Organization warns africa could become the next step the center for the pandemic and taking the outdoors indoors how exercise is being adapted for a more confined space. Thank you for joining us in many ways theyve been the forgotten victims of the corona virus pandemic but now the impact of the outbreak on elderly People Living in care homes is becoming painfully apparent and as fears many deaths a still going unreported a survey in new york state has found 90 Nursing Homes free for to 20 or more deaths in recent weeks but the report only included a fraction of facilities in the state where the figure is believed to be in the thousands and much higher nationally in canada a nursing home in montreals is under investigation after 31. 00 deaths were uncovered. Authorities found other residents dirty and unfed in their beds after some staff fled the facility in the u. K. Many deaths in care homes arent included in official figures its estimated they could be as high as 7500 workers have pleaded for more protective equipment to keep themselves and residents safe and in italy the military blocked off a nursing home near rome after 118 patients tested positive focal that 195 had already died while an investigation is underway at a milan nursing home where 190 people have died since the beginning of march Mary Louise Mclaws is a professor of epidemiology and health care infection at the university of New South Wales she says managing the crisis inside a care home is incredibly challenging. One of the problems in. A Residential Care facility is you dont want to isolate the elderly in the last few years of their life from others however sometimes you have to do this to save their lives and then they have a problem with. People sharing rooms so how do you protect them from from each other from infection and that is a very vexed one so often the 1st port of call is where theyre going to get most of the risk and that is from the stuff so to stuff need to be vigilant in their hand hygiene and be vigilant in their environmental cleaning of the Nursing Homes plus they probably should be wearing a mask while they have to know that its very hard to wear a mask per shift their their hot their own comfortable so then the. The the manages all of these Nursing Homes should be thinking about how many hours face to face should they work because they expected to wear a mask and i know that way talking about this for our Health Care Workers and were reducing the number of clinical hours so that they can wear a mask comfortably and this is a sort of thing that theyre going to have to think about with the with the carers with the nursing staff and that would certainly reduce the risk for the very vulnerable. The carers. The democratic governor of the u. S. State of washington has accused President Donald Trump of 4 meant in domestic rebellion and spreading lies after trump signal support for conservatives protesting against lockdown rules the president urged his supporters to liberate 3 states a day after he said its up to governors to decide when and how to ease restrictions hundreds of joined rallies across the u. S. Demanding an end to the shutdown and the gallagher has the latest from miami. This is the president really playing politics because guess what all 3 of those states have democratic governors there are protests in other states like utah and also here in florida in orlando the president is clearly playing politics here when he was asked about it at his latest press conference he said look those people are being treated rough thats clearly not the case people in all of the states across the entire country are following the c. D. C. Guidelines are supposed to social distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus what youve got here is an ideological split between conservatives who want to see businesses reopen who think that the cure may be worse than the disease itself and then youve got democratic governors who are trying to very slowly reopen carefully doing this by watching the medical advice by looking at the numbers vitally so the president is very aware of who is talking to the people on the streets in those 3 states michigan minnesota and virginia i was all wearing my go hat some of them carrying guns they are trumps base so that so hes speaking to he was never going to walk those comments back despite the fact hes been criticized by members of his own party you know the conservatives say look you simply cannot do this jay inslee the governor of washington saying look this could incite violence we are at a very critical juncture in this country right now there is a plan to slowly reopen things its going to be science based thats what the president himself said and here he is backing up far right people armed people on the streets of these 3 states saying that theyre being treated roughly in a so its clear what the president here is doing but its also clearly pretty irresponsible at this moment in time theres a great deal of pressure for people to get back to work those 22000000 people have now filed for unemployment there is a desire to do that but to do that carefully so youve got President Trump on one hand saying hey governors you get to call the shots and then on the other hand tweeting out the. These messages of support to people who are taken to the streets with guns and in one case yelling to the governor there lock her up lock her up so hes playing politics without question and there is also discord between the u. S. President and state governors over their respective roles when it comes to testing for coronavirus christianson only has that story from new york. New york announced the opening of more covert 1000 testing sites on friday and hospitalizations there are down but given as many as one of every 4 carriers dont show symptoms medical experts say knowing who has had the disease is crucial to knowing who can safely go back to work in order to tackle the spread of the outbreak we also need to test for people who may have been exposed previously and now have antibodies these types of tests called 0 knowledge to us will be the next step in battling this fire us we have now completed more than 3500000. 