Is. Said to be the victims this epidemic which affects all continents and affects European Countries and is the worst Health Crisis for over a century we did it in the great majority of cases. The corona virus is without a danger but the virus can have very serious consequences. For those of our compatriots who are. Aged or who are affected by it by illnesses such as diabetes or cancer. Over the last few weeks we have prepared and we have taken action the staff of hospitals ambulance men and women and emergency workers city workers nurses Public Workers in france are competing with the version. If we have been able to lay the publication of the virus and limits severe cases its thanks to a few people because everyone at home would have accepted to take time. From the daily lives in order to look after health and that is why in your name i think 1st of all would like to express the ceiling going to the recognition of the nation with both these heroes. Blouses these men and when men and women who are. Only happy and a concern for our will being and our lives. I also want to be receiving welcome that. The stiff upper lip that you have showed you faced with the propagation of the virus you have also been able to feel and those who are close to you the anxiety which is fully justifiable all of you have been able to face night another by giving way to panic or fear you have delayed the distribution of the virus and allowed our carers to be better prepared it is that what they represent the nation men and women you know we place collective wellbeing above everything. By supporting for turnitin and solidarity however my day compatriots i wish to tell you to see evening with much lucidity and seriousness now dont you think collective that we. Have the right organization we are only at the start of this epidemic and throughout europe it is excel orating. Faced without the priority for our nation will be our health. I will not give in if a principle the guides us in are actually right from the start to anticipate this crisis to manage it for several weeks and to continue to do so it is the trust in science it is to listen those who know the progress of the greatest european specialists have communicated have expressed themselves smalling in a publication i had a meeting this morning with the Prime Minister the Health Minister not our scientific committee. Follow up committee we have in front of the me best. Specialists to. Clinicians. In the field and we have listened to as we have done from the beginning all of them have said that in spite of our efforts but to. The lead of the piracy continues to propagate and it is accelerating loss of you we knew it. And we feared it but what is likely to happen is that the illness will affect the most Vulnerable People who wonder why lost will need care and respiratory help im not a smile talk about it in a minute were taking very strong measures to increase greatly our capacity because whats at stake is to also to continue to deal with other illnesses it is also it means were preparing oneself for a 2nd wave that may affect later in reduced numbers your people who are younger less get exposed to the illness but who will need to be. Cared for in this context the urgency is to protect our compatriots those who are the most vulnerable and the urgency is to delay the epidemic in order to protect our hospitals or our Emergency Service one uses our carers who will need to. Deal with more and more patients who clearly those are our priorities and that is why we need to try and gain. And follow those who are the most effective in preventing it had protect 1st of all those who are the most vulnerable that is the absolute priority and that is why this evening im asking all the people who are more than a 70 years of age those who suffer from chronic illnesses or from problems on people who are disabled to remain has far a person possible at home of course they will be able to go out shopping anything and get some fresh air but they must restrict their contact human contact as much as possible in this context if i question us. And people about the noosa politically is going to do to take place in a few days and nothing will prevent french people even those who are the most vulnerable from voting ive also asked the Prime Minister i need to examining to consult why arent late wildly all the political families to me and they have expressed the same to me but. It will be appropriate to respect. The restrictions and the Health Conditions i trust the mayors. Each one of you i know the services of the states and the town hall since ive organized everything there will be instructions as of National Forests but within the people there are long queues and the senior people are not looked after and. Respected but it is important to all of you by following. To ensure the continuity of our democratic life and of our institutions that is the priority today the poor and therefore to protect the weakest of those who are affected by the secretary make the 2nd is to is to. Delay the epidemic. And why because the direct help director has told us on several occasions to prevent the accumulation of patients. From people who suffer from a tree problems we must try them again time and thats why i will ask you to continue to make sacrifices and to make rather more sacrifices for our collective interest as of monday and into further instructions. Schools colleges. And universities will be closed for a simple reason for your children and the youngest according to scientists are those who propagate. The most quickly so far as even yourself even if of little children they dont show any symptoms and fortunately do not appear today to be suffer from any killer illness its to protect them and also to reduce the distribution of the virus throughout our territory. Care services will be put in place. According to each region where he will have the right to organizations certain things. Staff who are vital with all the management of the Health Crisis can look after their children and people can continue to work and protection. Will be managed by the government of the next few days with all the pointed parties. When whenever possible i will Ask Companies to allow their employees in to work remotely the ministers awardees stated so we have developed and working and we must continue to do so intensified as much as possible public transport will be maintained because to stop them would mean blocking everything as well as possibility providing care but also it is your responsibility that i call upon an i pod or french people to limit their travelling to the