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That hell decide when the u. S. Economy reopens but state governments say nothing will change until its safe. We speak to a Health Expert on why widescale screening is critical containing the pandemic. And sport the worlds biggest cycling race has been postponed organizers say the Tour De France cant start in june but could happen later in the year. 9 trillion dollars thats how much the International Monetary fund says could be lost from the Global Economy over the next 2 years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that means the Global Growth would shrink by 3 percent which is 30 times worse than the 2009 Global Financial crisis the i. M. F. Chief Economist Says its the worst economic shock since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. Flattening the spread of coal with 19 using lock downs allows Health Systems to cope with this crises which then prove permits a resumption of Economic Activity. In the sense there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods countries should continue to continue to generously support their Health Systems perform widespread testing and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies the Worlds Airlines are suffering they stand to lose more than 300000000000. 00 in revenue this year thats the latest forecast from the industrys representative body i oughta and the u. K. Is a commie could shrink by a staggering 35 percent over the next 3 months but would more than double unemployment and take public borrowing to its highest levels since the 2nd world war 2 serious charley and well be talking to us about the u. K. s economic challenges from london in just a few moments also in london our economics editor abbott alley will talk us through the turbulence in the Aviation Industry but 1st lets speak to alan fischer in virginia on the i. M. F. Scrim projections alan the i. M. F. Says that Global Growth could fall by 3 percent due to the economic shock thats greater than the g. D. P. Of germany and japan combined. And then when you put it in perspective that this is the greatest economic global shock since the recession of the 1930 s. You see that these are very much stark numbers that the i. M. F. Is putting out now back in january they had a look at the 1st quarter and the 1st half of the year and the picture then was quite rosy but no one had seen what the pandemic was going to bring in what you have are long lines of unemployment millions of people losing their job businesses closing the fact that social distancing is impacting businesses is without a shadow of doubt that is why you suddenly have a picture where they say that at least 3 percent of the Global Economy is going to shrink and thats a huge number the United States will be hit by our own 5. 7 percent japan 5. 2 percent the euro zone somewhere in the region of 7. 5 percent and latin america is somewhere in the area of 5. 2 percent you see just how badly this is impacting the one place that could experience a very small piece of growth and thats because it started from a very high base and also it is no beginning to reopen its economy is china we had the pandemic originated so this is bad news for everyone who wants to see the economy getting up very soon no the i have says that is potential for around 5. 8 percent growth in the 2nd half of the year but for that to happen has to be no 2nd wave that has to be no situation where this no gets worse than it is and business is being able to recover but many economists are saying because of what has happened because of the economic shock there may be a temporary increase but the headwinds will be really bad at least for the remaining part of 2020 hours as allan fresh air reporting live from home in virginia many thanks alan our business and economics editor out at alli joins us now via skype from home in london so airlines stand to lose 300000000000. 00 in revenue this year it will all of them be able to withstand the shock. I doubt it age and i think we will see still the airlines lost in this and demick now which is really unfortunate speakers see as a huge value to be internationally going to economic climate so. You know the i answer has been warning that 25000000 jobs could be lost in the industry over the next 3 months now the Aviation Industry in total employs about 65000000 people and thats a huge number of people so 25000000 represents nearly nearly about half a half of the number so we wait to see whether that actually plays out because many governments have actually stepped forward and said you know they will provide bailouts in the United States they provided 60000000000. 00 towards the airlines now the airlines have been expecting most of that money yet because this Strings Attached like you cant give the money that you get from the government to shareholders in dividends and you cant buy back shares which inflates the value of your company the money has to be spent on your employees and so theres 2 parts to that so theres a grant which actually goes to the goes towards paying for stuff cost and then youve got the loan which it needs to be repaid back and be airlines up bulking up that because they say you know this will just add extra costs to us which we need to retain the future they want it all in grants so that they dont have to repay that repay the money back in the u. K. The situation slightly different the government said well depending on each individual Airlines Situation but 1st thing they need to do is go to their shareholders trust the money and British Airways has already started for morning 30000. 00 employees but the government will pick up the cost of after 80 percent of those salaries so there is some good. News for the airlines in the u. K. So far but you also got virgin which is actually looking for a huge loan from the government but theres a backlash from many people in the media in particular and i leased to say well you know the owner rockbridge. Richard branson and hes a multibillionaire issue more of the money from his own pockets but inside actually and i mean. The Tourism Industry is a needed 10 trillion dollars economy all while the guy and employs more than 300000000. 