Tents and shelters are now being used as hospital wards In northern Italy.

Some patients have emergency space blankets placed over them to help with chills.

The stream of sick people is constant.

Some come via ambulance, others walk in and a guided to a checkpoint.

Equipment is running out on the staff.

Haven't rested in weeks, you grab.

The main problem is a patient coming in afraid.

They find themselves in a tent and not a traditional hospital building, which doesn't reassure them.

If they're diagnosed with the virus, we have to calm them down and explain what will happen.

As Italy tracks its losses.

With more than 1200 now dead, the rest of Europe watches on in horror, wondering how many weeks or days before their countries look like this, too.

Outside the makeshift hospital ward amid the fear, homemade banner proclaims, it will be okay.

The World Health Organization says the trajectory of this virus in each country depends on how it's reacting.

In Spain, a state of emergency has been declared for the next 15 days.

Police locked down over 70,000 people in towns close to Barcelona, while in the south of the country emergency vehicles were on the roads announcing people should stay at home because stopping Corona virus is everyone's responsibility.

Britain is an outlier currently choosing not to take the extreme lock down measures seen elsewhere on the continent.

Europe may currently be the epicenter, but leaders in the Americas have been exposed to.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in self isolation.

After his wife tested positive following a visit to London, he held a press conference keeping a safe distance from reporters.

I am in isolation, as are my Children and my wife is in quarantine.

Canada's parliament has also been suspended.

You said they're positive president tickets Partial years in Brazil's president Bolson Aro appeared in this Facebook broadcast with the country's health minister to reassure Brazilians after being tested himself.

There are now reports it was positive.

But he has denied them, claiming his results were negative and that people shouldn't believe the fake news media both scenarios.

Communications secretary, seen here on the right does have Corona virus on another world leader has been potentially infected by him.

On Saturday, he posed with President Trump while the White House says the pair had almost no interactions.

Photos and video on his Instagram suggests otherwise.

Mr Trump was also filmed shaking hands with Mr Bolson.

Aro Countries around the world are now imposing extreme measures after the Philippines announced a local travel ban will come into force this Sunday.

It was a scramble to get out of Manila.

Even with a nationwide locked down in place, Italy still struggles today.

There was a 25% spike in the death toll, the largest rise yet theme in agony.

Italians trying to keep their spirits up, videos of neighbors singing the same song from inside their homes.

And now going viral.

Italy has taken aggressive measures.

Will Britain follow suit or remain reluctant?

Well, stock market's have rebounded slightly today after London and New York experience their biggest one day decline since 1987 yesterday.

Central banks have announced measures to ease pressures on businesses, but many are still warning of the dire impact off the Corona virus.

Our business and global trade correspondent Paul McNamara joins me now, Paul, How bad is it?

Well, let's start, at least with the glimmer of good news.

Today was a slightly better day.

It was yesterday part.

That's because yesterday was so bad.

Last worst in 30 odd years, there's gonna be a little bit of a rebound.

So the Dow Jones today, a short while ago that was up 3.5% part.

The rebound was also because investors start hearing the things that they want to hear.

So the German Finance minister, for example, he said, we will offer unlimited credit to struggling firms.

They're talking about £500 billion worth of government loans.

They're gonna give out the you have said similar.

But the EU's chief economist then went on to say across Eurozone he expects to see zero growth or negative growth.

Negative growth.

You may.

That's a recession.

Across across the U.

S.

Stocks were up about 1%.

Here the footsie closed up two and 1/2 percent.

Don't get too happy about that in office.

And they look at this.

So we're about to see this is how the foot she's been doing for the last while or going great guns, and then that's about a month ago in that month, that drop that there is 30% of the value of the currency being wiped off.

That's huge.

That sounds very alarming.

What does it actually mean to people?

You might regret asking, actually.

So if you're sitting at home right now and you've got a pension right now, it's worth a heck of a lot less that it was a month ago.

Pensions.

In the long run, they will go on up again.

More worrying.

We are now looking at case off job losses.

Lots of them on that big firms, not just a small places that aren't ready to aren't able to weather the storm.

Disappointing case.

British Airways today there Chief Executive Message, the message staff and the language is about as strong as it gets from a chief executive, Alex Cruz said.

To be frank, given the change in circumstances we can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs will be lost, perhaps for a short period, perhaps longer term, we are suspending roots and will be parking aircraft in the way we have never had to before.

Please do not understand.

Please do not underestimate the seriousness.

This for our company.

One point was saying it was worse than 9 11 and it's not just them.

Edinburgh Airport today said they're preparing for a scenario where they could be no flights for three months.

7000 people work there on what about other areas of the economy?

Well, I guess that spoke to one that analyst, he said.

When now, with weird Now with a point off return.

So the economy has slowed down so much that even if a Corona virus went away tomorrow, damage is already being done on dhe jobs where we lost.

Look at this.

This is from a firm called Wireless Social Days.

A lot of fancy technology to measure footfall of people going out bars, public restaurant.

This is year on year change.

So at the start there, down 6% that is three weeks ago.

6% decline of people going into bars, pubs, confession.

That figure there is last night that is down 20%.

Does that mean expect?

One analyst said This is unsustainable.

The only surprise he's seen is that we haven't had actual closures or job losses yet.

Well, thanks very much for joining us, I think.

Yeah, sure.

Thanks.

Well, earlier, the w h O raised the temperature this is what they said today.

Europe has now become the epicenter off the pandemic, with more reported cases and Dez than the rest off the world combined.

Apart from China, more cases are now being reported every day, then were reported in China at the highest off it's epidemic.

