137 Coronavirus Cases In Denton, Golf Courses Are Closed
DENTON COUNTY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – During a news conference Friday afternoon, Denton County officials announced an increase of 54 coronavirus cases, for a total of 137. Twenty-three of the new cases were community spread. Thirty-one of those new cases are from patients in the Denton...
Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
The Trump administration, state officials and even individual hospital workers are now racing against each other to get the necessary masks, gloves and other safety equipment to fight coronavirus — a scramble that hospitals and doctors say has come too late and left them at...
Read The Latest About The COVID-19 Outbreak
COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11. The virus has killed more than 21,000 people worldwide and continues to spread at a rapid pace. Efforts to curb the outbreak have led to...
Stock futures trade lower on US job concerns
U.S. equity futures are trading lower ahead of weekly jobless claims numbers. The major futures indexes are indicating a decline of about 0.4 percent when trading begins on Thursday. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Jobless claims are expected to surge to...
New York Struggles With Coronavirus, U.S. Deaths Top 1,000
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have topped 1,000, in another grim milestone for a global outbreak that is taking lives and wreaking havoc on economies and established routines of ordinary life. In a recognition of the scale of the threat,...
Coronavirus In Wisconsin: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers Issues ‘Safer At Home’ Order
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers issued an order Tuesday closing businesses deemed to be nonessential, ordered no gatherings of any size and placed restrictions on travel across Wisconsin for a month in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Evers’ order has...
Coronavirus: Riverside Convention Center Offering Drive-Up Boxed Groceries
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) – Riverside residents who don’t want to brave the supermarket for fear of being exposed to the coronavirus have another option: preassembled boxes of groceries which can be picked up in a drive-up service. Last Friday, the Riverside Convention Center teamed up with...
Cases in Italy see slight drop
Italy’s death toll rose by 602 on Monday, which was its smallest increase for four days, bringing its death count to 6,077. The number of cases rose by 4,789 on Monday, which was the smallest spike for the past five days. The total cases dropped...
21 Million Chinese Cellphone Users Disappear in Three Months of Pandemic
The opacity of the Chinese Communist government obliges responsible outside observers to look for clues to the truth of the coronavirus epidemic, instead of merely repeating official information without question. The official count from China is 3,277 fatalities from 81,171 infections as of Tuesday, but...
United States could become coronavirus epicenter
The highly contagious respiratory virus has infected more than 42,000 people in the United States, prompting more governors to join states ordering Americans to stay at home. Over the past 24 hours, 85 percent of new cases worldwide were from Europe and the United States,...
Texas lt. governor suggests grandparents willing to die for economy
The lieutenant governor of Texas argued in an interview on Fox News Monday night that the United States should go back to work, saying grandparents like him don’t want to sacrifice the country’s economy during the coronavirus crisis. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, 69, made...
Coronavirus sends India into lockdown
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The world’s second-largest country has gone into lockdown as India shuts down its massive train system Monday and puts curfews in place to stop the spread of coronavirus....
American Students Trapped In Peru Urge Trump To Bring Them Home
On Feb. 29, over a dozen students from three Georgia-based universities arrived in Cusco, Peru, for an experience of a lifetime. For two weeks, professional Health Science and paramedic students from Georgia’s Augusta University, as well as students Lenoir-Rhyne University and the University of Georgia,...
Pence says the Trump administration never considered a nationwide lockdown.
Even as nations from Britain to India declare nationwide economic lockdowns, Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday that such a step has never been under consideration for the United States. Participating in a town hall hosted by Fox News, Mr. Pence told viewers that...
Spain turns ice rink into a morgue as coronavirus deaths pile up
Madrid, Spain (CNN)An ice rink in Madrid has been turned into a temporary morgue as Spain tries to cope with the fallout from its rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak. Bodies of people who have died of Covid-19 are now being transported by the country’s emergency military...
