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 looking better every day. Were monitoring our Hospital Capacity to take patients. On this chart, the darkest blue at the bottom is how many Covid Patients are in hospital beds. The medium blue is how many other patients are in beds. And the light blue is our staffed bed capacity. The yellow line, the dotted line, at the top, represents surge capacity. As you can see, our hospitals are currently reporting that they have capacity and we will watch that now that hospitals are doing more elective surgeries than in the past. This chart shows us how many people who have covid are hospitalized. The total number is the dark blue bar, while the medium blue represents Covid Patients in the i. C. U. And the light blue is Covid Patients on ventilators. The yellow line is a sevenday average. Our Ventilator Capacity remains adequate at about 20 . As ive said, its important that the commonwealth as a whole meet the metrics we laid out before moving into phase one but i recognize that we live in a diverse commonwealth and different regions face different challenges. Thats why the phase one restrictions are a floor but not a ceiling. While no region may move faster to ease restrictions, were open to some regions moving more slowly. I have been speaking regularly with officials in Northern Virginia about this very issue. I asked them to send us a formal letter outlining that they are unified in requesting a delay. Uniformity across he region is critical to a successful strategy rather than having restrictions piecemeal across towns or counties. Northern virginia localities sent me that letter over the weekend and i appreciate the continued cooperation between our administration and these local governments. We all want a responsible, datadriven healthfocused approach. Northern Virginia Health officials are using the same metrics we are using for the state, percent 30stivity, hospitalizations positivity, hospitalizations, testing and tracing capacity, hospital beds and p. P. E. So id like to walk you through the ways those metrics look a bit different in Northern Virginia than they do in the rest of our state. As weve said repeatedly, the number of cases aloan doesnt give us an accurate picture of the disease. We can make some comparisons across regions. And Northern Virginia consistently has a significant portion of our cases statewide. In the past 24 hours, for example, Northern Virginia reported more than 700 cases. The rest of virginia reported fewer than 300. We see similar differences in percent positivity, both Northern Virginia and the rest of the commonwealth are seeing declines in the percent of tests that are positive which is a good thing. But we see big differences in the percentages. On this slide youll see Northern Virginia has about a 25 positivity rate. And on this slide, youll see the rest of the commonwealth is closer to 10 . So again, while the trend of percent positives is come do you think in both Northern Virginia and throughout the rest of the commonwealth, the percent positives is much higher in Northern Virginia at 25 than it is at the rest of the commonwealth at 10 . Again, the same can be said about hospitalizations. In Northern Virginia, Covid Patients make up a significantly larger portion of the Regions Hospital bed capacity, as youll see in this slide. Covid hospitalizations are the darkest blue area at the bottom. And this slide, of course, shows covid hospitalizations in the rest of the state. Again, the dark blue area at the bottom. We will continue to work with those officials on a slower phase one and we expect that some local officials will join us for this briefing on wednesday to explain how this will work. The key to all of this is testing. This weekend, testing went on in a variety of localities. As you can see from the pictures and these slides. For example, there were drive through testing sites in the new river valley. As well as Community Testing on the Eastern Shore. And we are targeting testing at our atrisk neighborhoods. Im going to ask dr. Ja misunderwood, our diversity officer, to talk about testing and provide masks, Hand Sanitizer and information in underserved communities. Dr. Underwood, welcome. Dr. Underwood thank you, governor. Hello, everyone. My name is janis underwood, i am governor northams chief diversity officer. The Health Diversity task force provides unified command to the working group which was established at the onsoast virginias covid19 response on march 11. The purpose of the task force and working group is to serve as the commonwealths first ever coalition during an Emergency Response to unapologetically ensure Health Equity lens is applied to all Decision Making within virginias response. The task force meets twice every day and the working group meets every tuesday to review policy, provide realtime learning opportunity, review communication campaigns, and to ensure small women and minority businesses are leveraged in the response and recovery. I lead the Health EquityLeadership Task force and sable k. Nelson, acting director of the office of Health Equity, serves as chair of the Health Equity working group which is a combination of several state agencies and private Human Service agencies, state leaders and community leaders. One of the priorities of the Equity Task Force is to collaborate with local governments to provide support for vulnerable communities because we know that everyone does not enjoy the same privileges for social or physical distancing or receive information the same way. There were the task force provides localities access to Health Equity training for all City Employees and volunteers, personal protective equipment or p. P. E. , culturally appropriate educational materials to support diverse communities, and those materials are in all languages identified as being needed and support in identifying neighborhoods at elevated risk with mapping technology. The Health EquityLeadership Task force is comprised of myself, dr. Curtis brown and dr. Lauren powell, sable k. Nelson, as i mentioned from the Virginia Department of health, and ms. Alacia blackhackett from my office. The Health Equity working group is a larger body, as i mentioned, comprised of all the Community Stake holders such as state agencies, private Human Service agencies and safe leaders and community leaders. What we know for sure is that local and National Data indicate covid19 is exerting a disproportionate impact on communities of color and africanamerican, hispanic, latino or latinx and indigenous communities in particular. So in order to mitigate the projected dehabilitating outcomes on the Africanamerican Community and other communities who are at elevated risk, weve made 20,000 masks, 20,000 bottles of Hand Sanitizers available to Richmond City for distribution to its most underresourced communities. Social distancing doesnt mean forgetting our need for community engagement, community relationship, and community connection. So the richmond pilot is only the first of many initiatives that the Equity Task Force aims to lead throughout the commonwealth. We recognize the pilot will not address all the needs of the communities weve identified, but we are hopeful that this is a model to ensure other resources make it to their doorstep as well. Thank you. Gov. Northam dr. Underwood and to the Health Equity task force, thankers in great work youre doing on behalf of virginia, we appreciate it. We continue to increase testing capacity, as youre seeing. I expect to