A religious event but just spread the virus to other countries. And trading is suspended on wall street a stocks plummeted again that despite the announcement of massive stimulus plans. Hello welcome to the program the World Health Organization is saying its concerned some countries still are not doing enough testing to prevent the spread of the corona virus more than 8000 people globally and now confirmed to have died after catching the virus the number of reported cases as poss 200000 italy is reported at 475 new deaths the highest death toll for a single day of any nation since the 1st case was detected in china late last year malaysia is racing to track down potential coronavirus carriers that after its confirmed cases jump to 790. 00 nearly 2 thirds of those are. A religious gathering which took place late last month and that has spread the virus to at least 6 other countries and then although many governments and outs massive stimulus packages asian european and u. S. Markets have plummeted again as well as oil prices u. S. Markets were even suspended for 15 minutes this for the 4th time in a month well aljazeera said in baba begins the coverage with the latest from europe as the number of recorded coronavirus cases soared past 24 hours and the World Health Organization has announced the 1st trial of a vaccine is on the way the start of a long battle this virus is presenting as we zone president to it but its also an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy an enemy against humanity in the german city of one foot theyve been queuing to get a free test because it 19 theyre losing patience but here in frankfurt is a socialist organ is it so badly organized as the man behind me who waited for 6 hours yesterday when he actually belongs in bed. In some parts of europe the Health Service is just cant cope because of a surge in cases in eastern france 6 coronavirus patients had to be flown by military plane from bellews to the south of the country for treatment across france theres a big incentive not to be out in public if you dont have a certificate allow you to leave home the police can find you up to 150. 00 thank you theyve already arrested dozens of people for going out since the lockdown started at the weekend but its not stopping these housebound madrid residents from protesting theyre demanding for mccain quote carlos deflates millions of dollars he reportedly received from saudi arabia to the Spanish Health system. In london it is quieter than usual but nobodys big told to go home for some in the british capital the incremental approach is right i think the steps have been put in place a very wise. Place once again trying to avoid the panic if its a government to fall in love down in bad things its going to be a bit of a lot worse for peoples well being as it will be isolation away from people he says like this option where you can still be with people in such allies but in Parliament Prime minister Boris Johnson face demands to take a more proactive stance when were only waiting so lonesome us testing and right are social distancing measures maybe just suggestions on wednesday johnson did make one long expected announcement after schools shut their gates from friday afternoon they will remain closed for many peoples for the vast majority of pupils until further notice so different stages in the outbreak and different responses but the challenge for the medical world and for societies in general is immeasurable. Aljazeera. So lets get some more from paul brennan hes following this story so today seems to mark a real sea change in the u. K. Governments response with the possibility of a lot down here in london and then also nationwide School Closures announced its certainly a tougher stance than the British Governments have approached this crisis with so far that said its still far short of whats being implemented elsewhere in europe you know weve got lockdowns in italy in belgium in france in greece weve got border closures elsewhere the. Policy from the British Government remains advice you know the advising people to say home and self isolate theyre advising the people to try and work from home if possible so the level of the amount of compunction is simply not there and as you heard in parliament concerns about testing and exactly why testing wasnt maintained throughout it seems its an issue of capacity capacity we go was around 4000 tests today the government are very keen to ramp it up to around 25000 a day but at the moment theyre only still testing those who present in hospital with a serious condition and so what youve got is Front Line Health Workers having to stay at home for 7 days on government advice when actually they may only have a minor cold they could be on the coalface actually helping people in the hospital they cant because they cant they dont know whether or not they actually have the coronavirus of course europe is the epicenter of the outbreak now and weve seen governments scrambling to close their borders and save their economies from recession recession and yet no nation wide no you region wide strategy i should say yeah i mean they that there is an effort by the European Commission that is the executive body of the European Union to 1st of all open the borders internally within europe important because of trade you know theres a lot of lorry traffic that goes from portugal up through spain up to the northern regions of europe they want that. To continue at the moment that is all blocked up there are traffic jams everywhere the other concern of course is to try to have a coherent europe wide approach to tackling the virus the french from Prime Minister felipe criticized the british saying look if you dont have a lockdown soon we will stop allowing british people to come to france we simply cant take the risk the discrepancies between Different Countries different approaches many people believe is not