Some children have been hospitalized or worse after becoming infected with the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. At least three children have died.
"If we need to do temporary burials to be able to tide this over to pass the crisis and then work with each family on their appropriate arrangements, we have the ability to do that," de Blasio said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 123,100 people in the state as of Monday morning.
World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak, which has now infected more than 1.2 million people globally.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is holding a press conference Monday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 67,500 people in New York City.
Together with the previous two packages, Singapore has set aside 59.9 billion Singapore dollars ($41.7 billion), accounting for around 12% of the country's gross domestic product.
Trump, during a White House briefing, said that 1,000 military personnel would be deployed to New York City and that he would seek more aid for small businesses if relief funds ran out.
"We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors," Crozier wrote in the letter.
The virus has spread rapidly throughout New York City which has more than 57,159 confirmed cases, accounting for more than 20% of all cases in the U.S.
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes the coronavirus pandemic as the greatest public health crisis in a century.
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