A persistent cough. Its reached the very top of u. K. Government Prime MinisterAbbas Johnson and his Health Secretary have both tested positive. And south africa announces its 1st deaths its police and the military some forcing a 3 week long. Welcome to the news all the death toll from the outbreak of quote a virus of italy has surged by 919 in a single day that is the highest daily increase recorded anywhere earlier spain announced its highest day the fatality figure the british Prime Minister us johnson has tested positive he and his Health Secretary whos also infected and also news on social media saying their symptoms are mild while the u. S. House of representatives has just approved a 2. 2 trillion dollar economic rescue package the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak new york state is seeing hospital admissions double every 4 days now here is our team this hour rory chalons is in southeastern englands tracking all of the u. K. Developments chris and salumi will tell us more about new warnings in new york ahead of the expected peak their White House CorrespondentKelly Holcomb brings us the details of the 2. 2 trillion dollars economic package which as i said has just been approved by the u. S. House of representatives 1st of its big true Francesco Jhumpa Tony who is in milan just tell us about these numbers that have just been released and also is this the peak initially or is the worst yet to come. Wouldnt know if the worst is yet to come of course this is the deadliest day in need to listen to the beginning of the odd break 919 people died in the last 24 hours the Civil Protection said it is a massive increase after last week when the losses attested around between 6750. 00 daily so the total toll now reached 9134. 00 the confirmed cases are around 6000 today bring in the top all number of positive people over 86000 scientists and experts warn every day that the figures d are not 100 percent accurate especially for concerns the positive cases because in the regions there could be as many as 10 times more people affected this is what the head of the Civil Protection keep saying so the Health Service is under strain and its not possible to more people as we speak italian president. Is starting to address the country in a nationwide message its just the 2nd time in 3 weeks he will speak to the population about the emergency give us an idea if you can of how the Health System is coping were hearing around the world Different Countries are saying we dont want to become italy what is the situation in italy now. The situation is very different from region to region lets say that here in the northern regions especially in. The hospitals are full the intensive care units are completely overwhelmed so from lombardy patients are brought to other regions or to other. States like a. Germany for example so the situation is that we dont have enough people to test everyone we dont have the instruments to test all the people that would need. To be tested so the contention is probably much more broad the dent than we know. Of course. It was not easy thats what the government says it was not easy to understand was what was happening at the beginning but when its really understood locks down everything quite quickly not all the not all the countries have done so thats why we we will see what will happen here and now other countries to thank for that francesco jumped on a live from milan we have breaking news out of washington d. C. Where the house of reps. With the u. S. House of representatives sorry has just voted to pass a 2 trillion dollars stimulus bill lets get more from our White House Correspondent can be help at who is live for us in washington d. C. Kimberly so this is passed what happens next. Yeah well it was pretty interesting how it almost didnt pass there was a bit of drama in the house of representatives on the floor as representative massey a member of the president s own Republican Party tried to kind of halt the fast tracking of this and demanding a roll call vote heres the problem there arent really enough members in the chamber right now that i could see in my county talking to other reporters they would have needed 216 members on the floor of that 435 member body that seemed like they were really little more than 100 so both leaders of the republican and Democratic Party said they wanted to do a voice vote because they knew they had the majority in terms of support for this and that it was Bipartisan Legislation they were pushing ahead with the voice vote this one representative stood up but he was overwhelmed and overruled essentially by the other members and so there was this moment of drama but eventually it was passed with a very vigorous voice vote in fact in a very divided washington it was a rare moment of unity it shows just how corona virus has affected americans and how they really want to see this 2. 2 trillion rescue package pushed through its going to help big business its going to flood the economy with cash isnt hurting right now and its also going to give ordinary americans who make 70000. 00 or less theyre going to get checks in the mail so what happens next well this goes to the white house now this is something the president has been looking for for some time fact he wanted it earlier in the week on monday were hearing from the white house he is going to sign this into law so thats the next step it apparently that is going to happen as quickly as possible so when they can get the wheels in motion for this legislation can they weve seen the number of Unemployed People skyrocket in the u. S. As a result of this pandemic what is in this 2. 