now in Spain the death toll from the
corona virus has increased dramatically
and now stands at 803 the number of
confirmed cases has also risen rapidly
to over 17,000 more than 900 people our
intensive care spain has been under
lockdown since saturday with residents
required to stay in their homes for all
but essential travel Spain's neighbor
Portugal has also declared a state of
emergency to fight the pandemic the new
measures allow the government to
restrict movement of people banned
protests and social or religious
meetings and temporarily suspend the
rights of key workers to strike Portugal
has 785 confirmed cases of the corona
virus so far with 3 reported deaths but
now to Italy there the number of deaths
from the corona virus has surpassed
those in China in Italy 3405 have now
died from curve at 19 a rise of 427 in
just 24 hours the total number of cases
has risen to above 41,000 Italy's
outbreak came to light in the north of
the country in February report now from
Bergamo in Lombardi in northern Italy
one of Europe's wealthiest regions it
finds itself at the epicenter of the
country's outbreak and the warning my
report contains some distressing images
Bergamo
once upon a time just a month ago still
a byword for northern italian charm
today in terms of untimely deaths
perhaps the most dangerous place on
earth at night these army trucks ferry
the dead to other towns where there can
be cremated and the people trying to
stop this from happening are the
volunteers battling to save lives and
their own town Bergamo alone has already
had 4,000 cases with 400 deaths they
don't want a tutorial teresina to be the
next she needs oxygen which is already
in short supply and her carer describes
how things have got worse in the last 24
hours
her carer is struggling
marita Pina si your job no not the
commissioner
you married oh my mother Brenda litter
across eight or not wanna live but
simply to move teresina from one room to
another and put her in her own bed is a
Herculean task with the hospital's full
she needs to stay at home then the
requisite deep clean as if your life
depended on it because it might during a
short break Samantha says it's
heartbreaking to take patients to
hospital and then watch their families
as doctors decide if they can help them
super Aceh Kia Chico thing is yeah not
to me no what she loved it the
fundamental met the notion to tea won't
are easily but somebody could be
surnames and a few fairly as many as 10
people are dying every day in a small
city of a hundred and twenty thousand
health workers compared to a war or
earthquake zone easy for Michelle to
triage you can easily see only he can
mean a five-year-old or a groupie to to
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jacket where Laura Sposato
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anarchy possibility' disappear there
soon as Paris office and receiver
beginning on the way to the next visit
written on someone's embroidered
handkerchief if we get through this
a big thank you we will get through this
funeral parlors are overrun
churches have been banned from holding
funerals but have been helping to store
the bodies before cremation a month ago
the local newspaper had a single page
for a bit trees yesterday there were ten
pages of names but these are burials
without mourners behind closed cemetery
gates
for the volunteers more deep cleaning
the next case involves cloud yatra Nelly
in his late 50s who should be going to
hospital but the health workers worried
that he won't survive the wait until
Abed and the ventilator of freedom so
the decision is to keep him at home in
his own bed
his wife and daughter look on helpless
exhausted they have one final job
tonight before doing it all again
tomorrow
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that thesis is shown on July 30 common
their final case is 41 year old Antonio
Amato his wife and sons watch anxiously
from a distance as their fathers carry
down the stairs to the ambulance at
least he's been deemed young enough to
get a bed in intensive care but they
cannot know when they'll see him next
but it's not all bad news
China has today reported there have been
no locally transmitted infections at all
today for the first time since the virus
was detected three months ago but across
the world
other countries are desperately trying
to contain the spread as best they can
and in America President Trump has said
he would slash red tape to allow
existing drugs to be tested and used in
the fight against kovin 19 she volunteer
reports now on the latest from China and
from across the world
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Wuhan residents in partial lockdown
cheer medical staff as they board buses
to go home back to their families after
being deployed to the epicentre of the
virus months after Co bid 19 gripped the
city killing thousands in the province
Shinzon community essentially today for
the first time
chinese state media says no new local
cases of the disease were reported
Wuhan is still designated high-risk but
residents now free to wander around
their compounds to deliver food and take
advantage of the rare fresh air with
factories still closed while the endless
sanitizing continues across China the
government says there are 34 new cases
