than it seems a little bit brighter than it did two evenings ago. I think into the Prime Minister gets back into action its possible to see the using above restrictions and simply because it says april or may does not mean we could be in full lockdown mode, surely it will be rolling back from this restriction slowly but surely. In some countries spain and italy have far stricter restrictions of their people and the weather is quite nice there as well. Yes thats true. The uk has taken a relatively liberal approach, and some people have been condemning the government for it but personally and quite grateful we still are allowed out of her home for having to prove to place where we are going or what we are doing on any given day. It might bea we are doing on any given day. It might be a bit greener on the other side a lot of pushback against select officers last week with drones and trying to get easter eggs out of shops but the police were overstepping a get. Make it illegal
for people to leave their homes and there will be these results because of that. About suicide rates going up of that. About suicide rates going up and finding out you cant go to yourgp up and finding out you cant go to your gp overnight or finding up and finding out you cant go to your gp overnight orfinding a house of the more serious, just knock on effect all of it and he cant really change that until its all over. L stark reminder perhaps of where we are being told to stay at home, why staying at home saves lives, this very sad article about the number of Young Americans who have been killed by coronavirus and by younger i mean story talks about a man who was 39, a father of one, commit 39 year old with no underlying conditions who sadly passed away. Eight stark reminder as if we need with that so many people can be affected by this. Its a heart rending story, it talks about the fact that he had no underlying conditions and as you say
he was 39, he was a discjockey, he was fit and healthy and an interesting statistic that the Washington Post uncovered, it says over 759 of the deaths in the United States for people under 50. The assumption has always been in the figures tend to bear it out that the older you are the more susceptible you are, but that absolutely does not mean that younger people for people of all ages and all countries have died. One interesting phenomenon appears to be the preponderance that maleness over femaleness, but barely at the very beginning of unraveling this. Stay there for now. Dont go anywhere, we are going to take your life to washington where President Trump is holding his daily briefing. And on sunday we celebrate our beautiful, wonderful easter which we all look forward to. Youre going to have many easter together in churches in the future and we are getting closer you see the numbers, getting closer you see the numbers, getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was. We iiow country back to the way it was. We now have an extra two countries that have been attacked, 184. They are being attacked as we speak, but we will all win. Some point we will all win we will do it sooner than people think, earlier today i spoke with 10,000 of americas faith leaders to thank them for raising the spirits of our people during these very difficult days while we may be physically apart, we can use this time to pray, to reflect and focus on our personal relationship with god. I also spoke with more than
3000 mayors, county commissioners and state and tribal leaders to provide an update on our administrations ongoing drive to beat the virus into crust the virus and its happening, its happening and its happening, its happening andl and its happening, its happening and i think if you look a little bit more quickly than people thought, theyd be a lot more quickly i hope, and is something all over the world we are watching but people are watching us and seeing what we are doing and theyre very impressed. Dealing with many countries right iiow dealing with many countries right now and we are giving them whatever information we are able to glean. I just spoke with the uk, and i think that they are great Prime Minister is doing much better today, or at least better but certainly had a tough bout and hes still going through a tough time, but he seems to be doing better. And thats good
and we send our regards to boris and his family and his friends, all of the people that really love him, hes become very popular, for the seven female very popular Prime Minister, doing an excellentjob and loves their country and loved our country. So we appreciate everything hes done and hopefully hes going to be ok. Speaking of great people and people that have done a fantasticjob, as and people that have done a fantastic job, as secretary and people that have done a fantasticjob, as secretary of state mike pompeo with us and i would like to ask mike to say a few words and thenl to ask mike to say a few words and then i think what we will do in order to get him back to the state department we will take some questions and then we will then go on with the rest of what im going to say that we will take some questions after that and Vice President pentz will take over, so mike pompeo is here. Thank you, mr president. Under the president public leadership my team at the state department are doing our part to take the American People from the virus and importantly to get them home. But many countries shut down
their rail lines and buses and Infrastructure Systems the capacity to get out of this country as they we re to get out of this country as they were trapped in strinic of the state permits organ to action its january 29 we have not repatriated over 50,000 United States citizens back to their homes, for more than 90 countries more than 495 spec United States from all across the world, this worldwide scale of our repatriation efforts is without parallel in our lifetime. We are co ordinate with foreign governments, militaries, airport authorities, medical units, transmission companies, hotels, you name it working with them to make sure the American People get back to be with their families see behind me the map of the flights we have brought back people from all across the world come every day i get a chance to get the remarkable stories from our team, let me give you just a couple of examples. Our mission in peru working with the peruvian military and Police Forces to send riverboats up the river to get citizens that were stranded deep
inside the amazon forest. Our mission in nepal make sure a woman who was running low on medication could get what she needed at a pharmacy before boarding an evacuation flight that brought her back here. In honduras after the government imposed for stretch 24 7 curfew and closed airports our Embassy Spring into action for stranded americans, thousands of them, they tore up one of our counsellor officers thank you for helping me get back home to my dad. Pretty neat. Receive similar messages from lots of people come up proud to know that the country will not leave them stranded and get them back home. One woman wrote quote, i was in tears when i receive the e mail proving our flight back United States, god bless the United States of america. And another set i felt like i had allies there, there she treated me like a person or a family member, not just she treated me like a person or a family member, notjust a number. The Repatriation Task force and because the officers have done great work and i want to think our partners in the department of
