Investors make about the pandemics devastating economic impact. And the pandemic is putting millions out of work and shops and restaurants close around the world. And im peace summit in doha with your storefronts now also the coronavirus turning point has to take place by the end of may. 2020 will have to be postponed emergency talks are set for tuesday. Countries across the world are ramping up their response to the corona virus pandemic the french president Emmanuel Mccoll has declared war on the outbreak and is closing frances borders from 11 g. M. T. On tuesday the e. U. Bloc as a whole is considering banning all but essential foreign travel to the showing in the zone the British Government which has been under pressure to toughen its approach is now asking britons to avoid nonessential travel and pubs clubs and theaters u. S. President donald trump has issued similar advice and is urging for no social gatherings higher than 10 people were to come. As the head of the World Health Organization implored government to test far more people with suspected cases of cave in 19 around concerns the pandemic will cause a global recession its been another tar a day on the markets stocks plunged around the world despite a coordinated effort by Central Banks to protect growth and jobs the fokker begins our coverage with a look at the situation across europe. Covert 19 has silenced entire cities 100000000 europeans are on lockdown paris woke to its 1st business day of sweeping with strict respected by some ignored by others later the french president urged the country to follow the official advice restricting all nonessential movement he summed up the worsening crisis in one word and some on gas we are at war healthwise not against another country or another nation the enemy is there and its advancing and that requires our general mobilization we are at war all the action of the government must now be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us in its latest crisis briefing the World Health Organization urged countries to strengthen efforts to control the outbreak you cannot fly a fire blindfolded and we cannot stop this bundle me if we dont know who is infected we have a simple message for all countries test test test in the spanish capital madrid military were on the streets telling people to go home. Spains followed italys lead confining citizens to their houses unless they have to buy food medicine or seek medical help. Germany the economic powerhouse of europe responded to the crisis on monday by restricting public gatherings and tightening its borders with austria france switzerland luxembourg and denmark several of germanys neighbors including denmark poland and the Czech Republic already close their own from tears as the virus advances the global race to produce a vaccines gathering pace in germany this firm hopes to have an experimental low dose coronavirus of vaccine ready by june or july available for human testing the company moved to deny reports that the us President Donald Trump offered large sums of money for exclusive access to it in the u. K. Where things have been more relaxed the Prime Minister announced a new raft of emergency measures without drastic action now Boris Johnson said cases of the virus could double now is the time for everyone to stop norm essential contact with. And to stop unnecessary travel we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should still avoid pubs clubs theaters and other such social. As the number of virus cases increases in remaining a network of volunteers is growing in bucharest to help elderly people forced into self isolation for the vulnerable these are anxious times country after country the situations been deteriorating rapidly europes leaders are calling on their citizens to remain united by being further apart. And joins me live in the studio to need the french president really ratcheting up the measures today yes i know micron has followed many other leaders not only in europe but also further afield in trying to strike the right kind of told tone and getting populations on side to follow the rules the regulations the advice and also really to to respect whats being asked of them but you get the bit of a sense that a man who at micron was a bit frustrated particularly with the Younger Generation who he feels has not been following the recommendations to south isolate strongly enough he said its down to them to show some responsibility and solidarity for the good of more vulnerable parts of society as well but whats been asked of the french people is quite draconian in many ways weve seen measures that include the banning of all nonessential travel tightening of social distancing we know that cafes and restaurants and nonessential shops are being closed all schools universities closed for all apart form the children of Health Workers so on the one hand a request by the french president for everybody to follow the rules and regulations and get involved on the other hand weve seen of course the military drafted in and and all it is for people to to remain in their houses finding the right balance between requesting and ordering is going to be a challenging one going ahead and weve had a change of position from the u. K. Government yes thats right the British Government has been under tremendous amount of pressure to ratchet up its response to the coronavirus largely because of some of the measures that have been introduced elsewhere across europe of course in italy and spain of france and germany weve seen the banning of public gatherings the closure of lots of shops apart from pharmacies and and food stores here in the u. K. Things have been much much more relaxed the message had been that the crisis the peak of the virus would not be for for another 10 to 14 weeks those are the