Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
Allowed to go to work. Im rebecca ridges welcome to the program italy has recorded a staggering rise in the number of deaths from the coronavirus with 627 people dying there on friday its the biggest single day increase registered anywhere since the pandemic began italy is now the worst affected country with more than 4000 lives lost to the virus so far. Doctors stretched to the limit. Patients gasping for air keep arriving but there arent enough beds. Most of the really sick here in very gamo are elderly but medics warn young people they too are vulnerable. People in percent of our patients in the i. C. U. Which are the more severe. If the percent of our patients are we are 65 years old but theyre mean the other 50 percent is younger than 65 and were. Right here there or your ear. Well you. Is really is racing to get temporary hospitals up and running this one has been opened by a u. S. Charity in the Northern City of cremona. We came here because our fellow brothers and sisters are i
Also u. S. Lawmakers reach a deal on a 2 trillion dollar rescue package to help people and businesses deal with the economic strain of the pandemic this is a wartime level of the past and you are no. And dozens of hostages are freed at least 20 killed after a siege at a secret center in the Afghan Capital is brought to an end. Welcome to the program spain has now surpassed china in the overall number of krona virus deaths latest figures coming in so that 738. 00 people have died taking the total to almost 3500. 00 more than 42000 people are fighting the virus the country the death toll is 2nd only to italy is live for us in madrid real concerns about this sharp rise in the spanish death toll. Yes of course. We remember that there are santa warrants years these days we can say the wars was still to come so this is becoming true because spain jams to 47610. 00 coronavirus cases and the death toll of our 3434 being madrid again the region more affected 573038 people have died in the last
Turkey into greece. Now a quarter of italys population 16000000 people are now under lockdown following an emergency government decree to contain the coronavirus the illness has spread rapidly there with almost 6000 infections confirmed in 233 deaths and austrias chancellor says its only a matter of time before more European Countries adopt the same aggressive measures as italy or the lock down includes the entire body region where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people and the Financial Capital milan no one can move into or out of the area the lockdown has also been imposed on 14 other provinces including venice affecting another 6000000 people the restrictions aimed to limit gatherings and Curb Movement are said to remain in place until early april sonia go go has more now. In northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city it was put into lockdown but wanted to talk i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent decree put
Thursday. The Prime Minister says she represented democracy and tolerance. Host i am sarah kelly, welcome to the program. It looks like a giant is out of the olympics. The iaaf has upheld a ban on the russian federation, that means that track and filled athletes field athletes may not be able to compete. Reporter the moment that the sports world has been waiting for, the president of iaaf announced immigrants announcing the decision on the ban of athletes. The council was unanimous that russia had not met reinstatement conditions and that russian athletes could not credibly returned to International Competition without undermining the confidence of their competitors and d d thpublic. Reporter the iaaf band athletes banned athletes from International Competition last year. This came after reports of doping. An independent Investigation Panel has concluded that not enough has changed for the athletes to be reinstated. Because the system in russia has been tainted by doping from the top l