{"id":15549,"date":"2020-03-25T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15549"},"modified":"2020-03-25T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:12:21","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lees-covid-19-bulletin-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/03\/25\/tennessee-governor-bill-lees-covid-19-bulletin-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s COVID-19 Bulletin #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN<\/strong> – Today, Wednesday, March 24th, 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee provided an update on Tennessee\u2019s efforts regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) relief.<\/p>\n

Governor Lee\u2019s daily press conferences can be viewed live each day this week at 3:00pm CT here<\/a>. Governor Lee has also established a website specific to coronavirus (COVID-19) updates which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee<\/p><\/div>\n

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Key Updates<\/h3>\n

Tornado Disaster Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n

FEMA has approved Tennessee\u2019s disaster declaration for the remaining counties. All affected counties are now covered: Benton, Carroll, Davidson, Putnam, Smith and Wilson. Additional information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Administration Actions<\/h3>\n

CDC Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CDC has pledged $10 million for Tennessee\u2019s efforts to fight COVID-19. Tennessee has purchased additional testing capacity and supplies per guidance from the CDC.<\/p>\n

In looking at the testing response of other states, Tennessee continues to be a proportional leader compared to states much larger in the region.<\/p>\n

Child Care and Human Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of Human Services has deployed on the $10 million emergency response and recovery grants for existing child care facilities. A church, gym, or non-profit can open an emergency temporary child care facility by registering with the Department of Human Services. Additional information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Lee has directed the Department of Human Services to personally reach out to each existing child care facility in the state to help organizations secure supplies.<\/p>\n

Current Department of Health Testing Results (as of 2 p.m. 3\/25)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Laboratory Type<\/strong><\/td>\nPositive Test<\/strong><\/td>\nNegative Tests<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
State PH Lab<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n1,031<\/td>\n1,115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Non-State PH Lab<\/td>\n700<\/td>\n9,981<\/td>\n10,681<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n784<\/td>\n11,012<\/td>\n11,796<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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For more information on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Tennessee, please visit the Tennessee Department of Health\u2019s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Today, Wednesday, March 24th, 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee provided an update on Tennessee\u2019s efforts regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) relief. Governor Lee\u2019s daily press conferences can be viewed live each day this week at 3:00pm CT here. Governor Lee has also established a website specific to coronavirus (COVID-19) updates which can be found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[196,12333,197,1297,12675,12712,1907,528,529,549,284,4263,2840,261,513,769,3350,1935,2729,5455],"class_list":["post-15549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-benton-county","tag-bill-lee","tag-carroll-county","tag-cdc","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-davidson-county","tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","tag-fema","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-putnam-county","tag-smith-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-health","tag-tennessee-department-of-human-services","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-tornado","tag-u-s-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-wilson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15550,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions\/15550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}