health commission chief it's hurling china's efforts as a decisive victory it says its treatment of this particular outbreak is internationally advances or he says he's ready to share china's experiences with those countries now battling the worst of the crisis for a crowd of us outbreak in other countries now i should also report that the milan local press in china is reporting that plane loads of medical support is being shipped out from beijing this is the likes of mosques medicines and ventilators these are going to europe africa parts of asia and north america but of course i should also state that the quality of the supplies being sent from china has been questioned in the past and some countries are even rejecting china's offer of help or a decisive victory they say a lot of dollars is being expressed about the veracity of china's figures that can we trust the. well a number of countries have long been questioning the transparency of the figures that as well as the modeling of the numbers that are coming out of china we had a university pipe that was published in the lancet j

health commission. or so i should say daily press conference and they've confirmed that this particular announcement this clinical trial will go ahead and as you mentioned before it's a vaccine that's been developed by in partnership with number one a beijing based biotech group and the other group is a. pharmaceutical group i should say china's already approved another particular clinical trial and that was back in march now it started its 2nd phase of that trial about 500 volunteers have signed up to take part in that the 1st phase of that particular clinical trial it was focused on safety and the 2nd phase of this it's introduced a control group so we can confirm that there are now 3 particular vaccines have been approved in china and the national health commission has said that they will know that they need to clear more conditions before they can label mass production of these particular vaccine vik vaccines globally. and one of today's numbers say about the fears of a 2nd wave. well because i do 9

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial krajina virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures. well south korea is considering opening schools in may so has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopened on sunday in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day. arrived a radio station in pakistan is holding on to a clinic so that people living in remote areas can get information about the plan demick next year bryant has more. the airwaves in northern pakista

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter of the province where we saw the initial corona virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there where 11000000 people a went into lockdown back in january and it's gradually reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures. in the u.s. the white house official coordinating the response to the corona virus outbreak says social distancing may be necessary through the summer dr deborah brick says the u.s. needs a huge technology breakthrough to expand testing before the country can reopen but state governors remain divided high the costs are reports. despite clear warnings the virus continues to spread some americans have just had enough

health commission out of china on a daily basis or vietnam as a nation neighboring china and it too is getting back to business shops and cafes and restaurants they're all reopening the country eases restrictions on movement vietnam has been praised for success. compellingly outbreak it's reported 300 cases with no deaths and no new cases for a week vietnam did act quickly by putting tens of thousands of people in quarantine using contacts tracing and testing. vietnam strategy in the fight against covert 19 was remote and it focused on early prevention before the pandemic vietnam quickly contained a virus and stopped it from spreading to other communities on top of that the government and the ministry of health employed measures including isolation and medical treatment. of the world health organization says that there is no scientific evidence yet that those who recover from covert 90 develop immunity to the virus and that means that it's not known yet whether people can get reinfected . is also a warning against issuing immunity certificates for those who recover from the illness

well the national health commission has confirmed on tuesday that i had 9 you cases have 0 infections have been come out of china as of today but the clear area the focus now is russia and china's largest source of these infections we've had $409.00 come out of russia into china over the last few weeks and the key area that we're looking at is the north east of the country this is an area a province called how long this particular province it borders russia and achieved a 79 of those 899 cases were citizens traveling from russia back into china chinese nationals so as a result number of strict conditions and border patrols have been put in place in this particular area we've got health checks being made of all people coming from russia into china this is mandatory coronavirus testing they've also got a public gatherings have been banned in a number of cities across that particular province and 28 day quarantine rules have also been put in place the chinese also deployed a number of its medical teams from the south as well as from where han at its resources to this particular area tryi

