A 1000000 coronavirus tests are being rolled out across africa as the continent steps up its fight against the pandemic. Could again be set for a truce the countrys u. N. Envoy says he expects want to be agreed in the immediate future. Hungry and exhausted hundreds of bringing the whole rescued but others starve to death on a refugee boat. Good to be with us and welcome to the news are the wide long term effects of the coronavirus pandemic are becoming even clearer as lockdown measures begin to show an effect on infection numbers the British Foreign secretary says easing restrictions now could undo progress thats been made and a few hours ago the u. K. Extended lockdown measures for at least another 3 weeks. In the u. S. The number of unemployed continues to rise rapidly a further 5000000 people have registered as jobless in the past week and thats on top of the 17000000 who applied since the shutdowns began and its also hope that some of that Economic Impact will be shouldered by 7 of
People from minority backgrounds more likely to get seriously ill from covert 19 in the u. K. An inquiry attempts to find that. Nigeria Security Forces killed 18 people while enforcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of Rohingya Refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Thank you for joining us we begin in the u. S. Were 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched the trams guidelines are being revealed in just hours after unemployment figures showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since president from the cleared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago. 22000000 americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett so kimberly we are exp
Unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Earlier today, the World Health Organization held a News Conference in geneva on the coronavirus pandemic. The who director general stressed the need for countries to control the virus during the lockdown period, and also talked about president trumps Coronavirus Response efforts, saying the president showed political commitment and leadership. Shortly before the briefing, the United Nations announced the launch of a 200 million humanitarian Response Plan to combat coronavirus. Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon. Hello, and welcome, everybody, to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director dr. Tedros, also dr. Ryan and dr. Maria van ker o hove. Dr. Tedros will begin with an update, and when dr. Tedros has finished opening remarks i will open the meeting to questions. If you have connected by zoom, use the raise your hand icon to o asknto the queue t questions. If you are conn
We have with this, the who director and also doctor mike ryan executive director and doctor maria. The doctor will begin with an update and then when finished, i will open the meeting to questions. If you can please ask your questions. If you can find a phone, please. I will apologize for now to all of those who missed out. We have more than 260 people in the line already. They are connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to an hour. So are speakers, who are all running responses they can get to many other demands of the time. I will now in the summer to doctor printed. Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. And good evening where are you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll not just on health but on so many parts of life. For making this sacrifice to protect the health of others we look forward to next years olympics which we hope will be an even bigger and better celebration of our shared humanity. And look forward to join. We have overcom
Gentle and gigantic but these schools also will be facing extinction if we dont make some important changes very soon. Its great to have you on the program so how prepared we are virus will be seeking in the show for now africa has been spared by even major outbreak of the disease so far theres been just 12 confirmed cases thats in egypt tunisia algeria morocco nigeria senegal but is this because that is these has not spread all because it has not been detected thats the 1000000000. 00 question the World Health Organization has wanted that countries with Poor Health Care systems may not be able to cope with an outbreak would many in africa being off particular consent. Screening has been introduced at most major african airports and border crossings using mechanisms already established during the apollo outbreak in west africa from 2014 to 2016. Comes to the new Coronavirus Health officials know Early Detection is vital if an epidemic is to be avoided. Even if it Even Airlines normally