Elections. A little after 1400 hours g. M. T. Which is 2 pm in london 10 am in washington d. C. Keeping an eye on all the updates on the coronavirus pandemic as it stands right now sudan has confirmed its 1st case ukraine is barring all foreigners from entering the country u. S. Markets which you saw a moment ago have rebounded early d trade after they had their worst one day fall in 30 years and as we also mention the e. U. Setting up a 41000000000. 00 fund to help european economies that will be taking a hit. In this outbreak so heres the team at this hour lawrence lee in london keeping an eye on developments across europe also kristen salumi of the New York Stock Exchange starting there with kimberly in washington d. C. Kimberly the story coming out of the u. S. Seems to be the issue of who is being tested or rather who isnt being tested. Yeah absolutely even some members of congress saying they cant get a test despite the fact that they have been meeting with their constituents this raises the question for many in the United States about why there are such strict parameters and whether or not this is something that is keeping the numbers perhaps deliberately and artificially low now the numbers as they stack right now 1700 have been diagnosed in the United States across 45 states 41 dead but those numbers are expected to rise because right now there is this very strict testing parameter or criteria that some place but that is expected to change we are watching very carefully to see that that testing is broadened out and that could really spike up the numbers for now for his part of the u. S. President donald trump has been tweeting about all of this remarkably blaming the Obama Administration for making the veil ability of testing so low he says in one tweet that for decades the centers for Disease Control looked at and studies testing system but did nothing about it would always be an adequate and slow for the large scale pandemic but a pandemic would never happen they hope but now of course we are in the situation where there is a pandemic and Public Health officials in the United States have acknowledged that when it comes to testing they have failed to meet the capacity that currently exists in the United States. Kimberly in washington d. C. Thank you for facts. Know which units where we mention the markets today wall street which appears to have bounced back lets have a look at the live board coming in from wall street and look at the 3. 24 percent up in the green. And we will see that she is kristens a live news in new york for us what a difference 24 hours makes kristen. Yeah absolutely things are looking up here wall street is regaining some of its ground after having its worst day since the 1987 market crash known as the black monday news that u. S. Leaders may be getting closer to a relief package for businesses and workers seems to be bullying stocks this morning maybe investors are snapping up some bargains germanys leadership also promised to keep the world europes largest economy afloat by injecting whatever it takes into their economy the Central Banks around the world are taking action japan norway here in the United States injecting cash into the markets in the form of Short Term Loans trying to keep things going so investors seem a bit more encouraged this morning but the longest bull market in u. S. History is now officially over that happened yesterday when stocks on the s. And p. And hour now both down well below 20 percent from their highs earlier this year markets remain jittery because of the spread of corona virus and the impact that thats having on the economy and we really saw in the last 24 hours drastic changes here in the United States with events being canceled and people working from home and stores being inundated with people buying items as if theyre stocking up to never leave home again all of that has been weighing on investors and if the volatility index is any guide and thats exactly what it is its a guide to how nervous investors are things are still pretty high and pretty uncertain but for now it looks like were having a better day and recovering some of the losses of this week ok good news there and maybe thank you christine salumi in new york. And that lawrence late in london for the european pacific in fact 1st of all and im just seeing from the Reuters News Agency that the official number in the u. K. Now up to 798 up from 590 on thursday i guess that also goes back to what we were talking to kimberly about testing it changes the numbers they can be these big jumps over just the course of a day. Yeah though in a way it doesnt mean that much because as the government and bars and survivors were saying. Yesterday they theres so many people who got the symptoms and they cant get through to the helpline this 111 number used to give you a phone in the u. K. The people of bangalore for hours. And some people get tested no you cant see much of a q they might be 10000. 