New infections. Analyzed on the state of michigan as Benny Sanders and joe biden go head to head to the next round of the democratic Primary School the Vice President biden. Is hoping to extend his lead in the state the saunders won against Hillary Clinton four years ago. French president Emmanuel Macron has issued a call for calm over the spread of the corona virus says the cases he moved closer to two thousand dr meeting all of the twenty seven leaders of the eighty eight micron said that would be a coordinated. European response to the outbreak which is now present in every e. U. St. The phone will get this time we have to face up to the consequences links to both the corona virus and the destabilization of Global Markets and youll First Assistant in order to tackle this there must first of all be a National Response that were carrying out of course. To help our Health Service in its response to the crisis i think hes newsome played. Upon the lead this europe is ready to take the necessary and Vital Decisions to tackle this epidemic. And also to response to all of its consequences. And avoid all manner of financial that do you date phenols yeahs it couldnt. As americas area and remind us thirty three people have died here in from the west affected european country off to italy that had been an expectation the government might raise the alert level warning to three but it its keeping it at level two for now anyway well joining me now. Is john jack and some broad ski a physician in a hospital in the city o leon thank you very much indeed. For joining us and festival have you had to deal with any cases of coronavirus yourself. Yes indeed because nowadays to viruses most everywhere in the country. And most of us have heard people ive seen people were at least was suspected. And what what are your thoughts on the virus on how it affects people will are how serious is it because a lot of people say that its just a bad case of the flu what would you say to those people. Well actuay they are wting most of his vast majority of that some people have no symptoms at all. Some people have the symptoms of the flu. And its just like the flu the vast majority of people with the flu have. Mild sympts and recover after a couple of days was just a set of nina fan. Well what call in france paris at the mall. And a few of them who have co morbidities step into our somehow with the diabetes or bad kidneys but drugs but hot disease of the heart and so on. Would have a more severe case and we need to go in in the intensive care unit. But of course as some of them would unfortunately die. But the vast majority of them. Have nothing but a little generous slough thats correct clinicly speaking its much like the flu the question is. That eight as the continued. Rate more than the flu and is it globally more severe these other two question for which we dont have precise answers for the moment. But again the vast majority of people have no symptoms at all 85 of. Between eighty and 95 of people have no symptoms at all and those who have symptoms i have most of them the symptoms of an ordinary fluwhy is. This making such a splash around the well why is this making global headlines why governments taking such drastic actions if it is and i was in the food. Ny tv news channels speak that much about here well. Before that is that the virus is not what you know but you definitely right to do so you you ought to do so and the people watching from twenty four around the world. Well you too to give details becauset still globally unknown we dont know everything about this rus well we know the flu virus for years. You know the flu virus kills a few thousands of people in france for example and hundred thousand throughout the world. But we do know we cope with it were used to it we have a vaccine against it and we try and develop drugs. That treat the virus we dont know yet everything about this car on the virus and so there isnt. A legitimate anxiety about how she video will the infectn be how long will it last we needed to be when the sun. The times come this is. Normal there is no. To do nder about if its normal that. Until we know morebout this virus we cant precocious and the european. The measures that are taken the ought to be taken as president micro just to do a declared today as exactly what we do to doake precautions until we know who is this enemy so. Are you are you are you satisfied then firstly that the government is right to keep the threat level at level two. Im not raise it three and secondly are you satisfied tt the hospitals in france a well equipped to deal with this virus however many thousands of cases we might see over the next few weeks. Well the difference between level two and level three is only the fact that when it comes to level three it doesnt change the evolution of the disease. It means that since the disease is spread all over the country. We doesnt try and identify very very precisely who was patient zero in each contamination queue so is on that it means that. Doubt cases everywhere and there is no need to search for the one who brought the disease into a given c. D. O. Region thats the ly difference between. A stage twond stage three so theres nothing to. Worry about and when will come to ste three which is quite probable one of these days. It doesnt an that its more see it only means that we wont be searching anymore for case zero in each of the address. Though the French Hospital system seems to be well adapted as well as d. A private physician as well as all the healt care professionals. And for the moment provided that people dont rush to the emergency rds whicis the most to thing do. It can cop witht we are ready. It out most of the hospitals have prepared. A special plan. They are i have people ready data have had