Am issuing the following emergency order effective tuesday, march 24 at noon, all nonessential businesses shall close their physical workplaces and facilities to all workers, customers, and the public. This order will remain in effect until tuesday, april 7 at noon. I am also directing the department of Public Health to issue a stayathome advisory outlining self isolation and social distancing protocols. This advisory will also be in effect until tuesday, april 7. We also strongly advise people over the age of 70 and those with Underlying Health issues to stay home and limit their interactions with others as much as possible. I will get into more specifics on what this means for businesses and for everyone at home in a moment. But everyone should know that we will always allow all Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and other types of businesses that provide essential goods and services to massachusetts residents to continue to operate. And we will not stop anyone from accessing these essentia
Coronavirus Task Force Meeting about issuing a blanket order for the entire country, but mister trump is standing fast saying its up to each state to determine how to handle coronavirus. In every state in this country. First we got to see a governors done with it doing theyve been doing a great job because were close to 90 anyway. States and were talking about. Not in jeopardy. Now i would leave it to the governors. And that decision comes on the same day where we saw the deadliest day in the u. S. During this pandemic 1423 people died today. We have more than 7100 deaths total and 277. 1000 cases in the u. S. New york far away the hardest hit state. There are nearly 100 or the just over 103,000 cases there and nearly 3,000 deaths in new york state and there are new guidelines tonight from the cdc on how americans can protect themselves while continuing social distancing guidelines. Nadia romero has thlatest now from washington. In fridays White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing an
Cases of covert 19 but 1st lets start by talking about. The global death toll still on the rise with more than 25000 people and nearly 555000 back to the United States now leads with the most confirmed cases in the world with more than 86000 infected and nearly 1300 fatalities new hotspots are emerging across the u. S. And chicago detroit and new orleans Vice President mike pence downplayed trumps comments over reopening the economy by easter saying the president expressed really an aspirational goal as we continue to follow the data on thursday g. 20 leaders held a Virtual Meeting where they vowed to Work Together to combat the virus we talked about the problem. And hopefully wont be a problem for too much longer the United States is working with their friends and partners around the world to stop the spread of the virus and coordinate our efforts we discussed how vitally important it is for all of our nations to immediately share information and data and weve been doing that to a lar
We are going to go through a very tough two weeks and then hopefully as the experts are predicting, as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard, we will start seeing real light at the end of the tunnel but this will be a very painful, very very painful two weeks. Stuart the president s top medical advisers project a death toll in america of up to 240,000. Everyone is now paying attention. Now weve got to focus what will likely be the worst Economic News coming at us in generations. Millions of people will not be paying their rent this month. How will that ripple through . Millions of people have just been laid off. New unemployment claims coming out tomorrow will again show millions added to the jobless list. The airlines, they are reporting passenger traffic levels down 88 in two weeks. And Mortgage Applications down 24 from last year. The market, of course, reflects these new uncertainties. The dow dropped over 400 yesterday and this morning, its likely to o
Level of safety. Meanwhile expectant mothers are facing a host of other worries ranging from could their babies get infected to concerns about hospital staffing. Its adding quite a bit of stress and anxiety to what should be an exciting time for most expecting moms and dads. Our own janai norman, whos expecting her second child, is among them. Reporter so much is still unknown as the coronavirus changes our daily routines. All elective procedures at hospitals are canceled. But one thing that cant be canceled, pregnancy appointments and labor. We know that the virus has caused a lot of worry, and this can be especially true for pregnant patients. Our top goal is to keep moms and babies safe before, during, and after pregnancy. Reporter early and limited data is encouraging for expectant mothers. At this point it doesnt appear those infected late in pregnancy pass on the virus to their infants. However, those early in their pregnancy, or those considering getting pregnant, should conside