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial krajina virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures. what south korea is considering a pre-schools m a soul has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopen on sunday and in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day. a radio station in pakistan is holding on to a clinic so that people living in remote areas can get information about the pandemic is alexia brah. the airwaves in northern pakistan once carried lectures

health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures sarah thank you for that sarah clarke life for a sane hong kong. in the united states the white house official coordinating the response to the coronavirus outbreak say a social distancing may be necessary through the summer dr deborah burke says the u.s. needs a huge technology breakthrough to expand testing before the country can reopen by the state governors remain divided heidi reports despite clear warnings the virus continues to spread some americans have just had enough it's been 5 weeks and most people here with thousands of calls cannot get through to unemployment they don't know what they're going to do protesters gathered in downtown las vegas begging to return to jobs that shuttered casinos and entertainment venues along the city's famed district police arrested several beach goers in california who showed up to take in the sun despite prohibitions are you concerned the message from the white house coronavirus response coordinator wa

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial krajina virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course was the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures well south korea is also considering a preschool in may so has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopen on sunday in the polls week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day a radio station in pakistan is holding clinics so that people living in remote areas can get information about the pandemic looks to have grown as more. the airwaves in northern pakistan once carried le

it does to mother those figures we've got from china's national health commission it says 108 and as you mentioned it's the highest number of daily cases that we've seen coming out of china in at least 6 weeks and that's up from the previous day which was 99 and all or nearly all the import other cases are imported cases 98 of the 108 have been brought in from overseas according to the national health commission we also have 2 new deaths have been reported on sunday and that were coming out of the wood . province so it's a small number a small increase but we're seeing this ongoing downward trend i would say in cities reopen across china we've obviously got which is the epicenter of the credit virus outbreak it's got domestic travel in and out and the travel has resumed but only within the mainland china got tight quarantine restrictions which are still in place and this is obviously what china is trying to do is to stop the 2nd wave of infections coming in that's the imported cases but we do have a number of questions globally about the calculations being released from china and the

the national health commission reported no new coronavirus tyson's in that particular city and this of course was the city there were 11000000 people a went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being use a bunch by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures in the united states hugh white house official coordinating the response to the corona virus outbreak says social distancing may be necessary through the summer dr deborah burke says the u.s. needs a huge technology breakthrough to expand testing before the country can reopen but state government is remain divided costs are reports. despite clear warnings the virus continues to spread some americans have just had enough it's been 5 weeks and most people here with thousands of calls cannot get through to unemployment they don't know what they're going to do protesters gathered in downtown las vegas begging to return to jobs that shuttered

health commission out of china on a daily basis while the nation they were in china is getting back to business shops cafes and restaurants are reopening because vietnam uses restrictions on movement the country has been praised for successfully containing the outbreak it's reported through. a 100 cases with no deaths and no new cases for a week to act quickly by putting tens of thousands of people in quarantine and using contact tracing and testing. vietnam strategy in the fight against covert 19 was remote and focused on early prevention before the pandemic vietnam quickly contained a virus and stopped it from spreading to other communities on top of that the government and the ministry of health implied measures including isolation and medical treatment india is easing restrictions for its 1300000000 people in lockdown shops selling non-essential goods can now open but only at 50 percent capacity areas considered infection hotspots such as larger stores and malls they'll stay shut and health officials have reported nearly 25000 cases and 775 deaths on friday they recorded the hig

tell me if you can one more time why on january 14 the national health commission document that was an internal document was labelled not to be spread on the internet, not to be publicly disclosed in which they said that there was evidence of human—to—human transmission, clustered cases, a severe and complex problem. why is it that the very next day i come back to it than one of your most senior officials... i think all your information is coming from washington post. i think you depend too much on american media. you know, i really hope you depend on the who for information. we share all this information with the who. i saw your interview, and i think china has been straightforward, transparent and quickest in terms of sharing information with the who. of course, inside china, we have to take precautions, measures, we have to take strict conventional measures to fight against this virus. it is still unknown then, so people do not know what will happen, but this virus is about. the thing is, ambassador... on the one hand, we share our knowledge, our understanding with the who, with

as of monday so these are the figures coming from the national health commission it's $108.00 cases of the infection reported across china of course most of these health commission says are imported cases and this is the highest number of daily cases that we've seen in china in 6 weeks now we have 3 deaths new deaths as of monday now it's a small increase as well from the day before we had 99 the day before and 100 night on monday but we're saying it's ongoing downward trend saying a number the city has reopened across china we've got the traverse directions lifted for domestic travelers across the country but this is ongoing concern about a 2nd wave of infections in the u.k. the number of reported deaths caused by the virus has gone past 10000 prime minister boris johnson has been released from hospital after spending 3 nights in intensive care he thanks doctors and health care workers for saving his life the u.s. infectious disease expert dr anthony felt she says he can't guarantee it will be safe for americans to vote in person during november's presidential election the u.s. has mo

