Connect during a Virus Outbreak that could be good news for profits. Global supporters facing unprecedented of people with the most major events now councils all of the leading european competitions have been suspended. Allow a very warm welcome to the news our top story spain has become now the 2nd country to order its entire population under lockdown to stop the rapid spread of the corona virus 46000000 people are subject to the new decree which orders everyone to stay at home unless they need to buy food or medicine or go to work 193 are reported dead that with some 2000 cases in just the last day another 97. 00 people have died in iran taking the death toll there to 611. 00 with nearly 13000. 00 confirmed cases a growing list of countries are also closing their borders that includes colombia its just shocked. Border with venezuela and that makes it harder for people crossing for supplies they cant get at home and then nepal has announced that its a spending climate and its a Mount Everest base as Public Events big and small continue to be cancelled from east to for sessions to sporting events and he begins our coverage with the situation across here at. Its only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy and this is what it looks like the countrys reported a jump of more than 200000 in coronavirus cases in 24 hours now people will only be allowed to leave their homes to buy food and medicine to get to work hospitals or the bank or to care for the young and the elderly in the capital madrid people are still venturing out but with many businesses already shut the citys unusually quiet and even sentimental stuff came through i live in the city center and i like to say it empty i like to say that i think people are being responsible and the people who have to stay at home are doing it. Because the owner of this hotel is offering hundreds of rooms to madrids Regional Government so it can treat coronavirus patients while in seville the man has counseled easter week for sessions just the latest setback to its tourist industry. In the italian capital road people stuck indoors have been showing their appreciation of doctors and nurses fighting against coronavirus this is the worst hit country all to china and the death toll is well over a 1000 already. With the entire country in lockdown normal life has come to a halt. And france is now closing all bars restaurants and cinemas and asking people to work from home and avoid nonessential visits it comes after the number of corona virus cases doubled to more than 4 and a half 1000 in just 3 days germany with europes largest population has recorded just a handful of deaths so far now the governments urging people returning from italy switzerland and austria to self isolate for up. 2 weeks on saturday spain bound planes belonging to a low cost British Airline actually turned round midair now the u. K. Government seems set to do its own about turn reacting to moves already made by business and public pressure with all of the football in england suspended until at least early april and the London Marathon perspiring to october the cabinet set to ban Mass Gatherings in the coming week. Garion Prime Minister viktor orban seen here being checked after flying back from moldova is set to announce europes latest School Closures you know if you do you draw several e. U. States including poland and the Czech Republic and totally or partially restricting entry to foreign nationals with a consonant now the epicenter of the pandemic more drastic measures look inevitable but the barber al jazeera. Spains partial lockdown will be in place for 15 days the Prime Minister announced the details during a televised address just a short time ago the federal at. If you can. Feel really strongly i would like to announce that during the period of the state of alert people will only be able to circulate on public roads for the organization of the following. Firstly acquisition of food pharmaceutical products and basic necessities secondly refuse to Health Centers services understand with months trips to work place to carry out your work professional or Business Activities so make a go is following the story joins me in the studio now theyve already declared a state of emergency now were learning a bit more about these new restrictive measures what did we hear from sanchez today well essentially really following on from what france has done and italy has done or shops to close except pharmacies and Stores Selling food and other basic necessities restrictions on freedom of movement as well the limits of starting actually on saturday. Promises such as also said that in trying to go. As will actually have an Enormous Economic impact which of course is another stress to think about as well also he indicated that they wouldnt be any local elections which would be held this year i made in early april amidst the lockdown as well so that there perspire and and to later in the year also Rail Transport as well thats another measure that hes put in as well thats going to be. Drastically reduced as well so all in all it really seems like it is following on i can a domino effect what frances announced thats going to do and what italy has been doing past few days all right thank you sonia. Well look at downgrade the borrowing is journalist based in barcelona joins us by skype from there and obviously you would have been listening to Prime Minister sanchez very closely and his remarks today obviously the plan is now for there to be a lockdown was all this in line with what were expecting to hear. Yes what Prime Minister sanchez said was more or less what was expected the unexpected part