It would be wrong and unjust for americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad we must 1st take care of the American Worker take care of the American Worker the u. N. Is warning that both a quarter of a 1000000000 people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the pandemic the World Food Program says countries need to take immediate action or risk multiple famines. As some European Countries gradually down restrictions the picture is quite different in the u. K. But the death toll is still rising if our reports. An intensive care unit in scotland. Where the youngest to test positive has only just been born. The medics here are traumatised by what theyre dealing with. 2 or 4. The. Amount of research by the office of National Statistics suggesting the actual death toll in england and wales in early april was 40 percent higher than the number reported by downing street those daily government figures dont include deaths outside hospital
A pathway back to normal life. But in other parts of the u. S. The scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and thats their personal decision if they dont want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i cant i cant dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governors are in charge President Donald Trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor has his tacit support is seen as deeply political in a time of crisis i know is there a lot of protests out there and i just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away you know you have a lot of people that dont have to be told to do what theyre doing theyve been reall
So weve seen a year on year 6. 8 percent drop in chinas g. D. P. Which is really significant and quite in line with peoples expectations analysts expectations because the current virus control measures that the government put in place for a few weeks in february and march really saw the economy come to a standstill factories were closed businesses were closed hundreds of millions of people were stuck in doors and just to unpack that figure a bit more also manufacturing vestment in the 1st quarter was down 25 percent year on year Infrastructure Investment also down 20 percent retail sales down 19 percent so really at the more when the government is doing all it can to get the economy restarted the National Bureau of statistics has said that the economy faces new difficulties and new challenges but the long term growth of the economy shouldnt be affected well at the moment there are questions as to whether that can be possible because this is really taking chinas economy is really taking
A 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported does with the current challenge of all painting testing kits its likely that the real numbers are higher than reported or rossi has signed is that an epidemiologist and professor at Massey College he says the pandemic poses a major threat to africas densely populated cities. Enemy of Public Health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries the uk hard to rise by overcrowding its actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as Health Care Infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis it beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore in fewer and lead death be done and lead to soonest disease and death so its a perfect recipe so dry an epidemic in the 2 explo
A white house that continues to try to put a positive spin on very negative news but thats going to become increasingly difficult because the numbers are expected to continue to rise in terms of the number of americans that are filing for unemployment claims in the United States in fact its expected that in the coming weeks that number that were at right now in the low 20 millions well it could double because the reality is that over night its predicted that roughly 46000000 americans lost their jobs and the only reason those numbers arent up at 46000000 right now is that the states where they processed these claims just cant cope with the sheer number of claims theyre overwhelmed theyre using antiquated Computer Systems and as a result the numbers we have are not really reflective of how many people dont have a job right now and just to make matters worse quickly the money that had been in that big rescue package the 2. 00 trillion dollars rescue package from congress well 35000000000