Hello. The u. N. Secretarygeneral has told leaders at the 20 major industrialized countries humanity is at war with the virus and we are not winning. Response for a global at an emergency virtual g20 summit to plot a way out of the crisis where leaders vowed to do whatever it takes to combat the virus. He said the number of confirmed cases which has passed half a million is only the tip of the iceberg and the real number is believed to be higher. The number of new depths has spain has deaths in surged and remain high in italy. The u. S. Saw more than 3 Million People make new jobless claims last week. We begin coverage with this report on the situation across europe. Reporter this is how spain is hoping to win the war on the coronavirus. Police are among the first to be tested. It is hazardous work for the medical staff. A large number of those testing positive our Health Workers. In madrid where an ice rink has been turned into a makeshift morgue, more hearses arrived. The death toll is more than 4000, overtaking china. In italy, still europes worst affected country, the dead have been temporarily stored in churches before being sent for cremation. European Commission President urged solidarity. Several e. U. Countries including germany and france have banned export of protective gear to avoid shortfalls at home. Ursula von der leyen says this undermines europes joint response. Well share this responsibility. None of us can do it alone and no member state can handle this crisis on their own. Because of this crisis and in our union more generally, it is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves. Reporter in paris, Health Workers are conducting drivethrough testing in the streets. 28 ces death toll rose by thursday. Tracing the spread is vital for controlling it. President macron is one of several leaders joining g20 talks remotely hoping for a global approach to the pandemic. The russian president Vladimir Putin as well. He believes russia can defeat the pandemic in the virus within three months. Moscow will close all shops accept pharmacies and Grocery Stores except pharmacies and Grocery Stores. Work is continuing to convert a massive exhibition call into exhibition hall into an Emergency Hospital in london or the number has jumped in london. Dyson has joined a growing number of Technology Companies delivering creating ventilators to help the health care system. Account haswomans been shared online. She is 26 weeks pregnant. Lungs andia in both fighting for me and my baby. It is not worth going out. Reporter the british governments promise to ramp up testing by the end of the week with hospitals in london told to contact expect a continuous tsunami of patients. The worst is yet to come, scientists say. President hass told european leaders the survival of the european project thet stake as it deals with virus. French hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of infections. There are more than 25,000 cases and more than 1600 have died. Natasha butler reports. Natasha highspeed trains converted into mobile hospitals. Health care Health Workers load coronavirus patients into tgv carriages stopped by doctors doctorses stocked by and nurses. This is to ease pressure on the ulceration regions overwhelmed lsatian regions overwhelmed hospitals. This facility usually seen in conflict zones but for emmanuel macron, not out of place in peacetime. He says the fight against the coronavirus is a war. When you engage in war, you engage fully. You mobilize together. I see divisions and fractures in our country, doubts. People who want to divide the country when we should have only one obsession, to unite, to fight the virus. Natasha it took the french army four days to build the network that can receive dozens in intensive care. It iss is stored because the first time we historic because it is the first and we have built this sort of structure, specifically for covid19. Natasha the city is close to the german boarder. This has motivated neighbors to help. Several hospitals in germany, switzerland and luxembourg have offered to take in french run a virus patients, at coronavirus patients. It is a display of european solidarity. On wednesday german Emergency Services collected critically ill french patients and flew them to freiburg. We are proud to help our french colleagues, neighbors and friends and irrespective of our location this is about our duty as humans and our desire to help as europeans. Natasha bells across france rang out to thank the Health Workers. It is imperative people unite behind macron and support his actions in this moment of crisis, he says. He has convinced people to stay home but now they must stay indoors for even longer. Anchor 100 people in new york state have died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours alone. Officials are scouting for additional locations to expand capacity but warns the state is not prepared to handle the rising number of cases. Almost any scenario that is overwhelm the capacity of the Current Health care system. We have approved a technology that allows one ventilator to serve two patients, which is to add a second set of tubes to do two patients. It is not ideal but we believe it is workable. Anchor new york is struggling with a lack of police staff. Nearly 1000 called in sick. People off work is nearly three times the daily average. New figures show 3. 