strictly on what is strictly necessary the government will announce also measures to. Limit public gatherings at the same time to something our Health System namely in the worst of Services Must be prepared to welcome the more serious cases. Can you to care for other people who are sick. Spittal beds must be freed up and all National Hospital capacity as well the maximum amount of carers and doctors will also mobilize students young people who are retired measure except measures will be taken in this direction of a lot of them have started i want to thank them i saw a few a few days ago at the Emergency Services the Samuel Harris i saw exam prepared by west students just a few a few weeks from their exam and. Made themselves a vailable and doctors returned and that is what we are going to collectively generalized by taking the right necessary measures in parallel in only Non Essential Services in the hospitals will be to late our provisions to the urgent everything that can help us to gain time in a but health has no price government will be able. All Financial Measures are necessary to provide assistance to look after those who are sick and to save lives. Regardless and many of the decisions that we are currently taking a lot of the changes we are currently dealing with that we should keep them because we are learning from this crisis because our care is. Wonderful when it comes to innovation and wonderful mobilization what we are doing we will draw lessons and we will have an Even Stronger and Better Health than most of us want in general mobilization is also in the hands of researchers french and european programs go and health tests preparing diagnose noses for and what are you ready for what we will improve things in this respect and also at the french and european level work is in progress our professors are going to support the private sector always working in various areas of treatment in paris must say amongst others protocols are started life hope that in the next few weeks months we will have what in the initial treatment that will be able to distribute to europe has the necessary assets to provide the antidote for the corona virus to get. Into place to create a. Vaccination but will take several months. But there is much hope and mobilization of our. Research is your opinion french level is also up to the task and i will continue to intensify this challenge also requires a social mobilization towards me who are the weakest and the most fragile so. The more. You know what we have to lay of 2 months im asking the government to provide exceptional measures of measures for those who are the weakest off our finally the existing testability the challenge that were facing requires general mobilization which in terms of the economy already becoming. Artisans office in india to go to workers and even those in the travel so into strain the transport and travel industry isnt suffering i know it is this is men are worried about their all to overcall portable sort of thing. If it were you to think you could have had enough and wanted to see for the employment but with the decision that ive taken and see even. You know the concerns will increase. We will not. Find the fear when it comes to fadia the anxiety about employment i mean on the difficulties at the end of the month everything will be put in place to protect our companies and employees regardless once again in the coming days and exceptional mechanism. Of partial unemployment and will be. Applied to 1st announcements by ministers we should go much further the state will look after compensation for employee one is forced to work at home in this respect im not to be inspired from what the germans have done with a more generous a simple more simple system than our own i want us to. Employment and skills that is to say to ensure that employees can stay with the company even if they could have to remain at home and that we pay them i want us to also to protect if we dont work and we will take all necessary measures to provide this garand t. Economic level all companies wish to do so be able to lay without penalties a little manatees the payment of taxation and social contributions jus in march we will be. On the measures. But. The office of delays but im aware that it takes time so i want simple measures so we dont have delays the. Amounts jew of the next few weeks will be suspended if. You were listening to the french president of money out of town hall and giving a televised address and an update on the corona virus a pandemic he described as the worst Health Crisis that france has faced in a century he also was announcing a number of new measures one of which was schools and universities will be closed to protect the most vulnerable is going to happen starting on monday lets bring in that house about joining us from paris listening in to what michael had to say as im saying that he was announcing a number of measures talk us through them. Yes it was a very sort of grave and some patel in from the french president as he gave this address to the nation it was of course and everyone was waiting for it during the day exist the 1st time that a man or microns actually address the nation since the current virus crisis really began to take greater effect to really grow here in france and president michel went through a range of measures that he says will help try and slow the spread of the coronavirus in france he says theres nothing we can do about it it is amongst us as amongst the population it is here and were only at the beginning of it getting a little bit worse over the next few weeks and months he said but the tactic is to try and slow it so some of those measures are closing schools colleges and universities across the country from monday that will be for several months theres no we have no sense of when they will open again we are going into april holidays as well so at least for a couple of months schools universities and colleges will be closed at all macro also said that there will be extra measures to try and protect the elderly those who are the most frail in our society he called on all businesses and companies to encourage and allow workers to work from home to try and prevent them from moving around circulating too much from coming into contact with other people he called on people to try not to take public transport because that is of course another area another another part of life if you like where people could come into close contact with thousands so some measures the demand or mark on the french president really hopes will try and at least slow the spread of what he said as you said in your introduction there it is really for him he said one of the worst the worst Health Crisis of france has faced ever natasha thank you for that update from paris or lets get more now on the pandemic trolley and has this report. Chaos and confusion in some european airports as travelers scramble for the last flights to the United States from friday night all flights from 26. 