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• Utah K-12 schools plan a “soft” two-week closure

  13-03-2020 23:44
  
  Editor’s note: The Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Many Utah parents kept their kids home from school Friday, saying they were angry and frustrated that more public districts in the state hadn’t canceled classes in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak.And by late Friday afternoon, Gov. Gary Herbert had announced a “soft closure” of Utah’s public sc
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: COVID Canid

  13-03-2020 23:44
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, March 15, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/03/12/bagley-cartoon-bidens-run/" target=_blank><u>Biden’s Run</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/03/11/bagley-cartoon-women-walk/"><u>Women Walk Out</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/03/10/bagley
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Coronavirus and the NBA: Child tests positive for COVID-19 after getting autographs at Jazz vs. Celtics game - CBSSports.com

  13-03-2020 23:42 via sportspyder.com
  
  A police chief says the young fan was at Celtics-Jazz game on March 6
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - The Most Important NBA News: Adam Silver, Utah Jazz, And COVID-19

  13-03-2020 23:34 via sportspyder.com
  
  It's been a crazy and intense week not only for the NBA and its fans but for the whole world because of
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Child reportedly has coronavirus after Rudy Gobert autograph

  13-03-2020 23:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  A child in Westerly, R.I. has the coronavirus after getting an autograph from Utah Jazz center and NBA All-Star Rudy Gobert, per Sam Read of NBC10 WJAR. The NBA suspended the season on Wednesday after Gobert tested positive for the virus. His...
  
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• [KSL] - Coronavirus: Utah Jazz face uncertainty after Gobert, Mitchell scare - Sports Illustrated

  13-03-2020 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Where do the Jazz go after Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell tested positive for the coronavirus? Utah faces an uncertain future once NBA play resumes.
  
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• [The Spun] - Rhode Island Child Who Had Contact With Rudy Gobert Tests Positive For Coronavirus

  13-03-2020 23:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  Earlier this week, Rudy Gobert became the first professional athlete in the United States to test positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus.
  
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• [12up] - Child in Rhode Island Tests Positive for Coronavirus After Getting Autographs From Utah Jazz at Celtics Game

  13-03-2020 23:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  A young NBA fan from Rhode Island contracted the coronavirus after getting an autograph from a Utah Jazz player in their recent game against the Boston Celtics.
  
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• [Sportsnaut] - Report: Child contracts coronavirus from Jazz star Rudy Gobert

  13-03-2020 23:08 via sportspyder.com
  
  Focusing on a report that a child tested positive for coronavirus. He is said to have contracted it from Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert.
  
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• Deborah Gatrell: A civics lesson for the Utah Legislature

  13-03-2020 23:00
  
  We all have our share of problems. To solve them, we must correctly identify the root issue. If we misdiagnose, our solutions will be ineffective, or worse.There’s been much talk about civic education in Utah’s halls of power recently. Our leaders are justifiably concerned about a general decrease in civic knowledge and voter turnout in elections despite high levels of relative political engagement.While these concerns are legitimate, we’ve also reached a crisis point of public
  
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• Latter-day Saints suspend all worship services worldwide due to coronavirus; other Utah churches cancel services, too

  13-03-2020 22:55
  
  Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.To help combat the coronavirus pandemic, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is suspending public gatherings of church members worldwide “until further notice,” the Utah-based faith said in a statement Thursday.That means canceling all Sunday services and midweek activities for more
  
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• Facts about the novel coronavirus

  13-03-2020 22:51
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more local coverage here.How many people have tested positive for coronavirus in Utah? !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var e in a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.getElementById("datawrapper-chart-"+e)||document.querySelector("iframe[src*
  
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• Kid infected after interaction with Rudy Gobert

  13-03-2020 22:44
  
  Two of the additional cases of the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus announced Friday were juvenile residents of Westerly, one of whom had gotten an autograph last week from an NBA player who contracted the virus, the police chief announced.
  
