Corona Update News for China

California tells residents to stay home; China records no new local coronavirus cases for the second day:
Global travel restrictions are dramatically ramping up amid the growing coronavirus outbreak, with U.S. officials urging Americans abroad to return home or prepare to shelter in place and the entire state of California going into effective lockdown as confirmed U.S. cases doubled in the past 48 hours.

China on Friday announced for the second consecutive day that no new local infections were recorded in the country the previous day. Out of 39 infections confirmed on Thursday, all were imported from abroad, Chinese officials said, as the outbreak appears to slow in the place where it was first recorded late last year.

In Italy, where the government is extending its large-scale lockdown, the death toll climbed to 3,405 on Thursday. More people have now died from the illness in Italy than in China, and morgues there are running out of space.

Most Asian markets posted modest gains on Friday after U.S. stocks clawed back some ground Thursday, with the Dow closing above the 20,000 level. But uncertainty lingers about the economic toll the pandemic will take on U.S. households as restrictions upend normal business.

Here are some significant developments:

Officials say the number of cases in the United States will continue to rise sharply as more test results become available.
India barred incoming commercial flights for a week, as more countries closed their borders to noncitizens.
Senate Republicans introduced a $1 trillion fiscal package — the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act — which includes sending direct cash payments to many Americans.
President Trump canceled the in-person G-7 summit scheduled for June at Camp David, due to the coronavirus pandemic, deciding instead to hold the annual meeting by videoconference.
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