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Old 03-20-2020, 11:56 PM   #221 (permalink)
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Tesla is supposed to start making ventilators. Volkswagen will, too.

Can you imagine fighting for your life and seeing a Fiat logo on your ventilator?

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- "New York and Illinois on Friday followed California in telling tens of millions of people to stay at home in the most sweeping measures the United States has taken so far to try to contain the coronavirus crisis.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he planned to give similar orders shutting down all but essential businesses within the next 24 hours. " -Reuters

- "President Trump declares major disaster in New York state due to coronavirus, orders federal assistance" -BNO News

- "German carmaker Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) said on Friday it was joining other manufacturers around the world to explore using 3D printing to make hospital ventilators to combat the coronavirus. " -Reuters

- "Chilean president Sebastian Pinera is under growing pressure to announce a national quarantine by opposition leaders, medical experts and local mayors, who have launched their own measures to try to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. " -Reuters

- "Cuba will bar foreign visitors from entering the country for a month starting Tuesday in a bid to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Caribbean island nation, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Friday. " -Reuters

- "Negotiations on a possible $1 trillion coronavirus economic stimulus bill were moving ahead, but agreement by a deadline at midnight on Friday deal was becoming elusive with several major issues dividing congressional Republicans and Democrats, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said." -Reuters

- "Mainland China reported zero locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus for a third day running, while the daily log of infections involving travellers arriving from other countries continued to rise." -Reuters

- "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged people on Saturday to cut non-essential internal travel and asked older residents to stay at home to help combat the spread of the coronavirus, which has now infected more than 50 people in the island nation.

The 39-year-old leader said in a televised address that she will keep schools open for now, in a similar policy employed in neighboring Australia." -Reuters

- "Germany may enforce a nationwide curfew if the country’s 83 million people fail to keep their distance from each other this weekend to curb the spread of coronavirus, government and health leaders said on Friday. " -Reuters

- "New Zealand has introduced a COVID-19 alert system. It's currently at Level 2 nationwide but different levels can be declared for parts of the country" -BNO News

- "Madagascar reports first 3 cases of coronavirus" -BNO News

- "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered the closure of bars, clubs, restaurants, leisure centers, theaters and gyms - Sky News" -BNO News

- "While most governments are asking people to stop panic buying, Taiwan's premier is taking a different approach: "Buy as much as possible, there's plenty of goods .. As the economy is slowing down, of course the government encourages everyone to enthusiastically buy" - REU" -BNO News
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