The global total of confirmed cases was around 100,000 on Friday morning, a day after Colorado, Maryland, Nevada and New Jersey all reported their first encounters with the virus that killed 12 Americans and nearly 3,400 in the world.
There have been 233 confirmed cases in the United States, according to one Coronavirus dashboard managed by Johns Hopkins University.
Common signs of infection are fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. If the infection gets worse, it can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and death.
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Here is the latest news on the COVID-19 epidemic:
States with confirmed cases of coronavirus
Here is an overview of the states that have COVID-19 cases:
- Washington: 75
- Oregon: 3
- California: 51
- Nevada: 1
- Arizona: 2
- Colorado: 2
- Texas: 4
- Wisconsin: 1
- Illinois: 5
- Tennessee: 1
- Georgia: 2
- Florida: 4
- North Carolina: 1
- Maryland: 3
- New York: 23
- New Jersey: 2
- Rhode Island: 2
- Massachusetts: 4
- New Hampshire: 2
- Diamond Princess: 45
Trump cancels visit to CDC
President Donald Trump canceled a trip to Atlanta on Friday, canceling a visit to the Centers for Disease Control because he said he did not want to delay their work on the coronavirus.
“The CDC has been proactive and prepared from the very beginning and the president does not want to interfere with the CDC’s mission to protect the health and well-being of his people and the agency,” the White House said in a communicated.
Trump still flies to Tennessee to inspect the damage from the storm, then will travel to South Florida for a weekend in his area of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
– David Jackson
Second Nevada Coronavirus Case Closes Reno Elementary School
A Washoe county man tested positive for coronavirus, forcing the closure of a local elementary school where one of his family members is a student, the county health district announced on Thursday.
The man from the Reno area is in his fifties and has linked the epidemic of Grand Princess to Princess Cruises. He is in stable condition and isolates himself at home, said the Washoe County health district.
“The advantage for us is that this person confirmed that it was not a community exhibit,” said Washoe County Commissioner Marsha Berkbigler to the Reno Gazette Journal of the USA TODAY Network. “He was clearly on the cruise ship.”
The first positive “presumptive” case of the virus in Nevada was announced earlier Thursday, a man, also in his 50s, who had recently traveled to Washington and Texas.
– Anjeanette Damon and Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette Journal
California orders insurance companies to cover costs of coronavirus testing
California has become the third state to order all public and commercial insurance plans to cover the full cost of coronavirus testing and screening, after Washington and New York.
The orders, announced by Governor Gavin Newsom and Ricardo Lara, the state’s insurance commissioner, “would immediately reduce cost-sharing … to zero,” according to the California Department of Insurance and the Department of Managed Health Care.
“This action means that Californians who meet the test requirements can receive the test at no cost,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are all in the same boat, and I am grateful to the health providers who have already stepped up and heeded our call.”
– Steve Kiggins
Coronavirus can be prevented by working from home. Some cannot.
As the COVID-19 virus spreads across the United States and around the world, officials from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourage people to work from home to help reduce the spread.
Not only do most American workers not have this luxury – 29% have the ability to work remotely, according to data from the Department of Labor – many have front-line exposure.
Airport workers, bus drivers, homeless shelter volunteers, teachers, health professionals – the list of jobs to which a home work order would not apply is extensive. Interviews with representatives of some of these groups reveal a latent level of concern for worker safety as COVID-19 cases and fatalities increase. That’s how it is for people who really can’t work remotely.
– Marco della Cava and Trevor Hughes
AT&T temporarily closes 6 sites “out of caution”
AT&T Temporarily Closed Six Stores in the San Diego Area “Out of Caution” After a Retail Store Worker Tested Positive for Coronavirus, Company Spokesperson Confirmed local television.
The company closed and cleaned up stores Wednesday in Chula Vista, Escondido, San Marcos, Oceanside, National City and Vista, said AT&T spokesperson Fletcher Cook. FOX 5 in an email. The stores all reopened on Thursday.
The person who received the positive “presumptive” test had recently traveled outside the United States to a “high risk” area for coronavirus, the city of Chula Vista told FOX 5.
– Steve Kiggins