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New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois were preparing to issue restrictions like California and New York, and the U.S. was set to close its borders with Mexico and Canada.

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Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Friday. New York’s governor has sharply limited outdoor activity across the state, including by ordering nonessential businesses to keep all of their workers home.Credit...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times

One by one, localities and now some of the nation’s biggest states are beginning to limit people’s movements as they struggle to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus before fast-growing caseloads overwhelm their hospitals.

In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo moved Friday to sharply limit outdoor activity across the state, including by ordering nonessential businesses to keep all of their workers home. His wide-ranging executive order, which takes effect on Sunday at 8 p.m., was issued as the number of known cases in the state jumped to over 7,800.

“These provisions will be enforced,” Mr. Cuomo said at a briefing in Albany. “These are not helpful hints.”

Then, within the space of an hour Friday afternoon, several other big states followed suit. Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut issued an order similar to Mr. Cuomo’s, and Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey said he planned to order on Saturday that all nonessential businesses in that state shut down as well.

And in Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a statewide “stay at home” order on Friday, asking all 12 million residents to leave the house only when necessary. All nonessential businesses must also stop operating under the order, which is effective at 5 p.m. Saturday.

“I don’t come to this decision easily,” Mr. Pritzker said at an afternoon news conference. “I fully recognize that, in some cases, I am choosing between people’s lives and saving people’s livelihood. But ultimately, you can’t have a livelihood if you don’t have your life.”

Their moves were announced as California woke up Friday to new rules closing the state’s nonessential retail shops and sharply limiting outdoor movement, after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Californians — all 40 million of them — to stay in their houses as much as possible. There was initially confusion there over how the order would be enforced and interpreted, but Californians were told they could still take walks and leave their neighborhoods to hike or go to the beach, as long as they were able to practice social distancing.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans also issued a stay-at-home order on Friday, asking the city’s 390,000 residents to go out for “critical needs only.”

States and localities announced the new rules as the death toll in the United States surpassed 200, and as Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., recorded their first deaths. There have now been deaths in more than half the states, with the most in Washington State, New York and California.

New York will allow healthy people under age 70 to go out for groceries and medicines, and to exercise and walk outside, as long as they stay six feet away from others. Mass transit will continue to run so that health care workers and other people with essential jobs can get to work, but people will be urged not to use it unless absolutely necessary. Nonessential gatherings of any size will be banned.

And certain essential businesses will be allowed to remain open, including: grocers, health care providers, pharmacies, gas stations, convenience stores, banks, hardware stores, laundromats, child-care providers, auto repair, utilities, warehouses and distributors, plumbers and other skilled contractors, animal-care providers, transportation providers, construction companies and many kinds of manufacturers.

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“I won’t have enough money to pay rent or to buy food or to survive. So I have to work. I have to do it”: How the coronavirus crisis is affecting workers across the city.
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Listen to ‘The Daily’: New York Grinds to a Halt

Produced by Alexandra Leigh Young, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Neena Pathak, Daniel Guillemette, Annie Brown, Andy Mills and Michael Simon Johnson, and edited by Lisa Chow

“I won’t have enough money to pay rent or to buy food or to survive. So I have to work. I have to do it”: How the coronavirus crisis is affecting workers across the city.

[non-english speech]

jessica cheung

Hi, yes, we’re reporters. We’re asking how businesses are doing in Chinatown right now. You’re smiling.

chinatown business owner

I think you know the answer to that question. It’s down. You know, it’s down. It’s been down for a month and a half. It’s going to go down more. This is not the bottom.

[music]

michael barbaro

From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.”

new york business owner

Everything is running slow. We’re doing half of what we’re used to doing this morning, 50% less than before. Easily 60%.

michael barbaro

Across America, businesses are scaling back, firing workers and shutting their doors because of the coronavirus.

stella tan

Have you ever seen it like this before?

new york business owner

No, I’ve never seen it before. Never, never in my life. This is a serious epidemic.

michael barbaro

In New York City, that started in Chinatown.

reporter

Stories of economic downturn, even discrimination against Chinese communities, are coming to light across the country.

michael barbaro

Fueled by anxiety.

reporter

Here in New York City, business owners in Chinatown say sales are down because of widespread fear.

michael barbaro

Within days it had expanded to the entire city by order of the government.

reporter

And earlier today, Governor Andrew Cuomo explained the extraordinary measure that he is taking to protect New Yorkers and limit the spread of the coronavirus.

michael barbaro

Today, what it sounded like as New York City’s economy ground to a halt.

reporter

Life as we know it for tourists and New Yorkers will be quite different for the time being.

michael barbaro

It’s Friday, March 20.

new york business owner

Hello.

stella tan

Hi.

speaker

What channel is this?

stella tan

The New York Times.

speaker

New York Times?

stella tan

Podcast.

new york business owner

Yeah, what’s up, guys? Good morning, guys.

stella tan

So this is Stella Tan. It’s Sunday, March 15, and I am in Manhattan’s Chinatown. There are some souvenir shops open, a few bakeries and restaurants open, but also a fair number of places are closed with their gates pulled down in front or with cardboard over their windows.

