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The Caribbean island nation that relies
heavily on tourism for hard currency Cuba

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has so far confirmed more than 3 dozen
cases of the virus Cubans and foreign

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residents returning to the island will
be able to return home but will have to

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isolate in camping facilities college
dormitories and other institutions designated

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by the state for 14 days Meanwhile none
of the more than 32000 tourists still in

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Cuba would be allowed to leave their hotel
from Tuesday onward in all excursions

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are banned the company Honeywell said it
ramped up production of and 95 mask in its

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facility in Smithfield Rhode
Island to support the u.s.

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Government's response of the novel coronavirus
the same facility also produces you

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vex safety glasses used by health professionals
and treating coronavirus patients

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in another effort to help fight covert 19
alcoholic beverage maker book critic Corp

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shifted production last Tuesday to make
the main component of hand sanitizer

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ethanol at one of its largest rum
distilleries in Puerto Rico u.s.

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Territory I also see members national
limpid committees and athletes were all

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racing toward the same conclusion Monday
the Tokyo Olympics are not going to take

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place this summer Craig Reedie

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a long time member of the International
Olympic Committee told The Associated Press

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that everyone can see where things are
headed with the corona virus pandemic

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spreading and the limbic hopefuls around
the world unable to train in the balance

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of the probabilities information known about
the condition in Japan and given 1000

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factories the rest of the world the
likelihood of postponement is happening Reid

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said. Health experts say that Nigeria is
not likely to meet the United Nations

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tuberculosis eradication target of 2030 as

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a nation still accounts for the highest
Seitel of the rate from the disease and

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Africa officials say they continue to try
to address major factors like an adequate

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awareness and funding by offering
free screening by remote.

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Goodmorning Africa welcome to daybreak
Africa from the Voice of America but in

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Washington today It's Tuesday March 24th
and hear some of this there is we are

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covering South Africa what is he going
to want to slow the spread of the

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coronavirus.

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With. Zambia civil society calls on the

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government to close the borders an expert
says it is time for Africa to dispel the

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myth that the growing up I was does not
affect Africa today as well tuberculosis

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day and elections commission announces
new elections timetable but

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a civil society groups as

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a commission cannot be trusted to supervise
another election. Still remain the same

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. Commission. And we
don't have trust in you

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and they didn't commission because of the
missed the last general election and we

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can keep in mind now that. Campbell is the
National Court of Human Rights Defenders

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coalition. Government says Sunday's
constitutional referendum and parliamentary

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elections went well despite. Those stories
and more coming up on Daybreak Africa.

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On Monday announced

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a plan to one day shutdown to try the rapid
spread of the coronaviruses of Africa

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as good as the need to power reports from
Johannesburg The announcement came the

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day after the number of cases
rolls drastically its official as

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a blood bank Thursday the rainbow nation
is on lockdown all businesses other than

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clinics pharmacies and food stores will
close for 21 days all residents must stay

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home except for essential staff president
still run opposed announcing the measure

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on live television Monday night.

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For 21 days with. The
criticisms of this is.

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The South Africans from
infection. Well this is.

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Considered. A corner.

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Will be far greater.

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Richmond. Only.

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16. He made the announcement
on the day that the number of

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Corona virus cases in South Africa
jumped to 402 the highest caseload in

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sub-Saharan Africa and overnight increase
of 128 cases that caseload however will

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look paltry at the virus goes unchecked he
estimated that hundreds of thousands of

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South Africans could be infected which is
more than the nation's ever been. Health

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system can easily support also he noted
the nation has the world's highest burden

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of HIV meaning millions of South Africans
are already prone to opportunistic

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illness echoes other African nations steps
to try to stop the spread of the virus

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Rwanda was the 1st African
nation to announce

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a lockdown issuing the order for 2 weeks
locked down on Saturday and on Monday the

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Democratic Republic of Congo's
2nd largest city began

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a 48 hour lockdown all
oppose also announced

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a number of measures to try to keep small
businesses and informal workers afloat in

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the continent's most advanced economy
and finally speaking grimly off the

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teleprompter he assured the nation they
will overcome this challenge in the days

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weeks ahead I want results I
want results. And when you.

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Put. Never before. Us. To.

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My role of Africa to be courageous
to be patient and. To show

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solidarity. To one.

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That I Want country is facing for we.

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Surely. Protect our people this is.

