A new global milestone. Saying its. The pandemic is feeling anti asian racism and the United States. And austria joins 3 other European Countries in making the wearing of masks outside the home compulsory. Fellow is growing numbers of people follow the advice of governments and stay home cities empty and businesses shut up saw the rapidly spreading coronavirus continues to yield a bleak string of statistics spain has marked another record high 864 more people dying in the past 24 hours while infections pasta 100000 its hope though that the peak might have been reached and the World Health Organization says the number of deaths internationally has doubled in the past week and in the next few days the 1000000 infections mark should be passed wall street slumped on the news that the u. S. Should be prepared for as many as 240000 deaths the jones closing down near the points or 4. 4 percent and a further 563 people have died here in the u. K. Its worse daily death figure and 2000 Frontline
About congressional operations during the coronavirus outbreak. Also, cq roll calls jennifer the coronavirus. Host President Trump signed the second of likely to be three coronavirus aid packages passed by congress, the third topping 1 trillion will get initial consideration in the u. S. Senate. Good morning and welcome to washington journal for this thursday. We continue our conversation hearing from you about the governments response to the. Oronavirus pandemic your lines are the same they have been the last couple days. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. And medical professionals, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and it is facebook. Com cspan for your posts. Legislation passing in the senate 908 yesterday afternoon and quickly down to the white house. This is the reporting of usa today with the headline in the papers. A measure to ensure paid sick leave to ensure testing f
A vaccine and developing very quickly and theyve already started working on it developing very rapidly a vaccine for the virus to combat the virus and were having very good initial. Feedback but the these companies will be coming to the white house and on monday. Tremendous amounts of supplies are already on hand we have 43000000. 00 masks which is far more than anyone would have assumed we could have had so quickly. And a lot more coming. Today the White House Corona Virus Task force led by Vice President mike pence they met for 2 and a half hours i spent a lot of. That time with them and we have been listening to the u. S. President donald trump there speaking at the white house just talking now about the lunar virus epidemic saying additional corner virus cases in the u. S. Are likely also mentioned the 1st coronavirus victim in the United States who died in washington. State and he mentioned that it was a medically high risk patient in her late fiftys that was the 1st u. S. Death.
Workforce is unemployed and now out of a job. A new report says President Trump is planning to announce the second task force to restart the economy as soon as this week. Here is the president on that. President trump we could do it in phases and go to some areas which you know are less affected than others, but it would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country were certainly most of our country and i think we are going to do that soon. You look at whats happening and i would say we are ahead of schedule. We will be sitting down with many different people and making a determination in those meetings will be taken place soon. Jesse heres something the American Public doesnt need is more politics. The white house expects the current pool of money to run out very soon. Dana, is it jaspers birthday . Dana it is. It is jaspers birthday today. He has come to the five every year that he had a birthday so we wanted to make sure oh, we are having a technical problem be
Boost from ag bill barr who is saying that the doj could get involved. You have to stay in her house is close to house arrest. Im not saying that it was not justified preyed im not saying in some places it might not still be justified. But it is very nervous to shutting down your livelihood, so this is a burdensome and stringent on liberty. Jesse some states starting to open their economies are running into resistance. Brian kemp defending his plan to allow some businesses to reopen this friday. We took measured steps to get to the shelter in place. Now we are taking measured steps to come out of that. Its going to be very, very limited in scope. Basic operations. We are talking about a few businesses that i close down to help flatten the curve, which we have done in our state. But for us to continue to ask them to do that while they lose everything, quite honestly, there are a lot of civil repercussions of that. Jesse all right, greg, lets take georgia as an example, its important for