I’m about to meet the owner of this restaurant, Amazing 66, and I am just getting to the front of the restaurant right now.

Hello.

helen ng

Hello

stella tan

Hi, Helen. Nice to meet you.

helen ng

Hi, Stella.

stella tan

We just did an elbow bump.

helen ng

Yeah. Today is still a little early, but 12:00, usually, the lunch crowd should be coming in. But now, see, we only have one person at one table. That’s an empty restaurant.

[music]

My name is Helen Ng, and I am the restaurant owner of Amazing 66 on Mott Street in Manhattan. I was actually born in Hong Kong, and I came over to United States with my family and four other siblings in 1969. I’m 12 years old at the time. My parents started working in the garment manufactory. I honestly say that I started working here underage the third day that I get to the United States. I go to school, and then I go to the garment manufactory to work after school.

stella tan

And how long have you been running this restaurant?

helen ng

This is in my 14th year.

Since the business keeps going down and my staff is worried about the transportation when they’re traveling, I guess I have no choice but to decide to close up the restaurant as of tomorrow, the 16th. And of course I don’t really like it and I don’t want to, but I have no choice.

It’s sad, you know? I mean, as I told my staff, I say, they’re like a family to me. So if I don’t see them, I feel that I’m not home. But I hope this virus will go away soon and everybody be healthy.

stella tan

And what’s the food that you’re going to miss the most from your restaurant?

helen ng

From my restaurant? So many of them, you know? I have the pumpkin with the short rib. I have the chicken with garlic shallots. I have the lobster with cheese, and so many, so many.

stella tan

Well, I hope you can reopen and eat all those foods again soon with your staff and your family.

helen ng

Thank you. I hope everybody can reopen to make Chinatown blossom again, you know, more people come back there. I just want to see the street that’s full of people instead of empty. That’s the most important. All right, well, nice meeting you.

stella tan

Very nice to meet you. Good luck. And I’ll definitely come back when it re-opens.

helen ng

Oh, boo.

[laughter]

stella tan

OK.

helen ng

I hope I see you again soon, OK?

Bye.

[door closing]

archived recording

While there are closures and cancellations throughout New York City, there are big crowds outside grocery stores. They are lined up around the block on the Upper West Side. The most challenging spot in any neighborhood right now — the grocery store. Regular shoppers rarely see this big a crowd here. Long lines of anxious shoppers have left shelves bare everywhere.

alexandra leigh young

OK, so this is Alex. It’s about 2:30 PM on a Sunday afternoon, and I’m standing in front of this market in my neighborhood called Halsey Traders Market, and it’s kind of like a cross between a small grocery store and what we call a bodega. It’s not a full-service grocery store, but you can come here to get a few toiletries, or some vegetables, whatever you need for the night. Yeah, I’m going to go in and I’m going to see what’s going on there.

So I just walked in the front door, and there’s a lot of people here right now. So there’s about three little counters where people are checking out. Each one is pretty busy right now. There’s a line behind each one of them. I see this one woman right here at the counter. She’s buying a lot of cleaning products, like Lysol wipes and sprays.

Hey. Are you JuJu? Nice to meet you. I’m not going to shake your hand, if that’s OK.

juju

I’m not going to shake your hand either.

alexandra leigh young

Great, OK. Can I get you to just say your name and what you do here real quick?

juju

Yeah, sure. My name is JuJu. I’ve been supervising this store and the Key Food down there for the past 10 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s just the sheer volume of customers shopping at the same time. You would think like perishable items wouldn’t be moving. I have no eggs. Yogurt is running out. Meat is running out.

alexandra leigh young

What did it feel like for you when you saw the line starting to get really crazy? What were you thinking in your head?

juju

I was nerve-wracked. I was extremely stressed. Like, yesterday I went so unprepared, bags under my eyes. I’m working 19 hours sometimes. Yeah, I’ll get like a half hour of sleep. My employees are overworked. I’m overworked. I’m shaking as I’m speaking to you now because I’m nervous.

alexandra leigh young

Your leg is shaking?

juju

I’m tired. I’m very tired. You know, I’m a cashier for five minutes, I’m stocking meat for five minutes. I’m doing everything. At one point in time there was a few shoplifters. I swear to God, I didn’t even have time talk to them. I was like — I tapped them on the shoulder, have a good day, enjoy.

alexandra leigh young

What were they stealing?

juju

Soap.

alexandra leigh young

Soap.

juju

What do you — if somebody is desperate enough to steal soap, what do you do? Have a good day, man. I don’t know if you see my eye twitching. I feel like my eye is twitching.

alexandra leigh young

Can’t tell.

juju

You know, for the past 30 years, my family’s been around over here operating. My dad is 72 years old. When he comes around here, people recognize him. So you feel bad for people. You really want to help.

speaker

How you doing?

juju

What’s going on, brother? We have no garlic. We have no onion. We have no — our refrigerators are empty. Our walk-in boxes are empty.

