The latest daily briefing came as the number of infections and deaths from the COVID-19 virus continued to rise in the U.S., prompting drastic action at every level of government to try to mitigate its spread.
The potential damage to those businesses is expected to worsen as state and city leaders across the nation take unprecedented steps to stifle transmission.
The coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has swept across the globe, infecting at least 179,000 people and killing more than 7,000, according to Johns Hopkins University figures. There are now more than 3,800 cases of COVID-19 and 69 deaths in the U.S. alone,At the briefing Monday, the White House handed out new guidelines with safety tips for Americans to take that could slow the spread of the virus.
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