Verifying their identity and we also have also seen videos of people being held at close quarters with no opportunity for physical distance thing not everyone was running a mosque also getting reports that children were also detained so the raids have apart from being criticised in humane theyve also been described as foolish for the 1st time in more than a month people in spain to be allowed to exercise and go for walks its part of the governments plan to ease the straits coronavirus lock down people can only get within one kilometer of. An experimental antiviral drug has been approved for emergency use in treaty coronavirus patients in the United States 1500000 vials of the drug rem disappear will be distributed to all spittles for monday a study showed the drug shortage recovery time. North koreas leader kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in nearly 3 weeks thats according to state media which broadcast images that it said showed kim opening a Fertilizer Factory as Robert Wright reports from seoul the speculation had been rife about the Leaders Health and well. In good spirits and seemingly in good health after disappearing from public view for nearly 3 weeks north Korean Leader kim jong un reemerged in style to open a fertilizer plant. The pictures on state run television said to be from an event on friday seemed to be north koreas answer to world the growing speculation about kims health. Online news sites and some news organizations have been quoting sources that said kim was gravely ill even brain dead after a surgical procedure gone wrong. It had led to concerns about a possible power vacuum and instability in the Nuclear Armed state and focused attention on kim sister kim go joan who attended this event as a possible successor to him she came to the worlds attention as the point person in north koreas Charm Offensive during the 2018 Winter Olympics in pyongyang. She continued to feature prominently as the smiling facilitator in the subsequent into korean dialogue and in the historic summit meetings with the United States he has. Enabled. And he. Fully. In south korea intelligence officials had urged caution about the Health Rumors saying they havent detected any unusual activity the pointed to a serious crisis south Koreas Unification Ministry has condemned what its called groundless content saying the speculation has caused unnecessary confusion and senior political figures here who dont even suggested that kim might have died off facing strong criticism. Opening this large fertilizer plant and not wearing a mask while being cheered by large crowds may also be part of north koreas wider message to the world that its feeding its people that it doesnt have any cases of the coronavirus and the kim is very much alive and in charge of macbride aljazeera so. At least 10 members of the Iraqi Paramilitary group the Popular Mobilization forces have been killed in 2 separate attacks by eisel fighters the northern town of mickys for was targeted overnight on friday in the province of sutton and the other attack happened in teletype. The update with headlines here on al jazeera weve got more news coming up right after coronavirus lessons from asia from really clark its quite its. One day when the covered 19 pandemic is history much time will be spent on retracing its origins and evolution and measuring its long time the facts but for now the corona virus is still a matter of life and death with many already mourning the loss of loved ones others fear they might be next billions of people around the world are in lockdown their lives on hold their jobs on the line economies are imploding Health Services are buckling under the strain and governments are struggling to find solutions to the biggest Global Challenge in decades so one question is uppermost whats the best route out of this crisis and answer could lie in east asia where covert 1001st of pitt and west states with varying degrees of success have tried different ways of defeating it. As witnessed by correspondents and for nations those distinct approaches might have something to teach us old. Its late march 2020 in beijing china. Of took over 1001st appeared in whom a province in december 21000 the countrys communist regime imposed unprecedented controls on its people putting major cities such as the capital and complete lockdown. Sebastian the bell see the 1st of all photojournalists has lived in beijing for over a decade for the last 2 months he has been in isolation with his wife and son now with no new cases reported here for almost a week those restrictions easing but not yet by much. Comes if you dont want us. To go on. A trip out is still Exceptional People are going for the. Restricted to once or twice a week. You know. Looking back about it. So that you must believe you say arsenault more with the new love of the number 2 man i was feeling like i dont want to commit we dont get. The surgery. Im only get lonely if i dont see you in my years on is almost. Every stuff hour i cant match play only to develop. It appear. On my own i said diana ross. Was she just impossible see a font she seen on the bus in. 