Some to be spreading the coronavirus but many cant afford to go home. And germany pledges hundreds of millions of euros in humanitarian aid to help developing countries fight the coronavirus the German Foreign minister says International Solidarity is vital to defeating the pandemic. Spicer welcome to the program the sound of children playing has returned to the streets of spain theyve emerged from 6 weeks of home isolation after the government allowed them to go outside again spain impose Strict Lockdown rules in march to stop the spread of the coronavirus if the nation continues to reduce infection rate authorities have promised to give citizens more freedom in the coming weeks. A snapshot of an unforgettable moment spains children emerged from their homes on sunday for the 1st time after 6 weeks stuck inside children under the age of 14 and now allowed outside each day for up to one hour accompanied by an adult and within one kilometer of their homes critics of the spanish governmen
A serious but manageable wave of infections in california is a prediction we brought you last month. And i do think that we will be able to limit the spread. I just dont know where it will stop. Reporter four week pass and couple of steepiest social distances guidelines again, dr. Bonnie maldonado told us disaster was preventable. And we really did think if you kept people apart and did it properly, that would prevent this from spreading. Reporter if you started thinking about the other side of the curve and what an exit strategy might look like for california, now that we know what sort of time frame we seem to be working on . Absolutely. I mean, i think we kind of have that in the back of our minds from the beginning, but we just wanted to see if this would work, and we always thought, well, then how do you peel it back . What if we do that and then the virus reintroduced from somewhere else. Reporter so while we may have accomplished our first goal, we are still a a ways off from wh
We go inside ucsfs emergency room. The mayor of los angeles is about to start ordering people to wear masks or Face Coverings when they visit essential businesses. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. It will go into effect friday at midnight. Residents in los angeles must wear a mask, a bandanna, or some other type of Face Covering when they go to grocery esgas stations, hotels, and any other businesses that are still operational. The order also includes the workers at those locations. Also, in just the past few minutes, we learned about a new deal that Governor Newsom just made to get hundreds of millions more masks for california and potentially other states. In the last 48 hours, we have secured, through a con are so somewhat of nonprofits and a manufacturer here in the state of california upwards of 200 Million Masks on a monthly basis that were confident we can supply the needs of the state of california and poe at any timetially the needs of other western states.
Went to do so we have with us, we have the president of Empire College who i worked with for many years, very helpful on this mission. Commissioner of Health Doctor Howard Zucker my but, general Patrick Murphy who knows more, and to his left is general agreement shield. Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing accomplishment, transformative, the Javits Center looks entirely different. This is a place that is literally going to save lives. Let me go through some facts, where we are, and make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and do such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We see the trajectory going up. A plan of action all along, when one flattened the curve, we increase capacity. Flattening the curve meaning if you do it as well as you can do it hopefully there is no high point of the curve, no apex. It is a flatter lower curve. So the Hospital Capacity to keep up with, that is what this is about, not overwhelmi
Closed until may 4. Gov. Hogan thank you all for abbott thank you all for joining with us here today. Let me start out by expressing my gratitude to all of our fellow texans for your tremendous efforts that you made over the past few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. By staying at home, by reducing personal interactions. You are saving lives and you are improving the health of people across our entire state. Let me give you some updated information and then go into more deto determine whether or not someone has covid19. As of noon today, 42,923 texans have been tested for covid19. Of those tested, 3266 have confirmed positive for covid19. Now, there are 122 counties in the state of texas that have at least one reported case of covid19. Very importantly, if you look at the number of people who are hospitalize, we still have only 2. 4 of the hospital beds available in the state of texas for covid19 patients are occupied. Meaning that 97. 6 of those available beds still remain