Has its own battle plan. A simple message for all countries terrorist theres tests. The Global Response to the corona virus pandemic is ramping up but the World Health Organization is imploring governments to test far more people with a suspected infection french fries in demand in michael has declared war on the outbreak and is closing frances borders from 11 g. M. T. On tuesday the European Union has proposed a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the shang and so on while the British Government which has been under pressure to tough its approach is now asking people to avoid nonessential travel and pops clubs and fear his u. S. President donald trump has issued similar advice and is aging no social gatherings of more than 10 people alan fischer brings us more on the lathe. Spy the u. S. If theres a cure for corona virus this might be it in seattle u. S. Researchers have given the far short of an experimental vaccine developed in record time everybody is feeling so helpless right now or. Realize that there is some help. But it could still take a year to have something for universal use back in washington the president and i was dramatic new steps to reduce the chance of spreading the disease 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 the president gave himself a tentative 10 for his handling of the crisis but there was a warning from the man spearheading the medical response in the us if you think youre here youre really here because youre only getting the results therefore it will always seem that the best way to address it would to be doing something that looks like it might be an overreaction and state governors even republicans are doing the federal government to do more this is going to be much harder to take much longer. And be much worse than almost anyone is currently understanding across the country many cities and states have already instructed bars and restaurants to close but people are gathering in Grocery Stores and supermarkets trying to stock up on food and essential supply and it would be good and it can make you. Drive through Testing Facilities have begun to spring up in more locations the administration hopes to have 1900000 tests available by the end of the week but the president says the impact of this will last long into the summer thank you all very much alan fischer aljazeera washington for fears of the facts of coronavirus and what theyll have on the economy continuing to cause wild swings on wall street for the 3rd time in little more than a week new york sondos dow jones index had its west point drop in history in any sound on reports. The opening bell by another plunge in the market and a halt to trading on the New York Stock Exchange by the end of the day the dow down 12. 9 percent and the s. And p. Down a leavened point 9 percent the worst percentage drop by both sides 1987 the worst dow point loss ever the previous 2 record set just last week as the markets were closing in new york and washington President Donald Trump was asked if the country was in a recession well it may be thinking in terms of recession with a good in terms of the virus once we step i think theres a tremendous pent up demand both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy and once this goes away once it goes through and were done with it i think youre going to see a tremendous a tremendous surge. The trading day was so bad the president of the New York Stock Exchange had to shoot down rumors that the Trading Floor might close down tweeting closing the markets would not change the underlying causes of the market decline this would only further compound the current market anxiety over the weekend the Federal Reserve lowered Interest Rates to nearly 0 hoping it would call in the markets it did not they lower the rates on sunday market is telling us that theyre not that happy with that if were lowering it if were shooting every good out of the chamber of leaving i said 0 is there is there worse Economic News on the horizon than we think investors say they need 3 things to happen for the market to bounce back a slowdown of coronavirus cases in the u. S. An announcement about a vaccine and a sign that things are returning back to normal on the streets unfortunately none of those things appear to be happening anytime soon as one wall street analyst put it were watching the slow shutdown of the entire u. S. Economy gabriels on doe aljazeera new york now a bit of positive news china has reported only one new domestic coronavirus case on monday the other 20 were involved it involved travelers arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was on the capital of hope a province local authorities have begun easing restrictions from a 50 day lockdown 30 new deaths were reported across Mainland China which brings the total to more than 3000. 00 lets speak to those in hong kong for us so cyrus some good news there with the numbers of cases still dramatically falling. Heres the good news does continue out of Mainland China 21 confirmed cases of the crown of virus infection on monday and thats up from 16 the die earlier but we have the 21 new cases 20 of those cases were the imported versions of the virus so what the biggest battleground now is for china is to stop the virus from coming back in with Arrivals International travelers coming to china some trying to bait some the travel restrictions which have been imposed globally the death toll as you mentioned about 13 deaths were confirmed on monday at 12 of those disks were in the who by province and which is the epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak they accounted for 11 of those so certainly the new battleground for china is trying to stop the importation of coming back in and they put in place some heavy quarantine restrictions all travelers arriving into beijing will now have to go into quarantine for 14 days but those quarantine facilities will be run by the government and the people in those quarantine facilities will have to pay so certainly chinas trying to discourage any new arrivals in hong kong weve got some new alerts here we got the red alert being issued by hong kongs chief executive kerry lam on tuesday shes basically saying all International Travelers except for those from macau Mainland China and taiwan will now have to go into quarantine or self isolation for 14 days their concern now is a 2nd wave of the outbreak we had 20 travelers arriving at the airport on monday evening all reported fever symptoms and coronavirus like symptoms and theyve all now been put in quarantine so again its the importation of the virus that cities like hong kong and now worried about so meanwhile airline sour and the markets have been struggling across the region. Well as these travel restrictions are being put in place globally airlines are being hardest hit we had quantised chief executive alan joyce on monday he issued an email to all his 30000 staff saying this was what will be the single biggest shock for the Global GlobalAviation Industry ever experience out there now its a cut of 90 percent of its International Capacity and 60 percent of its domestic capacity as a result of these travel restrictions and that will continue until at least the end of my now in new zealand its also cut its flights to australia simply because a strategy now has these heavy travel restrictions on all travelers arriving into a strata for 14 days of self isolation theyve cut their flights by 80 percent from march until june and Cathay Pacific which is one of asias Biggest Airlines based in hong kong its now cut up to 90 percent of its capacity of flights and if these travel restrictions continue they will extend that to. Say that cargo flights of the cargo industry thats the one area the one positive that seems to be occurring at the moment with the cargo the right searching for cargo flights one friday line company said that 2020 is going to be the year of the freighter thank you sara for that update sara clark live for us in hong kong now frances president is describing new lockdown measures as unprecedented in peacetime for 2 weeks residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries travel to work or seek medical care and the e. U. Is proposing a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the region the baka looks at whats happening across europe go over it 19 has silenced entire cities 100000000 europeans of. Paris woke to its 1st business day of sweeping restrictions respected by some ignored by others later the french president urged the country to follow the official advice restricting all the old essential movement he summed up the worsening crisis in one word. 