3 million americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week. That is five times more than the previous record set 40 years ago. It is the latest sign of what affect the coronavirus is happening across the u. S. Businesses have been forced to to lock down. Donald trump has said g20 meters leaders discussed the importance of sharing information on covid19. States is the united working with friends and partners to stop the spread of the virus and coordinate our efforts. We discussed how important it is for all of our nations to share information and data and we have been doing that to a large extent, but we will do it even , i guess younform could say, for each of us on the fight. It is a little bit different but we are handling it in different ways. Here is a great uniformity it was a terrific meeting. Hor lets bring in more our reporter for more. What is the take away message from the president . He had a great deal more to say but the important thing was the president repeated many times his desire to get the country back to work in short order and said he thinks it can happen quickly. He thinks the American People want to get back to work and they are clamoring to get back on to work. He sort of indicated he is going to move ahead with this desire to speed up the timetable for getting people back to work. This has been contradicted in the past by his experts, notably the National Institutes of fauci who anthony said it is the virus that sets the timetable, not policy makers. Epidemiologists have said to go back in an early a couple of weeks from now and remove the sort of social distancing that has been posed has been imposed across the country will result in more infections with corona 19 and more deaths. But the president said we must work and we will do it in the proper way. 12did not mention this april easter date that he had floated date for as the everybody to get back to work. Clearly he still wants to do that. He talked at length about this stimulus package and recovery package that date for passed the senate of two point trillion 2 trillion and it is heading towards the house of representatives and it will probably pass that quite easily write a. So easily friday. Putting optimistic spin on the correct corona 19 pandemic and saying he thinks things will be moving quickly in terms of work. Vaccines, treatments and everything should be back to normal sooner than most people have been saying they think it will. Anchor thank you for that update from l. A. The past few minutes, south africa has gone into lockdown for three weeks as it suffers a dramatic increase in infections. A sixfold rise has been seen in eight days, taking the number of infections to 900. That is the highest in africa. Required tobeen enforce the lockdown. Now that the lockdown is in place, how are people reacting in the lead up . Question of been what the lockdown means and what the restrictions will be. We have seen governor government ministers trying to explain to South Africans what the restrictions are. This is important, a couple of weeks ahead of eastern usually you have a large church, contributions, people take time off of work, travel outside the provinces where they were moving to rural areas. All of this has to change. South africans have wanted this lockdown. They understand it is necessary, but i imagine it will take a couple of days for many people to abide by the restrictions because it is a lot to get used to. There are police and soldiers on the streets. Soldiers are expected to support police activities. Even going into this lockdown at midnight South African time, there were a lot of cars on highways. This highway leads to mozambique. The government has said Transportation Services especially with goods like food will continue but that not anyone else can be on the road. Nothing but essential services and people who work in the medical fields. There continues to be some confusion. Police have said they will arrest people who dont abide by the restrictions, possible six months jail time or heavy fines. The coming days will be a test for South Africans with how well they abide these restrictions. Anchor thank you for bringing us that update. Coming up next, americans panic buying to defend himself against the coronavirus themselves against the coronavirus. And a new speaker for Israels Parliament in a print a surprise move that could lead to alliance with h benjamin netanyahu. Showers, big who they were in the south wales and queensland are going offshore. There will be more i suspect in the next day or so but they are not widespread. Sydneys temperature at 24 degrees. It has come down a bit. It has warmed up in adelaide and melbourne. This did not turn out to be a record value, down to 29 in the forecast friday. Saturday low still onshore breeze with showers. We have got coastal showers in queensland, not as west as it should be but it is west all the same. And you can see the rain in his human curling up through new zealand curling up through wellington. Significant rain out of china, various roads, the system will bring proper rain through south korea more especially through japan, all of japan. It gets heavy, the blue center. It goes off through hong kong, and the forecast will be thundering come up at least until later saturday. This is specifically hong kongs forecast, fairly humid and turning windy sunday. Anchor the top stories this hour some of the number of new deaths from coronavirus has surged in spaceflight 655, in the spain by 655. In italy several new deaths have tollreported taking its past 8000. South africa has gone into a threeweek lockdown. The country has more than 900 confirmed infections, the highest in africa. New figures showing 3. 3 million americans applied for on appointment benefits last week, the highest ever reported. More confirmeds cases of coronavirus than any other country in the world. We are taking you to the white task where the coronavirus force is giving their Daily Briefing. Lets listen in. You remember that was the report that said there would be 500,000 deaths in the u k and 2. 