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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The related memo said "human-to-human transmission is possible." An investigation by AP News indicated that the reporting of a case in Thailand prompted the meeting, as well as the risk of spread with heightened travel during the Chinese New Year and various political considerations. However, the Chinese public is not warned until January 20.
The border crossings were closed in December as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents responded to areas handling the largest influx of migrants.
The first, confirmed, case of COVID-19 was in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia.
Alaska, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee are reopening some businesses, even though it's likely to cause more coronavirus infections and deaths. These 4 Republican states are ignoring Trump ...
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Reopening was accompanied by an increase in testing and the development of electronic "health codes" (using smartphone applications) to facilitate contact tracing. [69] Health code applications contain personalized risk information, based on recent contacts and test results. [69] Wuhan, the last major city to reopen, ended its lockdown on 8 ...
The Trump administration has shelved a document created by the nation's top disease investigators with advice to local authorities on how to reopen. AP Exclusive: US shelves detailed guide to ...