francine: david nabarro, thank you for the briefing today. world health organization special envoy for covid-19. coming up, we speak with ed bastian, delta airlines chief executive officer. 6:00 a.m. in new york, 11:00 a.m. in london, and this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: this is "bloomberg surveillance." let's get the bloomberg business flash. several british firms with ties to slavery have apologized and planned to pay reparations. they will make payments to projects supporting black and ethnic minorities, according to the telegraph. royal bank of scotland it will make a similar payment. promising to hire more black workers at senior levels, setting a goal of 30% of at google. less than 4% of google workers are black. shares of wire card are plunging today after allegations about its accounting. it has delayed its 2019 report again, after finding indications of serious balance applications. that is the bloomberg business flash. tom: thanks so much. "bloomberg surveillance" from london and new york. we are going to take a break here and come back

dr david nabarro is the world health organisation's special envoy on covid—19.re causing you most concern at the moment? greetings to you and everybody who is watching. this virus is still very active, spreading rapidly all over the world but particularly in south america and central america, in the indian subcontinent, indonesia and also parts of africa. it's a big challenge, as we heard in your report, in the united states. in western europe, there has been amazing progress with reducing the spread and getting countries down to really low levels of covid. but as movement restarts and lockdowns come to an end, it's inevitable that there are going to be resurgence is. this was pointed out over the last two days by the head of the who in europe. what i would like to suggest to everybody is, remember, this is a dangerous virus. it is still very much around, as chris whitty, the chief medical officer, has said. and it's up to us to prevent resurgence is from becoming major outbreaks and leading to overwhelmed health services. what are you seeing in terms of the app