Liberate states from lockdown. After weeks of isolation and infighting about brazils coronavirus strategy the president appoints a new ally. And in other news Hong Kong Police arrest several key prodemocracy figures. Now theyve been the forgotten victims of the coronavirus but now the effect of the pandemic on People Living in aged care homes around the wild is becoming painfully apparent a survey in new york state has found 19 Nursing Homes reported 20 or more deaths and recent weeks but that report only included a fraction of facilities in the states with the figures also believed to be much higher nationally and canada a nursing home in montreal is under investigation after 31 deaths were uncovered or thirtys found other residents dirty. Unfed in their beds after some stuff led to the facility in the u. K. Many deaths in care homes arent being included in official figures its estimated they could be as high as 7500. 00 and in italy the military blocked off a nursing home near rome off to 118 patients that tested positive 5 had already died while an investigation is also underway as a milan nursing home where at least 190 people have died since the beginning of march while the crisis has also shed light on underlying issues in the us system with many homes accused of putting profits before peoples well being she had pretends he reports. Officially the 1st deaths from covert 19 in the u. S. Were to residents of this Washington StateResidential Care facility in late february the age of their patients and the poor response of authorities in information and equipment reasons why managers that claim they didnt alert authorities about the respond to illness that had been sweeping through the site for weeks but regulators disagree and have imposed a fine of over 600000. 00 for negligence both have a point but weeks later the coronavirus is still spreading to one Residential Care facility after another across the country 17 bodies found inside a makeshift morgue at this facility in new jersey this week after an anonymous tip off a quarter of the residents have died at this facility in virginia questions are being raised as to whether its the system of for profit Residential Care thats the problem not that we know the full extent of deaths in Nursing Homes 6000 estimated but the federal government doesnt keep track and even anonymous statistics about deaths and testings a big held back due to what authorities and facilities say upriver see concerns i was wondering if i could speak to one of the nurses and that johnson had been trying to keep tabs on her mother despite will be able to visit her at her nursing home a collar a day and i kept getting the same thing shes fine shes doing great but when she was able to travel to the home it soon became clear that wasnt true i see her lying in bed with the oxygen around the facilities and it wasnt all be gated to telenet about her mothers positive covert 900 test because she wasnt her primary goody and Bernie Stafford turners brother fred is a resident of the Canterbury Rehab Center in virginia hes tested positive for the virus doesnt have a roommate in the room it is also a test. And there is no barrier between the 2 of them which means that they are not truly calling i asked. Twice that i was. Called in 1000. And 8 is because of the emergency room what is the plan and he said we dont have a brain. So what does that tell us mainly 70 percent of Nursing Homes in the u. S. Are run for profit its an industry thats projected to be worth 240000000000. 00 by 2025 mainly in taxpayer spending a new study has found as a result the push for profits over care has intensified patient volume and revenue have increased but star thing and salaries have decreased as a federal ratings based on kaffir patients sit in. Front of our reserves is that. If there is an emergency situation then burdick would you. Be less. I. Guess. It is just if you were nurses the private Residential Care industry however says its not to blame for the thousands dead at its facilities and is now using its money influence and the pandemic to low b. For a long held goal immunity from prosecution for negligence she had written see aljazeera. Oh mary Louise Mccall us as a professor of epidemiology and health care infection at the university of New South Wales from australia 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 such as 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 theyre there now that its very hard to wear a mask per full shift theyre the hot theyre on 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. Now the democratic governor of the u. S. State of washington has accused donald trump of for mentoring domestic rebellion and spreading lies after he signaled support for conservatives who are protesting against lockdown rules hundreds have joined rallies across the country demanding an end to the shutdown lets take a look at those tweets the president urged his supporters on twitter to liberate 3 states a day after he said its up to governors to decide when and how to ease restrictions and gallagher has more 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 these ladies 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 and other 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 taking 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. Well lets take you to some other news now and prodemocracy supporters in hong kong say at least 14 politicians and activists have been arrested in connection with last years mass protests chinas Government Office in hong kong said on friday its not bound by laws preventing beijing from interfering in hong kongs affairs our correspondent david pollan is in hong kong and she says the people whove been arrested are very well knowing. These are very high profile figures in hong kongs prodemocracy movement and they clued martin leaves known as the founding father of hong kongs Democratic Movement hes 81 years old he was one of the architects of the basic law thats hong kongs many constitution which is written to safeguard hong kongs autonomy from beijings government he has been arrested he had been stepped out of the political limelight in recent years but in the past year he has been vocal about the protests along with him is jimmy lie he said tycoon a media mogul and a very prominent businessman here he also had been arrested in february for unlawful gathering he now also has been arrested along with legislative councillors former largest lot of councillors and a very big names in hong kongs prodemocracy movement now its still unclear why they have been arrested we have reached out to the police and they said that they will be releasing a statement but according to one of those legislative counselors who has been arrested he posted on social media saying that it is most likely due to their involvement in protests in the past year particularly the one in august 18th which was against hong kongs extradition law which was removed since but 1700000 people took to the streets in hong kong in that protest so they believe that the reason these people are being arrested is because of their involvement in protest over the past year now the president of the philippines as valen to crush the governments enemies to fight is linked to isolate