00 people so weve seen people in the cruise industry in the Hotel Industry who also expect to buy prices have had many thanks indeed to our business nick and im excited to out a bit early there joining a reporting live from london lets speak to Charlie Angela whos also in london so charlie the u. K. Is economy could shrink by as much as 35 percent because of the pandemic yes and pretty bleak headlines coming out of the u. K. Today thats thats a 35 percent shrink in the countrys real Gross Domestic Product in the 2nd quarter 13 percent shrink in the economy over the entire year theyre also predicting this is the Office Office for budget responsibility by the way they are also predicting that unemployment will rise by 2000000. 00 mark today it stands at 1300000 so thats more than doubling of the Unemployment Rate now the government has been quick to stress that this is not their official prediction but they have yet to push back against it in any significant way and we have seen the chancellor over the last 2 weeks really seen that again no naging that there will be a Significant Impact on the economy has steered slightly clear of that word recession but how could it not with businesses close. Being furloughed or the governments business support package running up into the into the huge number 415000000000. 00 that o. B. Our prediction is worth noting is modeled on a 3 month full lockdown followed by a 3 month partial lockdown now thats not what the government is saying its planning to do but the government has said that we will be looking at 12 months of varying levels of social distancing so its not outside the realms of possibility and here weve dissented week 3 of the lock down and the government hinting that we could be looking at a further 3 weeks to come theyre also saying that the longer that these measures are in place the more long term the damage will be the more scar those businesses will become the more failed investments and the further apart the unemployed will get from the labor market the harder it will be for them to return to that job market and the chancellor will be appearing at the governments Daily Briefing in an hour and no doubt hes going to be answering a lot of hard questions on that figure of a 30 percent shrinking real g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter for this country and 0 as charlie actually reporting live from home in london many thanks indeed charlie. Is a senior economist at Capital Economics in london he says the economic shock is unprecedented. What you probably see is the Global Economy probably shrink maybe 10 percent this quarter but as the shutdowns are unlucky you will initially at least get a very strong rebound as shops and factories are reopened but i think then the Global Economy will start to face a number of headwinds in the form of very weak demand lots of companies have gone bust through this unemployment is low and all of that will drag on Global Growth as well some sectors for example recently tourism i can take a very long time dietrich you will get this initial pounds back in Economic Activity as shocks and so on opened up but straight after that i think hes going to run into a lot of headwinds in terms of the kind of the drank thats going to come from all the big show thats happened over the past quarter in terms of bankruptcies in terms of lost jobs and that is going away quite heavily on demand and that is why governments and Central Banks that been stepping up stimulus to try and get the economy this extra boost when it comes out of this shock this didnt used by the shutdowns the protests in india hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the nationwide lockdown by nearly 3 weeks thousands of workers gathered in mumbai to protest against the measures or the lack of aid from the government about extending the lockdown of 1300000 people until may 3rd india has more than 10500 known cases and this reported over 350 deaths lets go live now to india and out of there as elizabeth for adam who joins us from new delhi tell us more about what happened as well. Adrian so at about 4 pm this Afternoon Police in mumbai say that at least 1500 Migrant Workers gathered at a train station in the suburb of bad drug that they were protesting about being stranded in a state that theyre not from their Living Conditions that they dont have enough food and that they want trains to go home now all Train Services will be suspended until the 3rd of may thats when Prime Minister modi announced the lockdown will be extended to. Address the nation earlier on wednesday Mumbai Police say that they tried to. Reason with the crowd and thats when people got aggressive and they were forced to charge them with battens local politicians say that they also did try to reason with the crowd and they were able to convince them to go back to their accommodation there was Something Like 600000 Migrant Workers in mumbai and then by the city that is the capital of maharashtra have the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country and were seeing with the lockdown being extended that a lot of Migrant Workers of reaching breaking point and also this just adds to the list of problems that mumbai and maharashtra have to deal with and fighting coronavirus zeros elizabeth for on im reporting live from new delhi and as with many thanks indeed. Barry in greece normally at this time of the year it would be building up to its peak tourist season but with a pandemic keeping everyone at home one of the countrys biggest attractions apparently deserted thats hurting businesses that were only just recovering following years of recession officer restaurants all Police Reports from athens. Seen the most square in front of parliament is the beating heart of athens now a picture of emptiness even more extreme than that scene when the nazis rolled into town 8 decades ago the one operating hotel on the square is the plaza and even it doesnt look very open economy. We operate you know 16 to 18 percent occupancy mostly with international and crucial cargo flights and some people have chosen to leave in the hotel permanently. At the Airport International passenger traffic has stopped only a handful of domestic flights still take off and land and that has come off the lifeblood of the economy greece had 34000000. 00 visitors last year 3 times its population they generated an estimated income of over 50000000000. 