Three circumstances of COVID-19 have been recognized within the U.S. state of Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds mentioned Sunday.
All three people with COVID-19 just lately took a cruise in Egypt earlier than returning residence to Johnson County in Iowa. They’re recovering at residence in isolation.
Iowa well being officers mentioned one of many people is between 41 and 60 years previous. The opposite two people with COVID-19 are between 61 and 80 years previous.
The cruise that the three people had been on ran from Feb. 17 to March 2. The people returned residence on March three.
“Whereas these are the primary circumstances, it will not be the final and it’s why Iowans should proceed to follow secure habits like hand-washing and staying residence from work when sick,” Reynolds mentioned.
Well being officers will work to find out who the three people had contact with since they returned, State Epidemiologist Dr. Caitlin Pedati mentioned. It wasn’t instantly clear whether or not individuals who had been involved with the people should self quarantine.
Iowa well being officers have now examined 37 people for COVID-19. Twenty-six exams had been damaging, and eight exams are nonetheless pending outcomes. These outcomes are anticipated Monday.
The virus has contaminated greater than 100,000 folks and killed greater than three,400 globally, though most individuals who’ve contracted the virus since December have now recovered.
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12:15 a.m.
The Democratic leaders of the U.S. Congress are proposing paid sick depart for folks affected by coronavirus outbreaks in addition to different financial initiatives they are saying will assist staff and their households.
In a joint assertion Sunday night time, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic chief Chuck Schumer framed the proposals as a counter to the Trump administration’s name for tax cuts for main companies reeling from the impression of the virus.
The proposals embody enhanced unemployment insurance coverage advantages for many who might lose their jobs, and increasing meals stamps, faculty lunches and different food-related help. In addition they suggest requirements for and ample distribution of protecting gear for well being care and different staff involved with folks uncovered to the virus, and widespread and free coronavirus testing.
Pelosi and Schumer say that sufferers should be reimbursed for any noncovered coronavirus-related prices, and that customers are protected against value gouging for medical and nonmedical necessities.
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9:35 p.m.
The U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies says American passengers of the Grand Princess cruise ship will likely be taken to navy bases in California, Texas and Georgia to be examined for the COVID-19 virus and for a 14-day quarantine.
The division mentioned Sunday almost 1,000 California residents will full the obligatory quarantine at Travis Air Drive Base north of San Francisco and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar close to San Diego. Residents of different states will full the obligatory quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland in Texas or Dobbins Air Drive Base in Georgia.
It says all will likely be monitored for signs of COVID-19 all through their quarantine.
The Grand Princess ship, which is carrying greater than three,500 folks from 54 nations, is anticipated to dock on the Port of Oakland, California, on Monday.
Federal officers say the Division of State is working with the house nations of a number of hundred passengers to rearrange for repatriation to their nations.
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9:10 p.m.
France is banning occasions of greater than 1,000 folks to restrict the unfold of the coronavirus and recruiting just lately retired medics and medical college students to assist cope with rising numbers of infections.
The nation reported 1,126 circumstances as of Sunday, up 19% from the day earlier than, the second largest variety of circumstances in Europe after Italy. Thus far, 19 folks in France have died.
“The approaching weeks will likely be troublesome,” Well being Minister Olivier Veran mentioned Sunday after President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency safety assembly to develop anti-virus technique.
Protests, exams and public transport may very well be exempt from the ban on giant gatherings, as a result of they’re “helpful to the lifetime of the nation,” Veran mentioned. He prompt that nationwide municipal elections coming in every week can be maintained.
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6:45 p.m.
Italy’s complete quantity identified variety of COVID-19 circumstances crept previous that of South Korea, turning into the nation with the second-highest variety of infections Sunday after China.
Italian authorities authorities say the nation now has 7,375 circumstances. That’s 62 greater than South Korea.
China has greater than 80,000 circumstances.
Early within the outbreak, Italy was zealous in testing these dwelling in hotbed areas, even when they’d no signs or shut contact with somebody identified to be contaminated. Thus far, Italian well being personnel have carried out some 50,000 exams.
Most of Italy’s deaths and circumstances have occurred in Lombardy, a populous northern area which the federal government ordered underneath lockdown Sunday till April three.
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6:15 p.m.
A cruise ship is being held off the coast of Florida on Sunday awaiting check outcomes on whether or not two crew members have contracted the brand new coronavirus.
The Miami Herald stories that the Regal Princess was purported to dock in Port Everglades on Sunday morning however was as an alternative crusing up and down the coast. The crew members in query had transferred from the Grand Princess cruise ship in California the place almost two dozen on board have examined constructive for the virus, together with 19 crew members.
The Coast Guard delivered testing kits to the Regal Princess on Sunday morning and the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention issued a “no-sail order” for the ship.
It’s unclear how many individuals are on board, however the cruise line’s web site says it has a capability of three,560 visitors. Emails and telephone calls to the cruise line, Coast Guard and port weren’t instantly returned Sunday.
The Regal Princess’ subsequent cruise scheduled to depart Port Everglades for a seven-day Caribbean journey was additionally canceled.
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four p.m.
