It fight the Virus Outbreak. And sport team mclaren pulls out of the formula one grand prix in australia after a team member task positive for corona virus meanwhile spanish football side around the trade are in quarantine as the league suspends all matches. Sweeping travel bans countries under lockdown economies in trouble the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to cause global turmoil countries around the world are putting in place drastic measures to fight the spread of the illness in spain the death toll has jumped by 84 almost double yesterdays reported deaths nearly 3000 cases there and the Prime Minister will now hold meetings 5 Video Conference suffer a minister contracted the disease while the u. K. As well. To limit the spread scientists there have recommended a travel ban on soft of the u. S. Restricted most travel from europe on wednesday britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is set to hold an emergency meeting in the coming hour and is asking for billions in loans from the International Monetary fund to fight the virus the Health Ministry says the number of infections is suppost 10429 people have died this is the current level of infections around the world john hopkins at Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Has been tracking the global spread more than 127000 cases across 6 continents of those more than 68000 people have recovered weve got correspondents in tehran washington and london lets begin with the worsening crisis in europe and joined lawrence lee in the u. K. Lawrence other european nations are beginning to follow italys lead of bringing in more stringent measures to contain the spread of the virus tell us more. Yeah thats exactly right italy has now closed down to all intents and purposes with the exception of food stores and pharmacies. And thats now become the example for for other countries to to begin to follow spain as you said has now seen the call to its Health Ministry arise the last 24 hours from 47 to 84 deaths leader that the football leagues now been suspended theyre talking potentially about putting madrid on lockdown big gathering schools are all are all bound and closed and other countries are now sunder for the same thing. And denmark poland malta all European Union countries which donald trump said and been doing enough of all now said that theyre closing their schools and colleges with more or less immediate effects and of course there are Enormous Economic and social consequences to all of this people are now clearly having to make decisions about whether they can go to work or whether they stay at home with their children theres enormous impact on the economy as well which explains why the stock markets across europe of been falling like a stone but they are obviously now a standard thing that if italy is anything to go by and they want to get ahead of the situation if you now finds itself in and flatten the curve as people talk about limit the number of cases and limit the some of the stress on the hospitals then they have no choice but to do these things i know that the u. K. Is an island off the coast of northwestern europe why isnt the u. K. Doing the same thing. Well thats a very good question as you said the governments Emergency Committee is meeting just at the moment and while they are very widely expected to be moving to be announcing the moving into the next phase which is potentially starting to close things down and tell people to work from home it doesnt look like theyre going to start with School Closures the arguments against closing down schools is that 1st of all children seem to be very good carriers of it even though they dont get ill and if they carry it to their home and maybe they dont hang out with their grandparents they get on a bit of a verse in the making the grandparents are very ill or even dead and as well as that the argument goes if you put children at home and then people for example Emergency Services money not be able to go to work and that creates even more stress for the Health Care System so so all of these counter arguments from playing clearly you dont have a joined up set of thinking for example between the u. K. And other European Countries and plainly and its a cliche but only times going to tell which of these 2 approaches turns out to be more successful or serious laura slade live in london lets go to washington d. C. Mike hanna is there for a certain mike whats behind the president s announcement the plights from some parts of europe will be banned for a month. Well the president appears to view the virus as some kind of foreign attack thats the way he cultured his announcement in Office Travel ban the morning has been spent in unpacking exactly what the president said and what the president meant he has had to walk back some of the statements he made in that speech for example that cargo traffic will continue american citizens abroad will be able to return the ban does not apply to u. S. Citizens or permanent residents but the situation is there has been much criticism of the president s travel ban in specific in effect why the area the 26 european nations where no action is taken some more than 20 other european nations many describing it as a political act maybe even cynical so certainly there has been a lot of discussion about that in the course of the morning now what is deeply disturbing as well while the trumpet ministration continues to insist that it is ramping up testing for example is that the c. D. C. s the center for Disease Control official website shows that a number of tests have dropped substantially in the past week the c. D. C. Website itself reveals that it has no