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UNDATED (AP) — China again reports no new deaths from the coronavirus, but the country has registered 30 new cases — 23 of them brought from abroad. Of the domestic cases, all seven were reported in Heilongjiang province near the Russian border where a field hospital has been set up to deal with a new flare-up related to people coming home from abroad. China has reported a total of 4,632 deaths among 82,788 cases, the bulk of them in Wuhan where officials recently raised the death toll by 50% after a review of records.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will work with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to double coronavirus testing in the hard-hit state over the next few weeks. Trump describes their White House meeting Tuesday as “very productive” and says they discussed how they could work to expand screening “with the goal of doubling testing” in New York. The meeting marks a sharp shift in rhetoric between the two politicians. Days earlier, Trump had called on Cuomo to work harder to secure testing material for his state, while Cuomo pushed back that the president should turn off his television and get back to work.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials have reported a cluster of coronavirus cases at a second California homeless shelter as Gov. Gavin Newsom called for more testing. Officials said 56 people tested positive after 200 tests were administered at Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. Only 16 of those showed symptoms. The mission has quarantined everyone at the site and has stopped taking in new people. In San Francisco, more than 100 people at the city's largest homeless shelter have tested positive. Newsom said the state's testing of the homeless has been inadequate and vowed to do more.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced what he describes as a “temporary suspension of immigration into the United States.” But the executive order would bar only those seeking permanent residency, not temporary workers. Trump said Tuesday he would be placing a 60-day pause on the issuance of green cards in an effort to limit competition for jobs in a U.S. economy wrecked by the coronavirus. But he said there would be “certain exemptions," which staff members were still crafting Tuesday. It's a return to a divisive issue at a time of national crisis.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are continuing to collapse, and U.S. stocks dropped to their worst loss in weeks as worries sweep markets about the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The S&P 500 fell 3.1% for its biggest loss since April 1, and markets across Europe and Asia had similar drops. Oil prices crumbled again as demand for energy withers with planes parked, cars garaged and factories shut down. Storage tanks for all that excess crude are getting close to their limits, meanwhile. Treasury yields fell, meaning investors are willing to get paid even less to get the safety of owning U.S. government bonds.
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