This is widely expected. This is the vaccine that was found to be 94. 5 effective in the primary analysis. There is discussion about possibly having some sort of meeting later in the month with the fda to make the approval. We heard from officials over the weekend that they are going to try to approve it in fast order. If you take a look at markets, not the response you would think, at least not much. Jonathan it has been the diminishing marginal rate of the additional vaccine news in this market that has diminished over the last several weeks. Equity futures down 0. 4 percent. Expectations are already so well anchored by the vaccine news weve had over the last several weeks. We are down 0. 4 on the s p 500. In the bond market, yields up by a basis point or two to 0. 85 on the 10 year. The news isnt this morning. It is the cumulative impact of the last several weeks and now it is shaped the forward outlook under a much better way compared to what we face right now in the here and now i
A room. It was hard i was free. I even got white hair. Language head telling us this gives me a little but you need to interrupt the flight you want to their story lines are fighting and reliable information for margaret. A double epidemic is coming as covert cases rise and influenza wave is heading to the Northern Hemisphere what if you get dont fit the same time. To corona virus is already in your territory its a combination with influenza equally unknown. Winter will be a challenge. The big problem were facing is that cove it can look a lot like flu but thats going to create a lot of problems for our hospitals so one of the most support things we can do is to prevent flu in our community and one of most important tools we have is the flu vaccine whether it impacts the behavior of the coronavirus is another thing but a flu vaccination could narrow the diagnostic options when flu like symptoms occur. Doctors say its more important than ever to get your flu shot this year facebook has
Program germany has posted the most corona virus infections in a day and with infections sharply rising in other countries as well Financial Markets are getting the jitters again amid fears of tighter restrictions european shares sank to near 2 week low on thursday driving the sell off across europe and asia are coronavirus concerns germany reported daily infection rate. On thursday hong kongs hang seng index tumbled over 2 percent shanghai and tokyo shares also fell. Lets cross over to our markets correspondent Chelsea Delaney in frankfurt chelsea a record 6638 new infections in germany leaders are saying the 2nd wave will be big yet theres seems to be little optimism that can be stopped. This is all becoming very real for investors and for politicians and for citizens across europe weve seen over the past few weeks a lot of. A lot of optimism among investors we havent really seen big impacts on the stock market despite these rising number of cases but today it is really starting to s
Across europe growing infection rates fresh lockdown measures and the inevitable health and Economic Hardship to follow is the headache for which there are no easy fixes. Well germany is also considering additional measures to rein in rising infection rates or storage is reported more than 5000. 00 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours the highest one day total since been able to answer im going to the heads of the countries federal states are meeting in berlin as we speak with announcement expected this evening new cases have been rising steadily since the end of summer some regions already imposed new restrictions and testing requirements for people in high risk areas. Well lets go straight to d. W. Political correspondent kate brady welcome kate can the chancellor get 16 state leaders to line up behind one set of proposals. Well it certainly is going to be a difficult task in the longer that those 16 state premiers and chancellor Angela Merkel stay behind closed doors this even
And controversial calls for curbs on the kings power. Im off its good to have you with us across europe the number of new Coronavirus Infections is surging and now so are the number of new restrictions to stop that search here in germany the government is preparing new measures to rein in rising infection rates the heads of germanys federal states have been hammering out the details with. Here in berlin for several hours now that meeting is still taking place. For the latest now lets go straight to our Political Correspondent kate brady shes covering this meeting for us to you kate so do we know why is it taking so long. Well its quite a symbol and so you have. A leading this meeting with the state premiers the heads of germany 16 states and that in itself is the complication you have a federal system here in germany and 16 state premiers over for what they see as their priorities right now and so far during the pandemic theyve all been able to react accordingly rady to the situation i