In libyas capital after the warlord warned turkey about its role in the conflict. And the high price on the president did this attract bounty hunters not failed coup attempt against venezuelas Nicolas Maduro. Russia is rapidly becoming the new hot spots of the worlds Coronavirus Crisis it now has the 5th most infections of any country and the mayor of its capital of moscows warning the figure was a far worse in that city alone shot at bullets reports. Russian police and Fire Fighters patrolling the streets with instructions observe the quarantine take care of yourself and stay home as countries around the world start to open up much of russia is closing down. Case numbers have escalated to put it in the top 5 of the world with more than 177000 cases but most goes mia fears and maybe even worse there is the year for according to straining studies the entire number of infections in moscow ranges from 252300000 thats 3 times the official figure theyre pretty modest budget at the table and
Gov. Parson good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. As of noon today, there have positive cases of covid19, including 318 deaths. Over 70,000 missourians have been tested at this time. Want approach may 4, i missourians to feel confident that we are in a good place and ready to move forward. The four essential pillars of our show me strong Recovery Plan are a big part of this. We have met each of these pillars and have full confidence that missouri is prepared and ready to safely reopen. One of the four pillars is Hospital Capacity. I want to repeat what i said yesterday, our hospitals are not overwhelmed. With the exception of the st. Louis region, every region across the state has shown a significant decrease in covid19 hospitalization. Ourill continue to monitor Hospital Capacity as we move forward, but missouri has an Excellent Health care system, the hospitalsou are prepared. Another pillar of our Recovery Plan is testing capacity. Between the state health lab and ande
[inaudible conversations] we are going to get started. Thank you. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone for joining us this morning and i want to especially thank my colleagues for joining us today for the House Committee on business hearing the response to covid19. We have had a hard stop act once again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, april 30. This important hearing i want to mention the chairwoman has been in our thoughts and prayers we wish you nothing but the best as you recover. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a Critical Role within the american economy. Not only do they employ half of the nations workers but created two out of every three new jobs in the nation. You only need to take the poll from main street america. It is demonstrated Small Businesses and employees and the Response Congress created with a Payc
Expects it could be 25 , maybe even up to 30 unemployment here in california. So obviously your task here is massive. So many people to help. But i want to start with this, which is you do have jobs. Youre hiring right now, right . Absolutely. The way that were fundsed for the Unemployment Insurance program is funding is low when unemployment is low, like it was at a record low just a couple of months ago in february. And then suddenly we had this massive surge, this avalanche. So now were getting some additional federal funding for the administration of our program and with that we can do a massive hiring effort. Were kind of getting the assistance from the state department of human relations and hr and so hopefully well be able to do a lot of big hiring very quickly. All right. And you know labor secretary julie sue said the department was really ramping up the ability to help people. Topping that list is the need for the call center to be responsive. We are still getting comments fr
That the hospitals are prepared. Pillar of our Recovery Plan is testing capacity. Capacity. Between the state health lab and andeast 15 private labs participating health care institutions, approximately 50,000 tests could be performed each week. 125e are now more than Sample Collection sites located throughout the state, and mobile outreach is now available to reach people who may not be able to get to a testing site. Dhs has expanded its testing criteria so more people can be tested, and rapid pointofcare testing devices have been deployed throughout the Sample Collection sites located throughout the state. Also shifted to an aggressive box in approach with testing. This strategy will allow positive patients to be identified and isolated as soon as possible to prevent the virus from spreading further in the community. In addition, we are now utilizing community sampling to specific counties. T last week, the department of Economic Development partnered launched thend google marketplac