of it was that it would take so long for the government for the cabinet to take this issue and this was the longest ever Cabinet Meeting in the history of spain it less is more than 7 hours and that tells a lot about the tensions and the difficulty of the decisions that have been taken by the by the government. The state of alert correctly pointed out before it was only decided another time. During the last years well during the whole history of repub of democratic spain so. Limiting so Much Movement of people was something that to be discussed in depth and also another thing that was very difficult to discuss was that basically all the local authorities have to abide by to Central Government now all the competence is in police in health and other fields of local governments have to obey to directly to the government right so the situation has to. The way these measures are being implemented and governance in force and in general there has to be will centralization under this state of emergency if Peoples Movement is to be restricted you said it was the longest Cabinet Meeting the country has seen for a while what does that what does all this tell you about the scale of the cry. Isis well the scale of the crisis is very high as you also mentioned spain is the 2nd most hated country by the coronavirus in europe and the government has had pressure from inside and outside to take quickly decisions to try to limit the spread of the of the virus and the example of its leader has just seen a number of cases rise very sharply and very quickly was certainly in the head of the spanish politicians so they had to take very strong measures and the Prime Minister seemed to be basically saying sorry to decisions for having to take these measures and he tried to explain why it was important to do so and why all spaniards have to be together and you know i guess the last also be concerned about some of these measures backfiring in the sense that culturally grandparents play an Important Role in childcare so if people are not able to go to work if there are School Closures you might have old a will vulnerable members of the population taking care of the young thats the kind of mixing you dont want to see. Here is this was one of the concerns that many people expressed in the past days especially in madrid where this measures have already been taken 4 days ago still the idea is you have to slow down the spread so so probably. Is that that was the least of the evil because allowing people to keep going to schools and to keep gathering in big meetings certainly would have spread the virus much more quickly just tell me what life is like for you in barcelona right now are you able to leave you know obviously youre speaking to us now from your home are you able able to leave home to do like you know shopping for essential and things like. Yes i have been shopping today and also yesterday i had to do it twice because yesterday the supermarket as i hear most supermarkets all over the country was half empty at the time when i went there there is a little bit of panic among the people i have to say because judging from from the empty shelves and the supermarket but so people are going out to do this kind of things you can you can see people in the streets personally there are much less people around there are more people with masks there are more people taking precautions than we are used to see but seal life was not blocked so to say today as of today well see what happens next in the coming days yucatan crating but only thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us thank you well a lockdown on manila has gone into effect as well that sales almost 12000000 people into the philippines capital all Domestic Travel in out the city has been suspended and residents have been asked not to leave the house except for work and emergencies nighttime curfew will also be imposed and shopping malls have been urged to close the measures are some of the strictest taken in asia and city officials hope they will help stop the spread of the virus philippines is so far ported 8 deaths and 98 infections. The u. S. President is expanding his european travel ban to the Cayman Islands and choose day in a bid to stop the spread of the virus there a 30 day ban on travel as from a 9 year is already in place during the News Conference donald trump also revealed hes waiting on the results of his own coronavirus test why canada has will and washington members of the coronavirus toss force walked into the Briefing Room in terms of a new protocol all in the president s proximity must have the temperature taken including the journalists present. Unexpectedly President Trump walks in with his Vice President who had been chitral to leave the briefing and did another surprise he confirmed he submitted to a test for the virus last night i also took the test yesterday. And i decided i should based on the press coverage yesterday people were asking their take the test i dont know whatever it takes a day or 2 days i change point he also acknowledged that hed made a mistake by shaking hands during fridays briefing with Corporate Leaders and others in the rose garden and somebody comes up to you they put their hand out you probably tend to shake it and were all getting out of it shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing that and i agree but people put their hand out sometimes ill put their hand out you dont think about it the people are thinking about it we have to think about it its important for temperature closer. To the president then left the briefing leaving his Vice President to officially confirm that the travel ban would be