1 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases In U.S.; Labs Struggle To Test Faster
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🗓️ 28 April 2020
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Nationwide social distancing guidance runs through April 30. After that, what happens is up to individual states.
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| 0:00.0 | At this point, national social distancing guidance is supposed to end on Thursday. |
| 0:05.2 | So, what happens after that? |
| 0:07.8 | We have to coordinate as a region. |
| 0:10.0 | Governor Andrew Cuomo says, in New York, local leaders will play a role within the states |
| 0:15.2 | and states will have to work together. |
| 0:17.3 | So, everybody in that region has to have the same policy when it comes to schools, |
| 0:21.6 | when it comes to transportation, when it comes to testing, when it comes to tracing. |
| 0:25.4 | As of today, the United States has recorded more than 1 million cases of COVID-19 |
| 0:31.4 | that's according to Johns Hopkins University, coming up why it's so hard for some labs to process tests |
| 0:38.5 | and know how many cases there actually are. |
| 0:41.4 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Tuesday, April 28. |
| 0:50.2 | Thank you very much. We're with the Governor of Florida. |
| 0:53.5 | The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, stopped by the Oval Office on Tuesday. |
| 0:57.5 | Sort of a little bit of an unplanned meeting and then we said, |
| 0:59.8 | well, let's bring in the press and talk to him if you'd like. |
| 1:02.0 | The Governor seemed to suggest he would announce some kind of limited reopening in his state soon. |
| 1:07.8 | I've worked with the White House on kind of going to phase one. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm going to make an announcement tomorrow, |
| 1:12.6 | which is something that on Monday, the President encouraged governors to do. |
| 1:17.4 | We recommend that they do it as quickly as possible, but safely. |
| 1:20.8 | We want everyone to be safe. |
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