The same again. As the u. K. Reports more than 900 hospital deaths the government has criticized for its handling of the crisis and mobile phone alerts and electronic waste wristbands how technology is helping stop the spread of the virus but what does that mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll dots according to latest figures from Johns Hopkins university this one month after the World Health Organization 1st declared a pandemic well back then there were over 4000 confirmed deaths and in 30 or so days that number has surged to 100000 the epicenter of the virus has shifted as well moving from china and asia to europe and north america and here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 900 hospital deaths and the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 the u. K. P. Could be weeks away in spain however there is cautious optimism just seen the lowest number of daily deaths of more than a fortnights while in the u. S. The governor of new york says the number of people being admitted to hospital continues to decline but that good news is offset by the total u. S. Figure the number of dead there has now overtaken vats of italy for more on that lets bring in mike hanna hes joining us from washington d. C. So the u. S. Mike surpassing half a 1000000 positive cases. Indeed yes and that rate is continually climbing that to death of fatalities of over 20000 well thats increasing at this stage by some 2000 deaths every day so certainly the pandemic having a massive impact throughout the United States in particular in the epicenter of the pandemic new york state where some 7 to 800 people are dying each day and crisis situation continues although the governor does say that the number of hospitalized patients is dropping but he says that the death rate is intolerable as it continues and speaking of governors to state governors in particular asking for more money from the government to fight the coronavirus whats that about mike. Well its actually from the National Governors association the 2 governors one is the governor of new york state they the chair and the vice chair theyve issued a letter from all the governors throughout the United States asking congress for an additional additional 500000000000. 00 now this money is not being requested to directly counteract the coronavirus its actually being requested to pull the shortfall in each states budget because of the money theyve spent in combating the virus what the governors are asking for is this massive sum of money to actually carry on providing Accenture Services the trains the buses the ferries all of these aspects of fallen way behind because of the money spent by each state in dealing with the coronavirus issue now congress did pass a massive stimulus budget 10 days ago and the state like new york was apportioned an amount within that particular budget however even at the time the governor of the new york state said the simply was not enough but that money was to go directly to combat the coronavirus the money that the association of governors is asking for now is to prop up the budget shortfall resulting from the states having to have to spend their money in terms of combating the virus and now not having sufficient budgets to continue maintaining essential services during this pandemic and beyond right to mike hanna thank you for that update from Washington Well italy has the 2nd highest death toll with more than 19000 coronavirus faith tallaght but the pressure on hospitals and intensive care words is easing the nationwide lockdown has been extended until the beginning of may but some shops will be allowed to reopen from tuesday takes a look at italys worst crisis since the world 2nd world war. The coronavirus didnt start initially but the country quickly became the european face of the struggle against covert 19. The disease started to spread in small towns in northern italy in february and by the time quarantine was imposed it was too late in lumber the one of the best Health Systems in the world was quickly overwhelmed and the army had to be called in to help with the bodies exhausted doctors were fighting a new disease which claimed not just lives but social contact as a matter of patients have been on the dot this is a. Very. Very. Psychological point of view it was very very demanding but this is will be. And i believe. Will be he says. Im not the same. As the death rates soared in italy imposed a Strict Lockdown to curb contagion and life changed beyond recognition the world looked on aghast this italy became the 1st european country to close schools nonessential shops and to tell people to stay home. Some of the most famous Tourist Attractions in the world emptied overnight and images of the pope praying alone in st Peters Square would have been unimaginable just a few minutes only was. Singing from balconies may boost morale but it does little to ease the Enormous Economic damage that such a strict and lengthy lockdown has inflicted speaking to aljazeera Prime MinisterGiuseppe Conte called for solidarity. To think that the European Union must show a swift and unified response to the replications of this pandemic we have to provide answers about politics finance and Economic Policy because its in our interest and the interest of other countries the stuff in our early concern and so it also spain and all countries the face economic and social problems e. U. Finance ministers have agreed a rescue package for Member States damaged by the coronavirus but it may still not be enough for a country that had financial problems even before the pandemic we still where there are the wave of the all recession and now these eating especially you know the small and medium size Italian Companies a day talian manufacturer sector is still number 2 in europe and number 6 in the world so pretty robust but its made up over a network