Health Care Community in new york eats the ball to help front line workers in a crisis and im sorry how much now have all the support including you have the president dana white says hes close to securing a private island to make sure he can keep staging events during the current of us spent. We begin this news all in the u. K. Where Prime Minister johnson already one of the most high profile coronavirus patients yet is in intensive care and on that he was transferred to his symptoms got worse on monday night johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday and was moved as a precaution in case he needs a ventilator with a Prime Minister out of action foreign secretary dominic robb stepping in to lead the government. Rory talents is our correspondent and london at this hour so rory weve had quite a few leaders come out trying to calm the public since this announcement do actually know any more about our stance and condition. Or michael gove who is the cabinet secretary and incidentally it seems is now self isolating himself was speaking on british media this morning to update people on whats the latest is with Boris Johnsons health and he said that his condition hasnt deteriorated significantly since he was taken into intensive care last night that he had been given oxygen supports about 4 liters worth of oxygen. That he hadnt been put on a ventilator he hadnt been intubated in this far as michael gove knows he has and being diagnosed with pneumonia. I think clearly Boris Johnson then is obviously in a very serious situation but if its true that he had 4 liters of oxygen given the usual benchmark i think for. 1000 patients in intensive care is about 15 liters that would suggest that Boris Johnsons condition isnt quite as serious as other patients in intensive care moments. But this is going to be a big shock i think for obviously the country for the cabinets and the government and for Boris Johnsons friends and family its also going to be a big shock for Boris Johnson himself his friends have been speaking about how this is a man who is usually in Robust Health that he doesnt suffer illness particularly well he battles on through the hardest of colds and we saw that over the 10 days of his core and see with covered 19 symptoms that he was still trying as best he could to lead the governments and be the Prime Minister obviously that is now not really possible but this is going to be a significant blow to the Prime Minister himself and i can explain now in my reports how the whole situation unfolded. The news came after a day of scant information and repeated lines the Prime Ministers hospital stay was just a precaution so downing street Boris Johnson himself tweeted i went into hospital for some routine tests as im still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i mean good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we Work Together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe but its the reality was his condition was worsening later on monday doctors moved him to the intensive care unit thats in thomass hospital in london during the course of this afternoon the Prime Ministers condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team whos moved in to a Critical Care unit so in light of those circumstances the Prime Minister asked me as 1st secretary to deputize for him when necessary in driving forward the governments plans to defeat coronavirus. Support for the Prime Minister has come from across the british political spectrum and beyond terribly sad news tweeted keer starmer the new leader of the u. K. s Opposition Labor Party my thoughts are with you and your family so the brakes it negotiator Michel Barnier and from frances president micron all my support to Boris Johnson his family and the british people in this difficult moment heres a view inside one of britains covert 19 wards bournemouth on the south coast of england doctors and nurses are fighting to save lives here every day. That. We still have to do. It in. Between getting out of the way then also having that say that this is going to test the u. K. s patient deaths rose by 439 on monday but many more deaths are happening outside hospitals in london specialist teams of police fire and Health Services have been set up to respond to these we are anticipating about 30 percent of the mortality in london will be involving deaths within the Community Government scientists a stay at home measures do seem to be working to limit hospital admissions but its still too soon to say how much we need a good long time series of data on on all of the stages of infection in order to be able to tell what the impact or the measures that came in on the 23rd of march are going to be with its too early to tell yet when we need we need people to carry on following those instructions so that we can work out 3 weeks later what actually happens in hospitals and its still not known when the peak of coronavirus will be in the u k. Rory we had gone abroad theyre saying that Boris Johnson asked him to dip his eyes when necessary what does that mean is he actually running the country full time or. Will the u. K. Is different from the us where there is a very clear cut chain of come on for if the commander in chief the president is out of action in the u. K. Its a bit more. So what were being told is that yes dominic robb the foreign secretary is deputising for Boris Johnson where necessary and i think that means that the as most of the Big Decisions when it comes to coronavirus and the countries response that