All Primary Schools in england will reopen at the beginning of next month. Greece announces plans to restart tourism from the middle ofjune, with International Flights operating from onejuly. And captain tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than 30 Million Pounds for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. Borisjohnson says that theres growing confidence the uk will have a world class system to test people who have contracted coronavirus and trace those, they may have infected, by the beginning ofjune. The uk Prime Minister said, there would be 25,000 contact tracers, able to track up to ten thousand cases as day. The nhs Contact Tracing app, is likely to be rolled out later. Meanwhile, the aircraft engine maker, rolls royce, is cutting 9,000 jobs worldwide, as a result of the pandemic, most of them in the uk. Union leaders say, its
Halston, 12. 5 . San miguel withdrew its tender officer for the company as the timeline ran out. Ayala down. 31 . The overall composite half a percent higher. Lets move things along and get to new york and look at some of the first word news. Global Coronavirus Infections continue to rise and now top 4 million with jess at about 280,000. The u. S. Has by far the most cases and fatalities with 1. 3 Million People infected and almost 79,000 having died. The virus was first reported in china and beijing has confirmed about 83,000 cases with just over 4600 fatalities. Saudi arabia says it is planning to cut spending and triple vat to 15 as it looks to offset the impact of the virus. The finance minister says the pandemic combined with Falling Oil Prices has cut revenue input and president and pressure on the public purse. The kingdom reported its biggest surge of new cases sunday, rising to almost 39,000 confirmed infections. To apply more powerful stimulus. The pboc were released a quarte
Time in weeks as infections and deaths decrease. And alive and apparently well is finally seen in public after weeks of speculation about his health. Situation a lot in americas overcrowded prisons is growing increasingly desperate as governments try to prevent the corona virus from spreading in venezuela more than 40 people have been killed during a riot it started over the demand for relatives to be allowed to deliver food to inmates and its a similar situation in brazil where their prison riots over a ban on visitors its the country hardest hit by the pandemic in latin america and the last 24 hours nearly 5000 new cases and more than 400 deaths have been recorded. And in argentina there have been protests about the transfer of hundreds of prisoners to house arrest some violent offenders have been released because of their age or underlying illness since there is a poll has the latest on the riot in venezuela. Human Rights Organization and demanding a full investigation into what wen
From survive these historic set backs and does joe biden have what it takes to beat. Special coverage on just. That shape also not official shelter suddenly. Im going to consider just im also not still maintain for the final im. So im just you know i speak out the beach a couple. Hello im richard has been youre watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that were looking at this week brazil both are not all and the fake news contagion that colors the coverage of covert 19 the World Health Organization took too long to get the word out on the virus but the story is more complicated than it seems in pakistan a cleric tells the media what he really thinks of them live on the air and its full of clorox makes your temperature go down dont trump the prospect of him bleach mint and making the medicine go down. A president at odds with his advisors and scientists over covert 19 who has said that the virus is no worse than the flu and who s
Rid of this thing in the future and if sunlight is good thats a great thing as far as im concerned the u. S. President s task force presents unconfirmed research saying that heat and humidity have an impact on the ground virus. And how this city is mostly the holy month of ramadan will be followed different as the faithful are forced to take a different approach during the pandemic. While we begin with yet another grim tally of deaths from the new coronavirus coming out of the United States 3176. 00 people have died and just 24 hours and that takes the total number of deaths there to nearly 50000. 00 thats the highest anywhere in the wild globally there are now more than 202700000. 00 infections and over 190000 deaths on the economic front of the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 really felt to keep Small Business as a for some provide funds for hospitals had passed with big bipartisan support and will now go to president for his final up. Weevil it follo