00 European Countries will be banned for 30 days unprecedented action in unprecedented times but welcomed by some but the last word there has been yes we are lucky to be able to leave europe if we are finally able to leave. But the e. U. Was quick to condemn President Trumps decision the crown of ours is a Global Crisis not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action the European Union disapproves of the fact that the us decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation but isolation both within and from other countries is gaining momentum as infection rates italy one of the worst affected nations strengthened its nationwide quarantine while spain suspended parliament and football matches as death rates in the country almost doubled in 24 hours. Though children only seem to suffer mild symptoms they are considered key spreaders of the virus and in response sure lanka ireland denmark and norway joined the long list of countries to shut down schools but time settle the matter but the British Government continues to take a different approach holding off on any wide ranging restrictions stages weve been guided by the science and we will do the right thing at the right time. We are north. Closing school. In china life at the epicenter of the outbreak is gradually returning to normal in both in a 1000 patients waved goodbye to their hospital beds and only a few dozen new cases were recorded nationwide in south korea the number of cases is also decreasing but the government warned against private up to visit. A 1000 new infections the country struggling with a lack of life saving equipment has asked for an emergency 5000000000. 00 loan from the International Monetary fund taking fright at these developments the stock markets showed a sea of red with the u. S. Dow jones entering a bad market for the 1st time in effigy is not helped by the announcement from the European Central bank that it will not cut rates any further. As the cracks begin to show inequalities of Health Care Systems across the world it is the very human toll of covert that must be remembered. For the European Central bank has warned if a considerable worsening in growth thanks to the pandemic thats as the Global Markets battled through another day there was a dramatic starts of the day in new york the Stock Exchange forced to halt trading automatically for 15 minutes after the s. And p. 500. 00 index fell 7 percent on opening over in london the footsie 100. 00 has closed down more than 10 percent thats its biggest one day fall in more than 30 years and in asia markets plunged for a 2nd straight day hong kongs hang seng index dropped more than 4 percent at one point before closing down more than 3 and a half percent lets get an update from chris joining us live from new york and as were saying kristen shares in freefall today really taking a battering. Yeah the stock selloff continues in fact its gone from bad to worse as investors continue to process the spread of the coronavirus the impact its having on the economy todays plunge as you mentioned happened right after opening bell and the Dow Jones Industrial average fell more than 7 percent triggering that shut down after the 15 minute pause trading resumed things seem to steady a bit after the Federal Reserve announced that it would pump 1. 5 trillion dollars into short term funding markets here but then they started to fall again right now im looking at the dow jones and the s. And p. 500. 00 and it looks like theyre down more than 8 percent at this time outside of the United States as well you were just mentioning asia europe brazil all seeing a downward trend as well and the issue is theres just a lot of information for investors to process it seems like every time you turn around theres a new had line in the last couple hours here in new york weve heard that broadway shows would be closing down theyd be stopping and suspended until april a lot of museums are closing down. Baseball is now delaying the start of its season we just saw a headline on that. Flights being canceled were hearing reports of the 1st coronavirus related layoffs here in the United States as well so this is a lot for investors to process airlines of course have been struggling since the start of this pandemic and now were having more Flights Canceled after President Trump announced the travel ban. And that all adding up to a lot of uncertainty for investors theyre looking for perhaps a stronger fiscal response or send sense of security that theyre not seeing yet its and russell of course to predict the future but one thing the volatility index is at its highest level since 2008 so it looks like this could continue for a bit yes. Sounds like it all right christine thank you for that update from new york and staying with the u. S. In the u. S. Vice president says americans returning from overseas will be asked to go into self quarantine for 14 days thats part of efforts to contain the outbreak there are currently more than 1300 cases in the u. S. But mike pence says he expects that number to rise he also defended President Trumps travel ban from European Countries saying the epicenter of the pandemic is now theyre not china and south korea so the travel ban only affects mainland European Countries it doesnt include ireland whose Prime Minister is currently meeting President Trump. Will meeting coincide with celebrations for st patricks day but its been shortened due to the corona Virus Outbreak earlier the Prime Minister announced a roster of measures including School Closures to limit the break lets serve bring in alan fischer hes joining us from washington d. C. Because alan there are a lot of clarifications needed from the white house on what trump had to say whats been the reaction to how the president has handled the issues surrounding coronavirus. Well its never a good look if you take a prime Time National address and then for the next 24 hours your team are clearing up a lot of what youve been seeing particularly well not address was meant to come for years and point people in the right direction donald trump said it was banning trade coming from europe within an hour the white house was saying he didnt actually mean what he said he