Sessions. Its been on such a winning streak. Again, i use the word breather right now. While vaccine timing is spooking the markets, colleges across the nation are trying to minimize the scary impact of the deadly virus. Alabama state is teaming up with dragonfly to keep its students safe. The ceo is going to be here to show us how this is all supposed to work. Meanwhile, the covid crisis has caused the makers of one frozen Treat Company to put its Business Plan on ice. The ceo of dippin dots is here to tell us how his freezers are working overtime on new pandemic opportunities. You dont want to miss that. Then one of the Biggest Car Rental Companies in europe is zooming into the United States in the middle of a pandemic. We will ask the board member and namesake about why now is the time for them to expand in america. Less than an hour to the closing bell, im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman. Lets start the claman countdown. Cheryl so after a day of records on wall street, it has been
Airline heavily criticizing the bailout deal the worlds biggest lighting maker has made a product that can degrade the virus and disinfect indoor areas all the applications we are putting into the markets are safe the good news is that it is also good for covid19. South koreas minister agrees to step down after north korea shows footage of it blowing up on the border a warm welcome from street signs. The stoxx 600 is in the green. There have been a few significant positive developments in the last 24 hours, we had those strong retail numbers come through providing a boost in the u. S. And europe. On the health care front, we had Health Care News the uk major drug trial found that a 60yearold steroid, very common, widely available, cheap drug actually reduces the mortality rate of Covid Patients this is the first drug they have found that reduces death from the vie vus. We have remdesivir but this drug, dexamethasone cuts the death rate. We are eyeing beijing where theyve seen a new set
A covert 19 and trade relations and their fathers one of hundreds of people missing during the 5 year war in yemen we talked to a family seeking answers. To the arab. Thank you for joining Us Donald Trump has triggered a double dose of controversy as a number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. A pos is one and a half 1000000 the u. S. President is threatening to make funding cuts to the World Health Organization permanent and message chemist so improvements within 30 days he accuses a body of being a puppet of china trumps ultimatum to the w h ok moments after he revealed his taking a drug that Health Experts warn could have fatal side effects. As more. President donald trump is so confident in the drug he himself dubbed a game changer against covert 19 that he himself takes one pill of hydroxy chloroquine with the zinc every morning jacket hydroxy for what went right out yeah when. A couple of weeks ago i started to get it because i think its kind of had a lot of good stories and if it
Supporters there backing his call to lift restrictions despite an increasing number of cases. And a sigh of relief for the u. S. Economy as carmakers send their employees back to work. The worlds 3rd largest economy has slipped into recession japan has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter by just under one percent in the 1st 3 months of this year Prime Minister shinzo abhi had announced a massive Relief Program last month to keep the economy on track japan has recorded more than 16000 cases of the virus and close to 750 deaths Robert Wright is in seoul he says the stimulus announced by the japanese government may not be enough to revive the economy. Weve had now 2 quarters where the economy has contract and so it is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of coded 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a culture of virtual sales tax from 8 percent t
Officials are warning that even if we see the numbers start to go down and the disease start dying in the summer it could surge by the fall. Dissipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. There will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test to identify isolate. And contact race will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago. Will spain now has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there say 849 people died yesterday because of the virus and that there were more than 9,000 new cases reported in just 24 hours. Spain has become the 3rd country now in the world to overtake chinas total infection count. They fall behind italy and the united states. We just talked about the president extending the stay in at home order will mayor london breed says that there will be a formal announcement later today. What they want to do with the H