Distance from others to the pandemic of zeros lawrence lee has more from london on the situation across europe. Its the exponential rate of rise thats really alarming 2 days in a row now where theres been well over 400. 00 deaths each day if you if you extrapolate it clearly and it stays at that level youre looking at the best part of 3000 deaths a week and thats really terrifying stuff big rise 2 in spain the problem in italy seems to have been brought about because they reacted see late because the hospitals and fall people are getting sufficiently ill while still at home that its too late to do anything for them when the by the time they got to hospital and so its the countries that are behind the curve where italy is now the supposed to be looking at this and thinking well perhaps we should be reacting differently to the way that its a lead ins when it mismanaged this at the start so germany for example is now suggesting that at the weekend if people are refusing still to abide by
Have reminded the french people in the beginning of this week we put in place measures to result this 1st wave its a race against the virus despite many 2 weeks in lockdown its only has seen the numbers dead and infected hitting record new highs people are only allowed out for work medical reasons or emergencies and those allowances are expected to be made even tighter this weekend this is just a snapshot of life in Central London but compared to the lockdowns in france and italy the difference is striking shops are still open people are still Walking Around driving around each and every contact an opportunity for the virus to spread i have a message for young people. You are not invincible even if you dont get seek their choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and for someone else until now restrictions in the u. K. Have been advisory rather than compulsory but in order for schools to shutter finally has come into effect the gates will not reopen on mo
A fast flowing river. And billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg drops out of the democratic president ial race and gives his backing to joe biden. Is schoolin pick organizers insist the cancellation of joys so kill games isnt being considered the torch relay through japan also set to start this month despite the coronaVirus Outbreak. A very warm welcome to news our top story italy is closing all schools universities and cinemas until march the 15th as it battles to contain its corona Virus Outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 now this is the largest number of confirmed deaths outside of china Public Events have also been cancelled across parts of europe asia and the middle east also the International Monetary fund has issued a warning that the outbreak is likely to slow Global Economic growth this year there is john hull begins our coverage. Contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered 900. 00 virus itself staff at
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And bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange hey, robert. Hello there, old friend narrow trading range were down second day in a row, but a small trading range. 16 points in the s p 500, maybe 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average the nasdaq, though, is eking out small gains. The dow gainers for the month, theyre still the gainers for the day. Look at apple, look at nike, look at sisco, all up on the month. The laggards, its interesting, the ones that are down in the month of december also down today. Boeing had a tough month even disney. They topped out the beginning of december, 153 now, 143. Visa ending down today a little bit here that was a big mover all throughout the end of december the one sector i would point out to you is the Energy Sector. Oil exploration product up again today. And you know all of those really beaten up small Exploration Production companies, witing, southwestern, all terrible year, terrible three or four years since the tax law selling seemed to