Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were focusing on the latest coronavirus developments nationally and globally. And new figures show that the United States has suffered its largest one day death toll. According to numbers compiled byjohns hopkins university, 2,108 people died in the past 2a hours. The United States has the highest number of cases this is bbc news. In the world nearly half a million. The headlines it has also suffered the second highest number of deaths 18,500. New york starts to bury some its onlyjust behind italy. Of the dead in a mass grave, as the city tries to deal new york state alone now with the rapidly growing has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any single number of deceased. Country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there the state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country. Continues to rise. Latest figures record that over 7,000 have died fro
Yesterday, april 9th, one of the slides the times shared says the models are from march 31st. There is another model coming out tonight, and we will talk to the man behind that model in a moment. With that as the backdrop, President Trump confirmed this afternoon he will announce a new Council Next Week to look into reopening the country. The number of new cases per day is flattening substantially. Suggesting that we are near the peak. Its really about the encouraging signs that we see. But, as encouraging as they are, we have not reached the peak. President trump said he would listen to his scientific advisers, like dr. Birx there, about whether to reopen the country at the end of the month. Saying the facts are going to determine what i do. But he also indicated its not just the scientists hed be listening to. We should point out its not the president who determines what state and local officials may do regarding people getting back to work. The president can issue guidelines, that,
Measures put in place by National Governments to fight the pandemic signal the end for globalisation . Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. We are covering the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. The uk has recorded its highest daily increase in deaths due to coronavirus at the end of another week of tragic news for thousands of families. Today is the third day in a row in which the British Government has announced close to a thousand deaths reported in a day. The Daily Briefing today was led by Health Secretary matt hancock who confirmed there had been 980 reported coronavirus deaths in the last day, the biggest daily increase so last day, the biggest daily increase so far. It takes the total number of deaths in the country to 8958. Globally, there have been around 1. 6 million recorded cases of coronavirus. More than 100,000 people are reported to have died, according tojohns people are reported to have died, according to Johns Hopkins u
Week to 24 a day. The New York Times reports Funeral Directors say they have been told any coronavirus victims not claimed within two weeks will be buried on hart island temporary. Those are hard truths happening right now. Thats what is happening. Thats the toll of the virus and the economic toll which is incomprehensible. Here is the line for one food bank in san antonio, texas. That food bank fed about 10,000 households on thursday alone. Look at this line of people waiting in cars to receive printed unemployment forms and in florida. Thats the stark reality of this pandemic and recession happening together so one can understand under these circumstances that temptation for magical thinking. The temptation to wish it werent so. But in fact, it was that magical thinking that got us here. When the president wished it all away and said it was under control, the cases were going down, not up, it was like the flu and a hoax. That was all magical thinking. And that magical thinking led to
£2 million in coronavirus related fraud buying nonexistent medical equipment online. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Im annita mcveigh. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, as the easter weekend begins, governments around the world are repeated their warnings to people not to go out unless its absolutely necessary. In the uk, a Publicity Campaign has been launched telling people to stay home to have a safe easter as temperatures are expected to rise to as much as 26 celsius in some places. In europe. Finance ministers have agreed an Emergency Rescue package worth half e1 trillion for economies worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic. New york state has more coronavirus cases than any other country outside the United States. It has more people affected than spain or italy. The british Prime Minister is out of intensive care and is said to be in extremely good spirits at St Thomas Hospital. Speaking to th