Well, a short while ago, I spoke to Dr Bruce Aylward, assistant director at the World Health Organization, and I began by asking him if he was concerned that the UK government appeared to be holding back from containing the Corona virus.

Now that Europe is the epicenter of the outbreak, well, I don't know all of the specifics of what's being done in the United Kingdom, but what I can talk about is is what does work.

And you know, the experience I have come.

Mate comes mainly from China and a few other countries that I've worked with over the last while, and their their success in minimizing the amount of damage that this disease caused was whether economic or in terms of lives was through broad testing.

And when I say broad, I mean anyone who was a suspect in case got tested in these countries, they rapidly identified who was a case.

They tried to effectively isolate those cases whether in a hospital most frequently and then to quarantine their closest contacts.

And that was the way that they slow this down.

In China, people often point to China say they managed so this down.

I think what we've got to be very careful of is that we don't cherry pick bits and pieces of what China did but really apply the rigor that they did in many different provinces to control this thing.

Is it therefore surprising that the UK is not gonna be testing people in their own homes anymore who have suspected cases?

They're only gonna test people who end up in hospital.

What do you make of our well here?

I think we've got to be a little bit careful because we know what worked in one place in China.

We know that career doing a lot of testing, and they're bringing the numbers down because they confined the disease.

But I think we have got to be very careful when we say we know exactly what works and what doesn't.

You've got some very clever people making the decisions around how to run the U.

K A program, and I think what the important thing is is we move forward with a policy, we try it, and if it's not working, we'll be ready to adapt.

Adjust on.

Daz needed to try and bring down the intensity of transmission so there's no right or wrong right now with the disease that we've known for only 12 weeks.

The key thing is to throw everything you can and slowing it down because we know that the skin caused tremendous damage.

So can you understand why the government isn't advising canceling sporting events?

And actually, those organizations have sort of taken it into their own taking matters into their own hands.

I anticipate what they're doing is looking at their transmission characteristics.

The nature of the case is how they're clustering, which I haven't seen the specifics up, and they're saying we don't believe in those would be major drivers of it.

So they're trying to make an evidence based decision on what drives the transmission in a place like the UK and based their policy on that.

That is quite a gamble, though, isn't it?

I mean, people can't escape the idea that Pats were kind of human guinea pigs in all this because we know so little about how to combat this virus.

We're all guinea pigs, Kathy.

Unfortunately, because it is a new virus and to say that anyone knows exactly how to do this would be would be hubris.

At this point, you've placed a lot of emphasis on the importance of testing and how other countries have managed to slow the spread.

Three lots of tests we're reporting tonight on a new rapid testing kit, which would be valuable in about a week, which will produce test results in 10 minutes.

How much of a breakthrough do you think that kind of testing will offer?

Here I'll be fantastic.

It's a test that tells him whether or not they've been infected, in particular, they're currently infected.

Then remember, that's going to make it so much easier for people to know I'm a risk or not.

And take that much more seriously.

The fact that they have to isolate because when we're working in China, for example, in other countries, sometimes testing just fell way behind the caseload because the cases got ahead of the PCR testing.

So if if they've cracked the nut on that.

That could facilitate the whole response.

Anything that cuts hours, cuts minutes, cuts days out of the time taken for someone who is feeding on well, to know whether or not they have the disease is a huge gain in terms of taking the heat out of this out of this outbreak, slowing it down and saving lives.

A lot of people in this country have seen the pictures coming out of Italian hospitals there now, seeing Spain declared a state of emergency.

Can the UK avoid the fate of Italy and Spain, or really, are we have bracing for a really very serious public health crisis?

Here is the Prime minister said yesterday.

Well, what?

I was like tea.

You go back to you and I sound a little like a broken record.

But is the experience that I saw in China, where they had a couple of one province in particular out of 31 that was hit horribly by this disease but the other provinces and realized okay, if we can rapidly identify May who may be a well bye bye.

Their symptoms of test ideally but but also by symptoms If you can get those people to isolate and break down the transmission of this thing, then you will take the heat out of it and you will not necessarily see the fate of some of the big places where this is really blowing up.

And I think the other thing we have to remember Kathy is we don't fully understand this virus.

Why does it blow up in some places very quickly, like it has and not in others?

There's lots of speculation, but the reality is this is a biologic process and you know, embers, you know, fly off this particular fire in two different places, and sometimes they blow up fast, sometimes a smolder and blow up.

We're still learning that part, so it's never inevitable.

Think E thing is to move fast, to try and identify where that viruses, and then make sure that those people isolate themselves.

Are you concerned that as China starts up again just eight new cases today, But as its economy starts up again, people start getting back to normal that there will be a resurgence of this outbreak there.

Yeah, it's not that.

Not that I'm concerned Candy.

It's the whole government of China.

The people of China are concerned about this, and as a result they've been very careful in preparing for the restart of bolstering, of their their economy, getting their society moving, getting their business, moonlit, getting their schools, going full board again, what they were doing to prepare for that.

They said, We're buying ventilators and we're building isolation beds because we think there could be a resurgence.

The virus is still around.

It hasn't disappeared completely.

But we do not have to close our schools, our economy, et cetera.

Second time we want to build the capacity to manage this disease if we have to while we live with it.

So China is taking it very, very seriously.

They're not hoping it's disappeared for good.

They're preparing to continue to dio battle with this virus is they have to.

I mean, you talked about how China is preparing for a potential resurgence in terms of ventilators.

We've surveyed 1000 n hs staff for our program tonight, 99% say that they don't feel that the N.