words of the government but then all of a sudden earlier in the day. Decision by the British Government to introduce emergency measures much more sooner than anyone expected so people with traces of the virus all with symptoms are basically being told that they may have to remain in isolation for 2 weeks a huge about turn for the government and one the people here are expected to take very seriously need bucca thank you very much indeed well the u. S. President has announced new guidelines to limit the spread of the virus including limiting social gatherings to less than 10 people dont trump says hes not currently considering a nationwide curfew but one could be imposed in certain hot spots my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating or drinking at bars restaurants and public food courts if everyone makes this. Change or these critical changes and sacrifices now we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus and were going to. Have a big celebration all together dr alan fischer in washington d. C. Alan this seems to be the 1st on the President Trump is it nor is the extent of the problem with that be fair to say. During that News Conference he said its bad it is bad and certainly hes never done that before this is a different approach for donald trump he is talking about the reality of the situation the fact that the number of those infected and the number of those who are dying is going up and that theres still a long way to go he said in the past that the virus was under control this time he said no the situation is under control the virus isnt under control again thats quite a step for donald trump now hes introducing these measures saying the gatherings of no more than 10 people should essential you not take place its just 24 hours ago since the c. D. C. The center for Disease Control put out an advisory nationwide saying groups of no more than 50 so what change well were told by the corona virus taskforce that they got new information from the u. K. Theyve done some new modeling and they realize that if they reduced it to 10 then perhaps they would get ahead of the car so this is a surprising approach for donald trump particularly when he was asked how much longer is this going to be in place he said the initial restrictions are there for 15 days they will continue to keep them under observation but he thinks this could go on until july or august he was asked is there any potential that there could be a National Curfew he didnt rule out he said its something theyre looking at but not something that theyre ready to put in place at the moment but many people will be shocked at the president is being so frank particularly those in trumps supporting media for a very long time were suggesting that somehow this was being hyped by the media here is donald trump saying theres a real problem here and how the various states in the u. S. Responding. Well there are all taking various actions and in fact we just had in the last couple of hours there are 6 counties in the bay area in california that would be around in San Francisco and theyre saying essentially stay in place if you dont need to leave your house then dont you think 6 counties around San Francisco how many people are we talking about were talking about 6 and a half 1000000 people thats more than the population of violent theyre saying please just sit in your house only leave if the journeys are essential theres a lot of criticism too from a number of the states that the way the federal government has acted here they simply believe theyve been very slow on the whole operation and even criticism from republican governors like lottie hogan who is the very popular republican governor in maryland youre going to hear his name a lot in about 4 years time because everyone thinks hes positioning himself to run for president and he said look the federal government simply isnt doing enough there was a call between the white house and the 50 states governors at the said donald trump said it went very well the governors are saying they expected more from the federal government one thing to come out of that is the us the respirators they are going to become very important people who develop breathing difficulties will need these machines and they asked what was the federal government doing and donald trump told the states look if you can get these that point of access then go ahead and do that apparently that surprised a number of governors who are in that position but here we are with the whole fabric of the way the United States normally operates literally changing in front of our eyes hour by hour and donald trump is saying for the 1st time this is a bad situation our official thank you very much. Theres a growing of a global recession as the coronavirus pandemic sends markets around the world plunging again this is despite Central Banks announcing a coordinated effort to ease the effects of the outbreak in the u. S. The dow jones closed down 13 percent the worst drop in the 3 decades whats going latest on the markets from gibbers on day in new york so gabriel so far none of the medicine is seems to appeal to the markets of the. Its not and thats the real scary part here is nothing that the white house is doing nothing that the Federal Reserve is doing is helping at all in fact it almost seems like its getting worse the numbers are just staggering and this is one of the days on wall street when 5101520 maybe even 30 years from now people will look back and say remember that day in march of 2020 the market had its worst day in a sense 1987 the dow down 3000 points 12. 