Voluntary and confidential. And colluding daily texts including daily texts and phone calls checking in throughout the 14 day monitoring period. They can selfreport symptoms on text, alerting Public Health officials that testing may be ride. Over 50 people have been trained to do this outreach including librarians, city staffers and ucfs medical staffers. Well hear about this program coming up in a News Conference that starts at 1 00 p. M. Back to you. Looking live to wall street where stocks are taking a dive. The dow is down a little bit more than 300 points. It dropped 530 points or 2 . Shthe pacts of ng a new coronavirus sales. The government reports retail dropped 8. 7 march. Auto sales fell 25 . And sales of clothing and accessory stores plunged 50 . One area did see a surge. Grocery store sales were up 27 . Now back to top story. Governor good afternoon, newsom giving an update. I want to just extend, again, our deep condolences to those family members, loved ones of those lives
Chance to do it right. I am sorry about that. Comments come the day after President Trump said he worked he is usually on time. As soon as we get him in front with governors on a plan to return things to normal nationwide by the end of the of the microphones. Month and perhaps even sooner. Let me throw some numbers out and out to new york here. Stock just went back after more here. More than 25,000 cases of signs piled up of the economic corona virus. At least 779 people have died. Damage caused by the corona virus outbreak. And fear and budding optimism in recent weeks. Specifically right here in the trying to guess how long and bay area, this are more than 5300 cases. Deep the recession will be. Flipping overnight and within 147 people have died. The same day. Take a peak at where the dow yesterday, the governor did jones stands. We are down by one and more announce that more still needs to be done before sheller in than three. Requesters of a percent. Place orders can be lifted. Alm
Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It
Joining us momentarily and to open the show we have to get news that developed moments ago and that is the president invoking the defense production act to encourage or force some American Companies to make ventilators. Lets get more on that breaking news right now with Kayla Tausche in washington, d. C kayla . Brian, President Trump has done this just a handful of times during the coronavirus crisis, but this afternoon he issued an order that targets six medical Device Companies to procure the elements and materials they need to expedite the production of ventilators and personal protective equipment. The companies include general electric, hillrom, medtronic, resmed, philips and vy aire so they can make things like ventilators and the personal propektipr protective equipment for medical providers more quickly we know it is in short suspect blew in hardhit states as they grapple with growing numbers of sick patients. The white house so far has refrained from using the dpa as a blunt i
A russia safety pact and were on the streets of one aside for the government is bracing for an expected we told coronavirus cases. On the number of corona virus infections worldwide its past 1000000 thats according to researchers at Johns Hopkins university in the United States weve been tracking the numbers for weeks earlier on thursday the University Also confirms that the global death toll now exceeds 50000 well the 1st 500000 cases were reported over 76 days that number to just 8 days to double in the u. S. The economic devastation caused by the a break is also becoming clear a record 6600000 people have no point. More Unemployment Benefits thats 3000000 more than last week and its a similar story in spain stripped quarantine measures there have led to more than 800000 jobs being cuts in march 3 point 5000000 people are know without work lets get more now from the she had returned he joins us from washington d c schippers focusing on the the figures coming out of the states there a