NEW: National Park Service suspends entrance fees at parks that remain open: 'This small step makes it a little easier for the American public to enjoy the outdoors in our incredible National Parks.'
An elderly lady passes empty shelves in Sainsbury's supermarket as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues, in Fulham, London, March 18, 2020.
General Motors followed suit, announcing its suspending North American facilities until at least March 30"due to market conditions and to deep clean facilities." The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Italy has soared to 35,713, according to the Civil Protection Agency. Cars arrive at a coronavirus drive-thru testing site at the Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center, on March 17, 2020, at Jones Beach State Park, New York. It is the first drive thru coronavirus testing site on Long Island.
Cuomo said he spoke with President Donald Trump who is dispatching the hospital ship USNS Comfort to New York City's harbor where it can act as a floating hospital. Medical facilities in northern Italy's virus-hit Lombardy region will"soon" be unable to help the sick, the regional governor said Wednesday."Unfortunately the numbers of the contagion are not falling, they continue to be high," Fontana told reporters, as quoted by Italian news agency ANSA."We will soon be unable to give a response to those who fall ill.
In this photo taken on March 16, 2020, a doctor watches a coronavirus patient under treatment in the intensive care unit of the Brescia hospital in Italy. Hospitals in northern Italy are struggling to make room for the onslaught of coronavirus patients. Laurie Kuypers, a registered nurse, reaches into a car to take a nasopharyngeal swab from a patient at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station for University of Washington Medicine patients, March 17, 2020, in Seattle.
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