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter of the province where we saw the initial corona virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there where 11000000 people a went into lockdown back in january and it's gradually reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being news about china by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures iran plans to reopen some mosques in areas that are deemed free of coronavirus the government will start labeling regions either white yellow or red depending on the number of deaths or infections iranians have already returned to shops and bazaars as the government tries to kickstart its battered economy in other news the saudi led coalition in yemen is calling for an end to violence after separatists in the city of

health commission it's $108.00 cases of the infliction reported across china and of course most of these the health commission says are imported cases now this is the highest number of daily cases that we've seen in china in 6 weeks now we have 3 deaths new deaths as of monday now it's a small increase up as of from the day before we had 99 the day before and 108 on monday but we're seeing this ongoing downward trend we're seeing a number of the cities reopen across china we've got the traverse frictions lifted for domestic travelers across the country but this is ongoing concern about a 2nd wave of infections and as china says it's those cases being imported back into the country as chinese foreign nationals or visitors come to the country to visit the questions however ongoing about the calculations or the accuracy of the accounting measures being used in china last week we had senior british government who go he questioned china's transparency of the infectiousness of the disease we also heard us present donald trump questioning the number one he said that the death toll certainly see

health commission on saturday and 11 of those were imported and this particular province have put in place a number of border checkpoints as well as border controls have got mantric testing of crown of ice for all those arrivals and these are the chinese nationals coming from russia back in to china but as you mentioned it's a big milestone on the ground we've got no new death that's a 10 day in a row where they haven't reported a death coming out of china we've also got they've actually helped mission chief he's helling china's efforts in their treatment of the crowd of ours cases in particular the outbreak it's describing it what he's describing as a decisive victory and he says it's treatment china's treatment this particular outbreak is internationally advanced and he's also said he's ready to share with the world china's experience and it's handing this case to try to help those who are currently in the midst of the outbreak elsewhere a good thing is there's been a lot of people expressing doubt about china's transparency from the of can we trust these figures. well certainly th

this comment comes at the same time as china's national health commission has indicated that hundreds of people in wuhan were wrongly listed as having recovered from covid—19. in wuhan, the number of recovered cases was reported at 47,300 on friday. on monday, that figure was revised down by almost a thousand to 46,359. more astionishing, was the government in wuhan's decision on friday to revise the city's overall death toll upwards by an extra 50%. the total number of confirmed deaths across china currently stands at more than 4,500, though those statistics are impossible to verify. this is kerry allen from bbc monitoring on change to the numbers. one of the things that we are seeing today coming out of the official statistics given by the national health commission in china is the number of cured cases and china has been giving daily statistics on the number of confirmed cases, suspected cases, number of deaths, the number of cured patients. we are suddenly seeing this figure of cured patients drop significantly and so, around... previously it was around, for the central city of

on sunday the national health commission's reported 11 cases in 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called how long jiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region and we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this typewriting restrictions in a number of those cities that we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past day as the number of new infections also dropped italy has reported 260 virus deaths its lowest toll for 6 weeks. britain's prime minister boris johnson is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after he was in intensive care johnson's facing criticism of his and his

china's national health commission has indicated that hundreds of people in wuhan were wrongly listed as having recovered from covid—19. in wuhan, the number of recovered cases was reported at 47,300 on friday. on monday, that figure was revised down by almost 1,000 to 46,359. more surprising was the decision on friday by the authorities in wuhan to revise the city's overall death toll upwards by an extra 50%. the total number of confirmed deaths across china currently stands at more than 4,500 — though those statistics are impossible to verify. let's hear more on this from kerry allen from bbc monitoring. one of the things that we are seeing today coming out of the official statistics given by the national health commission in china is the number of cured cases and china has been giving daily statistics on the number of confirmed cases, suspected cases, number of deaths, the number of cured patients. we are suddenly seeing this figure of cured patients drop significantly and so, around... previously it was around, for the central city of wuhan, it was around the 47,000 mark, 47,0

