Police turn to heavy handed measures. And russias president scales up the response to the outbreak people are ordered to stay at home and a constitutional referendum is delayed. Concerns that the u. S. Could become the next major front in the coronavirus pandemic a growing with more news on the number of cases the governor of new york said they had been a leap of 5000 cases in just the past day with the state alone now recording more than 30000 in total the virus has claimed more lives there than in any other part of the country elsewhere spain now has the worlds 2nd highest number of deaths after 700. 00 in the past 24 hours to a total today 3 and a half 1000 thats half the total of italy there was a glimmer of hope there as the hard hit nobody region reported its smallest number of new deaths in 6 days. When in russia president putin has ordered the military to run drills testing troop readiness to deal with an outbreak is one of a number of emergency measures is implemented in the p