A new global milestone. Saying its. The pandemic is feeling anti asian racism and the United States. And austria joins 3 other European Countries in making the wearing of masks outside the home compulsory. Fellow is growing numbers of people follow the advice of governments and stay home cities empty and businesses shut up saw the rapidly spreading coronavirus continues to yield a bleak string of statistics spain has marked another record high 864 more people dying in the past 24 hours while infections pasta 100000 its hope though that the peak might have been reached and the World Health Organization says the number of deaths internationally has doubled in the past week and in the next few days the 1000000 infections mark should be passed wall street slumped on the news that the u. S. Should be prepared for as many as 240000 deaths the jones closing down near the points or 4. 4 percent and a further 563 people have died here in the u. K. Its worse daily death figure and 2000 Frontline Health workers have also tested positive to the virus for a challenge begins our coverage from london. With the n. H. S. Nightingale hospital a few days from opening the u. K. Has recorded its 1st day of more than 500 deaths 563 died in the countrys hospitals in 24 hours more will have died elsewhere and the peak of the u. K. s epidemic is still 2 or 3 weeks off the need for this vast new coronavirus Field Hospital is clear managers say its open holes are an advantage when the work force is not absolute limits so we dont see whats right its nice and out tool to us which is if we can see that we absolutely can make sure that your site well cared for we have been our speech ready to open this week and we will be when its fully operational there could be 4000 beds here and other u. K. Field hospitals all to follow. The u. K. Showing that it can ramp up Hospital Capacity like with the mega projects and h. S. Nightingale london the government is facing increasing criticism for other aspects of its Coronavirus Response like the comparatively limited amount of testing that still being done. Fewer than 10000. 00 a day this week several times that amount to being done in Germany NationalHealth Service staff queue would drive through Testing Centers but many are being turned away they said without confirmation any more. So the test off was also on the stand why would the problem is just the 1st you need to close the front lines of all sort of close to the front lines of all possible on the then section of a patient. On tuesday news broke of the u. K. s youngest known victim yet a 13 year old boy is male muhammed up to one hob who had no apparent Underlying Health conditions because of the need way that this virus itself is no one else is allowed to be around the individual and that means youre on your deathbed in your last moments alone and he was a young boy aged 13 without his mother without any sibling on his on his deathbed in the last moment and thats very hard to digest but largely covert 19 hits hardest older people and the already sick Prince Charles has released a video statement after recovering from his own encounter with the disease as a nation we are faced with who funded a challenging situation which we are really to witness returns that livelihoods businesses and wealth millions of citizens none of us can say when this will end but indeed we do and he praised the medical staff who he described as battling heroically to save lives in hospitals across the country rory shannons aljazeera London Health care systems across europe are under strain from the pandemic with hospitals in the french capital now 4 and 2 planes carrying supplies to restock spains hospitals have arrived while italy has extended its lockdown until mid april reports. Its been more than 3 weeks since italy became the 1st country and sayd china to introduce strict stay at home restrictions is growing signs of infection rates and deaths are starting to plateau the government announced that parents could take the children out for short walks but the government has also ordered the extension of restrictions to stay in place until april the 13th and probably for longer and the Health Minister has warned against complacency and will be a more conform daily premies we must not confuse the 1st positive signals that we are seeing in these hours happening all clear signal data and that is to call projections made by expert showed that we are under the right path and that the drastic decisions we have adopted so far are starting to bear fruit that. Quarantine has brought Financial Hardship and in some cases desperation and thats given rise to numerous gestures of kindness like these Food Bank Donations in naples many residents in the citys old quarter a hanging pastor and other items from solidarity baskets for the benefit of the jobless and poor people without enough to eat those who can give those who cannot take says aside shes very helpful as is the service is a bottle were all in the same boat and we will stall rope in the same direction as the organizer angelo becoming from his balcony with that sentiment in mind the European Union has weighed in with a new initiative to support short time working and avoid layoffs and redundancies in the e. U. s hardest hit economies millions of people cannot go to work but they still have to buy groceries and pay the bills companies are paying salaries to their employees even if right now theyre not making money europe is now coming to their support with a new initiative. It is called sure. Medical priority those finding enough beds and