yes tomorrow we've got 108 you cases confirmed by china's national health commission and as you mentioned most of these are imported so 98 out of the 100 new infections reported on monday as you mentioned we've got none coming out the province which is an interesting and a good development but we've had 2 new disconfirmed from will hand so it's a small increase certainly over the long term it's a downward trend that we're seeing coming out of china but it's the highest number of daily cases we've seen out of china in 6 weeks looking at what china is doing its reopening for business you could say we've got the city of last week it lifted its lockdown of the travel resumption inbound and outbound we've also got domestic travel resuming across china but we still have heavy quarantine restrictions in place and heavy restrictions on any foreigners trying to enter china and this is simply china's why i'm dealing with what they believe could be a 2nd wave of infections so $180.00 cases it's certainly not a great development but china would say it's particularly in recovery mode at this stage com

health commission has just confirmed from its delhi press conference there are 12 new cases of 11 of those cases are actually imported cases so those are the chinese nationals returned to china from various areas and in particular the focus is now looking at the north of china and the province knows how long jiang this is a province that borders russia and these are the chinese nationals returning from russia and returning from china from russia as a result they're put in place and security checkpoints a number of cities in that particular area are also in lockdown and all those new arrivals have been tested they've got mandatory coronavirus testing for those people returning to china the number of countries who have long been questioning the transparency of the figures because one of the modeling of the numbers that are coming out of china we had a university pipe it was published in the lancet journal that was earlier this week it was written by a hong kong university's school of public health and they questioned china's numbers they reported in their particular document that more

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter of the province where we saw the initial krajina virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used a by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures south korea is also considering reopening schools next month churches welcomed congregations on sunday and other social restrictions were lifted fewer than 20 new infections have been reported daily for the past 10 days. a radio station in pakistan is holding on air clinics so people living in remote areas can get information about the pandemic. has more. the airwaves in northern pakistan once carried lectures by t

on sunday the national health commission reported 11 cases in 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called helen jiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region and we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and there's typewriting restrictions in a number of those cities and we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china's they're looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 298 people died in the past 8 years the number of new infections also dropped italy has reported 260 virus deaths its lowest total for 6 weeks now in an apparent u. turn the world health organization says patients who've already been infected by the corona virus will develop some form of

health commission sarah clarke there for us in hong kong thank you very much there are south korea is also considering opening schools in may it's reported only 10 new cases of the virus marking its 26th straight day below 100 cell has begun lifting social restrictions with a large churches reopening on sunday more than 10700 people have been infected in south korea 243 have died. well there are also plans to reopen some last 6 in parts of iran deemed free of coronavirus the government will start labeling regions even white yellow or red depending on the number of deaths or infections mosques and white cern's will be able to resume services iranians have already returned to shops and bazaars as the government tries to stimulate its better to commie the country's president says regions will be classified on a case by case basis. still ahead on al-jazeera bodies and bathrooms victims not properly identified we talk to a health worker in ecuador where hospitals are overwhelmed. and brazil's president i have both in our faces fresh personally as one of his sons is accused of spreading fak

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial coronavirus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course was the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures. well staying in asia joggers in singapore have to be aware of this. still thing. to be afraid of 3 years roaming the city's parks urging everyone to stay home during the lockdown the government originally designed the robot for security surveillance but it's turned into a vigilant ambassador for social distancing singapore has extended its lockdown until early june. the radio station in pakistan is holding clinics so th

health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial corona virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures south korea is also considering opening the schools in may saw has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopening on sunday in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day. china is being accused of exploiting the global coronavirus pandemic to further its disputed territory in the south china sea the us has accused china of bullying on the high seas the area is a str

