The sanitation department, the sheriffs department, the Transportation Authority as well. You are looking at boxes of food, some frozen, some fresh. Theyre loading the food into the back of these cars. These arent just any cars, though. These are taxis, uber drivers, lyft drivers, folks who otherwise would not be working, and theyre taking the food to millions of people over the five boroughs. In fact, so far new york city has given out nearly 7 million free meals across all its programs in the last 5 1 2 weeks. More on this massive operation in just a moment. But first, we want to get you caught up on the facts. Right now there are about 843,000 known coronavirus cases in the united states. Thats 34,000 more cases since i came to you yesterday at this same time. So far, weve lost more than 47,000 americans. 30 minutes from now, well get the Daily Briefing from new york Governor Andrew Cuomo. This morning he again asked new yorkers to stay at home. Also new this morning, 4. 4 million m
Rapid tests which can be completed in half an hour. We have Fox Team Coverage on the latest u. S. And international response. We begin with Steve Harrigan reporting live from cdc headquarters in atlanta. Steve . Jon, the cdc has added six symptoms for the coronavirus to its original three, now making a total of nine. The original three symptoms were fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Now, the cdc has added chills, shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and loss of taste or smell. Meantime, abbott labs now says it has shipped more than 1 million coronavirus tests across the u. S. To all 50 states. Most of those tests of course going to hot spots. This is a test that can give you a positive result in just five minutes. Abbott also says they will be turning out 2 million of those tests a month, come june. And finally, Governor Cuomo in new york said that private pharmacies are now authorized to serve as collection points we have boosted the lab capacity to an extent
New york telling unemployed americans if they want to complain they should take one of the essential jobs now open on the front lines, amid a new wave of protests against the lockdown is protesters are labeled selfish. Folks protesting to get back to work and people with paychecks lecturing them quit complaining. Welcome to fox news at night. Kevin cork digs into the debate about when it will be safe to return to work and reopen the us economy. Reporter there are worries about a second wave of the virus in the us in the fall, they are real and reasonable worries but no matter how or when it flares up it will not be as bad as we experience this spring. That is the message from the white house as the president and his team remain convinced that no matter how hard the virus reemerges the administration and state governors all across the country will be much better prepared to handle it. If it comes back it wont be coming back in the form that was. It will be coming back in smaller doses t
But we begin with Mark Meredith. He has the latest from the white house. Mark . Jon, the white house says more help is on the way to Small Businesses now struggling to survive. As you mentioned, we saw the images from friday as President Trump signed into law the stimulus bill passed this week to replenish funds for the paycheck protection program. This was considered an emergency measure after the original funds were depleted very quickly. The bill is broken down a little bit more than just the paycheck protection program, offering 310 billion for that as well as 60 billion for disaster loans, 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion for testing. White house Officials Say they are open to pouring more money in if needed. I think that given the popularity of the program, both with the american people, and with everybody on the hill, that if we run out of money in that program, i would expect it would be relatively easy to get more money into it. Meantime, up on capitol hill, there is al
Is made compulsory for all public and private Sector Workers in india. And uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds name their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie nicholasjohnson. Welcome to bbc news were bringing you all the latest coronavirus developments from the uk and around the world. We start this hour in spain where people have been allowed outside to exercise for the first time in seven weeks, after one of the strictest lockdowns in europe. They can now do any form of exercise outside, but only during set hours, as our europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports. Onto empty streets, tentatively, spaniards began emerging today, released from 48 days of confinement. Then the numbers began to swell. Adults first, allowed out to take a walk, to exercise for the first time in weeks. Until now, the only acceptable reasons for leaving your home were to buy food or go to the chemist. This is fantastic. Its amazing. The first time i ride with my bike this morning, it was