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When India was plunged into a strict lockdown – it left the country’s internal migrant workers stranded, many hundreds of miles from home.

Earlier we were joined by Dr Chidubem Iloabachie, the Associate Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital in New York.

‘Look at us today and you’ll see yourselves tomorrow’ – the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned the rest of the United States, as he warned 16,000 New York residents could lose their lives to coronavirus.

Brazil’s far-right leader President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to be socially distant.

We spoke to Professor Devi Sridhar, who’s an international expert on global pandemic management.

We’re joined from Annapolis by the Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan.

In America, cases of Covid-19 continue to rise exponentially.

Donald Trump has backed away from putting New York state and neighbouring areas under quarantine. But millions of residents in its three neighbouring states have been urged to avoid non-essential travel in a region that has become the deadliest hotspot of the outbreak in the US. So far more than 800 people have died and …

When even the hospitals of wealthy nations are pushed to the brink, what might happen in war-torn Syria?

There are now over 94,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, more than any other country in the world – including China.

In the US things are continuing to deteriorate in New York and around the country as Covid-19 has claimed over 1,000 lives.

A month ago, South Korea suffered what was far-and-away the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside China.

The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has criticised EU countries for looking out for themselves in the early stages of the crisis and giving what she called an ‘only for me’ response.

Coronavirus has now claimed 16,000 lives across 195 countries – and the United Nations says individual countries can’t respond alone – calling for the world’s richest nations should provide $2 billion to help the world’s poorest survive.

Joining us from New York is Special Pathogens Expert, Dr Syra Madad.