A frontline doctor in the u. S. Where the death toll has now climbed to of a 28000. 00. How long will we need to keep social distance measures in place one Study Suggests much longer than most of us would like. Back to class but with caution denmark becomes the 1st european country to reopen schools some parents are concerned. Donald trump has declared that the number of new corona virus infections in the u. S. Is slowing thats despite a Record Number of other 2300 americans killed by the virus in just the last 24 hours and for the 2nd day trump has continued his attack on the World Health Organization suggesting it deliberately misled the world in the early stages of the outbreak causing many deaths on wednesday he announced a halt in funding to the w. H. O. Which is leading the Global Response to the pandemic tragically other nations put their trust in the w. H. O. And they didnt do it to form a band and you see what happened in italy you see what happened to spain you see what happened to french. Guy just failed to control their borders at a very crucial phase quickly unleashing the contagion around the world it was a horrible tragic mistake or perhaps they do im sure they didnt know the gravity of it but perhaps they knew. Because if they knew the gravity that would be a leave it worse offense the un agency has responded to trumps criticisms with a call thing unity its director general says arguments about the organizations performance can wait until the operation is over when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us we are committed to serving the world as people and to accountability for the resources with which were interested in due course w. Chose performance in tackling this pundit mic will be reviewed by w. Just Member States and the independent bodies start our employees to each will try to spot and see an accountability but for now our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives the us move to suspend funding has been widely condemned by the e. U. The African Union and china they say trance decision will hurt the fight against the virus billionaire philanthropist and microsoft cofounder bill gates who sound ation is the agencys 2nd biggest donor tweeted saying its dangerous to help funding to the w. H. O. During a Global Health crisis he says no other organization can replace the work it doesnt slowing the spread of the virus and that we need the w. H. O. Now more than ever lets go live now to mike hanna whos in washington d. C. So as we heard there the reaction continues to this announcement the u. S. Is pulling funding from the w. H. R. But trump is doubling down on his criticism mike. Well its ironic that President Trump and names a number of countries that he said mistakenly follow the guidelines of the w. H. O. Including italy and france its ironic because the us has a far higher death rate per capita than any other country in the world including the ones that he mentioned but it has caused a political storm within the United States as well many in congress arguing strongly that the President Trump does not have the constitutional right to withhold funding that has already been approved by Congress Democrats in congress are arguing very strongly that this is very similar to the issue for which he was impeached and that is withholding funds to ukraine after congress had approved it in a way to make some kind of Political Capital out of it so this is going to be an ongoing fight between members of congress and President Trump not only about the moral issue involved in cutting off funding to the world body during this massive pandemic but also the political basis the constitutional issues that President Trumps action raises should all of the same patron sometimes feels like a lifetime ago talk to us mike about the state reopening about the governors and this discussion between the governors then and the federal government about who has the ultimate power in making those decisions. Well thats yet another constitutional issue that has arisen in President Trumps actions of recent days he has insisted that he has the full right in the full authority to instruct states to do whatever he wants them to do now he has backed down away from this to a point he will be talking to all the governors in the course of the morning tomorrow before making an announcement about new guidelines on the restrictions against the virus President Trump making very clear his belief that in a number of states the rate of infection is so low that the opening up of the states can begin that restrictions can be lifted in certain areas and tomorrow he will be announcing the timeline for this opening up in certain states as many as 20 or 30 and this is what President Trump had to say bring your ready no will be opening up states some states much sooner than others and we think some of the states can actually open up before the deadline of may 1st and i think that will be a very exciting time indeed governors are looking for theyre chomping at the bit to get going again not all states are the same the very different some are having very little problem some of done such a good job they have or a little problem and theyre ready to go and mike President Trump also used the Coronavirus Press conference to talk about democrats apparently stopping his initiatives and what hed like to do about that. Well indeed yes you use the forum to rail against democrats in congress who insists all the locking his attempts to govern in particular he says they are blocking the nomination process for those that he wants