And for those of us who have been working on expanding Health Care Access and awareness for year, we know weve reached an incredibly important milestone. Thanks to the exceptional work of the people in this room, more than 14 million americans and counting have received Health Coverage through the marketplace,head cade, and chip. Medicaid, etplace, and chip. Give yourselves a round of applause. Despite an unexpectly rocky start, you all made history by powering through some negative news cycles and keeping your eye on the ball. You stayed focused on educating consumers because they were hungry for the facts about how the law could benefit them and their familiesful you connected consumers with free, inperson help from persons in their communities. You made sure they knew about the opportunities for Financial Assistance, which finally made Health Insurance a reality for millions who couldnt afford it in the past and you stood ready to handle the surge in signups as the deadline approach
You are in person assisters, government officials, Health Literacy educators, Insurance Industry leaders, outreach specialists and organizers. Everyone here understands the importance of our work to engage consumers and spread the word about how they can benefit from coverage under the Affordable Care act. And for those of us who have been working on expanding Health Care Access and awareness for year, we know weve reached an incredibly important milestone. Thanks to the exceptional work of the people in this room, more than 14 million americans and counting have received Health Coverage through the marketplace, medicaid, and chip. Give yourselves a round of applause. Despite an unexpectly rocky start, you all made history by powering through some negative news cycles and keeping your eye on the ball. You stayed focused on educating consumers because they were hungry for the facts about how the law could benefit them and their familiesful you connected consumers with free, inperson hel
The government in england has finally published its list of countries that will be exempt from uk quarantine rules, due to come into effect next friday. While most of the eu is on the safe list for those visiting america, portugal and brazil, travellers will still need to self isolate on arrival, and on the way back home. Our transport correspondent tom burridge reports. Should you or shouldnt you travel abroad 7 now, there is clarity that anyone heading off on the eurotunnel wont have to quarantine in either direction. It will make a tremendous difference. We were over there recently. We came back and we had to quarantine for two weeks. Ive got to go to paris today. Im working down there, so the quarantine relaxing is big for me, because obviously im back in work. Soon, people arriving from 59 countries and 1a British Overseas Territories wont have to self isolate, although half those countries have restrictions when you arrive there. For those desperate to sell holidays abroad, its a
He said that he has no problems with masks, but we of course have only seen him like this one other time in public. The move by the president comes as the u. S. Had its single largest caseload increase in a single day. More than 67,000 new infections on friday. In louisiana, this announcement a short time ago from the governor. Masks are now mandated statewide for everyone age 8 and older, unless they have a major health condition. The numbers of deaths are rising too. South carolina reporting its first death of a child from covid. This latest victim under the age of 5. Officials are not releasing details to protect the familys privacy. And in texas, refrigerator trucks are being sent to several counties because morgues there are filling up. Were going take you live to houston this hour. Despite all of that the president continues to send public messages that conflict with the fax on the ground. Is the United States losing the war against covid . No, were winning the war. We have areas
Weve got some breaking news to tell you about. Its about the biden president ial campaign. A coalition of democrats have given the presummit tif democratic nominee a road map of progressive priorities that hed like to enact if and when if the former Vice President wins the white house. Mike momeli has covered the campaign. Reporter the conventional wisdom if you want to win the democratic nomination for president you run to the left in the primaries and once you have it you sort of shift to center and to win in general election. With joe biden, were seeing the opposite, he very proudly held to the center of the party throughout the democratic primaries as a record field of democrats were running hard to the left. As soon as he became the nominee he began an effort working with Bernie Sanders cheefl to get their teams together to work on a set of policy recommendations that they could make to try and find Common Ground with the eye toward unifying the party in november. A first look at