With hospitals full of patients im often berlin this is the day. That parks and i spent a considerable amount of time going over all the data why we felt this was the best choice of us and the president accepted it so youre talking about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from the us we feel that the mitigation that were doing right now is having an effect if we could hold that down as were saying 200000 its a horrible number. Maybe even less but 2100000 so we have between 10200000. We altogether of done a very good nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is gone. Also coming up with billions of people social dense distain and many in self isolation how in the world are we supposed to keep it all together i get up every morning at the same time i put on my make up 1 call then no one will see me and make myself the same breakfast and v. K. You know all of this just to pretend that everythings normal. On to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the. World we begin the day with a new week in the worlds new corona virus pandemic epicenter the United States late last week the death toll in the u. S. Hit 1000 just 24 hours later it had double the u. S. Now has more confirmed cases than any other country after weeks of hoping to have the u. S. Back to normal by easter u. S. President trump has now reversed course and changed his message on sunday he said restrictions on travel will remain in effect perhaps until june and the worlds biggest economy will also remain shut down the viruses impact led Congress Last week to pass a 2 trillion dollar stimulus plan the largest in u. S. History there is already talk on capitol hill of the need for government to do more our coverage starts tonight where the pandemic is hottest and deadliest in america new york city a welcome sight for new york as the battle against the coronavirus ramps up. A u. S. Navy medical ship with a 1000 beds docked in new york harbor on monday. The mayor spoke of the citys frayed nerves with hospitals are already stretched to a breaking point weve all been through a lot these last few weeks. And we needed this post we needed this hope thats being created by our brothers and sisters the u. S. Navy the marine corps central park in the middle of manhattan is the latest site to be taken over by a Field Hospital but new york has been caught in a war of words President Donald Trump says that medical equipment already in place should be enough for the city but the mayor and the state governors say they both need more help from the federal government to be ready for whats coming. It is a fundamental blunder. To only prepare for today thats why in some ways we are where we are weve been at behind this virus from day one you have the scientist in the data projections show you a curve the curve goes like this youre over here prepare for the high point of the curve and do it now when you can do it the night before medics have become the heroines and heroes of the day and monday was Even National doctors day but in new york theyve had no chance to celebrate theyre on the front lines in a city or the coronavirus death toll is rising rapidly. For more lets go now to where the pandemic is hitting hardest in the u. S. New york city im joined now by correspondent james ronnell from manhattan good evening to you james talked to me about the situation in the city tonight we are already reading Horror Stories from new York Hospitals on the verge of collapsing because so many people are getting sick. Yes Horror Stories indeed i think one of the most shocking images which at the moment is sending a chill down the shiver of the lines of new york its a viral video posted on social media from brooklyn and it shows them having images of body by lined up outside a hospital in brooklyn and then being loaded on a forklift truck into a refrigerated truck members of the public nearby looking in for a situation which would have been unimaginable a few weeks ago and were hearing stories from inside the hospital from doctors and nurses who are overworked working long hours say they dont have enough protective gear they dont have some of them having to keep their mouth and use them for much longer and theyre actually meant having to find ingenious way of cleaning them making them last longer not working that i think. Among doctors including death of course its not all bad what you have described as a Field Hospital being erected in central park of all places perhaps coming on line at the moment also today a large naval vessel will become arrived in new york just on the other side of town and not direction from a. 750 bed and a Convention Center opened up as well in the same direction also with a large number of but the big question is of course is it all going to be enough. Well on sunday james the u. S. President seemed to imply that at new York Hospitals the the call for more protective equipment is the result of theft take a listen to what the president said that statement was made that theyve been delivering for years 10 to 20000 masks ok its a New York Hospital very suspect all the time how do you go from 1222300000. 