A building makeshift facility is the Health Care System struggled to cope. India orders the worlds biggest lockdown 1300000000 people are told the same goes for 3 weeks in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. And the Olympic Games in tokyo have been postponed for a year because of the global spread of the disease. New york has become a major battlefront in the fight against the corona virus pandemic the largest us city now has more than 25000 confirmed cases in the number is rising rapidly medical facilities are struggling to cope and theyre facing potential shortages of beds of staff and equipment but the u. S. President says he hopes to have the situation under control by Easter Gabriel elizondo reports from new york. Sobering news for new yorkers the situation is worse than 1st start with the coronavirus rate of infection doubling every 3 days we were looking at a Freight Train come. Here across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly the space to do this or the governor says the white house has not prioritized health to the state that needs it the most new yorkers 25000 cases it has an on line the problem that california hands 10 times the problem that Washington State has you prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they are needed. New york will need 140000 hospital beds to care for the ill they currently have 50000 available new york citys Largest Convention center has been converted into a makeshift hospital but it wont be enough. York is also exploring converting colleges and hotels to hospitals as well recently retired nurses and doctors are being asked to come back to help fill the need and global event to leaders are in short supply new york now needs 30000 the governor urged the white house to send him thousands more that the federal government has in storage and that are not being used as for the streets they remain mostly empty up both people and cars new york is essentially on lockdown and given the increased cases of coronavirus it likely remain like this for at least many weeks to come. April sondos how does it on your. Lets hear a little bit more of what President Trump had to say it is daily briefing. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we win and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality of the top u. S. Health official and the fallacy called down on President Trumps time line. Thats really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day for 2 to be very flexible and the on it literally day by day repo week this is you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do if we do the kind of testing we were doing testing will always be associated for identification isolation and context tracing and you find after a period of time that there are areas that are very different from other areas of the country you may not want to essentially treat it as it is just one force for the entire country but look at flexibility in different areas so i think people might get the misinterpretation it is going to lift everything up and even somebody is going like that i mean thats thats not going to happen more now from our correspondent in washington mike hanna there has been push back against the speculation or the president s intention to lift the lockdown in a number of areas by easter thats less than 3 weeks time even though he said that it would not be in the whole of the country it would be in specific places Health Professionals are getting very strongly this simply not enough data to make any kind of prediction at this particular point they are not enough tests being conducted and even in areas that have not been hit badly by the virus there is no knowledge to what extent it is dormant there so from his Health Advisors the president receiving strong pushback against any concept of a lifting of this shutdown in less than a few weeks as seen saying and certainly places like new york city making very clear that march has been terrible to deal with april could be worse and make could be even worse than that so certainly governors and mayors throughout the country pushing back very strongly against president trams contention that the possibility of lifting the lockdown is only weeks away. Right lets speak to Caroline Hellman now whos professor of politics at the Occidental College shes joining us live from the front of the sites for talking to us this is clearly a national if not an International Emergency but a leader is often defined by how hell she rises to the it to the event to the occasion hows President Trump doing but i think its safe to say that his delayed and inadequate response will d cost lives the question is how many we know that china declared new virus on december 31st the World Health Organization declared a major emergency on the same day that we had our 1st case in the u. S. Confirmed case january 21st and President Trump proceeded to downplay it to call it overhype to say that it would it would disappear he even went as far as to call it a hoax or claiming he wasnt doing enough about it a hoax meanwhile even now that hes kind of pivoted and acknowledged that it is in a pandemic he is still not doing enough in terms of invoking emergency right. To increase productions of tests an emergency ok but this is a president who often misspeaks he uses hyperball it language on a regular basis and seems to have a very a fairly Loose Association with the facts and this doesnt seem to be bothering the American People despite all of the criticisms of her out there against him i think his Approval Ratings at the moment around 60 percent how can you explain that. Well and its fascinating right it was 55 percent last week and 60 percent this week as soon as he actually started to take action heres the thing about his polls though and this is why i think his Reelection Campaign is in jeopardy as the body count goes up which it surely will because we have not dealt with this pandemic in a way that we should have in our country and i would argue in most parts of our country were still not dealing with it in the way that we should be unless youre in new york with Governor Cuomo or youre in and you know california as i am with governor you some where Washington State with governor inslee you have governors taking more leadership on this than the president of the United States and if the estimates are anywhere close to what you know the 2. 