By Joshua Berlinger, Ben Westcott, Adam Renton, Rob Picheta, Meg Wagner and Mike Hayes, CNN
Connecticut has 1,090 new coronavirus cases and 19 new deaths, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Friday.
The state now has a total of 4,914 cases and 131 deaths. 909 patients are currently hospitalized.
“Our number of positives went up about 29%, which is probably more than we’ve seen in the past and a little disturbingly, the percentage of tests that resulted in people positive spiked up at 64%,” Lamont added.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis asked everybody in his state to wear a mask when they leave their homes.
"Now, if you've been around grocery stores, you've noticed that more and more people are wearing cloth masks — we want everybody in Colorado to do that," Polis said during a press conference today.
He asked people to use non-medical masks to save resources for health care workers, and tweeted tweeted out a photo of him wearing one of his own.
From CNN’s Anneken Tappe
US stocks closed sharply lower on Friday, following a much worse-than-expected jobs report for March.
All three major indexes recorded a loss for the week, making it their third down-week in four.
Here's where the markets closed:
Remember: As stocks settle after the trading day, levels might still change slightly.
From CNN's Jason Hoffman and Betsy Klein
President Trump has approved a disaster declaration for New Hampshire in response to coronavirus.
This is the 36th such declaration he has made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including 31 states, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico.
From CNN Business' Anneken Tappe
The coronavirus pandemic is starting to noticeably damage economic data around the world.
The global composite output index, produced by JPMorgan and IHS Markit, slumped to 39.4 points in March, its fastest drop in some 11 years. Any level below 50 denotes an economic contraction.
Even though the index had been in contraction territory in the prior month as well — 46.1 points in February — the drop-off was the second-biggest on record, surpassed only by a drop in October 2001.
Looking closer at the global services sector, business activity, new business and new export business all dropped at the sharpest rate in survey history.
Not all countries were hit the same: China, which was hit by the pandemic earlier in the year, got some respite from its rate of contraction.
The outbreak is still sweeping across the United States, where business activity dropped to the greatest extent since the height of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Still, America saw the weakest downturn among its developed world peers.
From CNN's Greg Wallace
The Transportation Security Administration reported the first coronavirus death in its ranks.
The employee was a 39-year-old K9 handler at the Newark airport, the TSA said Friday.
More than 130 TSA officers and agency employees have tested positive for coronavirus.
From CNN's Cheri Mossburg
There are 10,710 cases in the state, with 237 deaths, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health.
There are at least 261,438 cases of coronavirus in the US and 6,699 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases.
So far, on Friday, 15,865 new cases and 641 deaths have been reported, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins.
The total includes cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as all repatriated cases. Wyoming is the only state not reporting a death from coronavirus.
From CNN's Chris Boyette
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said at a press conference Friday that the federal government should do more to direct industries to make personal protective equipment (PPE) for those on the front lines treating patients with Covid-19.
“I know the President has ordered some companies to ramp up productions of ventilators. This is important, and badly needed. But the federal government can and should do more to direct industries to help produce these supplies,” Cooper said. “This pandemic is a war. And we need the armor to fight it.”
North Carolina has received three shipments of PPE from the Strategic National Stockpile but not the amount they have requested, Cooper said.
“We're grateful for these supplies. But to be clear, we've gotten just 33% of what we've asked for and told not to expect more anytime soon," Cooper added.
Some context: The governor said that North Carolina, like many states in the country, is grappling with shortages of critical medical supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic and trying to find ways to buy more.
“Now of course we know that we can't rely solely on the National Stockpile, and our emergency management teams are working around the clock to find the equipment that is so badly needed by those on the front line of this pandemic, we're not the only ones,” Cooper said.