And here they come again dramas in east africa prepare to battle millions of no concern for the 2nd time in months. Millions more people have been added to the queues of americas jobless the wider effects of the coronavirus pandemic become clear another 6600000. 00 claimed Unemployment Benefits last week alone that takes a total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and theres fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the Great Depression in some cities drive ins have been created for people to collect unemployment forms john hendren has more from chicago. The president came out saying that the u. S. Was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an Unemployment Rate of 12 to 13 percent thats a level not seen sin
Another 6600000 people in the u. S. Filed for Unemployment Benefits just last week that means 10 percent of the countrys workforce nearly 17000000 is now unemployed because of the fallout from the pandemic for more on this spring in our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett in washington d. C. And so kimberly these numbers put another huge strain on the economy. Huge strain on the economy and we hear that the numbers are only going to continue to get worse this is the 3rd consecutive week of massive job losses in the United States but what were told is that really could be in the 10s of millions even up to 46000000 people when all of these claims are filed the reason that we dont have those numbers now is that the states and employment offices are overwhelmed of people simply cant get in there to file the claims they cant get through on the telephone they cant even seem to file on live so we expect this number to continue to climb and its across all sectors were seeing the Hospita
Hold talks about 2020 and footballs european championships could be called off as you wait for me to discuss the impact of coronavirus on the continent. Well the restrictions in many countries around the world are about to get a whole lot more extreme in the coming hours in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus lets take you around the world malaysia 1st of all which is rolling out some of the most drastic rules at midnight tuesday no one allowed to leave for 2 weeks its borders are being sealed thats led to panic buying in malaysia and over in singapore as well in the middle east irans government has temporarily released 85000. 00 prisoners its also closed off access to religious shrines much to the anger of many worshippers and much of europe going into lockdown there is the french president. Emmanuel micron in less than 60 minutes france seals borders the president saying that france is at war with corona virus so heres the team for this hour. In teheran Natasha Butler in the
Hello welcome to the program the restrictions in many countries around the world are set to get a whole lot more extreme in the coming hours in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus malaysia will roll out some of the most drastic rules at midnight on tuesday no one will be allowed to leave for 2 weeks and its borders are being sealed and thats led to panic buying in malaysia and in neighboring singapore in the middle east iran has temporarily released 85000. 00 prisoners and its closed off access to religious shrines much to the anger of many worshippers much of europe is going into lockdown as well frances sealing its borders now president manuel now says the nation is at war with the coronavirus. Well in a few moments well be speaking to natasha in southwest france but 1st lets go straight over to lawrence Florence Louis who is in kuala lumpur force of course the crisis seems to originated from just one event just talk us through what seems to have happened and how its impacted
Are foreigners now and news of the costa 1st emerged after a man had returned home to his home country of brunei and tested positive for covert 19 china has reported anyone new domestic coronavirus case the other 20 were travelers arriving from overseas beijing says it expects its economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter france has joined spain and italy ordering people not to leave their homes except for work medical care or supplies it comes as thousands of new cases were reported across the e. U. Which is closed its external borders iran has temporarily freed to around 85000. 00 prisoners because of the pandemic 3 of its wholly a science of also being closed to visitors despite strong opposition shrines in the city of mashad home and shot if they were shut down to contain the spread of the virus at least 988 people have died with around 16000 confirmed cases same destroyed he has more than tyrone. When the death toll was in the high seventys on a daily basis certainly people