Spanish deaths rise as European toll passes 30,000

we are starting in mainland Europe which is now the continent hardest hit by coronavirus new figures released today show that co vid 19 has now killed more than 30,000 people with three-quarters of those deaths occurring in either Spain or Italy well across Europe almost 460 thousand people have been infected,

with this virus and just have a look at the images from Madrid today the streets continue to be virtually empty as the impact of the Spanish government's even more stringent lockdown have come into effect from Monday all non-essential work was halted the nation coming to a virtual standstill and with sadly good reason the death toll there continues to slow in the nation but that much need to drop

 in the curve is yet to come and you can see today's figures show the country lost 864 lives to the virus on just one day just on Tuesday this is the fifth day in a row that Spain has seen a death toll higher than 800 well whilst the nation has passed that

 psychological 100,000 people marker the race of infection
 is in general continuing to decrease apart from that dramatic increase on Tuesday the downward trend overall continues the infection rate actually today down by 16% now all of this continues to be increasing pressure on spain's already very overstretched health service dr. Rafael Berger a former Regional Health Minister in the Basque Country government gave the his assessment of this situation the peak seems to be beyond the close to being reached it is we're now seeing some positive signals from other indicators we know there's less people infected

 The it's there's a deceleration of the number of people infected the numbers of people are going into UCI you're into acute care units is is decreasing slowly so I think we're beginning to see that we're going to be reaching that curve and we're going to be able to see these social isolation measures have worked at least for Spain let's hope

 so well let's turn from Spain to Italy now because these stringent lockdown measures there have been extended until the 30th of April although families can now in fact take their children outside for a walk if they need to but the signs are emerging that the nation's stringent lockdown is in fact working the,

 Italian Civil Protection Agency has announced the death toll from Kovach 19 had climbed by 727 this is in fact a smaller increase than that on Tuesday now taking the total number of deaths to over 13,000 Italy has recorded more deaths than anywhere else in the world but the infection rate in fact continues to rise around 4700 more cases were reported just today as opposed to yesterday's number of around 4,000 so with

The very latest our correspondent mark Lowe and reports from Rome a glimpse of freedom in Italy's new normal parents are now allowed to take their children out for a brief walk if urgent after three weeks of lockdown it's a breath of Liberty but no more welcomed albeit with apprehension of Ellora we're scared to be outside and a bit spaced out because this lockdown has been our salvation the measures are working I'm happy they're in place and we want them to go on a lot in

Thune and fin they call this eases the tension we're not used to staying inside the whole day we need some natural light and children need some space the infection rate is slowing and there is perhaps a little bit more movement on the streets but the fear is that if the restrictions are lifted too soon people could get a full sense of security and then the numbers could start jumping again because Italy is still far from defeating this virus deaths are still soaring and among them

 Doctors gynecologist roberto miletti died this week one of 66 doctors lost to the outbreak here his friend says the deaths were preventable if medics had proper masks and supplies we were very shocked he much loved and were very angry because we're lacking protection equipment for doctors

we feel vulnerable wars must be organized during peacetime not battle we've been sent in empty-handed in Italy and around Europe so young inventive Italians have stepped in to help using 3d printing to develop a valve that turns a Sport Shop snorkelling mask into a ventilator the blueprint has been downloaded for free a million times by hospitals in need,

across the world aliens are generally following the rules but some frustration is starting to show in the South anger over a loss of money and closed shops it's isolated but patience has its limits today the lockdown was extended to mid-april so the emptiness goes on perhaps never again in our lifetime will we see Rome like this the virus is sucking the life out of Italy mark Lowen rome now let's take a moment to have a look at the markets it is the first day of a new quarter and what goes up well must
come down after rallying

US NEWS
                                 last week stocks from Asia to Europe to the US have all seen drops as the death toll globally creeps higher economic ramifications of the coronavirus becoming very clear just as we came on air in fact the closing bell of the dow so all stocks sharply down for 0.4% coming after president Trump's warning that the US was heading into a painful two weeks investors are also preparing for tomorrow's unemployment figures which are expected to be much higher than last week's number showing 3.3 million has applied for unemployment benefits analysts believe that tomorrow's figures could be anywhere between 4 and 5 million while all of this after both the Dow Jones and london's footsie 100 have seen their biggest quarterly drop since 1987 now there are real fears that the global downtown could.