The World Health Organization has cited a 3.4% mortality rate, but numbers are expected to keep fluctuating, and the disease could actually prove deadly to only ~1% of victims
WASHINGTOn (AP) – President Donald Trump is putting a positive spin on the fallout from the coronavirus, saying a lot of people are staying in the United States and they’re shopping and staying in the hotels. Trump spoke with leaders of the airline industry on Wednesday at the White House. The executive spoke of steps […]
TEXAS (AP) – Federal health officials planned to drop off some cruise ship passengers at a shopping mall after their release from a two-week quarantine at a Texas air base, one of several reasons the city of San Antonio declared a public health emergency over the new coronavirus, a city spokeswoman said Tuesday. The city […]
NEW YORK (AP) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the wife, two children and a neighbor of a New York lawyer who is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19 have also tested positive for the disease. That increases the number of confirmed cases in the state to six. Yeshiva University, where one […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whom to believe on the coronavirus threat — the president saying one thing or the public health officials standing beside him and saying something a little different? President Donald Trump’s breezy talk Tuesday of a virus that’s “got the world aflutter” contrasts with the gravity and caution conveyed by federal scientists as […]
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s Health Ministry on Wednesday issued a directive ordering all 1,150 students at a high school in Givat Brenner, as well as dozens of people who attended a recent soccer match in Tel Aviv, to self-quarantine immediately due to possible exposure to the coronavirus. The move comes after the ministry announced on […]
CALIFORNIA (VINnews) – Los Angeles-area officials declared an emergency, saying they’ve discovered six new COVID-19 cases in the county over the last 48 hours. “I have just signed a proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. I want to reiterate that this is not a response rooted in panic,” Kathryn Barger, chairwoman of the […]
ROME (AP) – Italian media say the Italian government has ordered schools nationwide to close for the next two weeks to limit the spread of the coronavirus, but the country’s education minister says a final decision on the closure not yet been confirmed. State-run RAI, the ANSA and LaPresse news agencies reported Wednesday that Italian […]
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli health authorities have ordered everyone from a regional high school and dozens of soccer fans into home quarantine after their possible exposure to a teenage boy who tested positive for the coronavirus. The Health Ministry said it closed Brenner High School and told all students, teachers and staff members to quarantine […]
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