00 tests by far the most anywhere in the world despite the president s claims that the c. D. C. Has been slow to deliver on the administrations earlier promises of more test kits and now hes telling state governors its their responsibility this indiana lab responded to a plea for help from the city of new york and is ramping up production to provide 50000 kits a week weve been discussing everything from would just accept how we get orchids there to how many kids they want to purchase on an ongoing basis an even more morsel into how to behave themselves in neighboring new Jersey Rutgers University has gotten approval for a saliva test that could be scaled up quickly and mailed directly to peoples homes the United States is currently testing just under 150000 People Per Day for the corona virus but experts say millions of tests per day will be needed to reopen the country safely and new yorks governor insists back cant be done without the help of the federal government especially given some of the chemicals needed for the tests come from china the federal government has passed 3 bills to address this crisis. Of those 3 bills the state governments have gotten precisely 00 which nada unrestricted but pressure to get people back to work is mounting and the president tweeted that cuomo should stop complaining and start acting cuomo calls the president s strategy passing the buck without passing the bucks cristen salumi al jazeera new york. How many countries a stocking up on antibody tests to find out whether citizens have had the virus but the World Health Organization warns there is no evidence indicating that those who recover from call that 19 have immunity from the virus joely fisher is an associate Research Professor of microbiology at Georgetown UniversityMedical Center she says its not clear whether people can develop immunity against the 90. The concern is the antibodies that are produced after an action which are a sign that a person had a request immune response to the virus and has recovered so the antibodies if tested from the blood are a clear sign that someone has been previously into it which would be useful in testing among populations to see who might have been infected particularly if they were not diagnosed with the other kinds of tests and work your tests are in action but the concern is that those antibodies may not provide complete protection against reinfection something that still being studied and examined very care there are respiratory diseases that able to infect people again and again and again but that is not the norm the expectation is that if someone has good antibody levels after action that it alters protection against or infection thats the very principle of a bax a nation on which we depend so it is as i said an open question and the assumption it till proven otherwise is that those antibodies do protect against at least severe disease and reinfection that this is a new virus 100 percent of the people on the planet in the beginning of january were rebel group to this virus and sweep allotments do i want half of them ization is also warning that africa could become the next epicenter of the pandemic so far theyve been fewer than a 1000 deaths from covering 1000 across the continent a much lower race then in the u. S. And europe the United Nations says its likely the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly 30000000. 00 into poverty u. N. Secretary general antonio the terrorist has said africa needs more than 200000000000. 00 to combat the virus and the w. H. O. Fears the death toll could already be much higher in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa. And a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does with the current challenge of obtaining testing kits its likely that the real numbers are higher than reported. Rossy has side is an epidemic knowledge is 10 professor at messy college he says a pandemic posits a major threat to africas densely populated cities enemy of Public Health is a crowded and when you think of most african countries they have hard to rise by overcrowding its actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as Health Care Infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis it child beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore can fuel and lead death be done it and lead to serious disease and death so its a perfect recipe so dr an epidemic in the 2 explosions one i can understand the concern of the u. N. Here. In nigeria the president s chief of staff has died from the corona virus as a top aide to president Mahmoud Abbas hari he traveled to germany and egypt early last month before falling ill chiari was in his seventys and had Underlying Health problems including diabetes. Now for the 1st time in nearly 2 months south korea has reported fewer than 20 new cases of coronavirus 18 infections were confirmed over the past day bringing the countrys total to more than 10600 despite the don ward trend Health Officials are calling on the public to remain vigilant much more ahead on aljazeera including a rise in Domestic Violence during the long lean look at how the victims in the u. K. Are being supported or. Hello there weve had a very unsettled picture across much of the middle east really this past week and in particular we have had some very heavy rains across into yemen now the law things have been dry but the streets all still flooded in some areas some dog storm clouds