy most of the areas of france and pushing across a tools corsica sardinia and on into actually but meanwhile to the north it is not too bad temper just beginning to improve in london with a high of a 17 some very heavy amounts of rain developing over the next 2 days really coming through mauritania pushing up towards algeria on saturday very heavy as we go through the last part of the weekend very unsettled through morocco and cooler about just 90. A policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman thought that she could selectively goods and help people its changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences of creating a poor of socially disadvantaged young men so you have a system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree distro zation or money to get other people to be the services. Aljazeera examines the politics of population control. Hello again the top stories on aljazeera the World Health Organization warns africa could become the next epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak the u. N. Says its likely the pandemic will kill at least 300000 people on the continent and personally 30000000 into 5 or 30 there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths in europe as a ta and police broadened their investigation into. Dozens of deaths of the countrys largest rest home near milan where the National Epidemic was at its worst Global Stock Markets have made gains following earlier reports that an antiviral medicine in the United States a care to successfully treat severe symptoms for coronavirus patients. Adama cain has been following developments from berlin and he says the restrictions put in place by the government there appear to be working. The German Government is cautiously and quietly confident that the measures it has put in place these past many weeks are helping it to deal with the corona Virus Outbreak the pandemic in their country because they look at the data they look at the many many tests being performed in this country and are able to tap you late that and it tells them which direction the coronavirus is going in lets be clear whats being done in the building behind the robert cock institute collecting all the data and making conclusions drawing conclusions on the basis of those many tests being performed and from their perspective they believe a positive turn has occurred. Beautiful children so the basic reproduction number in germany is currently an average of 0. 7 there are of course regional differences but it shows that the rate has decreased further so on average it means that at the moment not every and 50 individual has infected another person. On the basis of information like that the Health Minister yes sharon and his colleagues in cabinet are able then to take other measures and that explains why next week the restrictions on some freedom of movement will be loosened thats why people will be able to go to certain shops certain stores but also we need to be clear here there is a still a large degree of caution in the governmental approach schools will not reopen until the 4th of may large demonstrations large social gatheri