A wave of criticism there. And with south africa in the middle of a 3 week lockdown we hear from a johannesburg resident about how people are cared. About Peter Simmons with the sport of argentina instructed carlos tevez has cooled and his father football is to open up their wallets and help during the current coronavirus crisis. Now the economic devastation caused by the current of our us outbreak is becoming clear what the United States once again announcing skyrocketing rates of unemployment a record 6600000. 00 people have now applied for Unemployment Benefits thats 3000000 more than last week its a similar story in spain strict quarantine measures that have now led to 800000 jobs being lost in march 3 point 5000000 people are now without work and the race of people applying for benefits in the United Kingdom is 10 times the normal almost a 1000000 people have claimed universal credit in the past 2 weeks despite a stimulus thats meant to prevent layoffs. Welcome to how katrines us now live from washington kimberly 6650000 filing for benefits thats huge but not unexpected. Yeah its not unexpected the numbers bear repeating as you point out 6600000 filed in just one week and we add that to the previous week 3300000 filing for unemployment that puts us at 10000000 people finding themselves out of work asking the government for help in just a very short time frame and what were seeing is that this is across all sectors that has hit healthcare it has hit hospitality it has Hit Entertainment this means that the impact of the shutdown on this economy as a result of social distancing to spread coronavirus has really hit all sectors of society particularly when youre talking about those income earners at the low end of the wage scale now in the midst of all of this the question becomes what sectors are going to come back when theyre finally are these restrictions that are lifted theyre going to be many people that are nervous about taking cruises for example getting on an airplane to go on a trip or stay in a hotel fearful that the virus has not been completely quassia as a result the question becomes whether well see any of these jobs coming back but i want to make one more point this is why we see the u. S. President now making the argument that there needs to be another economic rescue package bringing in infrastructure jobs there is an awareness already that these jobs are coming back in there will need to be new jobs created to put americas workforce back in the workforce and to me as weve been saying this crisis is likely to continue for some time what more are we hearing from the white house now about how theyre going to deal with the pandemic itself especially with such equipment shortages that we keep hearing about. What were seeing is a striking shift in tone by the white house the president has adopted a very somber tone he is acknowledging that there are going to be an enormous number of americans that are likely to die 102200000 are the projections but hes also trying to focus on the number of americans that will be saved as a result of these radical and direct kone and approaches to social distancing it has all weve already discussed has really hurt the economy but were starting to see some milestone numbers not only do we have 270000 infections in the United States 5100 deaths but were approaching that 1000000 mark in terms of the factions worldwide in the United States and all around the world were seeing these stockpiles of equipment that are slowing or are running low so what were seeing from this white house are promises are intimations that were going to see even more harsh measures he has not ruled out the u. S. President perhaps putting a ban on some domestic flights what you can see here what you can gather is that this is a white house thats uncertain as we see this sort of uncertainty around the economic and social impacts getting ever worse every day. There for us in washington d. C. Thanks very much kimberly a lot of uncertainty too and spain joins me live from madrid march as we were saying almost 900000 people more out of work but ill get to that in a moment because weve also been seeing some other sobering figures today a new record death toll for spain and the wild. Yes and 150. 00 coronavirus dead in spain in the last 24 hours again the deadliest day with more than 10000. 00 in total writing the death rate to 9. 00 or 7 percent its another day with more than 800 new infected cases of corona virus reaching 110000 of people infected from call it 19 Health Minister reported today that with the current might be used to have a life and we were might be witnessing now a slowdown the Health Ministry also reported that now they will focus on the unit in the intensive care units they dont want they want to prevent them to be overwhelmed of being collapsed. Even though the curve may be reaching its peak it also seems there is no responded to spain talk us through the Economic Situation there now. While in spain since the corona Virus Outbreak 900000 jobs have been lost since march 12th meets meat market 2 weeks ago 2 years of job creation had been lost and there are 4500000 unemployed insane the regions most affected are the south and then feel. Dollars that leave up on tourism and the sectors that have been more devastated our construction and tourism of course spain has already committed huge sums of money to support companies. And workers and European Union limits and budgets have been more relaxed to borrow to borrow more but this is not enough and 9 countries of the eurozone including spain italy and france are calling the rypien union to issue debt today theres a European Commission that might approve an economic plan to help unemployment in spain and italy. Are there for us