Criticism. With infection rates falling jamey says the outbreak is now manageable again. Plus Health Workers fighting coronavirus in chile report an increase in her assessment and discrimination. And im santa how much with all the sport including plans are in motion to complete it this season the European Champions League with all the 29th and 10th for the final. Alarming new numbers showing the strain of the coronavirus pandemic on the worlds 2 biggest economies there is increasing doubt about the u. S. President s 2 week deadline for getting businesses back up and running in 30 states 22000000 americans have made jobless claims over the last months numbers not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. And chinas Gross Domestic Product has plummeted by almost 7 percent in the 1st quarter thats the sharpest fall since it opened up to the world 40 years ago. Theres been a big rise in the death toll in the original epicenter of the outbreak will hand 50 percent more people die there than was previously reported now the total number of fatalities in the city is now said to be 3869 lets go to beijing where katrina you is live for us katrina lets talk about the economy 1st of all china had been seeing a period of sustained growth force for quite a few years before this and now these g. D. P. Figures are coming out this is bad news for china. Thats right the outlook is bleak indeed as you mentioned an interrupted growth of broome for nearly half a century and it took this coronavirus 10 demick to really put an end to all of that so weve seen year on year 6. 8 percent drop in chinas g. D. P. Which is really significant and quite in line with peoples expectations analyst expectations because the current virus control measures that the government put in place for a few weeks in february and march really saw the economy come to a standstill factories were closed businesses were closed hundreds of millions of people were stuck indoors and just to unpack that figure a bit more also manufacturing vestment in the 1st quarter was down 25 percent year on year Infrastructure Investment also down 20 percent retail sales down 19 percent so really at the mormon the government is doing all it can to get the economy restarted the National Bureau of statistics has said that the economy faces new difficulties and new challenges but the long term growth of the economy shouldnt be affected well at the moment there are questions as to whether that can be possible because this is really taking chinas economy is really taking a big hit not only from the slowing growth internally but also a kind of double hit from the drop in Global Demand so at the moment the government has resisted applying any major blanket stimulus its got gone instead photog did measures such as cutting Interest Rates making loans cheaper to lend out to businesses need in providing rental and wage subsidies for example but analysts say that this may not be enough and it may not be until 2021 that chinas economy is able to recover ok lets talk about the this big jump that theres been in the in the figures that are coming out of well what is the government saying about this 50 percent upward revision of those numbers. Well china has always defended its numbers i think i think the Chinese Government is well aware that there is a lot of suspicion about the transparency and accuracy of these figures and certainly this latest adjustment only feeds into that theyve said that there are actually more 1290 deaths that were not taken into account in the official tally previously and theyve said that the reason for this was because when the just the government was trying to deal with the epidemic they didnt have the resources to make sure that these not numbers were consistent for example a lot of medical Treatment Centers or hospitals were not reporting numbers consistently there was some people who passed away before they were formally diagnosed and at the height of the epidemic when the system was overloaded there were simply some people who couldnt get to a hospital or Treatment Center and they died at home so the government says theyve now taken into account all those numbers cases that were not previously take into account during a review that theyve now been able to to conduct now that the outbreak has eased into han and that is why theyve added these figures so that makes the National Death toll now 4632. 00 but of course this is only added fuel to these suspicions and many critics say that still these official numbers fall short of the real numbers on the ground in the real numbers of people affected here in china katrina you long for some bruising katrina thanks very much indeed. I want to bring in annie spiral shes a professor of Population Health science and policy at icon school of medicine at mun sign it which is a graduate training hospital in new york shes joining us on skype from london we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed lets talk about the numbers coming out of china the china has a secretary was saying being criticized for not being transparent enough about the figures that were coming out from particular from will one of the start of the spread of this virus but isnt it reasonable to think that given the confusion that its going to be very difficult to try to track down numbers like this. I think to more and then we can actually realize right now because even though it actually is not angry because it isnt easy its a small region ever did and they did what we think the numbers really are what do you still need to decrease in italy. And try to come to it became apparent to your increasing in. Terms of numbers were