00 thats more than a quarter of the economy and gave jobs to almost a 1000000 people this industry is greeces powerhouse and was key to its recovery from a decade long recession the country was set for a repeat performance this year. By the end of february we had already booked half our capacity for the year now much and i put the last in everything for the summer has been cancelled we dont even know if the airlines will operate. The industry hopes to salvage something of the season and is asking the government to lower sales tax from 24 percent its the highest in the mediterranean a remnant of greeces decade of austerity and it wants europe to allow vouchers valid for 18 months rather than cash refunds for cancelled holidays but the month remains a problem coronavirus is still ripping through greeces main markets. Germany. And the United States so we know that there is a huge problem from the International Markets and. Seats for tourists. Markets that its us says greece will focus on attracting visitors from the middle east and the balkans where governments have so far successfully quelled to the spread of the virus the government is spending more than 5000000000 dollars subsidizing businesses and employees so they can get back to work again when the situation improves its a gamble the to return to normality will be a matter of weeks not months jumps out all close aljazeera athens this is the news hour from our series still to come on the program is the world one step closer to a Coronavirus Vaccine well take a look at Global Development moves to human trials plus why a company in chile is starting to call to produce surgical masks. And i believe you can hear me. On the lead supporter start racing driver has been suspended for using a racial slur during an east ports event. Russia has reported another record or daily rise in new infections with more than 2700. 00 reports that the government says the 170. 00 russians have died with the total number of cases of now more than 21000 others there as they have back as monitoring russias outbreak from london he says that moscow is planning to introduce robust surveillance measures to tackle the outbreak. Every day where hearing of more more infections and more more russians dying according to the kremlin the number of infections is going up roughly between 16 and 18 percent a day and is now currently when it comes to new infections 2774 president Vladimir Putin has been very open and somewhat stark with the russian population themselves saying that the worst is very much yet to come particularly in the russian capital which is thought to be days if not weeks ahead of the rest of the country lets not forget how big the country is 11 time zones for bloody for stock in the east of the russian capital moscow in the west rolling out restrictions rolling out standards high standards in health care is going to be extremely difficult nevertheless 18 new hospitals have been commissioned the hope is to have 95000 beds ready for any influx in numbers when it comes to restrictions of course shops are shuttered in big cities like moscow and St Petersburg people altered to stay at home we know that there is some sort of plan in moscow to introduce digital permits to allow certain people to access their cars but there are also the threats of heavy prison sentences of up to 7 years for people flouting the rules and regulations that house thats how seriously the russian government are treating this also reports of but help some very robust surveillance measures being introduced the human rights watchers are concerned about remaining in place long after this pandemic is over spain has reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly a month bringing hope that the infection rate there is slowing authorities reported a further 567. 00 deaths on tuesday pushing the total past 8000. 00. Thousands of shops across australia are reopening as the government loosens its lockdown measures Authorities Say its the 1st phase of a gradual process to restart the economy austrias strict social distancing rules will remain in place. We have a simple message to all countries test test test thats been the World Health Organization chiefs call for countries ever since the outbreak was declared a pandemic but less testing has been a big challenge not just for developing and poor countries even rich nations like the u. S. Have struggled to screen people on a wide scale joining us now the studio dr patrick tang is division chief of the fall of the sciences sidra medicine welcome once again youve got a couple of tests with you which youre going to show us now why are they look very small and very simple why have they been such a challenge why has it been such a challenge to get these these out on a mass scale so we know that the border testing is the one the cornerstones of controlling this pandemic the problem right now is that so many countries are affected all at the same time and Everybody Needs testing at the same time so there just isnt enough supply of some of the supplies that you need for doing the testing so for everything from the swabs to the mask that people have to wear to protect themselves while theyre taking a swab from somebody to the agents that we use in the board tory to test for the virus because so well the tests look relatively simple themselves its all the rest of the paraphernalia that goes with the that its difficult to stop just show us what youve got starting with the bigger one of the 2 whats whats that so this is the viral swab so this is a swab that we would put into your throat and then theres a smaller version of it that you would put into your nose this is to try to collect the virus from the person thats potentially infected and then we put it into the tube here and then transport it to the board tory once its in the board tory they will. Look for the genetic signature of the virus so that r. N. A. Of the virus and this disk can be done in 2 different ways that we have these very fast machines that can test for one or just a few samples at a time very rapidly sometimes some of them can do it in 5 minutes some take about an hour or a bit longer and then we have also very high throughput systems where we need to screen hundreds or thousands of people at a time so then you would take hundreds or thousands of these tubes and you put it through this system that could then test for many many people in 3 to 4 hours and is that test the the vile that you have in the little little swamp thing is that a test thats unique to corona