Republicans support the package the senate is going to stand together act together and pass this short relief package good i like all compromises this bill is far from perfect but we believe the legislation has improved sufficiently to warrant its quick consideration and passage. The treasury secretary was at the center of the negotiations that led to the bills passage how do we make sure that American Workers who needed to keep getting paid this is no fault of their own that businesses have been shut down the president and Vice President want to make sure those hardworking americans got money and this was the most efficient way of doing it President Trump says hell sign the bill a soon as possible expressing the hope that it will speed up a return to normality and an easing of the shutdown and really claiming that some opponents are using the crisis to homme his election chances late to the c. M. I think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly i think there
Early today starts right now good morning on this wednesday. Im cori coffin. And im frances rivera. An epidemic with no end in sight. The coronavirus reaches a grim milestone as the american death toll hits the triple digits. Heres what you need to know at this hour. As the deadly outbreak evolves, u. S. Officials are boosting measures to combat coronavirus in new york city the shutdown threatens to go further. Mayor bill de blasio urging new yorkers to prepare for a shelter in place order a decision will be made within the next day or so as hospitals become strained by a surge of patients the pentagon announced it is getting 5 million respirator masks and also 2,000 ventilators to the department of health and Human Services secretary of defense mark esper said 1 Million Masks would be available immediately. And one South Carolina School District is putting meals on wheels the anderson School District is delivering breakfast and lunch to thousands of students the bus driver miss patric
Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats really very flexible we we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day require week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do you need to know more about what the penetrance is there so if we do the kind of testing we were doing and testing will always be associated by identifying cation isolation and contact racing and you find after a pe
The pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases the u. N. Is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic thats a syria has now confirmed its 1st case humanitarian groups say a major outbreak in the war torn country would be particularly catastrophic women and children and people with disabilities the marginalized and displaced by the highest price they also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from poor feed 19. 00. Lets not forget that in war ravaged countries now systems of collapse else professionals already few in number and often been targeted refugees and other these placed by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war if you see why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is time to put Armed Conflict on
Also announced a 38000000000. 00 economic rescue package shamed at helping Small Businesses weather the impact securing the essential medical supplies has been made i dial the task that the Health Minister has been leading together with the industry minister and other ministers across the cabinet. And in foresee the social distancing keeping i will be physical distance from one another. The sea is one of our most if not most important with or against the spirit of the corona virus which means we can side lives and we can save livelihoods singapore plans to ban all short term visitors from entering all transiting through the country to control the spread of corona virus was to 80 percent of the citys states new infections over the last 3 days have been imported and thailand has reported its largest ever daily increase in corona virus infections up 188 cases today only 600. There are reports of protests at a number of prisons across colombia at a prison in the capital bogota there were 5