To help provide relief in the u. S. Epicenter. And in sport theres a new date for the tokyo some of the big games to my 202021. In just the last hour the World Health Organization has expressed optimism that italy which has been hit hard by the corona Virus Outbreak may soon see some stabilization as a result of the strict measures the government has put in place were expecting an update from actually within the hour on the situation there meanwhile for the 3rd consecutive day spain has recorded coronavirus deaths in excess of 800 means that more than 7300 people have died there since the outbreak began the number of new infections there is also rising steadily in israel Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is entering sell for. Isolation after one of his aids tested positive hes expected to be screened in the coming months while in the u. S. At the sent to new york relief has arrived as i mentioned in the form of a Naval Hospital ship that has 1000. 00 beds on board and we have 2 correspondents this hour francesca but all she is standing by for us in rome there she is the 1st lets go to sunny gaya whos a london and song in the u. K. Has just released some new numbers what can you tell us. Thats right deaths now stand at 1408 thats an increase of 180 from the previous day as slight decrease from the previous day before there were 209 reported deaths from this that brings we also have a total number of cases of 22141. 00. People who tested positive for corona virus and it comes at a time really when we are still seeing that increase in numbers not yet quite a peak as is being anticipated to with all sorts of measures that the government is putting in place with. With its sort of send as of command which is going to be coordinating the response together with the military and other Emergency Services theyre going to be trying to put in place. Putting in all these equipment which Frontline Health workers have been so desperately needing such as personal protective equipment things like Hand Sanitizer as well which is going to be to get all of that push sent to the 50 8000. 00 or so hospitals across the u. K. As well and this comes at a time also where youve. Been outspent of 20008 chest start through returns to work on the front lines in the battle against coronaviruses well that was. Something that was commended by the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson who himself is in isolation as he is also tested positive for corona virus also the w. H. O. Has praised this move as well also another statistic a more 3 quarters of a 1000000 people have also signed up to one until in the National Health service. Yes it came as a whole. Really the people to volunteer their services and the number was greater than they had anticipated as well but it really is sort of showing how the u. K. After a bit of a slow start in terms of locking down the country as much as possible is now really starting to ramp up. The move towards trying to prepare for the glass of infections that is bound to happen with the opening also of the socalled no nightingale centers Exhibition Centers which have been turned into hospitals also equipped with mentally which the u. K. Is currently lacking but is now trying to sort of put in place as quickly as it possibly can in order to be prepared for the amount of opec says that its set to take place here for the next couple of weeks kim sunil gago we will check back in with you as we are expecting an update from dominic robb the foreign secretary in the u. K. On the governments response to the corona virus pandemic for now though thank you new yorks Health System is getting a lifeline via the sea the u. S. Navy medical ship arrived in new york city to help relieve hospitals which are filling up with coronavirus patients the 1000 bed ship will treat people with known virus for them to home and gabriel arizona has more from new york city. The last time that this particular floating hospital is called the comfort the u. S. Navy came here to new york was 3 days after 911 to help with people who were injured then this ship is massive it is about 894 feet or about 275 meters it has 12 operating rooms over 1000. 00 hospital beds inside and it will have about the 11021200 nurses and doctors and staff on it they will be helping here in the coming weeks and perhaps even months in new york city what they are going to use it for is taking patients that do not have coronavirus out of some of the new york City Hospitals bringing them here to this hospital least some of them to clear out bed space for coronavirus patients that are needing urgent care in new york city so just to give you an idea though of how much this is needed and how much still needs to be done according to the new york governor they need about 150000 hospital beds in the coming weeks right now they have about 50000 so theyre short about 100000 hospital beds this ship that you see as big it is it is is only going to have about a 1000 so theyre still short tens of thousands of hospital beds that are needed in this city in the coming weeks to meet what is going to be the peak of the most amount of people coming that are infected that are going to need urgent care. Lets turn to spain now its for the 3rd consecutive day has recorded coronavirus deaths in excess of 80100 says there are now more than 85000 cases but early signs suggest the right of infections may be slowing in the few days weve seen how these feeders has been decreasing a little bit and in the last 24 hours we had at 9. 