9 percent the s. And p. Down a leavened point 99 percent it was down about 9 percent through the middle to an afternoon part of the day which is bad enough i mean thats almost historic in of itself but then within the last 45 minutes of trading the bottom dropped out and the market just went into these historic low levels the nasdaq had its worst trading day ever. Things got so bad at one point towards the middle of the day there was. Talk circulating that perhaps the New York Stock Exchange just needed to close in fact as Stacy Cunningham the president of the York Stock Exchange actually had to put out a tweet saying its important for the markets to stay open she said closing the markets would not change the underlying causes of the market decline this would only further compound the current market anxiety so listen theres a lots of problems here but the bottom line is here on wall street they do not see any light at the end of the tunnel on this Getting Better and thats why with all this uncertainty youre seeing these historic drops thank you very much indeed canada has Just Announced that its closed its borders to all foreign travelers as it works to contain the virus Prime Minister just introduces any citizens showing symptoms of the illness will not be allowed to board a flight. We will be denying entry to canada to people who are not canadian citizens or permanent residents this measure will carve out some designated exceptions including for aircrews diplomats immediate family members of canadian citizens and at this time u. S. Citizens chinas government has released numbers showing the full scale of the economic damage caused by the outbreak with widespread factory closures industrial output fell by 30 and a half percent while retail sales dropped by more than 20 percent but the number of new infections in the region continues to go down as one hay reports. Day by day there are more signs of life returning to the streets of who province where the corona Virus Outbreak began the simple act of police removing a road block was a welcome sight for residents and the government which wants to get the country moving again the industrial engine which led china to become the 2nd largest economy in the world is also restarting after a disastrous 2 months which saw output collapse companies are gradually recovering their general order of production the situation for factories back and business and hiring is improving and the labor demands will continue to increase as the number of new infections in china decreases just 16 recorded on sunday the government expects the economic prognosis to significantly improve this month but with the outbreak bringing other countries to a halt demand for chinese exports will take some time to recover. The number of new infections is slowing in south korea too but preventative measures are continuing particularly involved areas here volunteer work is spray a Housing Project for the poor in the capital seoul in australia many people were angry they werent given enough time to return home before tough new travel restrictions were introduced by the governments anyone entering australia must now self isolate for 14 days to return to a farming property we have no food at that time in property were now trying to find people to buy for us so that literally we can eat now 12 hours were in a foreign country with all the warning weve got now i think its deplorable the government of the philippines will extend quarantine measures beyond manila to the entire island of luzon the capital is affected lock down with travel restrictions in place to try to slow the rate of infection after a spike in the number of confirmed cases the move came as 400 Filipino Crew members from a cruise ship that was stranded off the coast of california arrived back home the workers were flown back on a charter flight after some passengers on the ship became infected with corona virus wayne hay al jazeera. Iran has recorded another big rise in the number of deaths 129 confirmed on monday among those dead is a Senior Member of tehrans assembly of experts with almost 15000 confirmed cases there are concerns the pandemic could overwhelm Health Facilities and an economy struggling under sanctions so mr abby is in the iranian capital he says contradictory messages from the government about the virus arent helping spread. President Hassan Rouhani during a statement seemed to say that the peak of the virus is over in iran and certainly he was about a week or 10 days early if experts are to be believed but it certainly struck an optimistic a positive tone hours later hours after the news spread across the country and adviser to the president s Office Issued a correction saying that is not actually what the president said if you listen to the translation of the audio what he said is that the figures seem to suggest that there is a positive trend in terms of combating the spread of the coronavirus but even that seems to contradict the numbers that are in black and white another record setting day for the death tolls on the same day earlier today hours after president hosni han spoke a member of his Coronavirus Task force the man in charge of the task force for the city of iran painted a much more serious picture calling it biologically different from this happening in china more complicated and if its not taken seriously it could be something that could proliferates and becomes even worse well into the later part of this year the head of the i. R. G. C. Major general sense alarm went on National Television and literally begged people to stay at home saying that the virus was a chain and to break it people had to stay home so these contradictory messages will not help the government to get its people on board. Lebanons government has imposed a knock down an attempt to control the spread of the virus but the country is in the middle of an economic crisis and many residents say staying at home isnt an option and also concerns over how the struggling Health System will cope so th