Germany’s well being minister is urging occasion organizers to contemplate suspending any gatherings with greater than 1,000 folks as a measure to assist cease the unfold of the coronavirus.
Jens Spahn instructed the dpa information company on Sunday that in his view, organizers are nonetheless going forward with too many occasions like sports activities video games, live shows and commerce festivals.
He says “I’m conscious of the results this can have for residents and organizers — we are going to speak about how we are going to cope with the financial penalties within the subsequent few days.”
Germany’s governing events are assembly Sunday night time to speak about a number of measures, together with bridge loans and attainable tax deferrals for significantly hard-hit sectors such because the journey and hospitality industries.
They’re additionally speaking about stress-free labor legal guidelines to permit extra short-term staff to assist firms with many staff out sick, and transferring forward a tax minimize with the hope of stimulating the economic system.
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2:55 p.m.
Already staggering underneath weeks of fears in regards to the unfold of the coronavirus, Italy’s tourism business has now taken an much more punishing blow.
The Vatican introduced Sunday that in coordination with drastic Italian authorities measures aimed toward containing Italy’s virus outbreak, Europe’s worst, it’s shutting down its museums, which embody entry to the Sistine Chapel, till April three.
The chapel’s ceiling and altar wall, frescoed by Michelangelo, are one of many world’s greatest vacationer sights, and a excessive level of Vatican Museums visits.
The Vatican mentioned its one case of coronavirus is that of an individual who had come to the Holy See’s well being amenities as a part of a physician’s go to forward of being employed. 5 individuals who had shut contact with that particular person have been put in quarantine as a precaution
The Italian authorities’s decree additionally shut down outside websites like Pompeii’s extraordinary archaeological ruins and a blockbuster exhibit in Rome of greater than 100 work and drawings by Raphael, which was mounted to mark the Renaissance artist’s 500th anniversary of his loss of life from a fever within the metropolis.
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2:55 p.m.
Dozens of Individuals who’re on a cruise ship off the California coast will likely be securely transferred to a navy base outdoors Atlanta to endure coronavirus testing.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp mentioned 34 Georgians are among the many U.S. residents anticipated to reach at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta on both Monday night time or Tuesday morning.
Kemp mentioned folks from different jap U.S. states would even be quarantined on the navy base, however he didn’t specify what number of.
The Grand Princess is carrying greater than three,500 folks from 54 nations. It’s anticipated to dock in Oakland, California, on Monday. Vice President Mike Pence introduced Friday that not less than 21 folks aboard the ship, together with 19 crew members, have examined constructive for the virus.
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2:45 p.m.
Greece’s Well being Ministry has introduced that each one sports activities occasions within the nation will happen with out spectators for the following two weeks to assist forestall the unfold of the coronavirus.
The ministry additionally says that recreation and help facilities for the aged will shut down for 2 weeks and no faculty journeys will happen throughout that interval.
As of Saturday night time, 66 circumstances of the virus had been recognized in Greece, 47 of them amongst a gaggle of 54 vacationers to Israel and Egypt. 4 different circumstances contain folks coming involved with these vacationers. There have been no fatalities. A 66-year-old man, among the many touring group, is in intensive care.
The federal government is anticipated to announce financial measures associated to the illness outbreak Monday.
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2:15 p.m.
Authorities in southern Italy have expressed concern that a mass motion of individuals transferring from north to south would solely unfold the coronavirus to areas which have had comparatively few circumstances.
The troubles come after Italy introduced a sweeping quarantine early Sunday for its northern areas, igniting journey chaos because it restricted the actions of 1 / 4 of its folks in a bid to halt the coronavirus’ relentless march throughout Europe.
Gov. Michele Emiliano, who leads the area of Puglia within the ’’heel” of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula, mentioned in his dramatic attraction, “Don’t convey the Lombard, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna epidemic into our Puglia, by working away to forestall the federal government decree” from successfully taking impact.
He mentioned he signed an ordinance requiring a quarantine for all those that arrive in Puglia from Lombardy and the 11 different northern provinces lined by the lockdown. Italian state TV reported that different governors within the south, which incorporates the Campania area round Naples and Sicily, had been intent on doing the identical.
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1:50 p.m.
Britain’s well being secretary has outlined emergency plans to cope with the impression of the coronavirus outbreak, pledging to do “all we will” to include the virus.
The plans, which can possible undergo Parliament by the tip of the month, are anticipated to incorporate measures to permit some court docket proceedings to be carried out through phone or video. Volunteers who depart their major jobs to assist well being care programs will even be given employment safeguards.
Well being Secretary Matt Hancock mentioned he needs “to make sure authorities is doing all the things in its energy to be able to delay and mitigate this risk.”
Some 206 folks within the U.Ok. have examined constructive for the virus, in line with information final up to date on Saturday. Two folks have died.
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1:50 p.m.
The authorities in Thailand are in search of 70-80 staff who returned from South Korea however didn’t instantly go right into a required 14-day quarantine to keep away from spreading the coronavirus.
Deputy Minister of Public Well being Satit Pitutecha mentioned Sunday the employees should report back to the authorities inside three days or face authorized penalties.
