Intelligence suggests moscow is trying to help his campaign. Voting in togo where the president s expected to extend his familys 53 year long grip on power im joined again with your sports heavyweight boxer day and while that anticivil here have weighed in ahead of their much anticipated title rematch both of them later in the fall its. The sudden spreads of coronavirus to host of new countries is concerning the World Health Organization in the last hour or so the w. H. O. Chief has ours all countries to invest urgently in preparedness and the number of people have contracted the virus is more than doubled in size korea 229 new cases have been reporting taking the nation while 2. So its a 433 with 2 fatalities the government says urgently sends in medical help to the city of daegu Health Authorities in iran have also reported another death bringing its total to 5 People Killed with nearly 30 infections there largely centered around the muslim holy city of whom were infected travelers from iran have been reported in lebanon and canada meanwhile a 2nd death from the virus has been reported in italy there brick has spread c. In its Northern Region of low birdsey with 30 confirmed cases weve got 3 correspondents across the developments in the story shortly well head see way in haiti in Hong Kong Bari is standing by for us in teheran but 1st were joined by rob mcbride in daegu south korea rob a very concerning situation in south korea given the sharp rise in numbers of confirmed cases. Thats right these latest figures do make for very grim reading once more showing a doubling of this basically a pattern now its been established over the past few days that we have a doubling each day it seems this time last night friday we were talking about just over 200 cases in south korea were now talking about well over 400 and the focus still is very much on this area daegu and the adjoining chango county where we have a number bout half of all of the cases are now reported to be members of this one Church Community so thats the focus at the moment is trying to screen and test all of the thousands of members of this church and it has to be said that around a 1000 of them have reported flu like symptoms so we can expect sadly many more people from this congregation potentially to test positive for the corona virus around 100 or so of the number are also from a hospital in chiang doe where it seems the there is a link between the cluster here in the day daegu and the neighboring county the somehow there has been a cross infection into that hospital which is spread very rapidly through the patients there and also the staff it is having a profound impact on this corner d of south korea it has brought pretty much Economic Activity in the city of daegu to a standstill you dont see many people out on the streets also has an impact further afield we just heard for example that a Samsung Electronics factory just outside of this city has decided to close one of its staffers come down with the corona virus so it does have this knock on impact if there was one positive aspect then it is that Health Officials are reporting that although we are seeing cases now throughout south korea other cases tend to be small isolated single individuals who have come down to being taken. Sick and somehow had some link with this area of south korea so luckily hopefully what were not seeing so far is other clusters cropping up in other parts of the country so Health Officials will be hoping that the measures theyve taken have so far prevented that from happening although thats small comfort for the people in this part of south korea who are going through this at the moment rob mcbride there in de go south korea thank you very much. Now its nearly 4 weeks since the province the epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak went into locked in aljazeera scrutiny you spoke to residents living in rouhani. One month after bronze sealed off its borders its roads are empty and construction sites are abandoned the citys millions of residents have been ordered to stay indoors among them mark leo and his son craft your hands. Your hands oh your feet with schools across china closed until further notice eason is taking Classes Online through a video call mark told us his family was doing its best to adapt to life under lockdown and how theyve been coping with the restrictions and in order to lock that is necessary friends of people i know and some of my colleagues have been affected and some died a few days after they found out the cause of virus so im really worried for my family can do is to stay at home residents had been permitted to leave their residential compounds once every 7 days but this week loudspeakers placed on street corners notified households of change. From now on nobody can go out the previous the lawns were going out every 7 days has been cancelled lining up to collect food at local pick up points is now for many the only outing for the day special teams have been deployed to deliver supplies there are among the few still to me to drive around the city. Is one of them here every day i am in contact with those who live in my community i need to know how many people are living one household and check the temperature twice a day see she says Food Distribution in behind has improved since the beginning of the lockdown and most people seem to support the new measures. By sealing off the community we can isolate the unHealthy People from Healthy People our strategy now is Early Detection and early isolation a makeshift hospital nick. Named the ruhani living room has become home for thousands infected by the virus. Those who dont come voluntarily approved by force mark leo knows the Coronavirus Crisis will eventually pass but worries about the stigma 100 students may need. To repin the virus originated. But people didnt