Got in dean. Q in make. A fully understand where you. Would like to ask for such a timeout period they have been in the front lines for months and exhausted jamelle in durban is in manila she says the government will decide in mid august whether to lift or extend the lockdown. Today marks the 150 of these since the philippines recorded its 1st coronavirus case and after that the country the Southern Region of luzon more than 50000000 people were placed on the rate a lockdown or enhance Community Quarantine for almost 3 months thats already one of the longest most strictest quarantines implemented by any government in the world over the last few months the government in fact lose in its restrictions at the time the total cases recorded were 18000 less than 2 months later its now reached over 100000 what the doctors are asking is for them to for them to be given breathing space so that there is enough time to decongest hospitals now on their full capacity this call came over the weekend
As well as the early human data we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. Well she is being questioned by congress of the u. S. Response to the pandemic mike hanna in washington has more on his testimony. There were confirmation on some very important factors one is that there is a lag and testing this was confirmed by the assistant secretary of Health Services that test results are taking between 3 to 5 days on average to come back and sometimes as many as 15 Health Experts have been adamant that in order to come to grips with this pandemic of the United States more than 2000000. 00 tests per day need to be conducted at the moment that figure is way below 1000000 so certainly theres a shortfall in the testing and in the results of the testing despite the repeated comments from the white house to this particular another point of major difference what was the president trying treated in well try and during the hearing objec
Pandemic has brought new supporters to their cause folded just like gave us all a flap in the face and made us wake up to the reality that. Nothing is changing and we needed changing we need now the people are all over upset and they. Stay in the house they dont have a war they dont have jobs they dont have food something. And our woke him up waking up their leaders have disappointed us and they didnt do their job so they grow up to contact with the citizens and now the citizens are coming together to make them i did do their job and go home i in recent weeks protesters have risked water cannon and arrest as well as threats of and actual physical assault by right wing groups the Prime Minister has labeled them anarchists complained himself of Death Threats and criticized the media for focusing on the demonstrations nonetheless the numbers on the street sunni risen saturdays protest in west jerusalem thought to be the biggest yet weeks and there is no sense of the momentum of these prot
Restricting the number of hours a baker could work each week. Watch landmark cases tonight on cspan 3. And any time on cspan. Org. Now a hearing on the impact of the coronavirus on Mental Health. The house energy and commerce subcommittee on health discusses the benefits telehealth has provided americans and the need to continue after the pandemic ends. This is just over four hours 15 minutes. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Due to covid19, todays hearing obviously is being held remotely. All members and witnesses will participate via Video Conferencing. As part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise. Members and witnesses, youre going to have to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. I just say that as a reminder and a little housekeeping issue. Please remember to do that. Documents for the record can be sent to megan mullin at the email address we provided to your staff. All documents will be entered into the reco
P. P. E. And other medical supplies so they can adhere to the safety guidelines and provide a clean and safe environment. But it doesnt stop there. Im also working to assist our lowerincome families, those who rely on the Child Care Development block grants and those who simply need access to clean diapers. Just a couple of weeks ago i was in davenport, iowa, where i got to take part in a Diaper Distribution with the hiney heroes of the qadhafi at the quad city. The National Diaper bank donated 25,000 diapers to this important diaper bank. We know that during this pandemic the diaper supply has run short and ive teamed up with democratic senator chris murphy on this effort to include additional assistance for our diaper banks. Covid19 has also created challenges for our farmers. These hardworking folks are facing new challenges while working around the clock to make sure americans have adequate access to food and fuel. I was visiting with some farmers at the bloomfield livestock market