virus or other used for other diseases as well this is a generic swab into for testing for all viruses is typically used for testing for riskier torrie viruses for colds and flus and so in theory there should be no shortage of those anyway because there are already mass produced yes there are but when Everybody Needs at the same time that is the problem ok so whats the 2nd test you have depending on which stage of illness that youre on adds if youre if you just got infected and now youre very infectious at the early stage of illness its more important to look for the virus if youve been infected in the past then then the virus might no longer be in the upper respiratory tract in this swab might not pick it up and then its important to look for the immune response to that and in that case you would be looking for the antibodies that are specific to the corona virus and in that case you need a blood sample and then with the blood sample we look to see whether you have antibodies against covert 19 ok so with so many people who are supposedly asymptomatic the amount of have the disease but not even know about it and this is key to easing the law as a kid you can just shows that the tension i have so so this this is a little cartridge where you would apply a drop of blood to that little window there and then the liquid would carry up through the fill. Paper there and then if you see once one line one band on the test that would mean that youre negative and just like the pregnancy test if you see 2 bands that means your positives that means that you have antibodies against covert 19 it means that youve been exposed to in the past and then depending on the type of antibody you have might also be potentially immune to the virus ok so thats so that is actually that test is i suppose the most important one here in terms of ending lockdowns around the world until everybody has a test like that so we know who is to a certain extent immune and who isnt and then the lockdowns will continue is that right exactly so we need a combination of both tests we need theres still going to be some people that are acutely infected that are still infectious and and potentially driving the outbreak causing secondary spread of the virus so those kinds of people would need to swab and then the other people that dont have symptoms that that might have been in fact in the past would need the antibody tests to see if they are mean that its always great to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us dr patrick tang that there is a race on globally to find a vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus now china as a proof human trials for 2 experimental vaccines as it tries to prevent a 2nd wave of infections state media announced that one vaccine is being developed by a biotech firm the other by the China National pharmaceutical group the countries now trying to contain imported cases especially from neighboring russia so a clock is in hong kong and sister china wants to fast track the production of vaccines. These vaccines where vaccines will be developed in partnership number one with a Biotech Group based in beijing in the 2nd partner is one based out of this is a pharmaceutical group and as i mentioned has been confirmed by china but chinas already got a vaccine or a trial in place and that particular trial its already 2nd phase the 1st phase of that trial looked at the safety scenario of that vaccine and the 2nd one is now introduced for perceived control groups have certainly got enough at this stage 500 volunteers have signed up but we can now confirm weve got 3 vaccines in place in china but the National Health Commission Said it cant pass must pass various conditions before they can enable mass production certainly theyre trying to fast track this and china certainly has an advantage as the 1st nation to be able to map the genome status of the corona virus and we have some license numbers coming out of china were looking at a particular area now russia a province in china that borders russia and weve had 409. 00 infections coming from russia into china of the last few weeks the current number of cases in china is 89 as of today and this particular province accounts about 79 of those cases as of tuesday and as a result these cities put in a number of Border Protection controls checkpoints in that area that healthy they get Health Checks on those people coming from russia into china weve also got mandatory coronavirus testing from all those chinese nationals coming from russia into china theyve also set up a hotline to allow for those people in this particular province to report the illegal arrivals coming from russia china is also deployed a number of extra resources and medical teams from where you have and the south to that area and it seems that particular region is now the focus of what they could believe might be a 2nd wave of infections into china is a look at whats happening on a global scale there are at least 70 potential treatments in development 3 of them are at the clinical stage which is when human trials begin outside china the u. S. Is the only other country now doing human testing but some experts warn against rushing the process they say doing so could result in a vaccine that weakens our borders bodys ability to fight. Off the virus on its own americas top medical experts and they found a sub that a vaccine could be ready within 12 to 18 months while Health Officials elsewhere say it could take even longer others though worry the crucial steps in the trial process of being skipped we spoke earlier about this with John Nicholas a clinical professor of pathology at the university of hong kong normally with a vaccine to start off with small animals and then move to the prime its an end to the humans but it seems of this one that theyve gone straight to the humans which is a very Bold Decision i think the other issue is that you notice that theyre all using young volunteers and this is actually going to be a big problem with this vaccine is that because the most of the mortality in this disease is in the elderly and in the elderly they dont mount a very strong immune response thats called immune senescence so the best thing should actually be to see what the antibody response is in the elderly rather than the young because thats that the target population which has the highest mortality because if you