NSTworld: The number of confirmed US Covid19 coronavirus cases soared past 500 on Sunday, including two further deaths.
The virus has reached some 30 US states, with Oregon the latest to declare an emergency, and 60 million people in California and New York are under crisis measures.
Oregon declared an emergency as the number of patients in the northwestern state rose to 14, with Governor Kate Brown saying measures to “unlock” key resources would remain for at least 60 days. The Grand Princess, which has 21 confirmed coronavirus infections among 3,500 people on board, is due to dock in Oakland on Monday after four days held off the coast of nearby San Francisco.
“They are starting with top floor inside cabins. The crew will be telling us how long we can stay out,” she said. He has downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic, which has killed more than 3,500 people since emerging in China, suggesting cases were “going very substantially down, not up,” falsely pledging that a vaccine would soon be available and claiming without evidence that the official estimate of the death rate was “false.”
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