For as long as I know my entire life, Boar’s Head never delivers on Sunday. They don’t deliver on Saturday either. They close Saturday and Sunday.

alexandra leigh young

Boar’s Head is the lunch meat?

juju

Yes, the delicatessen meats, and most popular in New York. And I called the guy yesterday and I was like, hey, listen, we don’t have anything. And the guy’s like, you know we don’t deliver on Sunday ever, right? I told him, I was like, look, if you have any common sense as a businessman, and if you have a heart, you’d get your ass up this morning, all right? And you deliver food, all right? Because people are running out. He called me this morning at 7:00 in the morning. He’s like, hey, I’m in front of the store. And he had a full truck. So he didn’t just come serve me. Boar’s Head is a really big company, but each route owner is independent. So that’s where I wanted to come from. This guy got up, left his family to do something like that. That’s something I appreciated a lot.

alexandra leigh young

When you said that you saw this line and you were nerve-wracked and you were panicked, what was the worst fear that was going through your head? Like, what were you specifically panicked about?

juju

That people wouldn’t do what I was doing, the deep breaths, that people would start fighting each other, and that we would have to handle that. Like, where’s the support that we should have from our government, right? In that scenario, what am I supposed to do, put my own life in danger, or one of my guys?

alexandra leigh young

Over toilet paper or something.

juju

Over toilet paper or something. Like if, hypothetically speaking, we are the only businesses, will we have police officers standing outside supporting us? Will we have fire department people just sticking around, just more bodies around? Is there going to be a National Guard? If that case does happen — these are all worst-case scenarios, but these are the only things I would think about moving forward.

[music]

Everything that we’ve dealt with, the sleep deprivation, my own personal issues, all these things, I’m all right. Right? But if it goes a few steps further, what do we do?

archived recording

The United States is starting to shut down as millions of Americans are working from home. Now thousands of schools have closed, millions of Americans are working from home. When you avoid public places, you hurt sales at restaurants, retailers, malls. You’ve seen the impact. We’ve talked to Uber and Lyft drivers. They’ve seen a 70% drop off from their sales from the last few weeks.

jessica cheung

Hey, this is Jessica Cheung. It’s Monday, March 16. I’m on the Upper West Side, and I’m actually standing in the lobby of my apartment building waiting for a Lyft, because I wanted to talk to one of the many workers who are still working during this pandemic. There are people who can’t work from home. There are people who might not have paid sick rules, and I wanted to ask them what it’s like to be working during this time.

Hi. Raúl?

raúl giansante

How are you?

jessica cheung

I’m good. How are you?

raúl giansante

OK.

Pick up. You want to close the window?

jessica cheung

No, we should probably leave it open, right?

raúl giansante

Yeah. I always keep one window open.

jessica cheung

Yeah. I see that you have a can of Lysol spray, a can of Lysol wipes, hand sanitizer on your cup holder and you’re wearing a mask.

raúl giansante

Right. I’m 75 years old. I have diabetes. I have chronic bronchitis. So there are two very bad conditions for the virus. I have to protect myself, and I have to protect you. I think that it should be mandatory for every taxi driver to have a mask, because would pick up around 30 to 35 people a day. And only one person with the virus can contagious about 35 people. That’s terrible.

My name is Raúl Giansante.

I’m originally from Argentina. I’m in this country for 47 years. And all my life, my work was to do custom hand-carved frames with gold leaf for artists and museums and art galleries. But three years ago, I fell in the street. I have an herniated desk. So the only position that I’m not in pain is when I’m sitting. The only thing that I could find out that I can be sitting and make money is a taxi.

[music]

And I’m so happy that I’m doing this, because in 47 years of living in New York, I discover in six months more than I did in 47 years.

jessica cheung

Oh, what did you discover?

raúl giansante

Many places in Brooklyn. I didn’t know much about Brooklyn. Many places — beautiful gardens, beautiful buildings all over the city that I never expect that are going to be here and that I was going to be able to see something like this. And now I can see everything. Now I have the opportunity to see everything.

jessica cheung

Can you tell me how business is doing for you?

raúl giansante

Very slow. Usually when I work in the morning, I drive many parents with the kids to schools. At night, when I work Saturdays and Sundays and Friday nights, usually I pick up between 35 and 45 people. Yesterday, I went out to work, I pick up, on the whole day, 11 people. So it’s really slow, and this is affecting everybody.

jessica cheung

Given that you have so many risks of getting the virus, why are you still working?

raúl giansante

Because to tell you the truth, because the retirement in the United States is so low that it’s not enough to buy food. So I have to work.

jessica cheung

If you stopped working, what would happen?

raúl giansante

I have no idea, because I won’t have enough money to pay rent, or to buy food, or to survive. So I have to work. I have to do it.

