Hello everyone and welcome to Amampur from London. Here's what's coming up.

As the battle against coronavirus ramps up around the world, Former US Surgeon General Boris Lushniab

warns mistakes now could have dire consequences later. And with the global economy

hit hard by this pandemic, there are companies filling the void, doing well

while doing good.

I speak with Amazon Senior Vice President Jay Carney.

Think about ways you can help with medical supplies, contact your cities, make partnerships, give your capabilities to your local officials.

One college president adopts an all-school mobilization for this fight,

are Walter Isakson with Tufts University President Anthony Monaco. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. The World Health

Organization is now warning that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating and

that the United States could be the next epicenter

with New York in the eye of this storm. There are nearly 400,000 cases globally

now and almost 20,000 deaths.

As Congress wrestles with a massive emergency bill,

President Trump is hinting that he may soon order businesses to reopen

despite dire warnings from his public health team.

Here in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now announced the strictest lockdown

since World War II, including banning public gatherings of more than two people and

closing all shops that sell non-essential goods.

And now India, a country of 1.3 billion people is also on total lockdown for a minimum of 21 days.

That is a third of the world's population on some kind of lockdown.

In Japan, Prime Minister Shinso Aabe, together with the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, has finally agreed to postpone the Summer Games until 2021. I proposed Mr. Beck to post upon the event for about a year.

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