create it i hope they dont leap a bias against us this shouldnt blame everything people so far 7 year old essent isnt too worried his wish for now is being allowed again to play outside. Aljazeera beijing. A glimpse inside life in the city of one lets get more now from wayne hay hes in hong kong for us when the chinese are striking a much more cautious tone than they were a few days ago just tell us more about how this brick is developing. Yes well obviously a lot of concern expressed from the wolf World Health Organization and that lady at latest a Media Conference led by the director general one of the concerns he says is that they window to contain this fire is his closing quickly now what hes referring to is the fact that up until now as we know most of the confirmed cases of corona virus are happening in Mainland China in fact mainly in who province where the outbreak began but the concern is that that is changing and changing quickly as we see more and more cases pop up in Different Countries around the world as we heard a few minutes ago concerning cases occurring in south korea the cases popping up in the middle east and beyond so the concern from the w. H. O. Is that that possibly is going to get worse in the days and weeks ahead and therefore as the director general put it the window to contain this fire is going to get more and more difficult if not impossible and we could then see a situation where the w. H. O. Comes under pressure to declare this a pandemic certainly there is no sign of that happening at the moment the other concern the w. H. O. Has raised is exactly how this virus is being transmitted from person to person with more and more cases according to the director general popping up of people contract in the virus who have not knowingly gone to an affected area mainly of course who bay province in china or they havent knowingly come into direct contact with someone who is already infected with the virus so in other words more cases of people being infected with corona virus but not knowing exactly where or how they contract it so that is one of the other areas that the w. H. O. Is getting increasingly increasingly concerned by another interesting line thats come out of the province from the local government there they are saying that they have found a 70 year old men who contract it corona virus but showed no symptoms until 27. 00 days. Yes later so that throws all sorts of questions about the period which up until now is presumed to have been around 14 days at the maximum so if this is confirmed obviously that raises another series of questions about the incubation period. For us live in hong kong thank you lets go live now to dorset jabari in teheran where theres also cause for concern there door saw another fatality reports its not too long ago how is the government corbin with the. Well i think theyre taking it one day at a time as it appears the Health Ministry is trying to caution people from traveling to the holy city of home which is about 130 kilometers south of the capital tehran they believe that the virus originated there from a Chinese National whos working in that city and that city is now under heavy security watch because the officials there have said that people should restrict their movements they have said that all holy visits to the sites there should be limited for the time being weve also heard from the Health Ministry officials here in the capital who say that there is a mayor in district 13 of terror on thats in the east of the city who has been tested positive for the virus and he is now in the hospital and that has resulted in the city council shutting down for the next week or so the officials have also said that all pilgrimage trips to iraq have been canceled they only resumed late last week after 4 months of a stop in those trips as a result of the ongoing protests in iraq so that is also continuing in the officials have said that theyve closed all land crossings with iraq as well theres 5 of them between iran and iraq for now officials are saying people need to exercise caution in their movements and also weve heard that the number of cases that have been infected that have been confirmed has gone up to 282 of those are in teheran and the other rates in the city of qom ok dosage of are there life from the iranian capital thank you very much indeed well as weve been reporting there is a growing number of people outside of china getting sick this is a virus tracker from Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. It gives a good picture of the spread or break there are almost 7 seeing fires and cases a runs the globe. We know that more than 80 percent of patients have mild disease and will recover but the other 20 percent of patients have severe or critical this is ranging from shortness of breath is to septic shock and multiorgan failure this station city where intensive care using a kit meant such as risk you know tony support missions that are that are as you know we short supply in many african countries. Well for more on this im joined on sent by dr promptly tonnage of vision a division chief rather of Pathology Sciences and sidra medicine cat so good to have you with us or on the program dr is it so i know its a cold this a pandemic we are seeing alarming statements coming from the w. H. O. Those viruses cases are spreading beyond china whats the next step with this i mean whether we call this a pandemic or not is basically a technicality the fact that it has spread to many Different Countries in some countries that have less resources to handle this outbreak is very concerning so that so in many of many of us dont feel that whether they call it pandemic or not is going to make a difference in how we approach this outbreak well how should we be approaching this outbreak then because many people worldwide is a very very