remember you know weve got an aging population in hong kong during summers and 11 percent the population was over 65 now its 18 percent so if they have the best use of this vaccine. Should be really how much is going to prevent a serious disease in the elderly vaccines cant be rushed in because as was mentioned earlier is that if you rush a vaccine too much and you get side effects then thats going to have a really deleterious effect and we also rate i know what percent of the population needs to have the munis hell vaccinations effective things like measles you need about 95 percent so be because we really dont know at this stage what the proper herd immunity is challenging to know what amount of the population will have to have the they antibodies either through natural infection or i mean all vaccination to be for it to be really effective. Were going to weather update backs here on the news out then diagnosed with a cold at 19 but asks to keep on working will be speaking to a nurse in new york. Traffic backs up for kilometers of u. S. Food banks as millions run out of options the worsening economic crisis there. And in sports well hear what this study and player has to say about the possible return of test match cricket. Over the last couple of days to say some rather lively weather into central and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula still see this large band of cloud which stretches across yemen saudi arabia. Into iran and its down so was yemen where weve seen some very heavy rain recently weve had some flooding here in the capital in santa ana has caused a major disruption as one would expect the wet weather is set to continue across southern there was a saudi arabia through us here in qatar we saw a couple of millimeters of rain yesterday i think tomorrow going on into wednesday we will see more in the way of some very heavy showers with some thunder rumbling away and that will stretch his way into that western side of iran as well still there on thursday gradually clearing away as the day goes on but i wouldnt be surprised if we do see some localized flooding as a result of that gusty winds as well the showers there set to continue down towards the south there across yemen you can follow those showers in syria ethiopia into somalia down into the rift valley quite a crop of showers to on the other side of the continent just pushing over towards the gulf of guinea a lot of the showers there running across a good parts of western Africa Liberia seeing some very heavy showers along with sierra leone by the middle of the week. Throughout history humankind has come together in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually save every generation as its moment this war is ours. Ringback an extrajudicial killing in a north african capital. I heard someone breaking into a house. That i heard people shouting i saw 4 masked men and only their eyes and hair was showing. Aljazeera world heres rare eyewitness accounts of the dramatic story of the assassination of major p. L. O. Figure khaleel i was here in a secret israeli operation assassination in tunis on aljazeera. Unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. From our london broadcast center. On aljazeera. To all the. Other again this is the news hour from aljazeera a very unforgiving with you here in doha the headlines the International Monetary fund says that the coronavirus pandemic will cost the worlds economies 9. 00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years warning comes as countries around the world face on the law as. The water lines stand to lose more than 300000000000. 00 in revenue this year thats the latest forecast from the industrys representative body miles. China and. Approved human trials to do experimental vaccines against the corona virus as it fights to prevent a 2nd wave of its. U. S. President donald trump has used his latest Coronavirus Briefing to play a Campaign Style Video Montage he declared that he alone has the total authority to decide when the economy reopens the u. S. Death toll is approaching 24000 but as the worlds highest john hendren reports from chicago. President donald trump is determined to open American Homes and businesses even over the objections of some states when somebody is the president of the United States the authority is total and thats so its got to be whole 36 total its talk of the states closed the governors of new york and illinois dispute that saying they want to end shelter at home orders based on science and they say the science isnt clear on that yet we want to get things back to more normal as soon as we can but one thing that we have to Pay Attention to is what direction are these curves going and what are the what is the advice that were getting from again the scientists and the doctors who know more about immunology and about you know all the issues of covert 19 then you know than an elected official is not a doctor in a fiery 2 and a half hour News Conference President Trump excoriated journalists you know youre a fake so whatever theyre doing it smirked as he showed a montage of news reports that he said underplayed the threat of the virus. N. Denied he had any problem with his point man on the pandemic even after retreating a twitter post saying fire found not everybodys happy with anthony not everybodys happy with everybody it happened one day after the man at the center of the controversy anthony said fewer people would have died if the u. S. Administration had acted sooner it was found she said that was it but who are choice of word this on earlier you know im doing. Everything i do is voluntarily please dont even imply that the president was especially irate over a New York Times report saying he ignored warnings of the pandemic in bungled the early response for 80000000 americans there was good news in the White House Briefing with more of them out of work than in any time since the Great Depression treasury secretary Steve Menuhin said they could expect long awaited stimulus checks of up to 1200. 