Government joins forces with retailers to try to prevent panic buying from Grocery Stores as the nation is effectively on lockdown to slow the spread of the virus. Jobs lost supermarkets shot flights grounded economies around the world of badly hit by the pandemic and trying to prevent a total financial collapse. Acts of kindness well take a look at how volunteers are helping people cope during the outbreak. Almost 1000000000 people are not confined to their homes around the world as the coronavirus pandemic tightens its grip that have now been 12000 confirmed killed globally and its italy which continues to bear the heaviest burden its death toll has jumped by nearly 800. 00 a record for a single day most were in the Northern Region of lumber deal with the armies transporting victims out of the hardest hit areas a cemeteries are overloaded and National Death toll is now approaching 5000 meanwhile in the u. S. New jersey has followed 4 other states and told people to stay home close to 200000 people have tested nationwide Vice President mike pence will also be screened after one of his stuff contract of the illness. Neither the president nor i had direct contact with that staff person we worked immediately with a white house physician and the c. D. C. Weve done all Contact Tracing and all the white House Doctors indicated that is no reason to believe that i was exposed and no need to be tested. Given the unique position that i have as Vice President and as leader of the White House Coronavirus task force both i and my wife will be tested for the corona virus later this afternoon. And in the u. K. The government is urging people to stop panic buying to avoid scenes like this one supermarkets stripped of essential items well john hall is joining us on skype from london jonah 1st of all lets talk about those numbers in italy this is again another severe spike in these numbers this is going to be concerning obviously in italy but across europe as a whole. These numbers are extraordinary now rob theres no doubt about that 793 new guests recorded in italy in the last 24 hours 672 in the 24 hour period before that is really setting all the worst kinds of records every day now the highest single day death toll of this in the entire duration of this crisis cast your mind back to the situation in woodland in china at the beginning of the year the worst single day death toll there was 150. 00 that gives you some idea of the scale of the crisis that you faced by italy and by italys Health Care Services at present that as a say those numbers keep going up now one interesting point to bear in mind is that restrictive measures in italy have been in place now for around 2 weeks with no apparent psion of success not the Scientific Community broadly seems to think that once you put these communities and societies and publics into lockdown like this youre looking at a sort of lag time of 2. 00 to 3. 00 weeks before any noticeable effect takes place at the transmission rate it may well be that its louis is on the cusp or approaching the cusp of change will may well have another week to go rising numbers nobody can be absolutely sure the problem is communicating this idea to the public and ensuring they understand it ensuring that they are willing and understand why they have to maintain these restrictive measures until the point of change arrives and thats clearly a big issue of concern in italy now after 2 weeks of government concern that some people are beginning to relax a little bit on their quarantine measures looking at the spiraling get top hats wondering what on earth is the point of saying cooped up in our apartments like this where the government the Health Minister essentially begging italians to continue to monitor the rules and that if it is legal that of course all of these deaths the majority of them some 2 thirds taking place in the north of the. Relatively affluent over 2000000. 00 the Financial Capital of them to the fabric industry a lot of manufacturing up there that they fear will be that these numbers transplant themselves from the north to the far less affluent south where the Health Care System is even less able to cope that it is in the north joining youre talking to us from london and of course in the u. K. There have been tougher restrictions which have been introduced there how are people coping. These restrictions come into play at midnight on friday britain finally appearing to catch up with the trend elsewhere in europe cosy restaurants of other places amassed gathering social and to tell human Hospitality Industry places and so on its clearly having an effect on saturday out of that you can see from pictures of it landmark places in london streets very empty far fewer people at that. Anecdotally there are some businesses who have been closed you want as you go see the point in closing the police at this point of not being full of it is that not a legal way and that will be a problem the government is looking at now having very reluctantly taken these notions to age on peoples rights and freedoms to be to move on and enjoy and enjoy the basic liberties of life may now have to look at actual legal measures to get police the right and ability to force these closures i think really days now that britain trying to get to grips with a very very substantially different way of life not alone far from alone doing that. And journal reporting for us live from london thanks very much indeed jonah i want to bring in john hendren whos joining us live from chicago lets talk about the press conference of the president s Coronavirus Task force that we were reporting on just a few minutes ago the president speaking there and also Vice President mike pence what would the takeaways that you took from that. Ok we appear to have lost the son and to john whos in lockdown in his home in illinois i will try and get him back later on but in the meantime. In fact im told that we can now return to john john i dont know if you can hear me. Now but we werent able to hear you before but hopefully we can just give us a quick up some what you think were the main points to take away from that conference thats been going on at the white. Well it wasnt a massively musique day in the administration but they did talk about the things that they have been doing lately one of them is to move tax day from april 15th to july 15th i believe it is in the reason for that is debt they want people to be able to have more money for longer and to not have to worry about that while they are on lockdown but the real big thing going on right now is negotiations on capitol hill there isnt nearly 2 trillion dollar bill its actually 1. 