More North Texas Counties Poised To Issue ‘Stay At Home’ Orders To Fight Spread Of Coronavirus
McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – More North Texas counties signaled on Monday, they plan to follow Dallas County and issue stay at home orders Tuesday. Monday evening, the office of Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price said that at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday she, along with Arlington Mayor...
Trump Stresses Need To Reopen America While Continuing To Fight Coronavirus
On Monday evening, President Trump stressed what he called the need to reopen America for business even as he said the government also would continue tackling the spiraling coronavirus pandemic. The White House’s team will make an assessment after next week as to how effective...
Mnuchin, Schumer say coronavirus rescue package deal very close
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that they are “very close” to an agreement on a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue package, raising the possibility of a Senate vote on the legislation as early as Tuesday. Following a series...
Trump Advisers Issue Coronavirus Warning: Don’t Prioritize Economy Over Lives
Three former top advisers to President Donald Trump warned against attempting to boost the U.S. economy by relaxing social distancing measures aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Trump has signaled in recent days that he’s already weary of restrictions that have brought parts...
Prominent 30-year-old Zimbabwe broadcaster dies of coronavirus
A prominent 30-year-old television journalist has died in Zimbabwe after contracting the new coronavirus infection, the first person to die in the country from the virus. Zororo Makamba was one of the two people who tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. He was admitted to...
Arizona man dies after self-medicating to treat coronavirus
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they both took the drug chloroquine phosphate, which is an ingredient found in fish tank...
Bipartisan House resolution condemns Chinese government over handling of coronavirus response
EXCLUSIVE: A bipartisan resolution being introduced by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., Tuesday, condemns the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, painting a stark picture of lies and mismanagement contributing to the pandemic that has infected nearly 390,000 people worldwide and killed more...
Where’s Fauci? Doctor’s absence is noticed at White House coronavirus briefing
WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the highly respected infectious disease expert, did not attend Monday’s briefing – and his absence did not go unnoticed. His whereabouts have become a point of interest since Fauci gave a remarkably candid interview to Science magazine, published Sunday evening,...
2020 Tokyo Olympics officially delayed due to coronavirus outbreak
For thousands of athletes around the world, it would have once been considered a nightmare scenario. And on Tuesday, it finally became official. In an unprecedented and unavoidable move, the International Olympic Committee and Japanese government agreed to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics “to a...
Coronavirus: Life in Rome under lockdown
Italy has introduced strict measures in a bid to tackle the coronavirus crisis gripping the country, including in the capital Rome. But what is life in lockdown like? Rome in the springtime. One of the world’s most romantic settings. Normally the departure gate at London’s...
Spain’s coronavirus death toll jumps 514 in 24 hours
The coronavirus death toll in Spain has jumped by 514 in a single day, as the situation in the country quickly worsens. Official figures show that 2,696 people have now died in the country and close to 40,000 are infected. About 5,400 health care workers...
WHO warns United States could become next epicenter of global coronavirus crisis
President Trump continued to play down the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic as experts warned of a worsening crisis: A World Health Organization official said Tuesday that “we are now seeing a very large acceleration” in U.S. coronavirus infections, adding that America has the potential...
Coronavirus news: Tokyo Olympics to be postponed as WHO warns US could be next Covid-19 hotspot
Deaths jump in Spain; France tightens lockdown; Afghanistan appeals for help amid new cases; South Africa prepares for lockdown. Follow the latest updates Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced a series of new restrictions in the country in a televised briefing together with the...
Millions wake up to fresh lockdowns as China to lift Wuhan restrictions
LONDON — As millions of people across the globe adjusted to life under tightening lockdowns on Tuesday, in China, where the coronavirus pandemic originated, restrictions began to slowly ease. The lockdown imposed on the city of Wuhan, where COVID19 was first detected, is set to...
Italy Deaths Slow; Merkel’s First Test Negative: Virus Update
New deaths in Italy, the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe, slowed for a second day. An experimental coronavirus vaccine could be available to health-care workers as soon as late 2020 on an emergency basis. New York City may lose as much as $6 billion...