3 percent of the population may lose their lives over this that body count or not thats going to be will cost in the election and it feels crass to talk about intellectual terms but i would anticipate that support for his handling of it will decline as the body right and if this becomes a defining event of his presidency its likely i presume therefore to knock away the advantage that hes hes placed so much stock on and that is the strong Economic Data that he has. His 33. 00 and a half he is a whatever if this pandemic knocks out all of those economic gains thats basically it for him is it would you say. I would say i would say that the stock market and the body count will determine the outcome of the election and in terms of the stock market there is no doubt that he is overseeing great growth that growth started actually under george w. Bush who did a bailout after the acquittal the crisis is carried forward by president obama and trump also oversaw the incredible increase whats happened since the middle of february is a 34 percent drop in the stock market although it did rebound today on the news that donald trump wants to reopen the country our im easter which is well before Health Experts say he should allow people you know put put the word out that people should be out and about if indeed people are out and about after april 12th which is easter and this increases the body count i mean i just i think he needs to be worried about more than just the economy right. Caroline have been really good to talk to you thank you very much thank you well as caroline indicated asian markets have rallied a day after u. S. Stocks posted their biggest gains in more than a decade the dow jones climbed move an 11 percent his biggest one day rises 933. 00 on monday the Federal Reserve announced unprecedented measures saying it will buy u. S. Government bonds in unlimited quantities markets have tumbled around the world since the corona Virus Outbreak began well the pandemic is overwhelming Health Care Systems in some European Countries both the italian am british governments are opening makeshift facilities while in spain an ice rink in madrid has been turned into a temporary morgue paul brennan has more. One in 5 spanish residences age 65 or older so the devastating impact of corona virus in the country is no surprise whats shocking is how the care system collapsed so quickly under the onslaught military emergency units are disinfecting premises as fast as humanly possible as here in madrid a care home staff have been overwhelmed with desperate consequences. Mentality and i know the majority are fulfilling their duties they are paying attention but listen this has to be said the army in some of their visits to the care centers has seen elderly people completely abandoned even dead in their beds with hundreds hospital morgues full this ice rink has been requisitioned to receive and store the bodies of the coronavirus victims so infectious even in death but the staff are wearing full protective suits its really the latest clinic repurposed as a coronavirus unit has opened in rome every single patient requires truly intensive care intensive in terms of staffing and intensive in terms of equipment and there is simply not enough to go around why do we so i learned by now i feel that more than a growing number of italian town mess of recorded video messages angrily ordering the public to stop flouting the lockdown rules one mare threatens to send in the cabin yairi with a flame thrower to break up a planned Graduation Party a pretty the shortage of Critical Care capacity in the u. K. Is being at least partly addressed with a brand new temporary hospital being created in just one week at a huge Exhibition Center in london rules the n. H. S. 1000 girl hospital will comprise 2 wards each of 2000 people. With the help of the military and with n. H. S. Clinicians we will make sure that we have the capacity that we need so that everyone can get the support they need. The 1st time coronavirus restrictions are now having a tangible effect on millions of u. K. Citizens a stay at home order has replaced the previous advisory guidance but not everyone seems to have grasped the urgency this Grocery Store here in red hill is about the only shop that we found open in this town but the lockdown is far from being strictly observed here and maintaining it over what could be 3 or even 4 months is going to be a real challenge and construction workers in particular show little sign of social distancing or other precautions an example of this site in Central London was far from unusual across the u. K. But religious services of all denominations are banned wedding plans and baptism ceremonies are on hold only funerals will go ahead this virus robs the joy