Gov. Walz good afternoon, minnesota. Our press pool is here. Grateful youre all here. Id like to send a message to minnesotans, last time we were here we announced wed do a homemade cloth facemask drive to see how many we could collect and minnesotan responded, as minnesotans do, with about 130,000 of those masks delivered to fireds across and every single one of them participated, across the state. Those are getting out to our longterm care providers, some of the folks that we need to get them. Thank you for that, minnesotans. And thank you for the work youve been doing. We know were coming up on may 4. I think its time to assess where were at. See the thing that was worked, making sure the plan we have put many place to execute to make sure we have the hospital beds we when needed, make sure we ramped up test, tracing an isolation capacity and make sure we had a clear plan that we arctic pated to minnesotans, how do we get back into our businesses functioning . I want to, today, call
A food crisis will get even worse in zimbabwe as it extends a nationwide lockdown. So in a significant spirit has opened up once again in yemen southern separatists have broken a peace deal with the internationally recognized government. Yes theres been jubilation on the streets of aden where the Southern Transitional council has claimed control of the regional capital since yemens unification in 1915 geographical tensions with the south arguing the Union Favorite the north so lets take a closer look at the divisions after the 2 things began seizing major cities in 2014 southern separatists joined Government Forces in the saudi and Iraqi Coalition to fight against them and the u. A. E. Funded the southern fighters to help retake the port city of aden and the internationally recognized government. As reinstill but in 2017 amid anger against the government the Southern Transitional council was set up and it called for a return to an independent south and last year battles broke out betwe
States balance of pressure and reopen protests continue in several cities. And the race is on to find the formula for immunity against the virus but its an expensive and difficult process. Now to may just Southeast Asian nations are taking tentative steps to lift coronavirus restrictions thailand and malaysia have spent weeks in lockdown boss at the start of a new a human week malaysia is allowing the majority of businesses to reopen large gatherings off still not allowed schools and universities remain closed and people have been asked to continue social distancing while thailands also allowing restaurants salans and pet shops to reopen no new deaths have been reported there in days but all incoming flights have been banned until the end of the month while well hear from scott hyla and bangkok shortly but fast front story isnt malaysias capital kuala lumpur. Many businesses and offices are now allowed to reopen putting retailers in shopping malls like what you see behind me but they h
Rising and the president flouts distancing guidelines. Is the last of her. And game set and mismatches tennis stars put on a virtual show for charity. Now 2 major Southeast Asian nations are taking tentative steps to lift coronavirus restrictions thailand and malaysia have spent weeks and locked down but at the start of the working week thailands allowing restaurants salans and pet shops to reopen no new deaths have been reported in days but all incoming flights have been banned until the end of the month while malaysia is allowing the majority of businesses to reopen but large gatherings are still not allowed and schools and universities remain closed people have also been asked to continue social distancing well hear from scott hyde like hes in bangkok shortly but 1st france who is in malaysias capital quantum of bull. Most businesses are now allowed to reopen including retailers like this one and shopping malls but theyre going to have to implement certain Safety Measures including
Data on industrial output offers signs of encouragement. Shares in gilead jumped in late trade on positive reports on a coronavirus drug. Openg source on plans to factories in seattle. We hear from the ceo of rival airbus. We are seeing a lot of positive sentiment across the markets today. Investors seeming to be looking to the data we got out of china. Not really a surprise we got that drop in firstquarter gdp. The big question remains if Consumer Confidence can come back as the lockdown starts to ease. Speaking of that, it is u. S. Esting, you will see futures. The question remains well investors start to see that as a move to early that could reawaken the risk of a new wave of infections. The market fairly positive. The european futures on the front foot as well. 10year treasury yields moving higher by four basis points. You are seeing dollar weakness across all g10. Some of those Commodity Currencies weaker. Oil anguish and, just before 24 a barrel. President trump has unveiled gui