Once. As new yorks corona Virus Outbreak shows signs of slowing the governor says there will be no easy on off switch for reopening the state. And libyas internationally recognized government says it seized control of 3 cities award highly for hotter. The World Health Organization has warned countries against lifting their lock downs prematurely same Public Health measures must be in place before restrictions can be eased it comes as nations across the globe try to balance the economic fallout from the coronavirus against continued confinement francaise announced its extending its lockdown until may the 11th president says the country was not sufficiently prepared for the outbreak but numbers are beginning to steady his neighbors spain and italy are relaxing their restrictions construction and manufacturing sectors have been allowed to reopen in spain some Small Businesses can reopen in italy from tuesday a south korean officials are investigating a reserve in the number of recovered patients again testing positive the possibility of a corona virus reactivating is now being considered and china has reported its highest number of cases in almost 6 weeks 108 people were infected over the past day most were residents returning from abroad the w. H. O. Says governments must be cautious about how and when they exit lockdown. The way down is march slower than the way up there to means control measures must to be lifted slowly and we squander all it cannot happen all at once controlled measures can only be lifted if the right public of the measures are in place including significant capacity for true. John mccain begins our coverage with a look at the situation across europe. For many thousands of people across europe this is the reality of the coronavirus for many millions more it means locked down and the loss of their freedom of movement and for many weeks thats been the case in france now its president says it must stay that way a lot longer donna got this come on in the force hospitals are saturated everywhere in france in the French Overseas territories the system is under strain there and the epidemic is not yet under control so we must continue our efforts and continue to respect the rules the more they are respected the more lives that we saved that is why the strictest lockdown must continue until monday may the 11th. But elsewhere monday meant a return to work after weeks in lockdown as here in madrid because in this and a few other sectors of the economy the toughest restrictions have been lifted and some spanish politicians say now is not the time to relax the vigilance even to this small extent and in most other regards the existing lockdown will remain in place for much of the next 2 weeks in italy a small number of stationery shops book shops and Childrens Clothing stores can reopen from choose day because here the number of new infections remains considerably lower than joining the worst days last month but as in spain the mortality rate remains high a point pope francis referred to in his Easter Monday address at the vatican or g. Recorded. During this easter week i would like to remember with closeness and affection all the countries strongly affected by the coronavirus some with large numbers of infected and dead in a special way italy United States bahrain france the list is long. And many other countries are worried to the latest figures from russia show the infection and mortality rates are on a steep upward curve. As we can use either to chew ation is changing almost every day unfortunately its not changing for the better the number of infected people increases and there are more to be a case of the world the upcoming weeks will largely be decided that means that all are actually including prevention measures that should be optimized here in germany the abundance of intensive care and wide scale testing have helped to keep the mortality rate much lower than in much of the rest of europe which explains why some politicians now want to relax the restrictions shere so as to reduce the economic damage as much as possible because some projections suggest that in this quarter alone the economy may shrink while most 10 percent if the lock downs are to we should get the 1st news of it on wednesday when angle america will discuss the problem with the prime ministers of the 16 german States Dominic kane aljazeera berlin. Western france has more the decision to extend the lock down in front of the televised address his 4th since he 1st announced that france would go into lockdown one month ago and tomorrow mike ross said in this speech that there was a lot of hope perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel because in the last few days here in france admissions to hospitals and intensive care units have reduced or slightly as have the number of deaths however mark ross said you know we are nowhere near out of this crisis yet you have a country where more than 14000. 00 people have died and continue to do so of course each day and he said that is why he has ordered that france remain in lockdown until may the 11th so another month or 2 months in total when we get to mid may that will of course be very difficult for many people who are perhaps living in very difficult circumstances in very small spaces or on their own but a man on macro has called on the nation with this rather rallying speech to be to show solidarity to make a little bit more effort for a bit longer because he says without it we risk seeing the Coronavirus Spread even further around france or possibly this this socalled 2nd wave we could see a resurgence if we were to loosen the restrictions at this stage he did say however often made the 11th that the french government could consider loosening some restrictions the government will in 2 weeks time here in france least start looking at drawing up what they call a de confinement plan for the future. New yorks governor says he will coordinate with his counterparts in 5 neighboring states are when to reopen businesses and schools no timeframe was given but andrew cuomo says the worst is now over for new york more than 10000 people have died there. If we continue to be smart Going Forward because remember we have to hit on that valve you turn that valve too fast youll see that number jump right back but yes i think you can say the worst is over because the worst here are people dying thats the worst the worst doesnt get any bad then this worst and this worst is people dying thats the worst. 