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We will bring you up to date on the  corona virus pandemic which is I'm sad  to say accelerating at dramatic speed in  just the past couple of hours the number World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 of infections worldwide past 400,000 now  compare that to only two days ago when  the figure stood at three hundred  thousand we're going to update you on  the situation around the world but let's  start in the United States where in the  past few minutes Donald Trump has again Coronavirus Now In India insisted that his country can get back  to business in the next month that is  despite awarding from the World Health  Organization that the US has more than  51,000 coronavirus cases and that it's  at risk of becoming the epicenter of  this global pandemic well the US  president has been giving his daily  update at the White House.


some of  what he says ultimately the goal is to  ease the guidelines and open things up  to very large sections of our country as  we near the end of our historic battle  with the invisible enemy you're going  for a while but we win win I said  earlier today that I hope we can do this  by Easter I think that would be a great  thing for our country and we're all Coronavirus Now In India working very hard to make that a reality  we'll be meeting with a lot of people to  see if it can be done  Easter is a very special day for many  reasons for me for a lot of a lot of our  friends that's a very special day and  what a great timeline this would be  Easter so the president they're speaking  in the last few moments right now the  rest of the Trump administration is  continuing to give that daily briefing  on coronavirus this comes from the White  House.


 we're continuing to monitor what  they're saying and we'll bring you about  all the headlines as and when they come  to them but what I want to do right now  is just focus on what the president was  saying because my colleague Gary  O'Donoghue in Washington was listening World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 to the president and Gary it just sounds  very optimistic when the president says  although he caveat it that he is  focusing his annales  on data but that the economy will be  back up and running the US will be back.


  up and running by Easter that we're  talking weeks away yeah I mean just to  be clear in the Christian calendar  Easter Sunday's on April the 12th so  that is around what three weeks away  from where we are now now the president Coronavirus Now In India has mentioned Easter earlier on today  he's been talking for the last couple of  days about ending this thing in the next  few weeks rather than months he talked  about those who had mentioned months  previously as as not being realistic he  wanted things up and running before that  in fact he talked about it being months  before that as well June July and August.


  he talked about he did carry out as you  say later on in his words and which are  still going on there saying that the  decisions are driven by the what he  called the health safety and well-being  of all citizens but it is a confusing World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 message the president seems on the one  hand to be saying look I think we can do  this in weeks in a sense whatever's  going on with the data but also  suggesting that it's all about that  health and well-being of the citizens as  well so I think there will be some  concern particularly among the  scientists and others and also in those  areas like New City.


 where things have  really spiraled very very badly they are  they are really struggling to to keep  control up there and they're having to  set up temporary hospitals thousand bed  hospitals in art centers like the Javits  Center on the west side of Manhattan and  I think a lot of people will feel here  that this is quite premature yes I  certainly will Gary for the time being  thank you Gary just mentioned their New Coronavirus Now In India York City and I want to just unpack some  of the figures because it's really  important just to understand why it  feels a little bit optimistic as to  water the president was saying New York  City has nearly 15,000 cases.


 and if I  just bring up this tweet from a reporter  from the New York Times this is from  Andy Newman local at a local and E local  he is comparing New York State and Italy  in this particular tweet saying that  they are now virtually tied when it  comes to the figures  New York State and Italy have around a  hundred and five confirmed cases per World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 100,000 residents so it's also worth  bearing in mind however that New York  state is less densely populated than  Italy and is also two weeks behind Italy  so it just goes to show how far further  down the road the New York State is now  the governor of New York States has  warned that the number of cases was  doubling every three days and the peak  of the infection could come in as little.


  as two to three weeks and let's have a  little listen to also what the mayor of  New York Bill de Blasio was saying about  this this is my appeal again to the  federal government to ensure that we get  a lot more we need thousands more  ventilators here in New York City to  stay ahead of the curve of this disease  and to save lives that can be safe now  away from New York some clinics in the  US have also warned that they face Coronavirus Now In India closure because they're running out of  equipment including masks and surgical  gowns one of them is the open cities  community health center in Minnesota his  a spokesperson you know community health  centers are essential frontline  providers in the response preparation  and Prevention of : 19 and as you are  well aware kovin 19 has caused a  widespread shortage of personal  protective equipment so let me just  bring you an update from Wall Street's  where the Dow Jones recorded actually  its biggest.


 one-day percentage gain  since 1993 and this percentage gain  happened after lawmakers in the state  said that they were close to a deal for  an economic rescue package so a little  bit of light let's go back to Gary who's  monitoring all of this for us  so Gary it feels like it feels like  there is a little bit of movement and a  little bit more optimism on the US  market because that's that rescue  package could potentially be agreed yes  just very quickly just picking up on the  on the PPE their protective equipment  president give did it did give some  numbers on that he's talking about eight  million of these sort of an n95 mask  shipping out this week 40 million World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 surgical masks as he put it  and 1.9 million gowns so he did give  some updates on that but you're right in  terms of the stimulus package being  debated by the Senate at the moment it  does seem that they're inching ever  closer to a deal that's looking at  around two trillion dollars worth of  support to the American economy and the  American worker to give you some scale  that's a ten that's ten percent of u.s.


