And by contributions to this pbs station fr viewers like you. Thank you. Locking horns over the lockdowns , protesters call for the peosening of emergency measures amid plans to rng the country. How a food processinghlant in sout dakota became the largest in the country. Chinas ecomy shifts into reverse after decades of nonstoh gr the city at the center of the crisis has raised its death toll dramatically. Plus, royal tips on Mental Health, the duke and ducss of cambridge urge people to think about their Mental Wellbeing during isolation. For all of you watching, welcome to world news america. Pressure is building in the u. S. To reopen the economy, as the death toll mounts. Decision to indivi governors , but added fuel to the fire by backing ose protesting. In a series of tweets, he used the phrase liberate in all restrictions in sotes. Sen our correspondent has more. Correspondent after months under lockdown, the nation is getting restless. Texas became one of the first states to begin the process of reopening. First, we will be opening today activities that should pose minimal or no threat tod co expanding. Second, additional openings will be announced april 27, after input from the advisors and medical staff. As theconomic pain intensifies, protest across the country. Many residents see little benefit to staying at home. Our community is struggling. My husband is on unempyment. We want to go back to work. We have bills to p. Correspondent President Trump wants the American Economy reopen by may 1, but rather than is thato state governors toys it set the pace. With other states likely to lifted piecemeal, but in new york, still seeing 2000 new caths a daye seems little chance of an early reprieve. We have to reopen. We have to reopen. We havto reopen. You only have a slim margin toon operat you reopen too fast, you will t t 1. 2 and three day senck to where we started. Correspondent new yorks governor acknowledges the toll on businesses and pes lives is unsustainable, but the lack of testing toonitor the virus mains a challenge, and it could take one year to find a vaccine. Anchor t for more medical requirements, im joined by dr. Wang, an emergency physicia thank you for being with us. I want to ask you your thoughts on the coronavirus taskce s threestage guidance for reopening the country. Is itpl a sufficien to reopen the country, specifically en it comes to testing . It makes splse there is a. I dont think a Single Person be open, but we have to do it in a way that is safe. The one glaring omission in these guidelines issued yesterday is testing. As the report mentioned, we need to have widespread testing in order to know what actually is e situation around the u. S. There may be communities currently reporting no or few infections. If we are not doing testing, we have no idea if that is an accurate representation of what is happening or whether there is a level of infecti that could become a huge outbreak. We also need to know what is the federal governments role in all of this. These are guidelines, voluntary guidelines issued, but what happens if states do not abide these guidelines . Diseases know no boundaries, so what happens when we open and the infections get worse . Ll the federal government step in . How do we explain another shutdown or multiple shutdowns to come . We should do things cautiously based on data, science, and evidence. Anchor to clear, because President Trump said states to take the lead on testing, but dotates have the infrastructure and means to have testing on the scale needed . Not at all. We are seeing whaterappens when is not a National Coordinated effort, as there has been in other countries ramping up testing. States are bidding against eachg other swabs necessary to collect samples. States are running out of reagents and tests are sitting there waiting to be processed, but the chemicals needed to process the tests are not theret does not make sense there is a 50state piecemeal approach when this is ing that needs to be ramped up in a major way, millions of tests potentially a day, and were nowhere near that kind of capacity. Anchor i ct let you go without saying congratulations on the birth of your daughter, isabel. I know you spoke about how this has really changed the patientprovider relationship. What was that experience likein for you goin give birth during a pandemic like this . It was a reminder that health care continues to happen, even in the middle of a pandemic people are giving birth, people go to the hpital for heart attacks, diabetes, all the other medical conditions ty normally would, but this time there is a level of fear that would not otherwise be present. Medicine is so much about th handson connection, and for me as a patient going in knowing that i have to be careful of my providers, they have to be of me wbecause we dont knther each other are carriers of covid19 and could infect each other. I think this is a time of hugeai uncey, but a reminder that covid19 does not just affect patients wh coronavirus, it affects each and every one of us. Anchor thank you so much for taking time to speak with us. The potential reopening america comes with political considerations, especially in an here is ron christie, former e advisor to president geo bush and an analyst. Thank you for being with us. More testihat there needs to be President Trump has beenlu ant to come up with a nationwide plan. Is tha . A dereliction of du why is he not being stronger on this . Good evening. It is nice to see you. I dont know if i would call it a dereliction of duty, but the present has to project optimism and a time of crisis and project leadership, and the president and hisdvisers are looking at this as a 10th amendment issue of the constitution. He wants to leave all the things d not specifically delinea the constitution to the states. That might be well and good, but what is important is to have strong guidelines, something all gornors can have a checkli that says in order for us to reopen cities and towns in our state, the