2 million in the United States. They have adjusted that in the million20,000, half a to 20,000. We are looking into this in great detail to understand that adjustment. I will Say Something that is complicated but i will try to do it in a way we can all understand together. In the model, either you have to have a large group of people who are a symptomatic, who have never presented for any test in order to have the kind of numbers that were predicted to get to 60 Million People infected or 6 Million People. You have to have a large group because in noics country to date have we seen an attack rate over one in 1000. Either we are only measuring the tip of the iceberg of asymptomatic cases we are working hard to get that antibody test. That is a good way to figure out who are these people and do they exist, or we have the transmission wrong. These are the things we are looking at, because the predictions dont match the reality on the ground in either china, south korea or italy. We are about five times the size of italy. So if we were italy and you did all of those divisions, italy should have close to 400,000 deaths. They are not close to achieving that. These are the things we are trying to understand. Models are models. There is enough data of the real experience on the ground to really make these predictions more sound. When people Start Talking about 20 of a population getting infected, it is very scary. We dont have data that matches that based on the experience. And the situation about ventilators, we are meeting with colleagues in new york, that there are still i see you beds bedsning and still icu remaining and ventilators that have not been utilized. For the reassurance of people around the world, to wake up and look at people talking about creating dnr situations, do not resuscitate, there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion. You could be thinking about it in a hospital. Many hospitals talk about this on a daily basis, but to say that to the American People, make the implication that when they need a hospital bed, it is not going to be there or they need the ventilator, we dont have evidence of that right now. It is our job collectively to assure the American People that doesnt happen. The casesyou can see are concentrated in highly urban areas. There are other parts of the states that have lots of ventilators and other parts that dont have any infections. We can be creative and meet the needs by being responsive but there is no model, no reality on the ground where we can see 60 to 70 of americans are going to get infected in the next eight to 12 weeks. I want to be clear about that. We are adapting to the reality on the ground, looking at the informof how they can and also looking at south korea and italy and spain. Many of you will look up my numbers. The only people who are over one in 1000 cases have very small populations like monaco and liechtenstein. You will see a Different Number ready population is really tiny. One case can put you over one to 1000. President ou, mr. Vice ready. I will change the topic because there were russians that came up and i have been asked about this and a couple of media anchor you are listening to the Covid Task Force who hold their Daily Briefing in washington at the white house area moments ago you were listening to the doctor , White House Coronavirus response coordinator. Now we are going to listen in to dr. Fauci who is a member of the task force. It might be a rebound get things under control and then you pull back. Everybody in the world will have to do that. You will get a rebound or it might cycle into the next secant next season. One of the most important things , one that i mentioned several times from this podium, that is thelarify a bit for vaccines. Would that have any real impact on the rebound or the cycling in the season . Certainly for sure vaccine is not going to help us. But as we went into the phase there is more than one, a couple of handfuls of vaccines at different stages of development. They are following the same course. You first go into a phase one trial and you have very few people, 45 within a certain age group all healthy, none of them at any great risk of getting infected. You want to make sure it is safe. The next than you do, that takes three months, maybe more, so we go into the middle of the summer. 23, we phase two, or put a lot of people in there. We hope there are not a lot of people getting infected but it is likely there will be somewhere in the world that is going on. It is likely to get efficacy signal. We will know whether or not it works. Rush ites, we hope to to have some impact on recycling in the next season. That could be a year to a year and a half. Im not changing any of the dates. One of the things we will do that has been a stumbling block for Previous Development of vaccines, even before you know something works, at risk, you have to start producing it. Once you know it works, you cant say give me another six months to produce it. We are working with a variety of companies to take that risk. We didnt take it with zika. We have a nice maxine but there is no zika around. Vaccine but there is no zika around. We are ready if in fact it works. The issue of safety, something i want to make sure the public understands, it is not only safety when you inject somebody and they get maybe an idiosyncratic reaction, allergic reaction, pain. Does the vaccine make you worse . There are diseases where you vaccinate someone, they get infected with what you are trying to protect them with an you enhance the infection. You can get a good feel that in animal models. That will be interspersed at the same time we are testing we make sure they dont have enhancement. The worst possible thing you could do is vaccinate someone to prevent infection and make them worse. I will get to your question. Finally with regard to therapies, we keep getting asked about therapies. There is a menu of therapies going into clinical trial. The best way to get the best drug as quickly as possible is to do a randomized control trial so that you know is it safe and effective. If it is not, get it off the board and go to the next thing. If it is, get it out to the people that need it. You will be hearing about different drugs that will go into the randomized control trials. I feel confident knowing what this virus is a