to full positions in government and in an absolutely astounding and unprecedented move he threaten to Adjourn Congress in order to then pass the nominees that he wants during the recess now this has never been done before in fact it is constitutionally a very dangerous that would be regarded as most by most lawmakers this threatens legal experts would argue the very foundations of democracy in this country which rests on the idea that there is a separation of powers between judiciary executive and legislative by stretching to Adjourn Congress President Trump is just throwing these constitutional principles away thanks for that putting everything in context for us mike hanna live from washington d. C. Nearly 640000 people in the u. S. Have been infected with the virus and well over 28000 have died new york is still on the front line of the pandemic in the u. S. With the highest number of reported infections and deaths and even though new infections seem to have slowed in recent days hospitals there are stretched to breaking point. So its 5 am still on my overnight shift and were seeing plenty of a lot of virus cases some people as young as in their twentys. And people as world is in their eightys. A couple of people whove been admitted to the intensive care unit i think the best Success Story that weve seen this evening was somebody who had an oxygen saturation. That was 48 percent when the ambulance got there and its on the patient is not doing much better is going to go to intensive care but doing much better so. Its a relief when it sees stories like that i think the most. Interesting or bizarre presentation was somebody who came in with a leg cramps. And it turns out there coronavirus so we were just seeing people with all kinds of symptoms. Just to show a wide variety of the thing was we had to watch change our Visitor Policy this week so previously it was no visitors were allowed because were worried that we were potentially going to spread the disease. And. We decided to change it or combinations where. Theyre very near the end of life because we want to give family members the opportunity to be with their patient on and thats where were making some some changes and trying to accommodate so on. So that people dont have to die alone i think that thats one of the most tragic pieces of this disease is because its so contagious on the people do end up just dying alone and were really trying to do whatever we can to make it a little bit better. Dr parikh and a is an internal medicine hospital list in new york city he says the virus is far more contagious than many but they are. I came across information maybe a month ago or so that really had a lot of the very Accurate Information about this virus recognizing this as a pandemic long before the even the w. H. O. Had and you know knowing that the casualty numbers were under reported and i think a big part was that the asymptomatic carriers were very contagious this these sources knew this much before then i guess either the w. H. O. Or c. D. C. I think with the information the source being very accurate one thing that really stuck out to me is that and i try to tell my colleagues and how contagious this was that you needed ebola level quick like hazmat suits respirators that purify the air meaning that you know the big contention is this droplet or airborne and clearly were seeing some airborne component because this is how contagious this disease was and it was spreading and unfortunately been affecting Hospital Health care workers and such we need the cill these are only kogut only right because the level of equipment and protection for our Health Care Workers needs to be at last level i think youve seen videos out of china and italy theyre wearing like spacesuit level stuff and in order to do that like you need to have a dedicated floor facilities dedicated like basically hermetic style quarantines right space that you need negative pressure ventilation you need sliding doors like they see in star trek right it seals it because this thing is so contagious it gets out that you can breathe it in you can take it in your eyes you know all these sorts of things and i think opening economies too soon that the other update they had given me was that you know we need to continue this for several more months at least 3 months to even 8 months because if people go sue soon if you go back this is going to come in waves and its getting more virulent more mutations its affecting newborns inspecting younger people youre not going to have an economy that no ones going to want to go out so its kind of hair on our. Turn on the. Biggest. Question. And play undocumented immigrants in the u. S. Custody call for help is a virus spread and Detention Centers. To service our girl will know who was out who im believe would captain tom moore try to raise just over a 1000. 00 for being case National Health service by walking 100. 00 laps in his garden hes raised quite a bit more than that. Hello weve got some quotes weather now pushing across japan for the time being its fine and dry here a little area of low pressure pulling out into the open waters brought his guys coming in behind but there is some cloud around it will be some showers rolling into the far north east of china pushing across the Korean Peninsula as we go on through the next couple of days they will be on the heavy side from time to time beijing seeing brighter skies as we go through thursday as that wet weather moves through the yellow sea and its making its way towards the Korean Peninsula and beyond itll make its way into southern parts of japan as we go on into friday follow a lot of cloud and rain into central parts of china down towards a southwest south of that hong kong will be fine and dry temperatures here around 27. 