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Not. Final words or lyrics from the
multilingual national anthem in the

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in-situ languages it means God bless Africa
Lord we ask you to protect our nation

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and you Paul the only news inspector. Design
be in is the 2 of governance and civil

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liberties because the platform is calling
on the government to close the country's

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borders with 8 neighboring countries
the group says this will bolster the

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government's efforts to combat this pred
of the coronavirus Frank typically tells

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mused Peter Clottey that his group
wants the government to implement more

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restrictions in order to prevent the
spread of the disease. As the Institute of

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governance and civil liberties advocates

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a platform what we are demanding now is
therefore the closure of all the border as

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because all of the cases of the coronavirus
have been brought to be imported in so

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when you look at our financial capacity
it was the institutions we don't have the

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leisure to wait and to depend
Sprague's for us to institute drastic

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measures as so as to our east there the
coronavirus there's I'm in government as an

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opportunity now to be bowed to and make
those tough positions and those tough

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decisions include closing the border
that immediately we have paid into the

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government exam that we immediately closed
the board does anything for the delay

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will be very catastrophic you and I one
nation as human. Towns and the townships

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are compounds. Very populated densely
populated and for as long as any case is

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recorded in those tally sheets it would
be very difficult for the government to

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outraised now we have an opportunity to
learn from other countries that you delay

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did implementing address to get. Proactive
measures and to try and combat and keep

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the event as I would from the boat that's
we have the virus you know I mean within

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our borders and so it's important that
we don't allow any coronavirus acted as

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a shooting into Zambia. As I understand
it the administration wanted

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to in this situation acros the country I
mean the next line of action after closing

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down schools and gatherings to ensure
this spread is no rampant on this

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spread don't you think this is

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a strategic move. By the
government he is paid that is

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a move but it's not enough and
did our population demographic.

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You know this parade of population when
you look at for instance when you take

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a look at Lusaka. We have

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a program of street vending street vending
street billed as I can just they do

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congregate did in the central business
district and so these clouds there when you

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go to the market open markets those
markets are. Crowded So unless

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a potential there was a high
risk area as. When you look at

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a board does not just that the international
airports even the. Board as you

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find that are those board does it demoed
interesting is there by that measure as in

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my view and in the view of these I'm not
interim government as I've said already

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but is at work as

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a platform is that the government needs
to intensify such actions because they

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recently traveled to. From Osaka to province
and they transited through the Congo

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and then observed it through myself on my
own and discovered that the major as they

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are known the gaps that to white
so these high risk that the virus

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can come from from Tripoli is the chief
executive officer of the Zambian Institute

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of governance and civil liberties advocates
the platform you're speaking with us

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Peter Clottey as of late last week the
number of coronavirus cases in Africa than

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600 in about 34 countries now that number
and the number of countries are growing

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by the day Dr Elvis president of the
International Organization of African nurses

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says the rising number of coroner virus
kisses in Africa means it is time to dispel

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the myth that the virus does not affect
Africans we understand that as of this

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moment according to the African Centers
for Disease Control there are 2 Dr John

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King so there is more than $600.00 come
from cases I've covered 19 of Africa.

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From 10 to 4 different
counters and so there is

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a mess out there that this virus doesn't
affect black people that covert 19 doesn't

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affect Africans that is not sure and we
should be educating our people we should be

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helping to stop the spread of this infection
by telling our people this is real it

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could get worse before it gets better and
so we have to take precautions now to

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avoid the ones from happening based on
what you are hearing. Do you think most

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African countries are prepared for this
virus for how to deal with this virus the

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simple answer is no even though Ebola
tested some of our health care systems and

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sub-Saharan Africa we are not rainy folk
over the 19 some counties like South

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Africa and said they don't increasing
their testing but that is not enough most

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other African countries we say
in testing that test kids

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a lot of valuable and so we are not ready
the best we could do at this point is

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prevention people have to stop listening
to what the health care departments are

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saying so you know crowded places
avoid going to I would suggest to put

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a hold in going to church for now you can
pray in your home and God is to going to

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hear you we have to be part of the
solution he is not going to let me ask you

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a layman's question what is the correct
answer for anyone who let's say has

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the call that 19 virus is a
likely the person will die can

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a person be killed the answer is no most
people actually have this virus do not die

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from it there has been over 200000 reported
cases so far wild wide and there's been

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there than 10000 deaths from the Corona
virus the problem in the context of Africa

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is that this virus is going to be fatal
for people who are older ride soulful

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al-Douri our grandmothers our grandpa.
And so if you're young and healthy you

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confront

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a virus you know your body's immune system
can fight against this virus and you'll

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be fine but imagine you having

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a virus and not developing symptoms and
then you come home to your grandmother your

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heart your grandma you tards you guys eat
from the same bowl and then she ends up

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with

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a virus and then she dies so simple
answer is understand your risk prevent

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yourself from catching the virus if you
feel sick stay home if you able to avoid

