How empty highways are encouraging some drivers to speed at 100 miles an hour or more putting their lives and others at risk. Yikes. Plus, well answer your most pressing questions on this pandemic, including when to wear a face mask and whether itts safe to visit your loved ones. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I heard from a number of governors that said they are in very good shape. I think you have some very good things to report over the next few days about states opening up. President trump has laid out a threephase plan for governors to reopen the economy. There are certain fundamental things that weve done that are not like it was. You want to call it the new normal. You can call it whatever you want. President trumps plan has three phases, but some governors say the worst is not over yet. When is it finally over . Its over when you have a vaccine. Democratic president ial candidate joe biden is slamming the president s guidance to reopen the country
Support the Health Care Workers keeping us all safe. With respect to testing, we have been working aggressively to expand capacity in the commonwealth and we are continuing to ramp up our efforts. Massachusetts is one of the largest testers in the country. Testing is going to be a huge part of how we develop strategies to deal with this virus going forward. We are grateful to the public and private labs and Healthcare Partners that have allowed us to dramatically increase our Testing Capacity and output. In addition to the state lab, there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. 76,429 patients have been tested with nearly 4500 new tests reported in the previous 24 hours. We are making a lot of progress, but we know that there is much more to do. This weekend, we visited a new drivethrough testing facility for First Responders at patriot place. As we continue to talk to partners at the local level across the state, we will continue to add more of these in all parts of
Nigerias the Security Forces killed 18 people will and forcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of written job refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Welcome to the program we begin in the u. S. Where a 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched double trucks guidelines are being revealed just hours after unemployment figures a showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since President Trump declared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago 22000000 americans to file for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low well lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett we are expecting to hear from the president kind of any moment now but what do we know already about these white house guidelines. Well th
Coming up with the plan that the president will recommend . I think that what we need to do, we need a nuanced approach. I think in pennsylvania weve got too far. The governor shut down construction, even online car sales. That is too much. We need to make sure were not hurting the economy unnecessarily while were still protecting Public Health. So for example, we should let local counties make the decision, even local muse municipalities where population is most dense, most rural, combat this with nuanced, balanced approach rather than painting with a very broad brush stroke. Elizabeth here is what the president is saying. Governors, you will call your own shots. You can start reopening before may 1st. Well give you county by county basis when it comes to outbreak of covid19 on a county by county basis. He will say the onus is on you, the buck stops with you governors to reopen. Half of u. S. Cities are facing lay offs of their own city workers, that means cops and firemen. No federal
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