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  • flying half master than Madrid not for a dead prince or politician, but for ordinary Spanish citizens.

  • Victims of covered 19 7000 340 rising a lone walker in Colon Square today, the lock down was extended for another two weeks.

  • Trains have been stilled, cases air increasing as around the world, governments try to work out which measures of too much or too little or too late for many.

  • Too much is Hungary and you country where today the parliament passed the vote, giving Prime Minister Viktor Orban the right to rule by decree for as long as he chooses mean that has a ll these measures.

  • You are asking an authorisation without any time limits, which is unprecedented in Europe.

  • Pretty foul, that Orban has a huge majority that's about to resolve this crisis without you, even if you do not support this bill.

  • Video of the prime minister aimed to show him as authoritative.

  • But some see his new powers is dictatorial.

  • Under the law, anyone spreading what the government says is false news about covered 19 can be imprisoned for five years.

  • Two little his Belarus were, despite having about 100 known cases, they're still playing professional football, hoping that desperate Manchester United fans may now follow Dynamo Minsk.

  • They're taking their cue from President Lukashenko, who recommends Saunders and vodka is secure.

  • Or maybe Sweden, where primary schools remain open.

  • Following the advice of senior Swedish epidemiologists who say young Children are not major carriers, Swedes are still out and about on the streets, leading some to worry that cases will soon begin to surge.

  • And too late, maybe Russia.

  • Moscow was virtually deserted today as new restrictions came in.

  • Fewer than 2000 cases have bean recorded, but Russia was slow to start testing, and the numbers are now rising fast.

  • The city is quarantined from the rest of the country, but over the weekend thousands drove out to their dachas in the countryside to avoid the lock down and could easily have taken the virus with them.

  • And then there are countries that don't seem to know what they're doing.

  • Like India, where none of this Punjab markets seemingly noticed.

  • Prime Minister Modi's draconian locked down announced last week with just a few hours notice in Delhi, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have their temperature taken before they leave for their home villages.

  • Is this really preventing the spread of the virus and how are they going to survive?

  • The summit's a track of several days, and they have little to eat.

  • I didn't know what was going to happen or if there would be any Transportacion available during this chaotic pandemic.

  • My landlord said he won't give us any money or food and asked us to vacate his room and leave So 11 p.m. At night we left in one or so prudish village health care officials doused a group of hapless migrant workers in disinfectant.

  • They had apparently being told to spray buses but were overzealous.

  • And in Tamil Nadu there, mixing turmeric and neem leaves for the women to Sprinkle around the village less of a program of disinfecting a more of a libation to appease whatever gods have seemingly cursed the whole world.

  • What Earlier, I spoke to the journalist Mandoki League a lot who's based in New Delhi, and I began by asking her how the lock down in India has been affecting People who had little on now have even less.

  • The situation is fairly dire all along major thoroughfares of Delhi.

  • There are people who have lined the road.

  • They have nowhere to go.

  • These are migrant workers who generally live where they work.

  • They leave a jurors who are paid on a daily basis, and even when I am right now, they're people just sitting by the side of the road, waiting for NGOs or private efforts.

  • Every once in a while, a car drives by with some food and everybody jumps on that car.

  • We've met people now who say they've been hungry for almost 24 hours, some for longer than that.

  • The problem here is that even though the lock down was announced, arrangements want made for the migrant workers.

  • Now Indian cities, in particular the capital, New Delhi, are full off migrant workers.

  • In fact, the economy was built on their backs in recent decades.

  • And how many miles do you estimate some people are walking and how many people do you think are affected?

  • It's almost impossible to estimate that at the moment.

  • Just in Delhi alone, the numbers that we've seen are staggering.

  • Yesterday, at Delhi's main bus station of a report said that there were about 40 to 50,000 migrant workers waiting for buses to take them home.

  • Of course, there were no buses, even though they were promised earlier in the day.

  • But later in the day, the government decided that the borders should remain closed.

  • People should stay where they are, including migrant workers.