[music]

jessica cheung

All right. Well, thank you so much.

raúl giansante

OK. You are very welcome.

jessica cheung

I really appreciate this.

raúl giansante

You are very welcome. And this is going to go on the radio?

jessica cheung

Yes. We are on the radio. We are also on the phone, like a podcast. I can send you a link, and all you have to do is press play.

raúl giansante

OK.

michael barbaro

We’ll be right back.

archived recording

Nightlife in New York City going dark. All bars across the city of New York will be closed. Many restaurants are now limited to take out and delivery services. Thousands of employees in New York City nightspots about to be out of work. I’m thinking if we do this, it’ll open sooner. If we leave them open and everybody gets really sick, then everything gets closed for months.

daniel guillemette

OK, it is March 16, and this is Daniel Guillemette. I’m going to be going over to see Luca DiPietro. He’s a restaurant owner, owns five restaurants here in Manhattan. He’s going to be talking to staff about the shutdown. That’s why I’m here now.

adriana

Hi, how are you?

daniel guillemette

I’m here to see Mr. Luca.

adriana

Yes, he’s not here. Come, lovely.

daniel guillemette

OK.

adriana

He’s not here yet. Yes, come. I’m Adriana.

daniel guillemette

Very nice to meet you.

adriana

Yes, so sit.

daniel guillemette

I’ll just hang out.

luca dipietro

Hi, guys.

daniel guillemette

Hey, how are you doing?

luca dipietro

How are you? I’m here to talk to my staff, and they already know restaurants have been ordered to shut down. But I just want to talk to them and give them the plan.

daniel guillemette

How are you doing today, just yourself?

luca dipietro

I’m very tired and very upset, but —

Can I talk to you in private for a second?

daniel guillemette

Yeah, of course. Want me to turn it off?

luca dipietro

Yeah.

daniel guillemette

OK.

OK. He’s asked me to not be there as he’s talking to his staff. So that conversation is happening right now.

[applause]

You can hear them applaud.

I’ll talk to him after.

So do you mind telling me what you just spoke to your staff? This is, what, I guess maybe nine people or something?

luca dipietro

Yeah. I mean, what I told them — I don’t know if you could hear it, because I was just telling them that as of tonight, we have to close, and that I’m really sorry that I couldn’t keep it open. And I told them I’m pushing very hard to get this delivery business up and running so that I can hopefully need help and get them back in and help out with packaging food and maybe taking orders, delivering. If we get busy, I would love for us to get busy so that I can bring people back in.

daniel guillemette

Of course. So based on the staffers here tonight, you’ve got three cooks?

luca dipietro

Three cooks.

daniel guillemette

In the back you got a busboy.

luca dipietro

Yeah.

daniel guillemette

A server, manager and a bartender?

luca dipietro

Yeah.

daniel guillemette

So in this case, of these people here tonight, how many of them don’t have a place right now?

luca dipietro

Not none of them. There’s no money. There’s no money to pay salaries.

I love — these guys are great. So the people that work here are amazing, and it’s a good group of people, and everybody understands, and everybody is shocked. I guess it’s a national crisis, but we don’t see national. We see what is in front of us. And it’s tough, it’s very tough. And people are going to be suffering. And I don’t know how much money is going to be available for people who lose their job. And nothing like this has ever happened. So I don’t know what is in place. I just know that it pains me greatly to let people down.

I know it’s not me, but that’s how I feel.

I think that I’m used to relying on my own strengths, and possibly sometimes your strength is not enough.

speaker

Good, how are you?

daniel guillemette

I’m good. Luca talked to you guys. How was it?

akram bouchette

I mean, we knew that it was coming, but I would say it all happened so fast. So we didn’t really have time to prepare for that. Most of us are working on paycheck to paycheck. I have a little daughter and a wife. We married this location. We got married right here. That’s why it’s hard to see this place shutting down.

So my name is Akram Bouchette. I’ve been working for the company since 2012. So it’s eight years now, I would say. My wife also works in the business. She works in a different restaurant. So today they are officially closed. They basically fired everyone. So yeah, so the thing is both of us work in the same business and we’re not going to be making money for God knows how long. We have rent to pay, we have a child to take care of, we have insurance to pay and we have little savings. We’re probably going to last for a month maybe. So yeah.

[music]

daniel guillemette

Thank you, everybody, for the time.

adriana

Thank you, lovely.

daniel guillemette

Thank you so much.

adriana

Good luck with everything.

daniel guillemette

Yeah, you too.

andy mills

This is Andy Mills. It is Monday night, and all the bars in New York City have been told that they have to close at 8:00 p.m. And so I’ve come here to Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn, my favorite bar maybe in the entire world. It is at the edge of Brooklyn, right on the waterway. You can see the Statue of Liberty off in the distance. I’m going to go spend the last minutes of being able to be at a bar in New York City with whoever is inside.