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• Fremont basketball star Dallin Hall commits to BYU

  13-03-2020 22:37
  
  Provo • While college sports are at a standstill and the NCAA is looking for a way to make up for lost games or providing a waiver for any senior student athletes that want to play another year, BYU men’s basketball received some good news in the midst of all the chaos.Dallin Hall, one of the state of Utah’s top unsigned basketball recruits, finally made his choice. And he will turn in his Silverwolves jersey in for a Cougar one.The three-star point guard from Fremont High Schoo
  
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• Utah lawmakers again rejected a ban on using phones while driving

  13-03-2020 22:25
  
  Senate and House majorities voted for it this year. Three of every four Utahns favor it in polls. The Utah Highway Patrol, police chiefs, sheriffs, school bus drivers, insurance companies, prosecutors and even motorcycle groups lobbied hard for it.But in the end, a bill to enact a stricter ban on hand-held cellphones while driving died anyway at the Utah Legislature — as it has for years. But unlike past legislative sessions when it often did not even make it out of committee, it came with
  
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• Utah teachers, parents frustrated that K-12 classes are being held despite coronavirus concerns

  13-03-2020 22:21
  
  Editor’s note: The Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Many Utah parents are keeping their kids home from school, saying they’re angry and frustrated that more public districts in the state haven’t canceled classes in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak. But it appears that it’s only a matter of time until that happens.A letter written by administrators in
  
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• Utah suspends the remainder of spring football practice

  13-03-2020 22:15
  
  Amidst COVID-19 concerns this week, the one remaining athletics domino at the University of Utah fell on Friday afternoon.The school announced an indefinite suspension for all team practices and organized athletic activities. That includes spring practice for the football team, which began on March 2 and was set to start again on Tuesday once students returned from spring break. Tuesday would have marked the fourth of 15 spring practices.Utah did not directly cancel the annual Red-White Spring G
  
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• [NBA] - COVID-19 Updates

  13-03-2020 22:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  */ Check back frequently for updated news and information. 3/13/20 Update Statement from the Utah Jazz on ticketing policy
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Report: Donovan Mitchell Frustrated with Rudy Gobert After Coronavirus Diagnosis

  13-03-2020 22:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell reportedly is " extremely frustrated" with teammate and center Rudy Gobert , per Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix ...
  
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• Tabernacle Choir’s radio show will go on — but as repeats

  13-03-2020 22:08
  
  The famed Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and Orchestra will continue its weekly airing of “Music and the Spoken Word” — the longest continuously running network broadcast in radio history — but the performances will be reruns and without an audience.Beginning Sunday, the long-standing weekly show featuring the 360-member choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint will broadcast previously recorded programs and will not be open to the public, according to a
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Report: Donovan Mitchell ‘extremely frustrated’ with Rudy Gobert after positive coronavirus test

  13-03-2020 22:06 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell is reportedly “extremely frustrated” with teammate Rudy Gobert after his positive coronavirus test, per Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated. Players on the Jazz have privately said Gobert has been careless in...
  
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• Coronavirus hits a sixth Utah resident, from Salt Lake County; 2 Summit County tourists also diagnosed

  13-03-2020 22:02
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Summit County has two more cases of COVID-19 — and both of them are out-of-state visitors who don’t count toward the state’s total. But with the addition Friday of a patient diagnosed in Salt Lake County, six Utah residents have come down with the disease.The Summit County patients are both men
  
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• Trump declares virus pandemic a national emergency

  13-03-2020 21:56
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency, as Washington struggles with providing Americans with relief and officials race to slow the spread of the outbreak.Speaking from the Rose Garden, Trump said, “I am officially declaring a national emergency.” He said it would free up as much as $50 billion for state and local governments to respond to the outbreak. Trump also waived interest on federally held student loans and mo
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Coronavirus: Utah Jazz face uncertainty after Gobert, Mitchell scare - Sports Illustrated

  13-03-2020 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  Where do the Jazz go after Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell tested positive for the coronavirus? Utah faces an uncertain future once NBA play resumes.
  
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• How to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone so you don’t get the coronavirus

  13-03-2020 21:33
  
  New York • You’re washing your hands countless times a day to try to ward off the coronavirus.You should also wash that extension of your hand and breeding ground for germs — your phone. Tests done by scientists show that the virus can live for two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends cleaning all “high-touch” surfaces daily, including phones, keyboards and tablet computers.But cleaning your phone imp
  
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• Utah linebacker Francis Bernard moving through pre-NFL Draft uncertainty amidst COVID-19 cancelations

  13-03-2020 21:24
  
  As part of an unprecedented day for the sports landscape in the United States on Thursday, the Pac-12 not only canceled the remainder of its men’s basketball conference tournament, but all sports and championship events.In accordance with the Pac-12’s edict, the University of Utah announced less than three hours later that “all scheduled University of Utah athletics competitions—conference or non-conference, home or away—have been canceled, effective immediately, un
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo, Pistons’ Blake Griffin each donating $100K to arena staff

  13-03-2020 21:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  Cleveland Cavaliers star Kevin Love is a trendsetter for Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo and Detroit Pistons star Blake Griffin.
  
