Baton rouge where louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards holds a briefing on the states response to the coronavirus operate. Outbreak. 95 of thes positive results that we announced today are from t ests conducted in commercial labs. The increase of cases appears to be less a sign of exponential growth over the last couple of days and more a sign of a logjam for commercial labs that have developed over a long period of time. Many of these tests were taken several days, if not longer ago. That theery good thing louisiana has been able to rapidly wrap up testing. Day,ct, depending on the we are somewhere between the third in the nation or fifth in the nation in terms of per capita testing. That said, the reason we have been able to wrap up is weve got more and more commercial labs that have come online. But, our different data systems have to be able to talk to one another and that is a part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is with private testing, those labs have greatly exceede
Something after i go through and we will take questions. These are individuals who are rankers on a lot of different committees. Even though we are not in washington right now, i want to let you know that we continue to work through. There is a lot of work happening with our response to this virus, and i want to walk you back through, remind everybody of the three major bills that we have passed to help defeat this virus. First we passed the 8. 3 billion formergency funding, testing, treatment, and telehealth. Telehealth is very important as we go through to combat this. Second, we passed the Families First Coronavirus Response act, which included extending sick and family leave. It included free coronavirus testing, and last week, even though the democrats had held that bill up, unfortunately, i know a number of people probably had been laid off simply because that was held up too late, how fast we could move, we passed the largest relief package in american history, 2. 2 trillion. Sm
Coronavirus outbreak. The governor talked about his recent decision to extend the stay at home order through april willd said that illinois be reevaluating medical facemask policy. Good afternoon. Cap greet happy april 1. I hope you will play at least one prank on somebody, radical joe today, and find something to laugh about. Note, today is National Census day. You might ask why we need to proceed with a census right now, dont we have bigger things to with our battle against covid19, and my answer is yes, were in the biggest battle of our lifetimes against covid19. It is important to look young and to take the moment to think about our future. It is incredibly important to be sure that every illinois newborn babies to greatgrandparents, is counted in the census. Justenses is far more than a survey. It will determine how much of your tax dollars we get back and the federal government, it will help decide how it had for the next decade. Based upon our 2010 census count, illinois today c
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Murphy followed by californias gavin newsom. Following that andrew cuomo of new york and John Bel Edwards of louisiana. Gov. Murphy now as we have done for the past week or so, lets go right to the numbers. Over the past when he four hours, we are reporting an additional 4372 positive cases. That is 4372. That brings the statewide total to 29,895, in total. 29,895. And sadly and with the heaviest of hearts, we have lost another 113 of our fellow new jerseyans to covid19 related couple occasions. To day, we have lost 436 members of our extraordinary, broad, loving, precious and diverse family. A couple of comments in particular and as usual, judy will give you more color on both the positive tests as well as the fatalities. But as it relates to the blessed iuls lost, if you add 113, believe to yesterdays total, you wont get 646. That is because as we discussed, in some cases, cause of death is still being adjudicated. Also want to raise again what we mentioned yesterday. This does not m