100 guns being from chicago via skype or John Quinones emphasize the need to listen to scientists not politicians ever went to open his state up. Thats right President Trump has been pushing hard to open businesses back up in the u. S. And cuomo has been one of the voices of caution because new york was hit early and harder than any other state in the u. S. As you outlined just a little bit ago so cuomo has been talking about listening to the scientists he says that he talks to Dr Anthony Fauci of the n. I. Age often in the morning in the evening. And he has emphasized the need to open businesses back up on a regional basis so hes gotten together with the governors of new jersey connecticut delaware pennsylvania they all sort of share a large labor pool in this same area and as he is talking about doing this on a very cautious scientifically based bases the president of the United States has been pushing his own counsel and word has just come out reported in some news organizations that his own reopen our country counsel as he calls it would include jared cushion or his son in law and daughter ivanka trump treasury secretary Stephen Minucci commerce secretary wilbur ross and the National EconomicAdvisory Council director larry kudlow so hes got his own little group notably of the names that have leaked out we havent heard about any Health Officials and no outside economists being in that particular group there may be more cuomo went on to say in his cautious remarks that there really wouldnt be a sense of normalcy here in the u. S. Or indeed in the world until there was a vaccine and that could be 12 to 18 months so all of this talk of reopening businesses here in the u. S. Would really be a staged process there would still probably be some measure of social distancing limits on people in stores but that of course would be made on a state by state basis and the way also expected that. That could be a shot of a speculation of the future of adult. Thats right fact she has figured highly over the weekend he said some things on the sunday talk shows the probably upset the president and launched this whole speculation what happened was found she came on and was asked on a show if the u. S. Had acted earlier the federal government acted earlier would lives have been saved and he said i cant deny that thats the case but there was a lot of pushback back then and he was referring to february a month before american states started shutting down one at a time and so the president on monday retreated somebody who said its time to fire. Generated a lot of twitter speculation and the white house had to put out a statement saying that these media speculation which the president launched was ridiculous and that the president would not fire found you so hell definitely be asked about that in the president ial briefing today if he doesnt bring it up himself john hendren time thank you very much indeed as we reported earlier more than 100 South Koreans who previously had coronavirus have again tested positive 51 similar cases were reported there last week residents are being asked to stick to straight social distancing measures until at least the end of the week by does monitoring developments from seoul. It is a worrying development this is a phenomenon that epidemiologists in the center of Disease Control here have been studying for quite a while the months this Large Population of people here who got sick towards the end of february beginning of march who got the virus through with another treated in hospital or treated at home and some 7000 of those people have recovered and as part of their their own going treatments of gradually being retested and worryingly there has been this trend of finding now more than 100 cases amongst this population of several 1000 people who have tested positive again so these were people who were clear and they had had tests either in hospital look at clinics Testing Centers it proved to be negative and more than 100 now 3 have now tested positive 7 questions here for the experts is just what is causing this is this a reinfection that people coming into contact with a carrier and getting the infection again or more worried they use a reactivation that somehow they were may not have been asymptomatic at they may not have been its certainly on the face of it infectious but seem to have possibly still being carrying the virus in some dormant form possibly deep in body tissue that somehow has managed to become reactivated so it is a worrying trend here does that mean that there has been a problem in testing and does it mean certainly that there are many more questions about this virus that the experts simply dont know about it china has reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases in a less 6 weeks what are to say there were 100 new cases in the past day or what 10 of which were traveling as returning from abroad well that number is no thats adding to concerns of a possible 2nd wave of cases sarah clarke is in hong kong and says authorities are putting new measures in place. Large number have been reported coming from the north east of china this is an area a province called heilongjiang thats a province a province boasts that are based in bordering russia and china is now building a makeshift hospital in this particular region trying to deal with the increasing number of infections coming from the northeast and also put in strict new border controls in that particular area due to the number of infections of the chinese nationals coming from russia back into china now those measures include in the capital harbor they put in place some stay at home orders for some of those residential compounds where theyre identified some of the clusters as well as in the cities the border brushed up or public gatherings have been banned across the entire province and Train Services have been stopped in parts of that region theyll also be Health Checks on all arrivals coming in to that particular province and thats obviously mainly from russia the be mandatory testing of the coronavirus when they do arrive as well as a 28. 