More First Responders here in the bay area are contracting the virus. For Sheriff Deputies did test positive. One of them was assigned to a Custody Division at county jail system. A second open Police Employee has covid19. They are both in self isolation now. Weve also learned his sergeant has the coronavirus. They are self quarantined and work partner is also isolating at home. That officer works with the special victims unit at the hall of justice in San Francisco. The Union Representing doctors and magoon a hostile hospital in San Francisco says that they are worried because 2 Staff Members have now tested positive for the coronavirus. Rejoin now live from laguna honda hospital, the city is saying they have adequate Safety Equipment to keep residents and staff were safe . That is what the city is saying. We try to get as close as we could. This is about as close as we can get. We went out a bit earlier today and the deputies said the entire campus is now close to visitors. In the me
Secretary esper hello, everyone. Im secretary of defense mark esper, im joined by joint chief of staff chair general milley and chairman lopez. Today we want to talk to you about all that d. O. D. Is doing to protect our people, our troop, our families from the coronavirus and what were also doing to support the interagency whole of government efforts to protect the American People. First i want to thank all of you for your patience and commitment to the nation in this time of great challenge. Its a time of great challenge as we face the pandemic upon s. I want to reassure you that the administration, the military are taking all necessary measures to protect our force, to protect our people, to protect our dependents, to protect out contractors and civilians. Ive made protecting our people our top priority. The second priority ive outlined for the past couple of months has been ensuring our ensuring the safeguarding of our National Mission capabilities. In other words, making sure we c
A moment. And inside indias Containment Zones so we report on what its like to live in the areas for the countrys toughest measures against the spread of cohen about. His welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel says she sees signs for optimism in the countrys fight against coronavirus but in our latest update a short time ago she warns there can be no easing of the lockdown yes despite growing coals to lift some restrictions deserted streets in the german capital a common sight in countries facing current virus around the world but according to experts in germany there are strict sions on movement seem to be having a positive effect. The number of new cases there appears to be levelling out but with a long easter weekend looming german chancellor has warned against getting complacent you do have an old snitch we mustnt allow ourselves to be lowered into a false sense of security instead we should be really happy that more stringent measures are necessary for me this mean
Theyre really working hard on behalf of their communities throughout the state to handle the covid19 virus as it spreads. And we are so thankful for their leadership at this time. Our projections are that our numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news i have to report today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the United States going over a lot of the federal response to this pandemic across the country and one of the statistics we gave was that one week ago, 50,000 completed tests were processed. Now more than 300,000 have been processed. Thats good news that means that at the federal level and across the country that more of these tests are going through the system and that we fully expect to get rid of the backlog
Numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news i have to report today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the United States going over a lot of the federal response to this pandemic across the country and one of the statistics we gave was that one week ago, 50,000 completed tests were processed. Now more than 300,000 have been processed. Thats good news that means that at the federal level and across the country that more of these tests are going through the system and that we fully expect to get rid of the backlog of those tests through the commercial and public labs in the next week. Today i made sure we put forward an executive order on state employees. We will continue with state employees in the state of south dako