in the spanish capital thank you marcel. Well british Prime MinisterBarak Johnson has vowed to massively increase testing after the u. K. Reported a record jump in its daily coronavirus deaths well johnson himself has been in self isolation since friday when he confirmed he has the virus his government is on the increasing pressure to ramp up travel restrictions and to provide widespread screening as the number of infections that rises rapidly oh were also massively increasing testing and i want to say a special word about testing because it is so important and i as ive said for weeks and weeks this is the way through this is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle this is how we will defeat it in the end and what we need to do is massively ramp up not just tests so that you can know whether youve had the disease in the past the socalled Antibody Test because that will enable you to go to work in the confidence that you cant be infected or infectious whole thats not going to join a whole who is in london for us joining us in such controversy over the lack of Testing Facilities in the u. K. And i believe youre standing in a repurposed ikea coppock tell us a little more about whats happening where you are. Well its part of what Boris Johnson says the testing is to be enormously stepped up but all sorts of efforts are being undertaken to achieve that and in the face of huge political controversy as you say the government repeatedly being austin failing adequately to explain why there are only Something Like 100 up 210000 tests a day being conducted here in the u. K. Well in a country like germany there are 70000 tests a day being done now arguably the group that most needs that testing of Frontline Health care workers with the approaching peak of the epidemic possibly less than 2 weeks away this is an ikea cup uk here a drive through testing facility now there are 5 of them around the country its not very busy as you can perhaps see we have seen long lines of cars during the course of the day but pretty intimate and that may be some teething problems in the system here people are going to turn up with an email from Public Health england inviting them to come to this facility but we spoke to a paramedic a short while ago who is self isolating at home with symptoms of the disease but doesnt know whether hes got it hasnt got an email doesnt know how to get one he was asking us how to get one sickly there are some problems in the system here but all of this aimed at Frontline Health care stop the government existing they are ramping up testing expecting to hit 25000 tests a day by the end of the month thats for people sick in hospital and Frontline Health care stocks and up to hundreds of thousands a day in the weeks following that but really with as i say the peak possibly a fortnight away expected death toll to hit a 1000 a day possibly as soon as this weekend the water is that the u. K. Is overwhelmed by coronavirus long before they have the sort of testing they need to deal with it and as weve been waiting for this peak weve been watching these unemployment figures climb how people are bracing there as the Economic Situation continues to deteriorate. Yeah well you know britain no less of a hit with hurt by all of this by coronavirus than any of the other countries youve been told me to spain in the United States the latest figures suggesting that some 950000 people almost a 1000000 people tried to sign on in the last couple of weeks to the governments universal credits benefit system thats according to department of work and pensions 10 times the normal number of the a 2 week period and theyve drafted in thousands of extra stuff to help process these applications and another grim statistic coming out of the office of National Statistics suggesting that a quarter of all british firms are in the process of or have made decisions to lay off staff their headline one at the Moment British Airways the National Flag carrier in talks with unions possibly to lay off some 36000 people 80 percent of its workforce now a lot of those people will be furloughed theyll be caught by the governments Job Retention schemes that will pay them up to 80 percent of their salary to a fixed limit while this crisis goes on but quite a lot of people up to 2000000 hours contract workers for instance who simply dont earn enough to be eligible for the governments scheme or became self employed to soon too recently will simply fall through the cracks and many of those of course some of the least well off in society turn a whole there for us in london thank you for that update turner. Well speaking of figures turning to infections u. S. President on trump has once again tested the relationship with chinese president xi jinping doubling down on his accusation that beijing is under reporting cases that the numbers seem to be a little bit on the lights and im being nice when i say that relative to what we witnessed and what was reported but we discussed that with him not so much the numbers as what they did and how theyre doing and were in constant communication correspondent katrina you has this update from beijing. Chinas Foreign Ministry spokesperson what union called u. S. Accusations that china wasnt being accurate in its coronavirus data shameless watching also said that washington was politicizing this pandemic in order to divert attention away from its own bad handling of the crisis in the u. S. And that it would do better to focus on the health and safety of its own people now these are the these strong comments of course following trumps comments as well as a leaked report from the u. S. Intelligence community as a reported by bloomberg that bitch that china was basically fudging its core in a virus numbers that