Pandemic with no sign of a return to Global Travel any time soon. The fallout from the current virus is having an impact across the americas and putting leaders under mounting pressure to contain the outbreak Brazils Health minister has resigned less than a month into the job had only just replaced another Health Minister who was fired over tensions with president terrible sonar on how to handle this pandemic in chile a surge in new cases has forced the government to put santiago under lockdown they only infections in the city of risen by 500 percent in 2 weeks and that the u. S. The house of representatives has narrowly or proved a 3 trillion dollar relief package President Trump says a vaccine will be ready by the end of the year but Health Experts say that is not realistic. He has more on the situation in latin america. Nelson stepped down as brazils minister of health after just weeks in the job as president became increasingly at odds on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Repeated lee criticized his minister s. Too timid in his efforts to reopen the economy the last straw came after the president issued at the create a clearing gyms in beauty parlors essential businesses without consulting him but in his Farewell Press Conference to refrain from criticizing the president life is made of choices and today i chose to leave i tell you that i gave the best of me during the period i spent here its not a simple thing to lead a Ministry Like this one in such a difficult time. Is the 2nd Health Minister to leave his post since the start of the crisis his predecessor. Was fired in april for resisting also now risk promotion of an unproven drug to cure could be 19 and his unwillingness to impose social distancing orders all this happening as brazil passes france in germany and the number of confirmed cases and the daily death tolls keeps getting higher. The governor of the state of lockdown remains in place despite the president s wishes as we knew this attack. President remember that so far 14000 brazilians have lost their lives we are not in the game we are facing a serious crisis of health lost in the economy. But if brazil situation seems increasingly dire it doesnt look much better in mexico where infections are growing at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic. Despite that president Lopez Obrador announced a partial reopening starting a monday assuring its people that the pekin infections are has been reached john. We are at the point where we are beginning to have fewer cases but we have to be careful and not take it easy yet friday clowns appeared at various mexico city metro stations making sure passengers wear a mask wash their hands in maintain social distancing but whats clear across the region as latin america enters the worst phase of the pandemic is that this is no laughing matter alison and al jazeera. Tell us a terrorist from the Woodrow Wilson center in washington d. C. Explains brazil contained become the worlds 2nd most infected country. Both are not a will not change his attitude he cannot do it he is incapable of understanding the severity of this he thinks its all a ploy against him. And the fact the matter is however that brazil is had that in a very awful direction brazil could become in a few weeks time the 2nd largest coal the country in the world in the slums of rio in the slums of some power all of all other major cities in brazil that happens to have 30200 and. 10000000 people. And all of this could be catastrophic is already catastrophic in cities like my mouse the heart of the amazon and the man doesnt seem to understand this law hopefully someone near him will be able to explain the severity of the crisis to mr ball so much. Stepped up restrictions on the capital santiago as Health Care Workers deal with an upsurge in cases of covert 19 a lot america at all see in him and reports from santa. Air force planes airlifted patients from chiles capital to hospitals in faraway cities while in santiago all ambulances waited would see patients outside the hospital emergency room entrances for up to 10 hours tens of thousands of residents ignored calls for social distancing as they chewed for essential goods ahead of the start of the total lockdown something president s of us camping it ahead said wouldnt be necessary. But the explosion of crude 19 infections in the capital up by more than 500 percent in 2 weeks dashed his hopes of control in contagion without shutting down the economy. We are fully aware of the difficulties the restrictions and the shortages that a lockdown means for the chilean families were going to make the up mice if it to facilitate food medicine and other basic services german the quarantining might pull it out. Receiving an emergency shipment of ventilators at the airport the president appealed to opponents to unite in the face of a monumental threat behind me is the entrance to sunflowers general cemetery inside grave diggers have been working around the clock in order to meet and in fact surpass their yearly quota of tools in order to be prepared for the worst but many people believe it several have come to this so. The government had boasted that chile was doing better than its neighbors ignoring earlier pleas from doctors and mayors like rudolph or carter to declare a total lockdown before infections got out of control. We have to say it very clearly without panicking that these next 2 weeks are going to be the hardest speaks in the history of chile since the 1973 cool were going to have dead people youre going to have hurt families. Police will be on the lookout not just for those who violate the quarantine but the traffickers who are using Delivery Services which are allowed to circulate as the perfect cover for distributing Illegal Drugs chilies antinarcotic squads have already made more than 200. 