defence who have helped with some of these flights back home and other government agencies, or sisters or brothers across the United States government in this ministration that have helped get these people back, and lastly aside from our repatriation efforts we continue to help countries around the world as well and we have the cdc officials helping his countries with expertise in all of the things that these countries need to get their citizens safe and and back so that they can get the economy all across the world, the Global Economy back on its feet when this crisis is over. Thank you, mr president. Can you say a little while and see if anyone has the questions for the secretary of state. Anybody, please. Mr secretary, an amazing effort you have made, do you know when you are done . A measure there americans of all corners of the world and someones going to pop up and say i wa nt to someones going to pop up and say i want to go home now, what you get that call . We shall have several thousand people that were working and they identify themselves every day, new people find themselves difficult places. We will be done
when people can travel on their own again. These people travelled apart to the neck abroad on vacation tour with church we are public if they pick on their own recovery that they can see where they dont have to rely on the state permit to get them back home and buy in the meantime were devoting all the resources we have to get them, often a difficult places, not in the capital near the airport the roads are closed and not just a matter of getting a flight down there, theres a lot of work to be done to co ordinate and make it all happen get those people available so theyre sitting there with the flatlands and get on the plane and get them back home, so these several thousand working on it and chipping away at that number every day. New citizens go to the Department Website and say they need help in some way we do our best to get that to them as quickly we can. We will keep it up as long as we have resources to do it and there is need to. How many of the staffers have tested positive for coronavirus and have been tested or doing going into quarantine, and what does this
do to the phonetic efforts overseas if you pulling 50,000 people from National Capitals of the world . The vast majority are not officers, they we re vast majority are not officers, they were ordinary citizens therefore travelling for business or commercial or a trip of a lifetime, some people on cruise ships but there stranded all over the world, so are there stranded all over the world, so are embassies save for the one in wuhan which we put everyone out of, but the rest of our facilities around the world are all open and that a handful of folks test positive for we feel like we have a good handle on it and we are doing everything we can to make sure that not just the state a everything we can to make sure that notjust the state a permit officials but department of defence collea g u es officials but department of defence colleagues working on these missions as well were doing so in a way that reduces risk to them and their well being also. Reduces risk to them and their wellbeing also. Do you think that china withheld critical information from the United States will there be any consequence from that . This is not the time for retribution. But it is still the time for clarity. And
transparency. We are still working on this problem and are still data thatis on this problem and are still data that is good people need so that they can perform their analysis of how to develop therapeutics in the vaccine and to understand where this virus is. So every country, china included every country needs to be transparent about what has gone on in their country we need to share that data and we share hours with the world so that the best scientists in the world can get to the right conclusions to bring this economy back to the a place we all wanted to be to be as quickly as we can. Every country has that responsibility, it started in china they had a special responsibility, get it quickly and fast and as every country, we move forward make sure we show that, do it right and well and get this thing back up. Should they have shared that data sooner with the United States . Every country has an obligation to share it as quickly as they can gather it. Will he for another time to evaluate how everyone did in that. Thank you,
President Trump, and secretary i have a question of the World Health Organisation of the fund raising drive for 700 million for coronavirus resources, china has only donated 20 million United States has donated less, so you feel that china should be giving more to this World Health Organisation effort and can you comment on the us donation . At this point we are reevaluating our funding with respect to the World Health Organisation, this is very consistent with what President Trump said since the beginning of his campaign, organisations have to work would have to deliver the outcomes from which they were intended. We need to make sure that not only the World Health Organisation but every International Organisation that would take taxpayer money and give it to them for the benefit of america and we need to make sure its delivering on those taxpayer dollars, the World Health Organisation is no different in that respect, they have to execute on the mission they were designed to achieve we have seen with respect,
here we are. It has not accomplished what was intended to deliver. You said a handful of staffers have tested positive, are they going to get the treatment, is likely to be made available to available to personnel overseas we know we will deliver the best medical care we can. A lot of them are places theres not a lot of medical help. We are doing our best to move the assisted forward in the field. Can you give us an update on the numbers you give us an update on the numbers you are saying about the coronavirus cases you are seeing and with do not have the United States. With respect to iran we have offered since the first day the virus truck we have offered humanitarian assistance they chose not to take that. Ive heard people talking
about sanctions, theres no sanctions that prevent humanitarian assistance, medical supplies, Pharmaceuticals Going to iran we are for the american sister to try to help other countries get assistance there as well. Some ability to do that, i dont have any better data than what you have seen publicly and ican share than what you have seen publicly and i can share with respect to the extent of the virus in iran. Are you allowing experts of medical supplies at this time, or what is the status of that was yellow making sure we have what we need for the American People whether thats gloves, eye with the Vice President talked the numbers on that but at this point we are doing in terms the assistance is providing most of these countries need to learn how to do surveillance themselves to conduct tests themselves to conduct tests themselves come to learn the things that can reduce the peak in their countries, theres the kind of thing so we should be doing this, United States it is incredibly generous, cdc officials like no other country in the world out helping these nations but other health care global
epidemic health care for structure. Its people like you sitting to my right working on this other life and around the world is countries in a place with this and are prepared for a virus like this one. Have any us diplomats or us officials contracted the virus is theyve got to rescue us citizens abroad . Not that im aware of it. Not that im aware of it. When we sent our team to get officials about 800 nongovernment citizens living in wuhan, we sent one of our first repatriation flights in there, we we re very repatriation flights in there, we were very careful stop we send trained professionals in. But they we re trained professionals in. But they were going into a very difficult, very fraught place. I am not aware of any of our officials that have had the virus attacked them while they were performing their functions, try to get people back. We have a number of state Department Officials who have covid 19 now and are working their way through. We
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