Were also fully committed to continuing to expand the supply of this medicine we started investing in this back in january as soon as we became aware of the chrono virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months its now 6 months our scientists have brought that down and so as we get into the 2nd half of this year were able to have many more supplies available to patients and were fully committed to working mr president with you here ministration to make sure that patients and you can get this important new medicine mike hanna has more now from washington. It has been given an emergency use flagged by the f. D. A. Which means that it can be used under very tightly controlled conditions which will be part of the ongoing survey into the thick a c. Of the drug now within the u. S. The f. D. A. Some urgency rissa lucian was given on the basis of a single trial in which patients were shown to recover 4 days quicker from the corona virus than those who were given a placebo wi
Strongest anywhere in the world that we are the strongest. And staying in the u. S. Dozens of bodies have been found a decomposing in an refrigerated trucks outside a funeral home in new york city the bodies were being stored on ice funeral have been struggling to cope after 18000 coronavirus thats in the state. The british Prime Minister Boris Johnson led to the daily Coronavirus Briefing after struggling with the self the u. K. Death toll from covert 19 it now stands at more than 26000. 00 reports from london. Back leading britains Coronavirus Response after his personal battle with the virus and only a day after his fiance gave birth the Prime Minister faces mounting criticism of his governments response to the outbreak and questions over how to ease current restrictions amid a backdrop of rising death but now a glimmer of optimism in britains battle with covert 19 i can confirm today that for the 1st time we are past the peak of this disease were past the peak and we are on the dow
Now thats double the previous maximum of 4 people and many businesses Key Entertainment businesses will also be allowed to open so that includes cinemas and uses and it includes gyms and also beauty salons also key it was the announcement that some schools are also going to be able to finally reopen the u. K. Death toll from corona virus is the highest in europe newly released government statistics show the total is more than 32000. 00 the National Health service says the outbreak has passed its peak when a hole has more from london. 34 percent of that figure are deaths that have occurred in care homes care homes housing the elderly the most vulnerable last week care home bosses described care homes in the United Kingdom as the new coronavirus frontline and if you focus down further on these numbers to get a more specific number of deaths related directly to covered 980 the where the virus is mentioned on the death certificate or is suspected of having caused that death well the number
Over lebanon problems there have been calls for mass demonstrations against the government and its handling of the economy despite a rescue plan announced by the Prime Minister. So to hold off the square of beirut. People have started to return to the streets now that the government has eased the lockdown that was imposed to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus people are angry their Economic Situation is only worsening Living Conditions are worsening you talk to people here and there is really fear about the future a lot of uncertainty pointing to the labor minister on the labor day she announced that 30 percent of registered companies have been shut down and that 20 percent of those companies have reduced the salaries of by. South africa has started easing some coronavirus restrictions after 5 weeks of walk down some businesses are being allowed to reopen from friday people can leave their homes to exercise the government says it will impose an overnight curfew and deploy mor
Exciting growth again. The question is when and in the meantime were going to shore up that Balance Sheet and make sure weve got that cash to make sure we can pounce on the end of it one of the things were thinking about is, who do you want to be when you come out of this. All of us are thinking about that so, you know, weve got still a strong recruiting team in place, a team who is interviewing people every day so that on the other end of this, all the superstars who are out there can come work at shake shack we dont know when that day is, but we know its coming. And when it is, we want to be there, ready to allocate that capital that we have to get back to growth as soon as we can. Randy, thank you so much for joining us thanks, everybody. Keep us posted. Ceo of shake shack. Sara, that was a good interview. Well see you on closing bell this afternoon good morning, im carl quintanilla. Welcome to squawk alley joined by Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. Dow is well off the lows of minus 32