1220000 masks 2300000 even though this is different somethings going on and you want to look into it as reporters where the masculine i think going out the back door its important to know james that the u. S. President he gave evidence of what he suggested there has there been reaction in new york to what the president said well i think from the people ive spoken to as often as the case President Trump that the reaction is something of a cringe Big Questions about for example who is going to be stealing. At the moment what will be the goal of it that has been a formal reaction from kenneth roth from the greater New York Hospital if they. Put it this way. Dr the not. Treating an exploding number of coronavirus he said they did better than these comments from President Trump about the possibility of sound effect by mouth but many people just a diversion tactic and it relates to the ongoing route between the state and washington to whether or not the federal government is helping out americans across the country as much as it should be doing there is no nationwide walk down in the United States but the centers for Disease Control has issued a travel advisory for anyone going to new york in several neighboring states are you noticing any impact from that any difference there in the city. Yeah the travel advisory came in in the last 24 hours so. People in new york state connecticut i think the 3 states the northeast of the country no travel across state lines but the next day its an advisory its not going to be enforced and theyre often called out for it people delivering food people involved in providing health care. Are allowed to travel i dont see any major impact of it yet but i think there are 2 think. One of them a lot of people who were going to lead new york because of the scale of the epidemic here have done so already but if they did have a house down in florida maybe they moved to it already the other wanted of course that some people are. Not going to move day might have the virus in that white about taking it out of the country there is this big disconnect in america at the moment youve got the cities reeling from shinn factions youve got rural areas that seem resistant to warnings do you expect this to change now that u. S. President trump has retreated from his hope of returning the country to normal by easter. Yes sometimes the airfields in america like you living in 2 countries here we are in new york in the lockdown talking about body bags and called up outside hospitals and then i talk to tell my friends and relatives and out of the country perhaps more rule areas and what are they doing you know having dinner policies where not even talking to their guests about a quote a virus and finding out that anybody might be infected or a little bit of a check because some kind of telltale sign and so yeah it is reince posting the device that weve seen for a long time in america perhaps whereby metropolitan and liberal people are more concerned about the virus talking about taking responsibility talking about social distancing and implementing these measures and so have another attitude which you might see on the right of the political spectrum that dream which is weve got to get this country moving again weve got to get the economy going what markets have already tanked unemployment over the high thats going to be over the long run but when it comes to donald trump and its plan and the pushback of that doesnt seem likely and any time coming up in the next few weeks our correspondent james ronald joining us tonight from new york james thank you very much stay safe and stay healthy. On this side of the atlantic a reason for cautious hope in italy where more than 11000 have already died from the virus the number of deaths fell over the weekend along with the number of new patients needing Critical Care could Continental Europe strategy could it be repeated in the u. K. The outbreak there is still in its early stages but more than 1400 people have already died from the virus the pandemic has already arrived at number 10 downing street as well with britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and his Health Minister both in isolation after testing positive for the virus and now Boris Johnsons chief adviser Dominique Cummings hes also out of action you see him right there he was last seen in public leaving downing street on friday cummings is self isolating after developing symptoms over the weekend senior u. K. Officials have been criticized for ignoring social distancing and holding face to face meetings until very recently at the same tell us they were advising the rest of the country to stay at home and to avoid all but essential contact with others. All right for more on the situation in the u. K. We want to bring in quittin feel he is from the think tank Chatham House he is currently in south wales at the moment when its good to have you back on the show with so many senior members of the cabinet in quarantine how effective can the running of government be right now at such a crucial time. Well its obviously a problem i dont think its a fundamental problem johnson insists that even though hes isolated hes still in charge Dominic Cummings his chief advisor hes the latest to go down. East clearly but hes somehow in contact and weve seen today weve had the foreign secretary dominic hes the deputy Prime Minister hes been sort of taking. The wood so there is a big team there but nonetheless its embarrassing that so many people at the heart of this operation have actually become infected because it rather suggests that theyve not been doing practicing what they preached thats to say theyve infection each other the governments chief scientific adviser says the u. K. Is what you describe as tracking alongside france as far as the infections are concerned how confident is the government that it can avoid these horrible scenes that weve experienced in italy in spain. I think there is a real the snus that the National Health service could get overwhelmed a little bit like its a nice bit overwhelmed the figure that came out today is that one quarter of all the doctors working for the National Health service are at the moment not reporting for duty because theyve been forced to go into isolation because theyve got all the virus or because members of the family thought to of course the virus so if theyre functioning on 83 quarters of the doctors in the system and weve nowhere near reached the peak yet which is probably going to come in 3 or 4 weeks time i think thats the great. And the criticism of the government has been theyve simply had not been doing enough testing to know who is infected