A persistent cough. Its reached the very top of u. K. Government Prime Minister Abbas Johnson and his Health Secretary have both tested positive. And south africa announces its 1st deaths its police and the military some forcing a 3 week long. Welcome to the news all the death toll from the outbreak of quote a virus of italy has surged by 919 in a single day that is the highest daily increase recorded anywhere earlier spain announced its highest day the fatality figure the british Prime Minister us johnson has tested positive he and his Health Secretary whos also infected and also news on social media saying their symptoms are mild while the u. S. House of representatives has just approved a 2. 2 trillion dollar economic rescue package the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak new york state is seeing hospital admissions double every 4 days now here is our team this hour rory chalons is in southeastern englands tracking all of the u. K. Developments chris and salumi will tell us more about n
Short cuts and a warning from the World Health Organization over the use of untested medicines to treat the virus. As sad page in history the words of italys president as the death toll from the corona virus continues to mount on friday italy reported the highest number of virus related deaths of any country after 919 people died in just 24 hours the number of confirmed cases has increased to there are now more than 86000 infections there the Spanish Government has called upon the European Union to provide urgent Financial Assistance more than 750. 00 people died there in the last 24 hours in the United States President Donald Trump aside into laura 2. 00 trillion dollars stimulus package that will speed up government payments to americans and increase jobless benefits for millions the u. S. President has also invoked the defense production act which will force companies to produce much needed medical equipment. This afternoon i invoke the defense production act to compel General Motor
Doctor Robert Redfield as director for the center of Disease Control and prevention he with others give a response before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Members have covered coronavirus spreads and whether china is cooperating with un officials. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime friendship and partnership in this issue and also thank the members of the cbc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously this is a very timely subject. This is our second heari
[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime friendship and partnership in this issue and also thank the members of the cbc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on the coronavirus and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for sacramento in charge of the system and as a faculty memb
Member for his longtime friend ship and partnership in this issue. Also want to thank the members of the cdc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously, this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on coronavirus, and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background as a physician, but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for Sacramento County who is in charge of the Public Health Delivery System there. And as a faculty member, my last Home Institution was the university of california davis, school of medicine. The reason why i give that background is last night it became personal for me because its hitting close to home. The first Novel Coronavirus case potentially person to person, nontransmission is in Sacramento County as we speak. That patient is housed at uc davis. I have been in communication with my former colleagues tha