the equipments they have at the and you can and in order to cope with it so i have no anxiety whether its in big cities like paris on your must y or in smaller cities. I think that we can face the sir i have been a mix until it ends which normally ought to come into lets say two monthsecause in that in china. What started its indie decreasing face it started a couple of days ago with normal cases or a reduced number of new cases every day. So this. With a two month delay between china and europe it would normally happen in in our continent in a couple of months so we have to cope with too faced with to be prudent we have to take those measures which are being. Explained by the Health Authorities and the government we have to support our european friends who are in in the most difficult. Situation like. Colleagues and normally tt will be nothing memories in a couple of months all right it. Would be ready for next time good to have some some reassuring words from you add up to them first he thank you very much. Well that it is today the entire country remains on lockdown after the government announced a nationwide ban on public gatherings last night people are being advised to stay at home and avoid over the most essential journeys. After yet has this report. Transport can trolls ineffective rooms term any rail station. As police check travel documents. They made a sign the Self Certification form we detail reasons for traveling for providence and destination in my case i came from greece where im staying for work. With the whole country affectively a marked down anyone traveling in italy for at least the next three weeks must have a document declaring the reasons. Calling it the stay at home directive the italian Prime Minister is hoping these new measures will help slow the corona virus outbreak. Rome normally packed with tourists was eerily quiet with major sites like st Peters Square closed off. Your bill i live here and its always full of people. This morning theres no one. Its not nice this new reality at all. Those few tourists who did venture out were being told by police to return to their hotels. It was the same story in milan travel checks at the train station and deserted streets. The one place that has been busy supermarkets in milan in other cities people have been lining up to stock up on essentials. Across the country cultural attractions schools and universities will remain closed until april third. Bars and restaurants my shot by six pm and people need to leave their houses are urged to keep at least one meter away from each other. With the largest number of cases in europe italy is the first country to impose emergency quarantine measures across its entire territory. Well the European Commission president specially funded ally and has been speaking following that set Conference Cold off e. U. Leaders europe seeking to have a more unified and coordinated response to the spread of the virus. And shes in now so that will be a seven point five billion euro fund made available to help you out deal with the economic fallout from the virus status. I also spoke on the phone with Prime Minister first and foremost we must act at the macroeconomic level. And to be very. From my part to. We will use all the tools at our disposal to make sure that the european economy weathers this storm. Well we can go to brussels now and our correspondent dave casing isnt that day tell us a bit more about what was agreed on that conference call. Yeah the biggest announcement to come out of this was financial and thats seven point five billion euro fines and thats money thats going to be available right away through this vehicle the corona response mechanism and that can actually be leveraged up to twenty five billion once matching private funds are involved but its a little unclr where that funding is coming from right now. It looks like its probably coming from the e. U. Budgets cohesion funds which bizarrely those are really for the countries that are right now least affected. By corona virus that is territories in europe east and extremists out so that the real extremities of europe where this is not which is not as seen court of iris cases to the same extent as areas in right in the center of europe no the twenty seven leaders did also talk about the Health Situation and they had a lot to. Digest because theres been a lot of napa measures over the last two days the mr mat to. Im from los which closed the school you know. Band all bands must come. It its other border italy its a old allow a coming for to the kind unless they have a new from doctor. Said in good how now commissioned by found was asked to this to a press. To she said look i is doing the right things be on the that we have right now shes. Right now no the buyer in our countries and going spread the point right now is to low this. So that not everyone to the hospital at the same time and that this type of social do distaing an event Cancellation Policy is right in line with what experts are saying when it comes to the border issue officials are looks. Asked about what street did today because of course if the virus is now in everything you country and most of j. Are coming within country is. In this room you know and in closing borders and so theres worry here in brussels from u. Officials. That austrias policy is diverting a lot of money and resources toward a border policing that is actually useless. And thats money that should be spent on just quarantining measures and particularly in equipment now on that equipment question leaders also also agreed to have a public procurement at e. U. Level to get. All of those face masks and respirators in particular that are going to be needed and that theres been huge concerns about a shortage of. Throughout the European