And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple
Occupied in lockdown. Boxerjoseph parker tries out his hugh grant love actually impression. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has tested positive for the coronavirus. He says he has mild symptoms and will self isolate in downing street, but will still lead the governments response to the crisis. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, is also having to work from home, after testing positive. Boris johnsons diagnosis came amid growing concern that nhs hospitals may be overwhelmed by coronavirus patients as early as this weekend. Well, a total of 759 people in the uk have now died of the illness thats an increase of 181 in the last 2a hours. Theres particular pressure on hospitals on the outskirts of london, where some Health Bosses have warned that intensive care units face whats being described as a tsunami of demand in the coming days. Globally, the us has overtaken china as the country with the most confirmed cases more than 85,000. And here, police have started issuing f
Markets in the weeks ahead. Still pumping more oil into the market from saudi arabia. It comes to the coronavirus story that continues to dominate, President Trump says the u. S. Should be prepared for a painful couple of weeks. Infection rates continue to rise in the u. S. We are hopefully seeing some stabilization in countries like spain and italy. Overall, the global infection rate has passed 800,000. Yvonne. Avon the ecb scrapping european banks. Thats what is weighing on the hang seng. Earnings coming through, really a key indicator in the next couple of weeks. Autos reacting negatively. Down six. 5 . The pboc should impact further cash injections and local authorities should issue more infrastructure bonds. Supporting the economy amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic. Selina wang joining us now from beijing. How significant is this . How should we read into that yvonne that . Selina those pmi numbers coming in better than expected. Back into expansionary territory. Compared to
I think the u. S. Government could have really taken that and added to that momentum and gotten some significant changes to the world health organization, could have gotten support for a thorough investigation, independent, external investigation into the actions of the world health organization. And the potential influence of china over its decision making. Unfortunately with the announcement that the u. S. Is going to cut funding, now everybody is focused on that. [no audio] good afternoon. Sorry to be a few minutes late. A lot of ground to cover today. We have a video call with the white house and this is a lot of. Round to cover the realities sunday, is meaningful to me, by telephone. Thank you both for being here so we will get right to the numbers. Have positive test results. 5. 317 New Jerseyans ,317 new tested 75 jerseyans who have tested positive. As a 10 00 p. M. Last night, 1800 of 80 were listed as critical or in intensive care. 46 patients are at one of these locations. Ha
Mentioned,as i unless there is a very meaningful material development, in which case we will change nlans, tomorrow will be a email, paper release in terms of the overnight numbers and any other news we have to report, because of the white house vtc ii on monday we will do a press conference at 2 00 instead of the usual 1 00 timeframe here. So, i am honored to be joined today, as i am every day, by the woman to my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Her right another name well , the statest epidemiologist. State fart, the left, the state police superintendent. And to my immediate left represent the department of workforce development, the commissioner. I mentioned as yesterday that i asked rob to give us an update on the department of labor efforts to ensure every new jersey and new jerseyan in need of on and limit insurance relief can file a claim and receive benefits. Folks are dealing with an unprecedented crush of people trying to reach th