00 arrests. They misuse well known brands of Delivery Services to deliver drugs instead of food or medicine why because a policeman probably wont suspect a delivery man on a bicycle thats why were cyber patrolling the social networks to try and identify the traffickers on. The battle to stop people from violating or abusing the quarantine is on now the chilis doing good most agree is the right thing but not necessarily soon enough you see in human aljazeera santiago. A 3 trillion dollar package aimed at helping those struggling to deal with the fallout from the pandemic has passed its 1st hurdle in the u. S. But President Donald Trump is threatening to veto it i did jocasta reports its at no time since the Great Depression have such a large number of americans sought help after losing their jobs and never in u. S. History has their spending at stores and restaurants fallen so quickly and so far now some of the members say lets take a pause lets take a pause do you think this virus is taking a pause do you think that the rent takes a pause do you think that putting food on the table and or the hunger that comes if you cant take a pause House Democrats advance yet another coronavirus rescue package on friday the 5th of a pandemic this one totaling 3 trillion dollars it seeks to extend Unemployment Benefits and send more checks to American Families and would bail out the Postal Service and address Election Security republicans who control the senate have called it a partisan ideological wish list that will never become law the senate will not consider this bill the president will not sign it into a wall speaking from the white house rose garden into a background symphony of Truck Drivers protesting his handling of the pandemic President Trump announced the formation of a Fast Track Program to develop a vaccine and have 300000000 doses available by january when a vaccine is ready the u. S. Government will deploy every plane druck instilled required to help distribute it to the American People as quickly as possible but trump into sized that with or without the vaccine the u. S. Economy is ready to restart thats contrary to the advice of Government Health officials whove warned reopening too soon could trigger another outbreak now people get a little antsy with the mass. They really want to come out more than 2 thirds of us states have now canceled or significantly relaxed stay at home orders now as more people and their weeks of social isolation its far from clear how safe is the world they venture into. Castro aljazeera Silver Spring maryland author is professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University just criticize trops plan to fast track a back saying this timeline is quite ambitious its quite a stretch actually i think even the the other. Estimations of a year or 18 months to the development of the vaccine were already quite ambitious so the great fear is that we dont want to cut any corners in the development of a vaccine its absolutely critical that the vaccine the xan to be safe and then also be demonstrated to be effective there is no point in having a vaccine that is not safe and that does not work so i think most importantly is to stick to the science and do the studies that need to be done to get us to a safe and effective vaccine whats critical is 1st identify the candidate vaccines that meaning the molecules that look promising as a vaccine either in the laboratory or an Animal Studies then the next step is to take this product this candid vaccine and test it 1st in a limited number of people to demonstrate that at least is safe in humans if its proven to be safe in humans in a small number of individuals then we move to the 2nd phase of the development of the vaccine and that is when its tested and larger group of individuals and hopefully then to see again and see if and then to begin to see if there is any evidence that it actually works and this process takes several months. When u. S. President trump is firing a key government watchdog who is reportedly investigating the secretary of state might pompei o President Trump said state Department Inspector general steve levitt no longer had his confidence is the latest in a series of moves against n. Dependent watchdogs critical of the Trump Administration a nickle be replaced by stephen a card hes an ally of Vice President mike pence. Still ahead on aljazeera a protesters in the u. S. State of arizona say the end of its lockdown will have deadly consequences. Had there had some very heavy rain push across southern areas of europe over the last a day or 2 you can see here on the satellite well see as a seen plenty of cloud and this has been bringing more very heavy amounts of rain and just look at this this is what the rain has done in simulacra this is actually about 5 days of rain a consecutive days but totaling about 145 millimeters so perhaps not surprising scenes like this but also trees a come down the winds were pretty strong at times as well and you can see by day even that the rain is still very much of the water should say still very much on the streets of some more rain in the forecast and id imagine no rain is really welcome but not as heavy as we have seen it again trading down into all central and eastern areas of spain really across much of europe its largely dry but weve got a fair amount of cloud about singles a touch is still a little bit on the low side for this time of year morena some strong winds maybe some mountain snow pushing into areas of norway but where we have got the warm air is across