recorded testing over the last 4 days alone now the Vice President mike pence was asked about this he says there is problems with getting the website up to date he says there is work being done on this he continues to insist that anybody who needs a test will be able to get one but when asked directly whether he knew exactly how many tests had been done the man whos in charge of combat in the virus had no whatsoever he said lets leave that to the experts so great concern not only about the impact of the travel ban but also about the trumpet ministrations ongoing apparent inability to roll out an Effective Testing Program which may be why the u. S. At the moment is showing a relative lack of infectious cases or whether this may be because of lack of testing rather than one prevalence of the. Iris there as mike hanna live in washington mike many thanks indeed lets go now to one of the worst hit countries in the world iran aljazeera same bus ravi is live for us in tehran as we say in the country one of the worst hit its now appealing for help from the International Monetary fund why. Thats right adrian we are several weeks into this Global Pandemic in many countries in asia and middle east are already talking about the gains being made to contain covert 19 but here in iran there continue to be signs every day that seem to illustrate that iran is struggling to contain struggling to stop the spread of the coronavirus earlier today we learned that the foreign minister zarif sent a letter to the u. N. Secretary general in tanya gets here is asking the United Nations to bring to bear its pressure whatever it can do on the United States to end what iran describes as illegal and unilateral sanctions that are hindering its Coronavirus Response in a tweet just about an hour ago he also listed 30 types of medical supplies that 1st responders medical care givers desperately need to track to identify and to continue to treat patients who have contract of the current virus disease and a little bit before that he also tweeted about the 5000000000 dollars that the that iran has requested from the i. M. F. To help it as part of emergency relief for the coronavirus saying that the i. M. F. Should be on the right side of history and help iran when it is unable to do this on its own really it is too expensive for a country that is already struggling economically well before the coronavirus began well before before the outbreak came to run its economy struggled due to u. S. Sanctions placed on its on its oil sector on its Banking Sector and really the coronavirus has exacerbated an already difficult Economic Situation and all this as the worst is yet to come experts here say that the peak of the virus in iran is likely to happen in the next 2 weeks ill just be live and say many thanks indeed the roller coaster ride for the asian stock markets continues comes a bad day on wall street on wednesday the announcement from President Trump shutting down travel to and from europe due to the coronavirus meanwhile china has announced the peak of the outbreak the house postes school hyla reports. Another big selloff in the asian stock markets investors reacting to events in new york and whats called the 1st a bear market there in 11 years thats the term used on wall street for more than 20 percent fall in market value from recent highs the major asian indices followed suit with steep declines on thursday Asian Traders also reacted to president Donald Trumps travel ban from European Countries but not the u. K. An automatic 5 minute trading halt was triggered in the south korean market at one point the main japanese and south korean markets were down more than 5 percent but rebounded slightly by the end of the trading session australias government announced that is falling other nations by injecting money into its economy to offset the impact of the coronavirus 6. 00 and a half 1000000 australians will be getting a check for 750. 00 now so for us to tell those trends how to spend their money but what we do know from experience is that they will spend that money and that money will encourage Economic Activity in south korea the number of new coronavirus cases being reported is decreasing after infection cluster at a call center in the capital seoul was discovered earlier in the week all Call Center Operations are being closely monitored but the government warned against premature optimism as the highest alert level remains south korea has the 4th highest number of cases behind china italy and iran. As major sporting events and large audience of ants are cancelled around the world the governor of japans capital says the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead the games are due to start in july made on the quiet he must get at them while i know there are various opinions but the tokyo government has been preparing for this everyone is looking forward to the games although the High School Baseball tournament is being cancelled i dont think theres an option to cancel the olympics and paralympics. Chinas government announced that the peak of the corona Virus Outbreak there is officially over. And in the province where the virus that triggered the Global Pandemic was initially discovered recorded new cases are in Single Digits for the 1st time. The majority of them travelers returning from abroad a positive sign that the containment is moving forward. Aljazeera in india our correspondent elizabeth 4 on him says that the government hopes that its emergency measures will contain the spread among one of the course a 1000000000 indians. As of 12 g. M. T. On friday and on to april the 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from diplomats work for the United Nations or have certain employment visas the Indian Government has also said that all incoming travelers including incoming travelers indians havent been to any destination coming from any destination but havent been to china. South korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they hear or board to avoid. Essential travel and saying that they might be quarantined for a minimum period of 14 days upon their return to india now india has 68. 