Worst Nuclear Accident causing pollution levels to soar war in ukraine. The air. Thank you very much for joining us in many ways theyve been the forgotten victims of the coronavirus pandemic but now the impact of the outbreak on elderly People Living in camps is becoming fully apparent and is fears many deaths is still going on reported a survey in new york state has found 90 Nursing Homes reported 20 or more deaths in recent weeks but the report only included a fraction of facilities in the states where the figure is believed to be in the thousands and much higher nationally in canada a nursing home near montreal is under investigation after 31. 00 deaths were in ca uncovered that authorities found other residents in and fed in their beds after some staff fled the facility in the u. K. Many deaths in care homes arent included in official figures its estimated they could be as high as 7500. 00 Health Workers if they did for more protective equipment to keep themselves and residents safe and they need to. The the military blocked off a nursing home near rome after 118 patients sess of positive focal the 1905 had already died while an investigation is underway at a nursing home in milan where at least 143 people have died since the beginning of march now the crisis has shed light on some of the underlying issues of the us system with many homes accused of prioritizing profits over the well being of residents she had pretends he has a story. Officially the 1st deaths from covert 19 in the u. S. Were to residents of this Washington StateResidential Care facility in late february the age of their patients and the poor response of authorities in information and equipment reasons why managers that claim they didnt alert authorities about the respond to illness that had been sweeping through the site for weeks but regulators disagree and have imposed a fine of over 600000. 00 for negligence both have a point but weeks later the coronavirus is still spreading to one Residential Care facility after another across the country 17 bodies found inside a makeshift morgue at this facility in new jersey this week after an anonymous tip off a quarter of the residents have died at this facility in virginia questions are being raised as to whether its the system of for profit Residential Care thats the problem not that we know the full extent of deaths in Nursing Homes 6000 estimated but the federal government doesnt keep track and even anonymous statistics about deaths and testings a big held back due to what authorities and facilities say upriver see concerns i was wondering if i could speak to one of the nurses and that johnson had been trying to keep tabs on her mother despite well be able to visit her at her nursing home a collar a day and i kept getting the same thing shes fine shes doing great but when she was able to travel to the home it soon became clear that wasnt true i see her lying in bed with the oxygen around the facilities and it wasnt all be gated to telenet about her mothers positive curve in 1000 test because she was in her prime rigotti and Bernie Stafford turned his brother fred as a resident of the Canterbury Rehab Center in virginia hes tested positive for the virus does he have a roommate and the roommate has also test. And theres no barrier between the 2 of them which means that they are not truly clients i asked. Twice at least. 1000 patients develop. Escalated Health Conditions and indeed because of the emergency room what is the plan and he says it will bring. So what does that tell us mainly 70 percent of Nursing Homes in the u. S. Are run for profit its an industry thats projected to be worth 240000000000. 00 by 2025 mainly in taxpayer spending study after study has shown that the owners of private facilities often make billions of dollars in profits while claiming budget shortfalls for cap and in recent years the private Equity Industry whose main concern is short term profit has moved resolutely into the sector buying up facilities like the one where his brothers. A new study has found as a result the push for profits over care has intensified patient volume and revenue have increased but star fing salaries have decreased as a federal ratings based on kaffir patients sit in. Front of our reserves is that. If theres an emergency situation then very quickly you might want to. Be less. Just if you were nurses the private Residential Care industry however says its not to blame for the thousands dead at its facilities and is now using its money influence and the pandemic to low b. For a long held goal immunity from prosecution for negligence she had the aljazeera lets speak to mary and we smack laws about this she is a professor of epidemiology at the university of New South Wales and she joins us on skype from sydney thank you so much for being with us i know that you also specialize in health care infection and care homes across the globe under the spotlight at this time its quite alarming whats being uncovered just how bad a situation you think were facing here. Well look i think were facing a situation that only just coming to light where we know that we have very vulnerable residents there the elderly they were going into a flu epidemic or flu season and they are incredibly vulnerable because they would in a situation that we would cold a super spreading environment be kept inside an aged care facility often sharing rooms having