have some announcements, really exciting announcements about testing partnerships in the coming days so stay tuned for that. What were going to talk about is our ability to work with some of the Retail Stores across virginia to have a lot more Community Testing, not only in metropolitan areas but throughout virginia and all of our zip codes. I think thats something that well really be able to look forward to. Last week we talked about the fact that petersburg has some residents whose water had been shut off. I said then that it is unacceptable to have residents without access to Running Water when protection against this virus relies heavily on the ability to wash hands and other surfaces. So yesterday, dr. Norm oliver, our health commissioner, issued a Public Health certification that prevents the city of petersburg from shutting off Water Service to any occupied dwelling and requires the city to restore service to 46 homes. Restoring Water Service will help protect those households as well as the community. Now moving to the department of motor vehicles. We closed our public facing d. M. V. Offices early in this pandemic, im extending that closure for at least the next week. Online Services Remain open. And i would remind virginians that this is a difficult time for our graduating seniors. They are not being able to enjoy a lot of the things that all of us have enjoyed. There are also some High School Students who have met all the requirements to obtain their drivers license and i remember how much i looked forward to getting my drivers license when i was 16. So i would just ask all of you to be patient. We are working through this. We will get our d. M. V. s up and running as soon as we can and be able to get your drivers license to you. I appreciate your patience. And finally, more than 50 of our localities have local elections coming up on may 19. Tomorrow, may 12, tomorrow, may 12, is the last day for voters to request an absentee ballot be mailed to you. I strongly encourage everyone to vote absentee by mail. You cap mark reason 2a, also will have beside it, my disability or illness on the form. Voting by mail is secure. And its the safest way to vote at this time. We will continue working to make sure physical polling places and poll workers are as safe as possible for those who do go out to vote in person. Now well hear an update from dr. Oliver and then well be glad to take your questions. Dr. Oliver, thank you. Welcome. Dr. Oliver a quick update on the numbers that appeared on the v. D. H. Website earlier today. We now stand at a total number of cases of 25,070 cases. That is 989 new cases in the last 24 hour reporting period. Deaths now stand at 850. Thats an increase of 11. 167,758 tal tests of tests. That represents as the governor said 9,801 tests in the last reporting period. So thats a good thing that thats been increasing. The number of cases in the Africanamerican Community continues to be disproportionately high, about reported, cases we 4,119 cases in the last 24 hour eriod. Thats the total now. The total for the Latinx Community stands at 6,894 which again as i reported last week is about 40 of the cases. I believe thats because of the outbreaks we have seen in a bunch of the poultry plants in the region. Those outbreaks have been trending down, the number of cases has been coming down as weve put a lot of attention into dealing with those. And were also looking at the Community Spread in those areas with big tests in both the harrisonburg area and on the Eastern Shore where weve collected thousands of tests in the last couple of days. Thank you. Gov. Northam be glad to take your questions. Hi, governor. Dr. Remley was brought in three weeks ago to try to ramp up the testing rate. I keep checking the Johns HopkinsCoronavirus Resource Center to see where we rank compared to other states. Were still at the bottom. So im wondering why that is, a lot of our viewers keep reaching out, wanting to know why is our testing rate so low compared to other states . Gov. Northam i think we tried to explain that in a number of press conferences. I will tell you that, i dont have the slide in front of us today but i dont know if you remember the slide that showed the five stages and they told you that as quickly as we can we would get up to 10,000. Today we were at 9,801. Which is 199 tests from 10,000. So im very pleased with the progress were making. I know a lot of folks compare to other states. There are perhaps some variables, different factors. But the team has been working hard. Ill let dr. Remley address the question as well. But i think youll see that with the adequate p. P. E. That we have now, the adequate testing supplies, particularly the swabs that both of which governors have really been having short supply and competing for. Theres been not a whole lot of guidance coming from washington in that regard. But weve been able to ramp up those supplies and thats allowed us to do a significant amount more testing. And then i think youll hear in the coming days days as i just said that we have some great working relationships with our retailers across virginia. And we will be making some announcements of how well have not only testing where people can walk up and have the test but also drive through testing as well. Again, i make no excuses for virginia. I think were in a good place. And as we move forward, one of the abilities to go into phase one, youve heard me say this a number of times before as well, is that we need to have adequate p. P. E. , we need to have adequate testing capability and it gets better every day. Thats one of the thing thats thats allowing us to move forward going into phase one. Karen, any additional comments . Dr. Remley Johns Hopkins is a cumulative amount of tests. Well never catch up unless we inappropriately tested everybody in the state which wouldnt give us information that would help Public Health. So if you look at what do we need to know for Public Health . The 10,000 was looking at about 3 of the population. If you look at 2 to 4 , 2 is hkt is a 0 a day, 4 little more than 1,000. Thats when the best model, the best people that inform dr. Pique and dr. Oliver and the governor say, thats where you get the most information about the state in terms of opening up and where we are. We are, if not today there were there in the next couple of days that will provide a lot more important Public Health information. In addition, were focusing on making sure as the governor said that were taking care of the uninsured and underinsured. The vulnerable populations we dont always see or find. Its through free clinics who care for those people, federally qualified health centers, but also as we have more testing capacity, being able to deploy our medical reserve corps, our guard, our Health Department test kits and capacity are no longer an issue, theyre identifying different groups around the state. Faithbased organizations, community centers, places they can go. They know their communities really well. And test there. In the next coming days, i think well share with you how were doing because its all continuous quality improvement. Right for all of us. How are we doing never district . We know were test manager in Northern Virginia because theres a lot of disease in Northern Virginia. But we want to assure people across the state that were doing enough testing in their zip code, in their district so they can be reasewer reassured that the number of cases represents what the disease looks like in that community. To m