extended the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the United Kingdom and ireland effective midnight monday night Eastern Standard Time again americans in the u. K. Or arlen can come home legal residents can come home but as the secretary of the detail they will be funneled through specific airports and process the center for Disease Control has stopped publishing testing figures on its website but statistics collected by an independent group indicates theres been a shop rise in the number of tests being conducted for the 1st time since the crisis began the number of tests conducted in a 24 hour period approached 20000 my kind out aljazeera washington alan fischer is in washington joins us now and as you were saying that in the u. S. President positioning himself front and center of the crown of response but also now coming under scrutiny for comments he made on friday about a google website. It was a surprise when he came to the News Conference in fact was going to leave saying youre going back to the oval office but then took some questions from journalists on friday when he announced a National Emergency he said that google was developing a website which would be available very soon and the oppression at the News Conference was given that this would be somewhere where people could go they could enter their symptoms and then find out if the coronavirus or not it would lead them through various stages and then point them in the direction of mobile testing the problem is immediately after that people called google and said well how close are you and theyre not close to it at all they said they were developing a small model which would be tried out in the bay area of california that it was mainly for professionals rather than for a much wider spread years and that was something that they were working on now mike pence was asked about that specifically at the News Conference he says look theres going to be more details about this on friday around 5 pm washington time thats going to be important because when donald trump started the News Conference he talked about the rise in the markets how it experienced its biggest one day rise which is absolutely true but you remember its from a very low point given that the markets have lost about 80 percent from where they were high in february and the markets reacted to the news that there was a website that was being developed now if there hasnt been a website developed it is going to be harder for people to find out if they have got the possible symptoms of coronavirus and where they can go to get tested the markets might react much differently to that so this is its its a difficult position the president has put himself in but mike pence seems to be of a mind the whole thing can be cleared up at some point what was also interesting is well was that the Surgeon General during the News Conference said look people have got to stop pointing fingers and move in the direction of travel in this that also take Center Current one. Donald trump has been seeing one other thing on the bill passed by congress theres still some question on whether or not all americans will be covered by paid sick leave or whether some companies of moneys to get an exemption thanks very much allan fisher in washington so we go from the u. S. To iran president has signed rouhani says the countrys fight against the coronavirus is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions iran is the hardest hit country in the middle east with 611. 00 confirmed deaths and almost 13000. 00 infections earlier china said it would step up cooperation with tehran in a bid to help deal with the virus Security Forces all of also been deployed to clear the streets with many though many iranians are continue to ignore government calls to stay at Home Interior ministry has now ordered the closure of all religious sites in the holy city of qom where the virus was 1st detected. Same bus ravi is following the story in is intact ron so the iranian government is escalating its efforts to stop the spread of the virus but. Perhaps people are not listening to those calls to stay off the streets. Thats exactly right the death toll you mentioned is something thats been consistently ticking up every single day its late at night here and in the morning when theres another Public HealthMinistry Briefing were likely to see dozens more. Cases of people that have been killed by the corona virus in the past 24 hours and hundreds more cases of people who have been identified to be infected and thats been consistently the problem since the beginning the government has been struggling to get a hold on the spread of the virus so earlier today the interior Ministry Announced a decision that many people say is better late than never but others say it is too little too late the closure of known virus vectors in home sure a shrine dedicated to a descendant of Prophet Muhammad and a mosque both very large draws for very large crowds they get thousands of visitors on a daily basis and the interior ministry has now ordered for those to be closed it has to be said up until tonight they remained open the order from the government says that they will close soon but hasnt identified exactly when now the peak is coming experts here say that the peak of the virus in iran will be in the next 10 days to 2 weeks so this is an important step but critics will say that its a half measure that has come too late the damage has been done at the peak of this one home was still the main epicenter for the spread of the virus in iran these sites remained open it was business as usual people were coming and going as they pleased now its ir