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going out please do that listen to the
health care professionals on this one

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doctor's everything is the president of
the International Organization of African

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nurses You're listening to daybreak Africa
on the Voice of America James but in

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Washington today is Tuesday March 24th
tuberculosis is still the leading killer

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disease in chaos and Africa as

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a whole as the world marks water broke
in losses there today Tuesday the World

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Health Organization says over 25 percent
of deaths occur in Africa and Mali as

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Marie or the amber reports
from Nairobi Dr Philip

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a witty technical advice of the k

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a national tuberculosis program says at
least 150000 K.M.'s I think there were

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tuberculosis and Mali today March 24th is

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a while still but close his day and according
to I'd have thought the nation Cuba

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closes is seen among the leading killer
disease in the wild and in Africa according

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to Kenyans have ministry by the year 2023
the government will have new strategy

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they had no eyes and Q I pleased 590
$7000.00 people with 2 but closes

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it TB Survivor China but as I say is that
too close because longer than usual to

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Dad knows how the mile to job verses until
about closes and taking no for Hard to

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Kill I was treated. Taif worried. And
each to me I don't 3 months before I knew

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that he actually had to be actually
coming from the beginning to not make any

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changes in the me around 5 months you know
to getting well and when my condition

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became wants

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a nice idea to seek help from my neighbor
who works in Kenya that's when I wished

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it into Kenya I was told that I have
actually had to be I began my treatment

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and care to be interim their journey was
quite hard and medication was hard for me

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the imagines they all fall to
drug resistant TB poses as

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a major health security threat and could
risk gains made in fight against TB

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another patient Vivian Faith says I Jenny
too well closes started in the year 2017

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to 2019 when she fully recovered
she says Ms deadness is also the

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reason she took long to cure Vivian
stigmatise herself because she didn't want

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people close to heart to know that she was
suffering from tuberculosis I was afraid

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also like some of my friends that I had TB
by then could be himself stigma and then

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make a marriage and they failed Sigma
tasing me but somebody will come to

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a payday and says I have

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a little later bunch but I would open up
the door to make sure there's enough the

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glacial of the house when they come in
I'd like just to say that it is all work

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together to help in more to money tearing
away the treatment and its effects at

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least half of Kenyans who
have tuberculosis is not such

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a treatment this is according to Dr
Philip de I think an advisor national

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tuberculosis program Kenya who says the
government has put into place measures to

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ensure all tuberculosis affected patients
are on treatment out wrong. Do number of

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people have to and you only really. Detect
and actually treatment slightly above

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how from this that means that more than
half close to half actually and are still

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not diagnosed and treatment
some country at large.

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Program leading their efforts have
mechanisms to ensure that these people

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have to be detected and yeah the losing
patience with Cuba closes who are on

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treatment the only thing is children
below 5 he has and they shins who have

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a positive and high risk of getting to
but closes because of little immunity

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reporting for various
daybreak Amarin a jumble in

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a no baking in the Molly human
rights defenders coalition r a

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d c says as far as it is concerned my
law is no longer have confidence in the

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elections commission is firstly just as
Jane to preside over another election

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if you are a d.c.

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National coordinator look Temple says Justice
the commission will not have another

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chance because they messed up they made
21000 presidential election yesterday

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Wednesday on Saturday the Commission
announced that they could order

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a fresh election would take place
on July 2nd this year as our d.c.

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National coordinator Tembo says the
group will continue to demand justice

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resignation because she no longer has the
credibility of our stand still remain the

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same demand I mean or
cruel commission played

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a game we don't have trust in you and they
didn't commission because they missed

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the last general elections and we can keep
to make another chance to preside over

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the coming president. Election as owed
by the Constitutional Court president.

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Elections Commission have appealed really
of the constitutional court until the

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don't you think she has the power to do
what she just did but what we understand is

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that demand I mean retro Commission
and the ruling Democratic progressive

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I hear today daily and by county

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a few weeks ago the public appointment
committee has ordered by the quote

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00.0 the commission and
for hearing they put up

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a recommendation as pay what the laws
prescribe any communication to the president

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indicating that the current crop of
commissioners including Leno incompetent

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of presiding over another election
the public opinions coming to

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a parliamentary committee that this
should be relieved of their power and

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responsibilities at the man I mean it for

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a commission of the president as it
infuses to fire them and has also defused

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a saint the editor of the forms being the
commission maybe we being what they look

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to scrapes up on to the pros court make
its determination and it is clear on the

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ground that people are going to have trust
and that's where the danger is if she if

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uses to go probably people would not have
confidence in that is that the elections

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that she is going to preside over us in
the wake of that 19 corona virus do you

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think it's possible to have the
elections say made 90 do you think the

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elections commission took into
consideration the virus when

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a put the election. In

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a way think that the electoral commission
to go into could see donation the code 19

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and then make in pushing the end. So you
June as opposed to May as determined.