and who isnt if they could test these doctors they might be a lot able to have the back of. The shocking number there were a quarter of the physicians not reporting to work the u. K. We understand quit in the u. K. Missed out on a scheme from the European Union to buy ventilators in baulked at a reduced price because that offer appearing lee landed in the spam mail folder that was the government explaining this. They say there was a miscommunication the truth is that as we can understand it from brussels british officials were in on the meetings discussing this old exercise right from the beginning but the left hand doesnt seem to know what the right tent is doing sometimes when they were challenged about this last week the number 10 downing street press office said whenever a longer a member of the European Union say wait were going to do this ourselves then they said it was a miscommunication now theyre trying desperately to get out details of what they will do at this end so that theyll have enough ventilators at the moment theyve got 8008 as they want to have somewhere between 30 and 40000 thats when you know thats a big number and they are there a long ways from it what about the negotiations with the European Union on a post braggs deal quinten i mean you know these negotiations are supposed to be finished by the end of this year. Theyre supposed to be really reaching a decision on whether they can hit the deadline by the end of june so theyve got a very short time its as if theres just a refusal to face up to reality that says look the any sensible thing is to start the deadline for breaks it but Boris Johnson has made it a huge deal that hes going to get it by the end of the we wont extend the transition period and so its become a political issue put all these things really have been overwhelmed by the current of our a situation that i think has got it will eventually theyll say sorry we cant do it well need an extension but hey were not there yet because there is a sense of denial in government one about the the Economic Impact of this pandemic on the u. K. Easy jet today announced that its basically grounding the entire fleet. Thats a huge change. Its a huge gesture all the airlines have been really badly hit by the slump it bookings the slump in people traveling everybody in the transport industry has been really badly hit buses trains all of them but then youve got people like all the baggage handlers at the airports and so on then youve got the entire restaurant and had to take months youve got the entire sector and each one that has a knock on effect on the next because the supply chains come up you havent got people crossing borders i mean the latest worry in a way is that because then no longer immigration coming through across the border theres a real worry they went to get the agricultural work because it needs to pick up the harvest in the hit may and june this year so weve already got a problem with panic buying in the supermarkets but what if they cant pick the vegetables the lettuce is the tomatoes the apples youd a bit. Later in the year yeah thats the question that theyre asking right here in germany as well whos going to harvest the crops when people with shutdowns joining us tonight from south wales its always good to get your input and your insights thank you thanks for that. But across the world we are being asked to stay at home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus what to do about the board billions how to make the best of our time when suddenly the clock is ticking more slowly than ever and we wish we could go back in time when corona was simply a brand of beer. Went on a mission to find out how we can best amuse ourselves and she did it without leaving her living room. Im going crazy self isolating and its only been 10 days about this guy who was isolated for 520 days. You can tell us how to stay safe and deal with cabin fever during the primaries i mean youre the well to talk to basically about it thank you but its true that a story becomes more relevant right now so many of us including me here in berlin are in self isolation due to the corona pandemic or even in quarantine because theyre from the south isolation i mean quarantine 14 well i guess it doesnt seem that bad to most people yet but being stuck inside for a long period of time can have serious consequences people feel upset well lets democrats its a situation almost all of us are new to the field except for this guy hes spent 520 days on lockdown with 5 other guys inside a mob spacecraft and moscow. So i asked him and a professor of psychiatry to study sons case was in isolation how to deal with being isolated civically how to deal with cabin fever. The 1st thing is to. Realize why you want to do that which is your motivation and i see you today with our confinement for me at that time it was to bring my little brick on the way leading to the exploration of mars today our purpose was to be confined is to protect our family our friends i really hate that we cant properly go outside but. Maybe it does help when i remind myself more often why were actually doing just misunderstood that i live because i have a moment you are also clowns who. Have things to do even watching. Reading a book but plan things during the hold of there so that the end of the day say ok i did all that and noyce you have the to do so to moral we do eat this where you live in the present you dont look at the big picture and being dizzy you dont you dont sit down and start to have dark starts cabin fever isnt a psychological disorder to me on earth i didnt take it that seriously but it turns out that its effects can have grave psychological consequences research the effects of isolation on patients who are current teams during the sounds of it demick and what we found was that there was a High Percentage of people for p. T. S. D. And depression having been quarant