00 apiece direct deposited in their Bank Accounts on wednesday. The spectacle eclipse the results of the wisconsin election announced one week after the state forced voters to gather at polling places despite the pandemic. The man the president assailed throughout his News Conference his chief rival joe biden won handily john hendren aljazeera chicago live out of Washington White House correspondent kimberly how could up to yesterdays controversy kimberly the president it seems has come back for more hes already been on twitter this morning lashing out. Yeah lashing out and what seems to be the issue here is the president and his claim of total authority over when he can open the u. S. Economy of course something that he wants desperately because thats what he was hedging his reelection chances on in november for a 2nd president ial term now the u. S. President you heard in johns report there continues to say that he has the ultimate Authority Total of 40 over went to make this decision but governors in the United States are going hey wait a 2nd the Us Constitution gives us that power and where were really seeing this back and forth over this issue is with the new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo he was asked our Morning Television here in the United States if the u. S. President asked him to open the essentially tell people to come out of their houses and go back to work would he comply with that man andrew cuomo says if you ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger Public Health i wouldnt do that well the u. S. President has just tweeted his response to that statement saying quote was been calling daily even an hour early begging for everything most of which should have been the states responsibility he writes on twitter such as new hospitals beds ventilators except i got it all done for him and everyone else and now he seems to want independence that wont happen i can tell you what wont happen is that is that a lot of people may not like what the u. S. President has written there because essentially again the u. S. Constitution grants an awful lot of power to the states but the u. S. President president is claiming he has this ultimate authority because of the Emergency Declaration thats taken place the bottom line here in all of this is Donald Trumps eager to get this economy reopened we have National Social distancing guidelines in place until the end of this month but some states have gone beyond that for example virginia just outside of washington d. C. Has it stay at home order until june 10th so we really set ourselves up for a bad. Back and forth and the problem in all of this is adrian this is a big country and this pandemic is not moving at the same speed in every area of new york of course a hot spot weve also seen a flare ups on the west coast so what were seeing now are groups of governors banding together on both coasts the east coast and west coast to decide independently when they believe this should happen and independent we should point out of the us president declares that he has the ultimate authority which many constitutional scholars argue with our White House Correspondent kimberly reporting live from home in washington many thanks indeed kimberly so very briefly the Governor Andrew Cuomo of new york state is giving his Daily Briefing from albany. 778 lives lost yesterday in new york state well keep listings what the governor is saying will bring you anything used newsworthy here on aljazeera Health Workers in the u. S. Have been forced to make a choice between personal safety and that duty many are overlooking the risks and carrying on with the job as a rate return though is a registered nurse at a new york City Hospital she has been cleared to go back to work despite testing positive for corona virus because shes not showing any symptoms she joins us now live from new york is very good to have you with us before we go any further im going to ask you how are you. Im doing ok thank you for having me a. J. Ive. Been asymptomatic for a number of days now so im hoping im fine ok so youve been cleared to go back to work but you say your asymptomatic you tested positive does that mean that your. Youre no longer infectious. That doesnt necessarily mean that you know so i had symptoms. April 1st i had a fever headache sore throat and then i was current team for 7 days after that i got my nasal swab done and i was tested and then i received my results this past sunday that i was past it while i was at work so why have the bosses at your hospital cleared you to return for work does it doesnt mean that the particularly short staffed right up. On it doesnt mean that when i sell a short staffed right now it just i think theyre trying to send the message that you know if we keep everybody home that test positive we probably wouldnt have that many staff to help us out with probably collapse the system on in my opinion which i read quietly agree with and i understand it from that perspective but you or your colleagues those who havent had the virus must be particularly worried about you being in their midst i mean thats going to cause some problems and. Thats absolutely correct when i made the announcement to my colleagues when i found out on sunday i was working and i said to them im positive i have the virus and you know many of them were concerned i had one colleague who isnt you know compromised who spoke to me presently and said he really shouldnt be here you know in a i emailed my you know right manager my supervisor and theyve basically told me that im ok this keep working as long as i dont have symptoms even though i may be contagious when i offered i said you know ill take action precautions ill be sure you know to keep my distance and you know do we have to do it thats what thats what it is right now right so you find a mid shift that that you tested positive for and they didnt send you home. Correct they did not study home i you know i emailed and they sent an email to be Employee Health services and i received a response right away that i could i could continue to work ok were not going to name the hospital that where you work but but tell us something of conditions there right now just just how busy has it been during the pandemic pandemic how are you and your colleagues coping im obviously there have been im so many changes you know weve switched units entirely im originally from cardiac nurses and our floor so this is really a whole different ballgame it has been very busy. A lot of that i think has been manageable now that time has gone by and been able to get past some of the hiccups that have happened. But i think our major concern right now is just you know the fact that we are short on people i