from society and leaves only the grief paul brennan aljazeera redhill. The largest lockdown in the world come into effect after indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi ordered the population of 1300000000 people not to leave their homes it comes after the country reported more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus and 10 deaths elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. After 2 days of heavy restrictions in most of the country Prime MinisterNarendra Modi spell talk of the situation facing all 1300000000 and. Listen carefully the whole country from today 12 midnight the entire country it will be in a complete lockdown in order to save india in order to save the citizens of india and to save yourself save you and your family today at 12 midnight there will be a total ban of venturing out of your homes every state every territory every district every village every locality is being put on lockdown. Modi said that was the only way to stop the spread of the virus but even before the Prime Ministers announcement police were out in force and the lockdown around the country and the capital in new delhi police dismantled all the protest sites against the governments citizenship law including ensuring bar people have been gathering there for 100 days to show they opposition to the legislation which fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims. In the world i would like 5 women were sitting there and nobody else was sitting there to seize them and damage the protest site the people are very angry because of this there is the issue of growth of ours we are supporting the measures but the women who the police are detained should be released. Police detained 9 people after banning groups of more than 4 people gathering youre talking about. This is a very dangerous environment because of coronavirus and some trouble makers are trying to create problems but we detain them and took actions to clear the protest site. But some people who were out buying groceries said they were attacked by police. We came to buy vegetables at about 5 or 6 oclock but Police Chased us off with patterns there is this disease and we accept that there is this disease and the lockdown is necessary i agree but there will be a time when people dont have food to eat if they dont let us buy vegetables then how will we eat the transportation of essential goods will continue but passenger flights trains buses metros and taxis have been ordered to stop their services. Despite Prime Minister modi saying people will still be allowed to go out to buy essential supplies people have rushed to Grocery Stores around the country uncertain of what the next 3 weeks will bring. And while modi announced the government will spend over 2000000000. 00 on health care to fight the virus millions of the countrys poor whove lost their livelihoods a still waiting to hear how the government will help them elizabeth aljazeera new delhi. Reminder the main stories here at aljazeera new yorks governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u. S. State andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks. After 2 days of declining death rates the number of fatalities in italy has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed cases. Indias 1300000000 people have been put under lockdown for the next 3 weeks people are banned from leaving their homes but the government says essential supplies will be made available. Residents in major cities across latin america will soon be ordered to stay home to try to contain the virus colombia will go into a full nationwide lockdown a wednesday alison around b. S. E. Reports from the capital bogota. Despite the mayors order to stay at home hundreds of poor citizens of bogota as well as venezuelan migrants crowded Central Plaza believer there asking for help saying they can stop working to protect themselves from coronavirus we live hand to mouth they want to stifle late they want to put it in a quarantine for how are we supposed to survive we have no food lots of people to take care of the government is promising food and shelter for anybody you need but only some has materialized just hours before the start of a 19 day Long National shutdown closing all but essential businesses in the main the people stay at home. The Central Military hospital which for decades was crowded with victims of the countrys internal conflict is being fitted with. Generator supplied tends to house coronavirus patients in the meantime in brazil more than 2000 cases have been confirmed in its largest city. The usually gridlocked streets were quiet as was its metro system. Other countries that had so far avoided major restrictions are now announcing new measures on the island of cuba with 40 confirmed cases the government banned citizens from leaving the country closed schools and confined to thousands of tourists in their old tales. In mexico where the president has resisted ordering confinement all large public and private gatherings will be suspended for a month while support will be extended to Small Businesses mexicos minister of health said the country seeing an increase in non important cases towards us i want to be clear we will continue having infections we dont expect ending the epidemic quickly i also want to be clear that the reduction of transmission will not mean a short epidemic but a longer wants you but its important because we will be able to administer the risk this by the different approaches whats clear is that all the governments in the region are bracing for a worsening of the o