March 30 coronavirus news

New Jersey had at least 3,347 new Covid-19 cases and 37 new deaths in the last 24 hours, Gov. Phil Murphy said at a news conference today.

New Jersey's statewide total now stands at 16,636 cases and 198 deaths, Murphy said.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced at a news conference today that he issued a stay-at-home order for the state.

Everyone must stay at home unless leaving to get food, supplies, going to work, seeking medical care or going outside to get exercise. 

Northam said his order is partially in response to seeing beaches in his state “literally packed” over the weekend. Beaches are now closed except to those exercising or fishing, Northam said. 

An additional 418 people with coronavirus have died in the last 24 hours in France, Director-General of Health Jérôme Salomon said on Monday.

This is a 43% increase on Sunday's figures, bringing the overall French coronavirus death toll to more than 3,000 since March 1.

Salomon said France now has a total of 44,150 confirmed cases of the virus.

Among the 21,000 French coronavirus patients in hospitals, more than 5,000 patients are currently being treated in intensive care units.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was just asked about President Trump's suggestion that personal protective equipment, such as masks, could be "going out the back door."

Cuomo said New York City has a warehouse of supplies — and said the city is creating a "stockpile" for the "high point" of the coronavirus pandemic.

“First, there is a warehouse and that is in New Jersey, it’s the New York City warehouse. We are creating a stockpile. For someone to say, 'well the warehouse has equipment in it, you should be using that equipment today' — that defies the basic concept of planning and the basic operation that we have to have working not just in this state but across the country," Cuomo said.

He added:

Cuomo said he's not sure what Trump meant by the suggestion.

"In terms of a suggestion that the PPE equipment is not going to a correct place, I don’t know what that means, I don’t know what he’s trying to say, if he wants to make an accusation, then let him make an accusation. But I don’t know what he’s trying to say by inference," he said.

What this is about: At a briefing last night, Trump appeared to suggest, without evidence, that hospitals in New York are somehow stealing masks.

"Even though this is different, something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?" he asked.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced Monday that schools will be closed through the end of April.

Raimondo also said any household with a cell phone and plan from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint will be able to access hotspot service for free until May 18. 

She added it is intended to help students without Wi-Fi at home.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 50 states and the federal government are all competing for supplies and driving up prices.

"Ironically enough. We are fighting among ourselves, we competing among ourselves," he said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged health care workers from other states to join the fight against coronavirus in New York state.

Cuomo said the state's health care workers need help and relief now — and he promised they'd "return the favor" if coronavirus outbreaks hit other states next.

"If you are not busy, come help us, please. We'll return the favor," he said. "The New York way is to be helpful."

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Germany is currently treating about 7,000 Covid-19 patients in hospitals, a spokesperson for the German Hospital Federation told CNN Monday.

Of these patients, 1,500 are in intensive care units and roughly 1,100 patients in the ICU units require ventilation. 

The hospital federation also confirmed to CNN that the available number of ventilation places in intensive care have now increased from 20,000 to 30,000, adding that ''in the medium-term we expect to double the original 20,000 ventilation places."

Earlier Monday, Germany's Robert Koch Institute — the country's agency for disease and control — said that coronavirus cases rose by 9% in the last 24 hours.

Germany now has 57,298 confirmed cases, an increase of 786 cases from Sunday to Monday. At least 455 people have died.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the rate of hospitalizations for coronavirus cases in the state has slowed, citing the rate of "doubling" of people admitted to the hospital for Covid-19.

Cuomo said the rate of new hospitalizations is now doubling every six days, as compared to every two and three days like last week.