  GDP two trillion dollars it's a huge  vast amount of money I'm not surprised  that that has stabilized the markets to  some degree also what will have  stabilized the markets is the Fed the  Federal Reserve America's central bank  yesterday effectively saying it would  start buying back government bonds and  corporate bonds and underwriting the  credit markets the the commercial paper  and the the lending that keeps the  liquidity moving around in the system  underwrite that really to an unlimited  extent that will also stabilize the Coronavirus Now In India market somewhat okay let's turn to India  now where a countrywide lockdown has  come into effect this is impacting 1.3  billion people the restrictions will be  enforced for 21 days the Prime Minister  Narendra Modi made the announcement  earlier in the stangard are eagerly to  save India and every Indian to save you  and your family from midnight tonight.


  there will be a total ban on venturing  out of your homes  well these stricter containment measures  follow a sharp increase in coronavirus  cases in India 519 people are now known  to be infected a further 10 people have  died  the reports from  Delhi the lockdown has just begun it is  going to be on for 21 days  it is a mammoth task for the authorities  to impose the lockdown because I'd say  it's one it's a population of 1.3  billion people keeping them indoors for  21 days it's not going to be easy but so  far the people have responded well to  the appeal of the Prime Minister and as  we know that several in World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 states and union territories have  already been in lockdown for the last  few days so people are getting used to  it and I am told by many people I have  spoken to that they will abide by the  the authorities appeal and they will try  to stay indoors.


 and all the appeals  clear are the rules clear as to what  people have to do mr. moody when he  addressed the nation for nearly half an  hour tried to explain every bit every  little bit just to the people of India  now let's bring you up to date with the  situation with coronavirus in Spain  because there the death toll has jumped  by more than 500 in just a single day as  the situation in the country quickly  worsens there are now almost 40,000  recorded cases this is up from a little Coronavirus Now In India over 33,000 the number that was just  around yesterday and nearly 3,000 people  have died making Spain the worst  affected country in Europe after Italy  now a number of emergency measures are  being put into place including the  construction of this makeshift hospital  this is in a conference center and also  an ice rink being used as a  morgue well guy head co has more from  Madrid.


 the important thing here is that  that jump in a number of deaths each day  is still getting bigger the previous  jump had been 462 over the last 24 hours  it's been 514 so you can see that  numbers still going up and that the  authorities very much want to see that  taper off they have warned us that this  week is going to be a really key week in  the the chat Li that the fight against  this virus and they said that we're World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 going to see possibly a continuation of  the increase in deaths and those kinds  of jumps but they have also said that  they are hoping that the quite  restrictive measures they introduced  just over a week ago across the country  I got to start bearing some kind of  fruit so hopefully within a few days we  might start to see those numbers start  to taper off slightly we'll be back with  guy in a moment because I wanted to tell  you about Spain's defense minister who  says that rather distressing development.


  Stafford some care homes left those  homes after the virus was detected and  the army well they then during visits  found some older people completely  abandoned in these homes devastatingly  sometimes they even found dead bodies in  these beds let's get more on this  particular aspect from guy again the  chief prosecutor is announcing an  investigation into all this it's still  not clear how many retirement homes this  has happened in and where exactly they  are really really difficult development  there in Spain let's turn to Italy our Coronavirus Now In India correspondent mark Lowen has been  tweeting about the numbers from there  he's describing them as a mixed bag when  it comes to Italy's figures deaths up  daily toll from 601 to 743 but he says  that the daily increase in infections is  falling again now down to just over  seven percent so although it's a tragic  increase in deaths the actual number.