00 trillion plus about 500000000000. 00 in loans its being negotiated in the congress and the way it is right now under the senate bill if youre a Major Corporation like mcdonalds or an airline youre likely to get direct assistance the airlines are asking for about 50000000000. 00 boeing the aircraft maker here in the u. S. Is asking for about 60000000000. 00 and the government is looking at actually giving them that if youre a Small Business theyre looking at giving loans that would have to be paid back but if youre an individual youd be much better off in the u. K. Where theyre giving massive benefits caymans to individuals here in the u. S. The payments go up to about 1200. 00 for people earning 75000. 00 a year thatll bring you up to about the Poverty Level here in the u. S. So not a Generous Program democrats in Congress Republicans control the Senate Democrats control the House Democrats want more of those benefits to go to the individuals and less to the corporations and there are concerns that the corporations would do what they did in the financial crisis of 2008 and 9. 00 and that is buy back their own stock to drive up the value and pay their executives big bonuses the democrats want strings in there that say they cannot do that other than that we learned that mike pence and his wife are going to be tested later today and the president has already been tested that is after a white house staffer was tested positive for the corona virus and pence said that he neither he nor the president had direct contact with that individual but apparently out of an abundance of caution they did those tests. John hendren live for us in chicago in locked out and thank you very much and. And a lot done in tunisia is in place people can only leave their homes for essential things mosques cafes and restaurants have all been shot and the borders are closed a 72 year old woman became the 1st victim of the virus when she died on thursday despite the rising number of deaths and infections irans leader says he may lift the restrictions in 3 weeks zain best thing is into iran since the beginning of this outbreak for the iranian government there have been 2 Major Concerns the Economic Health of the country keeping in mind this is a country that has been debilitated financially by american sanctions for years now and the 2nd consideration has been for the government a public that has lost patience with it a public that sees it as relatively speaking unpopular so really the president here d trying to strike a balance between addressing this Public Health crisis and maintaining the economic stability of the country Going Forward and maintaining the social political stability remember this is a country that has lost patience with its own government over a series of crises that the countrys experienced in the last few months and this is also a president who in one of his 1st appearances since the outbreak was announced in the country came on state television spoke to the iranian people and said that in his estimation the outbreak would be over in a matter of 3 days now that was weeks ago having said that the latest figures might suggest some reason for cautious optimism let me give you what the latest numbers are from the Health Ministry in the last 24 hours the new number of cases is 966 down from 24 hours previous and the new number of deaths is 123 down from 24 hours previous still very large numbers still striking figures in terms of the spread of this virus but this does indicate a relative downward trend. Well its important to remind ourselves that the vast majority of people who contract over 19 do recover we spoke to one such patient in iran who says getting sick was a traumatic experience and im all for the silence and also about 3 weeks ago i had shortness of breath i couldnt breathe i just thought it was because of a cold i even visited a doctor who said it was nothing important and prescribe some simple medicine as shortness of breath continued i visited a doctor on march 2nd and he noticed that my blood oxygen level was much lower than normal he sent me to a hospital emergency situation i was examined and had a chest x. Ray then in the lab after i was tested they looked to be afraid of me i was told that i was probably tested positive is all you think ill your of course i was fearful it was a strange fear for me i am an optimistic person in general the feeling when i entered the hospital 6 in a way patients were waiting to be divided into rooms anxiety was running high in the ear some were coughing strangely some were screaming when you suddenly faced something that youve heard about much in the news and the fact news on social media that creates fear inside you then you feel all you hoped for and thought about suddenly are raised to the ground. Libyas warring sides have agreed a ceasefire to allow the country to focus on the coronavirus threat a spokesman for libyan war latifa hafta has welcomed this so far no cases have been reported in libya but there are fears the Health System would be unable to cope if people started falling ill last week schools were closed flights were cancelled and borders were