New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday urged people to work from home as the deadly coronavirus continues to spread and the number of confirmed cases rises in the United States.
The video, posted by White House social media director Dan Scavino, was edited to show Biden endorsing Trump for reelection. Facebook has since labeled it as "partly false information."
The Consumer Brands Association – which represents brands including Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, General Mills and Clorox – wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Monday urging him to take action on sellers taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak.
"Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on a conference call Monday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo identified New Rochelle, a city in Westchester County where the first coronavirus patient in the state was found, as a hot spot in New York, which now has at least 142 confirmed cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it now has the testing capacity in 78 state and local public health labs across 50 states to test for the coronavirus.
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