Sirens wailing and flags at half staff china honors its victims including Health Care Workers. Also air Water Pollution may have been improving but another environmental problem is piling up medical waste. Another 708 people have died from coven 1000 in the United Kingdom its biggest daily its in a 3 week lockdown right now to try to slow these infections down which are now above 42000 but warmer weather this weekend could tempt people to be outdoors there is potentially better news from europes the worst affected country that is italy its seen its 1st drop in patients receiving intensive care elsewhere the u. N. Is warning the pandemic could put another 8000000 people into. Extreme poverty all across latin america. He would tell us about that from colombia we will also have mike hanna and washington d. C. With details of the latest numbers from new york are just cochairman tony is in milan italy will go to him and now mary joins us live from london so lets start with merriam samarium
Quickly as possible to help Small Businesses meet payroll and operating obligations for a time roughly equivalent to six weeks. Use bankers in the Banking Industry in general, those who are approved do that and anyactivity now, other Financial Institutions through the treasury department, to participate, that basically allows Small Businesses to go get money in the amount equivalent to what payroll and operating costs are for a time of roughly six weeks. Final details are being worked out. The goal is to keep the employee connected to employees the added toe not just that component is Small Businesses. Depending on the industry they are in, its hard to find them higher, another couple of weeks or more, that most Small Businesses cannot afford. We feel good about the progress we made. Proposal in time that can gave game wide approval. Thank you very much. I have been working with colleagues and the secretary of the treasury to devise a plan that would help Small Businesses to ride a cri
Overall theres 860 in the bay area and 14 deaths. We want to update cases in lake and mendocino with one positive case and none in lake county. Both counties have dozens of tests waiting results of the tests. The bay area first mobile covid19 test site opened this morning in hayward. At first cars stretched for blocks, about a hundred when the process first began. And Laura Anthony is there live. Most people were turned away there today, right . Kelenna well,. Well, thats right, dan, this is unlike anything weve seen before,sa i nonstop operation. It will are just two cars there. Things have slowed considerably in the last hour or so. Health care workers in health gear and masks geting peopl tak right turn and go home. This is not a scene from a movie. Its Something Real and unsettling. People lining up in cars and on the sidewalks, some wearing masks, in one hayward neighborhood, hoping to get tested for covid19. Hes 14, hes had a fever since friday night about 104, its been 101 today
Exercising were ordered home. In front schools bars and restaurants are closed gatherings of more than 100 people are banned and people are being urged to work from home public transport is still running but more measures are on their way as of them at this stage in urban areas we will maintain public transport to allow french people to commute for strictly necessary purposes and regarding Long Distance travel by train between major cities by bus or by plane this will be gradually reduced. In the u. K. The governments been accused of not acting quickly enough to contain the spread as people stocked up over the weekend almost emptying supermarkets in some areas hundreds of scientists queried the governments strategy the Health Minister now says water time style measures are coming hes asking british manufacturers to make more ventilators soon everyone over the age of 70 will be asked to self isolate for up to 4 months and this week should see new measures including a ban on large gather
I am not saying capacity is the last word in competition but its an important one. This is a question i want to address to both gentlemen. Whats happening . Where are we going . What will you do . How concerned should we be . First of all, thank you for hosting us here today. We have been frequent flyers the two of us in the past, and i appreciate the very sort of serious thoughtful approach that the institute takes to ssues like this. Which maybe arent on the forefront which are important for our country. Mr. Courtney we served together on the committee during our entire time in congress over the last 14 years and again its not sort of bipartisanship thats sort of papering over some disagreements underneath. Really have worked together in just so many ways. Thank you for the invitation to be here today. He comments i think actually snapshot in the immediate present, the fact of the matter is to answer your question should we be concerned, the fleet ing behind the size and whats happen