Complexion of the approach that were going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, we had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, theres a few things that we can do with that. One of the things is when we make policy about what were going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly the areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what the pentraits of infection is there. We need to put a light on the dark spots we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data, and were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hot spots, that are not still h a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation, and you do the contact tracing. When you have a big outbreak, its tough to do anything but mitigation. We have
I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach well be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what well do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. We have to act policyize on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation and you do
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org President Trump thank you very much. Been a very busy day. I want to thank the American People for the incredible sacrifices that they are making on behalf of our nation and i want to encourage everyone to keep following our guidelines on cial distancing, avoid large gatherings and hand washing that Everybody Knows they are supposed to be doing. The goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we end the end of our historic battle with the in visible enemy. But we will win. I hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality. We will be meeting with a lot of people to see if it can be done. Easter is a very special day for many reasons and for me, a lot of our friends. Thats a very special day. And what a great time line this would be. Easter is our
India 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 that was a was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns of the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians a bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Center the government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lock down for the number of dead has
Mr. President. I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach well be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what well do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. We have to act policyize on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulat