A scaled up response to the outbreak people are ordered to stay home and a constitutional referendum is delayed. And their concerns of the u. S. Could become the next major front in the coronavirus pandemic a growing with more news on the number of cases the governor of new york said they had been a leap of 5000 cases in just the past day or the states alone are recording more than 30000 in total the virus has claimed more lives there than in any other part of the country elsewhere spain now has the worlds 2nd highest number of deaths after more than 700 in the past 24 hours to the total to nearly 3 and a half 1000 thats half the total of italy but there was a glimmer of hope there as the hard hit number the region reported its smallest number of new deaths in 6. Days when in russia president putin has ordered the ministry to run drills testing troop readiness to deal with an outbreak as one of a number of emergency measures is implemented in the past couple of days while National Moment but 1st lets go to new york and speak to gabriel and his own day care how bad is it in new york. Well this is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic not only in the United States but really in the western hemisphere quite frankly i just want to give you some of the key numbers that were seeing here there were 5000. 00 new cases of corona virus here just in new york in the last 24 hours that brings the total in new york to 30811. 00 now that is more than half of the total in the United States which is about 55800. 00 now in terms of new york the governor is saying that they need ventilators and they need them fast for the hospitals he said they need about 30000 ventilators urgently just here in new york to meet the need for what for this surge sick patients that they are get so there are already starting to pour into the hospitals here in new york so clearly the situation here is a very critical on multiple levels Governor Andrew Cuomo also saying that the state is in need of billions of dollars from the federal government to meet the need as they try to fight back against the Coronavirus Spread here in the u. S. Is because city. Response to this virus has probably already cost us 1000000000. 00 it will probably cost us several 1000000000. 00 when were done new york city only gets 1300000000. 00 from this package that is a drop in the bucket as to need i spoke to our house delegation congressional delegation this morning i said to them just doesnt do it. So what will the days and weeks ahead to look like for people in new york. Not very good quite frankly this is going to last weeks if not months most likely thats what most believe let me just give you an idea what the streets of new york look like right now im in wall street this is the heart of the financial district new york city for all intensive purposes is shut down right now businesses have been ordered close the only things that are allowed to remain open are restaurants for takeout only or any essential businesses but other than that this is a city that is completely pretty much on lockdown both in terms of people and businesses but also the economy here as well the New York Stock Exchange over my Left Shoulder is operating but the floor of the Stock Exchange has been closed all week to traders because of coronavirus worries and so all trading at the New York Stock Exchange is happening now electronically this citys quiet quite frankly there are not a lot of cars on the streets at all people are hunkered down mostly at home youll see a few people Walking Around of course its a city of 9000000 people so people who live here will be out maybe walking their dogs going for a run youll see occasionally some people out that might be working still in some restaurant or something doing takeout or delivery but beyond that this city is completely quiet and its going to be like that for quite frankly a very long time zone to thank you very much indeed. Doctors in spain say theyre struggling to cope with the rising number of corona virus infections many are overworked and under protected but the country facing a severe shortage of medical supplies food brennan reports on the situation across europe. Thats a vet oh a chore hospital in madrid coronavirus patients now occupy almost every available space. There are beds for 80 patients at this unit as many as 280 people at a time of being treated here and that means chance trolleys and even floors will have to do is putting unsustainable pressure on spains medical staff 14 percent of whom have themselves become infected. Yes you are afraid for yourself and you are afraid of bringing the virus home because of your family to the us that we are emotionally overwhelmed because we are spending more time at work and working doubly hard because the patients are scattered throughout the hospital. Spain has now joined italy and surpassing chinas death toll from corona virus and the upward curve of the infections shows no sign of slowing. The italian Prime Minister is hopeful that stringent restrictions are helping to flatten the upward trajectory of the death toll but in the face of stubborn pockets of noncompliance anyone called leaving the home without good reason now faces an increased financial penalty as much as 3200. 00. Care homes for the elderly have become the latest battlefront in the war with the virus all of spains 5500 homes are in quarantine some residents are left to die in their own beds in france at a single care home near vote 21 elderly residents became fatalities but he too with. Some people at 1st we thought it was just a simple flu it looked like everything with the thing before but after just 3 days of confinement we realized it wasnt at all the same as usual usually in 3 days we can fine and the number of cases decreases reputably that was not the case here it was the opposite after a week it was still rising. According to an internal e. U. Document seen by the Reuters News AgencyMember States are struggling with limited stockpiles of medical and protective equipment and limited capacity to scale up the production the document warns the traditional supply chains can only provide 10 percent of whats needed the European Union leaders meet in a video summit on thursday to consider that issue and more with one proposal for a special you cry says center to be established paul brennan aljazeera well to heroes a spanish journalist she joins us via skype from madrid thanks for being with us we hear reports that front line workers has been a concern that they dont have the right protective equipment what can you tell us about that. Well like many other countries the spain has been struggling with a lack of medical supplies for test treatment and a protection in the front line for front line workers Spanish Government has asked to defense minister to 2 to dream demand to nato to bring to provide testing kids ventilators and protesting gears to to help the military and civilian population you were talking before about these 14 percent of Health Care Workers that have been infected already because they dont have the their proper gear and are abutting in the front line but today we got to know that the Police Officers and the civil guard had also demanded all these all these protective gear is the reporting 1000 Police Officers are already infected with the coronavirus. Not a hero thank you very much indeed. And life is slowly returning to normal for 60000000 People Living in chinas hu bay province they corona Virus Outbreak 1st began there last year and residents have been under Strict Lockdown measures but now restrictions are easing iranian leaving the area for the 1st time in 2 months to train your force from beijing. Back on the road cars are lining up to leave and the current virus locked down behind after 2 months of empty words and closed borders government travel restrictions on most of the province are being lifted but there are strict conditions before crossing the provincial border residents must show a green card certifying good health and submit employer Contact Details only those with jobs waiting for them elsewhere may leave charter trains and buses have been organized for workers. Local public transport has reserved for passengers must have their temperature checked surely chine says shes happy the lockdown is over but is worried. We hope others dont discriminate against people who have already gone through a hard time we locked ourselves up for 2 months the government says there have been almost no local infections over the past week but many fear the end of the hoop a lockdown could spark a 2nd Virus Outbreak on social media who by workers say theyve been fired from their jobs in other cities or are being evicted from their apartments. Those human beings from the perspective of size and epidemiology the lockdown is no longer needed and the people should be free i understand some are still worried as the previous situation it was serious but now is still imposing strict policies which i think are too harsh the lock down in the bay has eased here in beijing restrictions on the antis and many government and commercial operations in the capital al back on track. The last thing the government wants to see is a rise of new inspections that could threaten a return to life beijings great wall has reopened to visitors and so has the citys. Restaurants are also once again welcoming customers but not everyone is free to come and go as they please in hard work as a disinfecting the train station ahead of its reopening the city where the coronavirus pandemic began its juice remain under lockdown for another 2 weeks aljazeera. Still to come around. The we need to boost of response capacity in those areas thats why we have asked and we mobilized all u. N. Agencies that have crossed with us and movement. The un chief the organization is memorising to support the fight against the korean virus pandemic. Hello and welcome to International Weather forecast a big area of High Pressure covers much of europe at the moment following conditions percent across the snow as weve had snow so quite a nice contrast snow on the ground and Cherry Blossom on the trees well the main feature dominating the weather across europe is the High Pressure so fine conditions for many parts of europe at the moment but weve got this area of low pressure in the mediterranean so the risk of severe storms is moving from here across to sicily and up through southern parts of italy so really quite severe thunderstorms that life is a very strong and gusty winds some waterspouts certainly on the cards some of the forecasts are into friday the central are actually moved a bit further back towards the west again so course you go through to sicily site then you would like to see some pretty Stormy Weather developing so fine across the central and Northern Areas sunshine in moscow highs of 12 very nice spring day into africa and around the gulf assert some pretty strong winds associated with that low weve got some shower activity across parts of west africa and the gulf within the region extending quite a way inland and then moving into more southern portions of africa were looking at some pretty heavy showers across d. R. Congo into wards parts mangala but moving further south into namibia and through into south africa largely fine but one or 2 showers for the eastern cape. May very well if you didnt have good buy. When the bonus struck many died and many reste to end the epidemic. This is their story through the lens of local filmmaker us we see people making sacrifices. Mentioned this is what i want to see survivors a witness documentary on aljazeera. From out of the top stories here now jazeera there are growing concerns about the scale of the corona virus pandemic in the us out of the governor of new york state said 5000 cases have been diagnosed there alone in the past day. Spain is now overtaken china to recall the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims still just half the number in italy where the death rate in the worst hit area appears to be slowing. In china travel restrictions are beginning to be lifted in who bay province where the outbreak was 1st recorded people can now leave the area for the 1st time in 2 months if they can prove good health. The u. S. Senate is set to vote on a deal for a 2 trillion dollars package to help fight the virus the funds are aimed at keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat and helping front line medical workers the agreement for those days of disagreements with democrats accusing republicans of prioritizing profits and corporations over work a health Small Businesses and directly tackling the pandemic itself can really help it joins us live on skype from maryland kimberly how will the money be spent and how will it be regulated. Actually im here in washington d. C. Just happened to be about 3 blocks from the u. S. Senate on capitol hill where theyre talking about this right now lauren and how what essentially this is a package that includes bailouts for big industry but also something for the American Worker ad it looks like there had been agreement between democrats and republicans on this package a historic package really 2 trillion dollars and then things hit a bit of a wrinkle republicans pushing back saying that theyre concerned that this might incentivize people to not go to work at all if they get these very generous Unemployment Insurance benefits essentially 100 percent of their salaries well theyre off work democrats pushing back saying wait a 2nd think theyre needing 100 percent of their previous salary because there isnt the opportunity to go to work its not like they can go out look for a job well things are shut down so theres some fighting over the language and thats pushed this vote that we thought was going to happen by now in the senate it has seems to be delayed but even when this does pass in the senate it does appear that there is an effort to get over this hiccup that theyve reached at the moment there are still needs to be passage of this legislation in the house and already were seeing some pushback from various members that they may not be able to do that in its current form so in terms of fast tracking this legislation it seems to be slowing down in terms of moving forward now having said all of that whats inside it in addition to those big bailouts for major industry theres also some serious oversight that many members of congress wanted to see that means theyll be at Oversight Board looking at some of these corporations how that money sped even an Inspector General that will have to submit a report and sort of understand where this money in detail form has gone in other words there isnt going to be a blank check for Corporate America at least thats what the lawmakers say now in the midst of all of this the u. S. President is also prepared to whole. Told his coronavirus taskforce briefing something that happens every day and hes really here to see this pass because he was to get americans back to work in fact hes saying that hed like to see this happen by april in the middle of april easter is a fact what hes saying most americans saying thats overly ambitious when they see the numbers of corn of virus cases continuing to climb can be how could thank you very much. India is under the biggest lockdown in history with all 1300000000 people ordered to stay at home while most observing the order homeless shelters are filling up with people who lost their livelihoods it is about power and im reports from new delhi. It was always going to be hard keeping indias population of 1300000000 in doors those who ventured out on the 1st day of the National Lockdown face the consequences. But police in mumbai were seen conducting roadside checks as it appears those found flattened the walls faced instant justice with battens and punishing push ups Prime MinisterNarendra Modi says india is at war. Today the war that the country has waged against coronavirus will need 21 days. In iran. But 3 weeks is a long time for people like this young Migrant Worker stranded afraid and unable to leave delhi for his home state of bihar after the government cancelled all bus and train services. The police will beat me im afraid theyll beat me they arent even allowing us to sit anyway. Others decided to walk all migrant labor sunday started walking a 2 kilometers after his employer shut down operations and Company Accommodation in the state of the pradesh. Theyre not allowing us to stay very very told us to leave because the virus is a big threat to. Migrant workers join the growing number of homeless and poor health is. Very much the caretaker of one center in new delhi told al jazeera their supplies will only last another 2 days. Because. People here have been snatching the plates from our hands there are so many people now that were finding it difficult to function and are running out of food. In russians for the millions of poor