  • The government has set up a temporary shelters on food distribution points at various places across the city, about 200 50 off them.

  • But again, it seems to be that they're just not enough.

  • I've been out since early this morning, so about 10 hours ago, and I've just seen a constant stream of people walking, walking with their Children, walking with their bags, asking for food.

  • And it's just really tragic.

  • The kind of scenes that India certain he hasn't seen in many, many decades.

  • The government has announced a multibillion dollar bailout of food and cash.

  • Is any of that reaching the kind of people that you're seeing there?

  • There's simply overwhelmed.

  • There's just thousands of people who the government well, I would say millions of people who the government is feeding every single day.

  • But the factual means there's millions who are left out of the and Narendra Modi has said that this lock down is the only way to fight the virus.

  • Does he have a point that, however chaotically it's being handled?

  • This had to happen.

  • They were confused by this idea of social distancing.

  • What is social distancing when you live in a tiny room, 7 to 10 people in that room, It's him possible for them to come up with a situation where they'd be able to leave a meter or two meters of space between each other.

  • So I think this is a confusing message for people who don't have enough to live in tiny homes.

  • What is social distancing?

  • How do you practice it when you just don't have food?

  • Manda.

  • Kenny Gallo Thank you so much for joining us.

  • Now across the world from India, President Trump has extended US social distancing guidelines for the whole of April, citing warnings from public health officials that up to 200,000 Americans could die.

  • Mr.

  • Trump, who had talked of getting the country back to work by Easter, said this morning that the worst that could happen is that you do it too early on all of a sudden it comes back.

  • Our Washington Correspondents Board Kennedy as this aptly named U.

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  • Navy ship Comfort is guided into New York City harbor.

  • A majestic entrance is the towering city.

  • Looks on that this a grim task on board 1000 beds and urgently needed supplies to free up hospitals who say they can't treat non virus patients because their wards are now overrun by Cove.

  • In 19 number of beds, we had a beginning march have to triple by.

  • May is a daunting task, but we got a big, big boost.

  • The arrival of comfort Mrs.

  • Like adding a whole another hospital to New York City, and they need it on the ground of forklift truck loads dead bodies onto a refrigerated morgue outside a hospital in Brooklyn.

  • Bodies in the back with three of the truck.

  • My hand is shaking because it's hard to look at this right here.

  • What I'm seeing right now, Thes image is one of many being loaded onto social media by astonished onlookers.

  • Outside another, the dead are being lined up waiting to be taken away.

  • Nearly 800 people have died in the city and across New York state, 61,000 are infected, and the Peak is yet to come.

  • As they toiled, Americans woke up to the news that as many as 200,000 people could lose their lives, even with strict containment measures that last night were extended for another 30 days in the Rose Garden.

  • The man who said the sunshine would miraculously make the virus disappear said the numbers weren't as terrible as the projection of 2.2 million deaths.

  • Had America done nothing at all, that's what you're talking about.

  • 2.2 1,000,000 deaths, 2.2 million people from this.

  • And so if we could hold that down, as we're saying to 100,000 it's a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000.

  • So we have between 102 100,000.

  • We all together have done a very good So President Trump now believes limiting deaths to something less than 200,000 is doing a good job on his promise to start opening up parts of the country by Easter.

  • So that was an aspirational number.

  • I didn't say east.

  • I said it would be a great thing if we could do it by Easter, and we know much more now that we knew 23 weeks ago.

  • Easter should be the peak number and it should start coming down and hopefully very substantially from their point.

  • Experts had publicly warned the numbers would peak by Easter before Donald Trump envisioned.

  • Business is raring to go.

  • The only difference is now finally, and perhaps to his credit, he's decided to listen.

  • New York doctors like Roshini Raj.

  • I want him to listen to them to and s positions.

  • You know, we never thought in this country we would be put in a position where we have to really decide who's going to live and who's gonna die based on you know, who's going to get that ventilator.

  • Is it as bad as that?

  • In terms of equipment and the personal protective equipment or P p.

