Through the maze or in the area. People are getting more restless the south bay does have clearing and getting out more despite the health directors. Where it says milpitas. There were 38 new cases reported more detail, back to you. Yesterday. And back here live, theaters, just like the one across the street here, are some of the happening now more protests last on the list to reopen. Nationwide and, of course, here in the bay area. Calling for the defunding and no date yet set on when theaters will be allowed to reopen. The dismantling of Police Departments. Im sharon katsuda, today in tracie potts is in washington the bay. With a look at how this is all right, sharon, thank you. Resonating at the nations capital. Good morning, tracie. Reporter kris, good morning. Its created an essential a long list of businesses can reopen as long as they meet those new health restrictions. Question, should cities like oakland and San Francisco put more money into Law Enforcement wineries and bars,
Closed until may 4. Gov. Hogan thank you all for abbott thank you all for joining with us here today. Let me start out by expressing my gratitude to all of our fellow texans for your tremendous efforts that you made over the past few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. By staying at home, by reducing personal interactions. You are saving lives and you are improving the health of people across our entire state. Let me give you some updated information and then go into more deto determine whether or not someone has covid19. As of noon today, 42,923 texans have been tested for covid19. Of those tested, 3266 have confirmed positive for covid19. Now, there are 122 counties in the state of texas that have at least one reported case of covid19. Very importantly, if you look at the number of people who are hospitalize, we still have only 2. 4 of the hospital beds available in the state of texas for covid19 patients are occupied. Meaning that 97. 6 of those available beds still remain
Governor abbott first, i want to thank everybody for being here today. As i provide you an update on where we are as of today, as well as some new additional information. First, i want to let you know hat as of today, the Texas State Health Department Says that the state of texas now has tested positive 715 texans, testing positive for covid19. Once again, the number that the state Health Department provides differs a little bit from the figures that are provided by Johns Hopkins. The reason for that is because Johns Hopkins provides some additional cases that may not yet be confirmed. The two numbers are working close and parallel. The state department pronounces 715 people have tested positive. Johns hopkins counts 810. Its my understanding that Johns Hopkins also includes in their numbers those who have been brought into the state of texas from those cruise ships. The number of deaths as of today is now 11. The number of counties affected by this is now 65. And the total number of t
Thank you all for joining with us here today. Let me start out by expressing my gratitude to all of our fellow texans for your tremendous efforts that you made over the past few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. By staying at home, by reducing personal interactions. You are saving lives and you are improving the health of people across our entire state. Let me give you some updated information and then go into more detail. One thing that we continue to do we continue to administer more tests to determine whether or not someone has covid19. As of noon today 42,923 texans have been tested for covid19. Of those tested, 3266 have confirmed positive for covid19. Now there are 122 counties in the state of texas that have at least one reported case of covid19. Very importantly, if you look at the number of people who are hospitalize, we still have only 2. 4 of the hospital beds available in the state of texas for covid19 patients are occupied. Means that 97. 6 of those available be
I want to let you know where we stand in regards to the state response to the coronavirus. I am very proud that the state response is being led by the Texas State Health services commissioner, dr. John. He and his team worked closely with the Texas Division of Emergency Management to coordinate the response to covid19. Going back, from the very beginning, i began working on first this in midjanuary. I talked to Vice President pence, and the day after that, i talked to President Trump about the very first person who contracted covid19 in the u. S. A couple days later, january 24, the department of state Health Services began leading daily calls with Public Health authorities, health care providers, city and county officials and School Districts across the state of texas. The next week on january 31, the department of state Health Services activated the state medical operations center. That was followed by the dh the dsh s opening 10 Public Health labs to perform covid19 testing througho