Held accountable. And on the 50th anniversary of earth day can Lessons Learned from the pandemic help focus our minds in the fight against climate change. Hello more than 2600000 infections and over 182000 deaths the coronavirus pandemic has shut down countries rule life the birds and raised fears of a global recession but as the outbreak slows and some of the worst hit countries the World Health Organization is now warning of the virus is only just beginning to take hold in other parts of the worlds a particular concern is africa where the European Union is aiming to set up a humanitarian air bridge to help move aid and equipment most of the epitome exceed western europe appears to be stable or declining. Although numbers are low we see warming upward trend you know up 3 central and south america and Eastern Europe most countryside is still in the early stages of their ex and so that we have affected early in the fundamental gotta know starting to see a resurgence in cases well as u. S. States move ahead with plans to reopen their economies their new warnings of a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the winter the director of the countrys centers for Disease Control and prevention says the situation will be far more severe because its likely to coincide with the start of the flu season and having to several changes outbreaks would be a massive burden on the Health Care System and individuals who develop antibodies it will have protective immunity the question is how long but this is going to be the critical question that we will answer between now and next year when its very likely that were going to have another. Wrestling match with this virus as it comes back and were going to have another battle with it you know aggressively next next winter for the u. S. President is set to do rather to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend the immigration saying he needs to protect american lives and jobs from coronavirus meanwhile tens of thousands of migrants among them Asylum Seekers are waiting along the countrys southern border with their paperwork hoping they will be able to cross into the United States they fear they will have to wait longer for their cases to be heard trom span is the latest in a string of moves made during his administration aiming to curb immigration one of his longstanding election promises lets go live to mike hanna hes joining us from washington d. C. And as we wait for trump to come out and speak with the Coronavirus Task force he is expected to sign an executive order on immigration so where are we on that. Well we havent moved any further than earlier when but basically President Trump was saying that he would be signing this executive order in the course of the day we do understand while were waiting for this news briefing that members of his administration are still continuing to work to draft the executive order self to explain exactly what the president means because thats not very clear either what we understand from what the president has publicly said up to this point is that it will be imposed for a 30 day period and will then be reviewed the president has also said it will not apply to those visiting the u. S. On a temporary basis but will be applying on those who are seeking permanent residence in the country so certainly this is given rise to intense criticism that something that essentially has nothing to do with Public Health or employment is being used as yet another device by a president trying to advance an agenda which he has done throughout his administration and that is change exactly who gets to be a u. S. Citizen now an important point as well in the course of the day the report that early coronavirus cases were discovered in santa sent said to county and there the 1st cases with every the 6 but what was important about this apart from changing the timeline within the United States is that they were shown to have been infected within a Community Travel had nothing to do with infection according to the metal in medical examiners so this once again giving rise and giving weight to those who are criticizing President Trump for introducing a ban which would have little impact on unemployment or indeed on Public Health and of course mike weve also heard a warning from the c. D. C. Chief who is now saying that the coronavirus combined with the season of flu could be much worse next year thats a stark warning. That is a stark warning coming from the director of the centers for Disease Control robert red field whos repeated this point a number of times in the course of the day and this is significant too because President Trump has pushed back sharply against the comment saying initially and tweeting in the course of the morning that this was fake news which was put out by c. N. N. Well firstly the initial interview was actually with the Washington Post so c. N. N. Reported the Washington Post interview so President Trump was wrong on that particular comment but importantly too is this is just yet another example of the president pushing back against scientists who disagree with what he wants to do President Trump has insisted he wants to be the cheerleader he continues to assure americans that this pandemic is being dealt with and its happened in the past where a c. D. C. Official warmed early in february that schools would have to be closed that the pandemic was looming President Trump on his way back from india was absolutely furious about this the meeting that had been scheduled for him to have them egypt he got back from india was canceled and pushed back for 3 weeks the c. D. C. Official herself who made the Solutions Statement was basically pushed aside within the organization so here once again we are seeing President Trumps anger and pushback at any scientists to give something against the kind of message that President Trump is wanting to put out which no doubt he will be continuing to put out when this News Conference does get underway all right mike hanna will speak to you then thank you for the time being while new york the epicenter of the u. S. Corona Virus Outbreak is ramping up its testing capabilities to better understand how many people have been infected and who can safely go back to work Governor Andrew Cuomo said that restrictions could remain in place until they know more about the virus christmas salumi has more. With strict social distancing measures in place new york has seen its corona virus infection rates slow the state has recorded about a quarter 1000000 cases overall a 3rd of all of those in the United StatesGovernor Andrew Cuomo says more testing will be necessary to safely loosen restrictions you dont know how many people were infected you dont know what is happening on the infection rate spread all you know is the hospitalization rate so testing will give you 1st of all more data on how fast the an infection is spreading and how fast its spreading where im going to go you know while diagnostic tests like this reveal an active infection blood test can reveal who has developed antibodies thought to offer some immunity for the disease to recent studies in california suggest exposure to the corona virus and therefore immunity may be more widespread than thought but scientists caution its too soon to draw conclusions its really important and if were going to be making conclusions about the prevalence in a Larger Population that we have to sample that population without introducing extra bias so while that say is important we should not take that as a i am a word for true prevalence in our Community New york has begun ramping up its capacity to be able to process 40000 coronavirus tests per day this week that apartment help also began approaching people outside of Grocery Stores like this to randomly collect 3000 blood samples and test them for antibodies in the rush to do more testing the accuracy of some brands has been called into question and experts from the World Health Organization as well as the Top Administration say the antibodies themselves need further testing nobody is sure but with antibodies is fully protected against having the disease or being exposed to get some of the taste of. Issues essential to the may give a false negative result but as the Economic Cost of fighting the disease continues to mount state authorities are under enormous pressure to find a pathway out of the lockdown as safely and as quickly as possible kristyn salumi al jazeera new york or virus cases are still on the rise across europe as countries grapple with measures to contain its spread spain is debating whether to extend its lockdown but other nations have taken small steps to ease restrictions here in the u. K. The governments faced criticism or over its testing strategy as the official death toll crosses 18000. 