now let's look at what's been happening
in the rest of the world there are now
over half a million recorded coronavirus
cases globally that's the number over
there and the number here sadly is the
number of deaths over $23,000 sadly that
number is rising all the time of course
we know testing isn't readily available
in many places so number of cases likely
to be much higher I take a look at this
tweet from the United Nations the
language here is really stark we're at
war with a virus and not winning it and
this is an interesting where they've
laid this out
it took the world three months to reach
a hundred thousand confirmed cases the
next 100,000 cases happened in just 12
days the third took four days the fourth
just one and a half days this war needs
a wartime plan to fight it
well that was tweeted ahead of a
videoconference amongst the g20 as the
20 largest economies in the world where
they pledged a 5 trillion dollars to
help counter the economic impact of
fighting this virus and well here's one
example of why that's needed if we move
on to this map which basically shows us
this was actually released by the
European border force shows the status
of the border of each countries every
one of them restricted or closed that's
having a huge impact on Europe's economy
but the impact of the virus on lives
well that's massive - of course and
Spain hit a grim landmark today death
toll passed 4,000 another 655 deaths in
the last 24 hours
like so many countries Spain is in
locked up people ordered to stay at home
and that's now been extended for another
two weeks and Spain's Prime Minister
this man petro son chef has been accused
of failing to protect health care staff
by the opposition now as 14 percent of
those infected are medics or more his
guy hedge co who's in Madrid while the
the health care personnel of the country
have been lauded as heroes and lot of
people believe that the health care
system is rather underfunded in certain
areas and that has been exposed by this
crisis now a whole batch of test kits
were imported from China for you
this week and it turns out that many of
those one batch of those is false here
it's not as good as the government had
hoped so there's been a supply Matic
issue today between China and Spain over
these these kits which the government
had hoped would improve testing so
they're having to turn to other imports
of test equipment in order to improve
that aspect of their management of the
crisis well let's move away from Spain
now we're going to head to Italy that's
the country with the highest death toll
in the world over 600 people have died
in the last 24 hours
over 8,000 people in all it also to me
as an error possibly in the data
collected by the country's Civil
Protection Agency because take a look at
this it's reported that Piedmont that
region there had no deaths on Thursday
now it's the third worst affected region
so that would be pretty surprising if
that turned out to be true and there are
fears that southern Italy could be
facing a similar outbreak to that
experience in the north
mark glowin reports now cities like
bergamot the epicenter where they
blessed the urns of a hundred and
thirteen victims grouping together the
fallen wearing a sash of the Italian
flag is the mayor who we reached with
the UK finally emulating the Italian
lockdown a warning Britain had an
advantage of being two weeks behind
Italy with the outbreak they should have
used it better
I'm afraid Boris Johnson lost precious
time there is a risk it could cost many
lives losing those days could turn out
to be a serious mistake
the containment measures may have
started to work in northern Italy
although there is again today an
increase in new infections but concern
is now growing in the poorest South and
here in the capital where cases and
deaths are rising in Rome this hospital
has opened a new coronavirus wing and
it's already under pressure the peak
hasn't yet been reached here with
crematoria bursting the army is clearing
coffins away it's that word again
they're more used to war man versus
virus and the latter is still winning
let's move away from you
now and head south in Africa the country
with the highest registered number of
Kovac 19 cases is South Africa 709 the
country is preparing to begin a 21 day
nationwide lockdown at midnight tonight
Andrew Harding is in Keita
in those poorer communities today clear
signs of trouble
the message about social distancing has
not got through to some and millions of
small businesses like to knees Jim fear
the government won't help them survive
this lockdown now they're not helping in
financially to support
but the immediate challenge here is
overcrowding and hygiene and 40 people
sharing this toilet if that virus fit in
and people this is famously the world's
most unequal society the virus looks set
to expose that cruel fault line that
chasm between the very rich and the rest
in the harshest possible way ok we are
going to leave Africa and head over now
to Asia and India which had a second day
of a huge nationwide lockdown let's take
a look
this was Kolkata in West Bengal like
many Indian cities now streets are quiet
as the country moves that to contain the
spread of coronavirus and police are
enforcing strict rules across the
country meant to limit the movements of
1.3 billion people all our correspondent
are on a date Mukherjee is in the
capital Delhi he says his growing
concern over access to essential
supplies the primary worry among
citizens is to get access to essential
supplies while the announcement was made
by the prime minister at the top down
below on the ground where the police's
implementing those orders there seems to
be some confusion but in this regard
fresh guidelines are being issued
telling the police who they need to stop
and who they need to give P access to an
official say that in the next 10 days at
least the supply of essential
commodities is likely to be restored the
other big challenge for the government
is to address the poor the homeless and
migrant labourers were stranded without
shelter I want to take you to one
country that appears to have succeeded
with the coronavirus where others have
failed that's South Korea it's managed
to flatten the curve of new infections
and it's done it without China's extreme
restrictions on movement or a large
scale locked out Laura Baker has been
given exclusive access to one of the
country's intensive care units in Seoul
to find out exactly how all of the
patients struggling to breathe in this
ICU are over 65 they're one of a
dwindling number of people who need
critical care in the country the
benefits of flattening the
I mean there's even time to smile when
the photos who knew some people those
who come to the ICU are really bad cases
so it's hard to completely predict
whether they will live or not
but when these tough cases get better
it's especially rewarding this is the
key to saving lives according to South
Korean health officials staying ahead of
the virus by tracing potentially
infected patients and testing them but
doctors are worried about a second wave
of covert 19and see this country needs
to be ready can we respond as well as we
did in the first wave will there be five
ten times more patients I do not know we
don't have immunity so all countries
scientists should work together to
develop a treatment and vaccine there's
also a new threat from overseas
thousands of arrivals from Europe and
many from the US are now being tested to
prevent a fresh outbreak South Korea may
be breathing a sigh of relief for now
but this crisis is far from over