00 trillion dollar economic stimulus plan for them. Yeah well as centrally as those Cash Payments that are really important but theyre also Small Business loans this is also going to help hospitals there is more than 100000000000 that maybe 130150 1000000000 i cant quite remember but theres a lot of money for coronavirus but we should point out that this is even the president acknowledged in twitter that this was not perfect he said it was 90 percent great what does that mean each side had to give a little democrats for their part. The House Speaker nancy pelosi saying they had to do a little bit of jujitsu in order to make sure this was a corporations focus that there was oversight that there was an Inspector General making sure there were blank checks being written to corporations and for republicans their criticism is they didnt like that democrats demanded money for the Kennedy Center its a Performing Arts Center here in washington d. C. They felt this should be corona virus focused not focused on some of these other wish list items of the Democratic Party in the end both sides decided to give a little to make some compromise and now weve got this being pushed through into law once it is side by the u. S. President thank you for that that is White House Correspondent kimberly thank you for the epicenter all over the u. S. On break is in new york state and its governor says hospitalized patients a doubling every 4 days there are now more than 44000 confirmed infections there alone christensen movie joins us via skype from new york so just tell us what else did the governor have to say. Well new york now accounts for a 3rd of all fatalities in the United States and about half known u. S. Infections and the good news is that the rate of hospitalizations it is actually slowing a bit doubling every 4 days last week it was doubling excuse me every 3 days. But obviously its still increasing exponentially and its still very much a concern Governor Cuomo said that new york still does not have an up hospital beds projected hospital beds for what they project they will need or ventilators for that matter and that is why hes asking the federal government to approve 4 more temporary hospitals to be built. We need 140000 beds we have 53000 beds thats why were scrambling and thats why were asking you to do as much work as youre doing we need 40000 i. C. U. Beds the i. C. U. Beds are the intensive care unit beds they have ventilators we have when we started 3000 i. C. U. Beds with 3000 ventilators so you see how monumental the task are monumental the mountain that we have to climb. And Governor Cuomo also says that the state needs about 30000 more ventilators he pushed back against suggestions by President Trump that he was overstating that number he said i dont have a crystal ball everyone is entitled to their own opinion but this is based on facts its based on data and projections that weve done and 30000 is the number that we need in order to save lives so far theyve only gotten 400 from the federal government on top of what they already had in the state christensen i mean would situation in new york state live from new york thank you for. To the u. K. Now where the virus has reached the very top of the government donahoe reports just hours after Boris Johnson 1st displayed symptoms and was tested he received a positive result britains Prime Minister becomes one of the worlds highest profile carriers of the code 19 coronavirus so i am working from home im so by slating and thats entirely the right thing to do but be in no doubt that i can continue thanks to the with modern technology to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against corona bars and it wasnt long afterwards that the Health Secretary announced he too had tested positive matt hancock said he had mild symptoms that would not prevent him from continuing the vital work of bolstering britains Health Service medical advice i was tested and that test has been positive sabi self isolating here until next thursday Boris Johnson was last seen in person on the steps of downing street on thursday evening as he joined the housebound up and down the country in applauding the efforts of Frontline Health workers standing alongside him plough at a distance it was the chancellor and johnsons neighbor in downing street. Boris johnson received his positive test at midnight but was well enough on friday morning to chair the daily emergency Cabinet Meeting held via video link of course if Boris Johnsons condition was to worsen significantly such that he could no longer carry out his duties well then its agreed that the foreign secretary dominic robb would step into his shoes but barring that the normal functioning of government ought to continue or be it with a difference like the majority of britains workers now the Prime Minister is also working from home. It is a grim moment for britons to be told theyll be seeing a little less of their leader the latest death toll from coronavirus has shot up 31 percent in 24 hours to 759 in 7 days time when the Prime Minister emerges from isolation things may well look even worse jonah how aljazeera london. Lets go live now to our correspondent rory talents whos in the us in south east in england rory that was a situation in the u. K. At last what the World Health Organization which has held its Daily Briefing and today given a warning about untested medications what can you tell us. Yes