equipment to treat the ever growing numbers falling ill latest figures from france or a new record of 509 new fatalities and the authorities are transferring patients between regions to spread the pressure more evenly pariss hospitals are now 4 and 38 critically ill coronavirus patients were transferred by high speed train to the city of ren on wednesday in spain where yet another record of 864 new deaths were recorded in the previous 24 hours the temporary hospital creates what this Madrid Conference Center has been restocked with fresh supplies every bed can save a life in this crisis every minute matters paul brennan aljazeera. The World Health Organizations warned of a rapid escalation of the corona virus saying there will be a 1000000 confirmed cases in the days ahead. Over the past 5 weeks we have witnessed a near exponential grows in the number of new cases reaching almost every country to 33 an area the number of those has more than doubled in the past week in the next few days we will reach 1000000 confirmed cases and 50000 does well in iran 138 people have died there in the past 24 hours making it the 6th country to record more than 3000 coronavirus fatalities there are more than 47000 people infected iran has banned all intercity travel until at least april 8 and parks were closed on wednesday to prevent people from getting together to mark nature day a traditional festival that families usually celebrate with picnics. In general floridians are scrambling to trace people who attended a muslim gathering in the countrys capital after a spike in coronavirus cases tied to the event a police 2 and a half 1000 muslims from india and overseas visited the headquarters of Tablighi Jamaat 2 weeks ago about 130 infections have been linked to the gathering with 7 people dying elizabeth purana reports from new delhi Municipal Workers sanitize this mosque in new delhi which has become the epicenter of covering a virus cases in the indian capital that softer Health Authorities have read ok to 2300 people who was staying in the boss accommodation more than 500 had been taken to hospital but sometimes more than 1800. 00 and quarantine of self isolation its thought at least 2500. 00 muslims from around and over the seas took part in the gathering organized by the group. In case of the cyber some of the police will investigate the phone numbers of all the people who are present in the area in that meeting they will also trace where they went on whom they met they will also tries to location of the people whom they have met im asking all these people who attended the meeting to surrender themselves to the medical facilities or local authorities wherever they are. The music of islamic preachers was held in early march but many stayed behind at the mosques accommodation after it had finished 6 a donation attendees who travelled to the Southern State of telangana after the meeting tested positive for corona virus and have since died of. An indian administered kashmir who also attended the conference has also died from the virus delhis chief minister has ordered police to file a case of negligence against the Mosques Administration. In the Current Situation it was completely wrong to have held such a bigger gathering we are being told that many who participated in it is gathering have now traveled to other parts of the country it is scary to even think about how many people have come in contact with the disease because of. There are at least 130. 00 cases linked to the gathering in 7 states and Union Territories a 7 kilometer cordon has been created around a village in the state of tamil nadu after 21. 00 infections which all have links to the gathering in new delhi the Mosques Administration says people stranded after promised in the day had them already announced a National Curfew on march 22nd and suspended all bus and Train Services with just a few hours notice but delhi State Government says people stayed there despite the ban on gatherings of more than 200. 00 people which came into force on march 13th Health Officials have a big task of tracking down not just everyone who attended the gathering but everyone they had contact with and as the group had leakage of faces criticism for staying at the mosque despite the restrictions so too does the Police Station which didnt notice all report a meeting of thousands of people in a compound next door elisabeth prime al jazeera new day lets all speak to the Vice President on how to Program Delivery of the International Rescue committee shes joining us from new york thanks for joining us on the aljazeera news obviously this is a Global Pandemic and its affecting the focus is on countries like the u. S. Where you are in particular not in new york but when you look at other countries and weaker Health Systems how concerned are you about the spread of the virus baron are there particular regions or countries youre mostly concerned about. Thank you for having me yeah the pandemic has already been a powerful reminder of the worlds inequalities were seeing how even in relatively wealthy countries like where i am in the us how National Income inequality is sharing out how marginalised vulnerable disadvantaged communities are disproportionately impacted and as this now spreads to less wealthy countries and especially countries that are already crisis affected we really going to see how global inequalities show up in the crisis to were really concerned about the impact this pandemic is already having and certainly will have increasingly in countries like yemen where half of the Health Facilities are already