in now in meeting the mission has been done or that independent groups needed to return has no way to actually verify his existence hes our only bits and pieces and no none of that. And we dont have. A little so it is not correction not magic changing methodology as we know our time originally if you died of that anger against when you were in county cricket now china is not honoring him and got in a kind of methodology but given that it was a country that we are not particularly worried about because it was the type of coverage that and i work with mine is to spread and spread beyond the pandemic that we had today and you know not just within the hospitals but were going to keep something. With that any kind of ability to get independent verification in she didnt mean the announcement for example to. Human to human transmission in time there is no cannot be taken place that in we have not went there. The w. H. O. Has said from the outset of the break and indeed with others that the most important thing that they can get is information not just data but the actual information that you can derive from a but this seems to be a reticence between certain is on some Member States of the w. H. O. To put forward that information because theres a risk they might be missing perceived as being not in control of the situation how difficult does that make it in future to try to track the spread of pandemics like this well that is the real problem isnt it because we we had the means given reason why have you pulled up in one of them is because they want to cover up and trying to get in its not time its not learning what i mean its kind of one of those things we see with almost any and. Yeah reg and uniquely the bowl ad breaks last yet and even for that color and finally a tribute in mexico in 2009 will not have it after all and that may have a different slant you to control the letters will come right because they wont be any political repercussions and message lee made the n. B. A. Trade repercussion to its him and then on top of that we have a difference in measurement then at the depicting ability to kiss dont really have a record i must protest even that you have a willingness to report and im willing as it is to say as he said to so you may not be control you know straight for example reporting on you know he doesnt cases and yet in what ways are needed if its very not be ethical and every once in a dimes. Wrist which is true in one sense the better as if that happened in every single bit because because of these yes its so important and if were not counting is that out of the hospital which can be very hot at the peak of an epidemic and seeing that he might around as easily and it takes a while to catch those dense out where it is it makes our ability not to track it but also in no other part of us are like tracking everyone and were testing as many people as we can we get in my bed its in the degree of Community Media team so there should be a real incentive for governments to really crack on and test and report because the sooner we know what level of community it is in the sooner you can open the sounds that and the more we saw about you know how to have protected the population it is really good to get your thoughts on this on a spiral we appreciate your time thanks very much the u. S. President suggests some states could reopen for business within weeks but as covered in 1000 keeps spreading across the country than a crowded House Speaker nancy pelosi says more testing needs to be done and the golic of reports. Its what President Donald Trump calls a science based plan to get the United States back on its feet hes issued guidelines in 3 phases that advise each state when they can begin to reopen and what doctors say will be a new normal america wants to be open and americans want to be open as ive said for some time now a National Shutdown is not a sustainable long term solution. To preserve the health of our citizens we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy over the long haul the 1st phase calls for social distancing and for schools and businesses to remain closed but some larger venues including restaurants and movie theaters could reopen if states see a steady decline in coronavirus cases they can move to phase 2 in which schools some businesses including bars could open big gatherings remain limited the 3rd phase will allow workers to go back to their jobs and for at risk people to continue to take precautions we took the greatest economy. In the history of the world and weve closed it in order to win this war and were in the process of winning it now our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our Economic Life we are not opening all d at once but one careful step at a time democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi called the plan vague an inconsistent citing concerns over the need for Rapid Testing oh the corona virus has taken a harsh toll on the u. S. More than 30000 people have died and there have been over 600000 confirmed cases 22000000 people are now out of work wiping out a decade of job growth President Trump says the u. S. Will be back and greater than ever but this is a delicate process that comes down to a state by state county by county basis some states manta phase one as early as friday others face a far longer slog Business Leaders governors and scientists warn a shortfall in testing could hamper efforts to reopen the country that decision now lies with each states governor in some States Coronavirus case is a yet to peak and as a risk of the virus making a comeback in the months ahead personal Protection Equipment for Health Workers