£fo ur. Ti u5 iiulei because she is saying or calling the police should be the last resort. Imagine that means if the fight fight breaks out, basically. This is exactly what is going to ask you crew, christopher. This quote from Cressida Dick who basically believes he would be shamed and what left asking that i came in on the cheap today and i have to say about 60 of people in my tube carriage were not Wearing Masks so i wonder if this shaming idea is one that actually rings true. What do you think christopher . When they came on in scotland is the minister in scotland said people should be getting others not Wearing Masks a hard stare and i am not sure if that quite works. You partly tell under mask, can you, thats the thing . I dont use it to my computer that has died and if thatis my computer that has died and if that is going to work. Borisjohnson at the very beginning said he thought there was a cultural problem in this country about wearing a mask and it isnt what we normally do and we are not used it. As we in
thailand it is common in Southeast Asia are not common here and there isa asia are not common here and there is a bit ofa asia are not common here and there is a bit of a kind of why the hell should i grumpiness from some bits i think but i think it is a politeness thing, it is a courtesy thing to your fellow to passenger, and i would like to see 100 on your tube shortly, not 60 . Iwilljust would like to see 100 on your tube shortly, not 60 . I willjust say to you both i normally come from south asia and i am based in delhi where because of the pollution people wear masks anyway so it isnt and you get used strange way. Normally cover south asia. Another survey which has been making headlines. Jessica, just explain a little bit about the story to those who arent quite a classic. Yes, this is extraordinarily yet another kind and escalation in tensions between the us and china. The us basically accused biss of being an espionage
hub and in fact they even give the detail of smoke rising from the building which they claim to be staff burning documents in there, and, you know, china strongly denies thatis and, you know, china strongly denies that is the case, says that there will be recriminations because of the closure of this consular, and it makes you wonder where this is all going to end. We had. The us secretary of state mike pompeo here in the uk yesterday and comments he made about how the who was in thrall to china it really looks like this escalation is not going to go away. Jessica, you mention might pullan pao. Christopher, iwill jessica, you mention might pullan pao. Christopher, i will bring jessica, you mention might pullan pao. Christopher, iwill bring new and now he is quoted in this article saying in his visit to denmark that the Chinese Communist party was a reading everywhere and that chinas ip theft because hundreds of thousands of jobs in ip theft because hundreds of thousands ofjobs in europe and america. You mentioned mike
pompeo. That is tough talk not surprising given he works for the President Trump but what is your ta ke President Trump but what is your take on that . He is touring europe of course and he met with tory mps and gave their head of the who are a familiar target donald trump. He certainly is marching in lockstep with president. The state department has a foggy bottom in america, not somewhere where you have straight talking and is offered somewhere where you feel the nuance and the wave of diplomacy but mike pompeo is doing the will of the president. I was struck towards the end of this article by daniel hoffman, a former cia station chief, talks about how the cia will have worked out what china will do in response and watching that response was quite interesting. I wonder whether we will see in a us consulate in an outlying city in china are also facing the same measures solely . Outlying city in china are also facing the same measures solely7m will just say for you are still wondering why you say the foggy bottom and that is part of washington dc and it is cold foggy bottom where the state department is headquartered in case people are wondering why their lending phase ppped wondering why their lending phase normed up wondering why their lending phase popped up in our paper review. Staying with foggy bottom, though, in the state department they also say in this article that china has engaged for years in massive illegal spying and influence operations. China is talking about some kind of retaliation. What do we think that might be . It could be, as christopher said, just a similar tit for tat measure where you end up with a us consulate closed as well. But, yeah, there are already a huge escalation, clearly, between the us and china, which is spilled over into britain and britains decision to not ahead with while is involvement in the five jeep so they
are still. Still, i know concerns by some uk officials about what the implications could be on american and by association some British Companies operating in china if china does decide to escalator a bit further, so there is clearly some way to go in the relations which are already in the deep freeze. Way to go in the relations which are already in the deep freezelj way to go in the relations which are already in the deep freeze. I think were going to have to leave you for now but we will be back with you at half past 11 looks President Trump is about to speak. That is it for the papers but if you are in the uk we will be back in just over half an hour to look at more of the stories. President trump is speaking right now. Today my administration reached a historic agreement with pfizer to produce and deliver 100 million doses of its vaccine immediately follow its approval. We hope its approval process will go very smoothly and we hope we have an we
also have other companies behind this are doing very well on the vaccines ahead of schedule. This agreement will also ensure that we aid it might receive an additional 500 million doses shortly thereafter. This is another crucial step in our effort to develop, manufacture, and distribute a vaccine in record breaking time, really a very small fraction of the time based on say my previous schedules. I want to thank the fda andi schedules. I want to thank the fda and i want to thank everyone involved because it has been an incredible process. As discussed yesterday, the china virus poses the greatest threat to our Senior Citizens as we all know. The median age for those who die from the viruses 78 years old and nearly half of the deaths have occurred among those living in Nursing Homes are Long Term Care facilities which is really something. In other words, approximately half of the fatalities have occurred among less than 1 of
the us population, so think of that, less tha n the us population, so think of that, less than 1 , half of fatalities. So we know what to look for. From the beginning we have made it our top priority to shelter seniors. In early march we launched guideline suspending all medically unnecessary visits to Nursing Homes and prioritise resources for those facilities, and we gave it a very strong priority. Has sent shipments to many different locations of protective equipment and it is going directly to 15,400 medicaid and medicare certified Nursing Homes throughout the country. Today i would like to provide an update on the additional actions we have been able to take. They have been very constructive. First we are requiring increased testing of the nursing home personnel in states where you had the worst outbreaks. All personnel