meeting china's national health commission actually painted a very grim picture of the situation and they said i quote the epidemic is severe and complex the most severe challenge since sars in 2003 and likely to develop into a major public event and that message was supposed to be taken to the upper edge of the communist party to leak a challenge to president xi jinping so that was generally 14 but we do know that president xi jinping did not allow the chinese public to us to the severity of the outbreak until january 20th so that's 6 days between finding out the severity of this outbreak and actually alerting the public now that may not sound like a lot but experts say that 6 days is extremely significant during that time at least 3000 people were infected and also potentially the virus may according to some experts have already reached the u.s. indeed katrina you there for us in beijing thank you katrina well as straightly as prime minister has praised the world health organizations response in the asia pacific region scott morrison also says that lockdown measures in australia wi

health commission's report of 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called heilongjiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this type quarantine restrictions in a number of those cities and we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region as it sees a surge in the number of cases. there is a professor in the school of politics and international relations at the university of nottingham he says the chinese communist party is doing everything it can to shield itself from any blame for what's happening. the chinese communist party holds. a quote unquote monopoly of truth and that means. the communist party

on sunday a national health commission's reported 11 cases and father dies have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called heilongjiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this tight pointing restrictions in a number of cities that we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region millions of children spain are being allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 6 weeks is a lockdown is easy but it's only for an hour and they must be accompanied by an adult and stay within a kilometer of home britain's prime minister is jus back at work on monday 2 weeks after being in intensive care for coronavirus or johnson is facing criticism of h

this comment comes at the same time as china's national health commission has indicated that hundreds of people in wuhan were wrongly listed as having recovered from covid—19. in wuhan, the number of recovered cases was reported at 47,300 on friday. on monday, that figure was revised down by almost 1000 to 46,359. more astonishing, was the government in wuhan's decision on friday to revise the city's overall death toll upwards by 50%. the total number of confirmed deaths across china currently stands at more than 4500, though those statistics are impossible to verify. this is kerry allen from bbc monitoring on change to the numbers. one of the things that we are seeing today coming out of the official statistics given by the national health commission in china is the number of cured cases and china has been giving daily statistics on the number of confirmed cases, suspected cases, number of deaths, the number of cured patients. we are suddenly seeing this figure of cured patients drop significantly and so, around... previously it was around, for the central city of wuhan, it was aro

china's national health commission told nhk on wednesday that its official death toll only includes those who tested positive for the virus. as we sasaid, the lockdodown in wuhan has ended, but the transition back to everyday life isn't easy. nhk world's yao shindu spoke to a chinese stutudent in japan wh onlyly recently fouound his w w home. >> translator: being homome is awesome. i appreciate the life i have more than before. >> reporter: li chunhuan enjoys simple moments like this with his family, now more than ever. the college senr arrived home in late march,h, reuniting with his mom, dad and younger brother, almost three months after he last saw them. in the weeks after li left to study abroad his home provincec changed dramamatically. a previously unknownn virus spreread through communities infecting tens of thousands and prompting the chinese government to takee unprecedented measures to try to stop its spread. from his tokokyo residence, li watched helplessly relying on updates from his parents. >> translator: almost all shops and traunts a closed anyway. wewe have no choice butu

the head of the country's national health commission told a news conference on tuesday that from wednesday the commission will release the number of asymptomatic carriers to ease public concerns. the chinese govemement has so far excluded the number r of people with the virus who show no symptoms from its official statistics. it said they have a lower risk of infecting others even though the asymptomatic subjects are quarantined for two weeks. the commission says that as of tuesday there are 1,541 asymptomatic cases. but a hong kong newspaper earlier reported that classified government data showed there were more than 43,000 such cases at the end of february. in addition, a group of chinese researchers published a study in march saying when it comes to transmitting the virus to others, there's little difference between carriers with or without symptoms. >>> in south korea, where nearly 9,800 cases have been reported, the country has decided to start the new school year next week online. the education minister says it's still not safe for students to return to school. >> translator: we have

