How is coronavirus affecting the Sports Industry all major events are being counseled all this phone as the pandemic takes its toll worldwide a multibillion dollar business is now at stake so can sports survive the oh great this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dobby it is a very very lucrative business and almost recession proof but sport is being dealt a financial blow by the coronavirus major events are being canceled or postponed for the 1st time in many years from the Tokyo Olympic games to football matches fields arenas and stadiums will be empty for a long time to come athletes organizations and thousands of people who work at the sporting venues all affected revenue from broadcasting deals sponsorship contracts and match tickets theyre all drying up the Business Model for many sports is under threat and has to adapt to measures to counter covert 19 but some sporting events are going ahead the bundesliga season could resume in germany this month and the
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Contract the coronavirus and over an eightweek period. Hes saying thank you for joining us, everyone, im Catherine Heenan the governor is stressing californias need for help in this pandemic again were waiting for an update from his side. As News Conference said he is set to speak that could happen any time we will bring it to you live when it does but first kron on site Ashley Zavala is following the story for us tonight. She is live in sacramento and ashley. I had to look twice that is a chilling projection. Of multiple times to make sure that what i was seeing was correct. Governor Gavin Newsome in that letter urging President Trump to deploy a floating hospital essentially with the usns mercy here to california to handle what hes expecting an influx of coronavirus patients. In his letter to the president the governor warned the state projects 56 of californias population will be infected with the virus within a 2 month period he estimates thats 25. 5 Million People use im formally
Schools to close also restrictions on travel to the us senate shortage of supplies in stores, nationwide. Kron 4 news at 5 starts right no thank you for joining us tonight at 5 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as the coronavirus pandemic grows the president declares a National Emergency House Speaker nancy pelosi announced a deal with the Trump Administration. On corona virus funding and here in the bay area both santa clara and San Francisco counties. Our further restricting large gatherings. We begin tonight with kron fours dan kerman who joins us live in the newsroom with the breakdown on the president s announcement dan thats right. Buses today declaring a National Emergency said going to have more testing that they make partnerships with the private industry also talked about the possibility of him getting a test for coronavirus. To unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today i am officially declaring a National Emergency. Surrounded by feder
There he said it President Trump has now declared the coronavirus pandemic a National Emergency the president laid out his strategy to slow down covid 19 and just moments ago he tweeted out his support for the Families First Coronavirus Response act it provides free testing and paid sick leave for workers who are affected all of this as us cases soar past 2300 and here in the bay area. Well santa clara and San Francisco counties are further restricting large gathering stories now in the newsroom as kron fours dan kerman with the latest on the president s announcement then well this is the National Emergency that we keep expecting the Trump Administration now calling for. The latest attempt to slow the spread of this virus so it doesnt overwhelm the health care community. The president is stepping up the federal response to the covid 19 coronavirus pandemic. To unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today i am officially declaring a National Emergency. The ord