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People around the world are facing the prospect of new coronavirus lock downs and restrictions that as the number of infections grows rapidly and governments struggle to contain the spread of the virus globally the number of confirmed cases is edging closer to 18000000 many countries once thought to have been in control of the outbreak seeing a surge in infections in hong kong hospitals are reaching their capacity as it battles a socalled 3rd wave now Health Workers from Mainland China have been sent in to help us as a serious to vehicle pollen reports now their arrival is causing concern. Hundreds of beds ready for patients a hole next to the International Airport once used for exhibitions and conventions now converted to a hospital hong kong is facing its 3rd and worst wave of corona virus with daily new infections in the triple digits the government says hospitals are reaching capacity Testing Centers are overwhelmed and so Health Workers and experts from Mainland China have stepped in to help their woman say she was compartments we understand the feelings of residents in one cong so we were deploying medical teams to support them 7 medics from a 60 strong team are the 1st to arrive from neighboring Guangdong Province they will be based at the makeshift hospital at the asia world expo at the height of the outbreak in Mainland China experts built temporary hospitals from the ground up in record time to treat thousands of patients it is that expertise the Hong Kong Government says it is drawing on but many are also questioning why the city would need external help given it had managed to swiftly and successfully contain previous outbreaks critics say the public were not consulted and the decision to bring mainland experts bypass the Legislative Council some activists have voiced concern that this is just another way for beijing to interfere in hong kongs affairs. The governments plan to offer free testing for all of the people in the territory has also raised suspicion with some in social media alleging this could be a way for beijing to access peoples d. N. A. Samples for surveillance purposes but many of hong kongs Health Professionals have welcomed the extra help from power mongers our staff has almost been working around the clock and its good to hear that the Central Government will dispatch professionals to share our workload and more mainland assistance is on the way 6 experts from move on the city where the virus 1st surfaced last year will help build a coronavirus facility from scratch to compliment the asia world expo site. This is the 1st time mainland officials have assisted in hong kongs battle to control the current Virus Outbreak while it may have divided opinion with the territory under its strictest and most restrictive social distancing measures yet many years say they are united in their determination to overcome the latest outbreak. Of hong kong. In the u. K. Media reports suggest the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is planning to drastically slow down plans to ease coronavirus restrictions johnson is believed to be working up a plan to avoid a 2nd nationwide lockdown the economy has been opening up over the last month but new restrictions were imposed in Northern Areas on friday after a spike in inspections of zeros john a whole joins us now by have from soho in Central London john a looks moderately busy for a sunday afternoon in london how concerned are people that there will be a 2nd wave. I think theyre reading the reports just as we are dont think were quite at that moment yet where there will be inevitably a 2nd wave nor that there will be inevitably a 2nd lockdown but i hope so i think certainly that the worst of the crisis is behind the u. K. This august are fading infection rates are rising for the 1st time since may and the promise to Boris Johnson has warned that he and the government may well have to go further than the localised restrictions you were talking about there in place to try and control local spikes people are certainly worried businesses are certainly worried take a look at the scene behind me ill step out of it so you have a look soho normally a parsing Entertainment District full of londoners locals and tourists while there are no tourists around at the moment few londoners or not all londoners by any means are venturing out now the pubs bars and restaurants that were allowed to open now have their tables and chairs spilling out onto the pavement and onto the roads desperate for custom but while it looks busy a lot of those tables are actually. Empty these are businesses that survive the 1st lockdown that are now operating on the thinnest of margins just to try and stay alive a lot of Business Owners warn that many of them wont survive a 2nd just looking at those people behind you not not many of them Wearing Masks journo you compare that to to many other countries here in castle where i am for instance if you go out everybody is wearing a mask on the street i mean whats going to take to avoid a 2nd locked out. Well its a 3 point you mention there because Boris Johnson has said and scientists have said that a 2nd lockdown can be avoided if people follow the rules the problem is the rules are pretty diffuse quite confusing a lot of people only 14 percent of adults in fact 14 percent actually have according to local polls a very good defined