china's national health commission said as of yesterday no new covid-19 deaths have been reported for the past ten consecutive days. health officials credit the effectiveness of treatment for severe cases. by last night the number of confirmed cases on the chinese mainland reached just more than 82 rk,800. the vast majorities of those patients have recovered. >>> we are getting our first look at what life is like when businesses reopen in the u.s. following a stay-at-home order. georgia is allowing beauty salons, gyms, bowling alleys and some other non-essential businesses to open their doors. there is some concern, though, since some medical experts predict the state will see the number of coronavirus deaths peak next week. those who are reopening are doing so under an abundance of caution. >> chairs between customers. you as you see, we have the these are disposable here. >> reporter: on monday georgia will allow restaurants to take dine-in customers, and theaters can reopen but with restrictions. south carolina is also allowing some businesses to reopen. >>> georgia is not the only

health commission at the daily press conference that this is china's approval of 2 experimental coronavirus vaccines to go to clinical trials and as you mentioned these vaccines were vaccines will be developed in partnership number one with a biotech group based in beijing in the 2nd partner is one based out of this is a pharmaceutical group and as i mentioned has been confirmed by china but china's already got a vaccine or a trial in place and that particular trial its audience its 2nd phase the 1st phase of that trial looked at the safety scenario of that vaccine and the 2nd one is now introduced by a. perceiver control group so certainly it's got enough at this stage 500 volunteers have signed up that we can now confirm about 3 vaccines in place in china but the national health commission said it can't pass it must pass various conditions before they can enable mass production of the scientists. when they will report back to the efficacy of what they're trying to achieve here. no but certainly the trying to fast track this and china certainly has an advantage as the 1st nation to be able

what certainly is good news coming out of china on sunday at the national health commission is reported 0 coronavirus cases in we had and as you mentioned this is the epicenter of the initial corona virus outbreak and of course engendering we saw this particular city sealed off was and generally 23 when live 11000000 people went into lockdown for about 3 or so months it was only when the numbers started to drop that lift that particular lockdown so in january february at the pick of this particular virus outbreak we had the likes of thousands of cases being reported on a daily basis of course we had accounts for half the national total of coronavirus cases in china and 3 quarters of china's deaths but instead of we hand the medical if it's a now being deployed elsewhere we've got the cases on sunday a national health commission's report of 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called heilongjiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new

tell me if you can one more time why on january 14 the national health commission document that was an internal document was labelled not to be spread on the internet, not to be publicly disclosed in which they said that there was evidence of human—to—human transmission, clustered cases, a severe and complex problem. why is it that the very next day — i come back to it — that one of your most senior officials... i think all your information is coming from washington post. i think you depend too much on american media. i really hope you depend on the who for information. we share all this information with the who. you know, i...i saw your interview. china has transparent and quickest in terms of sharing information with the who. of course, inside china, we have to take precautions, measures, we have to take strict conventional measures to fight against this virus. it is still unknown then, so people do not know... our understanding with the who with the other countries... but, ambassador, your problem is — and you are a very senior diplomat, you know this is a problem — that

tell me if you can one more time why ijanuary iii the national health commission document that was an internal document was labelled not to be spread on the internet, not to be spread on the internet, not to be publicly disclosed in which they said that there was evidence of human—to—human transmission, clustered cases, a severe and complex problem. why is it that the very next day i come back to it than one of your most senior officials... author information is coming from washington post. i think you depend too much on american media. i hope you depend on the who for information. we share all of this information. we share all of this information with the who. i thought, i saw your interview with. .. information with the who. i thought, i saw your interview with... china has transparent in terms of sharing information with the who. 0f has transparent in terms of sharing information with the who. of course inside china, we have to take precautions, measures, we have to ta ke precautions, measures, we have to take strict conventional measures to fight against this virus. it is stil

on monday the national health commission reported $78.00 new 8th symptomatic cases confirmed on sunday that's almost double compared to saturday's $47.00 infections the surge poses a threat to launch china the epicenter of the virus that is supposed to allow people to freely leave their homes on april 8th the 1st time in nearly 2 months now over to australia where police have launched a criminal investigation into the docking of cruise ship ruby princess the passengers were allowed to disembark in sydney this despite some exhibiting flulike symptoms more than 600 people on board that ship later tested positive and 10 have died so far in the middle east iran is the worst country hit with the pandemic while it's still struggling to contain the virus on monday foreign ministry spokesman told journalists that iran will not seek assistance from the u.s. to battle the coded $1000.00 pandemic. look we have no media and will not make any request to the united states of america to send medical and health assistance to the islamic republic of iran it is not our policy to request help from the st

