from ZeroHedge:

Summary:

• West Virginia Gov. Justice orders bars & restaurants closed after reporting 1st case of coronavirus


• Fed reportedly plans to throw vital lifeline to Commercial Paper market


• NYPD officer tests positive


• 30 NYPD officers test positive


• US death toll hits 100


• Confirmed coronavirus cases in the US pass 5k


• EU leaders close borders to non-EU citizens


• Saudi Arabia orders private sector workers to stay home for 15 days


• Trump admin promises to stop all migrants attempting to illegally cross US border

• Merkel says ‘joint debt options’ discussed by EU leaders


• NJ Gov says “Shelter In Place” order “certainly an option”


• WH planning $850 billion economic rescue package


• 2nd rescue package still stalled over Senates’ ‘minor’ changes


• Cuomo reports 432 new cases, bringing state total over 1,000 and retaking No. 1 spot


• Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis closes all bars and nightclubs


• Trump doubles down on “Chinese virus” phrasing after Beijing complains


• Several students at Vanderbilt University have tested positive


• Kentucky Derby postponed until September


• UK announces £330 billion rescue package, strengthens police powers


• Goldman says “world is in a recession”


• Luxembourg declares ‘state of emergency’


• Army will provide 5 million respirator masks & other equipment to states


• Mick Mulvaney self-isolating in SC after niece had contact with Brazilian official


• EU eases rules, allows some state aid to companies


• Gov Pritzker confirms 1st death in Illinois, confirmed cases hit 22


• Italy extends short-selling ban for 90 days


• France says deficit will blow out to 3.9%


• Lindsey Graham opposes “$1,000 per person” plan


• Esper says 2 Navy hospitals can help with response, but building ad hoc hospitals ‘probably best left up to the states’


• NYC Mayor says “absolutely considering” shelter-in-place order


• Kevin Durant one of 4 Nets players to test positive: Other might be Kyrie Irving


• De Blasio says ‘no clusters in New York’


• Amazon stops shipments of “non-essential” goods to warehouses


• Moscow denies reports of citywide quarantine


• Turkey jails 19 over ‘provocative’ social media posts


• Spain turns away 500 cars after setting up border checkpoints


• Pakistan reports first death


• S&P warns “sudden economic stop” will trigger deep recession


• Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson leave quarantine


• Poland says minister has caught the virus


• 8 US banks access discount window


• Trump slams Michigan’s Democratic Gov.

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Update (2050ET): The New York Post reports that an NYPD officer from the city’s 1st Precinct (located on the East Side of Lower Manhattan) has tested positive for the virus, and another 30 officers have called out sick (17 of whom have displayed flu-like symptoms).

Rumors on Twitter claimed that all 31 officers had tested positive.

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Update (1900ET):  The novel coronavirus has finally made it to all 50 states.

West Virginia reported its first confirmed case of the virus Tuesday evening, shortly after the death toll in the US climbed to 101, passing 100 in a grim new milestone. All of the deaths caused by the virus in the US have happened over the past three weeks.

“Our health officials came to me and said we do have our first positive in the Eastern panhandle,” said West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice during a news conference, announcing that he is closing bars and restaurants in the Mountain State. “We knew it was coming, we’ve prepared for this and we shouldn’t panic.”

Alabama, Idaho, Montana and West Virginia were the last three states to report cases of the virus.

This news came as the total cases in the US passed 5,600 on Tuesday as testing capabilities expand rapidly nationwide.

In other news, the Trump administration plans to immediately turn back all asylum seekers and other foreigners attempting to enter the US from Mexico illegally, saying the nation cannot risk allowing the coronavirus to spread through detention facilities and infecting border patrol agents.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia took perhaps the most drastic step among its neighbors in the Middle East and ordered all private sector workers to stay home for 15 days. The kingdom has already barred foreigners and cancelled Muslim pilgrimages.

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Update (1740ET): The identity of one of the four Brooklyn Nets players who tested positive earlier has been confirmed, and it’s star shooting forward Kevin Durant. And there are rumors on twitter that Durant’s teammate point guard Kyrie Irving might be the other one.

“Everyone be careful, take care of yourself and quarantine. We’re going to get through this,” Durant told an SI reporter.

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