SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom urged an end to gatherings of more than 250 people to counter the spread of new coronavirus, a move he said would cause “real stress" for many people and businesses but save lives. Newsom said California public health officials late Wednesday issued an updated policy saying “non-essential"...
Coronavirus Won't Stop Free School Meals — Even If Schools Have To Close
California school kids will still get free meals if their schools are forced to close to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, thanks to a special waiver program announced Tuesday by the California Department of Education. This week, Parlier Unified School District announced the temporary closure of two schools over...
California Issues Coronavirus Guidelines for Events
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription As conferences throughout California have been canceled and sports teams face the possibility of playing for empty arenas, the California Department of Public Health has issued guidelines for how event organizers should handle mass gatherings amid the growing number of coronavirus cases. The guidelines were...
44 People Killed From Alcohol Poisoning in Iran Trying to Ward off Coronavirus
[aggregation-styles] CBS News The death toll from alcohol poisoning in Iran rose to 44 Tuesday, state news agency IRNA reported, over misguided efforts to ward off the new coronavirus by drinking bootleg alcohol. The outbreak of the virus in the Islamic republic is one of the deadliest outside of China,...
Walters: We Are Nation’s Ground Zero for Coronavirus
The economic transformation of California after World War II — first into an industrial powerhouse and later into a center of technology and trade — owed much to its geographic location on the eastern edge of the Pacific Rim. As Asia recovered from the ravages of war to become its...
Washington State Bans Big Events Amid Rising Virus Deaths
Washington state's governor announced a ban on gatherings of more than 250 people in virtually the entire Seattle metro area Wednesday to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the state where at least 24 people have died. The directive from Gov. Jay Inslee encompasses 4 million people...
Virus Death at California Senior Home Sparks Quarantine
SAN FRANCISCO — Seniors at a Northern California assisted living facility have been placed in a two-week quarantine after a resident — a woman in her 90s — died of the new coronavirus, officials said Wednesday. Carlton Senior Living confirmed in a statement that a resident of its Elk Grove...
WHO Declares Virus Crisis a Pandemic, Urges World to Fight
GENEVA — Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and inadequate government responses, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic but added that it's not too late for countries to act. By reversing course and using the charged word “pandemic” that it had...
Iran VP, 2 Cabinet Members Have New Virus
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's senior vice president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday as the death toll in the Islamic Republic from the outbreak rose by 62 to 354. The report by the Fars news agency, believed to be close...
The Latest: US Pandemic Readiness Office Favorably Discussed
The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the globe: The director of the U.S. government health agency that deals with infectious diseases says he'd welcome the restoration of a White House National Security Council office that dealt with pandemic preparedness. Dr. Anthony Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and...