A hospital in the capital and a funeral in the east are targeted. Bringing back coronavirus restrictions lebanons government orders of full closure of the country in one week after easing measures. A leading member of the u. S. Coronavirus task force is calling on states not to rush to ease restrictions Dr Anthony Fauci has warned of serious consequences including needless death is among the experts testifying before senators theyre reviewing the trumpet ministrations handling of the pandemic and discussing plans to to lift lockdowns but folks he said that ignoring guidelines could result in an outbreak that states may be unable to control. Lets go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly halted kimberly one gets the impression that many of Donald Trumps opponents were hoping that dr fox he was going to speak very freely about the way that the Top Administration has handled this it strikes me that hes been much more measured in the way that hes been talking to senators hes been m
Attacks in afghanistan the taliban denies any involvement. Bringing back coronavirus restrictions lebanons government orders a full closure of the country one week after easing measures. And leading members of the u. S. Coronavirus task force is calling on states not to rush to ease restrictions Dr Anthony Fauci has warned of serious consequences including needless death is among experts testifying before senators there reviewing the trumpet ministrations handling of the pandemic and discussing plans to lift lockdowns but he said that ignoring guidelines could trigger an outbreak that states may be unable to control. Well lets go live to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Hall could a very measured tone that was taken by dr fox he and all the members of the Coronavirus Task force. Yeah very measured not the explosive testimony that some had been expecting given the fact that the u. S. President is not hovering over anthony found she told or as he has in past when the doctor the top
Be in ministrations forthcoming Strategic Plan that is now required under the package that was just passed and signed into law will that Strategic Plan on testing include specific numeric targets for Testing Capacity supply chain capacity and projection of shortages. Thank you for that question and statement senator murray yes we are as ive stated we continue to have a work in progress as we build the Testing Capacity we have established the targets with the state of over 12000000 tests over the next 4 weeks we think those targets are going to be good in may and june but as dr foushee said we really have to be evidence based we expect those targets to go up as we progress simply oping as communities go through phase one and then into phase 2 and certainly those numbers will need to go up significantly again in the fall when we potentially have influenza circulating with with co that so yes there will be targets the targets will need to change based on the evidence that we see but we ar
Hello to everyone from geneva, and that uh o headquarters. Welcome who headquarters. Welcome to this regular covid19 briefing. There were more than. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. E are delighted to be joined thank you, tarik. Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening. As tarik said we are delighted krytalina, the managing director of the monetarily fund. Elcome, my sister. She will say more in a few minutes about the Economic Impact of the pandemic and what the imf is doing to support countries and the Global Economy more than one million confirmed cases of covid19 have been eported to who, including more than 50,000 deaths, but we know that this is much more than a Health Crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic. The restrictions many countries have put into place to protect health are taking a heavy toll on the income individuals and families and economies of communities and nations. We are in a shared
We start the week with a sell off lets begin with the news that the huge strike planned by Heathrow Airport workers for today has been called off. Further talks between airport officials and the unite union which is representing the workers will continue throughout the day, to prevent industrial action now planned for tuesday. The airport which is britains busiest was facing some 2,500 workers striking over a pay dispute. This comes after unite said its members had rejected the offer of an extra £3. 75 per day offered by the airport. As a result, the airport cancelled 177 flights roughly one in seven departures. However one of the affected airlines, British Airways, now says it will now reinstate flights from heathrow on monday. Other airlines including air canada, aer lingus and Etihad Airways say they will also be operational from the airport today. Our Senior Reporter Ramzan Karmali joins us now. You have been looking at the detailed. Can you tell us more about what is happening to