A tulip grower in the Netherlands has named a new variant of tulip—a mix of red and yellow tulips—'stay strong' as a tribute to health care workers and transformed a field of 3 to 4.5 million of the flowers to display the phrase.
from the nearly two-decade-long Vietnam War is 58,220. That number includes several deaths after the conflict's end in 1975.5:14 p.m.: Illinois reports highest daily death toll
He continued to say that the representative took the matter to court only to"see his name in headlines." Pritzker added that he was taking the matter"very seriously."the state's plan to reopen the economy in four gradual stages. Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks at a news conference where she announced new plans for the stay-at-home order and other measures to help combat the coronavirus pandemic, April 28, 2020, in Augusta, Maine.
"While this plan presents a path forward for gradually and safely restarting our economy, it should not lure Maine people into thinking that this pandemic is almost over or that things will be back to normal soon," Mills said in a statement.
A funeral worker is assisted moving a deceased patient into a van at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, April 27, 2020, in Brooklyn. A pregnant woman wearing a protective suit and a mask crosses the streets in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, April 27, 2020 in New York City.Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced that the state's stay-at-home order will be extended until May 18.Baker said although the number of new cases in the state has flattened and hospitalizations are no longer climbing, it's still not enough to safely reopen the state.
Gov. Kay Ivey made the announcement Tuesday, saying the current"stay-at-home" order will expire on Thursday. It will be replaced with a"safer-at-home" order. People watch as U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration teams participate in a midday flyover of New York City region as part of the "America Strong" tour of U.S. cities to honor first responders and essential workers during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the U.S. April 28, 2020.The governor said when it comes to reopening the state, hospitals must be below 70% capacity and the transmission rate cannot be at 1.
In terms of the state's tracing capacity, Cuomo said the current recommendation is at least 30 tracers per 100,000 people and isolation facilities for someone to stay in after testing positive. The Olympic and Paralympic Games originally slated to kick off this summer in Tokyo were rescheduled to start next summer due to the global health crisis.
Adm. Brett Giroir, the official in charge of the White House's coronavirus testing efforts, responded to backlash over the federal government's new guidelines for states to ramp up testing and expand rapid response programs. "Our team has contacted and are working with every single state, D.C., Puerto Rico to define really the specifics of what that state needs according to their state reopening plan," Giroir, who is the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Tuesday on"Good Morning America.
"On the supply chain related to testing, there will be a DPA action today but it's not one of the forceful DPA actions," he said."It's a hand-up, it's an investment in American industry that will greatly expand the testing we need, some of the testing supplies, so that particularly by fall when we may have COVID circulating with influenza and need drastically more tests than we have now, we'll have the supplies that we need.
"QuestDirect is self-pay, but if your personal physician orders the test on your behalf it can go through insurance like any other test," Quest Diagnostics spokesperson Kim Gorode told ABC News on Tuesday.
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