good for combating this virus and just to finish 475 new deaths in italy today in the last 24 hours there in the 9th day of the lockdown that is the world record of number of deaths in a 24 hour period getting worse thank you very much paul brennan. Is a student his travel from france to spain since the lockdowns came into effect joins me now from San Sebastian via skype and you are well you are a student and youve been studying at sales per in paris and of course we know that france joined italy and spain in imposing a lockdown on its citizens on choose day can you can you describe to me what life was like before the lockdown i mean were people listening to calls for them to get off the streets thats right mario as you were saying im spanish student impair our is and i was a really huge lots of stories coming from my family and friends since then and i knew it was going to just take a few days it was going to happen the same in friends but i was impressed to see that people were not really taken its very seriously i remember people on the streets going to the bars doing sports in the park it was a completely different youre from i was cured. And then you left on tuesday did you you did you leave before the lockdown came into effect in france. Thats right us on monday busy in a corner announce that france was going i looked down and i decided to take my car good to spain on one tuesday i drove all the way from paris to my home sitting in spain on for the 1st time in my life i got stopped at the border but even stanage parties i had to show my id and i was just reminded that spain was in quarantine. Tell me more about what it was like when you cross the border from france into spain and im struck by what you say about this happening for the 1st time in your life because of course youre a european students youre at a very International University and now this must all feel very surreal to you because were seeing the really bringing it the strictest travel ban in its history absolutely ive never experienced is a semi you cities and i would have never imagined that i would get stopped at the border i knew that spain was going to close its borders to nonnationals so i tried soon as possible across the border and the french authorities already told me that. Their border who was close but spanish nationals could have access to spare so indeed the French Border the spanish parties are for a few surges stopped me i made sure that i was astonished on national before i was allowed to get inside and what about the situation where you are in spain people complying with the lockdown are they staying indoors whats it like. Absolutely its a whole different landscape from what was was what i was seeing a 100 pounds people or even putin. To get into the supermarket only 15 to 20 people are allowed to get inside even you are late you know you are expected to pay by card instead of calling there is that Police Patrolling the morning train and making sure that people are staying inside their houses so its a different different story. Right and so tell me more about how people are getting around because i understand that they can go to the supermarket or if they have to go to what but how is the lockdown being enforced on there are enough police on the streets to be able to perhaps check accreditation all all permission slips for people to be able to go where they need to go its true that i can my dream door but if the law not the main sit is i havent seen a lot of police cars on the streets still people are taking it very seriously and that they are very aware of the responsibility that comes with go not sight and then coming back home with your family and relatives some friends people are taking it very seriously. Well thank you very much adrienne last of for joining us there in San Sebastian is really good to get your view on all of this want to move on now to the u. S. Because theres been an announcement that country will temporarily close the border with canada to nonessential travel this of course in an effort to combat the pandemic of almost 9000 kilometers it is the Worlds Largest land border between 2 nations and about 200000 people cross it every day the move will not affect trade between the 2 countries all 50 states in the united in the u. S. Have now confirmed cases of the coronavirus and the u. S. President says that hes invoking legislation to accelerate the production of equipment that they need to fight the coronavirus to hospital ships have also been deployed as a number of infections across america passes 6000 we are sending. Upon request the 2 hospital ships are being prepared right near the massive ships the big white ships with the red cross on the search what is called the mercy of the other is called the comfort. In tip top shape if they were to will be theyre getting ready to come up to new york i spoke with Governor Cuomo about it hes excited about it. Lets get more from our White House Correspondent kimberly. Kimberly quite very significant that this cold war era act was invoked that basically allows the government to make sure that private Sector Companies are producing what what the country needs at this time. Yeah in terms of an indicator its not good the fact that this has been invoked in the defense production axis in 1950 s. Era law that essentially will ramp up production but also free up some reserves so what this means according to the us president also the defense secretary marc as far as they were briefing there at the white house is that up to a 1000000 masks will now be made available to the frontline Health Workers why do they need them because the numbers continue to spike theyre now finding cases of corona virus in all 50 us states as of today so this is not only go allow for more mass is going to allowed for other per tech to gear even ventilators so this is significant the other highlight from this press conference is the