However, they account for 34 of all coronavirus deaths. In chicago, black residents account for 52 of the total coronavirus deaths despite comprising 30 of the citys population. Madam president , recently a survey of latinos in illinois who make up 17 of the population surpassed confirmed cases of the coronavirus and now they account for 23 of the confirmed cases in the state. The most of any race or ethnicity. On par with the Health Centers last week i learned the 34,000 africanamericans who have been testedoi in illinois, 36 were positive for coronavirus and 24,000 latinos tested, 62 tested positive. 62 . Compare that to the 73,000 white illinoisans tested or 18 tested positive. Latino and black patients in an illinois and across the nation are bearing the brunt of the pandemic as we continue to hit new grim milestones in this crisis, these disparities are a sobering reminderin that they inequities. Nationwide black and latino americanblack and latinoamericao have chronic diseases su
And others where people come to work from and where insisting that its going to be safe but work unsafe to get there were also making some changes this week about exercise and while both france and spain have begun easing lockdown restrictions nonessential shops and factories have been allowed to open in france or the 1st time in 8 weeks the government has that the country into reading green zones depending on infection rates affecting the available freedoms or the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus in spain has fallen to 123 marking a 7 week low where its a rare as a madrid to see how one Business Owner is preparing to reopen. We are at a Mens Clothing shop in the middle of madrid one of the b. C. S. Areas commercial areas that is just getting ready to reopen to the public next week so weve got everything ready weve got the honey ties or we have the gloves we have them last year thats the owner does this in fact in all the garments in order to reopen to the costumers today in
Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes
The coronavirus. They say they plan to release enough tests so all 50 states can free at least 2 of their residence. Joining us from amazons home seattle,he mayor of jenny durkin jenny durkan. We doubt that seattle was one of the early epicenters but early moves prevented seeing some of the dismal numbers we have seen elsewhere. Give us a status update in terms of the Testing Capacity. Mayor durkan on the good news front, at the height of the outbreak, we had a transmission rate of about three. We were seeing cases rise really quickly. We were able to do our measures pretty quickly, first by having the Tech Companies telecommute as well as the cities and larger employers. Today, the transmission level is below one, so every person who gets the virus is not even transmitting it to another person. All of the epidemiologists are saying that is where you need to be for a significant period of time. I think probably the worst news is that we are nowhere near the Testing Capacity that we nee
Accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Today i would like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus. Thanks to our comprehensive strategy and extraordinary devotion to our citizens, we have had such tremendous support all over, we continue to see encouraging signs of progress. Cases in new york area, new orleans, detroit, boston, and houston are declining. Seattle, washington, d. C. , indianapolis, and st. Louis are all stable and declining. All parts of the country are in good shape, in all cases getting better. And we are seeing very little that we are going to look at as a superseding hotspot. Hings are moving along really a horrible situation that we have been confronted with, but they are moving along. As we express our gratitude for these hardfought gains, we continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from us by the invisible enemy. We grieve