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But I think what is kind of on the
importance is that the elections should be

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connected within the $150.00 days as
they came into the illusional Coolidge

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anything out of the $150.00 days becomes

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a contempt of court look terrible is the
national coordinator of the Malawi human

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rights defenders coalition he was
speaking with us from the capital

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a long way to getting government says
Sunday's constitutional referendum and

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parliamentary elections went well throughout
the country except in the capital

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could not create where the government says
opposition militants destroyed ballots

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and polling places information minister m

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r us some Perry says security forces are
arrested to opposition supporters with

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guns he defended President
Afrikan days decision to hold

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a referendum this by international
concern some Paris says he is suffering

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nation and decides what is good for its
citizens in the old country the referendum

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and the parliamentary election votes
went pretty good we hards Unfortunately

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some incidents in certain
zone in the country and in

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a capital city we had unfortunately
some destruction of some good station

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but no ballots picking the election
we went to goods we did speak with

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a member of the opposition who accused
your security forces using live bullet

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and killing 2 of their supporters but
they opposition admit that it's militants

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destruction of the materials could you
tell us who was responsible specifically

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for the violence the minister in
charge of security is given now

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a press conference it does start then. And
it's good to clarify all these speeches

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about violence just but what I can see
so far is that the violence came Firstly

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from

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a position because they send people to
destroy station the same people to block

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the population that wanted to
go to vote and they even used

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a gun we arrest. Them attacking
votes station we have

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a gun which is illegal and completely
dangerous because of that and even those

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police officers have been in June and some
kind of research isn't that where doing

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their votes also get injured so
it is. Hard to have violence is

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didn't condé has not yet said whether
he was another term in office

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but the opposition says that he's doing
this because he wants to stay in power for

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another time now why does the president
find it necessary to have this referendum

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even though ECOWAS even the Francophonie
countries and some say the United States

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the European Union has advised against
having the referendum again Guinea is an

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independent country and the people of
Guinea is sort of rank they can decide what

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is good for them what do what they want to
do and they can do it themselves what is

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true is that the Francophonie organisation
the ECOWAS and some observers made

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some comments on the electoral
the fight and this is

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a need the institution that all then his
election in Guinea take into account all

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of those recommendations they corrected the
fight and organize the election without

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more than 2000000 in food and trades union
so personally I don't understand why

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I have to apply. Accommodation they say
that they do not going to be participating

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in. It is about deicing of the election
but we had just come from Africa and

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elsewhere in the election went very well
yesterday some tirade Skinny's information

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minister who was speaking with us from the
capital cannot create and that's it for

00:26:20
this Tuesday March 24th edition of daybreak
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Today is Tuesday March 24th and this is the
international edition I'm Laurie London

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in Washington coming up u.s.
President Donald Trump says the u.s.

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Could be open for business not
on. America. To be open for

00:27:35
business. Britain's prime minister
bans gatherings of more than.

00:27:46
370. International.

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Washington is straining to respond to the
worsening virus down. Outbreak tempers

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flared on Monday in Congress
as lawmakers argued over

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a nearly 2 trillion dollar economic rescue
package Senate Majority Leader Mitch

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McConnell as he opened the chamber after

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a nonstop weekend session
that failed to produce

00:28:15
a deal it's got to stop. A
day to day it out of. The

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conference out of Maryland Senator Chris
Van Hollen said Democrats are trying to

00:28:27
negotiate more help for workers who've
lost their jobs and that McConnell should

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have waited until there was
an agreement before forcing

00:28:35
a vote on the massive spending
package can chose to hold that vote

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knowing it would fail that is

00:28:44
a self-inflicted wound on the United States
Senate and on the American people at

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this moment for more on when Americans
might see some relief we are joined by

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v.o.a.

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Congressional Correspondent Catherine Jepson.
What is the latest that you can tell

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us about where things stand as far as this
rescue package that doesn't seem to be

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getting agreement from both sides of
the aisle in Congress that's right so

00:29:10
basically what's happening is what's been
happening this entire weekend is that

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negotiations are ongoing between being
rational Democrats and Republicans over this

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bill that's ballooning to almost $1.00
trillion dollars which when it passed would

00:29:25
be the biggest stimulus bill that the u.s.

