Good afternoon 5 pm here in moscow youre watching international the number of confirmed cases of coronaviruses top 200000 worldwide with the death toll now at more than 8 as World Leaders do scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the at the center with a growing number of countries going into lockdown while the u. S. Has now confirmed infections in all 50 states. Well its not just people that are self isolating the world over because of covert 19 entire countries and i doing the same russia has become the latest to close its borders to foreigners joining the likes of canada and the u. S. The e. U. Has also restricted access to limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to enforce external borders both closed and. Temporary which to action of essential travel to the e. U. Folk preview it or so to do this france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on what dan army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of Poli
We have with this, the who director and also doctor mike ryan executive director and doctor maria. The doctor will begin with an update and then when finished, i will open the meeting to questions. If you can please ask your questions. If you can find a phone, please. I will apologize for now to all of those who missed out. We have more than 260 people in the line already. They are connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to an hour. So are speakers, who are all running responses they can get to many other demands of the time. I will now in the summer to doctor printed. Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. And good evening where are you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll not just on health but on so many parts of life. For making this sacrifice to protect the health of others we look forward to next years olympics which we hope will be an even bigger and better celebration of our shared humanity. And look forward to join. We have overcom
And i welcome 6 pm here in moscow you watching r. T. International now the number of confirmed cases of coronaviruses top 200000 worldwide with the death toll now at more than 8000 as the World Leaders to scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the center with a growing number of countries going into lockdown while the u. S. Has not confirmed infections in all 50 states. Well its not just people that are self isolating at the moment because of coburg 19 entire countries are doing the same russia has become the latest to close its borders to foreigners joining the likes of canada and the u. S. The e. U. Has also restricted access to limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to enforce external borders both a close. Temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e. U. Folk you at or 30 deuced france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on walk down army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of Police Offi
A huge financial stimulus package offered by the white. So get even youre watching r. T. International the number of confirmed cases of coronaviruses top 200000 worldwide with the death toll now more than 8000 as World Leaders scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the epicenter and now has more confirmed cases than china while in the u. S. All 50 states there have now had recorded cases. When entire countries are now shutting their borders down russia has become the latest to deny entry to foreigners joining the likes of canada and the u. S. The e. U. Has also restricted access. 2 limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to enforce external borders both closed and coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e. U. Folk leave it or so to do this france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on lockdown army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of Police Officers have been deployed to to e
A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Putting the u. S. On to a war footing against the coronavirus President Trump has said hes invoking the defense production act that says u. S. Markets remain volatile and could be headed into get another bloodbath despite a massive financial stimulus package announced by the government on tuesday and for more on this because live now to kill him off from me york kaleb so President Trump is upping the ante against the outbreak right. Indeed as everything seems to be called mineta and quite a crisis we have donald trump invoking the defense production act now that is a law that was 1st invoked during the korean war gives the government the ability to have industries ask a late production the hope is that with the government invoking this act there can be an escalation and rapid production of masks medical supplies and other needed materials now donald trump has got a lot on his pl