Thailand final week introduced a coverage underneath which all staff getting back from South Korea should be quarantined for 14 days.
The coming staff who left Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport with out going into quarantine all arrived earlier than midnight Saturday, in line with Thanarak Plipat, deputy chief of the well being ministry’s Division of Illness Management.
Thanarak mentioned 60 extra Thais who returned from South Korea on flights arriving after 1 a.m. Sunday had been despatched as deliberate to a naval base at Sattahip in jap Thailand, which is the nation’s major official quarantine facility. He mentioned the operation to supply escorts for the returning staff started solely after midnight Saturday.
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1:20 p.m.
The Israel Airports Authority has introduced huge cutbacks in response to the coronavirus’ devastating results on air journey.
The authority mentioned Sunday it’s placing 70% of its non permanent workforce on unpaid depart and extra time has been canceled for all staff. To guard these with households, it was determined that single staff can be placed on depart first. Senior administration has introduced it’s forfeiting 50% of its bonuses as nicely.
Israel has confirmed 25 circumstances of the virus, together with a 38-year-old man who was in critical situation on Sunday. Some 20,000 folks have been ordered into 14-day residence quarantine protectively. The native journey sector has taken a beating, as scores of flights in and in a foreign country have been canceled.
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12:40 p.m.
In a unprecedented measure aimed toward discouraging crowds, Pope Francis didn’t seem at a Vatican palazzo window to ship his Sunday midday Angelus blessing and remarks.
As a substitute, a video of his studying his feedback and reciting prayers standing at a lectern close to a microphone within the Vatican’s apostolic library was beamed on maxi-screens arrange in St. Peter’s Sq. to the trustworthy.
The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled because the window opened and Francis appeared for just a few seconds to wave to the folks under within the sq.. However he made no feedback from the window, having already delivered the printed remarks.
The measure — which was introduced on Saturday — was aimed toward discouraging crowds from gathering within the sq., the place on days with good climate like this Sunday as many as 40,000 folks can prove to look at the pope within the window. A number of 1000’s of vacationers and trustworthy turned out anyway, scattered throughout the huge, cobblestone sq..
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11:05 a.m.
Italy’s Rai state TV says the governor of Piedmont in northern Italy has the coronavirus, the most recent Italian governor to check constructive.
On Saturday, the governor of Lazio, the area together with Rome, introduced that he was staying in quarantine as a result of he had been instructed he’s constructive for the virus.
Earlier within the outbreak, the governor of Lombardy, the populous northern area on the coronary heart of the outbreak, introduced he was placing himself in quarantine as a result of an in depth aide had examined constructive.
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10:40 a.m.
On the primary day of a sweeping quarantine in northern Italy, even outside websites just like the sprawling ruins of Pompeii, the traditional Roman metropolis destroyed by volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., had been shut to vacationers.
In Rome, the blockbuster exhibition of “Raffaello,” a tribute to one of many Renaissance’s biggest artists for the 500th anniversary of his loss of life, was shuttered Sunday, solely three days after it opened to the general public. A discover on its web site mentioned advance ticket holders can be contacted in regards to the closure, which lasts till April three.
The present, which assembled 120 works of Raphael in what was described as a once-in-a-generation alternative to see so lots of his work and drawings loaned from museums and personal collections worldwide, is because of shut on June 2. Curators have mentioned it could be almost not possible to extend it, with some many works on mortgage from museums wanting to have them again.
Italy introduced the quarantine early Sunday for its northern areas, igniting journey chaos because it restricted the actions of 1 / 4 of its folks in a bid to halt the coronavirus’ relentless march throughout Europe.
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10:40 a.m.
Bulgaria has introduced its first 4 coronavirus circumstances.
The nationwide coronavirus activity pressure confirmed Sunday that a 27-year-old man from the northern city of Pleven and a 75-year-old lady from the central city of Gabrovo had examined constructive for the virus.
Chief state well being inspector Angel Kunchev mentioned the 2 had not traveled or contacted anybody who had returned from a rustic with a coronavirus outbreak.
Each had been hospitalized just a few days in the past with extreme respiratory issues.
After well being officers examined a complete of 70 individuals who had been involved with the 2 contaminated, they introduced that the samples of a 61-year-old man from Pleven and a feminine well being employee from Gabrovo had examined constructive.
The Balkan nation of seven million, which is likely one of the final within the area to report coronavirus circumstances, is already dealing with a nationwide influenza epidemic, with faculties closed and hospitals full of sufferers.
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10:40 a.m.
Japan’s historical sport of sumo is grappling with the tough actuality of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Spring Grand Sumo Match kicked off on Sunday in Osaka at Edion Area with no spectators as a part of Japan’s extraordinary efforts to halt the unfold of the virus.
Wrestlers arrived carrying face masks and had been required to make use of hand-sanitizing spray earlier than coming into the world. They had been additionally required to take their temperatures earlier than coming into the raised ring. If a wrestler has a temperature above 37.5 levels celsius (99.5 levels Fahrenheit) for 2 or extra days, he will likely be compelled to sit down out the event.
Sumo officers have mentioned if a wrestler is recognized with the coronavirus, the 15-day event will likely be instantly halted.
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