In a televised address, President Trump announced he was banning travel to Europe, proposing a $50 billion increase in federally backed small-business loans and calling for payroll tax relief. Here are his complete remarks. Read more:
The NBA said Wednesday it is suspending its season until further notice after a player tested positive for the coronavirus. The announcement came less than an hour after President Trump imposed strict new travel restrictions, barring travelers from Europe from entering the country beginning Friday for a 30-day period.
The travel ban applies to foreign nationals traveling from Europe and does not affect travel by U.S. citizens, permanent residents or immediate family members of U.S. citizens, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. It applies to any foreign national who has been in Europe during the 14 days prior to their arrival in the U.S.
The county’s first coronavirus fatality was a woman older than 60 who had underlying health issues, said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the county health department’s director. The patient was not an L.A. County resident but had been visiting here after extensive travel over the past month, including a long layover in South Korea.Ferrer said that one of the new cases included the county’s second instance of community spread. That individual is hospitalized.
The county has developed a risk-assessment tool that considers how many community transmissions there have been and whether new cases are accelerating, Ferrer said.“We’re trying to use that to drive our judgments about when things need to close,” she said. “We will get to a point, unfortunately, here in L.A. County, where we will be asking for events to close. But we’re not there yet,” Ferrer said.
Elsewhere in the county, Pasadena confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus in a resident, officials announced Wednesday. “We have been preparing and are ready to manage COVID-19 cases in Pasadena, in close coordination with our healthcare partners,” said Dr. Ying-Ying Goh, PPHD director in a statement. “We will continue to recommend our community implement individual and community mitigation measures to reduce the risk of spread of illness.”
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