Positive, including more than 700 cases from the cruise ship. One Infectious Disease expert is calling on people to become vigilant saying the number of seriously ill patients have been increasing. He says local medical services need to swiftly improve their capacity in case of a further spike in cases and deaths. Health officials in japan are ramping up pretesting as cases grow. Tokyo is now regularly seeing daily case numbers five times higher than those seen when internal travel restrictions were eased. There were 168 new cases in the capital on monday. Slightly fewer than the 200 plus cases it saw for many days over the past two weeks. The latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases in the capital to over 9500. Moving forward, people who live or work in neighborhoods considered high risk will be able to get tested free of cost. Previously publicly funded tests were only available to those who had close contact with infected people. Among the latest cases are many young
For Health Care Workers, his conversations with governors, partnerships with private sector companies, and whether there was a chance for the virus to return in the fall. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Very comfortable here. A lot of room. And we appreciate you being here. Yesterday i announced we would be extending our social distance guidelines through the end of april. This is based on modeling that shows the peak in fatalities will not arrive for another two weeks. The same modeling also shows that by very vigorously following these guidelines, we can save more than one million american lives. Think of that. One million american lives. Our future is in our own hands, and the choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of this virus and really the fate of our victory. We will have a great victory. We have no other choice. Every one of us has a role to play in winning this war. Every citizen, family, and business and make the difference in stopping the virus.
Thank you for coming, i am joined by the woman to my right the commissioner of, judy and to her right department of Health Medical director doctor ed. Good to have you with us. Into my left superintendent col. Pat callahan. Director of the Department Office of homeland security, we will get right to the numbers and we have a lot of ground to cover. So you could please bear with us. Since our briefing yesterday, we have had 1982 new positive tests bringing our statewide total to 8825. In addition, we have lost another 27 precious souls of our fellow new jersey population to covid19 related complications. We have now lost a total of 108 precious lives. We mourn with these families and indeed with our entire state every precious life that has been lost. God rest their souls and as usual, judy will be giving you more color and the details of these both positive cases as well as General Information about the lives that we have lost. My thoughts indeed our thoughts are also with the women an
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Very comfortable here. A lot of room. And we appreciate you being here. Yesterday i announced we would be extending our social distance guidelines through the end of april. This is based on modeling that shows the peak in fatalities will not arrive for another two weeks. The same modeling also shows that by very vigorously following these guidelines, we can save more than one million american lives. Think of that. One million american lives. Our future is in our own hands, and the choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of this virus and really the fate of our victory. We will have a great victory. We have no other choice. Every one of us has a role to play in winning this war. Every citizen, family, and business can make the difference in stopping the virus. This is our shared patriotic duty. Challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days. This is a very vital 30 days. We are sort of putting it all on the line, this 30 days.
And Everyone Wants to know how long social distancing will last but the real question may be how many times will we have to do this. Hello the World Health Organization has sounded a note of hope for the european nations worst hit by the corona virus pandemic saying steps taken in italy and spain should see case numbers drop soon despite the number of infections in spain has posture in the past 24 hours while it saw 800 new deaths and in italy the number of new cases continued to fall but deaths past the 11000 mark and the u. S. Is bracing for the outbreak there to get worse a hospital ship with a 1000 beds has now docked in new york while the top Infectious Disease expert says there will be clusters in other big cities and a 3 week lockdown has begun in zimbabwe with police and forcing some of the toughest measure seen in africa shops have been shut and Movement Restricted the countrys seen one death so far so with many countries in europe and lockdown the fight can take continues to