Hello to everyone from geneva, and that uh o headquarters. Welcome who headquarters. Welcome to this regular covid19 briefing. There were more than. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. E are delighted to be joined thank you, tarik. Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening. As tarik said we are delighted krytalina, the managing director of the monetarily fund. Elcome, my sister. She will say more in a few minutes about the Economic Impact of the pandemic and what the imf is doing to support countries and the Global Economy more than one million confirmed cases of covid19 have been eported to who, including more than 50,000 deaths, but we know that this is much more than a Health Crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic. The restrictions many countries have put into place to protect health are taking a heavy toll on the income individuals and families and economies of communities and nations. We are in a shared
We have with this, the who director and also doctor mike ryan executive director and doctor maria. The doctor will begin with an update and then when finished, i will open the meeting to questions. If you can please ask your questions. If you can find a phone, please. I will apologize for now to all of those who missed out. We have more than 260 people in the line already. They are connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to an hour. So are speakers, who are all running responses they can get to many other demands of the time. I will now in the summer to doctor printed. Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. And good evening where are you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll not just on health but on so many parts of life. For making this sacrifice to protect the health of others we look forward to next years olympics which we hope will be an even bigger and better celebration of our shared humanity. And look forward to join. We have overcom
There are a number of questions waiting for our guest. Guest, thepecial managing director of the International Monetary fund. She will join this briefing to talk about the pandemic and the response of the International Monetary fund. Questions,ist to ask please raise your hand. Tetra whoart with dr. Joined by others. Afternoon, andg, good evening. By theined today managing director of the National Monetary fund. Welcome. She will say more in 18 minutes ofut the economy making part this and what the imf is doing to support countries and the global economy. More than one million cases have includingeported, 50,000 deaths. But we know this is much more than a Health Crisis and we are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic. It is taking a heavy toll on the income of individuals and families and the economies of nations. In the shortterm countries, we can ease the burden on their populations to ensure people have food and other life essentials. For some c
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Managing director and World Bank President discussed the likelihood of a global recession and the need to tame inflation. Of a global recession at a news conference. They also provided an outlook on the Global Economy. This is about 90 minutes. Thanks, everybody. Warm welcome, good morning. This is our Opening Press conference for the meeting. I think you have all been watching what has been happening the last few days. We have been releasing our flagship documents. With more to come over the next few days starting right now. As the managing director just pointed to, we have our Global Policy agenda which i think you have all received. We will be talking about that later today. Thanks to all of you for coming this morning. This is so great after three years to see colleagues in the room. We do have colleagues online as well. We will take their questions also. With that, i want to turn to the managing director who will make some opening remarks. Then we will try to take as many of your