Helped by transfusions of blood plasma from former victims r t visits one of the russian hospitals taking part. And u. K. Universities cut rents as students lose their part time jobs but its fear the reductions are nowhere near enough. While we try to because of government legislation we have to pay full price people to fill the 27. 00 list still they get it if they dont pay a penny. Welcome to the weekly here on R T International where we bring you the latest Headline News at the top stories from the past week lets bring you up to speed with the latest figures on kobe had 19 the Global Pandemic is still raging with the krona virus about to pass a new grim milestone of 3000000 cases worldwide more than 875000 people have fully recovered the number of fatalities has now passed 206000. I. The u. S. Has been hardest hit by the pandemic with almost 1000000 cases and 55000 deaths job losses in the wake of the outbreak have sparked widespread protests in the 4000000 have filed for Unemployme
Closed until may 4. Gov. Hogan thank you all for abbott thank you all for joining with us here today. Let me start out by expressing my gratitude to all of our fellow texans for your tremendous efforts that you made over the past few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. By staying at home, by reducing personal interactions. You are saving lives and you are improving the health of people across our entire state. Let me give you some updated information and then go into more deto determine whether or not someone has covid19. As of noon today, 42,923 texans have been tested for covid19. Of those tested, 3266 have confirmed positive for covid19. Now, there are 122 counties in the state of texas that have at least one reported case of covid19. Very importantly, if you look at the number of people who are hospitalize, we still have only 2. 4 of the hospital beds available in the state of texas for covid19 patients are occupied. Meaning that 97. 6 of those available beds still remain
How do you enforce that . We have put into place a series of orders in making it clear what a stay directive is. As ive mentioned, we have had a number of orders put in place and we have asked our residents and businesses to abide with them all. What you see from residents and. Hey continue to be concerned we are asking shoppers to limit your trips, maintain social distancing in those stores, and of course to wear a face mask. Critical ofvery that 2. 2 trillion tax, saying people were once again being shortchanged. How so . For the first time in the purposes of federal, the district was treated like a territory. We are not a territory. We are in fact a in the american system. The governor, and the county executive all at once d. C. Residents pay taxes, federal taxes, unlike the territories, in fact, we pay them at a rate thats the highest per capita in our system and more than 22 states in total. So this bill very curiously did not give us statelevel funding like we get for education a
24 hours. Larry kudlow says todays jobless claims figures show a big increase. The bank of england seen throwing holding fire for now. We have the Senate Passed the stimulus bill. That seems to be priced into risk assets. The market very much seeming to shift its focus to no Inflection Point in case the death toll worldwide. Green on the screen on the Msci Asia Pacific index overnight, but i mixed picture below the surface. U. S. And european futures in the red. The 10 year yield slipping seven basis points. In terms of g10 against the dollar, you are seeing the end the best performer. Commodities under pressure. Oil under pressure after a 9 gain over the past three days. Goldman saying even a halt in the price war cannot save oil from a huge glut in terms of their commentary on the oil market. They are saying crude surplus could be 14 Million Barrels a day in the second quarter. To get back to the u. S. Senate, it has passed a 2 trillion Coronavirus Relief package. The approval has co
Thank you all for joining with us here today. Let me start out by expressing my gratitude to all of our fellow texans for your tremendous efforts that you made over the past few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. By staying at home, by reducing personal interactions. You are saving lives and you are improving the health of people across our entire state. Let me give you some updated information and then go into more detail. One thing that we continue to do we continue to administer more tests to determine whether or not someone has covid19. As of noon today 42,923 texans have been tested for covid19. Of those tested, 3266 have confirmed positive for covid19. Now there are 122 counties in the state of texas that have at least one reported case of covid19. Very importantly, if you look at the number of people who are hospitalize, we still have only 2. 4 of the hospital beds available in the state of texas for covid19 patients are occupied. Means that 97. 6 of those available be