of Small Companies and they are going down fast there is cause for optimism infection rates suggest italy may have reached the peak of the crisis but italian still faces several more weeks of law was was the 700 children who came together from italy and europe in a photo choir will never forget this period of their lives their singing about hope in the face of adversity in the hope that soon italy and the world will win the battle against the coral never. Was. Was sarah aljazeera. Well we can all speak to someone on the frontlines has been fighting covert in italy and thats motets so its a colony hes the chair of anesthesia and intensive care at milans Human Research hospital hes joining us via skype thanks for your time with us on al jazeera so as were saying youve been on the front lines fighting covert what have you learned about the disease over the past couple of months. Were looking to defend something that weve learned and we try to tell everyone really from the very famous days well our experience here is really that this is not a normal through at all we were seeing today tougher on china even before it hit the delete button when we found ourselves in the middle of the at the center you know what he became very clear there was a bonus of desert bookcases that required a spirit to resupport and up to 1020 percent in our cases actually was recording in basic mechanical ventilation so did the number of patients the volume of patients to seek that coming to or in to secure unit was very high so what really became very apparent is that 2 cornerstones for the strategy to fight these on one side degrees and i want to seriously capacity i want to syria just bitter capacity but it is same time what weve governments and public authorities to contain the virus because a even from a study that we did and a very beginning that was published on the jhana we should at the end uncontrolled class there with basically overwhelming every other care system by bringing in a manageable number of ac admissions and clearly obviously we dont have a vaccine yet for for the corona virus but how much did you learn about whats needed to deal with this virus specifically in the intensive care unit in which you work. Well exactly you made a very good point that we dont have a vaccine so or we dont really have something to prevent these viruses come into our population so what we can do is to manage the transmission so getting complained about iris and anger for a will consent patients coming had to deal with that unfortunately so far we dont have a specific therapies against this virus would we do have it is a good Supportive Care so what we try to do an intensive period is exactly to duties to use what we learn from managing a new morning has been to get to pneumonia as for many years now hes basically to try to keep our eye at beijing that are quite intensive care so that they can arrest while we do the work of breathing for them so we call it some of the strategies protective lyme strategies because the ventilators that we use they dont you would allow them to just give very brief time and to the lungs to heal so our job is really is the job to buy time for our patients so that their immune system that can fight the virus there are some therapies that have been tested but so far i would say did the big if it is that we have used to be that we have to do the things that we know how to do well and and so release good Supportive Care is what we can provide at best for our patients for the moment and obviously market so this is also very much a global problem the coronavirus and i know that youve involved youve been involved personally in live events with doctors around the world and particularly in developing countries so is there some sort of coordinated global approach to sharing the information from your experience in the intensive care unit and passing it on. Yes i am also the president elect of the European Society of intensive care med is seeing a couple of weeks ago we have 3 lot of events in which we had undergone 30000 doctors connecting worldwide and we built a strong focus of course on warming the lincoln contras and i think we do have a duty to share all do formation that we can and to ahead of these countries i would say that probably into drama of the spawn demick which no one of us would have ever wanted to to see in their lives if in the good things is this n. T. V. Community to clinical cuming did it got to close together it was very it was a very defining moment i think it is that if a moment that would we larry is that these countries they need help if we imagine the stress that is being on our systems to reach gallantries where weve been able to increase the number of i. C. U. Beds in some countries it would just not be possible so we need to help them at least to try to build everything that can be put in place that contained a virus transmission we need to use programs to do occasional programs to try to bring some basic support him some basic respect to 3 support there weve some initiatives like this roving Sepsis Campaign like it at the ally find of the European Society or intensive Care Medicine weve done some of these are the creation of programs and we want to do more because i do believe that we have the duty of not forgetting this countrys that are starting from even a war school where we are so right i talk to my research echo anyway thank you very much for speaking to us from milan thank you still to come on aljazeera. Despite the threat to Public Health life prepares to return to normal in iraq. And going door to door to prevent coronavirus deaths cameroons nationwide Testing Program details and among us. Hello this long weekend sports but if the early summer to a good part of western europe but its increasingly smaller spaces series representative a frontal system switching in close this warms the