Contain the spread of the virus. The coronavirus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life a billions of people heres the news were following this hour spain is reporting 1500 new cases in 24 hours the Prime Minister is due to speak after meeting with his cabinet right now iran is seeing a rise in the number of deaths 97 reported on saturday are now its ordered the closure of religious sites in combe and colombia has shut its border with venezuela a crucial crossing for people to get food medicine and work before we go to our correspondents lets take a look at the global picture right now this is the Johns Hopkins university virus tracker as you can see 147746 confirmed cases of the virus totaled. Thats 5539. 00 but the total recovered 71714. 00 you can see that big cluster there in italy but also look at spain right now big red blob of madrid there confirming that spike in cases in madrid lets go live to sania gago whos in lo
Spread. The u. S. President s travel ban on 26. 00 european nations comes into effect hours after he declared a National Emergency. China says the worst of the Virus Outbreak is over as the number of fatalities dips and life starts to return to something approaching normal. On a virus that wipes out most of the world that may just Sports Events the English Premier League the Boston Marathon a formula one all off try in the global sport calendar into chaos. The coronavirus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life for billions of people in iran theres been a spike in new deaths with 97 reported in one day that brings the total death toll there to 611. 00. There are more than 12700. 00 infections colombia is shutting its land border with venezuela its a crossing used by thousands of venezuelans every day looking for food and medicine during the devastating economic crisis there in the u. S. A travel restriction affecting 26. 00
Three passengers on the grand princess cruise ship to be diagnosed with coronavirus after taking a tenday cruise to mexico last month. Abc7 news was at the port of San Francisco when the ship docked on february 11th to begin that cruise. The ship has been traveling nonstop. Its recent itineraries ranged from fiveday to 15day cruises between San Francisco and mexico and San Francisco and hawaii. Now its return to San Francisco is on hold as several passengers and crew members have complained of flulike symptoms. Anyone who is on both the mexico cruise last month and the current hawaii cruise has been asked to stay in their rooms. Take a look at this. This tracker on c scanner. Com shows the Current Location off the coast of mexico, coronavirus testing kits are being flown to that ship. Lets go live to abc7 News Reporter kate larson with more. Kate . Reporter originally the grand princess cruise ship was meant to come here in coronavirus this saturday morning. Then princess slipped a not
With second largest point gain on record. Up 1,173 points yesterday for the duh industrials, that was 4 and a half percent. Nasdaq was up 334 points. About 4 . The s p 500 also higher by a quarter percent with a gain of 127 points. Coronavirus, crisis continues, california declares state of emergency as the number of patients in the golden state rises, the house passing 8. 3 billion bill to bat it will virus, the senate due to vote on that today. United and jetblue cutting flights to the United States, all that coming up. Samestore shelves, heared out of clorox and canned soups. Senator Bernie Sanders releasing ad barack obama praising him and joe biden hitting back and Mike Bloombergs expensive run to the end and is Elizabeth Warren coming next . Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria we begin with another volatile day in markets this morning. Take a look at markets overseas as we sea big selloff in the u. S. Cac quarante in paris down 91 and dax index in germly lower 120 points
Were going to begin with breaking news about the coronavirus on both coasts. Tonight, Los Angeles County, where 10 Million People live, has declared a Public Health emergency. Now, this comes as california is reporting its first death, and were now learning a worker at l. A. X. , who was screening passengers for the virus, has tested positive. And in the suburbs just north of new york city, at least two families are infected, forcing 1,000 people there to self quarantine. Nationwide there are at least 153 confirmed cases. 11 people have died, 10 in Washington State alone. Our team of correspondents is covering all of the angles of this developing story, and carter evans leads us off in kent, washington. And, carter, i understand there are new Safety Measures being taken where you are . Reporter thats right, econolodge motel. The plan is to turn this into a coronavirus quarantine facility, possibly within the next couple of days. This as Health Officials scramble to contain the virus up