Yet planning to postpone even as pressure grows. Closer violence in getting ahead of a controversial referendum the could extend the president s term in office. Good to have you with us welcome to aljazeera a lockdown of indias major cities has begun and one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital moment by as well as chennai and calcutta amongst them curfews are also in place nationwide and International Flights have been banned for a whole week and so grounding their fleets as the crisis hits International TravelSingapore Airlines for example is the latest to cut back on operations taking 96 percent of its fleet out of commission and it follows decisions by emirates. Turkish airlines to hold the all passenger flights japanese Prime Minister shinzo has conceded that the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be possible thats after weeks of insisting that the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july and dozens of cuban doctors have arrived in italy tell the Italian Health workers italy is one of the countries thats been hardest hit with more than 5000 people that have died well Elizabeth Raman is in new delhi she describes the implications of the lockdown across india in pretty much all of the major cities around the country the 14 hour curfew that was in place on sunday that promise in that interim already requested people to observe in his address to the nation on thursday while halfway through the day on sunday it was decided the government decided that that would be extended to all 75 districts of the country with confirmed cases thats now 80 cities and districts its more than 10 percent of the country so as well as no one being allowed to go out on this they work in essential Services Like health care weve also had Indian Railways cancel all trains all interstate buses have been cancelled and so have Metro Services around the country now this while most people are observing this lockdown and weve had promised that in the morning to eat saying that some people arent taking it as seriously as they should most people are. There are scenes of very crowded places this is not what the government wanted but there are scenes of many Migrant Workers trying to get back to where theyre from there of course a lot of very large number of Migrant Workers around india and a lot of them are at bus stations just trying to get back to where theyre from and they cant because interstate buses have been canceled and in fact in some states all all buses have been canceled will keep your message lets cross over to hong kong and give you a good policy the very latest the chief executive has been speaking within the last hour with a very startling news for the public at large. Thats right to hell for so long the hong kong has resisted closing its borders allowing International Passengers to travel through this is a major hub it relies on tourism and transit passengers as you said at one of the busiest airports in the world and now the chief executive has said all International Passengers who are not hong kong residents will be banned from entering the City Hong Kong residents who come in will be subject to corona Virus Testing before being put into quarantine all so she kept mentioning caroline kept ments mentioning that only hong kong residents will be allowed in perhaps implying that people from Mainland China are not residents of the city will not be allowed in and this is a big move so far even at the height of the outbreak hakani had left its land border open allowing mainland chinese to enter come in and out of the city its also a political hot potato so kerry was very careful to carry out saying that all decisions made are political are not politically based draw there and more scientifically based she also mentioned that shops restaurants many Entertainment Centers will be shut down this is also in other drastic measure given that homes economy has been suffering already or be a massive setback for the economy and for the many people here who are facing unemployment and have not been able to go out to work due to social distancing measures so yes a very very large announcement from carrie lamb one that is set to lock in hong kong shut the city down pretty much for the 1st time since the since the outbreak and the main reason for this is that there has been a surge in new cases over the past week with cases more than doubling in just a week and today they have announced 40 new infections many of them both from abroad of people coming in or returning from overseas and also cluster infections from communities within hong kong. Like you. But stay in the region because in the Philippines Congress is considering giving the president to merge unsee powers over the corona Virus Outbreak to Miller Island theyre going to joins me now from manila jamila obviously the philippines already under stringent and restrictive measures to talk us through what we expect to happen in this meeting. Well also hailed the Congress Session started early this morning they are deliberately to keep points that the president is asking for an 8000000000 us dollar stimulus budget that will help they see as the definition of the government augment a possible economic blow to the country it is going to help supposedly feed the millions of filipinos who are on lockdown at the moment particularly in the region of those on a one contentious demanded the president is asking for is basically additional powers greater powers to control try that enterprises you know are rest hotels transport Companies Hospitals and according to the government they need these powers in order to respond quickly to the Current Crisis today marks the highest number of cases today over 18 you cases are recorded to date however the Health Services and Health Workers dealing with this or it seems we have lost for the moment of course go back to her through the day as we get to a conclusion from that meeting in congress. Well not too far from the philippines we had to japan because its Prime Minister shinzo says the perspire moment of the Olympic Games must be considered it comes as canada announced it wont send its teams to compete if the competition is held this july as planned alexia brian explains. After weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese Prime Minister cannot concessional huma weve hoped to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that cancelling them is not an option at all but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider postponing. The games us it to be held in july but the virus thats caused both human catastrophe and economic crisis across the globe is threatening the worlds biggest sporting event canada became the 1st country to announce its and then pick and paralympic teams want people to surprising in the games urging the International Olympic committee and the tokyo organizes to push back the event by at least a year were witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes speaking out against the International Olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum youve seen athletes and sport bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable tokyos olympic chief is warned that the games 1000000000. 