was banning travel from europe they were quick to point out there was actually 26 states and didnt include the u. K. And ireland and other nations as well essentially this is been an operation by the white house to try and calm fears because the markets simply arent buying what donald trump is selling theres another problem as well and that mike pence has been out in the last few hours saying that many people dont plead the threat of the covert virus and that hasnt helped when of course we saw donald trump seeing anyone who wants to test will get a test and also the number of cases he expected to go down that was a week ago and weve seen them going up when it comes to testing there is a problem there as well for the trumpet ministration the c. D. C. On its website says in the last 4 days it hasnt tested anyone public testing there have been 8 just in the last 24 hours now in contrast joe biden has been on t. V. In the last few hours and hes laid out a plan which he says will help the United States he says its there for donald trump to adopt any time he wants he says the virus has exposed real vulnerabilities in the way that the administration handles a cancer crisis like this and really should be doing more to protect the people in the u. S. Thats all geared toward the election meanwhile the u. S. Is waiting to see what donald trump says next all right allan thank you for that update from Washington Well a top adviser to irans Supreme Leader has now been infected with coronavirus it comes as the country is asked for billions of dollars in loans from the International Monetary fund to help fight the virus Health Minister there says the number from factions has now passed 10000 and 429. 00 people have died but there are concerns the figures could be much higher as the government struggles to manage the spread of the virus. Has more from to her on. Several weeks into this Global Pandemic and countries in asia in the middle east are talking about the gains that are being made in trying to stop the spread of covert 19 but in iran there are daily reminders that this country is struggling to stop the spread to get a grip on the spread of the current virus throughout the country in a letter to the United Nations secretary general and tony a good sierras irans foreign minister zarif urged the United Nations to bring pressure to bear on the United States to try to get them to remove what iran sees as illegal unilateral sanctions that it says is now hurting its ability to combat the coronavirus to illustrate his point tweeted about a list of approximately 30 bits of medical supplies types of equipment that Health Care Providers urgently need to track and identify and treat patients that have contracted coronavirus includes things like ventilators gloves masks specific medicines all things that hospitals find they are in short supply and also earlier this week iran requested from its central bank to the International Monetary fund an emergency relief package of 5000000000. 00 and that is specifically to combat to help combat the Coronavirus Spread into rounds of odds are of tweeted about that as well saying that it was imperative on the i. M. F. To be on the right side of history and facilitate iran as it tries to combat the spread of this virus now many here in iran do expect that the i. M. F. Will be keen to help but that the United States will try to block those funds from coming through all of this is happening as the worst is yet to come in iran experts medical experts say that the peak of the virus in this country is likely to come in the next 2 weeks well the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has called for the formation of an emergency government with his chief rival to confront the Coronavirus Crisis thats on yahoo made the offer on a nationally televised. Arrest saying and new temporary regime would save the lives of citizens he also ordered most schools in the country to be closed much more on that story as well as the latest updates on coronavirus on our website al jazeera dot com. Hello again the top stories on aljazeera countries across europe are taking increasingly drastic measures to try to contain the coronavirus france ireland and norway have joined the list of nations closing all schools and universities greece austria and poland have confirmed their 1st deaths italys death toll has topped one thousands of the u. K. Prime minister says schools will remain open for now but he urged anyone with symptoms to stay home and must living with you live with the british public. Families many more families are going to lose loved ones before that time the most important task will be to protect elderly and most Vulnerable People during the peak weeks when there is the maximum risk of exposure to the disease and when the n. H. S. Would be under the most pressure so the most dangerous period is not no but some weeks away depending on what its brits. Global markets have again plunged as fears grow over the coronavirus the New York Stock Exchange was forced to hold trading automatically for 15 minutes after the s. And p. 500. 00 fell 7 percent on opening and in london the footsie 100 has closed down by more than 10 percent in asia markets fell there for a 2nd straight day well the e. U. Has condemned the u. S. President s decision to ban all travelers from mainland europe for the next 30 days Vice President mike pence says it was necessary as europe is now the epicenter of the pandemic the travel ban only affects mainland European Countries and doesnt include irelands Prime Minister is currently meeting donald trump earlier the Prime Minister announced the raft of measures including School Closures to limit the outbreak trump says they are tackling the virus on a state by state basis while the top adviser to irans Supreme Leader has been infected with corona virus it comes as the country is asked for billions of dollars in loans from the International Monetary fund to help fight the virus the Health Ministry there says the number for infections has now surpassed 10429 have died those are the headlines on aljazeera the stream is up next thanks for watching but i. Aisles of the ok and your in the stream sunday marks the 1st anniversary of the worst mass shooting in new zealands history the attacks on 2 mosques in the city of christchurch today as new threats surface we ask is enough being done to prevent such tragedies happening again remember you can share your thoughts by tweeting us at a. J. Stream or comment in our life you to chad and you too could be in the story. I think when it comes to things and is sudden and as tragic