00 celsius plenty of sunshine now as sunshine in showers across Southeast Asia still some larvae showers into northern parts of the philippines for a time some showers to around indochina southern parts of vietnam into cambodia thailand seeing some lovely showers in the seasonal rains really quite widespread across much of malaysia pushing across into indonesia got some rather wet weather also making its way across the northeast of india at the moment i will spread across a good part of bangladesh as we go through thursday and into the far northeast of india by friday. An extrajudicial killing and a north african capital. I heard someone breaking into our house think its. That i heard people shouting so for masked men only their eyes and hair was showing. Aljazeera world hears rare eyewitness accounts of the dramatic story of the assassination of major p. L. O. Figure khaleel i was here in a secret israeli operation assassination in tunis on aljazeera. Was. You want your knowledge there are a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump says the u. S. Is to a corner in the number of new corona virus infections is beginning to slow he says he will unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday thats despite a Record Number of americans more than 2300 killed by the virus just of the last 24 hours. New york is still in front line of the pandemic in the us with the highest number of reported infections in deaths and even though new infections seem to have slowed in recent days hospitals there are stretched to breaking. The head of the World Health Organization says he regrets a decision by President Donald Trump to halt funding to the body the w. H. O. Says its main focus is fighting the virus trump accuse the w. H. O. Of mishandling the pandemic response. To europe now where france has reported a huge jump of minimum of coronavirus deaths 1400. 00 fatalities were reported on wednesday taking the nationwide death toll to more than 17000. 00 the government says the latest figures include deaths from recent days that have not been reported the number of intensive care patients has dropped for a 7th consecutive day giving some signs of hope and nearly 700 save lives of Francis Charles de gaulle naval group have tested positive for covert 19 many of them were on the Aircraft Carrier when it returned to a poor tend to do not on monday at least 31 sailors have been hospitalized german chancellor Angela Merkel has extended nationwide social distancing measures until may 3rd or some small shops and businesses will be allowed to reopen starting next week she says germany has achieved a fragile partial success against the outbreak large public gatherings though remain banned until the end of august. A Harvard Research is a warning that social distancing measures may need to stay in place to contain coronavirus until 2022 mistah they published in the journal science a team of epidemiologists it event seen is not developed social restrictions such as School Closes bans on public gatherings and stay at home or is might be needed for the next few years the researchers said even if it looks like the virus has been in them in ated surveillance will be needed as a resurgence could occur as places 2024 the World Health Organization also warns the development of an effective vaccine is needed to fully interrupt the transmission of the virus lets make now to Stephen Kinzler in boston he is one of the lead authors of the report and is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health thank you for coming on the program you findings could have sold many repeated repercussions in so many different ways the 1st i want to talk about is that social distancing might have to be in place until 2020 to talk me through that finding. Yes absolutely so the 1st thing i want to really underscore here is that were not particularly interesting any one of these strategies but what we were trying to do think through you know what will happen or what could happen if we dont have innovations and therapeutics and vaccines as youve mentioned so the idea is that if we have one time social distancing which i think many of us were prepared for theres a very good chance that a large number of people will remain susceptible to infection and that means that when we reduce social distancing those years those people will become infected because the virus doesnt remember that we were sort of acting against it in the past so well see a resurgence of cases and as that happens Critical Care capacity in hospitals will reach its limit again and will have to enter social distancing again so it seems like naturally were going to enter into this intermittent social distancing period and in order to reach a high enough level of immunity in the population to stop that our model suggests that it could take into 2022 you know when you talk about having a high enough level of immunity in the population what youre talking about is herd immunity is that are you saying we need to wait until enough people have had the virus to slowly let large popular portions of the population get the virus and only once that has happened will we be able to ease the social distancing restrictions. Well so there are a couple of options so one option certainly is to do very intense social distancing that is to try to keep cases as low as possible for