Coronavirus restrictions and congregations must instead get together online. I marry in evanston its good to have you with us africa has officially recorded more than 1000 deaths from colvin 19 and has just surpassed 20000 confirmed cases but the United Nations Economic Commission for africa predicts that even in a best Case Scenario the pandemic will likely kill at least 300000 people on the continent and it could push 30000000 into extreme poverty africas 54 countries have so far reported a small fraction of the worlds coronavirus cases but Health Officials say best because of limited testing capability they warn that in the next 6 months africa could see as many as 10000000 infections and Global Economic groups say well over 100000000000. 00 is needed to assist the continent. Well joining us on the line is mary stephen from the World Health Organizations Regional Office for africa in brazzaville the capital of congo republic thank you so much for joining us now the w. H. O. Says its
Stimulus plan to really help countries in the eu. You do wind up having larry fink say if you are a longterm investor, you want to buy risk. You have the dollar seeing its worst week since 2009. May be some of the liquidity funding pressure is taking a backseat. Today we are going to take a look at the market moving news from around the world, focusing on washington, as well as new york. The house is expected to approve that 2 trillion rescue package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told bloomberg tv they will move quickly to get that. Rep. Pelosi will have a strong bipartisan vote that, hopefully by noon will be finished. That depends on how we have to come into small numbers to vote have we have to come in to the chambers in small nubbers to vote. In small numbers to vote. Now is kevin cirilli. What comes after that . Kevin all of the house members will vote on this to trillion dollar stimulus package. From there, the president will sign it virtually immediately into law. After that comes
The trend of bad mondays but contracts for major indexes shaking off losses to gain more than 1 . 2 on the euro stoxx 50. Global cases of the coronavirus than 3000,000, more died in spain and italy over the weekend as medical experts say deaths in the u. S. Could reach 200,000. The Oil Price Slump continues with wti briefly dropping below 20 a barrel in new york. Brent prices are at a 17 year low. Just under one hour away from the start of cash trading across europe, you saw briefly, futures here in europe are more than 1 . Euro stoxx 50 futures up. They are trading out 1. 5 percent to 1. 75 . Futures also showing gains. Friday was a down day in u. S. Indexes so you could see today start off risk on. What do you see on the gmm . Anna interesting to see those futures looking strong. When you look at the gmm, you get a different picture. This is the Asian Session and how it looks right now. Msci asiad. 4 on the pacific. The australian and south korean markets in positive territory but th
Community health. San francisco, social no more, Health Officials called for concerts, conferences and sporting events to be canceled to help curb the coronavirus. Stanford University Also taking precautions, now moving all classes for the remainder of the quarter online. Two people in florida died from the virus after traveling overseas. Closer to home, former cases were identified in Santa Clara County and the fbi said a bay area employee tested positive for the virus. The grand princess cruise ship remains on hold, and we learned that 21 at a 46 people that were tested are confirmed to have the coronavirus. 19 of which are crewmembers. Debora villalon is live now at the terminal with new developments. Reporter well we know that ship is not coming in to this or any other commercial terminal. Not with people on board testing positive. What is still unclear is where it goes next. We will be testing everyone on the ship. We will be quarantining as necessary. Vice president mike pence an
Overrun by refugees . Not that im aware of. Reporter haymar arrived in utah in 2008. She fled violence in burma for thailand when she was 13. How did you get from burma to thailand . 19 day i have to get thailand, we walking. Reporter walking . Yes. Reporter she became a u. S. Citizen in 2013 and helped by a program for immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs, now owns her own burmesethai restaurant. Were not trying to bring refugees here to take on our lowwage paying jobs either. We are putting them on career paths. They are some of the most hardworking, dedicated people youll ever meet. And thats what i would hope President Trump would see. Hi, guys reporter the mayors also hope President Trump would see what asma is doing now. She is a Public Health major at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and plans to become a physician assistant. And she volunteers with newly oprived refugees,ing to pay hforward the opportunities she had. Are you going go to college . Yeah. Yeah . Do you know wh