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Local communist party cells have organized 24 hour surveillance for only Housing Units like this. It might seem heavy handed but officials has see it explains why they had been you know new cases in beijing since march 20th. Had all gone up by about a year when a dog alex tell you otherwise you dont this is no hostilely says it. Was a world leader who is with us but theres on the up you can sort of bumped into us fairly low man on the law about why it is on the day the book will evolve. Oclock used to do they believe they need to scribble but my guess also found they dont use last chance that a sucker. And i just dont fuss on no 10 we plus additional costs while they would like start your account then rama not with the person cal you relates plus a systematical count then young also when out of the Java Community it will then comes back your delegates are in there with. All of those men. China believes its tough restrictions have been crucial in bringing infection rates under control but other asian states have seen it differently. Taiwan lies just 150 kilometers of the coast of china yet its taken a radically different approach to the coronavirus and with some measure of success this island state of around 24000000 inhabitants has maintained its independence from the communist mainland of a 7 decades china in turn has long sought to assert its sovereignty and relations between the 2 strange even so around a 1000000 taiwanese move many work in china and so its strange that to date taiwan has only 400 reported 1000 cases and just half a dozen dance. Reporter lucy. Moved to the capital taipei just a few months ago but has been getting tips from her taiwanese flatmate about the states response to the virus apparent to claire and the social media there is a dog that gives you advice can you tell me more about it yes or the shiva dog is a very lovely character thats been put up by the best of health and welfare to let the public know what we should do so this is on social media and it tells us for example how we must wash our hands as often as possible. The government has been using digital mascots like a song try the dog to continually reinforce its public messaging on health and hygiene. But crucially these instructions began last december well before other countries around the world woke up to the corona virus threat. By the end of that month taiwan was already quarantining at passengers from han capital of chinas hu bay province and at the center of the epidemic on the mainland. A few weeks later it closed its quotas completely to all chinese citizens. At the same time the country launched a massive production of face masks. There how you know. That and you dont pay for your food you know. The feed you know you can buy a. Ticket but. You havent bought the. Fact. That founded by a young son because you talked about that if you think that i do. I think right now that i dont i think so i am not down on the roof because on people if you talk you are only looking. At your job. To ensure that mosques for the entire population would always be available the. Government mobilized whole sections of the islands manufacturing industry. To get some sense of how effective that effort has been lucy again direct access to one of the countrys major mosque produces. Yeah. This has all the talk what it does it is a new book if it were. To get to the Production Center lucy has to pass through several alex the factories at is being checked for bacteria several times a day production lines have been running at full speed and since december. Well we have a close share plenty of all of them are every day we have a 700. 00 holden. Mass it will be. Solid argument. To prevent any delays in this process the taiwanese government has been supplying room materials directly to manufacture as soldiers have even been trained as backups to factory weapons it means taiwan can now produce an incredible 10000000 mosques a day. As lucy leaves she gets an insight into how the authorities are keeping the pressure up hourly production check ups by the police. So that the bodies that were checked. Out no one seems that vaulted by the supervision. Of. A century or so journalists and to the police to help to the government help to specify terri can get on but do it in a mask very comfortable. As such early attention to detail may be key to understanding taiwan success so far in keeping the coronavirus under control its government anticipated the crisis before others were aware of it and now taiwan is even able to export mosques once again. A couple of hours away by plane lies another asian nation to have Won International respect for its approach the coronavirus south korea. Its Tuesday Morning and going on a no then some of the capital seoul. 