concerned by this this does this virus which is killing large numbers of people so how should we be preparing in tackling this virus i think in the developed countries there theyve done all the right things and youve seen in lebanon in canada in British Columbia canada they were able to detect rapidly cases that came from iran a place that was not expected to have high numbers of coronavirus as opposed to people from china which were everybody is wary of travelers from that region so so i think there is that heightened level of awareness all around the globe in the more developed countries so now its time to its time to focus on the other regions of the country that may be less prepared and this is a sign that everyone has to step up but were aware of this fire is but just in practical terms for viewers who watch in this who are concerns about you know how do i protect myself personally against this virus do we need to look to an entire city is the way has been done in china or is there very little risk to. For example a healthy active 35 year old male just give us some tangible concrete steps that viewers can use to protect themselves from this so theyre certain the things are done at the Public Health level are important for containing the 0 break in those have to do with the extent of the outbreak in that region so different regions may impose different measures such as quarantines or even lockdown of entire cities to contain the outbreak if its warranted based on what theyre finding in that region for the regular person thats not in one of those affected regions i think we have to keep in mind that 99 percent of the cases are confined to china and if you other places in the places that have very few cases your chance of contracting that virus is close to 0 and in terms of what happens if someone contracts this virus because were hearing a lot of technical language coming out its a. Mortality rates of such and such a percentage going up and we still in reality know very little about how deadly is this should people be very very worried or are we overreacting well i wouldnt call this virus as deadly as the sars virus or the mers virus but definitely it is of concern because the estimates of the case fatality is somewhere between 0 point one percent and 2 percent thats actually quite a wide range but all of those numbers are more than what would expect from seasonal influenza so seasonal influenza has a case fatality rate of around 0 point one percent so so this is at least as bad as flu so we should have at least as much concern about this as we have for the influenza virus that were still playing catch up a little bit but how would you rate the response thus far because weve seen a cruise ship coming on being quarantined for 14 days and yet people have come off the ship and have still managed to be incubating this virus and passing it on to others. Do you think weve underestimated the core and see the amount of time people should or should not be in coron scene or even think that this theres little chance of corn seed in a virus that we affect if we dont know anything about it 27 days were hearing about that case and move on how effective this is quarantine in a rapid the revolving outbreak its very easy to criticize actions in hindsight we absolutely happens afterwards. And if they had taken stronger measures they might have also been criticized for that as well too if nothing actually happened after that so that there were things that many of us regard as missteps in this outbreak that allowed it to spread and to get to the point where we are right now hindsight as they say is 2020 so its about time thank you so much for joining us and sharing your expertise. Now the w. H. O. Says it has identifies 13 priority countries in africa because of their direct links to china right now African UnionHealth Ministers are meeting in ethiopia to discuss how to contain a potential coronavirus breaks ethiopia has stepped up prevention measures with its National Airline continuing daily flights to china bomb involved reports from addis ababa. Theres a constant state of alert at Addis Ababa International airport and it peaks when a flight arrives from china after the 1st screening the passengers pass through a socalled 360 degree x. Ray machine which detects body temperature passengers are also asked to fill the Health Status forms and disclose where they have been during the past 14 days at the time of landing we would check the temperature you thing the 3rd term was coming and again we have master more scanner commuting in their own International Airport and finally we check again we leave it there most commonly when they are looking their bags in between again we have a positive thing which is again strict nowadays the border International Airport in addis ababa is one of the busiest travel hubs in africa resource of the continents main gateway to china while many countries have to distributed air services to china after the corner Virus OutbreakEthiopian Airlines continues to operate 35 flights a week to 5 chinese destinations the airline has ignored please both form if you open the public and some african countries to suspend its flights to china we base our decision based on the what the heads of shall still us the. Cysts ok minister has a few places its ok now when they say that its no more Health Issues so it becomes a business decision and a business decision is that for us it is. Long term the operation and we have 40 percent market share for travel between africa and china even though no case of infection has been detected in ethiopia until now Novel Coronavirus medically known as covert 19 is a major concern here 18 suspected cases were tested and found negative 11 of them were sent to south africa while 7 were tested within ethiopia in a new laboratory specially equipped with a purpos