00 day quarantine scenario the local authorities have also already put the city the borders of russia into a lockdown last week thats got about 70000 people in that particular city now russia and china they share about a 4300 kilometer border between them and as a result of the spike of these cases that are coming in from russia its clearly putting a number of the the hospitals and that particular region its testing the capacity of how they can deal with the increasing number of infections that were seeing in china as a result of all of this because speak to a smith who is a professor of emerging Infectious Diseases at the London School of hygiene and tropical medicine she joins us live by skype from green developed in switzerland thanks very much for being with us just want to go back to the to the effort of some countries to lift the lockdowns of the w. H. O. Has said that Public Health measures need to be put in place before lock downs lifted but what would you say are the minimum requirements. So indeed the timing is essential. So if we learn funk china they really waited until they had no more cases until the virus was contains before it is started lifting their strict measures obviously we have to keep a balance between the economic damage and societal damage of of a lockdown. But my strong advice is is to wait and to have a consistent decline in cases so you definitely have pete and it as a consistent decline because before you even think of a lock down and where you do a lock down then to do it wisely with a stepwise approach what about the requirements for testing i mean clearly people earlier on talked about perhaps the possibly of Antibody Test that might help lift things and then those proved to be quite are reliable what is the latest on how you roll out testing or how much testing you need in order to be able to lift restrictions. So indeed if at the time when you deescalate youre locked and when you lift or relax some of your measures you must actually in parallel build strengthen other measures and this is you and the main measure here is your testing capabilities because you want to avoid a 2nd wave and so if you test liberally and universally as as much as you can you it is easier for you to identify new clusters and then to quench his new little fires that come up before it becomes a big wave again how concerned are you by the reports from south korea that people whove had the virus might then be getting it again. So we still do not fully understand those daytime and day requires some more studying it does not look like reinfection it looked at looks more like an reactivation and that could be possibly because of a lack of virus clearance in some persons who may not trigger an immune response that is necessary so i think we should now not over interpret just these data and but instead now study the n. T. Body responses and those people who do seem to have reactivated how important will are things like apps to track and trace i mean theres lots of talk of these being developed at what stage are we at really with with how effective those can be so we know from south korea we know from china that contact racing is is one of the principles that we need to continue to build up to do 2 to be effective in the end containing this outbreak. China really use a Contact Tracing wildy wide leap so that contacts would be. A quarantine and to stop further furnace spread and southgate was very good at this so a so europe basically jumped from and really never did extensive Contact Tracing as i think i think part of now a plant a plant lockdown is to build up our Contact Tracing capabilities how close are we now to a vaccine some suggestions that there might be one as early as september is that unlikely or would you think that is possible. There is so much effort now in into this into Vaccine Development and more than 50 vaccines Im Development of 5 are already in clinical in human trials back scenes do take some time it is not only about showing that they work so not only sharks showing efficacy but also proving that they are safe so we should not. Take short cuts here and we really want we want a very good and also very busy vaccine and and it looks like it will take at least 12 months to do so one thing i want to ask you about is there is the potential for the rate of infections to be underestimated this report by the newsgroup he can omics just about half of all 19 deaths appear to be happening in care homes and in some countries that dont include him you can actually list those in the daily figures is that an area that has been underestimated in your view. I agree so so we have underestimated new cases because we did not test enough but being now also and as emitting deaths because they occur in homes or in care homes or as you see in ecuador even you know in there on the streets so so so i think we need to take great care to make sure that we counted the deaths correctly and also count the new cases correctly and it is one of my thank you very much indeed for your expertise thank you. Rockets have been fired at residential areas in libyas capital tripoli by forces loyal to the warlord holly for have to attack comes after the internationally recognized government we took 3 cities from the rival ministration in the past 24 hours or whatever had reports from tripoli. Residential ar