Focus with back in more job cuts in the wake of a record loss. Lets get you started with breaking news out of south korea. The Unemployment Rate for the month of may, coming in at 4. 5 , much higher than economists had expected. 392,000 jobs were lost in may from a year earlier. 4. 5 would be the highest level since 2001. This would be the adjusted jobless rate. We have seen losses of jobs when it comes to the hospitality, retail, and manufacturing sectors. Pressured because of weakness in global demand. There was some positivity over easing social distancing. For the month of may, it seems the Unemployment Rate has jumped in april, the. 8 highest level since 2001. Theing us for more is jpmorgan chief economist. Great to have you with us. That seems to be much higher than expected. His it just the is it just the tip of the iceberg given that we are expecting external demand to continue to be weak for the time being . Good morning. Yes, that number is higher than our expectations, indee
This country to activate its Emergency Preparedness plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasnt more widely available no i dont take responsibility at all because we were given a. Set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasnt meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that were talking about. The trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell people if they need the test and we have to get it whats missing is when these new measures will kick in the governments top expert says he hopes these steps will shorten the epidemic speaker what you seen now with this order is that were going to be able to remove the constraints so that people at the state the local level the individual physician all the way up through the federal govern
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
Arent doing enough testing to stem the spread of corona virus warning comes as if the reports 475 new deaths the highest one day toll in any nation so far and u. S. President donald trump has denied claims of racism over his use of the term chinese virus it comes as washington and beijing have traded blame over the origin of the illness a large religious event in indonesia has been canceled after authorities urged organizers to stop it from going ahead and with the outbreak despite this thousands of people have been gathering near the venue jessica washington is following developments from indonesias capital jakarta. Local authorities never gave permission for this event to go ahead but regardless we know that at least 8000. 00 people showed up in South Sulawesi not just indonesians but many from countries abroad including the philippines thailand and even brunei and timor leste state what we know is that this event never had permission to go ahead we did see some scenes overnight of p
When they come back to australia theyre so far civilization reporter and eyes will do an effective job in flattening use of as we go forward now after being exposed to infected individuals Donald Trumps doctor says the u. S. President has tested negative for corona virus has also expanded the european travel ban to include the United Kingdom and ireland in an effort to slow the viruses spread mike hanna has more on this from washington members of the coronavirus tossed force walk into the Briefing Room in terms of a new protocol all in the president s proximity must have the temperature taken including the journalists present. Unexpectedly President Trump walks in with his Vice President who had been chitral to leave the briefing and at another surprise he confirmed teeth submitted to a test for the virus last night i also took the test yesterday. And i decided i should based on the press conference yesterday people were asking did i take the test change when he also acknowledged that