Tate on Virus

Governor Tate Reeves says while the coronavirus could have some impact on the Magnolia state, he doesn't believe the effects will be widespread or long term.

Governor tate reeves says while the coronavirus could have some impact on the magnolia state, he doesn't believe the effects will be widespread or long term.

Reeves says state agencies and business leaders are carefully monitoring the outbreak that started in china.

Furniture manufacturers and other businesses get some parts and supplies from china and governor reeves says there may be some initial impact on shipments of goods.

However, he says he believes mississippi manufacturers have plans in place to deal with any issues the coronavirus may cause.

"just in the last two or three days, the stock markets in us have declined in value fairly significantly, and a big reason for that is not only the inability to get those in china who are producing product to do so, it's also, china is a very large percentage of the world's population, so as consumers, if they are shut down and not working and not earning wages, fear is global demand will decline as well.

Again, it's all speculation at this point and we will have to navigate our way through it , but i'm confident in the american worker and certainly the mississippi worker and in long term i think we will be just fine."

So far there have been no reported cases of coronavirus in mississippi.