39 percent of the decrease so these. These are good news but on the other hand weve got again for the 3rd day consecutive more than 800 fatalities from corona virus in spain 812 and was the you have to bear in mind that from all the total cases of people infected nationwide 14 percent of our healthcare workers nurses and doctors that are battling in the front line of coronavirus here in spain especially madrid that became the epicenter of the outbreak of the pandemic oswego started to being or started to be overwhelmed or were overloaded with people and they had to build these Field Hospitals in this Exhibition Center imagery they had to medicalize hotels but what weve seen weve seen since then to date i think in the past 24 hours to build a tent outside the main hospital bath he removed rape as a provisional side to good there the people infected because they cannot cope anymore so with heard that in the Field Hospital in the Exhibition Center the picture is really dramatic its completely overcrowded. Healthcare workers dont have the proper equipment protective protecting equipment and they are threatening government to to do not not showing up tomorrow if they dont project provide immediate the on the other side the government has given as a has reported that during these weekend they have distributed at least 2600000 of mask 10000000 units of other material satyrs google was. And they have distributed the these nationwide to all the regions and we are expecting new numbers out of italy any moment now it is one of the European Countries hit hardest by the chronic virus protests gammon altie is live for us in iran so we are expecting is not new numbers to come out very very quickly just bring us up to date on how the government is handling the situation. Gary properly at the moment for rehab. Number 3 the number of yellow and there are there are records are. The they are rather that or harm it. And yet they are a lot of power when i regret that it. 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Its inevitable that the lockdown will be extended. And we have just had some numbers and there have been 812 new deaths and initially that is out of the 812 is the number that were seeing now that brings. That brings the total 211591 number that is the latest out of italy and as i said we are still waiting for the latest out of the u. K. Were expecting. Any minute now really an update from dhamma grab the foreign secretary in the u. K. Lets bring you more news now coming out of israel this time Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is going into self isolation of coming into contact with an aide who tested positive for corona virus sorry force that has more from western muslims its been a somewhat mixed message coming from the Prime Ministers office through the course of the day emanating from the news that one of his senior advisers rivka politics that her husband 1st of all was hospitalized with coronavirus then she tested positive for the disease initially the Prime Ministers office said that he hadnt netanyahu hadnt met with her for the past 2 weeks and therefore would not require to go into self isolation but there was a t. V. News report suggesting that in fact the 2 had met on thursday at the Previous Office hasnt commented on that but it is now saying that netanyahu along with a number of his senior advisers will go into isolation as anybody new epidemiological investigation takes place were expecting a decision from the Prime Ministers own personal physician as to which day he will be allowed to emerge from self isolation as part of that epidemiological investigation there are those in the israeli media among others who are pointing to the fact that rivka politics is his advisor on ultraorthodox affairs and there has been a real spike in cases in ultraorthodox neighborhoods. A Vincent Van Gogh painting was stolen from a museum in the netherlands while it was closed because of the crowd of ours locked down thieves took the painting over night spy prying open the glass doors of the museum now amsterdam its believed the painting called garden at noon in spring is worth upwards of 7000000. 00 the dutch museum had been closed for several weeks during the netherlands coronavirus lockdown so ahead here on algis there are there is at least one positive thing coming from the pandemic environmentalists of rejoicing over the clean air caused by the closure of businesses and less traffic. And find out how nearly and many of the refugees in bangladesh you coping during the outbreak. How do weve got more heavy rain pushing into southern parts of china being a little further east was easing towards japan this weather system this stationary front thats going to continue producing heavy downpours across already saturated ground so more so again weather coming in the southern parts of China Southern areas of japan also seeing some western weather see go into the middle part of the week and that will nudge its way across a good part of the country for the 2nd half of the week behind that not bad in. Korean peninsula 17 celsius there for a sole were going to 17 degrees there too for beijing and you can see bits and pieces of cloud and right into a good part of central and Southern China perhaps not as heavy as it has been busy places the frying shabby right across much of indonesia pushing up into malaysia some parts of the philippines just catch you out shabba nothing much to speak of here and nothing much to speak of to across a good part of in that china cambodia might just catch the odd shabbat thailand looks fine and dry with