About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading or refugees who are being moved to an island that aids groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army denies. Peter stammered with the sport says the Asian Champions League teams begin reaching the last 16 its childs play for so ill have all the details in the next hour. Where we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve facts scenes but in some parts of the worlds the picture is getting worse with case numbers on the rise so as winter approaches no since the start of the pandemic there have been more than 64. 00 a 1000000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 1500000. 00 deaths well the u. N. General assembly is holding a special session on the pandemic here in his Opening Statements secretarygeneral antonio good terrorists emphasize that governments must be united in their response. For the 1st time since 145 and world is confr
Pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers are racing to find a cure for covid19. One of those companies is glaxosmithkline. Based in england, and also now the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world. Its ceo is emma walmsley. She was trained in the classics in oxford, but now has a test of producing a vaccine that will cure covid19. How many times a day do people ask you when youre vaccine is going to be available . Emma [laughter] that is definitely a very regular question, whether from employees, customers, media or my mother, so very frequently. Obviously, we have all been delighted to see the recent news of the first results coming through on vaccines. Yesterday, i was on a call with 10 of the global pharma ceos who are heavily involved in bringing solutions to covid. We are excited and optimistic to see some of the first data coming through and looking forward to seeing a lot more in the next six months. We have three vaccines in the clinic and two therapeutic treatments. Everyon
He is expected as a virus numbers continue to spike around the nation to give an update on operation warp speed and talk about new developments in the race for covid19 vaccine. At the close you look at the numbers, the vaccine helps as well with upbeat corporate profit a rally not far away from a record high, it was flirting with the record, needed to be 470 but lost a little steam in the final minutes of trading, a strong day, the s p that is a recordsetting, closing up by 48point, as it settled in what appears to be the 23rd record close of the year for the s p 500 and we want to monitor the smallcap stocks today and the russell 2000, the russell closing in record territory what is significant for the smaller stocks, the first time in more than two years we have seen a wrestled record, the s p up in the second straight week, adding more than a thousand points. We canoes and big tech brought the nasdaq into the red, those are your numbers as we come to you on a friday, im connell mcsh
Welcome to firing line, albert bourla. Thank you very much, margar. D bourla, the question on everyones mind is, when will average americans realistically be able to get the covid19 vaccine . I believe, sometime in the next year maybe the third ord the seuarter. And the reason why im saying that we wl be able to provide to the American People around 20 million doses or more this year. But this is 10 Million People the health authoriould sure that like to use them strategically. So, at the beginning, who will get the vaccine will be predetermined by them. D kely, i assume, it will be people either with high risk or firstline workers. So i believe that we will reach a level around Second Quarter that maybe people can just go or at the physician officemacies at their will. Do you think, by next summer . I think so. Tell me about the shot. Ine. The vaccine uses mrna technology, which is a brough technology for vaccinations. Now,an you explain to us inen la terms exactly whais going on insi
President elect haydn, the formal transition to his administration began on monday this week, they president elect saying his team had spoken with you. Said his team had spoken with you. Who did you talk with specifically on his team and when will you meet with him directly . Base with theed chief of staff, ron klain. We do not talk about the nuts and bolts. Obviously, soon we will be getting the Transition Team and the task force to give them the information that would make their assuming the responsibilities easier and more efficient. Serveif asked, which you on a Biden Administration Coronavirus Task force . Guest of course. Host what are you anticipating from the Biden Administration, specifically on the idea of testing and tracing . Guest i dont want to get ahead of them. They will have their agenda. We will discuss it together. I certainly will give them recommendations, but i dont want to get ahead of them and make announcements of what they should do. We really need to sit down