close to 80 percent of the population are already in need of humanitarian assistance countries that have war and active conflict displacements of populations. Does the impact of this pandemic is going to be really significant and obviously a testing has been a major issue in developed countries including in the United States so the numbers were hearing out of yemen which as far as i know has not confirmed that it cases so far but in other countries how likely is it that the numbers are actually much higher of people who are actually infected with corona virus. Yeah its really its really likely i mean if we imagine that the testing is inadequate in which countries it barely exists in some of the countries im talking about so wed expect very much that the number of cases isnt underestimated number we also expect as weve seen already in countries that have been very dramatically impacted by the pandemic so far we expect to see escalation in less developed countries and crisis affected countries in the days weeks months to come and were doing everything we can to prepare. When we think about this pandemic hitting countries with extremely weak Health Systems with where populations live in overcrowded conditions without access to clean water sanitation. Often populations also that have Underlying Health conditions. Due to war and conflict and displacement so we started to prepare as much as we can for the. Disproportionate impact that this is going to have in those contacts here and what sort of preparations there are organizations like yours taking. So were Training Health care workers. In many countries where we where we are introducing screening and isolation units at Health Facilities were installing basic things like hand washing facilities across Program Sites and we communication campaigns as well as really important either through networks of Community Workers who are using our online platforms. Previously quite a bit of our programming through online capital is using social media and using other channels and so were leveraging that in expanding that and trying to get the word out as much as we can to prepare vulnerable communities for the impact of this were also looking at ways to adapt all of our programs because the other thing that were really concerned about is not just the direct impact of this kind demick but the secondary indirect impacts when we think about. The fact that. Displaced populations bonnell downward nations in crisis affected countries largely work in the Informal Sector they dont have social issues safety nets you know kids are out of school who. Are there are the Health Issues will suffer hugely from this reproductive health. Noncommunicable chronic diseases the list goes on were also worried about protection issues obviously we know from bitter experience that and rates of intimate Partner Violence increase right a crisis we know women and girls are going to be disproportionately impacted by this too so and looking at ways that we can. Prevent trying to continue our protection programs and keep the book groups safe during this period is also what isnt going to rex we thank you very much for speaking to us from new york. Thank you once more ahead on the aljazeera news hour including already grappling with an economic crisis lebanon stay at home order makes life harder for a struggling families pos. And poll recent sweden where a hands off approach to the coronavirus has made it the odd one out in western europe. But 1st the new York Governor Andrew Cuomo says hes closing down the playgrounds in new york city in an effort to limit the rising number of coronavirus deaths across the state he also had a stark warning for other u. S. Regions look at us today see yourself tomorrow were going to take more dramatic actions were going were going to close down the new york city playgrounds ive talked about this for weeks i warned people that if they didnt stop the density in the games in the playgrounds you cant play basketball you cant come in contact with each other so use the open space in a park walk around get some sun great no density no basketball games no close contact no violation of social distancing period thats the rule mike hanna joining us from washington so andrew cuomo new york one of the hardest hardest hit states in the u. S. Mike one more did he have to say. Well as you can see he was irate if not furious at the fact that people were still not following social distancing norms health hence the major step of closing all playgrounds in new york called the basketball courts in order to enforce social distancing norms within the city the city itself under siege hospitals continue to be overcrowded continue to struggle with the sheer mass of patients that they are receiving but the state of new york as well the wider state the serious situation getting even more serious fatalities there in the last 24 hours alone in the state as a whole and reaching 40391 at the latest count Governor Cuomo also made reference to the increasingly a zone between connecticut new jersey and new york in saying is that within these areas as well the death toll is now well over 2 and a half 1000 but making very clear to that this liaison is important is essential in effect because there is no clear lead from Central Government from the federal administration its up to governors to form some kind of alliance among themselves to combat this virus together and yet now weve heard tragic news mike off a 6 week old baby dying from coronavirus. Indeed yes that was in Hartford Connecticut and the governor tweeting are the i