a common dining room and of course they would have locked it down so that theres no visitors in and out according to the plan for a code 19 but the staff still come and go so the staff can be bringing in code with them as well so we really need to look after our most vulnerable in the community regardless of which country were talking about there is no except to pull explanation for this yeah and many countries are also reporting a shortage of a protective equipment and and testing to say nice care homes you know is there a way to know how many of these elderly people have actually died from call that 1000 at this stage could we see an even higher death toll because of this. Yes look often after an epidemic or a notch pandemic each country will revise their the numbers because then they will look at the disks that they put aside as old age maybe a disease or employment and then decide on the likelihood of in fact it was probably close at 19 because many of these deaths will not have a forensic examination to it to identify actually how they do die so the numbers will never be perfect for how many of them died from code that 19 sadly he spoke of. What may have contributed to the outbreak in these homes tell us a bit bit more about that and what do you think can be done better to protect these anthony people and in fact is there any level of preparation in these homes that would have been enough to prepare against a previously unknown virus like 90. Yes well one of the problems in. A Residential Care facility is you dont want to isolate the elderly in the last few years of their life from others however sometimes you have to do this to save their lives and then they have a problem with. People sharing rooms so how do you protect them from from each other from infection and that is a very vexed one so often the the 1st port of call is where theyre going to get most of the risk and that is from the start to start me to be vigilant in their hand hygiene and be vigilant in their environmental cleaning of the Nursing Homes plus they probably should be wearing a mask while theyre there now that its very hard to wear a mask or full shift their their heart their on comfortable so then the. The the manages all of these Nursing Homes. Should be thinking about how many hours face to face should they were because they expected to wear a mask and i know that were talking about this for our Health Care Workers and were reducing the number of clinical hours so that they can wear a mask comfortably and this is a sort of thing that theyre going to have to think about with the with the carers with the nursing staff and that would certainly reduce the risk for the very vulnerable. The carers thank you so much for talking to us about this thank you for your expertise mary louise macross professor at the university of New South Wales joining us from sydney we appreciate your time pleasure. Now the democratic governor of the u. S. State of washington has accused donald trump for mentoring domestic rebellion and spreading lies after the president signal support for conservatives protesting against knock down walls. His supporters to liberate 3 states a day after he said its up to governors to decide when and how to dress tractions hundreds have joined rallies across the u. S. Demanding an end to the shutdown and gallagher has anitas from miami. This is the president really playing politics because guess what all 3 of those states have democratic governors there are protests in other states like utah and also here in florida in orlando the president is clearly playing politics here when he was asked about it at his latest press conference he said look those people are being treated rough thats clearly not the case people in all of the states across the entire country are following the c. D. C. Guidelines are supposed to social distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus what youve got here is an ideological split between conservatives who want to see businesses reopen who think that the cure may be worse than the disease itself and then youve got a democratic governors who are trying to very slowly reopen carefully doing this by watching the medical advice by looking at the numbers vitally so the president is very aware of who is talking to the people on the streets in those 3 states michigan minnesota and virginia i was all wearing my hat some of them carrying guns they are trumps base so thats who hes speaking to he was never going to walk those comments back despite the fact hes been criticized by members of his own party or the conservatives say look you simply cannot do this jay inslee the governor of washington saying look this could incite violence we are at a very critical juncture in this country right now there is a a plan to slowly reopen things its going to be science based thats what the president himself said and here. He is backing up far right people armed people on the streets of these 3 states saying that theyre being treated roughly in a so its clear what the president here is doing but its also clearly pretty irresponsible at this moment in time theres a great deal of pressure for people to get back to work those 22000000 people have now filed for unemployment there is a desire to do that but to do that carefully so youve got President Trump on one hand saying hey governors you get to call the shots and then on the other hand tweeting out these these messages of support to people who are taking to the streets with guns and in one case yelling to the governor there lock her up lock her up so hes playing politics without question. I got tamala says several migrants on a u. S. Deportation flight have tested positive for covert 19 present and 100 jemma taste says u. S. Health officials tested a random selection in at least 12 came back with positive results the migrants were returned to guatemala on monday a deportation flights have now been suspended the World Health Organization is warning africa could become the next at the center of the pandemic so far they have been fewer than a 1000 deaths from call the 1000. 