There and South Africans get some exercise as they celebrate being allowed to leave their homes theyre locked down one of the strictest in the world is being teased. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program but European Union aims to raise 7500000000 euros next week to Fund Research into a vaccine for the coronavirus as well as developing new treatments and more efficient testing the e. U. Commission says that the goal is to develop a vaccine treatment and tests that are available to all who need it and at an affordable price the hope is that the donors will continue to stump up funds in coming months so that the effort can be scaled up and help to pay the cost of distributing the vaccine and medical equipment. And i am now joined by the president of the European Commission ursula fund arline welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. Thank you its good to be with you. On monday the European Union is joining forces with Global Partners to raise 7500000000 euros in a worl
And i in no way mininimize the continuing p problems we face. And yet, it is also true that we are making progress with fewer hospital admissions, fewer Covid Patients in i. C. U. , and reall signs we are passing through the peak. Spoke toarlier, i chris about how johnson is in no rush to resume economic activity. Showed he isson back in charge. This is the biggest challelengeo the country since the war. The context to this is some in brbritish business and sosome is coconservative party and perhaps even his own chancellor and certainly y the press s wonderig when the lockdown will end and when the econonomy will be again set free. You heard the Prime Minister. You would like to get things up anand runningng. He understands peoples frustration. But in the end, the govererent wants to a avoid the possibility of takining the brakes o off, letting the infection agaiain spread, and being forced to imimpose new restrictions durina causeseeak that would more lasasting econoc c damage. The ot
In 25 years can its Health Service take the strain of the pandemic and historic production cuts but what does it mean for the gulf economies plus europes colognes counting the costs on aljazeera. Reports and. Its been over a month since coded 19 was declared a pandemic. More than 120000 people have died and more than 2000000 are infected worldwide. The Health Emergency has also affected the Global Economy and diplomacy one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the pandemic is spain. Its had more than 800000 deaths despite the weeks long government imposed lockdown its already weak economy has declined further. And despite concerns by the World Health Organization of workers unions and opposition leaders the Spanish Government has announced a partial lifting of the restrictions. Prime minister Petro Sanchez has asked the European Union for help to tackle the economic fallout. Spain along with italy france and other e. U. Nations want to share the cost of the crisis through euro
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