The halftime act, Frankie J, was brought out to perform for the packed arena, where fans were stirring in confusion. The teams returned to their locker rooms. ET, shortly before tipoff, the referees and coaches conferred about an unsettling development: Jazz center Rudy Gobert's coronavirus test had just come back -positive. In Oklahoma City, the Thunder were about to take on the visiting Utah Jazz. Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no?" We Hanks' will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires. "The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed. The two were in Australia for preproduction on a film starring Hanks. "We felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Then he made a stunning announcement: a 30-day ban on travel from European countries to the U.S., beginning on Friday at midnight - just two days later - "to keep new cases from entering our shores." "I am confident that by counting and continuing to take these tough measures, we will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately and expeditiously defeat this virus," he said. "This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history," he continued.
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In prime-time Oval Office address, Trump bans travel from EuropeĪt 3:18 p.m., with the pandemic now official and stocks cratering, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet: "I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!" He said he would address the nation from the Oval Office that evening.Īt 9:02 p.m., Trump began his remarks: "My fellow Americans: Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation's unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world." An 11-year bull market had come to an end. The stock market reacted quickly to the new designation: the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,200 points.īy the end of the day, the Dow was down more than 20% from its peak in February – and had entered bear market territory. The global health emergency was now officially a pandemic - the first one to be caused by a coronavirus. "We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic." "WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction," he said. "In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Eight countries, including the U.S., now had more than 1,000 cases. In Geneva, the WHO was holding a briefing. WHO declares a pandemic - and stocks plunge Workers from a Servpro disaster recovery team wearing protective suits and respirators enter the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., to begin cleaning and disinfecting the facility on March 11, 2020. Observers in the chamber sat shoulder to shoulder, and there was not a mask in sight. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had been called to testify about the coronavirus on March 11 before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Fauci testifies: "It's going to get worse"ĭr. And there were - as there continue to be – instances of racism and xenophobia targeting Asian Americans as fears of the virus spread through the U.S.ĭr. The CDC had issued guidance on getting tested for the virus, but it was hard to figure out where such tests might be available. And some Americans were trying to figure out whether to cancel the expensive cruises they had booked - days earlier, the State Department had put out a warning against such travel, following outbreaks on several ships. had already closed, affecting about 850,000 students. 30, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency. The Coronavirus Crisis People Share #TheMoment They Realized The Pandemic Was Changing Life As They Knew ItĪnd the coronavirus - which had already sparked lockdowns in China and Italy - had become a major concern in the U.S.
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