00 son to go has more on the situation across europe the house of commons normally rowdy for wednesdays Prime Ministers questions resumed its business and social distancing firmly in place without Boris Johnson at the helm in his place the foreign secretary since the start of the outbreak we delivered 1000000000. 00 items of personal protective equipment and tens of millions have been distributed via the devolved administrations but we break away from that report to take in light of the white house in the us President Donald Trump as well as the Coronavirus Task forces speaking on the pandemic lets listen and lot of. Tremendous things happening the number of new positive cases continue to decline nationwide. Recent hosp otts appear to be stabilizing the hot spots are. In some cases very interesting whats going on and theyre going down theyre going in the right direction cases in the boston area now declining the chicago curve appears to have flattened which is terrific in detroit is past its peak. These trends demonstrate that our aggressive strategy to battle the virus is working and that more states will soon be in a position to gradually and safely reopen its very exciting it was very exciting even today watching and seeing whats happening and people are getting ready and theyre all excited i do want to mention manderson a very good job for us dr Robert Redfield was totally misquoted in the media on a statement about the fall season and the virus totally misquoted i spoke to him he said it was ridiculous he was talking about the flu and corona. Coming together at the same time. And corona could be just some little flare ups that will take care of when to knock it out will not get out fast but thats what he was referring to coming together at the same time and i think rather than waiting id ask. Dr redfield to come up say a couple of words just to straighten that out because he didnt say it was a big a big explosion in the headline in the Washington Post was totally inaccurate the statement wasnt bad in the post but the headline was ridiculous which is as i say thats fake news and c. N. N. Is fake is like crazy and they had just totally the rocks are which they knew they were asked to change it and they wouldnt do that. And it was for also a list actor redfield who is you know a real professional to come up and explain please. Thank you mr president and i really do think its important to clarify this as we build the confidence of the American People when i commented yesterday that there was a possibility of the fall winter. Next fall winter could be more difficult difficult more complicated and we had 2 respiratory illnesses circulate at the same time influenza and the corona virus 19 but i think its really important to emphasize what i didnt say i didnt say that this was going to be worse i said it was going to be more complicate our more difficult and potentially complicated because well have flu and corona virus circulating at the same time i want to emphasize that we continue to build the nations Public Health infrastructure to ensure that we have the capacity to stay in the containment mode those of you heard me talk before i told you that in january and february up to february 27th 28 this nation had 14 cases we were in the containment mode and then unfortunately the virus overwhelm. Well we got into supreme in mitigation we are building that Public HealthCare Capacity now to make sure that we stay in the containment mode for the upcoming fall and winter season so we will not need to resort to the kind of mitigation that we had to this spring i have confidence that our Public Health response of really case recognition that weve talked about isolation and contact racing combined with our plans for increased surveillance particularly in for the most vulnerable will be an effective Public Health strategy so our nation will be able to maintain itself in the containment mode and again that will be supported by the American Publics continued cooperation obviously in the areas of personal hygiene and the types of social distancing strategies that may be appropriate the key. To my comments and the reason that i really wanted to stress them was to appeal to the American Public to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence one of the greatest tools we have as we go through the fall winter season that were into is to get the American Public to embrace the influenza vaccine and thereby minimize the impact of flu to be the co respiratory disease that we confront thank you very much for your field. He was misquoted. He said they could come together that in talk about that and his whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot so that next fall we dont have such a big seasonal flu and we possibly wont but as you said this its possible if the corona even comes back and he doesnt know that its going to and neither do i we spoke at great length and i think the doctor will speak if youd like to continue but we may have some embers and were going to put them out of corona but we may have a big. Who sees it but thats different flues very different from corona who follow ok so i feel for you and the Washington Post which you did the interview with i think or do you were saying theres a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be much even more difficult than the one we just went through and when i said this to others they kind of put their head bar they dont understand what i mean were going to have the flu epidemic and the prone to virus september just the same time is that what you said to the Washington Post yeah thats what i was trying to say to you just a minute ago that the issue that i was talking about about being more difficult is that were going to have 2 viruses circulate the same time this spring that we just went through february we had the benefit of having the flu season ended so we could use all our flu Surveillance Systems to say well this is grown of ours we need to focus next fall and and winter were going to have 2 viruses circulating and were going to have to distinguish between which is flu and which is the corona virus and so the comment that i made its more difficult doesnt mean its will be more impossible doesnt mean its going to be more as some people said worse it just means good more difficult because we have to distinguish between the 2 and what i was wanting to do and what i want to do again here is appeal to the American Public to recognize they can really help like they did with mitigation which they really hoped i need them to help now the best prepare us for getting the flu vaccine in taking flu out of the picture for well what are you going to have to come. Up with for them for what that whatever your rights are so well from the Washington Post you were accurately quoted america really quoted in the Washington Post as difficult. But the headline was never. The headline the headline says c. D. C. Director warned 2nd wave her fires. Likely to be even more devastating it is that when you see. What he said shortly if you have the 2 things i want is i actually think its actually going to be i think the American Public is going to heed the request to really look at their vaccine has and see the vaccine with confidence for flu and im confident that the Public Health infrastructure that were putting together now across this country so that we can early case they diagnose eiseley and Contact Trace as i say a block and tackle block and tackle that system is going to be there and were going to be able to contain this fire was the right thing and they are a part of the theory that if you youre. Right