General assembly gets underway in new york tension between the u. S. And iran is set to dominate. Mali it marks 60 years of independence a day after a former defense minister was appointed interim president by the military job plus. When we receive lets say a dollar only 0. 25 maximum is what were able to use it by inflation aid agencies helping flood victims in sudan say their work is being hampered by an economic crisis. The anger on the colombian in the colombian capital as a march against Police Brutality turns violent. The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is accel raising globally but fewer people who get. Dying a 2nd look at the global picture focusing on the 5 countries that have seen the most deaths from the virus the u. K. Is 5th in the world more than 41000 people have died but its curve is going the wrong way the u. K. s Health Minister says that hospital admissions are doubling every 8 days across the atlantic nearly 200000 americans have d
The current drop in Vaccination Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. I would like to welcome everyone and go through some administrative matters that we do at the beginning after consulting with the attending physician, the sergeant at arms, cdc, health and Human Services, individuals are seated six feet apart. There is no room for the public to attend and the press is working as a pool and the hearing may be watched gaveltogavel online. Both of our witnesses, dr. Collins and Surgeon General adams are participating in person. Some are in person, some are participating by videoconference. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk in the microphone since our chairs are six feet apart or more. That is why my mask is off and i am more than six feet apart and when i am in a hall or walking on the senate floor, i wear my mask. We are grateful to the rules committee the sergeant at arms, th
And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple
Responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. Governor edwards and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to rise. More drastically than we would like. As of today, we have 1388 cases. And 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we r
For being with me. We will be here to take any questions related to testing. I want to start by thanking all of the state and local first responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. And certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night, i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to r