Longterm care facilities. Gov. Whitmer all right, good afternoon. It is wednesday, april 15. I am in the romney building in lindsay joined by our chief medical executive. I wanted to give an update on where things are. I want to take a moment to acknowledge everyone who has stepped up and share their stories. It has been incredibly challenging, but also there are some phenomenal people who are going to work doing the hard work every single day. I have heard from nurses and first responders, educators, Grocery Store workers, childcare workers from all across the state of michigan and they are on the front lines every single day helping us get through this crisis. Every time i speak to them, i feel the impact this virus has had on them and their families. A staff member of mine has a Family Member who is a nurse. At the end of his lung shift, he will stay in the garage and cry before going into the house. Another friend of mine has multiple sclerosis and a compromised immune system. She
A 2nd wave of infections and we must fight Climate Change like the coronavirus that message from the un on the 50th anniversary of earth day. Hello the us has condemned iran successful launch of its 1st military satellite into orbit irans revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space but washington has accused ron in the past of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development same bus ravi reports. On wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. The newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth and the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives irans military new strategic advantages or that. It is a necessity for such powerful Defense Forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of th
Which has set up its own testing for covert 19. And mobile phone alerts and electronic responds how technology is helping stop the spread of the virus but what does that mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll thats according to latest figures from John Hopkins University this one month after the World Health Organization 1st declared a pandemic well back then there were over 4000 confirmed deaths and in 30 or days or so that number has surged 2100000 the epicenter of the virus has shifted as well moving from china and asia to europe and north america right here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 900 hospital deaths in the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 in spain however there is cautious optimism theyve just seen the lowest number of daily deaths in more than a fortnights while in the u. S. The governor of new york says the number of people are being admitted to hospital continues to decline
Data, the u. S. Saying that beijing underplayed the number of cases and deaths. And we work may take legal action that softbank wants better terms on theirh rescue plan. Haidi . Inflationary pressures or lack thereof from south korea coming through the cps for the month of march. We are seeing a contraction of 0. 2 , better than the contraction we were expecting of 0. 4 . That is a month on month figure for Consumer Price pressures and south korea for the month of march. In atmber on year coming 1 , so a little better than 0. 8 expected, a little softer from the 1 reading in february. Expectingse have been some demand as well as the impact of lower energy costs, lower oil costs, the plunge in oil prices, down an average of almost 50 year on year so far this month. Debtor february february data carried through, and you would expect that to carry through to april as well. That is the south korean numbers. We have been looking at a lower open going into the trading in seoul and tokyo. Let
Complexion of the approach that were going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, we had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, theres a few things that we can do with that. One of the things is when we make policy about what were going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly the areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what the pentraits of infection is there. We need to put a light on the dark spots we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data, and were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hot spots, that are not still h a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation, and you do the contact tracing. When you have a big outbreak, its tough to do anything but mitigation. We have