Journal live at seven eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a Coronavirus Briefing in geneva, World Health Organization officials confirm theres more than one half a million positive cases. More than 20000 deaths from the virus worldwide. The director general also announce the first patients at historic drug trial to test treatments. Good evening, good morning, good afternoon. Welcome to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with this, as always the who director general dr. Tedros. Doctor michael ryan and doctor maria technical lead for covid19. Dr. Tedros will give us an update and when he has finished remarks we will hear a message about the solidarity trial, after that, ill open the meeting to questions. If you have connected via zoom, please use the ratio hand icon to get in the queue to ask your question if you are connected by phone please hit star nine on your keypad to indicate you want to ask a question i apologize now who miss out as we
Gov. Desantis this is a states logistic response center. We have had it since 2007 and a lot of other states have copied it. This is almost 200,000 square feet of climate controlled warehouse space. Most 20,000 square feet of logistic and command level operation, conferences and support areas. Today this will be running 20 47. It has been making a lot of deliveries around the state. Today it will be around the clock until we get on the other side of this. There will be employees are nonstop. The National Guard has been great in assisting us with what we are doing. This response is very heavily dependent on a lot of key medical supplies. So, these things like vm 90 masks, so that Health Care Workers are protected, we are also distributing them in Nursing Homes and assisted living facilities. Any staff that comes into contact with our elderly anddent is wearing a mask we can mitigate any transmission in those centers. That is really important. How much probably within the next week . How
Unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Earlier today, the World Health Organization held a News Conference in geneva on the coronavirus pandemic. The who director general stressed the need for countries to control the virus during the lockdown period, and also talked about president trumps Coronavirus Response efforts, saying the president showed political commitment and leadership. Shortly before the briefing, the United Nations announced the launch of a 200 million humanitarian Response Plan to combat coronavirus. Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon. Hello, and welcome, everybody, to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director dr. Tedros, also dr. Ryan and dr. Maria van ker o hove. Dr. Tedros will begin with an update, and when dr. Tedros has finished opening remarks i will open the meeting to questions. If you have connected by zoom, use the raise your hand icon to o asknto the queue t questions. If you are conn
Virus and efforts to develop a vaccine. They also talked about the state of the pandemic in china, italy, and the u. S. Good evening, good morning, good afternoon. Welcome to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us, as always, the , theirector general executive director of our emergencies program, and the technical lead for covid19. You will first be given an update. When opening remarks are finished, we will hear a message about the solidarity trial. After that, i will open the meeting to questions. If you have connected via zoom, please use the raise your hand icon to get in the queue to ask your question. If you have joined by phone, please hit star nine to indicate you would like to ask a question. I apologize on those who miss out as we have hundreds of people connecting already and asking questions, for which we thank you all. We need to keep this briefing to under an hour, so our speakers who are all leading this response can get back to all the
Good evening, good morning, good afternoon. Welcome to the World Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us, as always, the who director general, the executive director of our emergencies program, and the technical lead for covid19. You will first be given an update. When opening remarks are finished, we will hear a message about the solidarity trial. After that, i will open the meeting to questions. If you have connected via zoom, please use the raise your hand icon to get in the queue to ask your question. If you have joined by phone, please hit star nine to indicate you would like to ask a question. I apologize on those who miss out as we have hundreds of people connecting already and asking questions, for which we thank you all. We need to keep this briefing to under an hour, so our speakers who are all leading this response can get back to all the other pressing jobs on their endless to do list, and right now, there is a lot to do, and to hear more about where