plenty of sunshine and its fun to drive in the sunshine for much of that space is a cloud over towards the eastern side of the country towards a dish or maybe up towards the west and go for a time but the wettest weather is making its way out of northern parts but just down. On counting the cost as the Global Economy has a recession the dollar praised be the enemy currency resilient the coronavirus india grapples with the financial. Taking you live now to london where the foreign secretary is giving a briefing on the countrys coronavirus Pandemic Response thats less oil medical Director Public Health england before supply trick provides an update on the latest data from our cobra kurt coronavirus dashboard i just want to give you an update on the steps that we as a government have been taken to defeat growth of ours a step by step action plan is aiming to slow the spread of the virus so fewer people eat hospital treatment at any one time thereby protecting the n. H. S. Its capacity at each point weve been following the scientific and medical advice and weve been very deliberate in our actions taking the right steps at the right moment. Were also taking unprecedented action to increase and h s capacity by dramatically expanding the numbers of beds key staff lifesaving equipment on the front line so that we give people the care they need when they need it most thats why were instructing people to stay at home so we can protect our n. H. S. And save lives i can report that through the governments ongoing monitoring and Testing Programme as of today 134946 people have now been tested for the virus 112805 have tested negative 22141 of tested positive of those who have contracted the virus 1408 have very sadly died we express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those of those who have passed away and i think those figures are a powerful reminder to us all of the importance of following the governments guidelines we must stay at home to protect our n. H. S. And save lives and id like to thank all of those involved on the frontline in particular all of those in the n. H. S. For their battle against this virus the amazing doctors the amazing nurses all the support staff working day and night the thousands of other key workers from our teachers to supermarket workers to our fantastic Diplomatic Network who are all as a team working around the clock to get us through this unprecedented coronavirus challenge this is a United National effort and the spirit of selflessness shown by so many is an inspiration. And i want to turn to what weve been doing to support british people travelling around the world coronavirus doesnt just trying to stay at home is the greatest Global Challenge in a generation. As the countries work to secure their borders and stop with the spread of this deadly virus we appreciate that an unprecedented number of u. K. Travelers are trying to get home and were not talking a few 100 or even a few thousands were talking about hundreds of thousands of people traveling around the world so with that in mind on the 17th of march we advise people against all nonessential travelled around the world and since the 23rd of march weve advised that all or u. K. Residents who are currently traveling abroad should return home hundreds of thousands have already done so but many travelers havent yet managed to get back home from young backpackers to retired couples on cruises and we appreciate the difficult predicament that they find themselves in we also recognize exactly the anxiety of families here in the u. K. Who are concerned to get their loved ones home its a worrying time for all of those whove been affected and i want to reassure them that this government their government is working around the clock to support advise and help british travelers get home ive spoken to more than 24 and ministers around the world in the last week will say to support this effort to keep airports and ports open and to facilitate access to them by british travelers over the weekend i spoke to Foreign Ministers from Australia New Zealand india and brazil and pakistan and i also spoke to the ethiopian Prime Minister and in all of those cases urge them to what with us to comply to keep commercial routes flying given the scale and complexity of this challenge it inevitably requires a team effort so the Foreign Office is working with other governments theres a particular focus on transit hubs and were also working with the airlines to keep as many flights running as possible weve got a lot more to do but weve already helped hundreds of thousands of britons get home. The 1st priority has been to keep as many commercial flights running as we can and thats based on just purely the scale and the number of people who want to come home and as a result of those efforts and the corporation we see from the Spanish Government weve enabled nesta mated 150000 u. K. Nationals to get back from spain on other commercial routes theyve come under pressure we work with partner governments and airlines to get back 8500 u. K. Travelers from morocco around 5000 u. K. Nationals from cyprus that gives you a sense of the scale of the challenge and the numbers of british travelers abroad now in circumstances where commercial flights cant operate weve already chartered flights which proved necessary to return 1400 u. K. Nationals or flights for example from from china at the outset of this crisis and more recently from peru weve not faced challenges like this in getting people home from abroad on this scale in recent memory. Airports are closing