as long as possible of course that means theres the risk of a resurgence once that ends but the hope is that in the meantime we will have the chance to innovate to improve our testing to improve our treatments and then hopefully there will be something that can mitigate that research and peak but youre right in the absence of any of those measures we will have to wait until that herd immunity level is reached before we will be finally finished with this epidemic figuring out immunity to this virus like how long it lasts how long the immunity lasts things that we dont really know yet theyre obviously very important in your research so you found that if any immunity is not permanent then corona virus will enter into regular circulation what does that mean is that made it becomes like a win to float. Exactly that would be the idea and in fact flu follows exactly this pattern in 2009 we had a flu pandemic of the h one n one strain and that same strain entered into seasonal circulation and continues to infect people in winter each year and so theres a very good chance that we could see the same sort of thing happening with sars kochi to. Once we figure out what kind of immunity people get from coded 19 sort of how long their immunity last after they get it with what we need to figure out how many people in the population are immune will we need to have large scale testing of antibodies. Thats right i think that thats really the next version priority for people in the Public Health field and really anyone whos interested in getting the economy up and running again as well its only when we really know how many people have been infected and have enough immunity to prevent themselves from getting reinfected that well know when its safe to start lifting these measures in a very big way if we were to have just a one time lock down what would happen. So i think there are 2 scenarios that could play out the less likely one is that theres maybe far more in the unity of the population already than we realize and that would suggest that there are lots of asymptomatic infections that lead to immunity that we simply havent detected and if thats the case then we could do the social distancing we could lead out and then maybe there wouldnt be that big of a resurgence but i think for a couple of reasons that thats fairly unlikely i think its much more likely that that basically the scenarios weve just talked about could play out we do one time social distancing and. The resurgent peak could occur and i think one of the biggest dangers of doing only one time social distancing is that we could push that peak into the winter when we have seasonal flu circulation and when the underlying sort of characteristics of spread are sort of favorable for corona virus like transmission and we could actually end up with an even larger peak potentially depending on the amount of seasonal variation that there is in transition but thats again another unknown thank you so much for your time really important what youre doing stephen because theyre one of the lead authors of that report and Research Fellow at the harvard th Chance School of Public Health and schools in nurseries have reopened in denmark as it begins to relax lock down restrictions its among the 1st in europe to try a gradual reopening in order to get the economy back on track but many parents say its too soon to have kept their children at home so we dont reports from copenhagen. A long awaited. Principal welcomes back his students after a whole month i have really missed my school and im excited to meet my teachers and friends to see them again is a very very big pleasure but much has changed social distancing is still required and parents are no longer allowed to drop off their children inside the school. Im happy. However excited the kids are to see their friends again. Hugging is not allowed. Instead they have to wash their hands. Properly calibrated and sit in the classroom 2 metres apart which requires spreading the children to more rooms been out hiring. Young students to come in and supply our normal stuff so i have enough stuff apart from schools nurseries are also opening today but only half of them are ready to welcome kids due to the new Health Requirements with extra cleaning less furniture and more outdoor classes. The rest will open in the coming days. The kitchen is closed it says this used to be the kitchen area for children having breakfast in the morning its only ringback kids under 11 years old who are back at schools in denmark the rest are still at home and these are the lockers for the kids their jackets and shoes are here but theyre no longer allowed to be here in order to avoid them standing too close to each other. While the children here are happy being back. Home thousands of parents are refusing to send their kids to school im responsible not the state not the kindergarten that im responsible for catching will keep the children in school for the next few weeks. Perhaps months or im worried about the virus of course and weve been protecting our kids for the last months like mad and now theyre supposed to go ahead of it all and im also worried about the scenario theyll meet based on fear and distance which is not natural for a child. Back at the school this time. Dont get too close to each other but the children are only allowed to play in small groups. I feel bad for the kids because they want to play together and theyre not allowed to play together. In colombia 4000 prisoners will be put on house arrest to try and stop krona virus from spreading thats