“I am looking at hot spots … but closing up every single flight and every single airline, that’s a very, very, very rough decision,” Trump says when asked if he is considering a temporary ban on all domestic flights. “We’ll let you know fairly soon.”
In hard-hit New York City, 1,400 members of the police department have tested positive for the coronavirus, says New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.
Despite the large percentage of sick calls, Shea said there are still plenty of cops on corners and in cars. He did concede the department is"planning for all eventualities" should the number of infections within the NYPD climb.
A member of Spain's UME wearing a protective suit to protect from the novel coronavirus stands next to a bus carrying patients infected with COVID-19 who are waiting to be transported from Gregorio Maranon hospital to a temporary hospital set up at the IFEMA convention center in Madrid, Spain, on April 1, 2020.The health ministry also reported 864 new fatalities from the disease, bringing the country's death toll to 9,053 -- a 10.5% increase.
"Initially, the CDC, the World Health Organization and my office recommended against the general public wearing masks based on the best available science at the time, in terms of whether or not it prevented the wearer from catching coronavirus," he said."Now, we've learned about this disease -- and we've always said, we're going to learn more, we're going to adjust -- and we've learned that there is a fair amount of asymptomatic spread.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a press briefing Tuesday that both CDC and White House officials are having a"very active discussion" about whether to recommend the broad use of masks in the U.S.The former president of the Republic of Congo, Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, has died in Paris from complications related to the novel coronavirus, officials said Wednesday. He was 81.
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov holds a Turkmen shepherd dog, locally known as Alabai, as he takes part in celebrations for the Day of the Horse in Ashgabat, April 28, 2018.Police in plainclothes are arresting people wearing face masks or talking about the coronavirus pandemic on the street, according toSo far, Turkmenistan has not reported any cases of the novel coronavirus. The country's president has ordered public spaces to be disinfected as a protective measure.
Those with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 as well as their close contacts will be quarantined in centralized facilities for 14 days. The asymptomatic individuals won't be released until they test negative for the virus twice, according to Chang.
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