  • E.

  • We're already anticipating running out very soon to the point where we're instructed to reuse masks, think that we normally would exchange for every patient we're now reusing for several days in a row.

  • So these air not like time, that are unlike anything we've ever seen before.

  • One doctor, echoing the thoughts of many as the death toll rises now more than 2.5 1000 victims.

  • Families are left to grieve for their loved ones, too scared to open the casket and say one last goodbye for fear of contracting Cove it 19.

  • Well, earlier, I spoke to Dr Nirav Shar from Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center.

  • I started by asking him what he made of the numbers released by the White House that projected between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in America.

  • By the end of this outbreak, Dr Fauci is one of the most trusted names in here.

  • When he said 200,000 American lives lost, I think he was being conservative.

  • I think that the if Americans don't start to act now, we will be in much worse shape than we are today.

  • Every three days, the virus doubles in the community.

  • We know that.

  • And so even a day's delay leads to 40% more cases in the community from the best estimates across the world.

  • Approximately 1% of cases eyes leading to mortality that 1%.

  • Today we have approximately 143,000 cases diagnosed in the United States.

  • That is a vast understatement of actual cases in the United States.

  • I know in my own clinic I probably sent home a dozen people who I could not test because they didn't meet criteria, and yet they probably had cove it in the community.

  • Donald, from for weeks, tried to downplay the severity of Corona virus.

  • He's had two reluctantly backtrack from his original aim of opening up America by Easter has his stance in your view.

  • Will it have contributed to an increased death, right?

  • Yes.

  • And the problem is, there's a false choice between lives and livelihoods.

  • And if you're trying to keep the economy going and you think that the only way is to have people working, the reality is we need to first catch the disease, tamp it down and then let people get back to work.

  • We have no coherent policy across the US on how to do that.

  • My my belief strongly is that we have to err on the side of saving lives, and then we can get back to lively hoods.

  • But, I mean, Donald Trump expressed the view that the cure could be worse than the initial problem.

  • I mean, there is a sense, isn't that if you're forcing people not toe work, and people are gonna be physically inactive during locked down.

  • There are serious consequences to that on their health consequences.

  • This is unprecedented.

  • We have nothing to compare this to.

  • So when we're trying to say that this is going to be bad, yes, it's going to be bad.

  • It's going to be much worse than any of our collective experience.

  • The only glimmers of hope in places like South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere where they've started to control the disease is that this is controllable.

  • But it takes a much more serious, concerted public health.

  • That effort that includes self isolation, quarantine and other measures that we simply have not done as a nation.

  • So it's outside our realm of experience.

  • That's why it's so hard for people to understand how serious this is and how important it is.

  • And it is going to have tremendous long term consequences to our economy.

  • When you talk about the fact that this is unprecedented, are you able to compare what's happening now with the Spanish flu, for example?

  • Or is that just comparing two entirely different diseases?

  • Well, in some ways it is like the Spanish flu.

  • It's much more virulent than anything we've faced.

  • It's about 10 times more likely to spread than the common flu.

  • And so when we start to bring our mental models of what the flu looks like, Oh, the flu is going to go away in the summertime, those things don't hold up.

  • And so perhaps the Spanish flu and other diseases that we I don't remember are the best models to use when you're infecting 5 10 people for every case, compared to a much smaller rate with the flu, the models of the flu don't hold up when it comes to Corona virus.

  • And just finally, obviously, your health care system there is very different from the British health care system.

  • Is it the case that the poorest in America will end up being hit hardest by Corona?

  • Virus was, they don't have access to the same kind of health care.

  • Yes, the N HS has been a wonderful example of what we should learn from and in the US we do not have a health care system.

  • We have multiple small areas, each approaching healthcare differently.

  • The homeless on and those without insurance are the ones that I worry most about They will be hit the hardest.

  • They will harbor the virus longer than other populations.

  • And we don't have good solutions today on how best to address them.

  • Nah, Rochelle, thank you very much for joining us.

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