dent of 5 the 2nd stop and citizen journalism and that's to gays and trustees generate through transparent don't believe me there's the evidence. that truth and approach truth will come in soon on which is iraq. war. al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour of live from london i'm coming up in the next 60 minutes a grim day for europe as france and spain record their highest coronavirus death tolls in a single day with hundreds of fatalities in the past 24 hours. italy observes a minute's silence to honor these thousands who have lost their lives to cope with 19. latest figures show more people have now died in the united states from the

virus than in china. and india launches a search for a suspected corona virus cases after thousands attended a religious gathering potentially exposing them to the virus. a lot done in senegal but with limited access to clean water there are fears about how far infections could spread. hello the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spread across the globe with countries taking drastic measures to curb transmission and save lives both france and spain have recorded their highest death tolls in a single day since the outbreak began and the official u.s. death toll of nearly 3 and a half 1000 now exceeds china it's the 3rd highest global globally after italy and

spain and the world health organization says the epidemic is far from over in the asia pacific urging countries there to prepare for a large scale community transmission's a minute's silence has been held across italy to remember its nearly 12 and a half 1000 victims of the pandemic the country remains the hardest hit in the world paul brennan begins our coverage. it's really has lost more people to career . in a virus than any other country in the world their individual names risk being overlooked lost in the ever changing statistics of this pandemic but it noon in cities and towns across italy every single one of them was remembered local mayors stood on the steps of their town halls in a minute's silence it was an emotional gesture of solidarity an expression of tribute and then indication of hope and we see these emotion all the mayors have gathered together in a kind of hug most importantly near the places that are suffering the most but the

virus has been strongly as if it grief for people who died it is a sign of respect to their families and their small or big communities giving a message of hope. in the bleak madrid rain spain's grave diggers are going about their task with grim purpose the virus claimed another $849.00 lives here in the previous 24 hours lockdown means the burials are lonely and heartbreakingly brief efforts to combat the virus and save as many lives as possible increased by the day this conference center in madrid one of several such venues across europe being converted to ease the pressure on overcrowded hospitals the french president has visited a facemask factory in western france shortages of mask some protective gowns have left medical staff exposed to the virus with the global markets struggling to meet demand the president wants self-sufficiency i don't like these new provision of

fast before the crisis we are producing $3300000.00 masks per week by the end of april it will be more than $10000000.00 i mean we have tripled our production in just a few weeks and we will continue these efforts to increase our production capacity of that by the end of the year we will have full independence in producing the masks and not need to rely on other countries. the virus is also proving a challenge for the european union's democratic principles on monday the hungary and parliament granted prime minister viktor orban sweeping emergency powers to rule by decree without any time limits in brussels on tuesday the european commission president on the lane expressed grave concern in a statement read out by his spokesman any emergency measures must be limited to what is necessary and strictly proportionate the most not last indefinitely moreover governments must make sure that such measures are subject to regular

scrutiny coronaviruses change what might be considered normal there is nothing normal about europe streets being deserted about shops being closed about millions staying at home one day tourists will return to the tourist a fresh array and enjoy the panorama across paris of the eiffel tower for now though the disinfecting squads barely glance at the view in the effort to combat the virus there is no such time to waste paul brennan al-jazeera while the u.s. still has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world by far with over 175000 people infected the number of deaths has now passed 3000 more than the number of people killed in china american health officials are now considering whether to recommend people wear face masks to prevent transmission new york state remains the worst affected area and a temporary hospital has been set up in new york city's central park we are

planning now for the battle at the top of the mountain that's what we are doing. get a staffing plan ready now for the battle at the top of the mountain equipment stockpile now we're gathering equipment that we don't need today because today is not the day of the battle the battle is when we hit the apex depending on who you believe 14 days to 30 days from today. let's get updates from the rest of my kind of his joining us from washington so the governor of new york calling on people to clearly manage their expectations mike what are the latest numbers telling us. well indeed the latest numbers are showing that this is exponential continues to be exponential in the last few days it appears that this has finally occurred to the white house they've been looking at models handed to them by their health advisors looking at figures between 150 to more than

