although the number of deaths from
coronavirus in the UK is falling around
the world the pandemic is still far from
under control have a listen to the World
Health Organization's dr. Michael Ryan
each and every country has a different
combination of risks and opportunities
at this point and it's really down to
national authorities to carefully
consider where they are in the pandemic
this may be a pandemic it may be
affecting the world but it's affecting
each and every country in a different
way depending on when disease came
depending on how the initial responses
were managed and depending on how the
disease is evolving at this point and by
no means is this over if we look at the
numbers over the last number of weeks
this this pandemic is still evolving it
is still growing in many parts of the
world and we have deep concerns that
health systems in some countries are
struggling and they're under a huge
strain well one country certainly
feeling some strain is India the Chief
Minister of Delhi is saying the city
could have more than a half a million
cases by the end of July and he says if
that happens there's no guarantee its
hospitals will cope we also got more
detail on Mumbai today is total of
Kovach 19 cases has surpassed Wuhan in
China which is where the virus was first
reported and as a country India
continues to have one of the highest
infection rates new infection rates in
the world here's more from you Geeta
Lamine Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal has said that to cope with the
number of cases his government is
expecting to see in his city their lead
as many as 80,000 beds they're trying to
ramp up capacity by acquiring beds in
private hospitals but we're hearing of
so many people who are going from one
facility to another struggling to find a
place where they can get their loved
ones admitted and I thought just the
story there here
by is well I've been talking to families
who lost loved ones before they could
even be looked at by doctors and even as
these cases arising you can see cities
in India are opening up this Junction
looks almost like it did before the
shutdown was imposed buses are back on
the streets auto rickshaws taxis private
offices are functioning up to ten
percent of their capacity in many other
parts of in the air places of worship
shopping malls even restaurants are open
now as far as doesn't only affect
people's health directly it's impacting
on so many other pressing concerns which
in turn affects people's health
for example John Hopkins University is
estimating that many hundreds of
thousands of children in India will
suffer from severe malnutrition and
potentially 300,000 of them may lose
their lives in the next six months and
that dreadful prospect is not caused by
the virus but the virus is a factor
divya arya reports from delhi do much
hunger do little food with jobs gone
it's a fight for survival hunger was
always an issue here but this
desperation is new for these children
just outside the capital delhi even one
meal a day now feels like a triumph
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shiva is just one month old his parents
rely on daily wages to buy food and like
millions of others they lost work after
the government announced a lockdown in
March we used to cook rice rotis and
vegetables before the lockdown our
children ate well now they remain hungry
because we have no money and no work the
Indian government has run a child
development scheme to provide essential
vitamins and nutrients to children up to
the age of six through centers known as
the youngin bodies but during the
coronavirus lockdown most of the more
than 1 million our bodies
centers such as these were shut down now
some of them are trying to home deliver
a much smaller quantity of food
supplements at a time when they are most
critical for young children's
development
now it's ordinary citizens who have
stepped up like me leash sink who has
been distributing one hot meal a day to
five hundred children since the past two
months but that's hardly enough I can
provide one or two meals but children
need breakfast lunch and dinner
they're not getting the nutrition
nutrition ability now melibea is still
very much dealing with its first
coronavirus outbreak there's growing
evidence that there's a second wave of
the virus hitting Iran let's hear from
BBC Persians run around poor could this
be Iran's second wave of coronavirus the
country was opened up from lockdown just
about a month ago and this is how it
looks like now in one city jam on route
buses are being used to transfer Co vid
19 patients to the capital of kermanshah
province it's one of at least nine
provinces where infections are rising
rapidly according to Iran's Ministry of
Health whose estar province in the
southeast is now a red zone the
hospitals are full their staff are
overwhelmed
last week Iran recorded the highest
daily increase in the number of
coronavirus cases since the first were
reported four months ago many local
officials say this is a second wave of
infections but Iran's president insists
that the term second wave creates too
much fear among people Iran's official
number of confirmed cases is around 176
thousand cases with over 8,000 deaths
yet many including the Iranian
parliament believe the correct number of
infections is eight to ten times more
and the deaths are at least twice as
much the president has warned that if
people don't follow social distancing
the restrictions may be re-imposed but
the economy already badly hit by US
sanctions and corruption is on its knees
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