shut in the west of the country as a precaution. Aljazeera has spoken to a doctor in southern italy whos tested positive for the virus giuseppi spina theres a new mall ijaz who was working in the only hospital in his area when his wife became unwell his tongue when to tell him no is now on lockdown the local hospital is being closed and hes in quarantine its thought all the cases are linked to a school in the area but some have accused dr spina of spreading the illness heres a story we dont know might tell moliterno in the basilica region has a cluster of coronavirus cases there are not many towns in the south like militant which is in total lockdown theres no movement allowed looks like life has been extinguished here its like a ghost town theres no one outside apart from a few people at the pharmacy or the local Grocery Stores and. In the days before my wife contracted the virus a few people visited the house friends and colleagues and people were being tested you know with my wife it happened all of a sudden she was healthy and then suddenly came down with a fever in a heavy dry cough it was violent and very strong and what really caught my attention was that her oxygen levels dropped dramatically on top of that is the other symptoms the lung obstruction persistent shaking and coughing tightness in an intense migraine a whole lot if you go down the difficulty in the south of italy is that theres not enough tests youre only a few tests available every day in the entire region but more importantly its absurd how difficult it is to find protective equipment like the face masks and gowns necessary to. Quite covert 19 and end up missing when i treated my wife at 1st i wasnt wearing protective gear because she had a small fever so i didnt think she had covered 19 so thats how i caught the virus as well id been taking consultations in the hospital and various departments while i was positive but i didnt know it and so the hospitals closed down temporarily to clean and sanitize the entire compound all my colleagues were tested not just the doctors but also the paramedics and the nurses. From a human point of view 19 has been devastated because my wife was the 1st confirmed case in the whole basilica region its unleashed an incredible wast next door on me related to the gossip those who thought that i was the one who brought this virus to our area but covered 19 is a Global Pandemic it doesnt respect borders doesnt follow rules the virus has reached all corners of the globe in some way i do feel guilty guilty for having agenda even though i dont have any symptoms and even though im living with it my life continues normally except ive lost a bit of appetite makes one understand just how incredibly dangerous this virus can be for a human body if you dont have a strong immune system to fight it this virus will inflict heavy damage and thats why there of being thousands of deaths in our country. Well as more countries around the world go into lockdown social distancing is being recommended is one way to contain the virus thats an unusual time for tens of millions of people but always they can make small but crucial differences and their lives explains. The where the. Lonely. Bored you go where you let me go or inspired. And Creative Life and equality for some its not often in recent history that hundreds of millions around the world have shared a common experience so unique and unprecedented. Some have been living under lockdown for days others for weeks and some for months trapped inside their homes doctors say that could lead to stress and anxiety the biggest advice i can give here is just to kind of find something in your life that you might focus on and so i was there when i was out in trying to do some shopping i saw a lot of people rushing to the store struck Hardware Stores sort of gardening and i think thats a very good idea to kind of say ok i get a sense of control great sense of achievement back into your life in china where tens of millions have been under lockdown for weeks online gym classes and physical exercises are some of the ways people have tried to cope and keep themselves fit and. Maintain a better our are active have you at home. In your social contacts ritual grounds have it in. And important to stay in touch with your friends and im things especially hard for patients at hospitals and their family members who are barred from visiting them in italy where many are dying without their families by their side this frontline doctor is helping his patients connect virtually. Initially i thought this would have worried them to see me in a state that would emotionally draining them it turned out to be the exact opposite participated altogether in something miraculous. I think in this hospital in south korea doctors are using our. Consulates to pretty appalled to help patients deal with extreme loneliness in our hospital. Let me take you to a Live Press Conference. Where the committee in charge of managing the corona Virus Outbreak in the country is giving a press briefing the spokesman of that committee. Is speaking including grassroots will continue across the state of qatar this state of qatar with authorities on the part of this is are doing what they can. The outbreak without loss however responsibility and social. Consciousness should prevail it is a very critical factor may god save the state of qatar and. The citizens and that theres no shortage. Of press Conference Today and we have i mean he has somehow medical. Chief of operations representing the interior minister. It was a representative of the Health Ministry and called so they were present to the trade so and those 3. Ministry was the 1st question by the news agency. The measures handed down recently for events public gathering in the public box and so. The coronation as well jim the end assumptions are clear all the social gathering prevented including about gathering woul