00 confirmed cases so far 14 of them italian tourists and as well as the latest proportions that are being taken by the government which have seen headlines around the country saying india quarantines itself you know essentially closing itself off to the world we have had all primary schools and shot at least for the last week there are 5 cases and delhi all educational institutions have been closed in indian administered kashmir where there is where there is one case the Indian Government is also evacuating its nationals from iran there are Something Like 2000 indians there were 58. 00 back at the end of last of just a few days ago actually but before it does that and whether its from iran its also planning to bring back nationals from italy it actually has to send medical teams to test them to see if they have a virus before bringing them back now all of this is going to its already seeing an impact on the economy which has seen a significant is experiencing a massive slowdown and both of indias 2 main stock indices are in freefall but the government feels that it has to take these proportions. To stop people from people who might have come on a virus from entering our country because once they do it will be hard to spread among 1300000000 people. Lets take a look at the situation in south africa now which reported its 1st case of local transmission on thursday aljazeera is from a tamil is that. Despite the government urging people in south africa to remain calm panic is certainly sitting in especially given the amount of disinformation out there and also that 1st person to person transmission when the corona virus was 1st detected in south africa it was within a group of people who were travelled to italy for a skiing holiday on their return some of them experienced some terms and thats where the 1st cases were detected now when this person to person transmission its in a different province in the free state and what is concerning for people is that it appears that the spread of control is something that cant be avoided and thats certainly a reality for many people in south africa but whats also making millions here anxious is the governments plans to repack tree 8 about a 122 South Africans from all who has been to south africa and there is a lot of debate around just where this group will be quarantined no president has repeatedly said that none of those people have the coronavirus they will be screened in china theyll be screened on their arrival in south africa this is also being reiterated by the ministry of health but despite these recent reassurances people in south africa are concerned about what this will mean for their health and this goes as far as even the agencies the African National congress the governing party and south africa its only youth league has promised to stage a march if indeed this group of people is quarantined in a specific area in the province of limpopo Sports Events around the world are being postponed cancelled or even played in empty stadiums chooser the pandemic our Sports Correspondent and the richness here to tell us more about a some of the the main events that have been hit by the coronavirus the n. B. A. Being one of them yes moving so fast when i want to let. This office in the small way out of last nights situation was that one scene he decided to play warning game behind closed doors in the n. B. A. Within a few hours the entire league has been suspended the holding images of player from the utah jazz really go bear hes tested positive for corona virus and he was in a press conference on monday trying to make lights of the crowd of are saying its not that serious not to panic he was in a press Conference Room he decided as a joke to wipe his hands over the microphones in defiance of the journalists of big wave to them all thought it was all a great big job hes tested positive for the coronavirus and now a lot of players having to work out how much concept theyve had with him a lot of the teams having to self isolate that league has been suspended f one as well hanging on by thread after the team members tested positive i mean its always more interesting the events that are still going on Lewis Hamilton the reigning World Champion saying was asked directly that question why is formula one still happening when so many other events of been cancelled he said cash is king in any in his opinion it was shocking that it is still going on were expecting around 300000 fans to go to the. Streets are going to melbourne ive a qualifying practice and race day itself and at the moment the race is going ahead the mclaren saying one of the 10 seems taking part in the race this year just pulled out of the race one of their team has tested positive for corona virus you cant really see how the season is going to progress as per normal but theres a huge financial pressure for if one to carry on a course which were talking about sporting events that are happening now or in the next few days course the big one this year will be the olympics taking place and then all the hemisphere winter i mean is that going to go or do you think its some peculiar with the olympics its almost as if theyre sort of existing in some kind of parallel dimension at the