Good evening, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance, im Francine Lacqua. The news flow is pretty terrific today. The coronavirus, the lockdown, the impact of our economy, and our hearts are always with the families that are rather losing loved ones are actually fighting for their life. This is what im looking at the markets. The next couple of weeks may will be rocky because a lot of the focus will be on earnings. So if im looking at stocks, they are up today. Up. Indices, futures also we really dont know what we get from this earnings season after the pandemic upended the global economy. The other story is oil edging up gold, slipping from a sevenyear high. We will get to more Market Analysis shortly. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. In new york city is viviana hurtado. Viviana an extension to the bekdown, it is expected to announced later this week. The pm was discharged from the hospital. The uks chief advisor once the daily rate of deaths will continue to rise
Way it is implemented as well which is important. And 1 way it is implemented as well which is important. And the efforts they the sacrifices and the efforts they are making on behalf of us all. And could i ask the chief scientific adviser, matt hancock, the Health Secretary, mentioned last week that a surveillance study was being carried out with an Antibody Test that we developed by Public Health hello. This is bbc news. Im reeta england. Could you tell us what the early results of that show in terms of how many people in britain have chakrabarti. Hello. This is bbc news. Im reeta chakra barti. The hello. This is bbc news. Im reeta had the virus and how many would you chakrabarti. The Headlines Police expect to had have it in the 12 18 have been carrying out spot checks months or so until the vaccine is as people are urged to stick to social distancing rules. We have a developed . Thank you. They are good ha rd core of social distancing rules. We have a hard core of a few people, it
Dana white says he is a day or two away from finding a location to host fights after being forced to postpone three events during the Coronavirus Crisis. Ufc 249 is set to go ahead on april 18th at a venue where fighters who otherwise would not be able to get into the United States can fly to. This is bbc news, im clive myrie, we will be bringing you the downing street News Conference in a short while with the latest on the battle against coronavirus but first the top stories. Borisjohnson is still in intensive care but not on a ventilator. Downing street says the Prime Minister is in a stable condition and in good spirits during treatment for coronavirus point he remains at St Thomas Hospital in Central London and has been given standard oxidant treatment but does not have pneumonia. The royalfamily sent their support to the Prime Minister, the queen, the prince of wales and duke of cambridge wish him a full and speedy recovery. Nhs england says a further 758 people who tested positiv
Restrictions there will continue. More than 9 million workers are the government target to reach expected to be furloughed under the 100,000 tests per day by the end of the month labelled a stretch. A governmentsJob Retention expected to be furloughed under the governments Job Retention scheme. Spain records a further rise in representative of the Francis Crick deaths. More than 14,500 have died institute explain how his Research Unit is upping the numbers when it there. Life in wuhan, the chinese comes to testing but the 100,000 figure is ambitious. About three city where that pandemic began, weeks ago we decided at the francis sta rts city where that pandemic began, starts to return to normal as some Crick Institute that testing would restrictions are lifted. In other be important, but it particularly news, just breaking, a lorry driver testing of Health Care Staff would from Northern Ireland pleads guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people, be critical, from duke and we including one
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First. The uk government has held its daily news briefing, updating the public on the coronavirus pandemic. The british chancellor, rishi sunak led the session and announced that condition of Boris Johnson the uks Prime Minister is improving and he is sitting up and engaging with his clinical team. He said that borisjohnson is receiving excellent care. The British Government also announced a £750 million funding package for uk charities but the chancellor warned he could not save everyjob, business or charity with his emergency measures. The World Trade Organisation has warned that the coronavirus pandemic could lead to a massive fall in global trade. In the worst case it coulid shrink by almost a third and is expected to be worse than following the financial crisis just over ten years ago. For the second consecutive day spain has seen a ri