Rid of this thing in the future and if sunlight is good thats a great thing as far as im concerned the u. S. President s task force presents unconfirmed research saying that heat and humidity have an impact on the ground virus. And how this city is mostly the holy month of ramadan will be followed different as the faithful are forced to take a different approach during the pandemic. While we begin with yet another grim tally of deaths from the new coronavirus coming out of the United States 3176. 00 people have died and just 24 hours and that takes the total number of deaths there to nearly 50000. 00 thats the highest anywhere in the wild globally there are now more than 202700000. 00 infections and over 190000 deaths on the economic front of the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 really felt to keep Small Business as a for some provide funds for hospitals had passed with big bipartisan support and will now go to president for his final up. Weevil it follows a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package that was pasta last month more than 26000000. 00 americans are now unemployed in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out and at his Daily Briefing on the question of virus response u. S. President on trump said the economy would bounce back quickly but insisted that lockdown measures will continue until there is a drop in the number of infections. Or economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and thats happening as we speak and its actually very exciting and. People are just its just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether its a demonstration or just in talking to people they going to get back to work and theyre going to get back to work very fast well that White House Briefing was mostly dominated by President Trump and his head of science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security presenting information about how the virus reacts to heat humidity and light now the reception is preliminary and has not been peer of years as a time when the science is far from being conclusive to prove if the virus is actually seasonal every 18 hours the virus the life of the virus is cut in half so if you start with a 1000 particles of the virus in 18 hours youre down to 518 hours after that youre down to 250 and so on and so forth temperature increases as the humidity increases with no sun involved you can see how drastically the half life goes down on that virus so that the virus is dying at a much more rapid pace just from exposure to higher temperatures and just an exposure humidity supposing we hit somebody with a tremendous whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful late. And i think you said that hasnt been checked but youre going to test it and then i said supposing you brought the lady inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. In some other way and i think you said youre going to test the kill sounds interesting right in that i see the disinfectant but not see that in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do Something Like that. By injection. Or almost a cleaning as you say gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number of so be interesting to check so that you can have to use medical doctors with well lets say to dennis nash in new york says hes an epidemiologist working in Population Health at City University of new york mr nash quite the suggestion there from President Trump and there is still so many gaps in knowledge about this virus obviously weve also been seeing spread in hostile him in places Southeast Asia india last in america not to mention new orleans and florida so how does this report and the white house response to it fits in with that well and i agree. Its if hes not a medical or Public Health expert and he doesnt pass on the advice that is true medical and Public Health experts i think most people are smart enough to know that they should be taking medical or Public Health advice from President Trump they should be listening to Expert Opinions true experts career experts and federal and state and local governments and while this is all coming at a time when states and countries are considering reopening bought most if not all medical experts are saying that will continue seeing waves of infection for as long as we dont have a vaccine and optimistically about potentially a year away at least can lockdowns be eased knowing that subsequent waves that are likely to happen. I do think they can be used but i dont think they can be used in the u. S. Right now the u. S. Is just not ready to safely relax physical distinct measures many things need to be in place before that could happen but when jurisdictions do relax physical distance to succeed measures i mean to be sure there will be subsequent waves of Community Transmission but a few things need to be in place. We still have an overwhelming number of cobi cases in hospitals and i see use in many places around the u. S. And until we can reduce those hospitalizations to imagine that is a level we really cant think about reopening society and 2nd our Health Care Workers are 1st responders and other and essential workers continue to be placed that are at risk and until we can ensure their safety in the event of a future surge we can think about reopening society and 3rd even if we can get to a place where its safe for the next phase of the Public Health response really requires a skilled scalable implementation strategies for testing and Contact Tracing and isolation and quarantine. And we just dont have those right now anywhere in the u. S. And just to speak to those places in the u. S. That dont have a lot of cases right now or hospitalizations or deaths they may not be in a bad place right now but its quite possible that they could be if they do relax physical testing system measures and i think they need to be ready before they do mr nash i do want to ask you about antibody tests at a number of studies i believe in the netherlands california and the italian town of though they suggest that any 3 percent of people have had the virus in those communities and also we dont even know if a certain whether having had the virus actually kind of fasm unity so doesnt that make any kind of reopening incredibly risky. Well i dont think that we will be we can get to a place where its going to be where everyone is immune before or reopen were going to have to reopen were not even sure that people who are infected actually get immune to the the virus on this is an open question right now that it really needs to be sorted out. And infection crude and curt true christians are no immunity it could control in the short term immunity or it could can for a long term immunity but we really dont know yet so i think you know the different estimates that were getting from antibody tests and in populations around us. First that the tests are not really you know fully validated and reliable yet and theyre especially concerning in situations where the prevalence is low. So we need a lot more validation work for these tests before we can begin to really to rely on them to give us good information but you can also expect to see really big differences between one Geographic Area and another if if if places in california for example were much more likely to to start. You know stay at home orders before spread really became wide theyre going to have a lower prevalence of antibodies than places like new york that were late in the game in getting the state home orders in place we had. Our governor today in new york announce some results of an ad of a serial logic survey that they did that show really quite high prevalence but not so much in the way of details about how they arrived at their estimates and which serial logic tests theyre using so i think there are a lot of open questions here and people need to sort them as well questions still to be answered dennis nash and epidemiologist speaking to us from new york sessile thank you mr nash for joining us and. Thank you. Now to those record unemployment claims in the United States a sad day by the Pew Research Center reveals that 43 percent of americans say they or someone in their family have either lost their jobs so taking a pay cut because of the outbreak 1. 