Residents, firefighters and police officers gathered in front of the Madison Hospital in Alabama, sounding sirens and flashing lights to show their support and appreciation for medical professionals working to combat the COVID-19 crisis.
In hard-hit New York City, 1,400 members of the police department have tested positive for the coronavirus, says New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.
Despite the large percentage of sick calls, Shea said there are still plenty of cops on corners and in cars. He did concede the department is"planning for all eventualities" should the number of infections within the NYPD climb. A member of Spain's UME wearing a protective suit to protect from the novel coronavirus stands next to a bus carrying patients infected with COVID-19 who are waiting to be transported from Gregorio Maranon hospital to a temporary hospital set up at the IFEMA convention center in Madrid, Spain, on April 1, 2020.
"The most important thing to know is that if you are aggressive about mitigation, you can get through to the other side and usually in about three weeks or so to hit your peak and start to see cases come down," he added."I feel confident that we can get through to the other side if we all cooperate and do our part together."Surgeon General Jerome Adams appears on "Good Morning America," April 1, 2020.Adams said they've asked the U.S.
"If you take one of those N95 masks, you may be taking it out of the hands of a health care worker who desperately needs it to care for patients," he added. The word has been removed from health information brochures distributed in schools, hospitals and workplaces, and state-run media are no longer allowed to use the word, according to independent news websiteTurkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov holds a Turkmen shepherd dog, locally known as Alabai, as he takes part in celebrations for the Day of the Horse in Ashgabat, April 28, 2018.
"Monitoring data has shown that some asymptomatic people have caused second-generation transmission among their close contacts, and they have set off a small number of clusters of infections," Chang Jile, head of the National Health Commission's disease control bureau, said on Tuesday, as quoted by state-run newspaper China Daily.
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