200000 fatalities over the next few weeks if not months so certainly this has been shot of cold water on any ideas that president had that this was going to be over sooner rather than later and the white house finally are reacting to the information that has been receiving from its medical sources hearing as well what the governors have been saying to the white house in a number of conversations that the situation is dire that any idea of heightened expectations must be dismissed at this particular point and done publicly so and mike will wait to hear what the president has to say shortly in fact this hour he'll be speaking with his task force on the corona do we expect him to unveil any new measures. and likely what we are expecting to hear from the president is what we've heard most days and outlining of the situation. there what tears administration is doing or indeed on many occasions how

will his administration is doing this and not think at the moment the date really was yesterday that was the day to which the white house the administration was going to give some kind of further timeline in terms of how it was going to deal with the social distancing measures well that has been decided certainly until the end of april at the absolute soonest so nothing new is likely to come out of the president's news conference however he is likely perhaps to. the details of the testing being conducted testing that he says is now widespread but many governors dispute this particular fact and this remains a single issue many of the governors are saying not enough people are getting tested and not enough people are being treated sufficiently well there are still not enough supplies such as ventilators in many of the states in particular in new york state so once again we are going to hear roughly what we've been hearing from president trump in recent days if indeed he takes the podium which most of us

thinks that he will. likely to be probably doubling down on the fact that things are going to be happening later easy's are going to be happening later rather than sooner all right mike thank you for the time being. all the total number of deaths in the u.k. rose by more than a quarter to more than $700.00 new figures announced earlier and a government minister admitted that was deeply shocking as the country's health service struggles to get a hold of enough vital equipment for a challenge reports on the situation in london. this is how we socialize now in 2020 a socially distance to birthday party for a 90 year old man in sheffield dennis richmond's neighbors found a way to celebrate while staying far enough apart to not spread coronavirus i still think you know long queues. to survive 90 years. you know welcome

to my home. but while dennis is still going strong new figures released by britain's national health service show a huge increase in covert 19 deaths $381.00 in 24 hours that's nearly doubled monday's tally. but these days the figures from the national health service may be undercounting u.k. deaths by say 20 percent because they're only tallying up the number of people who die inside britain's hospitals and new figures are starting to come out published by the office of national statistics they're slower to compile but they look at deaths anywhere anywhere where the death certificate registers covert 19 as a possible cause people dying in their homes or in care homes and the o.m.'s is counting more. the government is insisting the huge shortage of ventilators for critically ill patients will start being filled next week orders have been placed with consortium led by ford air bus the formula one racing teams including mclaren jian

aerospace and rolls royce and dyson's and i cannot this weekend the 1st of thousands of new ventilator devices will roll off the production line and be delivered to the n.h.s. next week the economic toll of all this continues to mount as 2 planes arrived at london's gatwick repatch relating britain's home from peru british airways shut down its operations at the airports it follows easy jet grounding its entire fleet on monday the u.k.'s airports like it city centers cafes museums restaurants and shops are almost completely empty rory chalons al-jazeera london. medical workers and the country's health service say they still lack of vital protective equipment sonja anderson is a doctor in london she's been self isolating and returns to work on wednesday she spoke to me earlier and says the u.k. should be following w.h.o. guidelines on personal protective equipment. there has been puppy and with not

having enough p.p. and many of us i do think many close to the mouth plus into the c.p.p. equipment being the short do you have enough but there still has been problems and it's been some confusion about who should be wearing the p.p. the full p.p.a. and in what circumstances and that needs to be addressed quickly and also i think there was a poke in the focus on the hospitals but i know that many working in the community so many about like me to say it and i say should passes them in the cabins and they seem to be have been so far neglected and haven't been given an adequate protection we also need to make sure that all of our health and. and it's not just about protecting our sympathy now health but also there's a risk without adequate equipment is the best we can then pos on the section and to the ends of the vulnerable patients well i think there needs to be some click idence and i think also when i guidance in the u.k. differs from the vehicle guidance then that creates more concern and confusion

among his and we also need to be thinking about it's not just about doctor the next is there are other kids in the health system and nothing should test and not also be in place that makes we need to make sure that everyone has the equipment that they need a 12 year old girl who tested positive for the corona virus is died in belgium becoming europe's youngest known victim of covert 19 doctors say the girl had a fever for 3 days and called her death a very rare occurrence more than 700 people have died from the virus in belgium the girl who has not been named as the 1st child victim in the country. the city of jenin germany is the 1st in the country to make face masks compulsory anyone using public transport or in a public building will have to cover their nose and mouth it follows austria's decision to require a supermarket shoppers to wear masks public health experts say face masks don't prevent the wearer from picking up the virus but can help stop an infected person

from passing it on. the committee to protect journalists is calling on governments to release imprisoned reporters during the coronavirus pandemic the group is launching a campaign on behalf of 250 jailed journalists including al jazeera hussein who has been detained in egypt for more than 3 years. describes the current situation as a matter of life and death journalists behind bars have no control over their surroundings and are often denied necessary medical care plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including deserted streets in africa's most populous city as 30000000 people find themselves living under lockdown. france germany on the u.k. sent medical aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s. sanctions.