the southeast book arrest on into athens and in fact the temperatures here about 8 or so degrees above the average for this time of year now through sunday it stays warm across much of the southeast tom it is beginning to improve across into areas of spain the cloud is clearing but you know shes rain pushing into northern sections of the u. K. Generally a caddy picture and a high of 90 in london. Throughout history human can hide has come together to prevail in our darkest hour this is a moment for pretty much the odds are you. Saving humankind by really. Really not getting new every generation has its moments where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after. This one hours. Watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories right now Brazils Health minister has quit less than one month into the job is the 2nd helping a star to leave the post after criticizing president her boss enormous response to the pandemic at least 8000000 people in greater santiago are in lockdown after a surge in infections and capital in the past 2 weeks under the new rules people will need a police car mitt to leave home. And u. S. President donald trump is threatening to veto a 3 trillion dollars support package for those affected by the pandemic its been voted through the house of representatives. And many states in the u. S. Are reopening parts of their economies despite public Health Experts warning that it will lead to a surge in deaths from cobra 19 arizona is one such state but as robin also report some people are opposing the move. Demonstrators lay body bags on the grounds of the Arizona State capitol in phoenix they are protesting republican governor doug do seize decision to lift covert 9000 restrictions on restaurants jim sent other businesses among the demonstrators practicing social distancing was retired Health Care Safety officer sharlee shape berger were frustrated with governors in scenes decision putting the body bags out there with the grim reaper was very difficult because we think its clearly didnt happen to see says the time is right for gradual reopening this is a green light to continue Going Forward on the way out of this pandemic now this is not a green light to speed. This is a green light to proceed and were going to proceed with caution President Donald Trump is pushing to reopen the u. S. Economy despite warnings from Health Officials like Dr Anthony Fauci but a large majority of people do not fully agree with do c. Or trump a new poll shows more than 80 percent of arizona say theyre not ready to return to gyms restaurants hair salons and other public spaces those results are similar to nationwide polls more than 150 arizona Business Owners signed an online letter saying it is too soon to reopen arizona Award Winning chef and restaurant tour Charlene Badman says the risks to her customers and staff are far too great you know with possibility that many both say theyre frustrated with the media and widespread misinformation its still out there that dont believe this is is real and press is getting a lot of attention since the people who want to reopen opponents of early reopening fear it will lead to another outbreak which will then force officials to clamp down again magnifying the economic damage as tests on all situation. And nobody wants their grandmothers and i would think. Certainly not so they can go home and to date more than 620 arizona nz have died from covert 19 and the number of new infections is rising set to reopen this weekend movie theaters rob reynolds aljazeera. The Us Department store chain j. C. Penney has become the latest corporate casualty of the pandemic and its now the 4th major american retailer to file for bankruptcy protection the company has almost 850 branches and employs 90000 people had been suffering from financial problems for some time and a lockdown made things worse. General intending to terrorists as the only way to defeat the virus is their International Solidarity and unity seeing the covert 1000 years shown 0 for a drive the world these we are not able to fight effectively of items like the koran of idols and that we would need unity and solidarity to defeat the koran of unfortunately there is no unit and that is not enough so that it is specially the developing world we see now the vital spreading in africa in latin america in some other parts of asia and unfortunately the east germans will be needed to help those countries defeat the vitals protect their populations and limit the metric economic and social effects on their people those estimates of solidarity have been very scarce and indeed there has been a division of the vision 1st of all different strategies of Different Countries not effective coordination of the actions to the feet of the vitals and the past 3 weeks several countries have reported cases of children being hospitalized or dying from inflammatory illness similar to the rare callous hockeys disease but Health Organization says that studying a possible link possible link that is between coburn 1000 and this illness reports from europe and north america describe a small number of children being admitted to intensive care units with a multisystem inflammatory condition with some future is similar to coerce diseases and talks of shocks in the initial reports hypothesize that this syndrome may be related to 19. Its critical door to gently and carefully conduct our use disk legal syndrom to understand goes early tea and to describe treatment interventions thailand has reported no new cases and no new deaths as it starts to lift more restrictions from sunday its nightly curfew will be shorter and malls gyms and museums and some other businesses will be a