We saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. Emily to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wakeup call, if you will, that the president , with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. Can contract the virus. You see republicans. They have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. Look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. We have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible for having
Many western countries have been shutdown for weeks after rapidly spreading outbreaks crippled theirir health care systems. Tedros said he understands why the want to ease restrictions whwhich have a also devastated economies but he warns against eliminating measures all at once. While covid19 accelerates very fast it decelerates much more slowly. That means control measures must be liftedd slowly. The w. H. O. Listed the six criteria for countries to use as they consider relaxing their restrictions. They include whether the transmission of coronavirus is controlled and whether measures are in place to detect, test, isolatee and treat every case a well as trace everyry conontact. John hopkins univeversity rerepd on monday that thehere were ovo 1,890,000 covid cases worldwide. The global death toll has topped 118,000. Here in japan new details are emerging about the populations who most commonly contract the virus. And the healalth ministry is on again warning that younger people are no
All we can do is reduce human to huhuman contact that can transm the virus. We need everybody to cooperate until may 6th. All seven prefectures are asking nonessential businesses to close until it expires. They want to reduce the social interaction by at least 70 . Theyre warning that the young are not immune to the virus which has infected more than 1. 9 Million People worldwide. The Japanese Health ministry has released a breakdown showing the ages of all confirmed cases. Out of some 7,000, more than half the people infected were younger than 50. Researchchers are trying to find a cure for covid19. They started using an experimental drug designed to treat ebola at three mededical institutions in japan. Remdesivir is being developed by a u. S. Company. 4,000 patients will have a Clinical Trial to confirm the safety and effectiveness of the medicine. Across japan more than 300 new cases were confirmed on tuesday. Over 8,000 people have now tested positive for the virus. The tally doesn
Reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths. He is concerned about the rapid escalation of infections. There are more than 800,000 confirmed cases and over 40,000 and 500 deaths globally. He is calling on governments to ensure that Vulnerable People have food and necessities. The number of people who have tested positive but show no symptoms. They are silent carriers who have been confirmed since the start of the outbreak. During that news conference, who officials face questions about chinas stance. The technical lead of the agencies held the Emergency Program and says that who definition includes anyone that tests positive regardless of whether or not they have symptoms. She would not comment on whether or not chinas way of compiling statistics is appropriate. The w. H. O. Shows younger people have only minor symptoms, but some are falling seriously ill or even dieing. Health Officials Say that a 1212yearold g girl died after catching the coronavirus a 50yearold buy was admit
Damage. China near a takeover of the airline hna, saying it wants to stem the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Cruise passengers return. The first batch of hong kong residents from the diamond princess are due back in the city today, but there is lingering confusion about their arrival. U. S. Attorney general william barr tries to invoke an old law that protected tech companies. Ike google and Facebook Paul nothing has been happening released since you have been gone. Lets check in on futures in asia today. New zealand already trading at the moment. X higher by a quarter of 1 . 1 in by 1 5 of australia. 771 millioned profits. Pretty flat. Qantas seeing an impact from coronavirus. Few catalysts to watch out for. Aussie jobs expected to rise a little and china expected to cut its loan prime rate. We have machine tool orders out of japan as well. Emily i want to look at where u. S. Markets closed today. Lets get to bloombergs taylor riggs in san francisco. Taylor risk on across the