Welcome to the Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director general ted, mike ryan, executive director and doctor maria, they take the lead for covid19. Doctor will begin with an update, then when he has finished his opening remarks, i will open the meeting to questions. If youre connected by zoom, please use the raise hand icon to get into the queue to ask her questions, if you connect by phone please hit 9 to indicate you want to ask for questions. I will apologize right now to all those who miss out. We have more than 260 people on the line already connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to announce with our speakers who are meeting the response and can get back to the other demands of their time. I will now hand over to doctor. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll, not just on health but on so many parts of life. Yesterd
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
Enomics. I want to begin with the Federal Reserves move yesterday, before the markets opening up, to buy back unlimited buying of bonds to help businesses. What exactly did they do and how does this help the economy . Guest hi, greta. Thank you to cspan. This is an extraordinary action by the fed the government is taking extraordinary actions in this unusual situation, something we have maybe not seen ever in American History with the combating of this virus. The other day, during his press conference, the president said he is a wartime president and we are fighting an invisible enemy. That is right. We are treating this like it is a war and it is ending invisible enemy, so you are seeing the steps by government. The fed is trying to combat deflation, trying to stabilize the economy by infusing more dollar liquidity into the u. S. Economy. Right now, because you have this global pandemic, whenever there is fear, everyone in the world buys dollars. There has been a run on the dollar, an
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