00 budget and he is planning are at stake and that cancelling would be bad for both stakeholders and athletes you know go to lego you we never intend to talk about a consolation but japan and International Olympic committee will talk together about what to do postponement to only be one of the many scenarios like the increasing pressure from athletes to call off the games is not just because bringing hundreds of thousands of sportsmen and women coaches and fans together could help spread the virus but they argue that having them continue high level training is putting them and their families at risk i think again it should be postponed and i think its the best option is the least worst option available to us no so theyve got an amazing opportunity here in the games and then they will together we see the back of this bonus. Just a few weeks ago the idea of postponing the olympics was unthinkable now its looking more and more likely another victim of these unprecedented times the i. O. C. Says it will make a decision within the next 4 weeks from now the Olympic Torch Relay is set to go ahead from thursday but without the usual fanfare with crowd surged not to attend. An aljazeera ball still ahead here on aljazeera kenya edges towards total lockdown but people there say theres no room to isolate plus. Is only terrorist treat and trace the golden rules to stop the pandemic but a global shortage of testing kits and lab supplies is making it difficult both stories after the break. Hello the usual rains across much of indonesia some fairly heavy downpours of course in the late hours of the day you can see here through cheese day it didnt start out too badly across much of borneo sumatra so not as heavy as we have seen of late but it does tend to get a little bit more widespread and havea as the the warm up of the day takes place you can see here on wednesday some or all the heavy downpours later on and becoming very widespread throughout much of borneo across into silhouette he wanted to showers in the southern areas of the philippines and again want to scattered showers really across areas of thailand on towards vietnam now the monsoon rains there back across Northern Areas of australia thats good news very welcome rains these are and also more rain working its way across South Australia ahead of that time it is not cheap bad 23 in adelaide moshes like into sydney the same across into biz them again temperatures feeling pretty good 24 and 26 degrees celsius mostly dry across both islands of new zealand but still some very windy conditions and really the warm air is in place of course through the interior Alice Springs and also across into perth 34 celsius on cheese day and even a degree warmer as we head to wednesday but plenty of rain across the north and also some heavy rain through much of New South Wales but a cool it and melbourne at 18. 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On the back i want you all just means the whole rob never mind of our top stories india has extended a curfew across major cities to fight the spread of coronavirus theres been a rise in the number of cases in the past few days 1000000000 indians stayed home and a 14 hour lockdown on sunday Singapore Airlines and its subsidiaries are grounding 96 percent of the fleet in response to the outbreak both emirates and Turkish Airlines have also significantly reduced their operations and the International OlympicCommittee Says its considering perspiring the 2020 take yo games by up to a year its been under mounting pressure from athletes and National Bodies to cancel or delay the event. Europe remains the big concern with italy taking over china as the new hotbed of the pandemic as the number of actions and deaths increase more lockdowns are in place across countries now the u. K. Is seeing a significant rise with nearly 5700 infections and more than 280 deaths. Lawrence joins me now from the british capital lawrence of the keeping a very close eye on the u. K. Peoples behavior in the u. K. Is making the u. K. Government rethink its messaging. Yes its almost inevitable now really the weekend thats just past was really nice you know it was sunny and felt like spring and we were treated to all sorts of extraordinary images of things like huge long queues of cars and people trying to walk up Mount Snowdon which is one of the highest and quite easily navigable mounts mountains in the whole of the u. K. In london parks were full of. Streets selling flowers and all this was thing and they and the government which had been trying to say look chaps please can you just have some social distancing and dont meeting groups because we know how its spreads the scottish medical advisor said over the weekend that the epidemiologists now think the one infected person could infect between 4 and 6 people rather between 2 and 3 which was the thinking so the risks are obvious to them yet people are ignoring it and one of the question is why what why is that some he wasnt that people full well were going to go into law anyway so maybe this is the last weekend were going to chance or do anything so they just played russian roulette with the rules well maybe they just didnt understand what the government has kept saying to people or that perhaps the little young and healthy with a walk up a mountain so is not going to kill us but obviously the government has kept saying its not about you its about the health this and about your ability to kill of the people and so there is enormous frustration out in government the people just ignore the rules means and consequently theres all sorts of talk about a much bigger lot down at the the soul scene in places like spain this really in the next day or 2 what that would look like hes a bit unclear now because they have said they want to try to keep people moving around and things like exercise and very good for Mental Health in a crisis like this but you know theres been a lot of criticism of the government so to some degree youve got to feel a bit sorry for them at the time like this because people are just basically the ignoring rules the rules goods thats why the issues are across the English Channel into mainland europe the numbers that are obviously certainly increasing and sunny catching up on it and its a real concern about whats going across whats happening across the English Channel. Yeah i mean everywhere theres that theres one big question about exactly how many cases there are all because very few countries pop with the exception of germany a testing in the way the World Health Organization one certainly in the u. K. Theres one thing saying this is how many people are infected theres another thing completely how many people have actually been infected or mean Everybody Knows several people including 2 of goal symptoms but even know they dont know if the got it because they cant is there testing going on but the other peculiar thing about it is they they the rates for infection versus the death rate is really inconsistent so for example spain which as you said is catching up and its only 28000 cases and 1700 deaths whereas in germany 25000 cases and yet only 94 deaths so why is that and what one of the things that i think the trans workout of the moment sees water countries which are just behind it solely on this and that includes plainly was spains catching up fast germany france u. K. These sorts of big economies all these assume going to be where its really is now in a we could choose time so why have countries like spain and italy been hit so hard in the hospitals are overwhelmed whereas other countries like germany with a very big infection rates seem to be able to dealing with the deal with it a bit better and you know that is going to be absolutely crucial if Health Services are going to be completely silent the other question of course of the moment is if the peak is about to happen all these countries how long does it last for the Belgian Health minister said we think if the peak is about to happen then were looking at 8 weeks until this all subside slightly so april may looking like a really really bad picture in europe for the updater lawrence thanks very much for joining us from london. African hour kenya is edging towards a total lockdown as the number of cases rises to 15 the government is suspending all International Flights from wednesday and has ordered pubs and restaurants to remain closed kenyans are also being urged to take social distancing seriously but thats not possible for many as catherine so reports now from nairobi. Many of the conversations in nairobi the epicenter of call the 1000 in kenya are about the disease the government has r