done and the director general of the w. H. O. The World Health Organization giving his briefing talking about a number of Different Things one of the things he addressed was the global shortage of personal protective equipment all p. P. For. Medics on the frontline in the battle against corona virus and he said that this was now one of the most urgent threats to our ability to save lives he also said that any. Vaccine for corona virus was still least 12 to 18 months away. And he talks about its Something Else that is going on in the search for Effective Therapeutics new medicines that could be used to alleviate symptoms of coronavirus of covert 19 and something called a solidarity trial now. This is looking at 4 different classes of medicine which already exist other conditions things like hiv and aids and malaria as well and they are looking at. Trying to find out whether any of these preexisting drugs can be used against kobe had 19 and the 1st patients have already been enrolled in the solidarity trial but he had a warning for using any of these drugs before theyre been properly tested lets listen to what he said now we call on all individual the same countries to refrain from using an i. V. Addicts that have not been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of corbett 19. The history of medicine is thrown with examples of drugs that would go on paper already in a test tube but didnt work in humans or where it actually had a full getting the most recent up epidemic for example some medicines that were thought to be effective were found not to be as effective as a medicines when they were compared during a Clinical Trial and we must follow the evidence there are no shortcuts we also need to ensure that using unproven drugs does not create a shortage of those medicines to treat diseases for which they have proven effective now you could read this warning from ted rested on him as some kind of dig President Trump of the United States in the last week or so has been talking up the possibility that couric widow hydrochloric went to medicines which she used in the treatment of malaria could be a game changer in the fight against covert 19 and corona virus and i think that was ted was a dynamite saying is please dont use that sort of language dont use drugs in the public eye before we have done the rigorous testing that is needed to make sure that they are the right drugs the use for the task thank you for that did there are a talent live from southeast. Cases across latin america have supposed 10000 and there have been nearly 200 deaths the 1st case was reported back in february in brazil that an american at a tether san human has the latest update on the pandemic across the continent the majority of countries have in fact declared partial or total quarantine but not brazil and not mexico and heres some of the numbers brazil has nearly 3000. 00 confirmed cases and 77. 00 confirmed deaths chile where i am now is the 2nd highest 1610 to confirm cases 5 gifts and mexico under 600 but there were at least 2000 under suspect and ecuador has about a 1300 confirmed cases but very worrisome has 29. 00 people confirmed deaths which proportionately is much higher than you would expect and the reason for this is that there are very few tests taking place region wide which is why a lot of experts say that they believe that the real amount could be 10 fold in other words 10 times more than what were seeing now in a region that has very little resources very few resources in the Public Health center to deal with this kind of a pandemic as we know some people are bracing for the worst in some cases are quarantining themselves even before the government imposed. Nearly 800 deaths have been recorded in spain in the past 24 hours their highest number in a single day author editor has more from madrid. Teacher sources gave us today. And giving us a 5000. 00 of death took the call and a total of a little bit more about 64000. 00 of people infected by corona virus in spain from which nearly a 100 percent 9500 of people infected in spain are doctors and nurses this is quite worrying as the last few years used to say there will be 5400 all hope of the workers infected by corona virus and today weve got photos and more people from the health of her from the Health Care System infected this is very worrying because experts are saying we shouldnt rely on these official figures that the Health Minister are are giving us daily because we dont have enough tests here in spain so we might be talking in about 100000000 of people infected in spain by coronavirus because we cannot we cannot diagnose people because we dont have these testing kits and even more health care were workers could be infected all these have to workers are running out of protecting equipment and scorn a virus and theyre demanding immediate supply of glasses gloves we keep saying based their reality at the stage because theyre fighting the confronting the core one of ours in the front line the International Monetary fund is warning the world has entered a recession saying it is as bad or worse the 2008 Global Financial crisis the i. M. F. Says recovery could be possible next year but only if the virus is contained as soon as possible also calling on countries around the world to step up their responses. And the organization for Economic Cooperation and development to o. E. C. D. Has another warning it says that for every month a major countrys economy is shut down its annual growth will drop by 2 Percentage Points these lockdo