and daily wage earners in india the threat of hunger looms larger than that of the virus i am not saying that the lock down is a necessary im not a Public Health expert and if we had all that is necessary im willing to believe bribes only if it is accompanied by my ass relief measures to help people through this time and its not just going to be 21 days for them is going to be a long time before they get their jobs back so far only state governments have announced financial that humanitarian assistance for people affected indias finance minister says the Central Government is working on an economic plan Prime Minister modi has again been on t. V. To stress the importance of social distancing but thats not the priority for millions of people who are now jobless and dont know where their next meal is coming from and theres a problem al jazeera new delhi. Pandemic has forced russias president to postpone a referendum which was expected to extend his time in office that amir putin is urged russians to stay at home and promised economic assistance despite a lack of other warnings so far 2 people have died of the virus but doctors think others are being cut to other deaths are being covered up step of course moscow churchgoers kids religious icons one after the other as if there is no cause with 19 pandemic. While the russian aftershocks church has put some measures in place to improve hygiene these religious rituals continue to be performed because many here are convinced they wont get infected. Well in recent weeks the government maintained that russia has no serious corona outbreak recent figures are showing a different trend president putin held meetings with experts who told him there are far more than the 658 of facially reported cases in a nationwide address he told the russians they can go to work next week and at the safest thing is to stay at home. Im addressing all citizens of the country lets not rely on our russian habit to think that it wont happen to us this can happen to each one of us the thing which is now happening in many western countries both in europe under overseas might be our near future to. Put in did not mention that russian should add here to social distancing and so far churches and shops will remain open russia is bracing itself for doing a better job at containing the virus compared to other countries the government says that everything is under control but people are increasingly getting worried because theres a lack of information and people this trust the official figures and the fact that hospitals like this one are quickly being built to cope with an influx of patients tells them a different story thousands of workers have been brought to this construction site outside moscow the large Infectious Diseases hospital should be up and running by mid april and aims to treat up to 500 patients other hospitals have been conferred to it into pneumonia hospitals a sign that the government might be planning to treat a coronavirus as pneumonia. In our hospital to congress and for tibets funny warning a patients bill without employing the related medical personnel doctors of other specialties are being forced to go with these patients but dont have enough expertise this could lead to higher death rate. A local Organization CalledDoctors Alliance accuses the government of trying to cover up the corona Virus Outbreak here after a 79 year old woman died after being tested for covert 19 the official reason given for her death was trumbo says the poorest of the girls were in this city stick at the statistics collated for many cities show us that the number of new many cases have increased and that there are certain bands and orders for example doctors are not allowed to make postmortem diagnoses of pneumonia i heard it from many doctors of course no one will speak out openly about it theyre all scared im not scared of money increasingly empty streets in moscow the largest european city show that concerns are growing the government has closed its borders for foreigners and ordered people older than 65 to stay home some are worried that if russia is faced with a large outbreak the country wont be able to cope hospitals have been closed and many doctors were laid off in recent years even large hospitals like this one would then be too little too late step fasten aljazeera moscow new zealand has gone into an unprecedented lockdown for about a month promised searches and are then declared a state of emergency and ordered all nonessential Services Schools and offices to close shes urging people to stay home saying it will break the chain of transmission and save lives. On a 1000000000 people around government imposed lockdowns worldwide but the World Health Organization says thats not enough to stop transmission and urged countries to use the time wisely asking people to stay at home and shutting down book relation movement is buying time and reducing the pressure on whole systems but on their own these measures will not extinguish a pewter mix. The point of these actions is to ennoble the more precise and targeted measures that are needed to stop transmission and save lives you know some nations appealing for 2000000000. 