ALABAMA
A baby is in isolation after an Alabama NICU nurse tested positive for coronavirus, family says
By Pamela Kirkland and Madeline Holcombe, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/health/coronavirus-nicu-nurse-baby-isolation/index.html
KENTUCKY
(CNN)At least one person in Kentucky is infected after taking part at a “coronavirus party” with a group of young adults, Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday.
The partygoers intentionally got together “thinking they were invincible” and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing, Bashear said.
“This is one that makes me mad,” the governor said. “We have to be much better than that.”
MINN -
CNN
NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns says his mother is in a coma and urges people to take Covid-19 seriously
NEW YORK/FLORIDA/ ETC
CNN - White House public health expert says anyone who recently left New York should self-quarantine
“To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left New York,” Dr. Deborah Birx said at a White House press briefing, adding that “everybody who was in New York should be self-quarantining for the next 14 days to ensure that the virus doesn’t spread to others.”
“No matter where they have gone, whether it’s Florida or North Carolina or out to the far reaches of Long Island,” Birx said.
Even if half of the New Yorkers self quarantine (good luck), Florida hospitals will soon look like NYC’s.
INDIA -
India sets 21-day ‘complete lockdown’ to stop coronavirus spread
It could be the biggest lockdown of its kind in human history.
DELHI and LONDON — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that the country would be imposing a “total ban” on Indians venturing outside their homes to combat the spread of coronavirus, in perhaps the largest restriction on the movement of people the world has seen.
Addressing the nation in a televised address, Modi said the strict lockdown was necessary to “save India and every Indian.”
“From 12 midnight tonight, the entire country will go under a complete lockdown,” he said.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/india-sets-21-day-complete-lockdown-stop-coronavirus/story?id=69769594&cid=clicksource_69335433_9_three_posts_card_related
THAILAND -
AP
Thailand imposes state of emergency to control coronavirus
Thailand’s government is imposing a one-month state of emergency allowing it to impose stricter measures to control the coronavirus that has infected hundreds of people in the Southeast Asian country
The move gives the government additional powers to implement curfews, censor the media, disperse gatherings and deploy the military for enforcement. Details about what exact measures will be imposed are to be released later.
In a brief televised address, Prayuth assured the country that he is not instituting a lockdown yet.
UK
UK wakes up to virtual coronavirus lockdown, as PM Johnson declares ‘moment of national emergency’
ABC News
LONDON — The U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson announced unprecedented new restrictions to British life in an address to the nation Monday night, as he declared the coronavirus outbreak a “moment of national emergency.”
The prime minister said the police would have new powers to enforce the rules, which are set to be imposed for at least three weeks.
WORLD
UN chief urges G20 to adopt `war-time’ plan with trillions
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging leaders of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations to adopt a “wartime” plan to help developing countries tackle the coronavirus pandemic
...Guterres warned: “Anything short of this commitment would lead to a pandemic of apocalyptic proportions affecting us all.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said G20 leaders are expected to hold a virtual summit meeting Thursday.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-urges-g20-adopt-war-time-plan-trillions-69774175?cid=clicksource_4380645_13_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
Anyone ever remember any person in these press conferences state where these New York infections originally came from? Certainly not from one attorney cluster.