Held by chief executive carrie lam, saying hong kong will increase Virus Testing to Something Like 7000 a day. Thats the hope, anyway. They will be extending that capacity for this territory here as well. Thats the backdrop here is carrie lam just outlined this increase in the number of people who will be tested here in hong kong or who can be tested here in hong kong. Haslinda chinese president xi jinping is promising to make the Coronavirus Vaccine available the pledgedeveloped, as part of efforts to defuse critics to the governments response to the pandemic. The virus does not respect borders. Mankind is a community with a shared future. Cooperation are our most powerful weapons for defeating the virus. Tom mackenzie has more from beijing. She succeed in trying to persuade critics . Tom the u. S. Will keep up its drumbeat of criticism for china. He did make some important points in the speech to the governing body at the world health organization, talking about the need to develop a
Health and wellbeing of all americans. The path has been long and difficult, and everybody has made sacrifices to keep one another out of harms way in communities all the United States. Medical providers, Public Health officials, frontline workers, first responders, Law Enforcement, they are all working very long hours and spending significant time away from their families to help limit potential exposure. These brave men and women are literally saving lives everyday. It is impossible to thank them enough for what they have done for us. But i know that countless georgians joined my family and i praying for them daily. As you all know, this weekend is a powerful one for all americans. For years, we have taken this moment to reflect on the sacrifices made by those in uniform. We honor these american heroes who answered the call of duty and paid the ultimate price for our freedom. Earlier today, i was honored to attend a Memorial Day Ceremony with the Georgia National guard to honor the l
We will find out in this edition with their International Affairs editor. With our International Affairs editor. Thank. You for joining us we begin in france where the prime thank you for joining us. We begin in france where they have begun to relax lockdown measures in n place. Bars will remain shut until further notice. The measures would be reviewed every three weeks but it was warned that easing of the lockdown would not happen if the numbers in france started to spike. Protect, test, isolate. Frances threepronged strategy to progressively lift lockdown measures starting on the 11th. They presented the governments roadmap for easing the quarantine. The key announcement regarding businesses. French]g restaurants and bars will remain closed until early june. As for school, students will return on a voluntary basis and reopenings will be gradual. Days and Elementary Schools will be t the first too reopen starting may 11 with middle schools following a week later. There e can be no mor
Hardhit hospitals to other parts of the country as officials brace for even more serious cases. Im annette young. Welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. Hasn in spain, which tightened its measures against the coronavirus, during a halt all nonessential activities, and telling the spanish stay home for a further two weeks. The country has the worlds secondhighest told, toll, with thats over 7000, the infefection rate at 85,000 case. Morrison, take us to the latest figures. you mentioned the death toll, which is becoming grim news for the spaniards, 812 people dying from the virus in the last 24 hours. That is 26 fewer than yesterday. We have seen three days of record rises on that figure. E. That is some good news. The number o of cases that are 85,200, that has slightly the rise in the number of cases is coming down. The Health Authorities say that about 10 days ago we have been seeing daily rises of between 20 rises, and those daily now are coming down to about 8 . They see this as e
A lifeline for sears that may be too little, too late. And the wait is over for baby yoda fans everywhere it is friday, february 21, 2020. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning. Happy friday welcome to the show. Here is how stock futures are setting up their friday today. You can see here, stock futures indicating 140point drop for the average. S p open down about 17 points. The nasdaq is off by about 75. This is after a wild ride that had the dowdown about 350 points you can see there in that time lapse, a huge volatile trade in yesterdays session. In the bond market, 10year benchmark below the 1. 5 mark. 1. 48 there. Twoyear at 1. 37 . Treasuries a key focus as people buy up the safety of u. S. Government bonds lets send it over to Joumanna Bercetche in london with an update of what is happening around the world good morning. The handover from wall street has been interesting we are seeing a little green here shanghai composite up. The tech sector slightly better up 1. 1