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• [NBA] - Statement from the Utah Jazz on Ticketing Policy

  13-03-2020 21:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz announced today its ticket policy for games at Vivint Smart Home Arena, following the NBA’s recent decision to postpone games in the current season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets
  
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• Skye Fredericks: Take pride in Utah’s woman senators

  13-03-2020 21:12
  
  As I sat beside Utah state Sen. Kathleen Riebe, and in front of Sen. Karen Mayne, I heard whispered words coming from behind me, “We’re walking.”Being a young woman in the midst of pursuing a college education, it was an honor to be Riebe’s guest on the Senate floor during one of the last periods of floor time in the Utah legislative calendar this spring. When the roll call vote began and the senators’ names were cast up onto the glaring screens, each of our female
  
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• Can you be forced into quarantine? Your questions, answered

  13-03-2020 21:10
  
  Government-imposed quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocity with which contagious diseases spread. The very word quarantine is rooted in the Italian words quarantenara and quaranta giorni, or 40 days, the period of time that the city of Venice forced ship passengers and cargo to wait before landing in the 14th and 15th centuries to try to stave off the plague. Since then, quarantines have often generated tensions between protecting public health versu
  
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• Thom Carter: Air quality and the legislative session: two big wins from the Utah Roadmap

  13-03-2020 21:00
  
  During the 2019 legislative session, the Utah Legislature charged the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute with identifying potential strategies and policy recommendations to assist the Legislature in improving air quality and addressing the causes and impacts of a changing climate.The institute put together a 37-person advisory team to assist in the work, and delivered The Utah Roadmap. I was pleased to represent the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) on this advisory team, where we worked to create
  
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• [Deseret News] - You are not at high risk for COVID-19 if you attended the Utah Jazz’s Monday game against the Toronto Raptors

  13-03-2020 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — As sports around the country have shut down in the wake of the coronavirus scare, a natural question may be whether people who attended the March 9 Utah Jazz game against the...
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: What’s canceled?

  13-03-2020 20:45
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.An onslaught of shutterings statewide have followed Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s call on March 12 to limit mass gatherings statewide to 100 people in an attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus.Here’s an ongoing list of cancellations and postponements:• After the NBA’s announcement, Major
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - The Most Important NBA News: Adam Silver, Utah Jazz, Covid-19

  13-03-2020 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  
  It's been a crazy and intense week not only for the NBA and its fans but for the whole world because of
  
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• Open windows. Don’t share food. Here’s the government’s coronavirus advice.

  13-03-2020 20:33
  
  Washington • The Trump administration Monday night issued several pages of tips for navigating the coronavirus, organizing a set of recommendations for schools, businesses, homes and offices into a document that resembles easy-on-the-eye restaurant food-safety charts.The simple behaviors recommended in the guidelines — like washing hands, managing air flow, protecting food and carving out private space in a home — show how federal health officials believe the virus could influen
  
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• Some Utah courts are canceling trials and hearings to limit coronavirus spread

  13-03-2020 20:28
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Utah's largest court district is delaying trials and court hearings over concerns about spreading COVID-19.Third District Presiding Judge Mark Kouris issued a memo on Friday ordering that all jury trials — including those for defendants who are sitting in jail — will be delayed at least three weeks.T
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: Union warns of NBA’s potential ability to reduce salaries due to coronavirus

  13-03-2020 20:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement allows teams to reduce players' salaries in event of a Force Majeure Event. The NBA is on hiatus due to coronavirus.
  
