Welcome to the Real Vision Daily Briefing. It's Friday, April 24th.

We've got Real Vision's Ash Bennington standing by with Tony Greer of T.G.

Macro, and they're ready to give their macro analysis. But before we go to them, let's go over the biggest stories in markets as well as on the coronavirus pandemic.

Starting off with some coronavirus data, the U.S US confirmed death count has surpassed the 50,000

threshold out of close to 900,000 confirmed cases that we've now had.

That's certainly a grim milestone.

This comes at a time when President Trump has signed off on the most recent

relief package and states like Georgia are beginning to reopen businesses today.

While in South America, the total confirmed case count has reached 100,000, the majority of which are in Brazil, Peru,

as well as in Ecuador, where the official death count exceeds 500.

But it's likely that the true number of deaths from COVID in Ecuador is actually much, much higher.

According to the BBC, from the beginning of March till mid-April, just one province alone,

Gwyas reported almost 15,000 deaths,

and that's a death rate seven times higher than normal.

The lack of testing and medical supplies

has imposed an incredible burden on Ecuador,

which might be one of the hardest hit countries

in Latin America when it comes to the coronavirus.

Going back to the states now, where jobless claims continue

to pile up yesterday the cumulative tally coming in at 26 million. Some of these jobs as we know are in the service

sector but employees who work at startups are feeling the burden of the shutdown as well.

According to layoffs. FYI, a database that tracks job losses,

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