Highlight a new tool to help assess symptoms, and find a place to get tested. Lets look at a couple of slides about our testing data. Yesterday, we got results of 1438new pcr tests, and serology tests. As you can see from this slide, the present positivity from testing continues to trend downward. Statewide it is at about 15 . On this slide you will see the number of tests continues to trend upward. Both of these are good things. We know there are simple steps that all of us can take and should to help stop the spread of this virus. Work, and we know these guidelines will be part of our new normal as we continue to move forward. You have heard me say this hands, please wash your stay six feet away from other people, and where a Face Covering in public. Wear a Face Covering in public. When people wear masks, it goes a long ways to reduce the spread of the disease. Wearing a mask could literally save someone elses life. That is becoming clearer every day as we move further into managing
Yesterday. The has not shown up on website yet but it will in the next day or two. I want to give an update on where we are with our data metrics. Friday these slides on and they are also available on the department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the seven day moving average. We have seen these numbers going up. That is what we would expect to see. Manycraft shows us how people are being tested each day in the blue bars. Ae yellow line represents sevenday average. These have been trending upward. This slide shows how many hospitals are reporting hortages of p. P. E. This is trending downward, this is good news. Its several days since any hospitals reported shortages of p. P. E. And right now even the trend is at zero. Our adequate supply of p. P. E. And swabs are two of the factors allowing us to test more. Might also mention that we have a warehouse here in virginia of p. P. E. And our supply, our stock on hand, is doing well and looki
Governor northam also spoke about the coordination of reopening between himself and leaders of maryland and washington, d. C. Gov. Northam i hope everyone had a nice weekend. To all of the mothers, a belated happy mothers day. I want to talk about Northern Virginias regional pace to ease restrictions, petersburgs water, the dmv and our elections. 9801 testsported yesterday, which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginians an update on where we are with our data metrics. You saw these slides on friday and they are also available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the number of cases and the yellow line is the seven day moving average. While we have seen a slight dip in the past few days, largely these numbers are going up. That is what we expect to see. Manygraph shows us how people are being tested each d
Wyden and klobuchar are so right. Also for a democracy many will be returning their 2020 census forms. We leave this program and go live now to virginia or Governor Ralph Northam is about to give an update on the states response efforts to the coronavirus pandemic grid this is live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon and i hope everybody had a nice weekend and to all the mothers across the commonwealth a belated happy mothers day. Today i want to talk about Northern Virginia regional pace to ease restrictions. Petersburgs water, d b and our elections here in the commonwealth. First we reported doing 9801 tests yesterday which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the datas website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginias an update on where we are with our eta metrics. You saw these slides on friday they were all so available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases by the date they we
Resume when the stayathome order expires. Other topics included guidelines for Meat Processing facilities in the state. Gov. Northam good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Today, we have updates on our meet processing facilities and allowing our hospitals and outpatient providers to resume nonemergency procedures, allowing our dentists to start seeing nonemergency patients, and allowing veterinarians to see nonemergency pets and their patients. Yesterday, President Trump evoked the defense production act to require Meat Processing facilities to stay open to maintain our food supply chain. Last weekend, i joined the governors of maryland and delaware in sending a letter to President Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Deployings responded, teams to each of our three states to work with