idea of what they are funny enough theyre not required here to wear masks in the open the wearing of mosques has become more widely mandated in indoor settings but not outdoors as things stand at the stand at the moment those infection rates rising if they continue to rise the Prime Minister it is reported here has called for a plan to be set up for a london wide lockdown as a sort of precursor or to try and avoid a full National Knock down with reports that movement might be restricted in and out of the m 25 ring road people over the age of 50 considered more vulnerable to the virus might be asked to shelter at home and of course schools are due to open in september scientists are warning any further opening of the economy may entail parts of the economy shutting down again the fingers being pointed at the Hospitality Industry some of these businesses may have to close their doors as the price of getting children back into schools and as a already gossiping for life that may well mean that some of these businesses dont survive are deserved journal reporting live from soho in Central London journal many thanks indeed. In belgium the number of corona virus infections over the past month around half of all new cases are in and a nighttime curfew has been imposed on the port city and social distancing rules are in place. Reports. Calm on the streets of one of the biggest port cities in europe with people enjoying shops and restaurants but is facing a crisis its reported the highest number of new covert 19 cases in belgium authorities have imposed a lockdown wearing a mask in public is now compulsory and limits have been put on the number of people who can meet up im really disappointed when i see people in the streets there must be. Even a lot of people they just dont do that so ive done this for the 1st time since world war 2 a nighttime curfew has been enforced to reduce crowd numbers nearly 2000000 people have to stay indoors from 11 30 pm to 6 am a doubling of the bar owners say it may affect their businesses for the long term. Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to continue working so its more of a social lockdown than an economic one but the tighten measures in and will make it difficult for us to make profit. Daily infections in belgium have risen by 77 percent over the past week and thats putting many people on edge salling because. Personally i understand images that said they were in some forced. Because i could see 1st hand that they couldnt keep their behavior in line people like to do is they place and trips governor blames the surge on relaxed rules and people engaging more in leisure activities she urges people to avoid coming to the city. Belief vigilante needs please dont leave town to Party Somewhere Else or the other way around we advise people against coming to the antwerp area its in the interest of your own health and the health of all those who are. In. But despite calls to limit travel many people are going to other parts of the country like the seaside town of ostend to enjoy what they can of the summer holidays. More than 66000 people have been infected in belgium and nearly 10000 have died the rise a new case is across all age groups while the government says it wants to avoid a full lockdown in antwerp many experts say imposing tougher measures faster may be the only way to counter the outbreak really mohammed al jazeera. The outbreak in latin america shows no sign of easing the number of coronavirus thats across the region has doubled in just over a month to more than 200000. 00 mexico has overtaken the u. K. And recording the 3rd highest number of fatalities after the u. S. In brazil and its been reporting record numbers of infections in recent days the government began to lift restrictions in may in order to restart the economy lets go live out of mexico city to. Apollo. Is there any sense in mexico that things could be about to improve. Mexico has become a major hotspot in the world when it comes to contagion and given the latest numbers that were seeing the latest daily new cases that were seeing adrian i would think that the short answer is no ill run through the latest numbers according to Johns HopkinsUniversity Mexico has 434193 confirmed cases 47472 confirmed deaths even though we know that authorities even have admitted that the real cities dicks are likely higher admitting that they have not done enough in terms of testing testing is being increased but we know that the number is likely much higher than whats being reported now on saturday mexico reported the high is a new daily record for new contagion with 9556 new cases and a lot of this you know boils down to leadership is what were hearing from Health Policy experts what were hearing from people day to day theres a lot of criticism over the handling by the federal government a lot of criticism of mexicos president on this matter looked as over the top who for over a month now has been consistently repeating that the worst is over that the that that the worst of the pandemic in the worst of the Economic Impact is over but what were seeing in terms of the statistics paints a completely different picture. Many parts of the country including here in mexico city began reopening on july 1st many people many Non Essential Services are now open people out on the streets not a lot of people Wearing Masks there is nothing mandatory in terms of containment strategy