For their reaction to the pandemic. We have a garden here we have dogs. Shes not a medical pounds. And i dont know how are you get through this as more u. S. Restaurants and shops closed their doors thousands of workers are wondering how theyll survive and sport the English Premier League is holding an emergency meeting to discuss ways of trying to complete its season the worlds most watched football competition is already off until at least april the 4th. Lets get going almost 2 weeks now since italians were ordered to stay at home italy confronts its worst National Crisis since world war 2 the confinement of millions of people has crippled the worlds. 8th biggest economy but the Prime Minister says its the only way to fight a virus thats led to the deaths of nearly 3000. 00 to town ians Prime Minister says he will extend the restrictions italy has reported a record 475. 00 deaths more than any nation on one single day it is the worst affected country in europe similar measures in spain do not seem to be stopping the infections there are more than 15000 there spain has also seen a 30 percent rise in the number of deaths in just 24 hours the virus there has claimed 767. 00 lives the contagion is showing no signs of slowing in germany either with a surge of nearly 3000 infections in a single day this interactive map from Johns Hopkins university gives us all the data the total number of confirmed cases the deaths and the recoveries jumps just in the past 2 hours or so youll see at the top left 220691. 00 total deaths almost just a breach the 1000. 00 mark total recovered 84161. 00 and they also get this very clear visual interpretation of where the hot spots are in europe the us and also you cant quite see on that map that weve got there we go off to the rights of our map would be the china hot spots as well lawrence lee joins us live from london lawrence an appalling day across europe lets just start with italy. Yes lets 475 deaths as you say in a single day. Presumably only a matter of time before italy overtakes china as the country with the biggest number of deaths in total and those clearly whatever measures italy has taken its not working is it they there are different sorts of lockdown it probably is worth explaining in italy he can still go to work and you can go for emergencies but everybody else would be encouraged to stay at home nobody the schools are closed theyre talking about going the schools after april the 3rd which is when the supposed to be reopened at the moment the law doesnt have to continue but in just a few days the Italian Police press criminal charges against tens of thousands of italians for breaching the terms of the lockdown including occasionally its been reported people who had tested positive for the virus and then went shopping. And clearly theres you know thats thats just spreading the disease and then there in our prison sentences its such a potentially people who are doing that but it is a contrast with a place like france for example where they where the measures are much stricter. And it isnt possible to leave the house really even to try to go to work and that it only lends a suggestion that they are going to have to continue as it is at the moment and accepts a lot more deaths or potentially you would assume tighten the terms of the lock down to try and keep more people off the streets and spain as well now im at leading edge of whats going on across the e. U. Yeah another 200. 00 deaths there are just over in a in a single day the government announced so the last couple of hours theyre finding amazing amounts of money that we didnt know existed that theyre suddenly being able to find for things 210000000 euros theyre going to spread across the country to Regional Health authorities but its a similar picture really across the piece as you said in your introduction a big spike 2 in france and in germany very high profile people announcing theyve got it as well like Michel Barnier the European Unions bricks in the. He says hes tested positive because a cluster of cases around the European Commission building in the in the center of brussels that in turn obviously leads to even more questions about whether any celebrex in the go station can can can carry on this year as well but this things going to have to carry on and as ive been saying this morning if it if if china is anything to go by it took 2 months of total lockdown in who they province to get on top of it if these European Countries arent practicing total lockdown and you have to assume its only going to take longer number 10 downing street Boris Johnson u. K. Prime minister as well kind of signaling look we will not have the army or Police Security forces on the streets of london close of business on friday were going to lock down the capital city. And you see in the in the absence in the u. K. Of any specific announcements yet by the u. K. Governments about what a proposal would look like theyve been wildly differing interpretations in the in the u. K. Media with people being apparently briefed with totally Different Things and so theres one newspaper example its morning saying that the lockdown in london woods only allowed one person at a time to leave. Downing street now says thats not going to happen at all. There are other suggestions that the police might god supermarkets that may happen but the main message from downing street talking to the lobby journalists this morning was that there is quote 0 chance of travel restrictions in and out of london obviously the schools are closed now presumably until september and so thats going to force a lot of people back to home but it looks like theyre still trying to make is effectively a voluntary krug code to stay away