Leaving shelves bear and fridges empty. Wellington with sports news. Basketball players test positive for coronavirus. Celebrations continue for liverpool. Aswill hear from their coach they are targeting more trophies. Anchor we begin the newshour in the United States where Vice President mike pence has led the first Coronavirus Task force briefing in almost two months as america reported an alltime high of new virus infections. Around 40,000 new cases were confirmed across the u. S. On thursday but mike pence echoed Donald Trumps message that the number of cases had been increasing because of accelerated testing. He said 16 states are seeing a resurgence in cases across the south and southwest. In much of the country, we are seeing jobs expanding and Economic Activity expanding, but our focus today is very much on the advent of a rising series of new cases across the american south. Where our First Mission was to save lives, once we came out of the 45 days to slow the spread, our task