was just informed on earlier this morning from a colleague that we didnt have any protective gowns and then when they were sent they were only allowed to use one for the shift for all the patients which i think is an acceptable. Does or its been really good to talk to you really appreciate you taking the time and trouble to come and talk to us we wish you well many thanks indeed theres a return to the thing in new york. The pandemic threatens to leave millions more americans going hungry as companies lay off workers but food is going to waste at the same time as there is pretty cool hain explains why. Its happening across the Country Rivers of milk dumped down drains and ponds millions of leaders wasted by farmers who say they cant sell it the reason about half of their customers are closed restaurants bars School Cafeterias all shuttered but at the same time store shelves are mostly empty theres very little milk to be found and those that can find some are being limited to how much they can buy Wisconsin Dairy farmer Marty Hallock says the problem is that milk packets for restaurants is not the same as the kind they can sell in stores. Plants were sent to our bottle now in certain container so i. E. The schools where Small Computers you know a lot of people buy them small containers and store a minute and then to be honest with the. Issue from storage out in trucking and now there is a new concern about the countrys meat supply meat packing plants are tight quarters and his workers get sick but the coronavirus plants are closing across the country analyst steve meyer says he expects more plants to close especially as it peaks in certain states at the end of may but he says the country will not run out of meat remember that a playground does mean that the hogs disappear i suppose hogs are still out there they will have to be slaughtered and processed at some point in time so as long as the plants are permanently down were not running out and no this is happening while tens of millions of americans go hungry with so many out of work this is what Food Bank Distribution now looks like all across the country from california to pennsylvania florida to texas miles of cars lined up for a box of free food were looking at an increase of 17100000 people over the course of the next 6 months when they see that access coming into the hearts some of them smile and some of them cry its been an increasing trend up until now americans have spent more money at restaurants and bars their Grocery Stores that is what the supply chain was built for bringing the country to this point so much fresh food wasted when its desperately needed the most political gain and jazeera washington for centuries culpa has been used to repel certain bacteria and viruses a company in chile is now using the battle to combat a shortage of mosques in latin america but c. N. N. Ibn reports from santiago. The ancient egyptians used it to sterilize Drinking Water the french physicist Victor Bullock discovered it could stop the spread of cholera indeed its well known that the Antimicrobial Properties of copper kill bacteria and viruses chile the Worlds Largest copper producer has built an entire industry on antimicrobial copper threaded clothing and copper surfaces now a startup called copper 3 d. Has taken it a step further. This facemask is made with polymer and one percent nano copper which is extremely fine powdered copper at a nano metric scale in other words a very fine particle this increases the actually Microbial Properties of that copper exponentially. The mask is made with a 3 d. Printer it seamless waterproof and contains 3 copper least filters on the inside and that the economic about the politicos cotton filter is reusable and can be washed while 2 others are disposable underprivileged to an end 95. 00 mask they also have copper which the n 95. 00 does not. The design is now available to anyone with a 3 d. Printer. We lifted the pattern and published it on our website last month under the open source system and in 48 hours it was downloaded millions of times around the world we stopped counting up to 7000000. 00. Martina says tests in chile show its 99 percent effective against viruses like sars the cousin of colin 19 and the u. S. National institute of health is reviewing the mask for possible certification. Professor bill keevil of the university of southampton has long argued that copper ions electronically charged molecules kill viruses by destroying their genetic material and a more recent paper in the new england journal of medicine says copper is the surface on which cold 19 survives the least time these probes for medical gowns the copper are new in chile theyve been around for years but they havent been widely used because theyre more expensive than the normal parton but up to this point and the mia having gowns with anti Microbial Properties may very well become a requisite worldwide meanwhile with the United States blocking shipments of everything from respirators to surgical masks to latin america and beyond copper 3 d. Is hoping a private or Public Entity can contribute to mass producing these masks for hospitals as part of the 1st line of defense you see in human aljazeera santiago. One item of news away from the pandemic to bring to you at this hour libyas u. N. Recognized government says that its made gains and its fight against the warlord cully for half top officials in tripoli say their forces have taken control of 7 coastal towns and the Prime Minister insists that his forces will continue to move further off to fight as a pulled back to an airbase in the southwest of libya fighting has intensified between the 2 sides in the last few weeks despite calls for a cease fire after launch the offensive to take tripoli last here aljazeera as more hold up the one head is in one of the captured libyan cities and reports that recent gains are significant for the un backed government. It was a swift take over according to the government to military sources partly because of the Turkish Air Force supply with the Government Forces you know that the gun forces have been targeting get half the force locations in the city of so broad and many other locations in the west of the country ahead of this operation this ignorance of this city so broad as it stands on the way between tripoli and the teacher borders and whoever controls the broth or can