but 1st india is tracking down thousands of people who attended a gathering of muslim leaders dozens of precipice of sin tests that positive for corona virus and at least 10 have died 700 have been sent to a quarantine center while hundreds more are in hospital india is under lockdown with people ordered to remain indoors until april 15th elizabeth purana is in new delhi and says the spread from the event has moved across india. we've still got buses taking people out of the mosque something like a 1000 people have been evacuated over the last 24 hours at least $24.00 have tested positive more than $400.00 have been showing symptoms and taken to hospital more than 800 have been put in quarantine and we know that 6 people who attended this religious gathering 6 indonesians because they were people from all over india and other countries 6 and deletions who traveled after the gathering was finished

from delhi to the southern state of telangana have since passed away and so too has muslim cleric in srinagar in indian administered kashmir so this has very much lead to states around the country on a manhunt something like 6 regions have cases with direct links to the congregation of the cases in the state of telling ghana are linked to what happened and so this is very much now being treated. as a hot spot to try and find others in the country that could be victims you know people who attended and could now be vectors for the virus or even though china and south korea appear to be winning their battles against the virus countries in the asia pacific have been warned to stay vigilant that comes as japan imposes travel restrictions and another surge of infections seen in singapore florence louis has more. who hunt china and where the virus began reported no new cases on

monday its 7th day in a row and nationwide over new cases reported when porter but the world health organization warns even for countries where the case they seem to be tapering off this is not the time to let their guard down its regional director for western pacific. says countries will have to adopt multiple approaches testing isolating and physical distancing to slow the spread of the virus. these measures. there is no. way. louder these measures i asked. me. more countries are tightening restrictions japan as citizens not to travel to 73 countries and regions or 3rd of all countries in the world cases have topped 2000

with 2 clusters emerging in tokyo over the past week last week china banned foreigners from entering the country after seeing a rise in imported cases in hong kong residents who've returned from abroad are monitored to ensure they don't break quarantine rules and also have found the mobile app sends me notifications ok janelle asks me to take a photo of my arm with a wristband at my home but i have no idea if anyone is really checking my response to malaysia which imposed strict measures on movement and closed its borders to foreigners to reaks ago will not require returning citizens to be quarantined at government centers instead of at home new zealand has extended a national state of emergency for another 7 days to provide the government powers and resources it needs to prevent the spread of coronavirus indonesian says it will ban all arrivals in transit by foreigners as the number of cases in deaths runs no one knows how long the pandemic will last but even after it's over its impact will

be felt for a long time the well bangs was case scenario estimates 11000000 people in the region could be forced into poverty florence 30 well nancy so as professor of public diplomacy a curator university of foreign studies and she says she's expecting a drastic rise in the number of cases in japan particularly in tokyo. i think it's been quite concerning to the outside world looking at japan that you pan has played this out as if it's some type of exception to the rule and just 2 weeks ago the tokyo metropolitan governor of kuwait day was saying there was not a chance that the olympics would be canceled that was a loss of time that you pay and needed 2 weekends ago people were out under the cherry blossoms and they were in mass gatherings in the naca mega row section

of tokyo where the where the blossoms were in full bloom and unfortunately that probably led to a lot of silent infection contact infection so we won't know until this coming week and just see if japan has been this exception but i doubt it and i'm sorry to say that but we're hearing reports from italy and spain and now japan could be next especially in tokyo a pastor in florida has been arrested for defying public health orders aimed at stopping the spread of the corona virus the state has more than 5000 confirmed cases and at least 63 deaths and the gallagher has more. there is no how the more then the constitution of the united states of america on sunday worship is typed into the river at tampa bay church despite

