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U.S. NEWS Monday 23 March 2020

New York to shut down as it becomes next virus hot spot

Continued from Front in cases was likely coming.
The world kept shutting
But Fauci and other emer- down too. The long-haul
gency officials did not give airline Emirates — a major
hard figures on the num- East-West carrier — said it
ber of masks or anything will suspend all passenger
else on their way. New flights beginning Wednes-
York Gov. Andrew Cuomo day over the outbreak. Sin-
urged federal officials to gapore said it will fully shut
step in quickly as hard-hit its borders beginning Tues-
states outbid each other day. Sunday was Mother's
for ever scarcer supplies, Day in Britain and the go-
sometimes doubling or tri- vernment had a stark mes-
pling prices. sage for millions: Visiting
In Washington, negotia- your mother could kill her.
tors from Congress and Instead of parties, lunch
the White House resumed or tea, Prime Minister Boris
top-level talks on a $1.4 Johnson implored Britons to
trillion economic rescue call Mom on a video chat.
package, urged by Presi- Doctors in Britain made ur-
dent Donald Trump to strike gent pleas for more protec-
a deal to steady a nation tive equipment as the num-
upended by the coronavi- ber of coronavirus patients
rus pandemic. Trump ap- A subway customer wears protective gloves and a face mask due to COVID-19 concerns while in U.K. hospitals soared to
peared confident about walking along an empty train platform at the Cortlandt Street station, Saturday, March 21, 2020, in more than 5,000. Almost
the nation's ability to defeat the Brooklyn borough of New York. 4,000 medical workers sig-
the pandemic soon even Associated Press ned a letter to the Sunday
as health leaders acknow- double the current number. Elsewhere in the world, the In Croatia, a strong Times saying front-line staff
ledged that the U.S. was Meanwhile, de Blasio urged coronavirus raged on. Italy earthquake measuring 5.3 felt like "cannon fodder."
nowhere near the peak of New York City to shut down and Iran reported soaring near Zagreb caused the They warned that medics
the outbreak. at 5 p.m. Sunday except for new death tolls. evacuation of hospitals would die if they did not re-
Worldwide, more than essential services and wor- Italian Premier Giuseppe and widespread damage. ceive better equipment.
316,000 people have been kers. But with the danger Conte went on live TV to Health Minister Vili Beros In Spain, Europe's hardest-
infected and nearly 13,600 an invisible virus instead of announce that he was warned people fleeing hit country after Italy, in-
have died, according to billowing smoke or blowing tightening the country's their homes to avoid con- tensive care units in some
Johns Hopkins University. snow, New Yorkers were still lockdown. Italy now has gregating in public places. areas were close to their
About 150 countries now gathering in large groups in more than 59,000 cases "Earthquakes are dange- limits even before Sunday's
have confirmed cases, and parks, playing basketball or and 5,476 deaths. rous, but coronavirus is new tally of more than
deaths have been repor- having block parties. Similar ''We are facing the most even more so," Beros said. 28,500 infections and 1,750
ted in more than 30 Ameri- scenes played out around serious crisis that the coun- Seventeen injuries but no deaths. A field hospital
can states. the country. try has experienced since deaths were reported. with 5,500 beds was going
There were more than Cuomo said he was World War II,'' Conte told In the rest of the United up in a convention center
27,000 cases across the stunned and offended as Italians during a broadcast States, parts of the country in Madrid and health of-
U.S. and 375 deaths. New he toured the city Satur- at midnight. found themselves moving ficials warned more than
York state accounted for day and gave local offi- Iran's supreme leader refu- toward the kind of pro- 10% of the country's health
114 deaths, mostly in New cials a day to figure out a sed U.S. assistance Sunday blems seen in New York. workers were now infected
York City, where there were plan whether it be closing to fight the virus, citing an There was a unified mes- with coronavirus.
more than 4,400 infecti- parks, closing playgrounds unfounded conspiracy the- sage to stay away from "We can't just repeat the
ons, but officials warned or opening streets, typical- ory that it could be made large gatherings. Officials slogans that we will get
the concentration may be ly teeming with traffic but by America. Ayatollah Ali called them different things through this together," said
more because of incre- now quiet, only to pedestri- Khamenei's comments — social distancing, shel- Dr. German Peces-Barba,
ased testing. ans. came as Iran faces cru- tering in place, or in the a lung specialist at Funda-
On Sunday, New York pas- "It's insensitive. It's arrogant. shing U.S. sanctions over its case of Nashville, Tennes- ción Jiménez Díaz hospital
sed Washington state, the It's self-destructive. It's dis- nuclear actions. Iran says see, a "safer at home" or- in Madrid.
initial epicenter of the U.S. respectful to other people," it has 1,685 deaths and der. Enforcement of any of But there were some signs
outbreak, in the number Cuomo said. "It has to stop 21,638 confirmed cases of these orders is still up in the of hope. The Chinese city
of fatal cases. Only China, and it has to stop now." the virus — a toll that ex- air. Most locations simply of Wuhan — where the glo-
Italy and Spain have repor- Along with the staggering perts from the World Health broke up large gatherings bal pandemic was first de-
ted more COVID-19 cases numbers, there were indi- Organization say is almost and sent people home be- tected and the first city to
than the U.S. Cuomo spent vidual reminders Sunday certainly under-reported. cause one of the last things be locked down — went a
Saturday scouting places of the reach of the virus. For most people, the health officials wanted was fourth consecutive day on
to build makeshift hospitals Republican Rand Paul of new coronavirus causes putting people in confined Sunday without reporting
and told existing hospitals Kentucky became the first only mild or moderate spaces like jails. Many go- any new or suspected ca-
to figure out ways to incre- U.S. senator to announce symptoms, such as fever vernments were releasing ses.
ase their current beds by at he was infected. Opera or coughing. For some, es- non-violent inmates. Parks and other public ga-
least 50% because predic- superstar Plácido Domingo pecially older adults and Nearly 40 inmates had thering places were reope-
tions from health officials announced he has CO- people with existing he- been diagnosed as of Sa- ning in China as people
are COVID-19 cases nee- VID-19 and German Chan- alth problems, it can cause turday with COVID-19 in return to work and busines-
ding advanced medical cellor Angela Merkel put more severe illness, inclu- the New York prison system ses resumed. However, the
care will top 100,000 in New herself into quarantine af- ding pneumonia. Some including the notorious Rik- country has placed incre-
York state in the next month ter a doctor who gave her 93,800 people have reco- ers Island complex and of- asing restrictions on those
or so, which is more than a vaccine tested positive. vered, mostly in China. ficials warned a huge jump coming from overseas.q