orange represents tempest significantly higher than they might otherwise be now the cata course usually brings rain or snow with it thats no exception at the moment is doing just that in scandinavia in parts the British Isles but not in the hot middle bit paris for example 26 degrees on saturday it only drops off slightly on sunday monday the thunderstorms and show you some things changing and we back down to the average of 16 by monday now those thunderstorms going to come in eventually and what you cant quite see his band of blue which is a cold front here it is on sunday just making his show on the breastbone into its bottom end has been causing miserable weather cloudy weather with outbreaks of light rain in spain and portugal for the last few days a carry on doing that theres equally a northerly breeze ahead of it this whole part the same system that is this knocking the temps back quite considerably perlin it 10 degrees fan or a 22. 00 but that wont last youll notice that cold breeze brings the greens in thats the low temperatures and the waltz is squashed now out of austria into hungary. Crossing borders breaking boundaries recording injustice fighting inequality from africa and asia to europe the use exile as it were no i mean overstreet every very good for me is one country aljazeera world meets for refugees whove come to us touched peoples lives and made a difference. The hard road from how gryphus and activists on aljazeera. The. Taliban their top stories on aljazeera the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll there are at least half a 1000000 americans infected with the virus italy which has the 2nd highest death toll is starting to see the pressure on hospitals eased despite a slight rise in the number of fatalities on saturday spain has seen the lowest number of daily deaths in weeks. Health officials in the u. K. Say the corona Virus Outbreak has yet to reach its peak despite the death toll nearing 10000 the government repeated its warning for the public to stick to the lockdown restrictions over the easter weekend with warm Weather Forecast across much of the country these dark figures highlight the gravity of this National Emergency. The devastating impact of this virus and the unprecedented but necessary action that we are taking to tackle it is affecting every aspect of our daily lives but my message to anyone still refusing to do the right thing is clear if you dont pay your part our Selfless Police who are out there risking the own lives to save others will be unafraid to act. Joining us live from london via skype so what are the new figures released on saturday tell us maria well as you were mentioning there the death toll need a now stands at just below the 10000 mark and there are fears that the u. K. Could be on the same trajectory as italy with this crisis and of course this just as we see the peak subsiding in countries like spain and italy a very opposite playing out here in the u. K. Now in that government briefing there were some encouraging signs with the medical director for the n. H. S. Steven powell saying that we are seeing a flattening a leveling off in the number of new cases of coronavirus and then also were seeing an early signs of stabilization in new hospital admissions and thats really important because of the way in which this disease plays out way affects the human body the time lag between when an infected person starts to show symptoms and then if they deteriorate and become ill when theyre hospitalized and sadly if they died and so because of that were going to see this delay in the way it plays out in the death toll figures so you need the number of new cases and the number of heart hospitalizations to come down before you see any lowering of the death toll but that is unlikely to happen any time soon sadly were going to see that they get continuing to rise in the coming weeks and where a very tall hovering near 10000 as i say how is the governments response being judged. Well i think the public here is they are everywhere else in the world right now a very much aware of how deadly this virus can be a survey was carried out by laurie just last week which said that the vast majority of people here support the governments lockdown measures but the survey all shows showed some uncertainty over the country hearings of the governments strategy and the speed of their response and that really reflects criticism that weve seen in the scientific in the medical Community Experts saying the government was simply too slow to respond in january thats when preparations should have been starting it was all b. S. Then that it was having a massive impact on china but it was hitting big cities that people are becoming terribly sick and have to go to intensive care and will tell if he was rising and so it will probably one day be the subject of a Public Inquiry an investigation into whether the government here wasted time in making preparations for this crisis when they should have been ramping up testing when they should have been making sure that personal protective equipment was in place for frontline n. H. S. Workers and that remains a big problem today theres been a lot of criticism and a lot of pressure on the governments you more about the doctors and nurses now just when we are prochoice the peak of this emergency saying that they are still worried about not having the right equipment and whether that would in danger that patients that basically terrified about contracting spreading and perhaps even dying from this disease because they are not getting proper protection all right thank you for iran as one of the countries hardest hit by cover 19 of the worst affected in the middle east it has more than 17000 confirmed infections and nearly 4 and a half 1000 people have died the same bus ravi has an update from to run. Weeks into the Pandemic Health officials con