well donald star the latest numbers coming from the national health commission in china we've got 89 new cases and that's down from 108 the day before we've had 0 deaths coming from china on choose day but of the cases that we can report the new cases a large number of them at least 86 are coming from a province in the north east of china as is the heilongjiang province and this is an area that borders of russia and this particular areas now because it has become the latest back battleground for china on the ground trying to deploy more teams and resources from the south to the north to try and the number of infections that we're seeing in the spike in numbers in that particular region as a result of the city that borders russia that's particularly been put into a strict lockdown that have in the last couple of days but we've also had strictly quarantine rules but it put it being put in place we've got the capital of harbin habits of capital all of that heilongjiang province they've got to stay at home or is in various residential compounds public gatherings have been banned at tryin

health commission actually met with china's leaders one generally the 14 to explain journey the 14th to explain the severity of the situation saying that this outbreak was the most severe thing they've faced since the severe challenge they face in sol's in 2003 and really it had the potential to develop into a major public event and those words were supposed to reach the highest echelons of the communist party and they were really expecting chinese leaders to act then but they did not announce to the public but this outbreak was of grave concern until january 20 that is 6 days later and many critics and experts believe that those 6 days could have been used to to really adopt some measures to prevent the outbreak spreading further perhaps a lockdown could have been put into place sooner and also we know that this was revealed on top of knowledge that we knew that there was some doctors as early as late december who tried to sound the alarm about the severity of the outbreak and they were in fact silenced and punished for doing so katrina you there in beijing for us thank you katrina

health commission says all critically ill patients and will have recovered with the last group dispatched from hospital on saturday. the number of patients in severe in critical condition and we had city finally became 0 which marks a decisive victory in the battle against the virus means that the covert 1003 men in china has reached international advanced levels. the government is now focusing its efforts on a rise in imported cases in the northern province of helen jan which borders russia china has recorded more than 83000 cases of the virus but a study published in the journal lancet says the numbers could be 4 times higher if they are just presenting with cold symptoms at a time of winter in china then they simply would have got infected so i had the coat maybe being diagnosed with having a cold or pneumonia like symptoms and then gotten better which i'm at 85 percent of cases singapore now has the highest corona virus infection right in asia it's reported another spike in its daily cases the majority of new infections a migrant workers living in crowded dormitories medical teams hav

we are also getting a report as a journal citing china's national health commission that there is more evidence that there is a higher number of asymptomatic cases in china, nearly four out of the five people recently tested in china around april 1 had no signs of the infections. that is stoking concern that the number of simon carriers may be greater than previously thought. china has urged better handling of its cases. publishing that information daily. that is our chief north asia correspondent on the phone from hong kong. first word news. script byemain contagion with 950 new victims, taking the number of contempt deaths above 10,000. thursday was the nation's deadliest day. the army is facing its biggest ever peacetime operation. italy leveled off again. germany expects its numbers to rise and sees the economy shrinking by 9%. shutdowns in supply-chain disruptions from the virus have pushed u.s. jobless claims to an unwanted record. more than 6.6 million people apply from employment benefits in the last week, more than double the total from the week before. the numbers come a day

health commission says all critically ill patients and will have recovered with the last group dispatched from hospital on saturday. the number of patients in severe in critical condition and we have it says he finally became 0 which marks a decisive victory in the battle against the virus means that the curve at 903 men in china has reached international advanced levels. the government is now focusing its efforts on a rise in imported cases in the northern province of helen jiang which borders russia china has recorded more than 83000 cases of the virus but a study published in the journal lancet says the numbers could be 4 times higher if they were just presenting with cold symptoms at a time of winter in china then they simply would have got infected so i had the cold maybe being diagnosed with having a cold or pneumonia like symptoms and then got better 85 percent of cases singapore now has the highest corona virus infection right in asia it's reported another spike in its daily cases the majority of new infections a migrant workers living in crowded dormitories medical teams have bee

