CDC Employee Tests Positive For Covid-19, House Leaders ‘Indefinitely’ Postpone Return To Washington: Live Updates
Summary:
- Australia prepares 2nd stimulus package
- Canada closes borders to foreign travelers
- Dutch PM says experts believe ‘most’ citizens will catch virus
- House leaders postpone return to Washington ‘indefinitely’
- New Jersey reports 80% jump in cases
- Italy reports another 3,233 cases, 349 deaths
- France orders people to stay home for 15 days
- CDC says employee has tested positive
- EU finance ministers announce ‘coordinated fiscal response’ worth 1% of GDP
- White House releases new ‘national guidelines’ to stop virus
- San Francisco earmarks $10M for those who miss work due to outbreak
- SF mayor orders residents to shelter in place beginning at midnight
- 6 Bay Area counties to issue ‘shelter in place’ order
- Actor Idris Elba tests positive
- WH conference set for 3:30pmET
- G-7 releases communique about ‘coordinated’ virus response
- Trump tells governors to try and get their own respirators
- Washington State shuts down bars, restaurants for 2 weeks
- First cases confirmed in Tanzania, Somalia
- Ohio requests to delay primary until June 2
- Russia ‘limits’ entry of foreigners
- UK reports 18 new deaths, asks citizens to avoid all non-essential contact and travel, but avoids public closures
- Chile tightens borders, bans foreigners from entry
- Kudlow teases helicopter money; Romney pushes plan to hand every US adult $1,000
- Cuomo warns US might not succeed in flattening the curve enough
- Lombardy reports smallest jump in new cases since beginning of outbreak
- Greenland reports first case
- Google’s virus website booked up on first day of operation
- Moscow bans all events with more than 50 people
- Top Iranian cleric dies
- Germany closes restaurants, bars, gyms and nightclubs until further notice.
- EU Commission bars “non-EU citizens” from entering the area, but refuses to cave on internal controls
- NY, NJ, Conn bar large gatherings
- Israel mulls national lockdown
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