looming over has some more rain in the forecast now through saturday you can see across into southern areas of iraq aq. Ways and again 3 will central east and as a society we could be seeing some heavy amounts of rain that could also work its way across wells again into council and also the showers back in the forecast into the far west of yemen but radio where it is a fairly quiet picture temperatures across not doing too badly a tour in fact really quite nice a warm sunday through the eastern end of the mediterranean but this is one will see quite discussion from turkey iraq there across areas of iran still as they also more rain across into Western Areas of yemen but some very heavy amounts of rain through the d. L. C. As we go through saturday and again these coastal areas of tanzania see. Very heavy rains for the hasa several days and theyre quite extensive other across tools im going to want to destroy the interior of south africa all suffered a bit by sunday it is a much drier warming day that 24 celsius in cape town and all the while very heavy amounts of rain through eastern areas of bike aska and still those rains up in zanzibar. Talked to al jazeera squaw who of course was when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying youre peons go build United States of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the aljazeera we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we need to the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. The end. Of watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories investigations are under way in the u. S. Canada and its lead into the deaths of elderly people from coronavirus in care homes its feared thousands of such feet on it is that going and reported around the world the governor of the u. S. State of washington has accused President Donald Trump off for mentoring domestic rebellion after he signals to whats going protest against knocked on doors hundreds have joined rallies across the u. S. Demanding an end to the shutdown and the World Health Organization says there is no evidence indicating that those who recover from call that 19 have immunity from the virus the warning comes as countries around the world 2 stock up on one type body tests in a bid to topple the fights. Now doctors and nurses in the u. K. Are being asked to review some personal protective equipment when treating covert 1000 patients the updated guidance from Public Health england comes as hospitals warn theyre running out of protective clothing and is prompting concerns that the move could lead to more Health Care Workers becoming infected diplomatic as james phrase has more from the United Nations on the challenges of getting the white kids. Including the u. S. Including the u. K. Those are 2 of the richest countries on earth where this certainly is not over yet it may have reached a peak it may have reached a plateau but still theyre running out of supplies for example and in the u. K. They believe theyre going to run out of gallons potentially over this weekend thats a real worry there now if you cannot find these sort of supplies all of the protective equipment but also what you need to carry out the testing if you cannot find that in 2 g. 7 countries the u. K. And the us the richest countries on earth then what hope of some of the other countries that are much further down the list in terms of the Global Wealth and in terms of the sophistication of the medical systems so yes real real worries obviously potentially one of the things that is good about the way this virus is spread is because people in richer countries tend to travel more it seems to a spread 1st in the developed world but the developed world is really struggling what hope for the developing world what help for africa what hope for places in the middle east the war zones in the middle east what help your syrian refugee if youre living in yemen if youre living in libya very very worrying times in ecuador the worst hit city of guayaquil in is reading from a huge surge uncovered 1000 deaths officially the virus has killed around 400 people in the country but doctors say many more have died in guayaquil and the surrounding region the government has started using giant refrigerated contains to store bodies the citys mayor says call the 1000 hit like a bomb and overwhelmed hospitals. And 150 people have been detained for breaking quarantine measures but hes picked them up on one of the highways that connects the capital to the regions they say they want to go back to their villages because if lost their jobs and fear they could stop if they stay in the city Health Officials in mexico are increasing calls for people to wash hands regularly with water and soap to counter the spread of corona virus a tens of thousands of people in mexico citys poorest dont have Running Water in their homes. Like millions of residents of mexico city. Is heeding the advice of Health Officials and is trying to stay indoors though its not always easy to quarantine when you share a home with 13 people. The weather has been hot and to make matters worse theres a water shortage. It can be 2 weeks without any flowing water we can go 15 days without water we can figure it out but it can be complicated to keep water reserves to hold you for 15 days. Mean lives in. The most impoverished district of mexico city here water cut offs are frequent and many have been forced to adapt. When there is water pressure we run the hose directly to the container then we have the clearing tablets because the water shows up dirty but by the time we use it comes out transparent it comes out clean. There are some 60000 families in this part of the mexican capital who lack regular access to fresh water. Its the job of public water delivery workers. To help fill the demand water. Is different