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- ABC News
- March 27, 2020
US now leads world with over 85,500 cases
Coronavirus has now killed more than 24,000 people around the world.
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As of Wednesday, New York was performing 25% of the COVID-19 testing nationwide, according to the governor.
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Cuomo said the state has enough personal protective equipment for the immediate future.
New York is focusing on helping hospitals increase capacity by at least 50%. Officials are also scouting dorms and hotels for emergency beds.
As domestic airline travel continues to plunge, the TSA screened its lowest number of passengers in over a decade on Wednesday.
There were 239,234 travelers screened by the TSA on Wednesday, compared to 2,273,811 travelers on the same weekday last year.
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Meanwhile, China's civil aviation regulator is ordering all airlines to cut international flights to one flight per week into China, and the flights can only be 75% full.
Tufts University will hold its first virtual commencement ceremony.
\"In light of the unprecedented public health crisis we are currently facing, we will be unable to bring our graduates together physically to celebrate all that they have accomplished,\" the university said in a statement. \"Though we unfortunately cannot be together in person, we will celebrate the class of 2020 on May 17.\"
Spain's death toll from the coronavirus has now climbed to 4,089 after another 655 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, according to Spain's Health Ministry.
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Spain now has the second-highest number of deaths, following Italy.
The nation has 56,188 diagnosed cases, including 3,679 people who are in the intensive care unit, according to Spain's Health Ministry.
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Spain is fourth in the number of diagnosed cases, behind China, Italy and the U.S.
A member of the nursing staff at New York City's Mount Sinai Health System has died from the coronavirus, according to the hospital.
\"We are deeply saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our nursing staff,\" Mount Sinai said in a statement. \"Today, we lost another hero - a compassionate colleague, friend and selfless caregiver.\"
We are deeply saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our nursing staff. Today, we lost another hero - a compassionate colleague, friend and selfless caregiver. pic.twitter.com/mn9JethD1x
— Mount Sinai Health System (@MountSinaiNYC) March 26, 2020
Charles, Prince of Wales, is working at his desk as usual while self-isolating at his estate in Scotland, a royal source told ABC News.
The source said Charles has received hundreds of get well soon wishes sent to his official royal residence in London, Clarence House.
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A Clarence House spokesman confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Charles had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and \"has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health.\"
His wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has tested negative for the virus, according to the spokesman. The couple is currently self-isolating at Birkhall, their private residence in Scotland.
Charles, 71, is the first child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is the heir apparent to the British throne.
The Russian government has ordered the grounding of all international flights as part of new measures against the coronavirus pandemic.
Russia's civil aviation agency Rosaviatsiya will halt \"regular and charter air flights from Russian airports to and from foreign countries,\" with the exception of flights evacuating Russian citizens from abroad, according to the decree published Thursday on the government's website.
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The new travel restriction comes into force at midnight on Friday.
As of Thursday, there were 840 diagnosed cases of the novel coronavirus in Russia, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University.
More than 1.5 billion students are not attending schools and universities because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest figures from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Governments across the globe have closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the disease. More than 160 countries have implemented nationwide school closure, impacting over 87 percent of the world's student population, according to UNESCO monitoring.
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Several other nations have implemented localized school closures and, should those become nationwide, UNESCO warned that millions more students would be affected.
In the United States, at least 124,000 public and private schools have closed their doors due to the outbreak, affecting more than 55 million students, according to the latest count from the news journal Education Week.
The number of diagnosed cases worldwide of the novel coronavirus will likely reach half a million in the coming days, the latest data from Johns Hopkins University shows.
China still has the highest tally with more than 81,000 diagnosed cases, but Italy isn't far behind with over 74,000. The U.S. count is approaching 70,000.
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Meanwhile, the global death toll topped 21,000 on Thursday, with Italy and Spain as the two worst-affected countries.
A third of the world's population is under some kind of coronavirus-related movement restrictions as governments scramble to contain the spread of the disease.
ABC News' Kelly Cannon, Anne Flaherty, Mina Kaji, Alina Lobzina, Zoe Magee, Alex Mallin, Marcus Moore, Quinn Owen, Alex Perez, Christine Theodorou and Karson Yiu contributed to this report.
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