From lockdown. Slim pickings a slump in prices is making life even tougher for farmers and gaza. And in other news Hong Kong Police arrest several key prodemocracy figures. Theyve been the forgotten victims of the coronavirus but now the effect of the pandemic on People Living in aged care homes around the world is becoming painfully apparent a survey in new york state has found 19 Nursing Homes reported 20 or more deaths in recent weeks but that report only included a fraction of the facilities in the stays with the figures also believed to be much higher nationally and canada a nursing home in montreal is under investigation after 31 deaths one cut that there were 30 is also found other residents unsaid in their beds after some stuff led. Of the facility in the u. K. Many deaths in care homes are being included in official figures its estimated they could be as high as 7500. 00 and in italy the military blocked off a nursing home near rome after 118 patients there tested positive 5 h
Treat those with coronavirus. We are going to reroute our medical Health Experts and people, our nurses, and other Health Support to help manage and maintain and support the people who have tested positive. Reporter for weeks, supervisors have been pushing the mayor to move the homeless into the largely vacant hotel rooms. They say the outbreak was tragically predictable. Nobody should be living in those environments, and so, what i am saying is, move these people now, and we should have moved them a month ago, and the people that you could not move, for whatever reason, should have been sleeping 6 feet apart, should have had temperature checks, should have had masks and gloves. They did not do that, and so now we have an outbreak. Reporter that can house up to 340 people at a time, the supervisor says many of the residents inside the shelter are waiting on the results of coronavirus tests for themselves. Live in San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. As we get further out,
Tore through the south overnight, killing dozens and destroying homes. Well get to that story in just a moment, but well begin with those staggering new developments in the pandemic. Tonight new york state now says more than 10,000 people have that is nearly half of the more than 23,000 americans who have died from the coronavirus. Nationwide confirmed cases now top 577,000. And yet, new yorks governor is saying the worst may be over in his state, and the nations top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci, now says hes seeing evidence that infections are leveling off. Also tonight, dr. Fauci is defending the president , saying the president did listen to his advice about issuing guidance for americans to stay at home. This comes after mr. Trump retweeted a hashtag to fire fauci following an interview the doctor gave on sunday. E eres a lot to get to tonight. Our team is covering every angle am it. Testconts to be an siteminge in theity very, very soon, and while we are seeing few
Workers there are infected. Back to work battle, the jimenez saysw says hell decide when to reopen the country. Tonight governors are banding together and pushing back. So whom has the final say . Racing to a cure, our new series, we go inside the search for innovative treatments. Could a drug used to help people with Rheumatoid Arthritis be the key to saving people with coronavirus . And well end tonights amous opera singer brite. A famous opera singer bringing together the world with amazing grace. This is this is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. There is breaking news on two fronts as we come on the air tonight. Nearly 60 million americans are under Severe Weather watches and warnings with high winds threatening many of those tents now being used to treat coronavirus patients. Its part of a storm system that tore through the south overnight, killing dozens and destroying homes. Well get t
The doctor had mentioned, but it is important to remember that this is not the time to feel that, since we have made such an important advance in the sense that, in the success of the medication, that we need to be pulling back at all. The u. S. Has climbed in deaths and sadly, the death toll is now topping 18,000 across the country. That is up from 6800 just a week ago. Here in california there are more than 21,000 cases, and 583 deaths. That is more than double the death toll this time last week when 264 people have died of the virus. Reporter gov. Newsom urged californians to stay the course. He says the social distancing is helping to slow the spread of the virus and counties across the state, he also talked about the recent spike in cases at Senior Nursing homes. The state is now monitoring nearly 300 nursing facilities for people who had tested positive for covid19. What we have done in addition to broadening those supports over the last number of weeks is we have put out specifi