fact that theres been some trouble curbing the spread of the virus because young people that the data showed are necessarily as affected by corona virus are still continuing to ignore the Public Health warnings theyre going outside theyre going to restaurants and as a result they may not be getting seriously ill but what theyre doing is theyre spreading it to the more vulnerable populations so there was once again a pleading by Public Health officials for millennia to stay home act like they have the virus even though they may not be exhibiting symptoms right and then also continuing control to see about president from calling it the chinese virus which i think he did again today yeah and he did it in a tweet early this morning so you know its not an accident its quite deliberate the u. S. President insisting even as his own health and Human Services secretary and Vice President have been avoiding this term calling it chronic virus the u. S. President is doubling down calling it the chinese virus now he was asked about this in the taskforce briefing today even asked whether or not he thinks its racist heres how he answered. Its not racist at all no not at all it comes from china its what comes from china would it be accurate for us when hes there place john kerry behind you or you can have a great great love poor all of the people from our country but as you know try to say at one point maybe this stuff down that it was caused by american soldiers that cant happen its not going to happen not as well as our president it comes from china so the us president says he will continue to use this term even as he says that he considers himself a wartime president rising to the ok asian as he says he is leading this country to defeat what he continues to call the invisible enemy. All right thanks very much with all the latest from washington it can really help at lets cross to gabriel is on there now hes standing by for us in new york and so what is the situation that because there have been further steps in new york to make sure that people leave the streets. Yeah and its quite quiet here on the north edge of times square in midtown manhattan were on 7th avenue and 50th street just on the north edge of times square and this is probably on any given day normally on a normal day maybe the busy the busiest area of the busiest city and all of the United States was you can see its not that right now there are some people out on the streets but nowhere even near the thousands that we would normally see in this part of midtown manhattan on a normal day of course these are this is no normal day no normal times the latest numbers here from new york have shot up significantly there are now 2382 confirmed cases in the state of new york thats more than any other state in the u. S. And here in new york city its jumped up 2101339 cases here in new york city more than any other city in the United States by 4 this is now by the governor and the mayor they are bracing for what they call a Health Crisis they say that they need. About 37000 intensive care units to take care of the people that potentially could be sick over the coming days and weeks they say right now in new york state they only have 3000 so they are short about 34000 essentially intensive care units that they say theyre there that theyre going to need so its a its a deepening crisis quite frankly here all bars restaurants have been closed in new york city broadway is completely shuttered museums as well the cases are going up. Exponentially just in the last 3 days or so the number of confirmed cases here in new york has gone up by oh about 35 percent just conclude by saying its having a devastating effect effect on the economy here i was just in one of the hotels behind me in the heart of times square it has more than 500 rooms i spoke to the front desk manager she said theyve had a one person check in in the last 3 days i said whats going to happen when they check out she said well probably just close the hotel again thats a hotel right in the heart of times square in new york city yeah it is remarkable for new york city isnt it thank you very much cable is owned well also falling trading on u. S. Stock markets today suspended for the 4th time in a month after shares plunged more than 7 percent she has dropped as much as 10 percent in an hour trading just under that level oil prices of also plummeted to an 18 year low as the pandemic hits demand settle follows a slight bounce on tuesday after President Donald Trump pressed for an economic stimulus package worth a trillion dollars well lets get more from kissed kristen salumi in new york and so markets i mean the market losses today again triggering a suspension in trading and of course this coming off an announcement that a trillion dollars would be pumped into the u. S. Economy why are investors still so nervous. Yeah the president announcement the crown of iras task force did little to allay investors fear in fact as he was speaking the markets were going down even further and fell into that below 7 percent territory where they triggered the automatic shutdown basically investors are reacting to the widening economic fallout from the coronavirus some of the headlines weve been seeing today. The state of nevada closing its casinos for 30 days thats a Major Economic driver for that state tourism and gambling foreign automakers are going to be temporarily closing their production facilities starting thursday till the end of the month for a deep cleaning the economic fallout from all of this of course is just huge oil prices are now at an 18 year low below 21. 00 a barrel boeing one of the Major Industry Companies here in the United States the aircraft maker seeing its stock fall another 24. 00 another 24 percent today its had a really really bad month the really bad Year Airlines in general of course are suffering because of the coronavirus its just one headli