so the sense that were getting from Public Health experts is that its almost inevitable for a return to a lockdown given the a recent spike in contagion here in mexico but how does mexico compare to the rest of the region in terms of at least the containment strategy model. Latin america in general is being seen as a major hotspot for contagion almost the new epperson epicenter globally for the corona Virus Outbreak the region as a whole has surpassed 200000 confirmed deaths this week if you if you count the americas in general and you look at the United States mexico and brazil which now lead the region with 70 percent of the deaths in the region you can really paints a very troubling picture and even more so are these sort of disheartening warnings that were hearing from World Health Officials at the World Health Organization officials with the World Food Program that are issuing warnings regarding poverty regarding hunger there is an expectation that the latin America Region in general has lost about 10 years worth of poverty relief efforts 10 years in g. D. P. Last the World Food Program has warned that upwards of 14000000 people in latin america will face Food Insecurity mexico if you compare its difficult to compare the rest of region especially if you compare to peru to brazil which really is a case on its own when you look at the contagion in the country but there are other hot spots that are that are very concerning alarming rates of contagion in countries like colombia in ecuador in peru countries in Central America like honduras guatemala panama where theres also a drought taking place which is not making things better and then countries in the caribbean like haiti and the Dominican Republic but unfortunately what were hearing again from world Health Experts is that. Is that the virus itself shows no signs of slowing down here regionally. Zeroes manuel reporting live from mexico city mo many thanks indeed. States of disasters but then clear in a strain is victoria state after a rise in cases of covert 19671 new infections were confirmed on sunday nearly 300 more in the previous day a nighttime curfew is being introduced and people must stay within 5 kilometers of the homes victoria is the epicenter of a straight is outbreak that includes the 2nd biggest city melbourne from 6 pm to know what im declaring a state of disaster across victoria this will be in addition to the state of emergency that has operated throughout this means that police and others have additional powers we can suspend. Various acts of the parliament we can make sure that we get the job done and theres no question about the enforceability and the why in which new rules will operate dr sanjay our son and i is a physician associate professor of medicine and Infectious Diseases at Australian National university in canberra he says the lockdown hasnt yet had time to have an impact on virus numbers. We certainly havent seen a drop in that date case numbers now you could also argue that with a place like blue hat which had a really extensive lockdown it took 4 weeks to really see a drop in cases its only been about 3 weeks here in victoria on stage 3 restrictions and probably just under 2 weeks with mandatory man squarely in melbourne but there have been a large rise in that a number of cases and i think there were concerns that things work coming under control so they have to do something more extensive throughout the world weve seen that complacency and i think that key has become an issue with covert as that outbreak has dragged on and on australia has been no exception i guess the poignant example will be that a few days ago authorities knocked on the doors of people who had been diagnosed with heart of it not query totally being diagnosed of it and they were meant to be self isolating and about a quarter of those doors that were knocked on did not have those people there so despite having kind of we dont were not at their house and that is our great concert this is the news hour from now sarah still to come on the program rounded up and thrown in jail the United Nations joins course for the release of human rights activists in india. Has been called europes last dictator but in a weeks time Alexander Lukashenko will face his biggest political challenge in 25 feels. And in support Christiane Aldo gets his hands on the trophy son i will be here with task for the rest of the sports that awaits. Israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says the protesters demanding his resignation are an a kists. Trampling on democracy throughout the summer thousands of demonstrators are called fame to step down the weekend saw the largest protests today they say the baton yahoo has failed to handle the coronavirus pandemic and shouldnt be in office on trial for corruption the release of been mostly peaceful but there have been some scuffles with the police the Prime Minister blamed the media for inciting violence. Years of. These wild and unfitted. You clued in the day before yesterday there were calls to move at the Prime Minister and his family the media is ignoring it and covering it up in the politicians. Meanwhile netanyahu son has been banned from tweeting about the protest leaders and Israeli Court ordered him to delete tweets sharing personal addresses and cell phone numbers of the organizers invited his followers to troll them and even gather outside the homeless the target sai