Nation is helping us in our hour of need. A navy ship with a 1000 beds on board arrives in new york to help provide relief in the u. S. Epicenter. And having brought things pretty much to a standstill here on earth the virus is now at 10 a pending fire and inspects. The World Health Organization has expressed hope that corona virus infections in hard hit European Countries like italy and spain might be stabilizing but its late as it were quick to add that it doesnt mean tough measures to limit the spread of the disease and track it should be reduced we should start to see stabilization because the cases we see today really reflect exposures 2 weeks ago. And going down isnt just about a lock down and let go. To get down from the numbers not just a village requires a redoubling of Public Health efforts to push down not it went down by itself it will be pushed down well yes spain announced deaths in excess of 800 for the 3rd consecutive day another 6400 cases of the coronavirus that were
And we will overcome this together i thank you. Thank you very much or at risk we will start with questions that will remind your analysts that we can take only one question per person so we can advance as much as possible so we will start with the loser news agency thats a portuguese speaking news agency can you hear us yes or can you hear me yes is it antonia yes this isnt on you thank you please go ahead well i would like to ask a question on the issues of birth and newborn care and breastfeeding does they dont do it just recommend any restrictions on breastfeeding presence of partners in the liberal rooms and skin and skin contact between mother and child because of the pandemic because of Health Authorities and country like my own portugal ban these practices for women that are infected thank you. Thank you for the question so we have recently published some guidance on Clinical Management of individuals who have covert 19 which includes pregnant women and lactating women Breast F
Takes. Joyce stop. The trajectory what what what what we know is that the measures that are being taken are having a very big effect on contacts and i showed you the data on transport you can see dramatic reductions in the amount of transport being used you see dramatic get reductions in footfall we know of course that things like restaurants and pubs which are places where people are going to be in been closed so we are seeing a big change in contacts that is predicted to have a very significant effect on the socalled are the r. Value is the number of people on average infected by one infected person and the idea is to get that number below one at which point the epidemic stops and starts to go down on the basis of the contacts you would expect that are value now in terms of the early phases of transmission in the community to be coming down or below one so that we think that that has had the effect thats the desired that takes 2 or 3 weeks to to feed through into the number of people
Controversial citizenship law. Hello there good to have your company the United Nations is warning of devastating consequences for civilians an eclipse areas last rebel controlled province ily 250000 people mostly women and children have fled the area after 2 weeks of heavy bombardment by russian and Syrian Government forces fuel shortages are stopping families still from moving out syrias troop movements have been moving towards the city of moderate elmo when president Bashar Al Assad has vowed to recapture rebel held areas and intensify the military offensive despite the cease fire in august it is home to 3000000. 00 syrians many of whom are already internally displaced aid agencies have been forced to suspend their operations in the area and there are even fears that un funded humanitarian supplies will stop entering the region as soon as next month unless the fighting ends are the monopoly on us what today these areas have become disaster areas we declare them disaster areas and th
The guarantor countries of continuing to carry out all of their responsibilities in order to reach not a short term truce because they did not last but to reach a comprehensive cease fire many of the displaced families are trying to seek shelter and harkee but theyre not being allowed to cross the border Mohammed Atta reports now from d r. Most of these people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids on the couplet all of the province others have gone to government held areas of aleppo province but the vast majority of them im from the areas where the Syrian Armed Forces have been. Putting. A toxin. On and strategic city that sits on the m 5 which assads forces are really keen to take from the rebels they have most of them come to the Turkish Border and to. Any of the city and for years to hold all the on the comps are also so they are mostly in the open something up mix shift comes you know depending on Turkish Charities giving them warm food but they do not offer