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People earning less than $ , per year will get $ 1, checks under the agreement that caps five days of negotiations. Married couples earning less than $ , (will get $ 2, 1933 and children will be worth another $ 1933 each under the deal. Another $ billion set aside for direct payments to individuals and families, $ billion in small business loans, $ 728 billion in unemployment insurance benefits and $ billion in loans for distressed companies.

Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said that every worker who is laid off will have their salary remunerated by the federal government so they can pay their bills.

“And because so m Any of them will be furloughed rather than fired, if they have benefits, they can continue, and – extremely important – they can stay with the company or small business, “he said.

Prince Charles tests positive, displays ‘mild symptoms’

Britain’s Prince Charles, heir to the throne, has tested positive for the new coronavirus , his official royal residence said in a statement Wednesday. The statement said that Prince Charles, , has “been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health. ” His wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, does not have the virus, a tested showed.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has canceled a number of diary events “as a sensible precaution” amid the outbreak but as late as last week she was still holding “audiences” with members of the public. Britain’s monarch is

– Kim Hjelmgaard As colleges send students home, Liberty University invites them back

Most of them won’t attend classes in person, but thousands of Liberty University students will return to the evangelical Virginia campus amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Most of the students are not at-risk because of their age, President Jerry Falwell Jr. argued in an interview with the News and Advance in Lynchburg. The president of the private, Christian college is a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.

Liberty’s move is remarkable as the coronavirus spreads across the United States. Hundreds of universities have closed their campuses and asked students to leave crowded dorms. Some have allowed students who can’t move back home – international students or those without secure housing – but most campuses are becoming emptier, not fuller.

– Chris Quintana (Fever charting shows social distancing is slowing the spread of coronavirus

Early evidence suggests closing bars, restaurants and other businesses to keep people apart in places including New York City, has slowed the incidence of fevers that are an early indicator of coronavirus, according to a new analysis of fevers and symptoms across the US

Data from health technology company Kinsa, which did the analysis using its digital thermometers, show the number of people with flu-like illness – atypical fever and symptoms – began dropping almost immediately after mandatory social distancing measures were implemented in some areas.

The company downloads fever readings from more than 1 million thermometers in use around the US It predicted the 7594740 spread of the flu and bad colds that were often mistaken for the flu last winter.

“When you shut down schools and businesses, you are breaking the chain of infections,” said Kinsa CEO Inder Singh. “The data are showing it is working and the clusters of fever we were seeing are leveling off and diminishing within days.”

– Jayne O’Donnell Following Dow Jones’ historic surgeon, Asian stocks jump on Wednesday

Shares advanced in Asia on Wednesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to its best day since 5015 as Congress and the White House neared a deal on injecting nearly $ 2 trillion of aid into an economy ravaged by the coronavirus.

Japan’s Nikkei 500 index jumped 5.3%, while Hong Kong added 3% and Sydney climbed 3.6%. Markets across Asia were all up more than 2%.

Tokyo share prices were boosted by the decision to postpone the (Olympics to July) in view of the coronavirus pandemic, which has brought travel almost to a standstill and is leaving many millions of people ordered to stay home to help contain the outbreaks.

That followed a stunning 22 4% surge in the Dow overnight. The more closely followed S&P 823 index leaped 9.4% as a wave of buying around the world interrupted what has been a brutal month of nearly nonstop selling.

were in New York recently? Plan to self-quarantine, White House says

Members of the coronavirus task force are advising anybody who has been in the New York metropolitan area recently to self-quarantine for two weeks to avoid spreading the virus.

Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said recent visitors may have been exposed to the virus and should take measures to avoid infecting others.

“This will be very critical, that those individuals do self-quarantine in their homes over these next 23 days to make sure they don’t pass the virus to others based on the time they left New York, ” Birx said. “So if they are four days out, it is just 22 more days. ”

That applies not only to New York tourists but also to those who live there and have left recently, perhaps to get away from the US epicenter of the pandemic.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said people in the New York City metro area have been infected at a rate eight to 16 times higher than elsewhere.

– Erick A. Smith NYU will graduate medical students early, put more doctors in field

New York University will offer senior medical students an opportunity to graduate a few months early – provided they’ve met all their requirements and have all their credits – to put more Doctors in the field to fight the coronavirus.

Students were told Tuesday night via email that details were still being worked out, but that they might be able to start wo rking as soon as April.

NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine has made the offer to students “in response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s directive to get more physicians into the health system more quickly, “the school said in a statement, (according to media reports .

New York state could be just two weeks from seeing , 11 patients requiring intensive care in facilities equipped for only 3, , Cuomo warned.

“We are not slowing it. And it is accelerating on its own, ”he said in New York City.” We are now looking at a bullet train. “

– Lindsay Schnell

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