'The bottom line is: we're not at the mercy of the virus.' 'The threat of a pandemic has become very real,' WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. 'But, it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled.' coronavirus
Stock trading was halted for 15 minutes just after the S&P 500 dropped more than 7% within the first minutes of trading. The halt was caused by an automatic circuit breaker safety mechanism that kicked in to prevent a free fall.
Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Nancy Ayers said the department is following guidelines for COVID-19 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the World Health Organization. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had issued a"no-sail order" for the Regal Princess over the weekend while two crew members were tested for the novel coronavirus. Although neither showed any symptoms, there were concerns that the crew members could be carriers of COVID-19 because they had transferred over from the Grand Princess cruise ship in California, which has 21 confirmed cases.
So far, 7,382 people in the country have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the latest data from South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.6:25 a.m. China appears to slowly return to normality as makeshift hospitals close, some schools reopen Patients who have recovered from the novel coronavirus leave a temporary hospital set up to treat people infected with the virus in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 9, 2020. China has closed most of its makeshift hospitals for coronavirus patients and some schools reopened as normality slowly returns to the country after weeks battling the epidemic. / China OUT
In this image taken from video, the Costa Fortuna cruise ship is seen near Phuket, Thailand, on March 6, 2020. Thailand has denied entry to passengers and crew of the cruise ship that arrived at the popular Andaman Sea resort island of Phuket.
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