00 people in the country who have got it and so it also skews the projects the mortality rates its one percent of the numbers that have been tested but of course if youve got several 1000 others who havent been tested and got over it thats bound to reducible to others right investments its a much lower than its proposed to be at the moment so the thing is you know theres still finding their way through all of this but on the on the business side is plenty much easier for governments to throw money at the problem even if they dont on the quite understand the science yet and just in the same way the wall street already up 3 percent all the european indices are at 8 percent today. They it looks like they think that some of the best stocks are now under price for lease for the time being and to some extent i think the markets of probably started surprise seen a little bits of the expectations of how bad or not necessarily that bad things might end up being later this year so even though its not over it could go down further particularly if a lot of people start dying in countries where these theories about the virus like the u. K. And italy are being a being tested out on the public but its not as bad as it was yes and weve got also lawrence just talking why do european a 41 1000000000. 00 fund being set up to try to offset some of the losses which countries will inevitably take. Well yes and thats part of the reason why the markets are going up you know we have the french government already saying also all the money that they need to a couple Companies Like france because it was you that was flying if they did that the British Government and its budgets a couple of days ago said it was going to 30000000000. 00 pounds thats about 3335000000000. 00 so the to help businesses that might be struggling people who are home and coal work and people in the economy things like this it is these sorts of measures that the markets like and on are meant to reassure very very jittery publics thank you lawrence they for those updates from london you sent. I do want to get an update from iran as well which is announced new measures to fight the spread of corona virus thats after 85. 00 new deaths were confirmed in the last 24 hours the total there now up to 514 with almost 11400 infections now confirmed iran is really struggling with a lack of lifesaving equipment and ask for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the International Monetary fund on skype from teheran correspondent zain what are these new measures that iran is talking about. Well come all it really is the latest thats happening here is that we are likely to see the military take a more active role in trying to combat the corona virus the number you mentioned 85 new deaths in the last 24 hours another significant number nearly 1300 new cases overall that have been confirmed in the last 24 hours and thats really the kicker here the government is unable to get control of the spread of this virus in the last week president Hassan Rouhani has taken a great deal of criticism for not taking a more active role for not being able to get a handle on this and really its the public that has not largely been cooperating with a lot of the government guidance thats been the criticism from the Health Ministry well late last night Supreme Leader ayatollah of the coming day announce the formation of a new task force that will work in tandem with the one that president Hassan Rouhani began at the start of this crisis this new task force will be headed by the chief of the armed forces not the revolutionary guard but the traditional military the Army Major General mohammad but harry now the idea behind this is that the Supreme Leader wants the military to take a more active role in trying to suppress the spread of this virus and during a lot interview with state t. V. This morning after the 1st meeting of this new task force Major General buttery announce that in the next 24 hours the military will be trying to assert itself to create more of a crowd control scenario in Shopping Centers and maybe a Major Population Centers all over the country not to her on is the most population density and this is the place where government polls suggest the majority of the population simply isnt taking government guidance to limit its movements seriously enough so we are likely to see military out on the streets trying to control crowds trying to make sure people dont go into Shopping Centers possibly shutting down stores the details are still unclear but this is a clear signal from the Supreme Leaders office that the military the police now it is a security operation as well as a city. Public Health Crisis thank you for the update from Terre Franzen best ravi. Our corona virus pandemic coverage takes us back to the United States in a moment but the turning off the lights the city that never sleeps goes into a state of emergency and move on to what moscow is doing in its in efforts to contain the spread of the illness. High we still got some rather heavy right into southern parts of china thats a wet of weather now pushing out through the is china sea edging up towards parts of japan we have some white and windy weather at times just pushing away from japan winds coming in from the northwest the direction of coleridge direction so temperatures struggle to get to were double figures there for tokyo on saturday afternoon so well see whether theyre into that eastern side of honshu some snow over the mountains as we go on into sunday it will brighten up but it will turn a little warmer as well were getting up to around 1213 celsius here what about across the Korean Peninsula northern parts of China Southern parts of china by sunday largely dry and 5 home called at around 23. 