And by contribution to this pbs statom viewers li you. Thank you. Rick we are covering all of the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. World leaders pledge 8 billion to help develop a coronavirus vaccine. President of the Eu Commission calls the start of global cooperation. May 4, 2020, will a mark turning point in our fight against the coronaviru millions will be asked to track their movements as part of new Contact Tracing app. The government wa rs tol it out later this month. Italians have gone back to work since the country imposed a locked down months ago. The economic and social impact is yet to be measured. Scientists have discoverea micro that prostatic that protec mosquitoes from being fected with malaria. Uropean commission has launched a Global Campaign to find a cure for the coronavirus. Research must be supported by Global Corporations if the efforts are to succeed. The eu secured a billion dollars in pledges, contributed by World Leaders to accelerate
Officials say theres no risk. This vial is no longer here. Thats because its been sent to the cdc. The university was notified early tuesday for the from the centers for Disease Control about the investigation. Stanford along with 17 other laboratories in nine states and an army lab in south korea received a vile that may have contained very small quantities of live anthrax spores from an Army Laboratory in utah. Stanford Officials Say they did a safety review once they were notified and discovered the material was handled by two individuals under appropriate biosafety guidelines. It was last opened by the lab on july 29th 2014. The cdc told stanford officials the material is very unlikely to pose any risk. And its been ten months since the university did any work with the material. So were well beyond the point that anyone would show symptoms. And the materials been very secure all this time. And it is now being shipped back to the cdc for an analysis. Reporter the Defense Department