from other people and stay at home rather than the sort of blanket bans and restrictions with threats of fines and things like that that weve seen in countries like china and france lawrence thanks very much. Well while the global struggle to contain the spread of the virus continues a glimmer of good news from where it was supposed to scuppered in china they reported no new local cases weapons day the 1st time since the bias started circulating in december but scott harlow reports now from bangkok the numbers a still growing in all the nations across the region. Well countries across the globe continue to seal borders and lock down citizens the country that saw 1000 primary infection for the 1st time reported no new local cases in china the only new coronavirus patients were imported from abroad as construction and manufacturing resumes after months of shut down the epicenter for the virus was on city and the surrounding province reported no new cases also for the 1st time so that we are delighted to see this increase this means today we have seen that do enough to say many days of hard deficit theres been an uptick of infections in south korea this after a small cluster was discovered at a nursing home to help offset the Economic Impact of the coronavirus the government announced a support package to help Small Businesses with 2 previous packages the total Financial Aid now tops 39000000000. 00. So we should think about ways to support those who have suffered from income levels lost their jobs due to the car iris the asian stock markets continue to struggle as concerns over economic disruption from the virus continues south koreas kaspi lead most of the regions major markets in losses thailand announced its biggest single day jump in corona virus cases at least 60 some of them were people returning from a mass gathering of muslim missionaries in neighboring malaysia thailand has closed some of its border crossings with its southern neighbor. One of japans biggest tourist draws is Cherry Blossom season now in full swing but because of fear over spreading the virus viewing parties and picnics are discouraged and events have been canceled the japanese government Just Announced the tourist numbers for last month were down over 58 percent thats the biggest drop in 9 years since the tsunami and earthquake in 2011 that triggered the Fukushima Nuclear disaster scott hyder aljazeera. Well an unprecedented number of Countries Worldwide are now closing the borders canceling flights and imposing travel restrictions australia and new zealand are the latest to ban everyone from entering except citizens and residents and so if he stays or malaysia sealed its borders on weapons day stopping workers who commute to neighboring singapore in the middle east q 8 and saudi arabia stopped all International Flights in cats are no foreigners can land only cancer is or allowed home before going into selfimposed quarantine e. U. Leaders have agreed to seal all borders to known e. U. Countries for 30 days over in south america foreigners are denied entry to many countries including argentina bolivia chile colombia and peru on douras and ecuador or enforcing full border closures canadas close to noncitizens and residents only essential travel is allowed across the border with the United States the Iraqi Government has imposed a weeklong curfew in the capital baghdad and other cities to stop the spread of covert 19 now that includes the suspension of all commercial flights the authorities have registered 164. 00 cases and 12 similar faults and has more from baghdad. It is the 2nd day of a weeklong curfew here in iraqs capital baghdad and we are at what is usually a very busy intersection in baghdad for months or neighborhood but as you can see the streets are largely deserted there are checkpoints that have been set up by the Security Forces to enforce the Movement Restrictions theyre demanding badges from any cars that are moving around to justify their movement of course we as journalists we are exempt from the curfew as are healthcare workers but for many other people these Movement Restrictions will have a great impact on their livelihood the majority of iraqis are employed in the Informal Sector be shopkeepers as taxi drivers and this curfew means that they cant get out. To earn a living you can see on my left side over here the shops that remain entirely closed this means that those shopkeepers will be taking a great hit in terms of the income that theyre making and anybody associated of course with those shops will not be earning a salary now the corona Crisis Committee in iraq has said that this curfew is the only way to try to manage the crisis in the country because the concern is that iraqs healthcare sector under the best of circumstances is not equipped to deal with very large volumes of patients last year the government allocated less than 3 percent of its budgets to the Health Care Sector and the hospitals are already struggling because theyre underfunded theyre understaffed theyre under supplied so the idea is to try to prevent a sharp rise in cases but of course as this curfew continues and there is a chance it may be extended they cannot make ramifications of these Movement Restrictions maybe severe loss more ground still to cover for you here on the intruding in yemen a country already struggling. Anyway now comes the battle with coronavirus. Aid agencies are trying to protect vulnerable refugees from. In sports an olympic ceremony with a difference. With the torch to do over to organize the tokyo getting. The u. S. Congress has passed a 100000000000. 