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Says will give hope to other parts of the world class. The georgia braces for a rise in infections after bowing to religious pressure and allowing churches to open orthodox easter. The British Government has denied reports that it wasted time and botched its response to the coronavirus pandemic with Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly to blame a damning report in the sunday Times Newspaper says johnston ignored scientists warnings and skipped 5 emergency meetings in the run up to the crisis this is the u. K. Recorded 596 more deaths pushing the total past 16000 elsewhere in europe italy and spain of recorded their lowest daily death tolls in about a month with 433 and 410 deaths respectively but numbers keep rising across the atlantic with more than 40000 people now dead in the u. S. The worlds worst affected country meanwhile south korea which once had the worst outbreak outside china has recorded just 8 new infections well have more on that shortly but 1st this report from paul brennan. The accusations of complacency a misjudgment to spread across 4 pages the headline a damning assessment of government failure to prepare the quotes alleged 5 weeks of missed opportunities and political in nashua the British Governments National Crisis committee is called by the acronym cobra Prime Minister Boris Johnsons failure to attend any of the 1st 5 coronavirus cobra meetings is singled out for particular criticism government ministers reject the sunday times allegations the idea that the Prime Minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the growing of us i think its protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard by the Health Secretary some chaired by other ministers but the Prime Minister took all the major decisions i think anyone. Considered happened upon is just a little while ago nobody can see that its some throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus an unnamed Senior Advisor to downing street is quoted in the sunday times as saying this is no way youre at war if your pm isnt there he liked his country breaks he didnt work weekends theres a real sense that he didnt do crisis planning and a Senior Source at the department of health is also quoted saying yes a pandemic was always at the top of our National Risk register always but when it came we just slowly watched the Prime Minister from the moment that it became clear that there were challenges in terms of coronavirus developing in in china has absolutely been leading our nations effort to combat the coronavirus making sure that resources and money is not an issue or concern for any department especially Health Service in terms of dealing with this. As britain start their 5th week of partial lockdown the government is firefighting criticisms from several angles concerns are growing the frontline medical staff are running desperately low on supply. The protective masks and surgical gowns. National Health Service providers warn on friday that stocks may run out within 48 hours the government said 84. 00 tons of that equipment would arrive on sunday from turkey the shipment now wont arrive as planned. Groups are also saying that a lack of testing means the true scale of deaths and infections among the elderly are being seriously underestimated by the government with more than 4000 fatalities not officially accounted for paul brennan aljazeera westminster. American is a doctor with the u. K. s national Health Service and a senior lecturer at the leeds school of medicine he joins us via skype thank you very much indeed for being with us so whats your reaction to these reports that the government was unprepared and reacted too slowly in the early days of the Pandemic Response yeah i read that article in the times today. As a Health Care Worker and the need to work you know most days every week you know risk by self risking my family and to hear that and to read that really does get you very angry to not which is not to put too fine a point on it because were doing all we can and were being told the government is doing everything they can and it now seems that they havent always been doing everything they can and it just makes you think you know were putting our lives at risk we just expect that much from them at least just a half a 2nd i just want to play you from the Daily Briefing earlier in and deputy chief medical officer she was asked about the lack of preparedness particular on personal protective equipment thats how listen to her reaction. The u. K. Regardless of the position that we may be in or common tree has been an International Example in preparedness so the fact that there is a pandemic influenza stockpile is considered a very high quality mark of the prepared country in National Terms what we have has essentially stated said and many others have noted it is a huge demand on our supply and i think we have had if if i might say from my own professional perspective. We could perhaps have a more adult and more detailed conversation about p. P. Supplies. So amerikana it in adults fashion whats the situation in the hospital youre in if you use or surprised by that the terms of she years are. Well you know im im very happy to have a National Conversation about about things that i think i was hoping thats what we had been doing all along weve been told all along that the problem with p. V. Isnt the number of the Quantity Available its getting it to us but now were being told that there is a problem with downs and there is a problem with surgical masks so im not quite sure you know why theres a problem with it being an adult