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California issues “stay at home” order
Governor Gavin Newsom called the order essential in light of modeling by experts that showed roughly 56 percent of the state’s residents, or 25 million people, would contract the respiratory illness in the next eight weeks. The governor issued the unprecedented statewide “stay at home order” directing the state’s 40 million residents to hunker down in their homes for the foreseeable future.

YouTube no longer high definition in EU
YouTube said it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avoid internet gridlock as thousands of Europeans are confined to their homes. “We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default,” the company said in a statement.

The spread
The virus has infected more than 245,000 people globally and the death toll exceeds 10,000. In China, where the virus first emerged, imported cases have risen to a record. But for a second day in a row, China found no domestically transmitted cases. Italy’s death toll has overtaken China. It registered 427 deaths over the past 24 hours, bringing the total nationwide to 3,405 since the outbreak surfaced on Feb. 21.

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As U.S. authorities scrambled to ramp up the nation’s capacity to test for coronavirus last week, at least 100 executives and other New Yorkers of means had easy access to testing, according to sources familiar with the activities of a little-known medical service catering to the affluent.

Trump will cancel an in-person meeting of G7 leaders at Camp David in June because of the coronavirus and will hold a video-conference instead, the White House said. The decision comes as nations around the world seal their borders and ban travel to stop the virus’ spread.

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World

Many overseas arrivals in Hong Kong are going unmonitored as they begin two weeks of mandatory self-quarantine, with only a third of the 6,000 electronic wristbands issued to them being activated, authorities said.

Ventilator rush: Britain said that engineering companies had come up with an emergency ventilator prototype to fight the coronavirus outbreak, which should be approved for use in hospitals by the end of next week. Britain has also asked 65,000 former nurses and doctors to return to work and will deploy final-year medical students to fight the coronavirus health crisis, the health ministry said.

Australia delayed its federal budget by five months to October saying the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to make sensible economic forecasts, as it prepared to dramatically expand its stimulus spending to avoid recession.

Winter is coming: The coronavirus outbreak is landing in Brazil as the hot summer days in the southern hemisphere draw to a close and winter approaches, potentially worsening the spread of the virus, medical experts told Reuters.