Italy has reportedly closed all nonessential businesses after its coronavirus death toll rose Saturday by 793 to 4,825.
Gaza reported its first two cases of the coronavirus Saturday. Officials say the two, who entered Gaza through Egypt, are in quarantine.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, have both tested negative for the coronavirus, the vice president’s office announced Saturday.
The Pences were tested after it was disclosed that someone in Vice President Pence’s office had tested positive for the virus.
As the global fight against the virus continues, infections continue to multiply worldwide.
Restrictions in the U.S. have triggered job layoffs and have forced school closures and cancellations of worship services, weddings, sporting and other events.
Millions of U.S. front-line medical and emergency workers find themselves ill-equipped for the fight. They lack adequate supplies of masks and ventilators that not only protect them but also patients. Also lacking are supplies of test kits to determine who has confounding virus, as the government has been slow to act.
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On Saturday evening, the global count of infected cases was more than 304,000, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
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