NEW: US now leads the world in number of deaths from the coronavirus, having surpassed Italy on Saturday with 18,860 deaths compared to 18,849 in Italy, according to Johns Hopkins University.
President Donald Trump authorized a"robust assistance package" to help Italy, a country hit particularly, fight the outbreak, according to a statement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday.
A woman is told to go home by a police officer on Primrose Hill in London last week. The park was only open for people walking dogs or exercising.Britain has not yet reached its peak of coronavirus infections, which would allow for an easing of tight restrictions of movement, health minister Matt Hancock said on Saturday.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that by 6,000 of the city's homeless residents, mostly single adults, will be moved out of shelters into hotels by April 20. "[T]he recently passed federal CARES Act contained zero funding to offset these drastic state revenue shortfalls. To stabilize state budgets and to make sure states have the resources to battle the virus and provide the services the American people rely on, Congress must provide immediate fiscal assistance directly to all states," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, chairman of the National Governors Association, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, vice chair, said in a statement Saturday.
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