Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur live from London. Here's what's coming up.

The ever-deepening coronavirus fallout threatening health care systems economies

social and political infrastructure around the world. New York City goes into

lockdown and the health commissioner will join me.

Plus, the UK goes its own way, including U-turns, adding more confusion to its response.

A senior National Health Service doctor on the front lines joins me.

Then...

No matter what central banks do, global markets keep going down.

Top economist Jason Furman gives us his take. And the presidential

race David Axelrod former campaign manager and senior advisor to

President Barack Obama tells me how the virus will change the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London where the British

government is stepping up its response to the coronavirus infections and

the rapidly escalating number of cases in the West is transforming life for hundreds of millions of people.

There are around 170,000 confirmed cases across the world right now

and the death toll has jumped to more than 6,400. For the first time cases outside

China outnumber those inside as that country and many Asian neighbors get a

grip on this virus.

While in America, several large states are in major lockdown

with entertainment, hospitality, schools and large gatherings banned.

This is key to stopping the spread,

but so too is testing, as we hear again

from the World Health Organization.

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