  that the the the there's a slowing of  new cases and he's describing this as  looking like a trend so if we have a  look at this on a graph it looks like  this basically the orange bars are a  number of new cases although you can see  today there was a slight a slight  increase but overall they are dropping  the blue line across the bottom there  this is the percentage rate of increase  and that as you can see it is still  trending downwards now the strict  measures the Italian government has  taken should push that particular World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 number  even lower and Bloomberg journalists  actually tweeted a little bit more  detail about this saying that Italy  enforced at the lockdown this really  strict lockdown they have two weeks ago  many of the patients who died in recent  days contracted this infection before  that so in theory what we should be  seeing is the effects of the lockdown on  the number of hospital and intensive  care unit admissions  in the next few days now other countries.


  across Europe will also really be  watching those particular figures they  want to see what is happening in Italy  because this will shape their own  responses to the virus these are some of  the latest pictures from Rome where  police are well they're taking tougher  measures they're intensifying their  checks they're using helicopters frying  them frequently over the city making  sure that people are in fact abiding by  the measures and that well that's a  local mare in Bari in the south of Italy  and this is taking place a few days ago  he's telling that person that you must  respect the decree go home otherwise the  police will come and use force now  you've probably seen on social media  mayor's around Italy have been venting Coronavirus Now In India their frustration in videos online you  must stay at home don't you understand  that people are dying more than 400  people a day are dying dying and you're  insisting on trying to find tricks to  dodge the law and leave your homes so in  various maze various videos like that  let's go back to mark Lowen from Rome.


  the Prime Minister tonight has spoken  and he has said that he hopes very soon  to be able to ease those restriction  restrictions in Italy but he has also  said that the fine for violating the  rules will be increased going up from a  maximum currently of 206 euros as about  230 dollars going up to 3,000 euros  that's about three and a half thousand  dollars so a big hike in fines try to  deter people from going out of their  house and from going around without  justification so the measures being  taken in Italy now it's time to France World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 the death toll there has now passed 1000  the country is really struggling to keep  up with the speed of this pandemic five  doctors have died from the illness  there's a lot of concern that not enough  protective equipment is available for  medical staff here's Lou Luci Williamson  in places like Malusi it's the very ill  who were leaving Hospice  intensive care units here are  overflowing and with dozens more  critical cases.


 admitted each day  patients are being sent to Marseille to  Brittany even to Germany and Switzerland  in a never-ending scramble for beds and  one senior doctor told me that stocks of  a key life support drug have virtually  run out our health system wasn't ready  for this I'm not sure there's a health  system anywhere that's ready for it  because the scale of the crisis is  bigger than any system could face the  mechanisms were putting in place aren't  enough in the hospital car park a  military field camp has been set up with  30 intensive care beds enough to last  the hospital here about a day the Coronavirus Now In India government this week tightened  quarantine restrictions across the  country and introduced a six-month jail  sentence for those who regularly don't  comply the Health Ministry has said the  epidemic could start to peak here this  week a doctor working in the heart of  them alou's crisis has described it as a  huge wave moving west and warned it  could saturate hospitals in Paris within  days.


  that's the snapshot across Europe let's  turn to Japan where the Tokyo Olympics  and Paralympics have been delayed for a  year because of the virus japan's Prime  Minister Shinzo Arby said he wanted to  hold the games by the summer of 2021 at  the latest as proof that the world has  won over kovat 19 it's the first time  that the games have been World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 delayed in  peacetime and his office was tweeting  about this you can look at it on  Twitter's they said that the president  of the International Olympic Committee  and also Shinzo Abe a together agreed  that the Olympics wouldn't be canceled  but simply delayed well I caught up with  Santiago Lango who's an Argentinian.


  Olympic sailor who won his first gold  medal at the Rio Olympics back in 2016  he is at a high risk of complications  because of surgery that he needed  because of cancer he told me exactly  what postponing the Olympics Coronavirus Now In India for him all expecting this as you said  and yeah I think what the world and the  humanity are going on in these days is  way if I'm far more important that we  desire to win a medal right now and so  you know obviously at the beginning when  there was a little bit of doubt when the  games were going to happen you continue  training really hard and you're you're  at the end of high outlets you keep  pushing but nowadays is clear that what  the total planet is is living and the  human being is living.


 we should leave  that aside for a while and and and you  know no regrets of what's going on  absolutely interestingly you've got two  sons who competed in sailing in Rio they  were also hoping to complete in Japan so World Coronavirus Cases Crossed 4,00,000 your whole family hugely affected by  this how do you keep up your spirits how  do you look forward to summer 2021 well  as I said we've been pushing very hard  and now you know I I stay quiet because  I really strongly believe that is things  way more important that I can complain  you know I cannot complain being an  asset waiting for one God getting back  to the sea to Train watch out for  Santiago and his sons in a year's time.