[bar chatter and music]

andy mills

Just tell me your name and what you’re doing here tonight.

henrich

My name is Henrich. So I was actually going to go to IKEA to get like some stuff, even though I’m trying to be like smart about it, not go outside. But I was like, all right, I just want some stuff from IKEA. I get there, I get to IKEA, and this dude comes out and he’s like, it’s closed. They shut it down. It’s closed. And I was like, what do you mean? It’s like 5:00 p.m. And he was like, no, it’s closed. So I was like, OK, wow, this is really happening. Like, IKEA got shut down. So I was like, all right, might as well just like go to Sunny’s, you know, this bar we’re at right now, which is like my favorite bar. Because they’re closing it down tonight at like 8:00, I believe. So this is like my last chance like get out and be free before I’m going to be inside for I don’t know how long, I guess. Now we’re just going to go home. Like, we’ve stocked up on food. So I think we’re going to be good for a while.

andy mills

Are you here for just one last round before they close?

speaker

We realized we were in the neighborhood, and then we were like, oh, Sunny’s is probably still open. Like, this the last half hour. We’ve got to do something. We looked at the clock. We were like, oh my God, there’s a half hour left. We’ve got to get the last beer. Yeah, we’ve got to have the last drink here. This is going to be our last drink for like the next four to eight weeks, if not more. Like, it has to be Sunny’s, right? I’m going to probably keep drinking at home.

[laughter]

andy mills

Let me ask you this. What are you going to miss from being out at a bar? What’s the difference?

speaker

Oh, of course just bumping into a friend, or meeting a new person, seeing the classic bartender, everything that a bar has to offer, you know? You’re outside of your house, which is good if you live in a tiny like shoebox apartment that a lot of us do. Yeah. I’m going to have a little glass of wine, just like a small one. Yeah, a little small one.

[speaking norwegian]

andy mills

Can you just tell me your name and where we’re at right now?

tone johansen

My name is Tone Johansen and I’m at Sunny’s bar.

andy mills

And what do you do here at Sunny’s bar?

tone johansen

Well, I run this fine establishment — well, I should say own this fine establishment.

andy mills

You do. You own it, and you run it. You run it well.

tone johansen

Thank you.

andy mills

How are you feeling? What are you thinking right now?

tone johansen

Well, I’ve been through a crisis or two before, and there’s one thing to fight the new boogeyman, which is this virus. Another to cope with the fear that it instills in all of us. And what I try to concentrate on is how to care of your emotional health, because the fear is the alarm clock that wakes us up into action. But if we keep that alarm clock ringing, it will just drive us crazy, and then we can’t take care of business. This will pass. Believe it or not, it will pass. I’m Norwegian, and there is a Norwegian proverb that a love that goes like this — either it will go well or it will pass, and those are two good options. And we will get through this, and especially New Yorkers, we will get through this, because we’re a hardy bunch. We just buckle down and get through stuff.

andy mills

I guess we’ve got to close this place down, huh?

tone johansen

Well, I think we’ve got about 15 minutes, in which I will enjoy my little glass of wine.

andy mills

All right. Cheers.

tone johansen

All right. Cheers.

andy mills

Well, it’s just a couple of minutes after 8:00. The music has been turned off. The patrons have been asked to go home. And it’s just me and the bartender and the owner speaking in Norwegian to her Norwegian friends, who are now putting on their coats, heading out.

[speaking norwegian and laughter]

andy mills

Tone, now that the bar’s closed and emptied, how are you feeling about the financial aspect of being closed for a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month, maybe two months?

tone johansen

I do have to say that the finances right now are stressing me out more than the virus. It’s like, I feel like we have a plan in place for how to try to prevent the spread of the virus, but we need a financial plan, and that’s my main worry right now. It’s a big uncertainty.

andy mills

When you look out at all the other businesses in New York, from restaurants to taxi drivers, how common do you think that feeling that you’re having is?

tone johansen

I think it’s in everybody’s heart. You know, New York City, it’s a place where people hustle. I think every New Yorker is a hustler. Unless you were just born into money, you know how to hustle. Otherwise you just go back home again. But that being said, we also know how to get through a crisis. And we’ve been tested before, and this is a test. We’ll take it day by day. If you feel like you are paralyzed and can’t do something about the situation you’re in, if you can’t take that first step, try to lift the foot. And if you can’t lift your foot, try to wiggle your toe, and we’ll get through it.

[music]

andy mills

Tone, thank you for talking with me.

tone johansen

And you too. And thank you for stopping by, and thank you for caring.

michael barbaro

We’ll be right back.

Here’s what else you need today, Italy passed a grim milestone on Thursday, announcing that deaths from the coronavirus have reached 3,400, surpassing the toll in China, where the pandemic began. At the same time, China announced a very different milestone, reporting no new local infections for the first time, a sign that it has turned a corner in containing the disease. In the United States, the number of infections approached 12,000. California ordered all residents to remain in their homes. And the economic cost of the pandemic was revealed in new government data. Unemployment claims rose by 70,000 in the past week, an unusually rapid surge as the businesses shut down over the virus began laying off workers. The Times reports that the stimulus package under negotiation in Congress to try to revive the economy would send payments of $1,200 to individuals and $2,400 to families, but would be phased out for wealthier Americans. That legislation, expected to cost $1 trillion, is likely to be passed in the coming days.

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Senator Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senator Chuck Schumer in Washington on Friday.Credit...Erin Scott for The New York Times

Senators plan to work through the weekend hashing out a bipartisan deal on a sweeping $1 trillion economic stabilization package to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that could be enacted within days.

