President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Washington.
FILE – In this Sunday, March 15, 2020 file photo, A Palestinian Health worker sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus in a gymnasium in Gaza City. The Gaza Strip has been largely cut off from the rest of the world for more than a decade by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade. But the coronavirus has found a way in. Fearing a widespread outbreak after nine confirmed cases, Gaza’s Hamas leaders are racing to build two massive quarantine complexes and prepare the overcrowded territory not equipped to deal with a new health crisis.
FILE – In this March 27, 2020, file, photo, a security person stands guard at the famed street of cherry blossoms which is closed as a safety precaution against the new coronavirus at Ueno Park in Tokyo. Before the Olympics were postponed, Japan looked like it had coronavirus infections contained, even as they spread in neighboring countries. Now that the games have been pushed to next year, Tokyo’s cases are spiking, and the city’s governor is requesting that people stay home, even hinting at a possible lockdown.
In this March 5, 2020 photo, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Warden Austin Schumacher stands on the edge of a marsh in Edgerton, Wis., where a 13-year-old boy disappeared after running away from school in November 2019. Schumacher used old-school tracking skills to find and rescue the child moments before a snowstorm struck. This month, Schumacher received the DNR’s Lifesaving Award.
FILE – In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Elton John is seen after performing “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” nominated for the award for best original song from “Rocketman” at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. John hosted an hour-long, live benefit concert special put on to raise money during the coronavirus crisis, Sunday, March 29, 2020, on Fox and iHeartMedia radio stations.
Indian workers arrange beds to prepare a quarantine center at the Sarusojai sports complex in Gauhati, India, Saturday, March 28, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Washington.
Residents watch workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main road of closed market of Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City, Friday, March 27, 2020. Gaza municipality close all the weekly Friday markets in Gaza starting from today.
People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, March 30, 2020. Asian shares started the week with further losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus that has prompted shutdowns of travel and business in many parts of the world.
Environmental activists wearing masks symbolizing a virus perform during a new coronavirus prevention campaign in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 30, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrive to speak in front of the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Saturday, March 28, 2020. The ship is departing for New York to assist hospitals responding to the coronavirus outbreak.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in wearing a mask salutes to a national flag at an emergency meeting on economic response to the coronavirus outbreak at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 30, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
Pedestrians and traffic are seen on Canal Street Sunday, March 29, 2020, in New York.
Seen through their kitchen window, Allan and Debbie Cameron contact their grandchildren via the internet Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Chandler, Ariz. Debbie, 68, has asthma which makes her one of the people most at risk from the new coronavirus. The Cameron’s now she see their children and grandchildren from the other side of a window or a phone.
FILE – In this July 13, 2007 file photo, French Marine officers wait atop “Le Vigilant” nuclear submarine at L’Ile Longue military base, near Brest, Brittany. Stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, deliberately hiding from the world now in turmoil, the crews of nuclear-armed submarines may be among the last pockets of people anywhere who are still blissfully unaware of how the coronavirus pandemic is turning life upside down. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
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Bracing the U.S. for a coronavirus death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, the president bows to public health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding pandemic, while Italy and Spain, which have seen more than half the world’s deaths from the virus, hoped that relief was coming as infection rates drop each day.
Fearing a widespread outbreak after nine confirmed cases, Gaza’s Hamas leaders are racing to build two massive quarantine complexes and prepare the overcrowded territory that is not equipped to deal with a new health crisis.
The sudden rise in the number of virus cases in Tokyo have raised questions in parliament and among citizens about whether Japan understated the extent of the outbreak in hopes of keeping the Summer Games on the original schedule.
State and local leaders are struggling to navigate inconsistent federal guidance and fierce political tribalism that is complicating their responses to the coronavirus outbreak.
New York state, a virus hot spot in the U.S., reports at least 1,026 coronavirus-related deaths, with about three-quarters of those in New York City.
For grandparents all over the world, being protected from the coronavirus pandemic has meant a piercing distance from their loved ones.
The crews of nuclear-armed submarines may be among the last pockets of people anywhere who are still unaware of how the pandemic is turning life upside down.
Three months after a stabbing attack during an Orthodox Jewish community’s Hanukkah celebration that came amid a rash of violence targeting Jews in the New York area, one of the five victims has died from his injuries.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Warden Austin Schumacher is being hailed for using old-school backwoods skills to rescue a boy lost in a freezing swamp.
Elton John, Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey and many other artists perform in a concert from their homes to raise money for first responders and the families of virus victims.
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