crowded jails to people with covered 19 died shortly after being released from prison the temporary measure will prioritize pregnant women and mates with Health Issues or over the age of 60. There are more than 33000 undocumented immigrants in Detention Centers in the u. S. Waiting for deportation hearings but as they wait the threat and spread of coronavirus grows our brand reports from the sounds of those. Pleas from behind bars dont let us die from cold at 19. Because theres an intimacy. And that is to. Dozens of men held in close quarters in an immigration and Customs Enforcement or Ice Detention Center made the video pleading to be released they are not able to handle. There is no screening even. Employee didnt know. Where the detainees say they cannot remain the recommended distance from one another and are not provided with Hand Sanitizer masks or gloves this is a cruel and completely out of way to deal with the crisis at hand it does not comport. Medical expert advice and it essentially sitting ducks out of detainee as isis already is legal action by the American Civil Liberties union of Southern California has won the release of a handful of detainees including charleston day cause of an undocumented immigrant born and believe as they call it agreed to speak about conditions inside but preferred not to be videotaped because right now. Everybody everybody. They caught said he lived in a cell block with 80 men 4 to 8 men to a cell. You know you. Got a better. He hundreds of family members and supporters held a drive by protest rally at a Detention Center in arizona demanding that detainees be released immediately they liken the facilities to death camps and want them everything washed and face to face the 1st human right and every so far the government has refused to consider a large scale release of detainees and even though most of the country is on lockdown ice agents are still busy arresting and confining undocumented people i should also immediately stop arresting people and putting them in these dangerous conditions and facilities the a. C. L. U. And other immigrant rights advocates are asking the courts to intervene as soon as possible before its too late aljazeera los angeles the british war veteran has raised more than 11000000. 00 for the u. K. s National Health service captain tom moore was hoping to collect around a 1000. 00 by walking 100. 00 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of the month but his drive to recapture the public mood and the money has not stopped rolling in captain moore says hell keep walking as long as people keep their nation to do his bit for those in the front line in the battle against covered 90. The so good so to full truth from. One of the good now when if you look good. To 3. He was a brave and the us will there. What a hero for year after a devastating fire the great bell in paris is Notre Dame Cathedral has rung out again. It was founded on wednesday to mark the resilience of the building and that of the french people battling the coronavirus epidemic all the country is under lockdown the official choir of the cathedral created a virtual home to the not for the performance from their homes to mark one year since the fire. This is al jazeera and these are the top stories donald trump says the u. S. Has turned a corner in the number of new Coronavirus Infections is beginning to slow he says he will unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday thats despite a Record Number of americans more than 2300 killed by the virus just the past 24 als putting your body know will be opening up states some states much sooner than others and we think some of the states could actually open up before the deadline of may 1st and i think that will be a very exciting time indeed governors are looking forward theyre chomping at the bit to get going again not all states of the same to very different some are having very little problem some of done such a good job they have very little problem and theyre ready to go new york is still the front line of the pandemic in the u. S. With the highest number of reported infections and deaths and even though new infections seem to have slowed in recent days hospitals there are stretched to breaking point ahead of the World Health Organization says he regrets a decision by President Donald Trump to halt funding to the body of the w. H. O. Says its main focus is fighting the virus trump accuse the body of mishandling the pandemic response. A 700 sale is a big old naval group of tested positive for covert 19 many of them on the Aircraft Carrier when it returned to a board to moon on monday francis reported a huge jump the number of deaths nationwide with 1400 fatalities reported on wednesday german chancellor Angela Merkel has extended nationwide social distancing missions until may the 3rd while some small shops and businesses will be allowed to reopen beginning next week she says germany has achieved a fragile success against the outbreak those are the headlines the news continues here on. Inside story with us. Taking aim at the World Health Organization donald trump makes good on his threat to cut funding to the agency he says its failed its duty in the time of its but what about trump himself and what kind of leadership has he shown in dealing with the pandemic this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey it will disappear one day like a miracle thats how u. S. President described the Coronavirus Crisis in the early days and he went on for weeks
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