health warnings strict social distancing guidelines and a notice to close all but essential services its pastor rodney howard brown received several warnings from police before he was arrested on monday the authorities say his actions are a reckless disregard for human life shame on this pastor their legal staff and the leaders of this church for forcing us to do our job that's not what we want to do dorna declared state of emergency the church says it's building is sanitized and they can't push it as a part but the live stream of sunday service shows people breaking guidelines meant to prevent the spread of the coronavirus florida limits gatherings of more than 10 people including religious services lawyers for the church allege the enforcement is a form of discrimination but authorities disagree lastly i'd remind the good pastor of mark 1231 which says there is no more important commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself loving your neighbors as protecting them not jeopardizing their health

by exposing them to this deadly virus like many of the state's mega churches the river at tampa bay has the technology to broadcast services online but robbie howard brown is no stranger to controversy he says he can personally hero florida of the coronavirus is touted conspiracy theories and been described as an extremist authorities say he endangered the lives of thousands but he's not alone in louisiana hundreds of worship has defied bans on large gatherings in his state that could soon see hospitals overwhelmed he does it a lifetime and uncle church near baton rouge say they're not forcing anyone to worship but their actions have been condemned the code is unpredictable and we're learning new things about literally every day there are so many of. questions and answers why would you want to put up whatever it's like. in virginia one of the most prominent evangelical universities reopened its doors to students despite warnings at least one student is now contract of the coronavirus on monday the

state's governor ordered all higher education institutions to start on campus lessons the decision by some religiously just a flat warnings meant to slow the pandemic of being condemned as ignorant dangerous and irresponsible to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida medical staff across the u.s. are desperate for more face masks hospital gowns ventilators on other essential medical equipment dozens of companies are now overhauling factory lines to speed up the supply of these lifesaving items but as rob reynolds reports it takes time. as medical professionals struggle to treat thousands of coronavirus patients donald trump has repeatedly and inaccurately assured the public that vast amounts of vital supplies are readily available or will be provided soon we have tremendous numbers of ventilators been the masks and numbers of basques are incredible but the promised supplies aren't getting to many people who need them one indiana hospital

begged anyone with a sewing machine to start making masks makes you feel less helpless and it empowers you and heizer bush the world's largest beer maker is making medical grade hand sanitizer as is the much smaller alabama craft distillery yellow hammer the processes are pretty similar to what we were doing before so it wasn't a difficult swap the global haynes brand makes underwear and sports clothing now under contract with the government it's also making masks really. early manufacture so there were some socks and underwear the t. shirts sweat shirts so we can we can really create a gun to school we need to so we expect to make between 50000000 and 75000000 mass for the federal government with assembly lines shut down the ford motor company is collaborating with other big manufacturers general electric and 3 m.

to produce medical face shields using 3 d. printers the companies also hope to adapt auto air filters and other equipment to make critically needed ventilators and respirators last weekend president trump falsely said the companies were making respirators right now in fact full scale production is months away efforts by companies large and small will greatly help in the crisis but all those efforts take time and as the pandemic spreads rapidly time is one thing doctors nurses and patients haven't got robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. there when secretary general says the pandemic is the worst global crisis since the 2nd world war and trying to get terrorists once 10 percent of global g.d.p. to be allocated to fighting the virus our diplomatic editor james bass has more from the u.n. of course very regularly we hear from the u.n.

secretary general talking about the problems of the world but i think it's worth putting into some sense of proportion how seriously the u.n. is treating the coronavirus situation the u.n. this year celebrates its 75th birthday and the u.n. secretary general says this is the most difficult challenge the organization has faced in all that time since the 2nd world war it is a combination on my hands of a disease that represents a stress to everybody in the walls and seconds because it does have he has an economic impact that will bring a reception every session that probably is not parallel in the recent past the combination of the effects and there is that it contributes to. you know this is that it is a knows him best and it has conflict are scenes that make as believe that this is

indeed the most challenging crisis we have faced since the 2nd world war the secretary general says that funding is urgently needed particularly for some of the poorest countries on earth he remarked that in the united states congress raise some 2 trillion dollars in the bill that's about 10 percent of the american economy he said the world needed something on a similar scale about 10 percent of global g.d.p. to fight the virus and the economic and social effects of the virus. still ahead on the news hour anxiety in the slums of manila as residents warn the pandemic threatens their food supply and the company and gaza hiring more stuff to meet the huge demand for medical clothing and fear is a wider outbreak could devastate the territory.