Democratic and Republican negotiators, who huddled with top administration officials throughout the day and into the evening Friday, said they had made significant progress on a number of issues. But ultimately they fell short of the ambitious goal set by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, who had pushed to strike a deal in principle by midnight on Friday.

Mr. McConnell has begun clearing procedural hurdles on the Senate floor in order to vote on the Senate package on Monday, leaving senators and President Trump’s top economic advisers until Saturday afternoon to craft legislative text, said Eric Ueland, the White House director of legislative affairs.

Senators will reconvene Saturday morning to continue talks, negotiators said. Mr. Ueland said that there was “a lot of near consensus” on how to provide aid to industries seeking relief from the impact of the pandemic, assistance to small businesses, boost health care facilities and send direct aid to the American people.

A Trump administration official working in Vice President Mike Pence’s office has tested positive for the coronavirus, though that person did not come into close contact with Mr. Pence or President Trump, according to a spokeswoman.

Mr. Pence’s spokeswoman, Katie Miller, did not immediately reply to a request for more details about the official’s role, or when the person’s last day at work was.

Several Trump administration officials have self-quarantined over concerns of exposure to the virus. This week, Mick Mulvaney, the outgoing acting White House chief of staff, entered self-quarantine in his home state of South Carolina after his niece, with whom he shares an apartment in Washington, fell ill and was awaiting test results.

Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said this week she was working from home after coming into contact with a member of the Brazil delegation that also tested positive.

Last week, Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and adviser, had stayed home “out of an abundance of caution” after an Australian official she recently met with tested positive for the coronavirus, a White House spokesman said. By Friday, Ms. Trump had returned to work, watching from the sideline as her father sparred with reporters in the briefing room.

A person familiar with the situation said she had tested negative for the virus.

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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.Credit...Bryan R. Smith for The New York Times

Wall Street ended its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis with the Dow below where it stood on the day before President Trump was inaugurated. The S&P 500, which fell more than 4 percent, is not far from that mark as well. The president has trumpeted the so-called Trump bump throughout his presidency as evidence of his success.

In its latest effort to prop up the markets, the Federal Reserve moved to keep mutual funds from crashing as investors cash out by offering banks an incentive to buy local debt from money markets.

Starbucks will close its cafes in the United States in response to the coronavirus crisis, though it will remain open for delivery and drive-through customers, and said it would close all its stores in Britain.

Hedge fund managers are already looking to make money from the crisis. Some hedge funds are looking to invest in beaten-down companies poised for a rebound. And the hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin is starting up a new fund at Citadel to take advantage of the volatility and price discrepancies caused by the selling pressure in the bond market.

The more than two million Americans reporting to work each day to sell food and other household staples amid the coronavirus pandemic are a new class of emergency worker. The cashiers and stockroom employees at your local grocery are a source of calm, signifying that, even as demand has surged, supply chains remain intact and the essentials that people need remain available. But these same employees are growing tired and, because they constantly interact with customers, fearful of getting sick themselves.

The top two executives at United Airlines asked employees to contact members of Congress and urge them to bail out the aviation industry, noting that deep cuts would have to be made if government assistance does not materialize by month’s end. And Delta disclosed that the company expected second-quarter revenue to fall 80 percent compared with the same period last year.

One reprieve: Americans now have until July 15 to file tax returns, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday.

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President Trump at the White House on Friday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

At a White House briefing on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that border closures to nonessential travelers from Canada and Mexico would go into effect at midnight on Saturday.

Mr. Pompeo also reiterated that the State Department had issued a Level 4 travel advisory warning Americans against traveling abroad. He said U.S. citizens “should arrange immediate return” unless they intend to remain abroad for an extended time. “If you choose to travel, it may well be fairly disruptive,” he said.

President Trump suggested that immigration would strain health care systems.

“During a global pandemic they threaten to create a public storm that would spread the infection to our border agents, migrants and the public at large,” Mr. Trump said, referring to people seeking to enter the country.

Speaking on a day when the worldwide death toll stood at more than 10,000, including more than 200 in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that there was a “fundamental public health reason” for closing the northern and southern borders. “Understand that: There’s a public health reason for doing that.”

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‘Anecdotal Evidence,’ Dr. Fauci Says of Malaria Drug Claim

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, corrected President Trump’s earlier suggestion that a malaria drug could cure coronavirus.

“Dr. Fauci, as was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine, this potential therapy for people who are infected with coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest that as with malaria it might be used as a prophylaxis against Covid-19?” “No, the answer is no. And the evidence that you’re talking about, John, is anecdotal evidence. So as the commissioner of F.D.A. and the president mentioned yesterday, we’re trying to strike a balance between making something with the potential of an effect to the American people available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it’s truly safe and truly effective. But the information that you’re referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial. So you really can’t make any definitive statement about it.” “We all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct. It’s early, but we’ve, you know, I’ve seen things that are impressive. We’ll see. We’re going to know soon. Look — it may work and it may not work. And I agree with the doctor, what he said. May work, may not work. I feel good about it. It’s all it is, just a feeling. I’m, you know, a smart guy. I feel good about it. And we’re going to see, you’re going to see soon enough.”