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 fight 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 terrorist. 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 hopes to have an experimental low dose coronavirus a vaccine ready by jude 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 North Central contact with. And to stop on necessary 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 book arrests 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 neve barker aljazeera london. Still ahead on aljazeera bracing for impact across latin america state leaders take harsh steps to try and hold a pandemic in its tracks. The news tasked with ending a political stalemate israels president asks Opposition Leader of any guns to form a new government. Hello again the weather here in the Arabian Peninsula is largely fine certainly in doha were expecting sunshine and 28 degrees but look behind me and weve got this area of low pressure pushing into the eastern side of the mediterranean so all the way from lebanon syria through parts of jordan and down towards israel we can expect some pretty wet weather to develop if youre in the course of tuesday strong winds driving down as well so it could be a bit of dust around and so in a storm system is going to stir things up over the next couple of days before 24 hours and you can see that system then clearing away from the mediterranean coastline but certainly some heavy rain likely through parts of iran and iraq were going to see some snow across as i cross mountains and were also going to get some very strong winds so once again we could see some dust lift up through the tigris and Euphrates River valleys further south a few showers possible down through saudi arabia into yemen but again a draw im fine for the most part here in doha with highs of 27 degrees turned into east africa weve got plenty of showers for tanzania showers affects more southern parts of kenya too i mean you notice those showers across ethiopia certainly could see the old downpour during the course of the day across southern parts of africa a main feature remains our Tropical Cyclone which is harold is moving clear of marshes antananarivo should be fine highs of 26. In 2014 and aljazeera investigation revealed how anger and fear fear will be in a crisis that ravaged west africa we asked our lives they didnt allow you to ask for to know we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread ebola and caused the devastation fear that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with ebola on aljazeera. The the in. There watching out is there a live from doha a reminder of our top stories u. S. President donald trump has announced a 15 day plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic with limits on social gatherings and his are aging the elderly to stay at home or fears are growing of a global recession nasty corner virus and markets around the worlds plunge me again the dow jones dropped 12. 9 percent and wall street trading was suspended european markets also closed down and china has reported only one new domestic coronavirus case on monday the 21 travelers arriving from overseas a new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was high on the capital of her bay province. Now Health Authorities in the usa the heart of ohio have moved to postpone the president ial primary just hours before polls were due to open the States Health chief said it could expose voters to call a virus the decision to call off the vote goes against a judges refusal to shut it down 50 cases have been confirmed in ohio so far john 100 is in chicago explains the debate around whether to delay the vote. The ohio Health Commissioner did what the governor and what the secretary of state were unable to do early in the day the governor said because the c. D. C. Has said that people should not gather in groups of more than 50 that it would be impossible to hold an election and that is with this special we hold elderly people in a vulnerable state because of course they are the most vulnerable to the coronavirus that went to court that the state filed with the court and the governor lost that court said theres not enough time to do this and the election would go forward then the governor and the secretary terry of state put out a statement saying that it would be irresponsible for them to go forward the election and then you have that statement from the Health Minister saying that the election would not go forward now for Health Reasons now thats one of the things you get when you have a governor in mike de wine who is not just a republican but also a former u. S. Senator former attorney general this is a guy who knows how to use this system some cynics are saying hes a republican he wants the democratic primary to go on as long as possible because as long as the democrats Bernie Sanders and joe biden are going after each other theyre not going after donald trump in that postpones the real fight in that general election some people have been saying this could be Bernie Sanders last stand numerically its not possible for joe biden to clinch this with a 4 states in the 577 delegates that will be handed out on tuesday but it could have increased the momentum that biden r. T. Has but the truth is that they do wining has really been head of the curve weve been closing restaurants ahead of other states and hes been very aggressive be here and he just wasnt going to take no for an answer. Venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro has ordered all citizens to stay home from tuesday and a quarantine aimed at cutting off the spread of coronavirus after at least 155. 00 cases were confirmed in latin America Chile has become the latest country to announce the closure of its borders a latin america its only seen him and reports schools are closed Airline Traffic is nearly paralyzed latin american countries are moving quickly towards total isolation but also the 3rd not from your close or lower borders and nor will be able to enter argentina except citizens and permanent residence. Crews president but of the scott i want to step further announcing a state of emergency and mandatory home isolation. In neighboring chile the country with the highest number of confirmed cases per capita in south America President s have a stamp announced all borders will be closed starting wednesday to give tourists time to leave oh a good up all but that wasnt soon enough for these angry residents of that in us on the southern tip of south america they shouted no more tourists in front of a cruise ship that was granted permis