Four dead, one injured in apartment building fire in the Bronx, New York
Four women died and one person was injured after a fire broke out in an apartment building in the Bronx, New York, police and media said late on Tuesday.
Trump urges Florida to welcome cruise ship with deadly coronavirus outbreak
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged Florida officials to open an Atlantic Coast port to a Dutch cruise ship stuck at sea with a deadly coronavirus outbreak onboard, urging the governor to drop his opposition.
U.S. says two locally employed staff at foreign missions died of the coronavirus
Two locally employed staff at U.S. foreign missions, one in Indonesia and one in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have died of the coronavirus, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, its first pandemic-related losses among staff.
U.S. death toll spirals amid rush to build field hospitals, find supplies
The U.S. government raced on Tuesday to build hundreds of makeshift hospitals near major cities as healthcare systems were pushed to capacity, and sometimes beyond, by the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. emergency medical stockpile nearly out of protective gear as demand rises – officials
An emergency stockpile of medical equipment maintained by the U.S. government has nearly run out of protective gear that could be useful to combat the coronavirus pandemic, according to two officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Texan spring break group tests positive for coronavirus after Mexico beach trip
Twenty-eight students who returned to Texas after spring break at Mexico’s Cabo San Lucas beach resort have tested positive for coronavirus, although Mexican officials pushed back against the suggestion that they picked up the virus at the tourist spot…
Trump warns Americans of a tough two weeks ahead in coronavirus fight
President Donald Trump warned Americans on Tuesday of a “painful” two weeks ahead in fighting the coronavirus, with a mounting U.S. death toll that could stretch into the hundreds of thousands even with strict social distancing measures.
U.S. rushes to build makeshift hospitals as death toll rises by 800
The U.S. government raced on Tuesday to build hundreds of makeshift hospitals near major cities to ease the strain on overwhelmed healthcare systems as President Donald Trump predicted a “very painful” two weeks ahead.
Pentagon says coronavirus outbreak on carrier doesn’t warrant evacuation
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday it was not time to evacuate a U.S. aircraft carrier reeling from an outbreak of coronavirus, adding that he had not read in detail a letter from the commander of the ship pleading for help.
‘On our own now’: U.S. strategic stockpile empty of medical supplies
Connecticut’s governor on Tuesday said the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies was now empty and the state was “on its own” trying to secure ventilators and masks to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