conversation where you know weve been trying to have an almost conversation all along and weve been saying as Health Care Professionals that there is a shortage of people its not just a case of it not being able to code to as if theres a shortage in this country of p. P. And thats where they adult conversation has to be had you know in a hospital or where ok but you know 2 or 3 days time we may not have enough so i said you can get down all masks and that is a worry and weve had orders canceled because they just cant surprise cant get them so it is a real worry and ive got a lot of respect for jenny who was speaking there. Was Health Care Professionals are willing to have adult conversations all along as long as that almost enough so we wont really know if there wasnt enough preparation in the run up to this so you concerned about the preparations for for the 2nd order effect of perhaps patients who now are not getting treated because they have other conditions that arent related to kevin 19 but that could be put at risk whats your personal experience of that and and how how much preparation is there for that for those kind of issues. Yes so the government has put out a call to to the public saying that we are open for business you know thats primary care thats cheap pieces reason and i do work in g. P. Surgery as well and i can say ive got 25000 patients on my books and normally before we were getting 30 to 40 patients coming in with potential cancers signs that we had to refer me to hospital so 30 to 40 a week if you compare that to now during the crew virus crisis where we get into with 3 a week so some where theres a group of patients with very serious worrying signs who arent coming in to see its about them either theyre worried that they may catch karuna virus if they leave their homes or they worry that they may overburden our services so yes theres definitely going to be a backlog of patients who have been sitting at home with worrying symptoms. And yet apart from saying where open for business there isnt anything else being done and im not sure what else can be done apart from teacher to really tell people that please come and see your physicians your primary care physicians the g. P. s if you are worried about any symptoms because west ill theyre westville working every single day. Ok just to be brief if you had to prioritize one thing in this in this crisis continues what would you prioritize p. P. That is all i would approach as you know weve got to protect ourselves if west see patients time ican thank you very much indeed take the time to join us not just here thank you and. Cautious optimism in europe to west affected countries spain and italy have recorded their lowest day death tolls from the corona virus in about a month with 473 and 410 deaths respectively. Spains Top Health Official says the latest numbers give the country hope the show is on the correct path spain has only strictest lock down measures in europe and the set to be extended until the 9th of may with this relief for families of the Prime Minister signalled that from the 27th of april children will be allowed out for fresh air for the 1st time in weeks. The number of People Killed by the corona virus in the United States is now past 40000 that makes americas death toll almost double that of italy the 2nd hardest hit country the number has increased by 10000 in just 4 days during that time President Donald Trump has continued to argue that states should reopen their economies governors in the west it states say its too soon for that they want more tests to detect new infections before they can reopen and he joins us live from miami under the the latest figures a pretty staggering on a. They are very startling theres a few institutions here and a few agencies that cover these figures i read them this morning 2 out of 3 of them now say the death toll stands at more than 40000 much of our days down to under reported cases that have now been imploded in places like new york which of course is the epicenter meanwhile the governors of all the states are under immense pressure now to try and reopen the connelly the beaches here in Jacksonville Florida opened up yesterday texas talking about the same thing but the situation for somewhere like new york is extremely different that has been the epicenter Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference earlier look were not even at harvest time yet meanwhile the pressure is piling on not just from President Trump himself whos tweeting out that some states need to be liberated those states by the way led by democratic governors but hes in a very difficult situation hes doing the best he can he says hes not getting the federal help but there are also republican governors saying to the president were not ready its not time yet and thats an unusual thing republicans generally in this country dont speak out against President Trump but this whole thing is now becoming deeply deeply politicized and you see a consensus on what they need. To establish before they can. I mean weve heard this over and over again from all sorts of officials its testing testing testing testing kits are in short supply the testing stations that have been set up all over the country some of them are far away from metropolitan areas some of them just simply on there so there is this kind of feeling from all these leaders that that is what they need mostly of course personal protective equipment is also in in short supply the President Trumps tweeting out this morning we have a king a ventilators that simply isnt the case but president watches the stock market more than anything else that i