00:29:27
Congress has ever passed me
point of disagreement is

00:29:31
a 500000000000 dollars fund for corporations
that are particularly hard hit by this

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crisis congressional
Democrats are calling it

00:29:40
a slush fund because they feel that there
aren't enough controls on it to manage

00:29:45
how the corporations use that taxpayer
money they think that they can push

00:29:49
Republicans into removing that or putting
some more protections on it that's most

00:29:54
likely what's causing these negotiations
what about ordinary Americans as

00:29:58
a to anything to help them you know
absolutely does so the idea is that every

00:30:03
American below a certain
income level would receive

00:30:07
a one or 2 time job back to cash payment
directly into their bank account to use

00:30:13
however they wish that way they go out and
they start spending that money injecting

00:30:18
it back into the u.s.

00:30:19
Economy to help all of these struggling
small businesses and restaurants everything

00:30:24
that's been shut down because of the social
distancing measures because of the one

00:30:28
of virus now obviously there's

00:30:30
a negotiation back and forth about what
income levels should get it right now the

00:30:36
numbers I'm seen are that
everybody below 75 $1000.00

00:30:40
a year is going to get
up out a $1000.00 in

00:30:44
a cash payment right off the bat sometime
in early April why wouldn't Republicans

00:30:49
want to put in

00:30:49
a stipulation that the corporations have
to spend on their people and not just

00:30:55
expanding their own pockets Well we had
a little bit of a. Ugly day on the u.s.

00:30:59
Senate floor because of that really you
know the usual day in terms of the way

00:31:05
members of Congress were interact
with each other was actually

00:31:07
a lot of yelling there was

00:31:09
a lot of back and forth and fighting over
the procedure of just getting it dance

00:31:13
a debate on this thing they're arguing about
just if they can sing the bill they're

00:31:19
not even arguing about it the
bill itself which is not really

00:31:23
a great sign for getting this done anytime
soon so what they were doing was kind of

00:31:28
talking to cast each other Republicans Mitch
McConnell is saying that they have to

00:31:33
move that the Democrats were politicizing
if they were leave looking for

00:31:37
a quote juicy political opportunity to
talk and all of their favorite issues

00:31:44
Democrats can neck and said look if
you're going to get $500000000000.00 to

00:31:49
corporations who we have met This is no
fault of their own that they're suffering

00:31:54
but they also need to have some sort of
responsibility to the American taxpayer

00:31:59
a lot of the discussion has been to be
airlines which are extremely hard at by all

00:32:04
of this had liquidity
in their funds they had

00:32:08
a lot of extra money but then they use
that extra money for stock buybacks to

00:32:13
enhance their c.e.o.

00:32:15
Compensation they're saying we have to
make sure that the airlines and other

00:32:19
industries don't do this with that
taxpayer money so they're really still in

00:32:25
a debating mode and they're nowhere near
an actual vote and this is not likely to

00:32:30
get done any time soon while the
economy and this country says at

00:32:35
a standstill that's pretty much where
we stand right now and they're still

00:32:39
negotiating now up on Capitol
Hill once they finally reach

00:32:44
a decision then Senate minority leader Chuck
Schumer will release those Democratic

00:32:50
votes and allow his numbers to say yes we
want this discussion to go on because of

00:32:56
the way Senate rules work that. That even
if they do that now they would still have

00:33:02
a couple of days until they can have the
actual vote on the legislation pretty nice

00:33:07
to least Friday or Saturday of this week
how is it that Democrats are able to have

00:33:14
leverage right now well that's

00:33:16
a great question because of course they you
know almost never have any leverage the

00:33:20
Republicans do control the majority in the
Senate Mitch McConnell usually can get

00:33:25
through what he wants but he had

00:33:27
a monkey wrench thrown into those plans
and it was because of coronavirus So

00:33:32
Senator Rand became the 1st u.s.

00:33:35
Senator to test positive for Corona virus
over the weekend you know of course that

00:33:40
she members of the u.s.

00:33:41
House of Representatives have already
tested positive and Senator Paul announced

00:33:45
that and said that of course he would
have to solve isolate during that 14

00:33:49
a period he also came into contact
with 2 other members of the u.s.

00:33:54
Senate Mitt Romney and Mike Lee who now
say that they are self isolating because

00:33:59
they are in contact with Senator Paul so
that cuts down into Mitch McConnell's

00:34:05
number of both that's available Congressional
Correspondent Catherine Jefferson.

00:34:11
Meanwhile even as federal officials warn
the coronavirus crisis is deepening

00:34:16
President Trump is expressing qualms
about extending the federal government's

00:34:20
recommendation that Americans
stay home for 15 days a.p.

