The president said some of the coverage is fake news. He said today flatly, everyone has the ventilators they need. He said, were in great shape in every way. He said at a certain point, it will be gone. It will be gone, he said, and it wont be much longer. He said theres not a lot of issues with testing, and we dont need full testing. He talked about, quote, the death numbers, the numbers of death. He said at one point, were talking 50, 60, 65 maybe. What he meant was 50,000, 60,000, or 65,000 people dead potentially. And on the topic of death, he issued his daily reminder of how bad it would have been had he not acted at all. That prompted David Axelrod to say the president was taking a victory lap on deaths. The president said staying at home leads to death also, maybe a different kind of death, he said. And about his campaign to reopen the u. S. Economy, something ultimately up to governors and mayors and individual businesses, he said, ive got to make the biggest decision of my li
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world, were focusing on all the latest coronavirus nationally and globally. New figures show the United States has suffered its largest one day death toll, according to numbers byJohns Hopkins university, 2108 people have died injust the past university, 2108 people have died in just the past 2a hours. The United States has the highest number of cases in the world, nearly half a million. It has also suffered the second highest number of deaths, 18,000, it is onlyjust behind out of italy. 18,500. And new york state alone now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any single country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there continues to rise. Hart island has long been used for people with no next of kin, or by families who cant afford a funeral. Heres our north america editorjohn sopel. It is somehow unimaginable, unbelievable, that in the most famous city of th
And i give tremendous credit to the military theres been a military operation, with private people. Wait a minute. Wait. Wait. I gave tremendous credit to our military, to the army corps of engineers, to fema, to these people. The job theyve done is incredible. And you shouldnt be asking that kind of a question. You shouldnt be asking that kind of a question. You should say, you know what, its been really incredible whats been happening. Jim, nobodys asking. What governor let me ask you this. What governor, we have more tests than anybody in the world, we have reporter [ inaudible ]. We have virtually every country in the world calling us, asking us, how do we get these tests that you have, your testing is the best in the world. Theyve done a fantastic job. And when you ask a job like that its very insulting to a lot of great people. Okay, one more, people. Please, go ahead. Reporter thank you, mr. President. You may have seen how sweden has responded to the pandemic, the schools welco
The Health Secretary also confirms the 19 nhs Health Workers have died since the part of since the start of the pandemic. Since the part of since the start of the pandemic. The United States becomes the first country in the world to record more than 2000 coronavirus deaths in a single day. Police in the uk urge people to stick to the advice to stay at home over the Bank Holiday Weekend despite the warm weather in many parts of the country. With signs of a curb in new infections in germany the World Health Organization encourage countries to be cautious about lifting restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, the uk Health Secretary, matt hancock, has said thereve been cases where medical workers have used more personal protective equipment than they needed as they tackle the coronavirus outbreak. The doctors union, th
The president said some of the coverage is fake news. He said today flatly, everyone has the ventilators they need. He said, were in great shape in every way. He said at a certain point, it will be gone. It will be gone, he said, and it wont be much longer. He said theres not a lot of issues with testing, and we dont need full testing. He talked about, quote, the death numbers, the numbers of death. He said at one point, were talking 50, 60, 65 maiybe. What he meant was 50,000, 60,000, or 65,000 people dead possibly. And on his topic of death, he issued his daily reminder of how bad it would have been had he not acted at all. That prompted David Axelrod to say the president was taking a victory lap on deaths. The president said staying at home leads to death also, maybe a different kind of death, he said. And about his campaign to reopen the u. S. Economy, something ultimately up to governors and mayors and individual businesses, he said, ive got to make the biggest decision of my life