A hospital treating people in a Global Pandemic cannot get a mass. Protests against the brazilian president s handling of the Coronavirus Crisis he says his role is not to cause panic. Traumatized by war now terrified of the virus we look at efforts to prevent an outbreak in the refugee camps in Northern Syria. Has now killed more people in italy than anywhere else the death toll of more than 3400. 00 surpassed that reported by china where the virus 1st emerged iran spain and germany each add more than 15000. 00 cases worldwide according to Johns Hopkins university more than 242000 people have contracted the illness almost 85000 of them have recovered while more than 9800 have died as President Donald Trump says he is pushing regulators to fast track rhinovirus treatments including an antimalaria drug but his own officials later talked that down some more on that in a moment lets begin though in italy paul brennan has our report its just its. The head of the World Health Organization h
It has been several year, march of 2016, since our last hearing on the budget of the nations leading Public Health agency. Before i do a formal welcome and so forth, i want to i was made aware of this issue which is really very, very troubling and that is that the administration has ordered the Immigration Court to immediately remove coronavirus posters and it just says that the Immigration Court staff nationwide have been ordered by the administration to take down coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas. The executive office for immigration review which falls under the department of justice told all judges and Staff Members in an email monday that all of the coronavirus posters which explain in english and spanish thousand prevent catching and spreading the virus had to be removed immediately. I just want to say that whatever ones view is on any issue that we face in this nation, whatever your personal views are, whatever your ideology is, that we cannot, we cannot in th
European country remains largely unchanged by the 10 damage. Im michael okwu thanks for joining us the corona virus is spreading across the globe and just starting to take hold in africa with more than a 1000 registered infections south africa is officially the worst hit nation on the continent the country has just begun a 3 Week National lockdown and local authorities are taking a hard line in enforcing it were no mother no the army is out on the streets here in one of jhana spectro neighborhoods its trying to enforce what seems difficult for many staying at. For the lead waba family lockdown means 6 people sharing 12 square meter as. That normally only happens at night when they sleep and they have no Running Water they have to collect it themselves from a tap a kilometer away. Social distancing doesnt really work here but its badly needed millions suffer from tuberculosis and aids and particular risk as nigerians have come up we have no choice we have to come to this place to get wa
Risk. And business. And. All others are questioning whose policies are most protected. Thanks for joining us. Could prove extra challenging for countries without advance health care. Gloves face masks and hospital beds are all crucial and theyre severely lacking in gaza authorities worry the virus could spread unchecked more than 2000000 people in the palestinian territory live under strict blockades from both israel and egypt. Its been less than a week since the coronavirus reached gaza but already its clear that the territory is woefully under quick to cope with the pandemic or thirtys are doing what they can. The. Gaza municipality is organizing the cleaning and sterilising of the markets in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Were doing this despite being short of facilities and equipment. It is our duty to try to prevent the virus from spreading. The u. N. Has already warned that the crumbling infrastructure will not be up to the challenge basic health care and sa
Emergency in this covid19 pandemic. This is a serious situation and we are all concerned about the health and safety of our fellow americans and citizen soldiers and airmen. Thus far members of the national , six guard have tested positive for covid19. We have forced Health Protection measures in place and we will keep our National Guard members informed as the situation develops. We all play an important part in ensuring the health and safety of communities and this is a responsibility we take their take seriously. We are here to support each other and communities. I want to talk about what the National Guard is doing in response to covid19. First of our, its an historic event unlike any weve faced in recent years. When theres a hurricane, you can see it on a map and you have a sense on how hard itll hit. Its like we have 54 separate hurricanes in every state and territory. Some are category 5, summer some are category threes, and some are category ones. We dont no one this was going