we've got something of a north south split in the weather across ship it's the law as you drive it cold across northern parts the fair bit of sunshine as well for some further south also of cloud imply we've got these 2 areas of low pressure one in the eastern side of the madam one of its warts a spite post-school where we have seen some very heavy rain recently not a little system this one that's been producing some big downpours particularly across eastern parts of spinal when statements like another wet day there are weather just pushing up towards the northeast towards boss line for example so we could see some flooding in parts. not higher than around 13 celsius it without 13 there for paris been a good 10 degrees in london meanwhile for moscow a top temperature of just 4 degrees celsius thursday it warms up a touch in moscow was across many parts of northern europe pashley west the weather across the eastern parts of spain i would make its way out into the body areas

western side of the but it's right and notice some wet and windy and it's as wintry weather just making its way away from greece southern parts of the balkans into well the parts of africa generally dry across the northeast actually but a fair bit of cloud here of course spinning out of that system that we have just around the iberian peninsula so some rain there for north america the northern area . of. the u.s. census it only happens once every 10 years but as. the coronavirus pandemic grips the world will americans be required to take part in account during a national emergency and will donald trump's anti immigration rhetoric deter some from participating follow the u.s. census on al-jazeera. overthrown and exiled they appoint and can say if you all don't dismiss me to you i mean to my film about the struggle of the

elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency he knows that the truth is for spying and we did nothing to do you think he is the 40 in the morning with interesting things return of the president on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. television you're watching al-jazeera we're taking your life to washington where

the u.s. president alongside his coronavirus task force are getting their daily briefing that's the senate rate their actual trial unlike any we have ever faced before you will see it you see it probably better than most the word war with a deadly virus success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength love and devotion very important each of us has the power. through our own choices and actions to save american lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us that's why we really have to do what we all do is right every citizen is being called upon to make sacrifices every business is being asked to fulfill its patriotic duty every community is making fundamental changes to how we live work and interact each and every day and i wouldn't be surprised to see

this going on long into the future when this virus is god and defeated some of the things we're doing now will be very good practice for the future including for not getting the flu which is very devastating also so some of what we're learning now will live on into the future i really believe that shaking hands or not shaking hands washing hands all the time staying a little apart 15 days ago we published our nationwide guidelines to slow the spread of the virus on sunday and then it's that this campaign will be extended until april 30th. dr burk's will explain the data that form the basis for a decision. to extend the guidelines and dr fouts you will explain why it's absolutely critical for the american people to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days it's

a matter of life and death frankly it's a matter of life and. i know our citizens will rise to the occasion and they already have sacrificed a lot we had the greatest economy in the history of our country with the greatest economy in the world we had the best unemployment numbers and employment numbers that we've ever had by far and in one instant we said we have no choice but to close it up. just as americans have always done they will do a job like few have seen before and they're proud to do it and i see that there's a great pride going on right there. before we hear from our experts we have a few other announcement today the treasury department and small business administration announced further details on the paycheck protection program

which was made possible by the 2 trillion dollar relief bill i signed into law last week. nearly $350000000000.00 in loans will soon be available through lending partners to help small businesses meet payroll and other expenses for up to 2 months these loans will be forgiven as long as businesses keep paying their workers this includes sole proprietors and independent contractors applications will be accepted starting this friday april 3rd so on friday april 3rd that's what it begins. earlier today i spoke with leading internet and phone providers who are doing a tremendous job of keeping our internet in the lines of communication flowing under very strongly increased strain the business is more than anybody seen before because everyone's inside they're all making calls among the leaders i spoke to

were pawns vestberg of arise in communications randall stephenson of a t.n.t. mike sievert of t. mobile thomas rutledge of charter communications brian roberts of comcast john malone of liberty media dexter goyette of all t s michael coms of sprint. and araya berkoff of lie entry also pat s. air of cox communications and jeffrey story of. century link. they're doing an incredible job if you look at other continents if you look at europe they want a different route than we did and much different we were talking about that just a little while ago and they're having tremendous problems other countries are having problems other continents are having problems but with business at

a level that nobody's seen it before on the internet it's holding up incredibly well and they expect that to continue no matter what happened and no matter how much more it gains which it can gain more than it already is i don't know because the setting records let me also update you on the distribution of urgency needed resources and supplies and we have a lot of numbers i'm going to let mike pence speak to that in a little while but we're giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states we also are holding back quite a bit we have. almost $10000.00 ventilators that we have ready to go we have to hold them back because the surge is coming and it's coming pretty strong and we want to be able to mediately move it into place without going in taking it so we're ready to go and we've also distributed i just spoke with governor of michigan had

