Washington Gov. Jay Inslee bumps elbows with a worker at a seafood counter amid a coronavirus outbreak in his state that has seen numerous deaths.
Health officials say vulnerable residents can go to locations like offices and grocery stores where “it is unusual for large numbers of people to be within arm’s length of one another,” but they advised senior centers and other similar facilities to cancel any planned large gatherings.New Hampshire health officials announced their state has a second presumptive positive case of the coronavirus: an adult male from Grafton County who was in contact with the initial patient.
Among the remaining 29 first responders, 19 confirmed they had direct exposure to the virus while responding to calls at a care facility.U.S. stock markets, after rebounding on Monday,That loss of 2.94% was mirrored closely by the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, which each tumbled by 2.81% and 2.99%, respectively.
Trump did not provide any specifics on what those measures would look like. When asked whether he was considering restricting domestic travel, Trump responded,"We are not looking at that at all, no." The woman is a California resident who tested presumptive positive after traveling to Italy with her sister, who was confirmed by the CDC as one of two positive cases in Hillsborough County on Monday.
Later this month, the U.S. was supposed to host a special Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Las Vegas, which brings together leaders from the bloc of Southeast Asian countries and others. A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department told ABC News that the administration and ASEAN partners had"made the difficult decision to postpone the ASEAN leaders meeting" indefinitely.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham tweeted a photo of the check from Trump to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. The check, in the amount of $100,000, is dated Jan. 29, 2020. Officials urged those with expected exposure to the virus to reach out to their health care provider by phone in order to avoid additional spreading.
The man has two children with a connection to New York City -- one who attends SAR Academy in Riverdale, who has no symptoms, and another who goes to school in New York City and has symptoms, De Blasio said. Both are being isolated at their home in Westchester County.1:10 p.m. New York's MTA to disinfect public transportation every 72 hours
Since Monday afternoon, NYC transit has disinfected 427 stations and thousands of buses and subway cars. The Metro-North has also disinfected 60% of its fleet and 64 of 124 stations. Two women leave Tokyo Disneyland on the day the park announced it will close until March 15 because of concerns over the COVID-19 virus, on Feb. 28, 2020 in Japan. A growing number of events are being cancelled or postponed around Japan while some businesses are closing or asking their employees to work from home.
"A lot of good things are happening and they're happening very fast. I said, 'Do me a favor, speed it up, speed it up,' and they will," Trump said during remarks at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference."They're working really hard and quick." Mary Cahill, left, leaves a news conference where officials discussed the proposal for housing coronavirus patients at the Fairview Development Center in Costa Mesa, Calif on Feb. 22, 2020. A Federal judge extended a restraining order stopping the U.S. government from moving forward with the plan on Feb. 24.12:45 p.m.
Individuals"of concern" may or may not require testing, said Westchester County Commissioner of Health Dr. Sherlita Amler. Iranian workers disinfect the Shrine of Fatima Masumeh in Qom, Iran, on Feb. 25, 2020, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 which has reached the country.Iran has the highest death toll outside China from COVID-19.
Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, said they are rapidly supplying public health labs with tests, but emphasized that public health labs only represent a small portion of all the tests run of respiratory samples during flu season and that the majority of people with respiratory symptoms don't get tested.
Ambulances are parked to transport patients with mild symptoms of the novel coronavirus in Daegu, South Korea, March 3, 2020. Israel had 10 confirmed cases of the newly identified virus as of Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization. A woman wears a face mask as she waits on the subway in Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., on March 2, 2020, after the first confirmed case of coronavirus was announced in New York state.
A man wears a mask as he walks near the New York Stock Exchange in the financial district in New York City, U.S., March 2, 2020. Travelers wearing protective face masks pull their suitcases while walking across the concourse at London Victoria train station in central London, U.K., on March 3, 2020. Fauci also warned it's"very likely" that more cases will be confirmed in the United States as the virus continues to spread on the community level.
A worker wears protective clothing as a preventive measure against the novel coronavirus as she watches over customers in a supermarket in Beijing, China, on March 3, 2020.However, the country is now seeing a spike in cases being imported back in from other virus-hit nations, such as Italy and Iran. South Korean soldiers in protective gear use a machine to spray disinfectant on visiting cars at Kyungpook National University Hospital in Daegu, South Korea, March 3, 2020.
Ukraine's Health Minister Zoriana Skaletska speaks with evacuees from coronavirus-hit China's Hubei province at a sanatorium in the village of Novi Sanzhary in Poltava region, Ukraine, in this picture obtained from social media on Feb. 24, 2020.
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