00:34:24
Washington correspondent Sabra Madani
reports 2 days ago the president said

00:34:29
Americans need to stay away from each other
to stop the spread I think it's going

00:34:33
to have

00:34:34
a very profound effect last night he tweeted
in all caps we cannot let the queue or

00:34:39
be worse than the problem itself that
contradicts medical advice from around the

00:34:44
country continue with what House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says is

00:34:48
a habit of speaking with no regard for
science. Just this morning surgeon

00:34:55
general Jerome Adams warned
things are going to get

00:34:57
a lot worse in America this week Saager
Magni Washington like over 1000 illness

00:35:04
causes mild or moderate symptoms in most
people but severe symptoms are likely an

00:35:09
elderly or those with existing health
problems more than 100000 people have

00:35:14
recovered so far mostly in China Meanwhile
Attorney General William Barr speaking

00:35:20
at Monday's coronavirus taskforce update
alongside the president said the Justice

00:35:26
Department will go after people hoarding
vital emergency supplies and raising

00:35:31
prices he said he is not aiming to go after
people stashing toilet paper in their

00:35:37
homes if you are

00:35:41
a big supply of toilet paper in your house
this is not something you have to worry

00:35:45
about but if you are
sitting around and head on

00:35:48
a warehouse with masks. Surgical
masks you will be carrying

00:35:54
a knock on your door there has been

00:35:57
a major rise in complaints of price gouging
on high demand products like face masks

00:36:03
and hand sanitizer u.s.

00:36:05
Defense secretary Mark asked for

00:36:07
a brief the media on Monday on the Pentagon
and defense to par. It's response to

00:36:12
the pandemic Joining us is national security
correspondent Geoff Seldon Jeff what

00:36:18
exactly did the defense secretary say about
what his department is doing to assist

00:36:23
in the crisis couple of things he said 1st
that the military is working on sending

00:36:28
some fuel to hospitals to both New York
and Seattle some of the hardest hit areas

00:36:33
of the country when it comes to Krone virus
he also said that Department of Defense

00:36:37
and laboratories war available and really
to help with testing for Corona virus

00:36:44
said that there are 60 labs
available to 6000 tests

00:36:47
a day out coronavirus said the problem
is the test kits those things behind so

00:36:52
that's holding things back and finally is
said that they are taking some additional

00:36:56
precautions at the Pentagon itself that
they are raising alert status there and

00:37:01
that they may start doing things like
testing when people come into the Pentagon

00:37:05
they've already reduced the works out by
about 60 percent there they may start

00:37:08
taking temperatures and treating other
measures to make sure that corona virus is

00:37:12
not spreading why are they just saying these
hospitals now I thought that this was

00:37:16
already in the works there are

00:37:18
a couple of things of that because he's
not just the field hospitals that they're

00:37:22
sending civically to Seattle and New
York right now pending approval from the

00:37:26
Federal Emergency Management
Agency femal they're also sending

00:37:30
a couple of hospital ships to Los
Angeles and also to New York the u.s.

00:37:34
And us mercy is heading
to Los Angeles the u.s.

00:37:37
And comfort is heading to New York so
they're taking those measures as well

00:37:40
Additionally there are more than 7000
national guardsmen who have been activated to

00:37:45
help out in cities across the u.s.

00:37:48
Doing basic things like helping with drive
through testing for coronavirus helping

00:37:52
stock shelves at grocery stores to make
sure people when they need to go shopping

00:37:57
those that were not on lockdown are able
to get some stuff and so the Pentagon's

00:38:01
doing

00:38:01
a variety of things at the same time though
of course the name purpose of the Defense

00:38:05
Department is to protect the country and
was cut back on some major military

00:38:09
exercises training goes on and the secretary
said that he's confident that u.s.

00:38:14
Forces are ready should
they be needed that's

00:38:17
a national security correspondent solver.
Well as the number of cases continue to

00:38:24
rise experts say the United States is on
the path to surpassing Italy joining us

00:38:29
now to talk about what the u.s.

00:38:31
Can expect in the coming weeks is Dr Rachel
Bender Ignacio an infectious disease

00:38:36
specialist at the University of Washington
in Seattle I magine this is truly going

00:38:42
to get worse before it gets better as testing
increases and infection spread we are

00:38:47
absolutely down to see
more cases will have

00:38:50
a centrally leg before we know whether
social distancing has been effective in any

00:38:57
particular area and again because this is
really been done local jurisdiction level

00:39:03
cities and counties and states individually
rather the next federal level what

00:39:07
about the thousands of cases that they are
expecting in hospitals are going to far

00:39:12
surpass their capability
particularly with the i.c.u.