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Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, corrected President Trump’s earlier suggestion that a malaria drug could cure coronavirus.CreditCredit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Pompeo used the term “Chinese virus,” continuing their efforts to rename a virus that causes a disease public health experts purposely named Covid-19 to avoid the spread of blame and xenophobia.

The term has angered Chinese officials and a wide range of critics, and China experts say labeling the virus that way will only ratchet up tensions between the two countries, while resulting in the kind of xenophobia that American leaders should discourage. Asian-Americans have reported incidents of racial slurs and physical abuse because of the erroneous perception that China is the cause of the virus.

“It’s not racist at all,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday, explaining his rationale. “It comes from China, that’s why.”

On Thursday, a Washington Post photographer took an image of Mr. Trump’s speech materials on the White House podium that showed the word “coronavirus” crossed out and “Chinese” replaced in Sharpie.

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The Costa Luminosa, moored at Marseille harbour on March 20.Credit...Clement Mahoudeau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A charter flight carrying more than 230 Americans and more than 75 Canadians who had been evacuated from the Costa Luminosa cruise ship in France idled on the tarmac in Atlanta for about five hours on Friday because health officials learned that three of the evacuees had tested positive for the coronavirus.

According to two people who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the episode, the test results became known during the flight, triggering the hourslong delay that frustrated, angered and frightened those on the plane.

“Everyone is up in arms,” Kelea Edgar Nevis, 47, said in a text message from the stuck plane. “We’re going to have a mutiny.”

The return trip itself had been a harrowing all-night odyssey, with busloads of the passengers stuck for hours in Marseille before boarding the flight to Atlanta. Left without food for more than 24 hours, they started fainting on the plane. Several had severe coughs.

Jennifer Catron, an evacuee who described herself as a wedding photographer with some medical experience, described a chaotic, dramatic flight with perhaps two dozen medical issues, some emergencies, some relatively minor.

“This plane is a medical disaster,” Ms. Catron said in an email during the flight.

The French media reported that more than 600 passengers disembarked on Thursday, of whom 75 were tested and 36 found positive for the virus, none of them French. The French passengers were bused home, and the handful of Spanish passengers were taken to a flight for Barcelona, the report said, while many American and Canadian passengers were taken to the Atlanta-bound flight. Italian passengers remained on the ship for a final leg of the voyage to their country.

Scores of the evacuees on the flight to Atlanta also booked onward flights to their home cities, despite having been near sick people all night and on the cruise since at least March 5.

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A man wearing a protective mask in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday.Credit...Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters

Haiti announced a state of emergency on Thursday after two patients were confirmed to have the coronavirus.

Both patients were being treated in the University Hospital of Mirebalais, in the country’s central plateau. Both had been out of the country recently.

In a televised news conference on Thursday evening, President Jovenel Moïse announced the closure of schools and universities, that meetings of more than 10 people were forbidden and a nightly curfew for the Caribbean’s most densely populated country.

If extreme precautions are not taken, the virus could quickly overwhelm the country, warned Elizabeth Campa, senior health and policy adviser for Zanmi Lasante, the Haitian nonprofit organization that runs the Mirebalais hospital in partnership with the government.

The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti has only 124 intensive care unit beds for a population of about 11 million, and the capability to mechanically ventilate fewer than 70 patients, according to a recent survey of hospitals done by the Research and Education consortium for the Acute Care in Haiti study group.

But given that 75 percent of the population live in deep poverty, on less than $2.50 a day and without access to electricity or clean water, it is hard to imagine how many could survive the containment measures being carried out in places like France and Italy.

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A temporary 200-bed field hospital is being built on a soccer field in Shoreline, Wash., in preparation for a growth in coronavirus patients in the King County area.Credit...Grant Hindsley for The New York Times

Mr. Trump signaled Friday that the federal government was mobilizing industry to provide urgently needed resources to help halt the spread of the virus, but he did not specify what steps he had taken after days of conflicting messages about his intentions.

On Friday, he said without evidence that he was using the Defense Production Act to help acquire “millions of masks.”

“The states are having a hard time getting them,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference at the White House. “We are using the act for things like this.”

If Mr. Trump’s pledge comes to pass, after weeks of promises that failed to materialize, the supplies could relieve the strain on state and local governments. But at times, the president seemed to suggest that private industry was already stepping up, without being compelled by the government.

“We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that want to do the work and help our country,” Mr. Trump said. “We have not had a problem with that at all.”

The White House did not immediately respond to inquiries asking for examples of companies or industries that have been compelled under the law to spur production, as Mr. Trump claimed.

Some of the president’s advisers have privately said they share conservatives’ longstanding opposition of government intervention and oppose using the law, and the president again suggested his own ambivalence toward using it.

At the same time, the president has faced increasing pressure from government officials and the health care industry to find a way to speed up new supplies.

Before Mr. Trump’s appearance on Friday, New York City’s mayor warned that the city was within weeks of running out of crucial supplies, with doctors and nurses confronting dwindling stocks of protective gear and hospitals facing shortages of lifesaving ventilators.