easily control the International Coastal highway linking the capital tripoli to the tunisian border sput authorities here tell us that they are now starting procedures to bring back those who were displaced those who were forced out of their homes by half those forces at 3 years ago from many other cities they are trying to bring them back to the city and they are also trying to bring the life back to normal as you know that it was a fierce battle over the past 2 days between have those forces and forces loyal to the government of National Accord and now the Government Forces say that they along with their plan to move towards a base theyre also planning to focus on the polling house has forced the attacks in southern tripoli have been targeting get his attention areas in tripoli with random rockets as any action to their defeat in the west of libya. Just ahead on the news and sports the experienced coach facing a new challenge and germanys top 4. You know certain isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise youve been looking at another side. This story not so much the information around the outbreak but the myth of the listening post on aljazeera. Every generation has a higher purpose. Ours is just a. Alaskas phone nor a Pristine Environments thats become a battleground with the trumpet ministration keen to let Oil Companies start drilling some and its remote communities are tempted by the promised wealth we live here we make the rule not their own but others bitterly opposed we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas crossing the high peaks of the Arctic Circle to investigate the people in power at the edge of the earth on aljazeera. Or get tied to support his far adrian thank you so much the biggest cycling race in the world the Tour De France has been postponed organizers say it isnt possible for the race to start as planned on june the 27th thats after the french government extended a ban on Mass Gatherings until mid july. Well German Bundesliga has delayed a meeting of clubs that was expected to set out a timetable for resuming games and empty stadiums teams are now allowed to train under strict conditions for their berlin squad or training in small groups a safe distance as can be kept between the players so. I was a given is it once youre on this is an extremely unusual situation and you always have a to think about how to deal with the team i cant shake hands or conseco someone by the arm to the side of the pitch for a talk these are things that a very unusual twist but its the same for everyone else. Cricket sending in premier league is facing further delays with the countrys lockdown extended until early may the National Team is due to head to was trailing later this year australian bowler nathan lyon is hoping that tour can go ahead even if matches have to be played behind closed doors. Their absolute pass over it was so you know. And to be honest with you lying from the press for no credit. We. All boil it all boiled the boss of all the men. Who are in the wall get him. Its area controlled to be honest with. No crowd or message this. Many lead athletes are having to improvise with new training techniques at a time when theyre away from teammates and coaches kept are a Sports Medicine hospital asp atar is offering a helping hand with online advice and training routines that can be done at home. We want to support athletes in this time with facts with nationality and we want to demonstrate solidarity with them it is really difficult for for for many of us in factories to accept the Current Situation but then again we know athletes are resilient they need to cope with a lot of different stress situations they are used to doing exactly this in major competition level etc so we actually see a lot of resilience in our elite competitive athletes. Plano this will end but i know they will come to do over this and the competition and the competition should will start again. And i think another comfortable comfortable factor as well they know they are all in this boat together and we see very good. Results with teams connect with each other on social media rivers are these that authentic that forms and share their concerns and share their. Struggles and that anxiety issues and i think this is the really this is the exciting thing about the current challenges the people face so we see so many athletes coaches teams. Changing and this into an opportunity and this is wonderful to see and who knows this might actually change a few things even off to the grown up daughters bunda me. Racing driver carl a like a liar sent has been fired by his team and suspended by nascar it comes after he used a racial slur during an east Sports Events and i cant believe you didnt hear me. With all track races the spend of the 27 year old american had been competing in a virtual competition tyler larson issued this apology online. And i just want to say im sorry last night i made a mistake and said the word that should never ever be said in. There is no excuse for that you know i wasnt raised that way you know its just an awful thing to say in i feel very sorry for my family my friends my partners the nascar community and especially the africanamerican community. Organizers of the riches horse race in the world the saudi cop are withholding this years prize money after the winning trainer was charged with horse doping maximun security won the 20000000. 00 race back in february and since then trainer Jason Service has been indicted in the us hes also been fired by the horses. Ok and that is all your sport for now wagering back to you daryn many thanks indeed ill be back in just a few moments here out saratov takes you of the days top stories see it. 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As corona virus continues to devastate the United States the race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he beat still trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u. S. Election 2020 on al jazeera. This is a crisis like no other a 9 trillion dollar economic hit the International Monetary fund warns that the coronavirus pandemic will cause the worst recession in a century. And i get im adrian for again this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up just keeps getting worse for the airlines the industry warns carriers will lose 314000000000. 00 in revenue with 80 percent of flights