following critea must be met. I think that will be very helpful for the American People to understand that the white house is on top of this in the white houses clear guidelines that they would like the governors and mayors to follow. Anchor what have you made about the messaging from the white ho you have these Daily Press Briefings with the pre says he is on the sides of scientists on this, and you have this twitter feed where he is siding with protesters who dont want to have the stayathome orders . Less is more. I was in the white house and worked with president bush anchor it looks like we have lost him. We will try to get him back. We will move on. The chinese city of wuhaned has ra its official covid19 death toll by 50 ,y adding nea 1300 fatalities. Officials attributed the new figure to updated reporting and deaths outside hospitals. Dchina insis there was no cover up of the extent of the outbreak. Meanwhile, the country has taken a heavy hit, showing an economic downturn for the first time and was three cades. Our china correspondent reports. Correspondent three months of economic pain, shuttered shops to bankrupt businesses, aix. 8 economic contraction. Co 6. 8 economiraction. Officials are putting a brave face on it, highlighting the few recent glimmers of hope. Wouldnt a more honest assessment be to call this the worst figures since records have been published a disaster . That is a challenging queson. Overall, the economy has had a big drop, but because of our policies in e month of march, there has been a significant improvement. Correspondent china has been taking slow steps towards rmality, even in wuhan, the virus began, but the big question is not over the economic figures, but the death toll. Having been accused of downplaying the seriousness of the outbreak, now more than 1000 have been added to the citys total, taking it to over 3800. Officials found themselvesay, defending chinas use of statistics. In the early stages of the epidemicta, hos were overloaded and medical staff were busy treating patients. There has never been any coverup. Correspondent tell me, how is this . In businesses like this one, there is support for the government. The virus may have crossed it 40 of sales, but they think the worst is over. Since late march, the number of customers has suddenly increased. Ashe long as ino big problem, we can achieve our original target by the end of april. Corresndent there is optimism, then there are the heart economic numbers, the first real measure of just how far china has llen. Anchor lets take a quick look at some other headlines. A leading Health Expert has warned of the uks could s 40,000 deaths in this waiver the coronavirus. He said britain could end up with the highest death toll in europe and criticize the government for being too slow to take action. Germanys Health Minister said the countries covid1 uoutbreak is ner control after a monthlong lockdown, because the number of recovered patients has been consistently higher than the number of new infections. Experts credit the country mass testing rates as playing a crial role in containing the outbreak. Nasa is ready to lift off from u. S. Soil once again. The space agency said man flights will resume from the nasa has not launched such amay. Mission since the Space Shuttle program was retired i 2011, but it wont be nasa rockets, rather those of spacex, a private Company Founded by elon musk. Now, the largest cluster of covid19 cases in the u. S. Has popped up at a Meat Processing center in south dakota. More than 770 infections have been linked to the Smithfield Foods operation in sioux falls. The company has shut the plant south dakota is one of the few states that has nwn issued lock measures for its citizens. The bbc has written about this correspondent so thishfmore. Smld foods pork producing plant had its first confirmedse f coronavirus on march 26. They had 80 casesl by ap 9 so that was quite an explosive growth, and many peoe asking why was the plant not shut down was the first case came out on the 26th . And speak tos many workers asion i could. I spoke toen about half d current and former employees and their families, and they were telling me is they were not being given proper protective eqsepment after that first was confirmed. If they were given equipment, it was inadequate for example, i was provided with several photographs of mastsin provided to workers that were just beard nets. Employees were being given those, which are not approved protect workers from airborne pathogens. At the end of my weeklong reporting process, just about everyone i spoke to had hacoronavirus symptoms or a positive diagnosis. Again, these kind of Food Industry workers are deemed esntial, and with some of the data coming out, we know this virus is impacting pple of color disproportionately, killing more people of color, sickening more people of color, and that is who a lot of the se essential workers are, that they are trapped in the situation where they were already a burnable population vulnerable population but they cannot stay home because they are needed to drive buses, run cashegisters, in this case, process food, because the countrys food supply needs to stay open, this is a uniquely vulnerable population, and they are trapped between a rock and orrd place. An you are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, back on the scene as if nothing happened, nicaraguas president reappears after a monthlong absence that began as the outbreak started sweeping the world. Anchor the head of the imf said current projections for the Global Economy may be too optimistic. She has warned of a global recession not seen in our lifetimes. A few months ago, imf protected Living Standards would go up for more than 80 of the world, butr then the coron happened. Now we are 1 projecting countries to see income per capita shrinking during 2020. A global recession we have not seen during our lifetimes. I want to stress this y be actually a more optimist picture than reality produces. Epidemiologists