00 bill aimed at easing the plight of people during the pandemic it provides pretesting and indeed Unemployment Benefits but what the bill does not is paid sick leave means thousands will have to choose from work or staying home to care for a loved one mike hanna reports from washington. With restaurants throughout the country close the role of the fast food chains is critical most are close to saddam diners but they grab and go operations provide an essential source of daily nutrition its estimated that more than 790000 workers at the biggest possible chains do not have access to sick pay we have a daughter we have dogs. Shes not american. And i dont know how you get through this we need help here seattles in a crisis restaurant workers are in a crisis the same applies to the Large Grocery stores where workers with no sick leave continually restock items like food and hand sanitizers admits to buying frenzy congress has passed a bill that specifies payment for sick leave but the does not apply to companies with more than 500 workers im not only worried about my my kids but worried about the workforce that theyre you know in thinking they have no choice but to show up folks that are selling us our groceries folks that are at the pharmacy right now 3 years ago an Award Winning documentary called 0 weeks pointed out that the United States and papa new guinea are the only countries in the world that do not provide for paid family leave americans have to make the choice between tending to a sick spouse parent or child or going to work to generate income in this time of pandemic its an even stark choice for those feeling ill and the emergency bill now passed by congress does little to ease the hardship of the 10s of thousands are took Work Congress we need your help or Service Industry depends on it this is unfortunate whats going on but we need the help this is a hand not a hand out theyre not doing we have mortgages we have family. Repaired the fact that even in the submergence e congress cannot agree on the need for universal paid sick leave emphasizes how deeply embedded its absence is in the us Corporate Structure i think. That corporate. Establishment has long thought off what are otherwise incredibly sense of all policies are feeling the brunt of that right now last week President Trump paraded Corporate Leaders who he said had joined the white house in combating the virus the irony is that its their long term policy that threatens to contribute to its spread. Out his era washington. The Leadership Qualities of some World Leaders theyve been questioned during the spread of the coronavirus that have been criticisms aimed at them because theyve mocked other countries and theyve scolded people for an overreaction. I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in a war against the chinese virus why do you keep calling this the chinese virus there are forts and dozens of incidents of buying biased against Chinese Americans in this country your old age secretary hes arthur says he does not use this term because ethnicity does not cause the virus i think youre using this injury that its not racist at all not at all it comes from china thats what comes from china i want to be accurate for extreme case john kerry is you are you have a great i have great love for all of the people from our country but as you know china tried to say at one point maybe this stuff down that it was caused by american soldiers that cant happen its not going to happen and as long as im president it comes from china. Coronavirus is serious and it is concerning but dont create such levels of hysteria or national commotion so that we cant face this issue lets bring in tom brooks whos a political analyst and in law and government to darren university is in the u. K. He joins us on skype tom brooks welcome back to the news i could type your insight with us today here on aljazeera english why a song well he does labeling it as specifically the chinese virus. Well i think youre seeing this from from people like President Trump who has made a big deal of his trade were chinas a big part of his presidency to try to labor something kind of Foreign Invasion that theyre trying to fight in and and also kind of part of a wider picture of trying to push. I guess criticism away from how he might be handing things to as it were a problem that someone elses cause to think its a successful strategy i think thats whats behind it do people react to that kind of strategy positively because you know of course one is aware of the reaction to this nomenclature on social media on international t. V. Channels and apart from in my viewing and reading apart from the people who work for and would watch the likes of fox news everyone around the world reacts the same and they say look a virus doesnt respect creed color religion or specifically borders so why do it. But its a very good question and i suspect the his reelection his is not too far from his mind i would suggest as this is the its the top thing but i think its not too far off the top thing it might be to help play to a base that will have a certain worldview in atlanta play to that but i do think its not very helpful for people who may be exposed on a sara lee to a very high risk to their livelihoods and indeed even their lives to know well you know were going to blame somebody else for this meanwhile were not going to kind of focus on protecting Public Health i dont think its a good strategy for a lot of reasons but for some reason thats what hes trying to right now what does it say about politicians that they are prepared to go very public especially now you know that this is such a massive news story around the world for billions of people but politicians it seems to me some of them are prepared to go public and expose a complete and utter lack of knowledge but try to use leverag