is still in short supply but even if you are in phase 123 its not ok game over its not its going to be a way that we protect ourselves because as we know and as ive said from this podium it may very well be as we go the cycle around that theyll be this virus that once the compact to us i think were going to be able to handle this is a cautious approach to reopen the Worlds Largest economy something President Trump has long wanted to do the challenges for each state are huge the dangers of making the wrong decision now crucial and as yet theres still no vaccine and a gallica aljazeera. Bobo notes a medical doctor and a journalist and he says its risky to reopen the u. S. Economy without widespread testing if you look in china and will have problems their success was they came up they hit a peak and thats where they are right now they didnt succeed until they had a rigorous contact case tracey that is every single positive was traced and all their contacts they were then put into quarantine what they call these camps mobile camps and then they had to decline to 0 were taking a big chance at opening back up full flat out we still have you know massive numbers of infections many dead every single day so theres no question its a real risk to start back up that said you know ive worked with dr foushee since 983 and one of the very best Infectious Disease people on the planet theyve done a good job but the key point is this youve got to have the test its called an Antibody Test to show who has the virus or who had the virus and very rigorous contact case tracy so you have 25000 people from the u. S. Census and then others about 500 or so from the peace corps that theyre going to use to go door to door to door to find these cases theyll use Emergency Rooms so if for any upticks but its risky you know kids are the biggest carriers of the disease you know asymptomatic carriers are going to bring it to their parents and their grandparents and until we have the advent of what i would call a bio Security Industry much like we had a Security Industry after a 2001 with much more sophisticated testing in monitoring its really going to be trial and error and the errors are going to result unfortunately in more deaths. Leading Public Health professor in the u. K. Has told officials britain was too slow to act on the coronaVirus Outbreak speaking to a Parliamentary CommitteeAntony Castello questioned the adders that led to the slow response so far more than 13000. 00 people have died in hospitals meanwhile in germany the Health Minister has declared the pandemic is again manageable he says the success is the result of a month long lockdown as well as mass testing in response to an early surge in cases already chalons is live for us in london rory lets talk about this Committee Hearing thats going on at the moment very strong words coming out of there. Yeah this committee is a chance for m. P. s. Medical experts to questions of. The Health Secretary and some of the most probing of these questions as youve just outlined there from. A leading Public Health professor and he was saying that although this is not the time for a blame game the u. K. Appears to be heading for the worst death rates of any of the European Countries and he wants to know why this is war the system failure is that perhaps. The u. K. He says final death toll of perhaps some 40000. 00 people it certainly has laid bare some of the cracks in the u. K. S National Health Service and the policy response of the u. K. Government there is an immense the. Positive story thats going on at the moment which feeds into all this which is kept in more this 99 year old pensioner who has raised an astonishing amount of money. 18000000 pounds and counting for the n. H. S. Hes done this by walking 100 laps of his garden and he wants to do this in time for his 100. In april what hes done that hes absolutely smashed the amount of money that he was hoping to raise people have been donating from all over the country but that begs the question why is he having to do that for the n. H. S. Which should be an adequately funded National Health service. And rory lets just go back to the story about germany were talking about germany saying this Health Minister is saying that the spread of the virus is not manageable they are just give us some of the context about why germany feels that its got it to that stage. Germany certainly when you look at all the statistics and the way countries have responded does seem to have done better than many others certainly here in the u. K. People have been looking to germany been asking themselves what has germany done right that is basically kept the death toll relatively low. It seems the testing has been a key part of that. W. H. O. The World Health Organization from the beginning of this outbreak has been saying if you have to test you have to trace and you have to isolate and germany has been doing a lot more testing than than many other countries in the u. K. I think that that feeds into perhaps why the german Health Minister thinks that things are looking more manageable and it also were getting some pretty good information coming from the leadership itself we had Angela Merkel explaining quite clearly yesterday how the reproduction rates of the virus in germany seems to be about one that means that one person is infecting one other person. And she was saying that if you increase that to 1. 00 then germanys Health Service might be overburdened by it so you increase it to 1. 00 germanys Health Service will be overburdened by 1. 2 1. 00 and then it gets to sort of june that its reaching a breaking point so there is there does seem to be a