following some concerns, but me pruden announced what he called a weeklong paid holiday from saturdayich prompted some to rush to book a vacation. a black sea resort was forced to shut down amid fears of the virus spreading. even then, some residents are skeptical of the danger. >> i personally think this is an ordinary, abnormal flu. everyone has to be sick with it to develop immunity. sooner or later, everyone w will go through coronavirus. panic is unnecessary. we just have to be sick with it once. reporter: in moscow, the epicenter of the russian outbreak, authorities are taking the threat seriously. they are constructing a new 500 bed hospital to o deal with thoe infected. new quarantine measures will be enforced by what the mayor calls a smart system of monitoring compliance -- a coy reference to the 170,000 surveillance cameras that have been fitted with controversial face recognition technology. has conductede its largest ever evacuation of coronavirus patients from the hospital, which has been hardest hit by the pandemic. the patients have been escorted hospitals in the west

emergency room doctor james pruden testing positive for coronavirus. the 70-year-old is now in isolation in patterson, new jersey. and tonight at the life care center in washington, 46 employees testing positive. in another emergency room, another doctor is positive. multiple workers at brigham and women's have now tested positive for covid-19. hospitals around the country now reporting both a spike in incoming patients and a shortage of critical protective equipment. crucial to protect themselves. hospitals scrambling to prepare for the onslaught. setting up tents outside emergency rooms. new york governor andrew cuomo calling on president trump to mobilize the military to build more hospitals. >> you will overwhelm the hospitals. you will have people on gurneys in hallways. that is what is going to happen now if we do nothing. >> reporter: another critical matter -- testing. people lining up in cars for drive-throughs. vice president pence repeatedly saying more tests will be available. >> by the weekend, another million tests will be shipped around

pruden at the kremlin -- with mr. pruden -- with mr. putin at the kremlin.c moment. guy? guy: a little later on today, we will get back to that conversation surrounding the fed. the conversation with robert kaplan at 5:30 p.m. in new york and 10:00 p.m. in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: guy johnson in london, tom keene in new york. some headlines coming out of opec, delegates forecasting opec is going to be cutting by 4.5 million barrels a day. did see an initial spike higher. the initial spike faded relatively quickly. we are back into positive territory but the markets concluding that 1.5 million may not be enough given the demand story we have been talking about drought this program. joint --rey currie of of goldman sachs is joining bloomberg later this morning. we look forward to that in the 7:00 hour. futures are -55 as well. we will get back to howard ward of gabelli in just a bit. right now in washington, looking at the linkage of all affixed to virology. mr. fitzpatrick could join us today. it must be something to watch medicine buttress up agains

james pruden testing positive for coronavirus.on in paterson, new jersey. at the life care center in king county, washington, 46 employees testing positive. in another nursing home in the same town where 15 people have died, a doctor in his 40s is infected. over 43 people have died in king county alone. hospitals around the country reporting a spike in incoming patients and a shortage of critical protective equipment, also crucial to protecting themselves. hospitals scrambling to prepare for the onslaught, setting up tents outside emergency rooms. another critical matter, testing. people lining up in cars for drive-thrus. vice president pence repeatedly saying more tests will be available. >> by the weekend, another 1 million tests will be shipped around the country. the expectation that the end of next week, 4 million tests will be shipped. >> reporter: but it's not as simple as just sending out the tests. the health care workers need to be in full protective gear. a number of states now saying they're concerned about a shortage

his colleague who he mentioned pruden,s ago today, jim is on the road to recovery. he's been off the ventilators few days and he gave me permission to say that. that's really good news to hear. we'll keep switching gears here. as we've discussed over the past workingdays we're also with our level one hospital systems and the u.s. army corps up threeers to stand field medical stations at the exhibition center in secaucus, the convention from in the atlantic city convention center. ande police personnel exposition center staff and union contractors i believe are unloading the first 250 bed field medical station as we speak. is happening quickly. having said all of that, i want to it.my voice we are mindful of the need for trained medical personnel to ensure proper staffing as we build out the new capacity. to have state blessed countless dedicated and committed healthcare workers, doctors and nurses and everyone in between and they have enough plates and we know we experienced for backup. today i am putting out a call for volunteers with qualified training and experie

president pruden was speaking ahead of the meeting of the cartel.ring in our energy reported. are seeing so much price volatility when it comes to the oil market at the moment. it is expected to be a very difficult year. some say we will see no demand growth when it comes to oil. are a lot of different factors going into what is happening with oil. we saw an a nor miss drop last week. you can see some folks buying now. ignore what vladimir putin said. there is definitely going to be some interest as to how much opec and russia cut in terms of their production when they meet this week. the expectation from analysts is they will make some kind of extension to cut. they could cut one million barrels a day. that could provide a lift for prices. that will all depend on the talks that happen this week. shery: how much of a nightmare scenario is this for opec plus? they weren't expecting this coming into the year. they were making their cut at the beginning of the year. they thought they would a -- be able to get into a balanced market later this year. tha

but the zeroes and ones of how pruden we are doing the work is notot important in practices and counteringdo. disinformation and the exposure we are trying to ppordo. we don't want to give our the inform itf opportunities to get ahead of us. >> i respect that, i respect that. do you see as part of your mission though, in releasing , that you are trying to dispel it undercut it kneecap, what is going on out? there >> best practices are not point counter point, it's rather to decrease co vulnerability and increase resiliencety a so by exposing we're trying to. do >> speci i understand, but is also with this specific be the r challenge of the coronavirus, there could be that dual purpose right? best practices,s, helping to empower other of folks, when you are exposing this, it defuses >> that is c of the misinformation as well. am i correct? >> that is correct and that is exactly why we did. it thank you you.. >> you said here, one of my first questions, was specifically the russians andngt they are growing sophisticated networks are trying to put out . disinformation about the coronavirus th