Hello im saying this is counting the cost on your look at the world of business and economics this week a special from iran that iran has always been able to work around crippling sanctions but the coronavirus pandemic that killed thousands has trashed the economy what kind of economy will emerge. No country in the middle east was hit harder by the corona virus pandemic than iran. Its recorded more deaths than anywhere in the region and total infections are still rising overall rates are slowing down but an officially the numbers are widely believed to be much higher. And the government initially downplayed the pandemic in a speech in the early days of the outbreak Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described it as a non emergency and said the United States remains the biggest threat to the country. And during the 1st meeting of a Task Force President Hassan Rouhani set up to respond to the crisis he predicted the emergency would be over in 3 days. Irans enemies of pausing to scare
Of the outbreak of covert 19 which has included an absence of federal planning severe shortages of basic medical items such as test kits masks gallons and ventilators and a white house that peddles quack remedies and patent false odes has exposed the deep rot within American Society the United States now has the most confirmed cases of covert 19 in the world 15 times the number of cases reported in china but 2 ruling parties rushed to pass 3 relief bills but some 85 percent of the Financial Relief is for corporations this while some 40000000 americans have lost their jobs bringing the Unemployment Rate to about 20 percent of the workforce this while health care and that is inadequate and states face breadlines of up to 10000. 00 people. Over more than 2 centuries the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world love and hatred fear and hope envy and contempt all and anger the columnist Fintan Otoole wrote in the irish times. But there is one a motion
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Of the outbreak of covert 19 which has included an absence of federal planning severe shortages of basic medical items such as test kits masks gallons and ventilators and a white house that peddles quack remedies and patent false odes has exposed the deep rot within the American Society the United States now has the most confirmed cases of covert 19 in the world 15 times the number of cases reported in china the 2 ruling parties rushed to pass 3 relief bills but some 85 percent of the Financial Relief is for corporations this while some 40000000. 00 americans have lost their jobs bringing the Unemployment Rate to about 20 percent of the workforce this while health care and that is inadequate and states face breadlines of up to 10000. 00 people. Over more than 2 centuries the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world love and hatred fear and hope envy and contempt all and anger the columnist Fintan Otoole wrote in the irish times but there is one a
President after an historic election victory in mississippi legislators prepare for a final vote on whether to remove a confederate battle emblem from the states flag. Hello thank you for joining us it began as an unknown virus among a few dozen patients in china at the end of last year now 6 months later the coronavirus pandemic is fast approaching another tragic milestone almost half a 1000000 people are known to have died and the virus is still spreading across the planet more than 10000000. 00 people are now confirmed to have been infected thats a 900 percent increase in less than 3 months a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the United States by far the worst hit country with over 2 and a half 1000000 cases and the 125000 fatalities but the true toll is likely to be much higher a recent survey by the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention found many more americans that antibodies for the virus suggesting the real case count may be up to 10 times higher tha