00 across the continent a much lower rate than in the u. S. And europe the United Nations says its likely the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly 30000000. 00 into poverty u. N. Secretary general Antonio Terris has said africa needs more than 200000000000. 00 to combat the virus and the w. H. O. Fears the death toll could already be far higher in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own going to in and africa and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported diseases with the current job doing testing kits its likely that the real numbers are. Not reported. On the jury is president s chief of staff has died from corona virus kerry was a top aide to president Mahmoud Abbas hiree and one of the most powerful men in nigeria he traveled to germany and egypt early last month before falling ill gary was in his seventys and out and out Underlying Health problems including diabetes. So had on aljazeera as he Coronavirus Crisis deepens in north america canadians come together to help societies most vulnerable to the goods and services they need. The air. But. Hello there the Winter Weather very much weathers across Central Regions of the United States is right in the forecast as well but of course its been about this cold air plunging south and the snow that we have seen so have a look at this westminster in colorado really quite deep and of course theyre trying to keep the streets into denver as much as 15 centimeters has come down in 24 hours into the mountains to the west of denver the estimate about half a meter about the time this system is done now through saturday its a better picture across the Central Plains how much is improving in denver. And thunderstorms along the south and then we got this big system carrying fairly quickly away from the northeast so feeling cool a sunny just 11 in new york and then sunday is a better day up into the northeast we could see some lake effect snow around the lakes pushing up into eastern as a candidate but look at this mass of blue across much of the south in the southeast now again this could mean the arrival of severe thunderstorms aware that the threat of tornadoes very warm air in place well keep an eye on that discussion you showers pushing on towards the 4 Corners Region and then 3 Central America the caribbean mickelson showers working their way through florida down across into northern sections of the bahamas but really elsewhere calm quiet and warming cancun city. From fossil fuels to a renewable as societies develop the energy. 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And the nigerian president s chief of staff has died from the coronavirus of a carriage travel to germany and egypt last month before falling ill it was in the seventys and had Underlying Health problems. Ecuadors worse hit city is reeling from a huge surge in colvin 1000 deaths officially around 400 people have died in the country so far but doctors say that number of deaths in the province that the number of deaths in the province is actually much higher the government tested using giant refrigerated containers just or bodies the mayor of says called 900. 00 hit it like a bomb and overwhelmed hospitals. In peru around 150 people have been detained for breaking quarantine measures police picked them up on one of the highways that connects the capital lima to the regions they say they want to go back to their villages because theyve lost their jobs and fear they could starve if they stay in the city. Brazils president meanwhile has defended his decision to fire his Health Minister after they clashed over as opposed to topping the call the 900. 00 crisis at the inauguration of his new Health Ministers i have also narrow double down on his plan to end restrictions and reopen brazils economy its very good to be reports a swearing in ceremony for brazils new Health Minister nelson time the president jaya bills and already used the occasion to defend his controversial handling of the coronavirus pandemic not least his decision to fire his previous Health Minister louis deta he refused to play down the risks of covert 19 i stand for history will judge us and i ask god that we are right the struggle to start opening up for business is a risk that i will try it for if it gets worse its only what i believe and what lots of people are coming to realize is that the country has to open up. Mandela wanted to implement World Health Organization guidelines but both sonora opposes social distancing measures planned at a sacking has worried brazilians. Its a bad idea because the guy was doing a good job hes the guy who reassured the people asking them to stay at home but he went against also north opinions and so