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Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has donated 720,000 masks to healthcare workers in the US. Over the weekend, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, donated millions of face masks, testing kits and other equipment to countries in Africa.

Morrison told reporters in Sydney that the first meeting of the national cabinet on Sunday had agreed to legislate offences for people who breach the self-isolation rule and escalated advice to others to undertake social distancing, including refusing handshakes and keeping a distance of 1.5 metres away from people.

New York magazine contributor Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar with link to Bloomberg story : Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going At least 1,500 people on the company's cruise ships have been diagnosed with Covid-19, dozens have died, and the lawsuits are just getting started.

Flattening the curve is another way of saying slowing the spread.There are a few other terms besides social distancing that you are likely to hear. Social distancing is most effective as a public health strategy if people think about how they can limit their own social interactions, too.

County Clerk Dwight Sullivan asked people going to the Galveston office to not take their children with them. They also suggested the government set out a plan for tackling infections spread by people who do not have any covid-19 symptoms, and called for the systematic recording of the ethnicity of everyone who dies from the disease.

Mr Hazzard repeated pleas for the public to stick to social distancing rules. Yes, but only in the presence of a maximum of 30 people who are respecting social distancing. Following reports of the coronavirus spreading within in the New Orleans area, the city's mayor suspended weekend events and parades, including the well-attended St. Patrick's Day and St. Joseph's Day parades.

What will be a mega problem is how to maintain social distancing during the cruise itself. OSLO, Norway MSC Cruises — Norwegian health authorities say they are set to start performing random coronavirus tests, following the experiment Iceland has done. Quarantine differs from isolation in that quarantine is for people who are not sick but may have been, or want to prevent being, exposed to the COVID-19 virus.