a great conversation and we sent a large number of ventilators to michigan we're sending them to louisiana we sent additional ventilators to new york additional ventilators to new jersey and i will say in new york fema is supplying 250 ambulances and 500 employees to help respond to the increasing caseload. that's a lot of ambulances in california the army corps of engineers is developing 8 facilities to expand hospital capacity up 250000 beds 50000 and had a great conversation last night with gavin newsom he's doing is doing a really good job we were in constant communications the u.s. and has mercy hospital ship is now operational it's in los angeles and receiving

patience and in new york as you know the comfort everybody wants that. it's in place and will be very short while receiving large numbers of patients over a 1000 rooms and 12 operating rooms fim is also provided 100 travel trailers to assist with housing needs and we're ordering hundreds more in michigan fema will soon. deliver in addition to the ventilators 250 bed field hospital an army corps of engineers is evaluating locations to build alternate care facilities so we're doing a field hospital in michigan of 250 beds so we may be doubling that up so depending on the need they're doing a good job with with beds in michigan but they may need more than the 250 so fema and the army corps of engineers are prepared to go there quickly and get it done in

louisiana we're delivering 2 field hospitals to provide 500 new hospital beds i've been talking with the governor john bell edwards and the army corps of engineers has been. really doing incredible work establishing 3000 bed alternate care site at the new orleans convention center which will be operational believe it or not this week so we're doing the 3000. bed alternate care site and we're also doing a 500 bed new hospital. and that's in louisiana which really got hit it started off very late and it was looking good and then all of a sudden it just reared up came from nowhere in addition to the supplies we're delivering we're also giving hospitals the flexibility to use new facilities including surgical care centers to care for hospital patients who are not infected

for example i know that many expectant mothers are understandably concerned about exposing their newborn babies to the virus and they should be with their action yesterday hospitals now have the authority to create special areas for mothers to deliver their babies in a very safe and healthy environment totally separate. over the past 2 months the u.s. state department has organized one of the largest and most complex international evacuation operations in american history mike pompei always been working round the clock along with ambassador o'brien since january 29th we have successfully repatriated over 25000 americans from more than 50 countries where they were literally stuck in some cases locked in and i salute the incredible public servants at the department of state as well as their counterparts at d h s

n h h s who have played such an important role in doing this you probably read about the young people in peru and young people in brazil. and they were absolutely stuck and we got them out. and most everybody is out now back home with their parents their wives their husbands i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead we're going to go through a very tough 2 weeks and then hopefully as the experts are predicting as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard you can start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful 2 weeks when you look and see at night. the kind of death that's been caused by this invisible enemy

it's it's incredible i was watching last night. governor murphy of new jersey say 29 people died today meaning yesterday and others talking about numbers far greater but you get to know a state i know in new jersey so well and 29 people and hundreds in other locations hundreds in other states and this is going to be a rough 2 week period as a nation we face a difficult few weeks as we. approach that that really important day when we're going to see things get better all of a sudden and it's going to be like a burst of light i really think and i hope their strength will be tested in our enduring it will be tried. but america will answer with love and courage and ironclad resolve this is the time for all americans to come together and do our part. i appreciate a lot of the media we've had

a lot of really good things said i think only good things can be said when you look at the job that's been done and just broke with franklin graham was an extraordinary person and. samaritan's purse has been like so many others just been amazing and so fast they did it sell fast. he's been doing that for a long time but i think people are really. seeing what they have. franklin graham a very special family as we said the plane loads of masks and gloves and supplies to the communities battling the plague and that's what it is the plague we also send our prayers we pray for the doctors and the nurses for the paramedics and the truck drivers and the police officers of the sanitation workers and above all the people fighting for their lives in new york and all across our land i watched as

doctors and nurses went into a certain hospital in elmhurst this morning i know elmhurst queens at so i grew up right next to it. i know the hospital very well and seeing it all my life my young life. and i will tell you that. to see the scenes of trailers out there. and what they're doing with those trailers. their freezers and nobody could even believe it and spoke to some of my friends i can't believe what this ng and i watched the doctors and the nurses walk into that hospital this morning it's like military people going into battle going into war the bravery is incredible and i just have to take my hat. i would take my head of all where i had

