And get out of us welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel is preparing to address parliament to defend the decision to extend the countrys current coronavirus lockdown until at least march 7th these are live pictures youre seeing here from the understand where the chance will shortly be outlining how governments strategy to combat the coronavirus pandemic or certain restrictions will be relaxed earlier chancellor merkel has made clear she fully supports extending the lockdown beyond february the number of deaths and new infections has in germany has been declining recently but merkel says the new variance of covert 19 women is serious cause for concern. As the sun went down behind the chancellor in berlin another showdown about the lockdown. How the state premiers wrestling with the question given the advance of coronavirus mutations in germany how soon will it be possible to open up. The services. Yes the time between now and the middle of march is when the experts are
Crossing the wire right now. Littlee claims data a earlier on better than anticipated. The personal spending number, michigan number is crossing the tape. Again, missing expectations. We had an 80. 7 read and the last number, 81. 4. The expectation, 81. 1. In terms of current conditions, they are down as well. It is the expectations number that is interesting. The forwardlooking indicator coming in. It is still a relatively soft number. The inflation number is coming in in line with expectations. Housinga soft number on because housing has such has been such an area of strength. New home sales fall into an 81 40,000 annualized rate down 11 and well short of expectations. The estimate was for 994,000. Yesterday we saw existing home sales data falling for the first time in six months, so it may show cracks emerging in the housing market. Elaina, theore with senior u. S. Economist. Obviously, a mixed picture. I want to focus on the consumer short ofthat came up expectations. What does tha
A radius of 75 miles from each a very locations to distribute them to Nursing Homes where the elderly are most at risk in many cases it will be the Frontline Health care workers doctors and nurses who will be receiving the vaccines 1st and then it will spread out to the general public over the coming months we are told the general public might start getting vaccinations from march to april may and june its only has overtaken britain for the worse covert 19 death toll in europe both nations of registered more than 64000. 00 dance its the special commission for the pandemic says all e. U. Countries will begin their Vaccination Program on the same day the british leaders have agreed to extend but said talks without a trade deal will be both a texan tyrus for goods travelling between the u. K. And the e. U. Starting on december 31st. Well hackers of infiltrated computers the u. S. Treasury department and possibly other Government Agencies the u. S. National Security Council says its invest
And very transparent and that the science is there backing this vaccine when you talk to the staff here theyre very excited about it say that they hope they can be an example that they can get this shot and get the follow up shot 3 weeks later and show the Community Show the entire country that its safe what needs to be done to move forward. And the 1st batch of the Pfizer Vaccine has arrived in canada initial 30000 doses will go to Frontline Health care workers and care home staff canada hopes to have a quarter of a 1000000 doses by the end of the year played in regulators are also expected to approve in the den d a vaccine within days. New zealands government has given approval in principle for a socalled travel bubble scheme with a strain that allows people to travel between the 2 countries without having to complete a 14 day mandatory quarantine is trailing government has yet to give its approval to the deal which depends on the cave in 1000 situation remaining under control. The S