00:39:16
I think that it's very clear to all of us
who are and health care and looking at

00:39:21
the numbers and the expectations what we
know about the United States health care

00:39:25
system is that we run at capacity both for
acute care beds and critical care beds

00:39:30
most of the time and in most
regions and so it's really taking

00:39:34
a concerted effort to attempt to remove
all strain on the health care system it's

00:39:40
not necessary right now delaying elective
procedures and trying to discharge

00:39:45
patients from the hospital that are there
for reasons other than for needing the

00:39:50
medical care but I think even was all of
that nice to know that we're going to be

00:39:54
short and short of health care workers
critical care beds it is specifically

00:39:58
ventilators are we behind the curve here
as far as being prepared for this and

00:40:03
should we have stepped up
sooner to get testing much

00:40:07
a sob stifling the situation it is clear
that preparedness could have helped us

00:40:12
substantially that there are some scenes
that for example here in Seattle we've had

00:40:17
a tremendous boost to be prepared even
before. I knew that we had community

00:40:23
transmission here part of that is because
we had the index case. That came as

00:40:29
a traveler back in January and part of that
is because our University of Washington

00:40:35
working together with our county public
health and our State Department of Health

00:40:39
incredibly experienced an incredibly prepared
for thinking so we have done our best

00:40:44
at the local state and county level to
be prepared to assist we can do the most

00:40:49
difficult thing here is that has not been
the case throughout the country and it is

00:40:53
highly variable how much each jurisdiction
has and prepared until and national

00:40:58
emergency was declared What is this virus
in particular so incredibly factious you

00:41:05
can get it just by being around
people so we know that this is

00:41:08
a respiratory virus that acts in many ways
the same as those respiratory viruses

00:41:13
like in 2 ends of that there are several
things that make it more infectious we

00:41:18
don't entirely understand completely why
it's more infectious or why it even seems

00:41:22
to be more interaction or
the original SARS around

00:41:25
a virus but one thing that certainly is
impacting us here is that no one in the

00:41:32
population has previous immunity to this
so unlike influenza where even though

00:41:38
they're necessary immunity and
the perfect match between

00:41:40
a vaccine and the virus changes your 2
year is as the virus becomes different

00:41:46
season to season our populations all over
the world are completely not immune to

00:41:50
this and Additionally it
is seems to be having

00:41:54
a much longer life on hard surfaces than
even preceding SARS virus or in cleanser

00:41:59
for example so it seems as though it's
just able to stay on surfaces in transmit

00:42:04
very effectively by respiratory droplets
between people who are in close contact

00:42:08
are we building any immunity right now if
we are carriers but not getting sick or

00:42:13
as a way to sound to even think
about the I think this is

00:42:16
a huge area of emerging science emerging
studies so the term carrier I think is

00:42:21
a little. Tricky the way that we define
infection is by detecting genetic material

00:42:26
from the virus inside some of these nasal
sharings So that's the swab testing

00:42:30
that's happening and what we think from the
data coming from China is that about 75

00:42:35
percent of people at least who are carrying
the virus will ultimately develop some

00:42:40
sort of symptoms even if they're very
mild so we don't think that there's

00:42:44
a tremendous number of people who will
never display some degree of symptoms but

00:42:48
more that most people who are carrying the
virus are out to become say or had or

00:42:54
are just recovering from

00:42:55
a very hot area of ongoing research to try
to understand to what extent people who

00:43:01
have recovered from illness or who ever
covered from having the virus detected in

00:43:05
the nose without significant Alice to
understand whether those people are protected

00:43:09
and what duration are protected from

00:43:12
a 2nd infection we've been hearing from
government health officials this could be

00:43:16
around for 18 months you agree with up

00:43:19
a long time I do agree with that I think
that our best modeling experts expect that

00:43:26
we will have

00:43:27
a surge of this virus for the next several
months likely until the last season when

00:43:32
there tends to be fewer respiratory
infections we are hypothesizing that it will

00:43:37
decrease during the summer months here
although we don't know if it's virus behaves

00:43:42
the same as influenza or tax true
but we do expect that there will be

00:43:46
a decrease judicial decision saying and
potentially the summer season but we fully

00:43:50
expect that there will be another uptick
again in the fall and through next winter

00:43:54
and so if there are sufficient proportion
of the country where the world has

00:43:59
immunity against terrorists through natural
infection or through. A successful Dr

00:44:05
Rachel Bender Ignacio infectious disease
specialist at the University of Washington

00:44:11
in Seattle South African
president Cyril announced

00:44:15
a 21 day nationwide lockdown Monday to try
to curb the rapid spread of the corona

00:44:21
virus in south. Africa order comes

00:44:23
a day after cases rose
dramatically always and he

00:44:27
a pal reports from Johannesburg South
African president still wrong opposing On

00:44:32
Monday an ounce to $21.00 day shutdown
to try to curb the rapid spread of

00:44:36
coronavirus in South Africa the day
after cases rose drastically u.i.c.