Union theyre going to try to also the commission will identify where that equipment is right now and how much of it is available were supposed to get that assessment. In the coming days and finally they agreed to have all of the twenty seven Eu Health Ministers and interior ministers have a call every single day with european. Mission to keep the commission updated on all the latest helps the topic. And also all their latest actions and of course the reason for loving the interior minister. Is to make sure that they dont get any drastic decisions like they had in austria today about closing internal you borders dave thank you very much indicating that with everything thats been decided today. In brussels. While moving to the new states now with six states are Holding Democratic primaries this tuesday the races now between the former Vice President joe biden. And the left wing senator Bernie Sanders son is looking to narrow bidens late with a focus on michigan a state he won in the primaries against Hillary Clinton four years ago so i was responsible. Toting bernie war biden flyers voters across michigan waited in long lines of political rallies. For both joe biden and Bernie Sanders across the midwest state in a final push before its primary. Hes going to beat donald trump. Representatives went back to United States senate join us week after joe bidens victories on super tuesday the former Vice President hopes to extend his lead against Bernie Sanders and voters in idaho michigan mississippi missouri north dakota and washington now get to decide which candidate they think can be donald trump my point here. Is to ask you to think that in a general election. Which candidate can generate the enthusiasm and the excitement and the voter turnout weedy. Both biden and sanders have been particularly focused on michigan of the total three hundred and fifty delegates up for grabs march tenth a hundred and twenty five of them are in the state it narrowly went to sanders not Hillary Clinton in the last elections but polls show that biden is currently in the lead for sanders winning michigan may be essential michigan is something its a place that. Bernie sanders definitely needs to win one two blunt the momentum that joe biden started to build up with South Carolina and super tuesday the backing of African American voters may prove to be a deciding factor to garner enthusiasm former canada camel heris stumped for biden. And for sanders who struggled for support he receed the endorsement of jesse jackson. Well football on look to expect from the latest round of the democratic prime minutes go to washington dc joining me is Caroline Fredrickson from the Brennan Center also author of several books on u. S. Politics thank you very much. Good to have you with us tonight do you expect to bite into extend his lead tonight. Always great. Well im very likely i think hes certainly seems to have momentum on his side. Several of these states are very right for him and the really the big question is how. Does it turn out in michigan i think if michigan goes his way. That could be definitive that could be the end of this campaign. Because mission is interesting is that because for two reasons first the Betty Saunders won it. Four years ago gets Hillary Clinton and that was a big surprise at but also there are polls out in the last few days that shows that more. Voters that would support. By did i have a trump and that is what the democratic partys israeli focused on right now is not the best candidate to beat trump. It it exactly i think i think if he in fact beats bernie in michigan and upends what happens in twenty sixteen and and moves forward i think theres going to. Be a lot of people who start to look at him even more seriously seriously than they have as the real alternative to donald trump. I mean he he does exude a kind of you know a bluff working class kind of world that you know seems to appeal to people in middle Middle America and i. And i even though he competes with bernie and you know for some of some of those voters i think they may easily be turned to him and then there are those people who voted grudgingly for trump because they didnt necessarily like Hillary Clinton. Who might come back into the democratic fold but wouldnt do that for Bernie Sanders. And on the on the side of it there are there are signs that the so called never trump republicans. Would prefer to vote for a bite and ive a bunny saunders. At but but there are concerns about the centrist candidates went on there then the number of gaps in the number of moments where he seems to have forgotten what he was saying hes forgot. Forgot necklines. If you were about his mental. For the job. Well i wouldnt say his Mental Fitness i you know i think you know joe bidens always been known to have. You know stumble occasionally when speaking but you know i think for some people thats part of his appeal hes like an average guy hes a real guy hes hes hes not polished and you know i think certainly when we look at the current president who has been. Aggressively lying who misspelled words in his tweets who doesnt seem to you know be able to. Tell which which st city of kansas city is and most recently you know i think people will be pretty forgiving on that front. And what about Bernie Sanders okay and then that he is the candidate to fire up people up to get them out and vote because he has this kind of. Enthusiastic movement that rrounds him hes not the more ambitious. Ones revolutionary policies. How you know absolutely and theres certainly a very hard core group of supporters behind Bernie Sanders i think you know for his the problem he faces is that his claim to energize youthful voters the younger Younger Voters didnt really materialize in earlier contests on super tuesday in