And medical leaders in Washington State, which has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the country, have begun preparing a bleak triage strategy to determine which patients may have to be denied complete medical care in the event that the health system becomes overwhelmed in the coming weeks.

There have now been deaths in more than half the states, with the most in Washington State, New York and California.

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A mobile blood drive outside of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday.Credit...Mario Tama/Getty Images

The American Red Cross normally supplies about 40 percent of the nation’s blood, but more than 4,500 of its blood drives had been canceled, resulting in nearly 150,000 fewer donations.

Typically, the Red Cross needs to receive 13,000 blood donations daily, so it has already lost around 11 days of stock. Red blood cells are viable for 42 days, platelets for only five, so new donations are essential.

“It’s an unprecedented situation,” said Dr. Pampee Young, chief medical officer of biomedical services at the Red Cross. “We are already actively triaging units, determining which hospitals can and can’t get blood.”

While donor blood is not being used to treat coronavirus patients, transfusions are still needed for cases such as trauma, organ transplants or complications of childbirth.

“The worst case scenario could be a bleeding young patient who was in a car accident, and there’s no blood,” said Dr. Young. “We’re not quite there yet, but that is the ultimate fear.”

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An empty restaurant in London on Thursday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked all restaurants to close.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times

Italy reported 627 new coronavirus deaths on Friday, its highest number in a single day, bringing its death toll above 4,000. Spain became the second European nation to register more than 1,000 deaths, and officials there warned that the country’s health care system could soon be overwhelmed.

[Read: Death of store clerk in Italy highlights contagion’s new front line.]

French officials continued to tighten restrictions on movements ahead of the expected peak of the epidemic there. In Germany, authorities in the southern state of Bavaria issued an order asking people to stay indoors in most cases — the most far-reaching measure in the country, which had been appealing to people’s sense of public duty and reason to keep them at home.

And Britain, which had resisted the kind of wide scale closures that many other nations adopted days ago, reluctantly agreed to shutter one of the symbols of the nation: the pub. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the country’s cafes, pubs and restaurants to close Friday night, along with nightclubs, theaters, gyms, movie theaters and sports and leisure facilities.

The measures will apply throughout the United Kingdom, after agreements were reached with the authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

“We have a real threat to our country and to the ability of our National Health Service to manage it,” said Mr. Johnson, who added that he would keep the transportation network open.

His announcement came as the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, said that the government would help pay a big part of the wages of those unable to work. Up to 80 percent of the pay of those workers could be covered, said Mr. Sunak, who added that welfare provision would increase.

The fast spread of the virus means that many nations are facing simultaneous shortages of desperately needed medical equipment — from protective garb to beds to ambulances — as their health care systems buckle under ever higher caseloads.

“The health situation in Madrid is critical,” said Ángela Hernández, the deputy secretary general of Amyts, an association of doctors in Madrid. “We’re no longer in a phase of health alert, but instead of alarm.”

In the Catalonia region, hospital patients are being housed in hotels. Some hospitals in the Basque region have now dedicated most floors to coronavirus cases.

And in France, there is a growing outcry over the scarcity of face masks. Jérôme Salomon, a top official at France’s health ministry, said that 35 million had already been distributed and promised that authorities were ramping up production and distribution.

Health officials in Germany, which has 28,000 intensive care beds, are attempting to increase capacity by setting up temporary hospitals in empty rehabilitation clinics, hotels and trade fair halls.

After the onset of spring filled Bavaria’s parks and beer gardens with people sitting closely together, the state issued new rules prohibiting people from leaving home except for reasons including grocery shopping, caring for a relative or taking a walk — and only alone or with family members.

“Everyone can and everyone must do their part in this crisis,” the Bavarian governor, Markus Söder, in Munich on Friday. “People are going to die. Corona is not just a flu, it is a new virus.”

Reaching out to provide assistance or charity in this trying time can ease your own anxiety too. Consider supporting local businesses, safely donating blood or reaching out in more creative ways.

This briefing is no longer updating. Read the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak here.

Reporting and research were contributed by Frances Robles, Richard Fausset, Catherine Porter, William Davis, Michael Cooper, Alan Blinder, Katie Rogers, Maggie Haberman, Emily Cochrane, Andy Newman, Kenneth P. Vogel, Catie Edmondson, Jesse Drucker, Monica Davey, Raphael Minder, Elaine Yu, Motoko Rich, Elian Peltier, Megan Specia, Marc Santora, Ian Austen, Elisabetta Povoledo, Katie Robertson, Aurelien Breeden, Melissa Eddy, Edward Wong, David E. Sanger, David D. Kirkpatrick, Erica L. Green, Roni Caryn Rabin, Sui-Lee Wee, Katrin Bennhold, Richard Pérez-Peña, Tim Arango, Jill Cowan, Sarah Mervosh, Stephen Castle, Nick Corasaniti, Nancy Wartik, Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, Maya Salam, David Zucchino, Isabella Kwai and Dan Barry.

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