Governor baker good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about our longterm plans for covid19 testing here in massachusetts and new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and talk about significant shipments of personal protective equipment that arrived in massachusetts. First, we will provide our daily update on hospitalizations. As of yesterday, we conducted over 410,000 tests with over 8,500 new tests reported yesterday. 1,865 tests were reported and for all tests that came back yesterday and that is within the range we have been seeing over the past few days. The range we have been seeing over the past few days. As we said before, that positive rate has come down significantly from where we were a month ago where it was hovering in the 20s and 30s. 26 newer hospitalizations for covid19 yesterday but over 3,000 residents in hospitals due to covid19 that need serious medical care. Our hospitals have been able to withstand the this. Massachusetts still remains one o
Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome which is tied to the virus. [background sounds] so good afternoon. Today were going to talk a little bit about our longterm plans for covid19 testing here in massachusetts and some new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and we will also talk about some significant shipments of personal protective equipment int of recently arrived massachusetts, thanks to some very hard work by members of our team and many others. At first we will provide our daily update on testing cases, hospitalizations. As of yesterday we have conducted over 410,000 tests with over 8500 new tests reporteded yesterday. There were 1165 1165 new posite tests reported which represents a 14 positive test rate from all test they came back yesterday and that is within the range we have been seeing over the past few days. As we said before that policy rate has come down significantly from where we were a month ago where the the percent was hovering in the 20s
Governor baker good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about our longterm plans for covid19 testing here in massachusetts and new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and talk about significant shipments of personal protective aquifment that arrived in massachusetts. First, we will provide our daily update on hospitalizations. As of yesterday, we conducted er 410,000 tests with over 8,500 new tests reported yesterday. And tests were reported for all tests that came back yesterday and that is within the range we have been seeing over the past few days. As we said before, that positive rate has come down significantly from where we were a month ago where it was hovering in the 20s and 30s. 26 newer hospitalizations for covid19 yesterday but over 3,000 residents in hospitals due to covid19 that need serious medical care. Our hospitals have been able to withstand the this. Massachusetts still remains one of the hardesthit states and many data points have been declini
For all the stocks. Looking at where the aussie dollar is, 65. 7 two cents. when it comes to ethics. The yen holding steady. Brent crude is just shy of 84. The energy names across asia, concerns continue to weigh on the demand side for oil looking like we are setting up for the weakest week in Oil Prices Since february as u. S. Inventories way and i miss concerns about opec policy of maintaining their stance, impacting these concerns about supply and demand in the market, belle. Annabelle yes, and also we have at the start of trading for korea, as we come online this morning. Japan is shut for the public holiday. We are posting gains at the open. A bit of curry on one strand. The dollar having its weakest session overnight a bit of strength for the korean won. What is playing into the theme for korean equities and was can play into the sea is that apple numbers. Lets look at how the some of those supplier stocks are coming online this morning. We saw the jump in late trade in apples a
A warm welcome to the program you are watching countdown. Im anna edwards. We are waiting for several earnings this morning from the Mining Sector, and earnings from merck, the german drugmaker the oldest of europes drug companies. We will be speaking with the merck cfo later. We will talk about how they are rebalancing the business, trying to make up for the fact that their multiple sclerosis drug is increasingly under pressure. You will talk about m a in the pharmacy sector, and the value they can derive from their partnerships. They are trying to revive fortunes using partnerships such as though with pfizer. We will talk to him about that. The share prices are doing too badly. A couple big interviews we need to tell you about this morning we will get a gauge of the Mining Sector and commodities from a couple business chiefs. I will be speaking to mark bristow in his first interview of the morning at 7 00 london time, and jon ferro will be speaking to in his first interview of the mo