think he views is ace up his sleeve to get reelected in november the stock markets been going through a turbulent time to say the least so he wants to see the country going again and of course youve got this growing protest movements across the country weve got fresh protests today in colorado and all across the nation from people saying look the cure is potentially worse than the disease we need to get back to work our businesses are in danger are very livelihoods are in danger so every decision now made by these individual governors whove been given the power to make these moves to get the economy back again are literally life and death decisions right now because there is this pressure this delicate balancing act to get the economy running again of course the worlds biggest economy but theres also a great deal of concern about the coronavirus not just coming back but in some states it hasnt even peak yet its not supposed to peak here in florida and so perhaps towards the end of this month maybe even into next month and again i thank you very much indeed. In japan the number of coronavirus cases has doubled in just 10 days as a new wave of infections threatens to overwhelm hospitals 568 new cases have been confirmed the total number to more than 11174 people have died from the disease but the state of emergency expanded nationwide on thursday but the actual number of infections is expected to be far higher as japans testing is limited. By contrast south koreas number of new daily cases has fallen to Single Digits for the 1st time in 2 months its confirmed 8 new infections with the total number of cases standing and 1060234 people have died from the disease south korea previously and asias highest number of infections outside china but has been praised for its widespread testing and has started easing restrictions as the new jane says he hopes his progress will give hope to other parts of the world to view the pollen in hong kong as more the situation in japan and how south korea has made such a dramatic comeback. Its been a remarkable turnaround for south korea which at the beginning of this year became the epicenter of the coronavirus after china with increase new infections increasing up at about a 1000 a day south koreas managed to get that in control by still avoiding the extreme lock downs weve seen in other parts of the region what theyve done instead is aggressive testing and theyve managed to track and trace high risk people or people who are in quarantine from horn of virus japan is exactly the opposite story of south korea at the height of the outbreak earlier this year they had managed to avoid any kind of major infection rates but now japans infection rates are just surging and soaring and part of the reason for this except to be the fact that they havent been extensively testings people also japans hospitals are said to be on the brink of collapse theres not enough icy units not at all fed and beds more worryingly theres just not enough ventilators now thats what you need in the later stages of coronavirus also Health Workers are complaining that they dont have enough protective gear and the japanese government has said they will start providing all of this that extended the state of emergency across the country but the problem is because of japans constitution they cannot and forth those measures so people arent social distancing enough despised government warnings particularly due to the culture where people are still going to work and are not working from home. I mean often this news hour from london the venezuelan migrants risking their lives to help colombians survive the coronavirus pandemic class each year as i. See your problem of bringing food from your soil. A poetic tribute to the key workers keeping britain going through the crisis. Israelis have been enjoying an easing of restrictions after the Prime Minister announced what he described as a responsible and gradual plan to reopen the country some Small Businesses including household and hardware shops have been allowed to reopen preg other rings of up to 9000 people are also allowed as well as social distancing measures a respected israel took a strong and early response to the outbreak and has seen a recent slowdown in infection rates. Russias president has used his Easter Sunday message to reassure the nation there corona Virus Outbreak is under full control despite a record daily rise in new cases seated in front of a roaring fire with easter eggs traditional sweet bread and a big part of teen x. To him that may put an assistant russia has everything it needs to tackle a virus. It live to work. Through we have everything a Strong Healthy economy Scientific Capabilities the necessary material and professional foundation in the Health Care System when youve lived. All levels of government working with thought at least smoothly and responsibly the situation is under complete control all our society is pulling together in front of a common threat. Meanwhile russia has reported more than 6000. 00 coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours that takes the countrys total to more than 42000. 00 its official total of 321. 00 deaths is relatively low compared to other countries but concerns about russias ability to deal with the outbreak linger with reports from local officials of a lack of hospital beds and supplies maria lipman is a senior associate at the institute for European Russian and eurasian studies at George Washington university she says britains address was out of touch with how Many Russians feel about the outbreak what people are who we concerned about at this point is the Economic Situat