50 year old can be young sue is at the wheel of his car on the way to a rather unusual appointment with her man for the men there. And that. Then a war is over with. A lot of the on in him in a Municipal Parking lot you can be tested to see if youre infected by kovac 1000 anyone can have it done without even getting out of the car. Will get up off. The lot there are a lot of young men. There when theyre trying to talk to him and you doing ground. On ones you know turkish siren netrebko you know turn your hearing come from one. Kind of. Turncoat or come one on one you no longer hear tongues from the one to turn and you know. Young sue has been feeling a little feverish and thats why hes decided to be tested. Hes checked at the 2nd stop. On. The warm old malt. Home form before. Before going in. Would lose it and no more reasonable comes to kill you. Then youll be a full board it wont make more than a comeback. After the flood stop and its a doctors examination. Protection of the staff will. Go on and. On for the. All. At stop number 4 song polls are taken and. Put on the woman. For. Her to get out iow. I have. Only been looking over your. Way all along this to get. Them to move on to the 2001 uses you know theres a. Good hold on to become some die off. Over. The rest of. Its 24 hours later and can be on sue is waiting for his test results. Everybody knows all was out of the piston to bother with us media for you know with the rules for use and theyre going to. Come near me she does it just and. Kim young soon wants to take us to his local town hall and show us how the authorities have been going to use to mass screening. But before going into the building he encounters something new. That. Once inside there is more to come the more cameras monitoring your temperature. Anyone over 37. 5 heres what happens. When the couple little ones will just hop on to a little bit of the food. Off the television but. Going to town hall is disinfected several times a day which allows Public Services to carry on almost normally. The mayor has set up one of the countrys 1st Testing Centers for the towns inhabitants. And her fellow 00010 will be. Brought in there when the when will have all but on the bottom of the japan. Are you to the point where were talking under us in the know in the with a bottom can go to the toilet in the hall so good tell us and get them when asked how long are the talks on that can go. On top of testing the authorities continually disinfect streets public transport and all Public Places some studies have shown that the virus can live up to 2 weeks in the environment. At Pedestrian Crossing points there is usually a supplier Hand Sanitizer available. By the end of march 2020 after being hit with large numbers of early infections south koreas emphasis on testing tracing and containment had apparently brought the outbreak back under control that same month a 1000 miles to the east of tokyo it was a very different story. Japan was the 1st country off to china to be affected by the virus in january when the cruise ship diamond princess docked in yokohama many feared covert 19 with then get quickly out of control. But by the time this film was being produced in march those fears had subsided for the moment. With less than 2000 cases and only 40 deaths it seems that japan had escaped the worst. Constantine simone and his family came to live here 2 years ago. Right now. They have the media. But was unable to cope with them is all or most of it will give us a call that is all for and then theres a load of pm what is it good for for me. And what i want to call closing schools was the only early restricted measure taken by japanese authorities so that. Well that. Makes it here. But it would. Leave. Since january the japanese government has insisted it has matters under control yet theres growing skepticism. By the words of the said anything is up for days. Before. The game that was up was a good sources given is given a double of all. By see. It with other law and. Its given that. We war says this because it could even. Get as you would your boss to. Know what. I missed out of but. If the lack of widespread rigorous testing hasnt yet caused alarm other matters have. Only ever. Associate kissing deaths 80 or at least 20 because it would hit the public. But if. We were about all the perfect paul there i dont care about color. Your point is simply bullshit when there are. Major that. d japan has lived through many natural catastrophes as well as crises like the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear disaster which might explain this fatalism. Certainly global im citing about the coronavirus panic has yet to have much effect on the crowded streets of tokyo. But i want to see where ya go for a good look youll see here was my national. Constantine heads next to rubys a neighborhood bar that never sleeps. As on every weekend the place is crowded. With. People tightly packed as the party goes on its an unimaginable seen elsewhere in the world. To an outside it seems reckless and irresponsible but these young people dont have a death wish they believe their duty is to go on living. I must not say that it is god. I mean i do not. Like the tell the taliban to look at it. Because the feel that you should have given. Me. On the terrace outside even the balls not just seems unaffected by coronavirus concerns. So that this is for cool how i must be better go ouch no change because of Global Cooling i mean this. Is good for us and yeah. Yeah it was a doesnt care about. It and care about yeah but. I know that constantine has a penchant on the face mask for protection but hes selfconscious about wearing it washers. Remeasure well by. I dont. Know where they were when that was ok i guess about that that was a little bit from us. One night in a rowdy tokyo combi taken as representing the attitudes of all of japan. But it is still hard to understand why the coronavirus hasnt caused more anxiety can. Impart to chinas restrictions in south koreas testing and taiwanese discipline all seem to be paying off but will japan pay a high price for its laid back approach. 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