Spending the lockdown blues people around the world stuck at home the turning to music and anything else they can think of the philippine endless hours. Im anthony how did welcome more than a 1000000 people around the world now have confirmed corona virus infections and over 55000 people have perished the United States is still very much at the epicenter as we look now at the very latest developments around the world and in the u. S. They have registered the worlds highest daily coded 19 death toll thursday so 1169 confirmed deaths from virus related causes there south korea has refused entry to foreigners who refused quarantine measures all of a series of rivals including south korean nationals are. Us alight for 14 days and germany now has more than 80000. 00 confirmed cases and over a 1000 covered 19 deaths but the leader of the countrys Disease Control institute says the new data is indicating a slowdown in new infections even chancellor Angela Merkel says the data is cause for som
Staying inside, staying inside people around the world are turning to music and anything else they can think of to fill the endless hours. I am anthony howard. More than one Million People around the world have confirmed Coronavirus Infections and over 55,000 people have perished. The United States is at the epicenter as we look at the latest developments around the world. In the u. S. They have registered the worlds highest deadly death toll. Thursday saw 169 confirmed deaths. 23 has refused entry to aid foreigners south korea has refused entry to aid. Germany has 80,000 confirmed cases and over 1000 deaths. The leader of the countrys Disease Control institute says the new data is indicating a slowdown in new infections. The chancellor Angela Merkel says this is cauause for cautios optimism. It is true that the latest figures from the institute, as high as they are, give some hope. Ththe increase in new confirmedd infections is running a little slower t tn it was a a few days agago. B
Symptoms, hanks says he and his wife and rita wilson feel better. In a tweet announcing their improvement, hanks reiterates sheltering in place and says this too shall pass. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 23rd. From abc news, this is world news now. Thank you for jning us on this monday. We begin with the battle over that rescue package to address the pandemic. Talks on the economic rescue bill resumed this morning after democrats and republicans failed to strike a deal. As the virus continues to spread across the country, President Trump activated the National Guard in the three hardest hit states, saying the federal government will pick up the cost. And after one of the worst weeks on wall street, s p 500 futures fell 5 minutes after opening gaining the maximum drop allowed. More now from abcs zachary kiesch. Reporter talks resumed on capitol hill as lawmakers worked to put together a package, now expected to provide at least 2 trillion in Economic Relief ami
Treasury, the efforts to stimulate an economy in free fall jim, you got off a call or an interview it was a call as well with secretary mnuchin what stood out to you . That you shouldnt lay people off. I want to point out i got a correction, he said on Small Business payroll, two weeks, he meant two months two months means you do not lay people off without, i think im not saying its irresponsible but everything is being done to keep businesses open Small Businesses open. David, with the fed, i think theyve taken off to me anything involving credit the secretary talked about anything involving liquidity we cant produce demand. You keep people around for two months, but they wont be able to produce demand. There will still be a burden on Small Business not sure how that will be resolved thats an interesting point jim, we did we were watching the futures, which appeared to be limited down at different points in it the evening last night after japan opened as well then we got a fed announc
Mateo county, San Francisco county with 223 cases. 2 deaths in the city, 131 cases and one death in contra costa county. 178 cases and 4 deaths in alameda county. Marin county has 65 cases, 31 in Solano County 44 in Sonoma County to go along with one death there. And napa county now has 7 cases globally the number of confirmed cases is now more than 531,000 in more than 24,000 people have died. The us has more than 85,000 cases and 1290 people have died here in california were seeing 4,032 confirmed cases, china reported no new cases last week for the first time. This as the city of wuhan the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak is close to lifting the lockdown orders and today were hearing from a marine county native who has been living under quarantine in wuhan for more than 2 months he tells kron fours gayle ong life is slowly getting back to normal and there may be a glimmer of hope for us here in the u s. The situation is its been improving a speaking to us from wuhan china groun