Thank you for being here. As the situation continues to evolve around the covid19 outbreak, we wanted to get you information about changes happening at the department impacting Service Members. I want to start with the latest numbers. Today there have been 30 seven reported cases, 18 military, 13 dependents, three civilian, and three contractors. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide updates each day as we receive them. Friday, deputy secretary norquist released Additional Guidance on travel. Effective today through may 11, all Domestic Travel for military personnel will be halted unless it meets one of a number of waiver criterias including Mission Central travel or humanitarian reasons. This will also restrict dod civilian hiring on dod installations to people within the immediate area of the facility. The secretary continues to state his top priority is to protect Service Members and family and maintain our ability to complete central missions. We are going to
Get through this and in the best way now we know from science that of past outbreaks that travel back and dont typically work and the reason for that is because what people really want to travel they find a way of doing so and if people are going to travel we really want them to use official channels because then if they do you can thank ted we can quickly identify them and identify everyone theyve come into close contact with in order to ask them to go into quarantine cant do that if people are traveling through unofficial channels now that they said even governments that at 1st were calling against travel bans we are now starting to see some start to invoke that and i think the reason for that is were recognizing that this outbreak is just so different than past outbreaks correct me from im wrong but the last this past week has produced a very rapid increase in the number of infections in canada as well as the. Steep increase in the number of fatalities and i wonder if this initial h
See youre practicing social distancing. That looks very nice. Thats very good. I want to thank everybody for being here today. This morning i spoke with the eaders of the g7 nations, and they really had a good meeting. I think it was a very productive meeting. I spoke with our nations governors, also. This afternoon were announcing new guidelines for every american to follow over the next 15 days as we combat the virus. Each and every one of us has a Critical Role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus. This was done with a lot of very talented people, some of whom are standing with me and thats available. And dr. Burks will speak about that in a few minutes. Its important for the young and Healthy People to understand while they may experience milder symptoms, spread this ly virus and will indeed by putting others in harms way and we worry about our Senior Citizens and the task force meets every day and updates guidelines based on the fast evolving situation this
A shift gardy his rival a dollar a separate sarah body to inaugurate himself. With your sports asian World Cup Qualifiers are postponed and tennis his biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is cooled off of a coronavirus. Hello welcome to the news are the spread and fear of coronavirus is starting to have a global major effect on the economy and on the growing human cost us stocks plummeted in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading that followed more big drops in asian and european markets earlier in the day one days market shark was triggered by a plunge of 30 percent in oil prices have to saudi arabia increased production christensen is live for us in new york and kristen. Everybody was worried about the knock on effect that this would have once they saw asian and european markets open and it has had that domino effect in the u. S. On monday. Absolutely stocks across all of the major indices are down sharply this morning right now th
Initial advisement how to handle call that 19 been trying to honest had to discuss that im now joined by Stephen Hoffman director of the Global Strategy Lab and professor hall Global Health law and Political Science at York University professor holton thank you very much for joining us from what i understand to be the privacy of your home thats right i mean so quarantine myself after the canadian government asked anyone returning to canada within the last 14 days to remain in their homes for the remainder of that 14 day period and the you told me before the recording that its your 12th day in south korea and you seem to be doing pretty well yes yeah im very lucky i have i could apartments i have family and friends whove been able to help and but it. Take its toll in the sense that im used to being out and about outside going to work and this is a new experience for me but one that i recognize how lucky i am given i have friends and family and supports that i know that from the very beg