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Let's move on to the Corona 19 news. In the United States, 17 million people have lost their jobs in the last three weeks. Even the International Monetary Fund's IMF warned of the worst since the Great Depression, and the central bank of the United States declared an emergency intervention worth KRW 2800 trillion.

I am Correspondent Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung of Washington.

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The U.S. Department of Labor announced last week that there were 66.1 million new claims for unemployment benefits.

With a total of more than 6 million in two consecutive weeks, 17 million people became unemployed within three weeks of the Corona 19 incident.

The International Monetary Fund's IMF predicted that the world economy would have the worst economic performance since the Great Depression in the 1930s and predicted negative growth in the world economy.

The Fed of the Central Bank of the United States decided to inject liquidity of 2,300 trillion dollars and 2,800 trillion won of Korean money.

The scope of support has been expanded dramatically, and some speculative-grade corporate bonds and commercial mortgage securities have been purchased.

[Jerome Powell / Fed Chairman of the United States: The Fed will continue to use these powers powerfully, aggressively, and rudely until it is confident that the US economy is on its way to recovery.]

President Powell predicted that as the spread of Corona19 calmed, the US economy could rebound strongly.

The New York stock market ended higher as the Fed expressed its willingness to intervene.

In New York, the center of the US Corona 19 spread, it was the worst day, with nearly 800 people dying in a day, but the rate of new inpatients and critically ill is showing some sedation.


[Kuomo / New York Governor: We are making the Corona 19 curve flat. You have to keep trying. In the meantime, we paid a lot. Countless people died and suffered tremendously.]

In the United States, more than 450,000 people were infected with Corona19 and 16,000 were dead.