have been taken. There is some administrative work in putting that into practice and that mainly is what dominic robb is going to be doing there is one decision though which is coming down the line and that is in about a weeks time where this 3 week review process on how long the country is going to be staying in lockdown staying in in self isolation that is going to be considered again and that is if this still incapacitated at that point is going to be something that the rob is going to have to consider thank you for that update the brewery chalons bringing us the latest from london. Well David Alexander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction at University College london he is also Vice President of the institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management he joins us on skype from florence really good to have you on the program what sort of Emergency Management or Emergency Planning will be going on in the u. K. Now with parsed johnson in intensive care what kind of conversations will be being had at the upper echelons of government. Well am essentially Emergency Planning is something that we do initially to produce a permanent emergency plan but we carry on during jury in the emergency in order to attempt the plan to circumstances and to ensure that we have plans for specific circumstances has not arrived now most of that will be done by experts in Emergency Planning epidemiology the diseases sanded Everything Else that is relevant the politicians need to take the advice and way out they were tentative send make decisions about how to deploy resources on the basis of that and that is something that they will be doing. On the places of advice there obviously will take account of how things change day by day and that is a process that will be going on very intensively present what Boris Johnsons hospitalization and you know moving into i. C. U. Would that have been something that would have been planned out a contingency. But generally there is a means of delegating responsibility when it is necessary so i dont think that this at present is a particular problem for government so the Decision Making the Decision Making in any case is usually based upon a consensus of ideas about what is the best thing to do and also not they will tentative and their various impacts from an Emergency Management perspective do you think that the u. K. Government looked like it was prepared. That is rather difficult question but persis began in about 2005 with a row telephone conversation report followed by a set of National Reports including a u. K. One its notable that the u. K. Risk register 2017 for action because its updated periodic lee puts pandemics at the top of the list of 94 different civil contingencies that the u. K. Faces which means that it is the most likely and the most serious threat or coding to revaluation of the different threats and hazards that the country faces. A great deal of planning brain time mostly for about 2008 until 2013 or thought it was then somewhat course decided by counterterrorism and then planning for the supply chain disaster wrecks it. However we still have those plans but really the problem now is not even do we have a plan but is the plan capable of being up to date it is it connected to the resources that will make it reality and is it something that we can adapt to the special circumstances as they come along but one thing i would like to emphasize is that weve had the scenario in full for this pandemic now for more than 10 years in fact is something that i teach once a year not because im particularly brilliant but because the data the information have been how they have for a very very long time we knew what was going to happen you know i you asked a question there im hoping you cannot answer yourself you said we knew we had planned for this but planned for a pandemic can those plans be activated do you think it looks like a plan has been activated. Yes and no one of the troubles was one of the problems was that there really was never refunded city in the system i was in one of the London Hospitals a couple of years ago and a sage and said to me we are running at 106 percent of capacity but it was on a normal tuesday now what they have to deal with is massive Surge Capacity or may they can create it but they havent got it that takes time and i fear the trouble with the whole response to the pandemic is too much improvised sation but it is necessary and its will be standard pull if you havent produced and had ready the full capacity that the plans required and i think thats where we are im sure the Pandemic Response will be picked apart by Emergency Management analysts for many years to come thank you for your time David Alexander a professor of risk and disaster reduction. Japans Prime Minister shinzo has declared a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities its said to last one month more than 100 people have died in there have been more than 4 and a half 1000 confirmed cases labral mcbride has been following that story he joins us by skype from seoul in south korea so rob just tell us what does this state of emergency mean in practical terms. Well it gives the governors of the city the prefetch is where the state of emergency is going to be introduced a range of different powers its coming into force in the capital tokyo also in osaka japan 2nd city and 5 other prefectures it basically allows the governors in those places a number of governors including the governor of tokyo have been asking shinzo up a