Biontech delivering millions of doses of a potential vaccine for covid19. Well kick it off with Edward Lawrence in washington. Reporter melissa, very big news for pfizer and the vaccine. We could have three vaccines in circulation by end of the year. First one by astrazeneca, they hope by october. Moderna and pfizer follow by the end of the year. The governor of connecticut toured a pfizer plant in his state. Senior Vice President for drug safety and development for that facility says pfizer focused on doing the next studies and getting that data to the fda for a safe and effective vaccine. Governor ned lamont says it will be widely distributed. Listen. We continue to hit the metrics we need. We continue to get the fda approvals. We continue to do this safely. We have a real opportunity by end of this year to be able to go to cvs or the local pharmacy to get a Covid Vaccine just like you get a flu vaccine. Reporter a clue how governors think the vaccine could be widely distributed, wit
Born it during lockdown with her parents far away after weeks of separation the surrogate baby and ukraine finally meets her family but many others still face a long wait. Plus the pandemic puts thailands al offense at risk of starvation a sharp drop in tourism means hundreds of handlers have no income and no way to feed their herds theyve had to hit the road to find so. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us russian investigators have charged a city mayor with criminal negligence over the arctics largest ever or oil spill they suspect the mayor of norilsk didnt do enough to contain the discharge of more than 20000. 00 tons of fuel into waterways near the worlds northernmost city last month investigators say that local cleanup efforts were too limited and too slow experts are now predicting. The disaster could take years to contain and cost at least 150000000. 00. Lets bring in our correspondent in moscow emily showing is standing by for us hi emily good to see you how serio
9000000000 euros in a pandemic bail out we hear from the union leader. Plus the pandemic puts thailands allison sat risk of starvation a sharp drop in tourism means hundreds of handlers have no income and no way to feed their ferds theyve had to hit the road to find food and. Im serious almost comical as you could join us the mayor of the worlds northernmost city has been charged with criminal negligence over a Massive Oil Spill in siberia last month tens of thousands of tons of diesel fuel have leaked into local waterways around the city of norilsk investigators say the mayor failed to react quickly enough which turned the spill from accident into the russian arctics Worst Oil Spill and living memory. Environmentalists are calling it the worst disaster in the region in living memory. More than 20 tons of fuel have leaked into rivers and waterways in Russias Arctic north turning large expanses of water red. The pollution is already damaging ecosystems and wildlife. Its foolish to say o
Indonesia says it plans to send them back out to sea. And australias Biggest Airline quantas is set to cut 6000 jobs saying it has to shrink to survive the pandemic. New coronavirus cases in the us have risen to their highest level in 2 months its now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 deaths research is that the university of washington are now predicting that nearly 180000 could die by october when about half of the 50 states are seeing a surge cases are rising in the states seen here in dark orange and going down in the grey estates shaded light orange a stable experts say large parts of the country are on the verge of becoming overwhelmed is mike hanna. Cases of the virus are peaking in at least 9 u. S. States most of them ones that dropped mitigating measures earlier than others like texas where the number of people being hospitalized has doubled in the past 2 weeks and people got complacent people got a little bit overly confident in our ability to manage
Record rise in cases and a warning for americans Top University predicts 118000. Deaths. And South Koreans the 70th anniversary of the war with north korea. Australias Largest Airline quantas is cutting 6000. 00 staff to reduce costs as it fights to survive the crown of virus pandemic the airline is grounding 100. 00 planes for at least a year and will keep 15000. 00 workers on leave for months its boss alan joyce says hes hoping to save 10000000000. 00 over 3 years in response to what he says is the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced. This crisis is still hit those very very hard and the impact will be felt for a long time particularly im sorry to say the impact on our people it is very clear that International Travel is likely to be stalled for some considerable time i outed the peak body for the Airline Industry says it will take more than train years for Global Travel to return to 2019 levels and make a leg aids joins us now live from kamber and so nick a call this is a big