health commission said it can't pass must pass various conditions before they can enable mass production certainly they're trying to fast track this and china certainly has an advantage as the 1st nation to be able to map the genome status of the corona virus and we have some latest numbers coming out of china we're looking at a particular area now russia province in china that borders russia and we've had $409.00 infections coming from russia into china over the last few weeks the current number of cases in china is 89 as of today and this particular province accounts about 79 of those cases as of tuesday and as a result these cities put in a number of border protection controls checkpoints in that area that healthy they get health checks on those people coming from russia into china we've also got mandatory coronavirus testing from all those chinese nationals coming from russia into china they've also set up a hotline to allow for those people in this particular province to report the illegal arrivals coming from russia china is also deployed a number of extra resources and medical tea

health commission's report of 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called heilongjiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this type quarantine restrictions in a number of those cities we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region as it sees a surge in the number of cases. it's going to yemen now where the government is warning of a catastrophe after 7 separatists the cleared self rule and said that they were in control of the port city of aden the southern transitional council is accusing the government of mismanagement and has announced a state of emergency door such a bar of reports the internatio

health commission says all critically ill patients in will have recovered but the last group dispatched from hospital on saturday. the number of patients in severe in critical condition and we had city finally became 0 which marks a decisive victory in the battle against the virus means that the covert 1003 men in china has reached international advanced levels. the government is now focusing its efforts on a rise in imported cases in the northern province of helen jiang which borders russia china has recorded more than 83000 cases of the virus but a study published in the journal lancet says the numbers could be 4 times higher if they are just presenting with cold symptoms at a time of winter in china then they simply would have got infected so i had the code maybe being diagnosed with having a cold or pneumonia like symptoms and then gotten better 85 percent of cases singapore now has the highest corona virus infection right in asia it's reported another spike in its daily cases the majority of new infections a migrant workers living in crowded dormitories medical teams have been depl

health commission says all critically ill patients and will have recovered but the last group dispatched from hospital on saturday. the number of patients in severe in critical condition and we had city finally became 0 which marks a decisive victory in the battle against the virus means that the covert 1003 mint in china has reached international advanced levels. the government is now focusing its efforts on a rise in imported cases in the northern province of helen jiang which borders russia china has recorded more than 83000 cases of the virus but a study published in the journal lancet says the numbers could be 4 times higher if they are just presenting with cold symptoms at a time of winter in china then they simply would have got infected so i had the cold maybe being diagnosed with having a cold or pneumonia like symptoms and then gotten better 85 percent of cases singapore now has the highest corona virus infection right in asia it's reported another spike in its daily cases the majority of new infections a migrant workers living in crowded dormitories medical teams have been dep

health commission in china and that's up from 99 the previous day and that's the highest number of daily cases we've seen in the last 6 months 6 weeks i should say and most of these cases have been reported in a province in the north east of china this province is called the heilongjiang province and it borders russia and as a result of this cluster this particular part of china has put in place tough images in that region in the capital harben it's put in state home measures for all people living in those residential compounds as well as the city that borders rush and this is where they've identified the main cluster of those crying of a crowd of us cases on monday all gatherings have been banned at train stations and services that been stopped and the health checks have been made are all people coming from russia into china now these are mandatory coronavirus testing they've also put in place 28 day quarantines are all arrivals coming in from russia into that particular region that we are seeing a downward trend particularly across china over the last month or so and some would suggest

authorities are warning the risk remains on monday the national health commission reported 78 new asymptomatic cases confirmed on sunday that's almost double compared to saturday's 47 infections the surge poses a threat to hunt china the epicenter of the virus. that is supposed to allow people to freely leave their homes on april 8th the 1st time in nearly 2 months now over to australia where police have launched a criminal investigation into the docking of cruise ship ruby princess the passengers were allowed to disembark in sydney this despite some exhibiting flulike symptoms more than 600 people on board that ship later tested positive and 10 have died so far in the middle east iran is the worst country hit with the pandemic while it's still struggling to contain the virus on monday foreign ministry spokesman told journalists that iran will not seek assistance from the u.s. to battle the coded $1000.00 pandemic. look we have no media and will not make any request to the united states of america to send medical and health assistance to the islamic republic of iran it is not our policy to req