00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic in exclusive interview with our diplomatic editor james bass secretary general antonio terror she says its in everyones interest to help the worlds poorest nations especially in areas of conflict well this is exactly an appeal for that it is a humanitarian appeal for those countries in conflict for those fragile states for refugee camps its always placement camps. That emetic humanitarian needs that need to go arent being met but on top of that the surete of coffee at 19 and you need to do everything to prevent the disease to come to those areas to the extent possible and at the same time in those areas you have people sometimes in slums of big cities or in camps in which its very difficult to have isolation there is no water in the households and sometimes no soap care facilities are extremely rugged mentary so we need to boost to the response capacity in those areas thats why we have asked and we mobilized all u. N. Agencies that have trust with president movement large number of n. G. O. S we mobilized all to Work Together and with those funds with those 2000000000. 00 to make sure that we are able to. Every strong push for prevention involves vulnerable areas and at the same time to bring the equipment to that is required the ventilator staffs suits are for the the stuff to allow for contact with people impacted youve called for a global ceasefire are in conflict zones but let me give you a couple of examples in recent weeks things have been going in the opposite direction in some of those conflicts let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen well i am even if one of the most important movements in yemen has declared that they would accept this ceasefire or that the appeal of ceasefire and we have other arms movements in other parts of the world saying that they would be ready to abide by it all especially believes and invoiced everyone in the world are pushing to make sure that these it believes those lady in the poem at the action bringing together the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to become a reality we have he should have seen syria and yeah man in libya in very in many other parts of the world and i hope that these appeal will be heard then that people will understand that there is only one was that is necessary today its a war against the vibes you mention libya that there was already supposed to be a humanitarian poor in libya but one side has not been respecting it general half the in recent weeks seems to have intensified his campaign whats your message to him its necessary to stop and i believe that in the last few days there was a clear the cookies and i was the early days even if even before yesterday there was a very meaningful attack but this is the moment to stop all military action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting cause 1000 were already seeing covert 1000 cases in garza you being that you know its one of the most crowded places on earth how were you supposed to self isolate if youre someone living in a place like gaza. Well it is extremely difficult but the same applies to the slums of big cities in different parts of being World Refugee camps it is much more difficult and that is the reason why we massively need support for those areas and we massive need to increase the capacity to respond and they all services that are so weak in those areas need to be very quickly bills that and the money catch up any time on our website the address of that is aljazeera dot com. Click on one of the top stories there are growing concerns about the scale of a coronavirus pandemic in the u. S. After the governor of new york state said 5000 cases have been diagnosed that alone in the past day andrew cuomo has appealed for a bigger cut in the proposed stimulus package. Response to this virus has probably already cost us 1000000000. 00 it will probably cost us several 1000000000. 00 when were done new york city only gets 1300000000. 00 from this package. That is a drop in the bucket as to need i spoke to our house delegation congressional delegation this morning i said to them just doesnt do it spain has now overtaken china to record the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims still just half the number in italy where the death rate in the west hit area appears to be slowing. In china travel restrictions and beginning to be lifted in hoop a province where the outbreak was 1st recorded people can now leave the area for the 1st time in 2 months if they can prove theyre in good health. More than a 1000000000 people are under government imposed lockdowns worldwide but the World Health Organization says thats not enough to stop transmission and urged countries to use the time wisely asking people to stay at home and shutting down Population Movement is buying time and reducing the pressure on whole systems but on their own these measures will not extinguish appeared it makes the point of this actions to you know boot them or to press size in targeted measures that are needed to stop transmission and save lives the u. S. Senate is set to vote on a deal for a 2 trillion dollars package to help fight the virus and the funds are aimed at keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat and helping frontline medical workers in from his days of disagreements between republicans and democrats theres the headline stay stay with us aljazeera the stream is up next ill be back with more news after that ive now. Really important you stay home today with information but far more important that you take regular breaks so go outside if its safe to do so go into your garden and do some gardening if its safe to do so also Something Else that you enjoy doing recognize that there are only one or 2 hours in the day that you will allow yourself to update with the news screaming on your phone outside of that you need to think about other things and the coronavirus it may feel like youre losing control with the Mental Health but you can take control by having a clear structure to your day and allowing worry over me at certain times