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• BYU’s trip to the Big Dance got cut short, but Mark Pope says neither he nor Cougar fans will ever forget this team

  13-03-2020 20:21
  
  Provo • This wasn’t how it was suppose to happen. This wasn’t how the Cougars envisioned ending the season.At least, it’s not how BYU coach Mark Pope thought it would go.“I will tell you this — I believe it to be true,” Pope said. “There was nothing that could stop this team this year … the one thing that stopped this team is a pandemic. I do believe that this group was so committed that there was nothing that was going to stop them besides s
  
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• Two more coronavirus patients diagnosed in Summit County; state’s sixth case reported in Salt Lake County

  13-03-2020 20:17
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Summit County has two more cases of COVID-19 — and both of them are out-of-state visitors that don’t count toward the state’s total. But with the addition Friday of a patient diagnosed in Salt Lake County, Utah has six confirmed cases. The Summit County patients are both men between the ages of
  
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• [Five Thirty Eight] - Why It Only Took One Player With Coronavirus To Shutter Sports

  13-03-2020 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  
  After Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert became the first athlete in American professional sports to publicly disclose a positive test result for the coronavirus (COV…
  
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• [Deseret News] - Why Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert perhaps ‘did our country a huge favor,’ ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt explains

  13-03-2020 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt added some perspective to the situation, calling Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID-19 — and the subsequent suspending of the NBA season, along with other sporting event cancelations and suspensions — a wake-up call for the...
  
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• Coronavirus will limit or close Latter-day Saint temples in Utah and around the globe

  13-03-2020 19:59
  
  Temples for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will either close or be open “by appointment only” across the globe, the Utah-based faith announced Friday, as the coronavirus continued to upend worship practices.No proxy work — in which members perform ordinances such as baptisms for their deceased ancestors — will take place at any of the faith’s more than 160 temples around the world.Starting Monday, Utah’s 15 currently operating temples will be
  
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• Two more coronavirus patients diagnosed in Summit County

  13-03-2020 19:36
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here.Summit County has two more cases of COVID-19 — and both of them are out-of-state visitors.The patients are both men between the ages of 18 and 60, the Summit County Health Department reported Friday. They came to Summit County from out of state, but not together.The men exhibited mild symptoms of the disea
  
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• A Utah death row inmate’s conviction has been vacated because the public defender did a bad job

  13-03-2020 19:26
  
  A federal judge this week vacated the conviction and sentence of a Utah man who has been on death row for nearly 30 years over issues with how his public defender did his job.Von Lester Taylor pleaded guilty in 1991 to killing two women after he and a friend broke into a remote cabin. The men kidnapped two sisters after killing their mother and grandmother, then shot the girls' father in the head, doused him with gasoline and set the house on fire, prosecutors allege. The father survived.Though
  
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• Are the Utah Utes the NCAA’s ski champions for the second year in a row? They sure think so.

  13-03-2020 19:24
  
  Once University of Utah senior skier Guro Jordheim took third place in the women’s 5-kilometer freestyle race Thursday at the NCAA Ski Championships, the Utes assumed a 10-point lead in the team standings. Freshman Samuel Hendry followed Jordheim with a second-place finish in the men’s 10-kilometer freestyle. Hendry’s run represented the halfway mark of the four-day competition in Bozeman, Mont. with Utah holding a 32-point lead over another national power, the University of De
  
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• George Pyle: Maybe just stop calling it ‘government’ and we can have a good one

  13-03-2020 19:21
  
  Maybe we are going to have to start calling it something else.To some people, the very word “government” conjures up an image of jackboots and oppression.Listening to debates on such issues as taxation, homelessness, abortion and health care — not just in Utah — you get the impression that a great many people, some of them holding political power or social influence, believe that government is, by its very nature, evil. Perhaps a necessary evil, but evil just the same.A b
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: NBA, players union to put moratorium on transactions

  13-03-2020 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver, whose league has suspended play, is talking about the season extending into July. It'll be at least 30 days until games resume
  
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• [ESPN] - Inside the tense, unprecedented hours that shut down the NBA

  13-03-2020 18:58 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA had a plan to move forward with the season on Wednesday afternoon. Now, no one knows when basketball will return.
  
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• How to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone

  13-03-2020 18:54
  
  New York • You’re washing your hands countless times a day to try to ward off the coronavirus.You should also wash that extension of your hand and breeding ground for germs — your phone. Tests done by scientists show that the virus can live for two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends cleaning all “high-touch” surfaces daily, including phones, keyboards and tablet computers.But cleaning your phone imp
  
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• Trump preparing to invoke emergency powers over coronavirus

  13-03-2020 18:48
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump is preparing to invoke emergency powers over the coronavirus outbreak, an emerging development Friday as an aid package teetered in Congress without his full public support.The president's decision to move ahead was confirmed by two people familiar with the planning who spoke on condition of anonymity. It was still unclear, however, what mechanism Trump would use to free up additional federal resources for testing and treatment as well as for helping thos
  
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