[Vause:] Well, the European Commission has unveiled what travel might look like for the coming northern summer. Sweeping new guidelines will be in place for social distancing, contact tracing across borders and travel bubbles between countries where infection rates are low. But the E.U. blueprint to save the summer holidays may have little impact. The International Air Transport Association says a return to 2019 passenger levels will take four years. Meanwhile TUI, the world's biggest travel operator warns it may lay off 8,000 employees. Ultimately the E.U. transport commission's message, "Travel at your own risk." Back on the ground the coronavirus has upended common rules and open borders across the European Union. Nic Robertson reports on how it's affecting one town partly in the Netherlands, partly in Belgium.
[Nic Robertson, Cnn International Diplomatic Editor:] Once seamless borders, now controlled. Europe's unity facing new strains. And nowhere starker than the border enclave town of Baarle. This is Belgium over here and the Netherlands over here BNL. And the border crisscrosses this town right through the middle of the road creating a dizzying array of divisions. The coronavirus lockdown is driving to previously unseen proportions. Belgium's lockdown tougher than the Dutch. And here the border runs right into the school. I'm going in. Artist Sylvia Reijbroek loves her special border status but not the uneven lockdowns. Her shop, despite the obvious division, is technically Belgium.
[Sylvia Reijbroek, Shop Owner:] Now it's a big problem because the law said you can open only for the Belgian people.
[Robertson:] So you can only sell to Belgian people.
[Reijbroek:] Yes.
[Robertson:] But you're in Belgium.
[Reijbroek:] It is a really strange rule to ask people where you are from. So I have to boycott my customers? Who is paying my bills?
[Robertson:] In the weekly market, on the Dutch side the cheese seller is hurting, too. Normally you have a lot of people from Belgium coming here to this market to buy your cheese?
[Unidentified Male:] Yes at least 20 to 30 percent. And now we don't see a Belgian.
[Robertson:] Why not?
[Unidentified Male:] Borderline is closed so.
[Unidentified Female:] We're the most peculiar municipality in Belgium and Netherlands.
[Robertson:] Caught in the middle the town's twin mayors.
[Frans De Bont, Baarle-hertog, Belgium Mayor:] People are shocked out there personal but also the countries, Europe. I think they are shocked together.
[Robertson:] Both in lockstep about who is suffering most.
[De Bont:] In Belgium, it was stronger. The shops were closed. The playground for the children, they were closed. We closed the border over there.
[Robertson:] And both in agreement it's not right.
[Unidentified Female:] We tried to make them listen to us.
[Robertson:] She explains they pleaded with their own national governments and the E.U. to fix the imbalance now and make sure it can't happen again. For some here the fix can't come soon enough.
[Unidentified Male:] 90 percent of the house is Dutch. 10 percent, only the toilet
[Robertson:] It's Belgium.
[Unidentified Male:] Yes, it's Belgium.
[Robertson:] So on coronavirus lockdown are you doing Dutch or are you doing Belgian?
[Unidentified Male:] Official, Belgium.
[Robertson:] Because his front door is in Belgium.
[Unidentified Male:] You see now, the difference from the countries about the corona. Belgium, Dutch, Germany, England
[Robertson:] All different.
[Unidentified Male:] all different.
[Robertson:] So is it a union anymore?
[Unidentified Male:] I believe not in a union.
[Robertson:] Experience has taught the townspeople a lot. When Europe is well, so are their lives. Now in its worst crisis since World War II, the evidence in Baarle shows how quickly fundamental of the European project openness can be undone. Nic Robertson, CNN on the Dutch-Belgian border.
[Vause:] Well, for 11 consecutive days, Russia has reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases. And now comes another setback. Russian made ventilators are being recalled and removed from hospitals after starting two fires which left six patients dead. The same type of ventilator was sent to the U.S. early last month, a goodwill gesture from Russia at the time. But apparently they were never used, and have since been sent back. Brazil reported its highest count of confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday more than 11,000. With nearly 200,000 cases in Brazil overall, the virus is proving to be more troublesome than a little flu as President Jair Bolsonaro has often dismissed it. Sao Paulo is the epicenter in Brazil and some of the worst hit areas are the crowded, sprawling favelas where social isolation is next to impossible. CNN's Shasta Darlington has more.
[Shasta Darlington, Cnn Correspondent:] Brazil is setting tragic new records every day. The health ministry reported a new record number of confirmed cases 11,385. But some communities are feeling it more than others.
[Darlington:] Offices in the heart of Sao Paulo shuttered. Bars closed and restaurants open only for delivery. But on the edge of the city in the precarious Favela Brasilandia, residents say they can't afford to stop working even if that means risking their lives. Nair Barbosa, a house maid who lost her job, waits in line for over an hour for an unemployment benefit worth $100 a month. The system crashes when she gets to the window. "I will have to go home and come back later today," she says. Sil Francisco keeps his bar open, defying a state order to shut all but essential businesses. "I have to pay the bills, the bills keep coming," he says. Dejair Bautista fishes for customers with the door half closed to his hair salon. "If you stay at home, you will just starve to death. We have to find a way to survive," he says. Bautista says he has to feed his sister and niece but business is down 60 percent. With 260,000 people Brasilandia is one of Sao Paulo's biggest favelas. Now in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it's also the most deadly. Already more than 120 residents here have died from COVID-19, according to city officials. As with many Brazilian favelas, there are public clinics, but no big hospitals. And living quarters are tight, this woman says. "Isolation doesn't exist in our community, not even in our houses. It's just too small to remain in isolation." The Sao Paulo health secretary says coronavirus may have started with wealthy travelers bringing it home, but it is the poor who will be hit the hardest. "Where people are dying is on the outskirts of the city. That is why social isolation is so important," he says. But here in Brasilandia many people can't afford to do that. Others won't. The result? Too many people still gambling with their lives. And many are egged on by President Jair Bolsonaro by himself, who insists Brazilians must go back to work, or the economic fallout will be worse than the virus itself. Back to you.
[Vause:] Shasta thank you. We will take a short break. When we come back worldwide sporting leagues are eager to get back in the game. Just ahead, the novel approach taken by professional sporting teams in the age of the novel coronavirus. Also this
[Naomi Osaka, Tennis Player:] I actually did an Instagram live work out with Venus just now, and it was kind of more intense than I thought it was going to be.
[Vause:] Tennis champion Naomi Osaka on how she's dealing with the pandemic with matches on hold. Her interview with CNN Sport after the break.