detected in people arriving from abroad
raising fears of reinfection this woman
says the situation is going in a good
direction not so says President Trump as
far as as far as believing what they're
putting out now I hope it's true who
used his daily press conference to once
again point the finger at China people
would have known about it
it could have stopped and stopped in
place it could have been stopped right
word came from China it could have been
stopped in its tracks unfortunately they
didn't decide to make it public the
president said he would cut red tape to
help develop vaccines and therapies as
fast as possible though nothing is
imminent and a number of confirmed cases
in America that more than 10,000 with a
hundred and 60 dead is soaring in the
virus hotspot of Washington State
Seattle Airport was like a ghost town
its economy decimated as restaurants
bars and travel networks all shut down
and nationally new figures today showed
a sharp spike in unemployment claims as
fears of a depression like Aaron loom
and in Australia the Prime Minister
followed president Trump's lead with
drastic travel restrictions a travel ban
will be placed on all non-residents not
Australian citizens coming to Australia
the country's national carrier Qantas is
temporarily laying off about 20,000
employees two-thirds of its workforce as
the virus takes hold in Africa countries
like Kenya have so far experienced fewer
cases but they're disinfecting closing
schools and banning public gatherings
and people entering the country will be
arrested if they fail to
observe 14 days of self-isolation the
World Health Organization warning all
African nations today to wake up to the
threat and prepare for the worst
Siobhan Kennedy reporting now earlier I
spoke to in golden he's professor of
globalization and development at the
University of Oxford and I began by
asking him was a pandemic like the
corona virus an inevitable consequence
of globalization I'm afraid it was
we are hyper connected and the super
spreaders of the goods of globalization
like major airport hubs are
unfortunately also the super spreaders
of the bads like pandemics in the same
way that major financial centers with
the super spreaders of not only
financial flows that led to investment
but also the financial crisis and our
cyber systems spread systemic risk
through cyber viruses so it was
inevitable what does history therefore
tell us in wishing to combat this thing
history tells us that we have to act
cooperatively pandemics are very
different to other threats like climate
change or antibiotic resistance or
financial crises in that they really can
originate anywhere in the world the
poorest countries slums near airports
can spread viruses around the world in a
very very short period of time and that
means that we need to act cooperatively
we need a monitoring system that is
global we need a Rapid Response system
that's global we need to work on
vaccines collectively working
collectively demands leadership where's
that going to come from well we have two
options we have an option that looks
like the aftermath of the first world
war where we had the League of Nations
and in rising protectionism and
nationalism that collapse into the Great
Depression and the Second World War then
after the Second World War we had much
better leadership we had the coming
together with United Nations that worked
for many years after the 2008 financial
crisis we had a dramatic global response
with President George W Bush calling a
big meeting phoning the heads of state
China responding more
aggressively than the rest of the world
pretty put together in terms of the
financial package it put together and
this time we have something very
different building on the frictions of
trade and the other tensions of recent
years we have President Trump calling
this a Chinese virus there's no wall
high enough that will keep out the
pandemic or other threats we really need
to understand that isolationism and
protectionism are gonna give us an even
worse threat coming forward what sort of
world do you believe will flow from this
well I very much hope that we learn the
horrible lesson that we're gonna have to
endure over the coming months which is
that we need to worry much more deeply
about the divisions within our society
this is going to exacerbate inequality
within our societies and it's going to
exacerbate inequality around the world
and we need to worry much more about how
others are doing how we work with them
to overcome these threats I believe that
if we had empowered the w-h-o more
effectively if we'd work more
effectively on this threat we could have
prevented it well finally this is your
subject do these events of the present
day leave you more optimistic or
pessimistic this is a terribly worrying
moment it's worrying not only because of
what we seeing all around us and the
scale of the threat which I think is
much greater than the 2008 crisis is
more like a war and because we're seeing
a very weak response globally I'm
optimistic when we see the building of
communities nationally and we seen that
in the UK and elsewhere that some good
can come out of it but it really does
require that our leaders step up not
only nationally but globally to a joint
solution