American Enterprise Institute about his States Coronavirus response and the federal response to the pandemic. This is about half an hour. Thank you for joining us today. Were here with governor larry hogan of maryland to talk about the challenges we face as a country, grappling with the covid pandemic and some of the things that pamaryland has doneo deal with their epidemic of covid spread. This is really an unprecedented time of Global Pandemic. The Intelligence Community had long warned us about the risks of a pandemic and put it on par with risks of weapons of mass destruction and counterterrorism and cyber attack. As much as we thought we were prepared for this as a nation, we found going through this episode that we really didnt have all the preparations that we thought we had. And weve been unable to find, as a nation, a medium between allowing this virus to spread in a way thats causing a lot of death and suffering and strict lockdown, something thats acceptable to enough people
Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes
A load transmission of the virus while holding the line on hard hit areas at least thats the way its being conceptualized the white house calls it a guideline to be used by governors as they make the decisions about when and how to open the communities in their states governors call the shots thats a direct quote those words came out of the president s mouth as he shared his 3 phase plan to deal with corona virus while trying to restart what has turned into just a dismal economy phase one it will go into effect in communities that have shown improvement for 2 consecutive weeks it will allow people to gather in groups of 10 allow some businesses to reopen and will allow limited but more travel nonetheless limited but more trouble than we have now face to social distancing continues under this phase with gatherings of no more than 50 people 1050. Right more businesses are going to be added to the list and travel can resume thats face to face 3 invasions kind of a return to normalcy right
Either welcome thanks for joining us here on our to international here with your global news. And we will start now with the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic the number of confirmed cases has passed 2200000 more than 154000 people with the virus have lost their lives most of those fatalities are in europe and the u. S. So far 575000 patients have recovered from the disease. The coronavirus outbreak in germany appears to be under control after a month long lockdown thats according to the countrys Health Minister germany has a far lower death rate than other major European Countries and restrictions on movement are being partially lifted and some shops reopening as early as next week a government spokesman has cautioned. There are no guarantees that the infection curve will keep flattening out there are also risks when we take these small careful steps into opening up we must keep an eye on the infection curve and what it means for our Health System and our hospitals. As in many
Great to have you with us here with your global news updates this is art. We will start with the latest figures on the coded 19 pandemic the number of confirmed cases now globally has passed 2200000 more than 154000 people with the virus have lost their lives most of those fatalities came from europe and the u. S. So far 575000 patients have recovered from the disease. The current Virus Outbreak in germany appears to be under control after a month long lockdown thats according to the countrys Health Minister germany has a far lower death rate than other major European Countries and restrictions on movement being partially lifted and some shops were opening as early as next week however a government spokesman has a caution. There are no guarantees that the infection curve will keep flattening out there are also risks and when we take these small careful steps into opening up we must keep an eye on the infection curve and what it means for our Health System and our hospitals. As in many