00 of those people is on shabana end and Sarasota Florida he was laid off from his bartending job after boston restaurants were forced to close his home and out days had government websites is making it difficult to apply for Unemployment Benefits but the federal benefit was easy i believe if you just pay your taxes they send you a check or direct deposit but the state. Unemployment benefit is really difficult in florida the unemployment benefit actually made National News because its so ineffectual website is very old even though they revamped it in 2015. It failed every audit every year since then and when this came to this crash it took me a week of constantly trying to get through the unemployment process before i was my information is even accepted by. Government and it took exactly a month almost for them to tell me that i was in had a notable to receive any Unemployment Benefits. Now European Union leaders have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect their Single Market from the effects of the corona Virus Outbreak they have agreed on money to Work Together to find a way out of the crisis but seemed less united on what that should look like this as some countries begin to ease restrictions the Czech Republic for instance has lifted a ban on overseas travel while others are pushing ahead with the search for a vaccine. Reports. In this laboratory in oxford a glimmer of hope shimon trials have now begun here with a vaccine. Researchers are confident that it could take just months before they know if it would work in manufacturing it on a large scale could take much longer but hopefully this will give us some good data and then hopefully in a couple of months or maybe a year or so we will be able to protect more people. In germany the 1st day back at school but nothing like these peoples could have imagined the partial reopening old peoples only carries many restrictions social distancing is tightly in force between their designated desks the usual hive of energy replaced by a more careful serious mood despite having the 5th largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world germany is slowly relaxing its lockdown but a desire for things to return to normal as well as fears over the Economic Impact of the pandemic have come with a warning from the chancellor Angela Merkel is ive been in this not often targeted but i will therefore tell you quite frankly that i fully support the decisions taken by the federal and state governments on wednesday last week but the implementation since then worries me in part it seems to me very brisk some of it seems to me to be quite brisk if not to say to praise. For the European Union the full extent of the damage the pandemic has caused the block wont be revealed for months but it is preparing for a slump the like of which has not been seen since world war 2 the European Commission has suggested a 325000000000. 00 Recovery Fund for his forthcoming budget as well as borrowing another 350000000000. 00 from the Capital Markets for the spending that really optimistic because even if its a difficult even if of course there was difference in cities in europe and goes into the surprise i feel there is a very Strong Political arena to Work Together and to succeed to build compromises. On the political strains are already evident wealthier countries such as france remain under pressure to provide aid to the blocs less well off members as a test of solidarity that could define the very future of the union itself so nick i i go out there a. Well thought africas president says he will gradually is a nationwide lockdown mess starting early next month so rama poses has some parts of the economy will be allowed to reopen and he also called on all sub africans to stop Wearing Masks outdoors he says restrictions will be left in slowly to reduce the risk of a spike in infections people that have been on living under some of the strictest quarantine measures in africa with an unprecedented deployment of troops. Beyond thursday the 30th of april we should begin a gradual and phased recovery of Economic Activity we were implementing. What we call a risk adjusted strategy through which we take a deliberate and a horse approach to the easing of carbon and lock down construction. Still ahead on aljazeera and cases of coronavirus saw a prosperous America Brazil peru and ecuador see the effects of valery. And robots in schools to monitor temperature and to spend family time that as thousands of students in hong kong prepared to fit in University Entrance that. Hello the weather is looking bright and breezy for japan at the moment weve got some bands of clouds and shabby rain just pulling out of the way but with stooge ragging in and north westerly wind a chance of want to see showers into that western side of honshu as a result of that crane potentially generally try and find try and find as the northern parts of china to beijing on the warm side for friday at 28 celsius is near a 22 as we go on through saturday sunshine coming back into much of japan by this day southern parts of china will still see a few showers particularly down towards the southwest into those northern parts of vietnam a scattering of showers to into india china its a fair amount of cloud still lingering here at present so youll see some showers there into laos and cambodia into thailand to other gulf of thailand some rather wet weather usual rash of showers through much of Southeast Asia but somewhat dry there for indonesia for a time but a dry weather into south asia we have got some lively showers still lingering there around bangladesh the far northeast of india the snow showers there the kabul shock is there continuing to a rumble away some of them on the backside there will see some of that western weather just pushing towards kolkata for a time elsewhere its fine dry im hot. Throughout history human kind has come together to prevail in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite side laying low saving humankind by really really not getting near every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who will come after this war is ours. The in the the in. Hello again im just. A reminder of our top stories this hour the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 relief bill to keep Small Businesses afloat during the quran a virus and demming provide funds for hospitals and follows a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package that was passed last month. A record 26400000 americans have lost their jobs since the end of last month and just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession been wiped out. And European Union leaders have held their 4th video summit on ways to protect their Single Market from the effects of the outbreak theyre seeking a joint Financial Fund of up to 2 trillion dollars to recover the economy. While its exam time for students in hong kong with the wilds with the years most important academic tests underway more than 52000. 00 students are preparing to sit the University Entrance exams which were postponed last month due to the coronavirus schools have been closed across hong kong for most of the year with Students Learning online restrictions are set to remain in place in the city despite the number of daily cases staying in the Single Digits for almost 2 weeks sarah clarke our correspondent is live outside of school and hong kong so are there been multiple measures implemented to try to protect students there to let these exams go ahead talk us through them. The having the governments handed out a number of funds to the schools across hong kong to allow for these exams and to take place now as you mentioned got 52000 students who will take these exams over the next month or so when were at one of the Examination Centers there are 350. 00 set up where we are its and joyces Primary SchoolSenior School i should say in Central Hong Kong and the safety precautions that have been put in place weve got gallons and masks that the students and teachers have been allowed to wear of course weve got the social distancing rules