Decisions. Our training canadians are having the stuff can conversations about finances in the future. Lets look at the numbers. Last week, almost a Million People applied for unemployment insurance. Our truth has the people are out of work because of this crisis and worried about what comes next. So i want you to know that we will be there to help you. Our government is doing everything we can to be there for you. Speaking in native tongue. Speaking in native tongue. [speaking in native tongue]. The canada Emergency Response benefit. It will provide 2000 month for the next four months for workers who lose their incomes as a result of covid19. This will replace intended benefits that we announced last week, the Emergency Care benefit in the Emergency Support benefit in order to streamline process. Like i said from the start, we will adapt our approach wherever needed. If youve lost your job because of covid19, whether it be your fulltime contract or selfemployed, this benefit will be t
Of the country appeared to be going about their lives undeterred by these threats in the end that. They want to move in hamburg so many of his neighbors are stuck couchsurfing because the pandemic so hes pushing people to stay active no gym membership need. Im called aspen thanks for joining us as more and more countries impose lockdowns over the coronavirus india faces a barger challenge than most its 1300000000 people have been ordered to stay at home since last week but for the informal workers the ones that form the backbone of the countrys economy this means losing their income overnight leaving many people without enough money for food and those hard hit hardest by the lock down they may now also be most at risk of catching the virus. A social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all across india daily breweries rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. The nation wide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the
Then, taxpayers for common sense president steve ellis talks about what is in the to trillion dollar coronavirus aid bill recently passed by congress. Washington journal is next. Host with the United States death toll from coronavirus approaching 2500, the president made the announcement he is extending social distancing guidelines until at least april 30. Big news coming out of that briefing with reporters last night. We want to get your reaction this monday morning, march 30, to the president s news extending the social distancing guidelines to april 30. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202 7488000. The mountain1 four and pacific time zones. If you are a medical professional, we have a number for you 202 7488002. A couple of other ways to take part in the conversation this morning. Send us a text at 202 7488003. Please leave your name and the city you are calling from. You can also send a tweet. cspanwj is our twitter handle. You can also post a comment on faceb
Ie appreciate the comments of my friend from texas. I only heard part of them but i appreciate his interests and what we need to do to deal with this coronavirus. I hear so often in this body that its about the economic issues, which it is. As you know in utah and senator cornyn knows but when into the president Response Response what to do, first, i know that people are angryoh in ohio and i think elsewhere that the president has waited so long to act. I know people are angry when they find out the president make major cuts to the centers for Disease Control which the presiding officer knows is one of, is the best Public Health agency probably in the history of the world, combined with our Public Health departments in nih and fda andf National Institute of Occupational Safety and health in cincinnati, all this incredible Public Health infrastructure, safety net we have built in this country, bipartisan through decades and decades and decades. And i know people are unhappy with him abo
Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is india. I worked in the 1990s in india and saw firsthand in 1994 how the ague crisis brought the country to its knees. It was mismanaged. There was miscommunication. Fear was created. A reactive mode that started. And so the country shut down. It lost millions if not billions of dollars in tourist revenue. But the Indian Government learned from it. An infectioused Disease Surveillance Program best publicy is the Health Infectious Disease Surveillance Program in the world. Its an amazing story. The other event is haiti. I was Deputy Director of the Panamerican Health organization which is the