a grip that i had off so fast that i would say you people are just. incredible they really are they're very brave they're going in and they don't know you have. lots of things flying around in the air you don't know what you're touching is it safe. and you also see where your friends are go into the spittle and you say how how is he doing 2 days later they say series unconscious was in a coma. so. things are happening that we've never seen before in this country and with all of that being said the country's come together like i've never seen it before and we will prevail we will win. and hopefully it will be in a relatively short period of time with that i'd like to ask dr burk's to come up and show you some of the lattice because the data that has been. i think

brilliantly put together and right after that i'm going to ask dr felt you to speak and mike pence is going to give you some of the recent events that have taken place and some of the statistics that we have that i think will be very interesting here thank you very much this and. thank you mr president on if i could have the 1st slide please. so always and that's what this slide is labeled is goals of community mitigation really highlighting that this begins in the middle in the and with community this community and the community of the american people that are going to have to do the things for the next 30 days to make a difference i think you know from that large blue mountain that you can see behind me and i just want to thank the 5 or 6 international. and domestic modelers from

harvard from columbia from northeastern from and period all who helped us tremendously it was their models that created the ability to see what these mitigations could do how steeply they could depress the curve from that giant blue mountain down to that more a stippled area. in their estimates they had between 1500000 and 2200000 people in the united states succumbing to this virus without mitigation. yet through their detailed studies and showing us what social distancing would do what people would what would happen if people stayed home what would happen if people weren't careful every day to wash their hands and worry about touching their faces. what extraordinary thing this could be if every american followed these and that takes us to that stippled mountain that's much lower a hill actually down 210-220-0000 deaths which is still way too much

sex life. simultaneously there was a model or out of the university of washington that modeled from cases. utilizing the experience around the globe to really understand how this information that we have from italy and spain and south korea and china could really help us give insight into the hospital needs the ventilator needs and really the number of people who were attention we could come to this illness it is this model that we are looking at now that provides us the most detail of the time course that is possible but this model assumes full mitigation it's informed every morning or every night by the reality on the ground coming in from new york new jersey and around the united states and is modeled and informed every morning so

that it is adjusted so it is up to date every day. this is the model of the predicted fatalities and mortality in the united states and as the president said it's very much focused on the next 2 weeks and the stark reality of what this virus will do as it moves through communities next slide please. but this is a slide that gives us great hope and understanding about what is possible on the bottom of the slide where you can barely see that blue line at the very bottom that's the current. cases in california the cumulative cases in california where they're doing significant testing the next line up is connecticut the orange line is new jersey the blue line is new york the yellow line is washington we all remember washington state it was just a month ago when they started to have the issues in washington state but they

brought together their communities and their health providers and they put in strong mitigation methods and testing and you can see what the results in washington state and california is but without the continuation for the next 30 days anything could change next life. so i'm sure you're interested in seeing all the states so on this slide is all 50 states and the district of columbia but i think it shows in stark reality the difference between new york and new jersey and other states with similar populations and urban areas. our goal over the next 30 days is to ensure that the states that you see the 48 across the bottom maintain this lower level of new cases with the hope that we don't have significant

outbreaks in other states and other metro areas as the community comes together to work together and ensure that the health care providers around the globe and in the united states are strengthened by our resolve to continue to mitigate community by community this is done community by community we all know people are in their states and in their communities and we're very dependent on each person in the united states doing the same thing following the presidential guidelines to a tee i know it's a lot to ask because you've done it for 15 days so if you can show the next slide please. so this is what gives us a lot of hope this is the case finding in italy and you can see that they're beginning to turn the corner in new cases they're entering their 4th week of full mitigation and showing what is possible when we work together as

a community as a country to change the course of this pandemic together. it is this graphic and the graphic of many of the states that gives us hope of what is possible with continuing for another 30 days and midst all that hope i must say that like we warned about detroit and chicago we start to see changes in massachusetts new orleans continues to be a problem of new cases though there stabilizing and i think it really shows the depth of dedication of the american people to the health care providers because they can see the strain that this puts on every nurse doctor respiratory therapist pharmacists and laboratory technician that's working together to stem this tide of on relenting sick people coming to their doors no one has been turned away no one who has needed ventilation has not received ventilation but you can see how

