Happening as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time as terrible. Images from overwhelmed new york mass graves and makeshift morgues in a city struggling with huge numbers of. Things help stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on r. T. International hello and welcome im you know neal. Well lets start with the latest figures on the 19 demick ever changing the number of cases around the world continues to rise to with more than 1800000 people now infected more than 113000 in all have succumbed to the virus with billions so. Thing under lock down there is some good news over 421 thoughts and people have recovered additionally the 1st trials of a vaccine are now under way here in russia some experts are confident it could be ready as early as september. Lets go through some more developments here in the country from next week people in moscow will need to start getting special digital policies to travel around the region right
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World Health Organization warns the worst of the krona virus pandemic is still ahead global infections down at more than 2500000 with the death toll more than 175000 w h o h o spokeswoman for delicate said all Available Evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not a manipulated or constructed virus in the lab or somewhere else this comes after President Trumps recent comments on determining whether the virus originated from a lab in one china well meanwhile singapore announced its plan to extend the walk down by another 4 weeks the move comes after a sharp surge in corona virus cases in just the latest days. We will implement these type of measures on to the floor for me. But we will not be able to completely lift the restrictions after that and go back to business as usual. We will therefore extend this Circuit Breaker for 4 more weeks beyond that for me in other words until the 1st of june. Then provided we have brought the community numbers down we can make further ju
World Health Organization warns the worst of the krona virus pandemic is still ahead will global infections down at more than 2500000. 00 with the death toll more than 175000. 00 w h o spokeswoman for delicate said all Available Evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not a manipulated or constructed virus in the lab or somewhere else this comes after President Trumps recent comments on determining whether the virus originated from a lab in one china well meanwhile singapore announced its plan to extend the walk down by another 4 weeks the move comes after a sharp surge in coronavirus cases in just the latest days. We will implement these type of measures until the full force me. Be able to completely lift the restrictions off of that and go back to business as usual. For extended. 4 weeks beyond me in other words until the 1st of june. Then provided we have brought the community numbers down we can make for the adjustment and consider easing some measures well meanwhil
Will record breaking cuts in production to stop the oil. Crude by saudi arabia and russia agree to the biggest of the reduction in oil. So it will be most affected. Him to the program. Factories shut grounded cars and trucks off the roads in many cities under lockdown demand for oil has collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic and Oil Prices Fell further when major producers saudi arabia and russia couldnt agree on cutting output. Now theyve set aside their dispute opec and the oil cartels allies agreed to a 10 percent Production Cut the biggest ever but the deal to switch off the top spy 10000000 barrels a day still needs approval from mexico. These circumstances require swift and timely measures all of our Oil Producing countries must pull efforts to change the situation related to the substantial over production of oil in the world the us it didnt take part in the opec discussions on thursday which are the focus of a meeting of g 20 Energy Ministers on friday some analysts say Prod