these numbers were basically fake and that it wasnt true that fewer people in china have died from covert 19 compared to people in the u. S. Now china and Chinese State media has been on the defensive about its coronavirus datta for the past few days saying that the u. S. Is engaging in chinas Smear Campaign blaming china in order to sort of focus the attention away from its handling men away from political squabbles over the outbreak but its true that chinas counting of the coronavirus the coronavirus does say here in china has changed over the past few months a number of times and at the moment china has just over 80000 cases and Chinese Health experts have been saying look the reason its much lower comment other countries compared to the u. S. Is because china acted quickly it locked down much of the country quickly and the role so saying that the fact that asymptomatic cases were not included in the official tally until wednesday is more of a matter of statistics and data and not a matter of transparency and accuracy whole nearly 3000. 00 sailors on board a u. S. Aircraft carrier will be taken off the vessel and by friday as Navy Officials struggle to quarantine crew Members Around 100 sailors on board the Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive so far victoria b. Reports. The u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt docked in guam the us territory in the Pacific Ocean for days the captain of the Aircraft Carrier has pleaded with the pentagon to allow 4000. 00 sailors off the vessel because the corona virus has been spreading uncontrollably through the ships cramped accommodation the pentagon is now planning to evacuate the ship after initially saying the situation was under control there have been a 1000 sailors there that have been taken off the ship approx as a certain percentage of those are in isolation because they are as positive according to split or as like symptoms and they are in the process of being ousted another percentage of that is d in quarantine locally on able base want groups of sailors will fly in and out of the naval base on guam those who test negative will spend 14 days in quarantine in a hotel anyone testing positive will be placed in isolation are conditions was that they had to be in their rooms they cannot get out of their rooms they can go to their balconies but they cannot Wander Around the Hotel Premises 18 not go to the beaches the sites closed all beaches. And they cannot go outside for a core group of about a 1000 crew will stay on board to be replaced after 14 days by those who have already undergone quarantine theyll maintain the ships weaponry and Nuclear Reactor some sailors onboard the roosevelt told the San Francisco chronicle of their admiration for their captain Phillips King out for their interests rather than their mission i spent 24 years in the navy and i know you command a carrier youre almost guaranteed. To make out i go on outside of chain of command there were opportunities he put them welfare are the men and women who work for him ahead of his own career. Navy commanders have refused to comment on whether the ships captain will be punished for speaking out but among the sailors on board theres a sense of relief that the measures he was asking for are finally happening the turia gays and be al jazeera. Now the sheer scale of the pandemic means feral traditions are being broken in iraq some cemeteries are refusing to accept the dead which is traumatizing and infuriating families who are in mourning some are felt and reports from baghdad. A desperate plea for help posted on facebook from the confines of a government run quarantine facility. We pay over to the higher religious authorities to find a solution the body has been at the morgue for 4. 00 or 5 days now god can not accept that this is the family of. A 67 year old baghdad resident who died on march 21st from covert 19 in the line of muslim tradition body should have been laid to rest within 24 hours but no grave yard would accept to bury him the ordeal has further traumatized the grieving family who spoke to them after they were released from quarantine. The people in tribes that live around the graveyards refused to allow the burials they said this is a pandemic and it will spread through the ground but i blame the government because the graveyards are under their responsibility nobody came to bid their respects during the 3 day mourning period instead people sent banners with messages of condolences there is a widespread stigma associated with covert 19 and some of it stems from fear of being buried in a way that goes against islam religious leaders have tried to clarify which burial rights can be waived well. We believe that any dead person should be honored by a suitable burial except in one situation if a normal burial could hurt the living people at that point we can view some conditions like washing the corpse but its important to preserve honor by bringing the body. School religious authorities and the ministry of health have appealed to graveyards not to turn away covert 19 victims one of them to me always out of the World Health Organization and Health Minister issued instructions on how to deal with the bodies by sterilizing them wrapping them insert ice cover and bring them to meters below the ground all the experts say theyll be no risk associated with those bodies. But the message had little effect and the government has now allocated designated covert 19 burial sites in the desert the Popular Mobilization forces and umbrella of mostly iranian backed per military groups agree to carry out the burials or definition we are not varying from random i would do anything line with islamic law 1st we put his right cheek on the soil facing mecca the shro