will be tasted at the highest level. We are distributing 15,000 rapid point of care diagnostic devices to support this effort. These other tests where it takes five minutes to 15 minutes, they are very accurate, they are very good, and we are sending them all of the country. Over 600 devices will be also shipped this week additional facilities. Second, h h s will be distributing any additional. Billion dollars from the provider relief unto all Nursing Homes and Nursing Homes and higher risk areas will be receiving up more funding. This money can be used to address critical needs including the hiring of additional staff, increasing testing, and providing Technology Supports so residents can connect to theirfamilies supports so residents can connect to their families and they can connect their families and they can connect theirfamilies, they their families and they can connect their families, they are their families and they can connect theirfamilies, they are having a tremendous time, they want to be with their loved ones, they cant do it, so what were doing is were working it so we can connect. Have
been connected with their families if they are not able to visit. Third, we have been identifying especially high risk Nursing Homes and sharing that information with governors so that the governors and their staffs can take appropriate action. We are able to find because of the Testing Programme is another means we are able to find certain areas that are very high risk in the governors can then take action. Additionally, cms, cdc and the Us Public Health service are providing enhanced Technical Assistance and support including visits to the highest risk Nursing Homes and that is their priority right now. Nursing homes with the highest risk Nursing Homes. Cms and cdc are implementing a National Training programme focusing on Infection Control for those Nursing Homes that need it most and we have them surveyed and we have been mostly pinpointed. Over the past few months we have created a Surveillance System to detect
outbreaks in currently 99 of all Nursing Homes are reporting directly to it so we have great debtor. We a nursing home has three or more cases we alert the state and make sure that it responds very quickly, which check on it, make sure they respond very quickly. I want to send a message of hope and support to every Senior Citizen who has been dealing with the struggle of isolation in what should be the golden years of your life. We will get the other end of that tunnel very quickly. We hope the light is starting to shine, we will get there very quickly, but we send our love, we send a message of love, very important, we are with you all the way. As far as the outbreak in the delta dart, i said yesterday we continue to vigorously combat the cases in the south and south west in the west. We are closely monitoring and trying to control the infection in texas,
california, arizona, starting to come down, very good job, they are all doing a very good job, they are very talented people. There are likely a number of causes for the spike of infections. Case is starting to rise among Young Americans start goal shortly after illustrations which you know very well about which presumably triggered a broader relaxation of mitigation efforts nationwide and a substantial increase in travel also was a cause. Encased gathering on holidays such as memorial day as well as young people closely congregating at bars and probably other places, maybe beaches, four or five different listed places, we have 12 that are listed on the guide, likely also contributed. We are also sharing a 2000 mile border with mexico as we know very well, and cases are surging in mexico, u nfortu nately, and cases are surging in mexico, unfortunately, it is with the
president and it is a big problem for mexico, they cases are surging very sharply and all across the rest of the western hemisphere 257 miles of the western hemisphere 257 miles of newly constructed wall along the southern border has had a great positive impact on people coming in and we have record low numbers of people coming illegally, that has helped greatly. It was really meant for different purpose but it worked out very well for what were doing right now and for the pandemic. Nationwide, beyond the outbreak in several states, and cases remain low and very stable. 19 states had positive test rates of less than 5 . Eight states had positive test rate of less tha n eight states had positive test rate of less than 2 . Our nationwide positive test rate is beginning to decline and is currently at 8. 8 compared to over 68 at its peak in april. It is coming down, it is coming down fairly rapidly. Today we
surpassed for the first time 50 million tests, that is far more than any country in the world, india is second, we believe. We think with 1. 4 billion people, it is about 12 million tests. We have 50 million tests. We a re million tests. We have 50 million tests. We are working with every state to ensure the supply of remdesivirfor state to ensure the supply of remdesivir for early case intervention and steroid treatment and various other treatments for those who are seriously ill, we are working very closely with hospitals, doctors, Nursing Homes, everybody. The remdesivir has proven to be terrific. Our case fatality rate continues to decline and we want to push this rate even lower. The Therapeutic Research continues daily and new and very promising treatments including antibody treatments including antibody treatments and the use of blood thinners and steroids, loss of Different Things are happening and a loss of things are coming out that
we wouldnt have known a number of months ago. A lot of things. We are doing tremendously well on Therapeutic Research and tremendously well on the vaccines and frankly, therapeutically or may bea and frankly, therapeutically or may be a word even beyond that word is clear, would be the best of all and we will see what happens but that would be great if we could go into the hospital and just cheer people and we are at a position where we are actually able to a certain extent with what we have right now im living in a very short period of time we will be able to do that. A word beyond that word is cure, going to the hospital are just cure people. Very vigilant, where the mass, socially distance and repeatedly wash your hands, practice very, very good sanity means, you have to do this, you have to just look at it differently, love wash your hands often, i am finding more
and more people are saying wash your hands so, wash your hands. We want Young Americans to avoid packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings and other crowded indoor gatherings and we are all in this together as americans. You are watching bbc news. Do stable others as we bring you President Trumps latest Coronavirus Briefing from the white house. We are working with talented people, very brilliant people and its all going to work out, and it is working out. So it them i will take a few questions, please, yeah, please. Mr president , i want to ask about the surge of federal agents in various cities, the mayor of portland said moments ago that you are doing this to divert attention from your failures on coronavirus, targeting citizens. We havent had that failure. You are only targeting cities that are run by democrats is this a political stunt . The