are now helping us make macroeconomic projections. Never in the history of the imf we had that. Anchor inor ecu figures suggest that thousands may have died from the coronavirus, even though the official tally is just over 0 fatalities. Burial sites are being prepared to accommodate the debt in one province. The government there has reported 6700 deaths so far this month. Those are not specifically related tooronavirus, but the area usually reports 1000 deaths. They say authorities have been unable to keep up with the huged rise ep with, keeping corpses in homes and on streets. Staying in southmerica, and the president of nicaragua has reemergeafter monthlong absence. In a televised address, he saidd his countryuffered only one death from the virus in the llcountries few cases were imported. He has refused to implement the lockdown measures seen elsewhere in the wor and in fact, has encouraged mass gatherings. Bbthe c has more. Correspondent social distancing is not being enforced in nicaragua. Ino sign ofhere in the traditional easter procession in this town, complete withhis. The church canceled its mass during the coronavirus outbreak, and the staunchly catlic cals decided to hold their annual event anyway. The town watchg flew in the face of the advice in the face of covid19. We have concerns for lack of social distancing, the convening of mass gatherings. We have concerns about the testing, contact tracing, the repocoing of cases. Espondent crihecs say t government in nicaragua lacks a Clear Strategy on coronavirus, especially after the president went missing for more than a month. President ortega had not been seen in public since this military event in late february. Proortega social media accounts rease this heavily produced a to the absent meter, whh would not de lr, which would not have looked out of place. It stoped rumorenthat the pres ill health. Now after 34 days hidden from public view, the president has reappeared in the shaking hands anhugging his ministers as though nothing out of the ordinary was going on. He made no mention of his extended absence. Instead, he said there had been just one death from coronavirus nicaragua, and insisted he would not be ordering the country into ckdown. In the midst of this pdemic , workers have not stopped, because if you stop working, the country dies, and if the country dies, the people die and become extinct. Correspondent although reports of his death were greatly exaggerated, they did face the crisis without daniel ortega. The decision not to order a lockdown woke further worry haose fear he does nole on the severity of the pandemic. Anchor coronavirus forcing every country to look at the economic and Public Health consequences. Many of us are feeling the mental strain of living under isolation are urging people to look after the Mental Health. Prince william and his wife have been talking about that and their own family with the bbc. I. We can hear you. Hi. Ere may be many experiencing Mental Health challenges. What can we do to help them and each other . Like you said, a lot of people may not have thought about the Mental Health. Suddenly this environment catches up quite quick. Talking. Ortant thing is social relief and connectivity a lot of families and people. Callouts. You had to deal with it as a pilot. Linhs fron workers have been exposed to things that will be difficult to deal with. What woulday you to them based on your own experience . The scale and speed of what is going on in hospitals, tiisolation, t sadly dying with no family around him. Ihi that is very difficult. They are they are right next to the bedsides, looking after and caring for each patient in critical condition. I think they take away that pain , sometimes that fear, and that thloneliness thae patients have to go through. They have to absorb that and take it home to their families. We are not superhuman, so to a managed to manage those emotions and feelings will take time as well. Do you think this will fundamentally change who we are and what we value, because at the moment whave some of the lowest paid people doing the highest value jobs in this country . I think it would dramatically change how we all value and s our frontline workers. I think that is one of the main consequences that we can take they do an extraordinary job daily, and now i think all of us as a nation can see how hard they work. How did you feelhen you found that your dad had the virus . Rs at i was quite concerned. He fits the pfile of somebody at the age he is that which is risky and so i was worrie obviously speaking to him made me feel reassured he was ok. He found having to stop and not being able to go out in the fresh air k,r a w he is a mad walker, less walking, so he founit difficult beingtuck inside and not being able to go for walks, and obviously my grandparents, the age that they are at, we are doing everything we can to make sure they are isolated and protected, but it does worry me. What will happen to the rivulnerable people in hig people who will potentially have to isolate for some time . How have you both been coping . It has been ups and downs, probably that way for a lot of families. Atwe are spending timome, homeschooling, which is challenging. Homeschooling is fun. We have kept it going. Anchor before we go, we have en reporting all week on new york struggles amid the crisis, but the spirit lives on. Last night, last night, stood on the streets to belt out Frank Sinatras classic theme, new york, new york. It was part of the citys nitly tribute to healthcare workers on the front lines of the crisis. Thsingalong was organized by stations that broadcasted live. Justy another reason w york is so special. You can find more on all the days news atur website. World news amewatching bbc narr esentation of this program is provided by. Language s anish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Narrator yo re watching pbs. Mr. Rogers its a beautiful girl we are the curious. 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