killed 11 soldiers another 14 were wounded in the southern muslim majority province of sunni where the army is combating of the cya feiss well it speaks tamil and dog and she is joining us from the headquarters of the Philippine Army in manila jamila quite the statement there from the task a what can we expect in the coming days. Well you know what this showed basically the van the rebuild the of the Philippine Military as you know it is already at the forefront of fighting the pandemic across the entire region of luzon its leading the National Action plan its leading all the efforts on the ground but then at the same time it continues its battle on so many fronts in order to kill or really this this area in sulu in the southern philippines the most militarized area in the country with at least 4 major armed groups with strongholds there and of course the very big group that authorities with the abu sayyaf which is pledged allegiance to i still a few years ago there is no surprise to the statement of president of their day and were expecting basically operations additional operations to go after those were believed to have been behind the attack against more than 10 soldiers who were killed and more than 5014. 00 wounded but what this really shows basically is that the situation remains the same that the spike the pandemic the Philippine Military military remains vulnerable in so many areas and the resources are stretched at the moment its obvious what were expecting in the coming weeks or so basically possibly would be more troops on the ground tighter restrictions in many areas in sulu already really heavily militarized and making their access very difficult in many of these areas we had been to this area near practical and this is really a very difficult area its hilly a lot of these areas are outside government control are within the controls of rebel groups of armed groups than the tories i would say are groups and there is no possibility really that the truce will even happen unlike the what is were seeing in different parts of the world where because of the pandemic there has been a sea theres been declared cease fire not with the abu sayyaf there are no possibility that the military will negotiate with this group at all about and again there for us in there and i thank you jim. Well we have more coronavirus coverage ahead on aljazeera including the slim pickings of flump in prices of making life even tougher a pharmacy. In. The works. To is. Still exercising we report on the methods to keep it curing up. Hello there were thunderstorms you may have seen or heard them last night if youre in france or england theyre still around on that arc of cloud that stretches back down toward spain and with this cloud developing in the western med if youre in eastern spying todays disappointing day and you see the blue which represents showers spreading into germany in the low countries to doing the work to which will develop into sunday storms in Eastern Europe or at least some part of the you could still quite warm for example you can still have picnics was social distancing in prague in the Czech Republic but that one is certainly lost because this arc of clarity is a cold front thats a northerly breeze temperatures are dropping and the forecast for vienna proves the point such day might be fine for the fungus or on sunday down to 16 which is the average temperature in the sun comes out again on monday but the temperature has to dropped thats happening in europe there is an effect still in the northwest of africa but this line is developing rain significant raymer tinier and algeria probably will fall nobodys had it being more or less in desert the reason easter egypt and answer sudan and chad is increasing a bit so it could be dusty the tensions the hell are still in the low fortys there are a shower still to the sounds that creeping in but lagos typifies the full cost. Isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise looking at another side of this story not the information around the outbreak but. Separating propaganda from fact its reality and you have to leave. Exposing the optics trying to manipulate the rhetoric and shift blame but they cannot manipulate the fires delish your its like going to the media 0. And again. A reminder of our top stories this hour the deaths of people in aged care homes in the us canada and italy are being investigated but thousands of some of the fatalities linked to the coronavirus wild wild and being reported. The governor of Washington State has accused u. S. President donald trump of fermenting domestic rebellion thats after he took to twitter encouraging people to protest against measures in several democratic states. And prodemocracy supporters in hong kong say beast 14 politicians and activists have been arrested in connection with mass protests last year chinas Government Office in hong kong said on friday its not bound by laws preventing beijing from interfering. Brazils president has defended his decision to fire the Health Minister who disagreed with his policies to tackle the coronavirus they also are always defying his critics by doubling down on plans to lift restrictions to restart south americas largest economy and tory occasionally reports a swearing in ceremony for brazils new Health Minister nelson time the president jaya both sonora used the occasion to defend his controversial handling of the coronavirus pandemic not least his decision to fire his previous Health Minister louis debtor he refused to play down the risks of covert 19. History will judge us and i ask god that we are right the struggle to start opening up for business is a risk that i will take if it gets worse its on me what i believe and what lots of people are coming to realize is that the country has to work to not. Mandate who wanted to implement World Health Organization guidelines but both opposes social distancing measures when debt is sacking has worried brazilians. Its a bad idea because the guy was doing a good job hes the guy who reassured the people asking them to stay at home but he went against also not opinions and so bolton are on fire the guy. But others agree with the president that the economy and jobs must come 1st. My Company Closed a month ago but ill reopen it next monday i have no option i have 80 employees to go forward with respect to. More than 2000 brazilians have died so far from the corona virus making brazil the worst hit country in latin america in its worst affected state san paolo the governor extended the lockdown for another 3 weeks and warned the Health Care System is struggling to cope. The intensive care units of public and private hospitals are receiving a larger number of patients each day and we already have some Public Hospitals at the edge of their capacity the president and his new Health Minister want an end to the lockdown but Brazils Supreme Court says thats a decision of the state governors and city may as victoria gates be aljazeera. Well Health Officials in mexico are increasing calls for people to wash their hands regularly with soap and water to counter the spread of the corona virus that tens of thousands of residents in mexico citys poorest districts dont have running. Reports. Like millions of residents of mexico city.