The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of our destiny, you have watched over us from generation to generation. May our lawmakers trust your faithfulness during this challenging season of our nations history. Lord, inspire them to recall how you have sustained the land we love in prosperity and adversity, in peace and in war. Give our senators the wisdom to believe that they can trust your constancy and greatness, as they cling to your promise never to leave or forsake them. Believing in your power, help us all to face fresh challenges with total confidence in you. And lord, we pray for the health and safety of all as communities begin the process of reopening businesses. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it
Security assessed that the Chinese Government intentionally concealed the severity of the covid19 from the world in early january in order to stockpile january in order to stockpile in order to stockpile medical supplies. Furthermore, the Chinese Communist Party Government tried to hide its actions by denying there were any export restrictions. They even tried to obscure the lather data so they wouldnt get caught. These acts are outrageous. Even worse, the cia informs intelligence agencies have found evidence that china threaten the World Health Organization to stop cooperating on efforts to 9combat covid19 if the organization declared a Global Health emergency early on. So it was declared enhanced the valuable time lost to fight the virus. This is simply unacceptable behavior. The Chinese Communist party ought to be held accountable fou the countless lives lost around the globe due to the nontransparent aggressive and inhuman behavior. The World Health Organization is comprised of man
Pandemic, essential workers in the United States have continued in their daily jobs to care for and protect americans, to produce and deliver food and essential goods, and to uphold our nations Critical Infrastructure. These men and women, our moms and dads, brothers and sisters, are putting the livelihoods of their fellow americans ahead of their own. Each and every morning despite the pandemic, they wake up and they go to work. In this fight against the invisible enemy, the critical logistics operators, the supply workers, medical professionals, and many others who are on the front lines responding to coronavirus could not be more important to our victory. They truly are our heroes. Folks, our nation cannot weather this pandemic without our essential workforce. They first and foremost deserve our gratitude. So today we want to say thank you. Thank you to our doctors, our nurses, and our Health Care Workers who see firsthand the seriousness of this disease yet put their own health and
India 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 that was a was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns of the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians a bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Center the government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lock down for the number of dead has
Within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly the u. S. President though is more optimistic saying he hopes to have the virus under control by east. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but will when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony felt she has downplayed the president s timeline. Thats really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day reply week basis you need to ev