Welcome to the Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director general ted, mike ryan, executive director and doctor maria, they take the lead for covid19. Doctor will begin with an update, then when he has finished his opening remarks, i will open the meeting to questions. If youre connected by zoom, please use the raise hand icon to get into the queue to ask her questions, if you connect by phone please hit 9 to indicate you want to ask for questions. I will apologize right now to all those who miss out. We have more than 260 people on the line already connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to announce with our speakers who are meeting the response and can get back to the other demands of their time. I will now hand over to doctor. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll, not just on health but on so many parts of life. Yesterd
Announcer next, Governor Phil Murphy gives an update on the coronavirus update with state health officials. Speaking from new wark, this is n hour and a half. Governor murphy thank you. Sorry for being a few minutes late. I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve
I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve been up to. Before i do that, i want to give Sheila Oliver a shoutout who is running the d. C. A. As fast as furiously as ever before, the Lieutenant Governor and i made a decision some number of days ago that we would div
Thank you for being here. As the situation continues to evolve around the covid19 outbreak, we wanted to get you information about changes happening at the department impacting Service Members. I want to start with the latest numbers. Today there have been 30 seven reported cases, 18 military, 13 dependents, three civilian, and three contractors. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide updates each day as we receive them. Friday, deputy secretary norquist released Additional Guidance on travel. Effective today through may 11, all Domestic Travel for military personnel will be halted unless it meets one of a number of waiver criterias including Mission Central travel or humanitarian reasons. This will also restrict dod civilian hiring on dod installations to people within the immediate area of the facility. The secretary continues to state his top priority is to protect Service Members and family and maintain our ability to complete central missions. We are going to
Outbreak, we wanted to get you information about changes happening at the department impacting Service Members. I want to start with the latest numbers. Today there have been 30 seven reported cases, 18 military, 13 dependents, three civilian, and three contractors. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide updates each day as we receive them. Friday, deputy secretary norquist released Additional Guidance on travel. Effective today through may 11, all Domestic Travel for military personnel will be halted unless it meets one of a number of waiver criterias including Mission Central travel or humanitarian reasons. This will also restrict dod civilian hiring on dod installations to people within the immediate area of the facility. The secretary continues to state his top priority is to protect Service Members and family and maintain our ability to complete central missions. We are going to take all those efforts. I want to give a couple additional updates. Hasy, the Depa