00 degrees try and find to across much of indochina the philippines set their base in places affair with the club and nothing less to speak of maybe a showers will be across malaysia some big downpours there into indonesia the usual heat of the day showers continuing him but notice by sunday we will see some wet weather just pushing up across the gulf of thailand towards bangkok so wet weather still making its way across northern parts of india we are seeing some very heavy showers here slowly pushing their way further ace it will turn dry and brighter by the end of the week. 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And iran has announced new measures to fight the spread of corona virus after 85. 00 new deaths were confirmed in the last 24 hours the total in iran now 514. 00 with almost 11400 confirmed infections so we have seen kenya confirm its 1st case as well reportedly a woman who travels about the United States and the u. K. Malcolm web has more on that from nairobi. Ethiopia has announced its 1st case who it says is a woman from japan guinea conakry has also announced its 1st case the ministry of health says its a belgian woman who arrived in the country a few days ago and shes now in an Isolation Unit that was actually built to try and contain west africas a bolo outbreak which started 7 years ago and here in kenya the minister of health has announced the countrys 1st case he said its a kenyan woman who travelled from the us through the u. K. And arrived here in kenya more than a week ago but only tested positive for corona virus on thursday the ministry of health a since said that it started to try and contact all of the people that shes met travelling across the country over the last 8 days shes now in an Isolation Unit one of just over 130 beds that the government says it has prepared in case of an outbreak the ministry of health also said that people should take some great precautions to try and prevent further spread such as keeping one metre away from anyone who coughs and sneezes but thats just not possible for many kenyans who are travelling to and from work every day on crowded mini buses and also living in homes where several family members share a bedroom many people here depend on working for cash in hand just to be able to survive no work means no pay no pay means no food and a lot of the measures that are being talked about in prevention in europe and america simply wont be possible here such as working from home subsidising the incomes of people doing piecework and keeping distance to people here waiting to see how far and how fast the outbreak will spread not just in kenya but across subsaharan africa. Back to the u. S. Where a state of emergency has begun in new york city 95 cases of corona virus have been detected there among the measures taken schools being close thats bring in Deborah Elizondo and a pretty miserable looking new york city actually hi gabriel tell us more about what a state of emergency actually means. Yad means that this city is for the most part shut down this was a decision that was brought by the mayor of new york city bill de blasio late on thursday as you mentioned 95 cases of coronavirus in this city about 320 in the state of new york those numbers relatively low compared to many other parts of the world and even compared to a couple other cities in the u. S. But new york city is bracing for a potential explosion of even more cases and thats why so much of this city is shut down right now let me just give you an example broadway theaters forced to be shut down the metropolitan museum of art closed Carnegie Hall shut down these eve of Natural History shut down the new york city opera shut down this just gives you an idea of how much things are shut down here in this city because of coronavirus just within the last 24 hours or so this city feels quiet too i would say theres only about feels like theres only about 25 percent of what normally the amount of people that you would see on the streets year and were also starting to see a scarcity issue very long lines and empty shelves in supermarkets shows with no fruit no bread no milk people are rushing to the markets to get anything that they can this is very Uncertain Times right now without a doubt in new york city and and were starting to see that the subway system is still running but many people are simply working from home right now here in this city mall. Because famously brazilians i would say. They have a reputation of it how would you describe the mood of people there. Scared quite frankly. You know we spoke to a taxi driver this morning and he picked us up and he said the business is just terrible right now he said normally theres no tourists so he goes normally when theres no tourists all go to airports he goes in airports are not as busy he goes last resort as they go to hotels to wait for people hotels he said hotels are empty its really bad here right now we spoke to another longtime new yorker that said these were his words his lip tears whole life he said i havent sense these are his words i havent sensed a feeling of uncertainty in this city since 911 that just gives you an idea of what people are feeling here in the city right now and the mayor has press conferences every day hes been having them for over a week now his press conference on thursday you could sense a real sense of gloom when he announced this state of emergency in the city important to point out the mayor saying new york city is not corn team does not corn seen but just the sense that theres a state of emergency here now the mayor saying there probably will be deaths coming here without a doubt he said the numbers will go up and will go up sharply has