stressful it is i'm for each of them so i know it's stressful to follow the guidelines but it is more stressful and more difficult to the soldiers on the frontline as we started in and with it's communities that will do this there's no magic bullet there's no magic vaccine or therapy it's just behaviors each of our behavior is translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days thank you. thank you very much dr burk's mr president was the vice president so what dr burk's has really said very simply is that there are really 2 dynamic forces that or opposing each other here as i've mentioned several times in our briefings the virus if left to its own devices will do that dark curve that dr burk's showed you the

other dynamic force is what we are doing we're trying to do and what we will do in the form. of mitigation now these are very revealing bits of data because you saw what happened in italy where you make the turn around the curve and you go that doesn't happen all at once it's a step wise fashion and if i explain the steps which i will you'll see why we are really convinced that mitigation is going to be doing the trick for us because what you have is you have an increase in new cases at a certain rate when the increase in new cases begin to level off the secondary effect is less hospitalisations the next effect is less intensive care and the next effect is less deaths the deaths and the intensive care in the hospital is ation always lag behind that early indication that there are less new cases per

day the way we saw in italy and the way we're likely seeing i don't want to jump the gun on it we're seeing little inklings of this right now in new york so what we're going to see and that's we've got to brace ourselves in the next several days to a week or so we're going to continue to see things go up we cannot be discouraged by that because the mitigation is actually working and will work the slide that dr burke showed where you saw in new york and new jersey and then the cluster of other areas our goal which i believe we can accomplish is to get that hot spot places the new yorks the new jersey and help them to get around that curve but as importantly to prevent those clusters of areas that have not yet gone to that spike to prevent them from getting that spike and the answer to that is mitigation

now the 15 days that we had of mitigation clearly have had an effect although it's tough to quantitative because of those 2 opposing forces. but the reason why we feel so strongly about the necessity of the additional 30 days is that now is the time when every you're having in effect not to take your foot off the accelerator and on the brake but to just press it down on the accelerator and that's what i hope and i know that we can do over the next 30 days and as i said the other day and on one of the one of the interviews we are a very strong and resilient nation if you look at our history we've been through some terrible or deals this is tough people are suffering people are dying it's inconvenient from a societal standpoint from an economic standpoint to go through this but this is

going to be the answer to our problems so let's all pull together and make sure as we look forward to the next 30 days we do it with all the intensity and force that we can thank you. thank you mr president dr burk's and dr felt she i know i speak on behalf of the president. people all across this country when i express our great admiration for shushan to both of you for helping to steer our nation through this challenging time. american people have now seen what the president saw when he made the decision at the end of 15 days to slow the spread to ask the american people to give us 30 more days to continue to put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines for america and as you just heard from the experts we have reason to

believe that it's working. as dr felt he just said there are difficult days ahead. our hearts and our prayers go out to the families that have lost loved ones and those 'd as the president has reflected who we know are struggling at this hour and hospitals across the nation. but to each and every one of us do not be discouraged because what you can do to protect your health the health of your family what you can do to ensure that our our health care providers have the resources and our hospitals have the capacity to meet this moment is put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines for america it really is what every american can do 30 days to slow the spread 30 days to make a difference in the lives of the american people american families and the life of

our nation. allow me to give you a few brief updates before the president takes questions. first and foremost we continue to work very closely with governors around the nation the president i spoke to all the governors all the states and territories yesterday and since we were last together the president and i've spoken directly to several governors around the country including illinois louisiana michigan new york and other states at the present moment the president's declared 29 major disaster declarations and authorized at 10 different states to use full federal funding so called title 32 funding to pay for their national guard and as of this afternoon fame reports some 17000 national guard have been activated in states around the country to provide support for coronavirus response on the subject of testing we have now completed more than 1100000 tests around the country we're working very closely with

governors around america to to assist them in drive through and community testing centers i spoke with governor j.b. pritzker of illinois today of about a testing center that they've established in cooperation with the u.s. public health service we remind every governor and every laboratory and hospital in the country it's imperative that you continue to report daily to the c.d.c. the results of those tests to give us the visibility on the data to best inform resource decisions also we we reiterated today to governors in person and and also through correspondence to every governor the importance of using their national guard if need be to move medical supplies fim is very busy as you here in a moment delivering literally millions of supplies to states around the country but we're urging every governor to make sure to work with their state mayor emerged.