00:44:41
To power points from Johannesburg It's
official as of midnight Thursday the rainbow

00:44:47
nation is on lockdown all businesses other
than clinics pharmacies and food stores

00:44:52
will close for 21 days all residents my
stay home except for essential staff

00:44:58
president still run oppose that announcing
the measure on live television Monday

00:45:01
night. For

00:45:08
those. Looking for 21 days with.

00:45:16
Their criticisms of much. This is

00:45:19
a decisive measure to save the South Africans
from infection and save the lives of

00:45:26
. Thousands of people.
Whether this is. Where they

00:45:32
consider the impact on people's
lives. Of our society our way

00:45:39
currently the human cost of delaying
this action would be far far greater.

00:45:52
Disaster Management. And will
continue to finally. Meet on

00:45:58
Thursday 26th. Until
Thursday the 16th of April

00:46:05
there is about. To say. He made the
announcement on the day that the number of

00:46:11
Corona virus cases in South Africa
jumped to 402 the highest caseload in

00:46:16
sub-Saharan Africa and an overnight increase
of 128 cases. That caseload however

00:46:22
will look paltry at the virus goes
unchecked he estimated that hundreds of

00:46:27
thousands of South Africans could be
infected which is more than the nation's

00:46:30
overburdened health system can easily
support also he noted the nation has the

00:46:35
world's highest burden of HIV meaning
millions of South Africans are already prone

00:46:39
to opportunistic illness echoes other
African nations steps to try to stop the

00:46:44
spread of the virus Rwanda was the
1st African nation to announce

00:46:47
a lockdown issuing an order for 2 weeks
locked down on Saturday and on Monday the

00:46:52
Democratic Republic of Congo's
2nd largest city began

00:46:54
a 48 hour lockdown all
oppose also announced

00:46:57
a number of measures to try to keep small
businesses in informal workers afloat in

00:47:01
the continent's most advanced economy
and finally speaking grimly off the

00:47:05
teleprompter he assured the nation they
will overcome this challenge in the days

00:47:11
weeks ahead I want results of
the resistance and the unity as

00:47:17
a nation. Is going to be
pushed to never before.

00:47:24
Us. And I wrote this of an effort.

00:47:32
To be courageous to be patient
and. To show solidarity.

00:47:40
To one. Does this. Challenges that our

00:47:47
country is facing. And they should.

00:47:55
Surely. Protect our people. This is.

00:48:06
Term service is final words are lyrics from
the multilingual national anthem in the

00:48:12
city languages it means God bless Africa
Lord we ask you to protect our nation

00:48:19
from Egypt all the way news to him speck
typically busy streets around the world

00:48:24
look like scenes from
post-apocalyptic movies

00:48:27
a coronavirus and Democrats left most
people at home while authorities take

00:48:32
advantage to wage war on the virus one
block at a time in a way as Iraq are of

00:48:38
a Saudi has that story. A bank on the
streets are deserted except for military

00:48:44
trucks and workers and as
Matt says his new normal

00:48:48
a Thai capital and other
major world cities comes

00:48:51
a social distancing keeps most people it
clears the way for crews to visit the

00:48:56
streets the cases most. Recently
discovered beginning on March

00:49:03
14th here $57.00 cases of connected to

00:49:06
a nightclub any boxing arena including
organizers and audience for the family

00:49:11
members and close. Elections in
Thailand 700 on Monday morning to press

00:49:18
reports with one that I've Kenya's capital
reduce street traffic gives health

00:49:23
workers the opportunity to wage war on many
pathogens with disinfectant. The Sunday

00:49:30
paper exercise and all of the old great
health care you think all kind of yams not

00:49:36
going to be are you willing
chorion region people also use

00:49:39
a pinky believe you are just workers from
the Health Ministry sanitised public

00:49:44
transportation in Nairobi and installed
sinks for convenient hand washing in

00:49:49
a rocky city on the outskirts of Mosul
had broken cases last week but streets

00:49:55
televising continue. As at least
230 cases in 20 people have.

00:50:02
Serious white helmets or. For
search and rescue operations as

00:50:07
a new mission in the game
is tells us. That there is

00:50:12
a most. People for. The
help of the soccer game

00:50:19
a war torn country can and its 1st
case of our son India to more than

00:50:25
1300000000 people wounded 415
cases in 7 deaths experts warn

00:50:31
a spike in coronavirus cases may be

00:50:34
a little public health infrastructure
rash Arab society. Is Washington and

00:50:41
finally today musicians are
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