full these powers to try to force people to stay indoors that allows them to request people to stay at home unless they have exceptional reasons for going out but it has to be pointed out that this is still very much based on all and treat cooperation from people its unclear whether the governor has the authorities have any powers can penalize people if they do go out so even though these measures are only just been announced and just being introduced there are already questions about whether they are going to go far enough there are also other powers and the governors will have such as press stopping public gatherings closing schools and they can also do other things if things get really bad if they need to take that action they are allowed to requisition buildings and lands for emergency hospitals even medicine and food that they can requisition theres a feeling they japan that theyd say aids has appointed the kind of large outbreak that has taken place in its neighbors china and specifically south korea whether that is by luck or because already in Japanese Society there is already a certain amount of social distancing such as not shaking hands or wearing a mask if you have a cold so people dont catch it in the subway kongo carrying there is a feeling that so far theyve avoided mastro prate but with these recent spikes in large numbers daily of new infections there is a feeling that unless they get ahead of this then it japan is in danger of having a real large outbreak that it will eventually be chasing thank you for that that is rob mcbride there find developments from song. For the 1st time since the pandemic began china has reported no new dish from covert 19 and in the past 24 hours only 32 cases have been confirmed all people who returned from overseas while what was once the epicenter will harm will soon begin lifting its lockdown entirely so it cant joins us now live from hong kong for more sara obviously this is really good news and im wondering what the pros this is for lifting these lockdowns of people going to be tracked how are they making sure theres not a 2nd wave. Were looking at the scenario when i put life the lockdown the full lockdown will be lifted across the city of woodhead of course this is a city of 11000000 people this is the epicenter of the crime the Virus Outbreak the lockdown has been partially lifted over the last week and a half or so where people have been allowed to return to will hand but they have been allowed to leave and the day that that lockdown was partially lifted we had 60000. 00 people into the city by train buses and cars but on april 8th the airport will reopen and the people will also be allowed to leave and theres a 1st time since january 23 that that lockdown will allow travel in and out of the city now as you mentioned this is the 1st day on tuesday that the chinese recorded no new coronavirus related to disturb if thats the case thats the 1st time Chinas Health commission has done this have no new deaths since i started releasing that publicly their daily figures as you mentioned as well the 32 new cases of the crown of ours in fiction reported on tuesday but of course this is all of those cases were imported cases are not local transmissions that china is a government controlled media hasnt reported this widely and the subject hasnt been trending on the social media platforms across china but china is maybe in particular the scene where news agency has released a shared the timeline of information that the government has reported and that dates back to about late december when it says there were hand center for Disease Control declared or detected the 1st cases of this pneumonia case of this money related illness of an unknown cause and we can confirm that china officially released a report of the 1st signs of corona virus back in december last year december 31st but as i mentioned on i put ice on wednesday will hand the people who have 11000000 people will be able to leave the city for the 1st time since january 23rd it is quite that our side thank you for that that sarah clarke from hong kong. But more ahead on the news all a clue to. Find out why protesters in ivory coast are angry about a facility under construction. And its the most deaths in a single day in france and things could get worse than. In sport german football champions banned music put social distancing into practice somewhat like license for. Iran is reporting 133 deaths on tuesday and a drop of new infections from the day before but a member of its Coronavirus Task force has been quoted as saying that the number of cases is more than 8 times higher than whats been reported iran is set to relax its long down measures from saturday and to bring in same bus ravi on scott from tehran saying if we had any reaction yet from the government. Well the reporting here is incredibly significant what were seeing is the state media news site interviewed mr home in syria hes an epidemiologist on president Hassan Rouhani is Anti Corona Task force speaking to the government he said that the actual number of infections is closer 2500000 far higher than official figures and he has said that the curve has not been flattened that the virus is continuing to spread and that normalizing control measures on Public Public movement too soon will inevitably make things worse however we heard from the Public HealthMinistry Official the Health Minister himself this morning saying that the government is in lockstep that everyone is on the same page in terms of the current virus response in