Gov. Beshear spoke about information he got from the Hopkins County Health Department, including a church revival, which he says happened on the weekend of March 15.
Even as the virus has slowed its growth in overwhelmed Italy and in China, where it first emerged, hospitals in Spain and France are reaching their breaking points and the U.S. and Britain are bracing for incoming waves of desperately ill people.
Government officials are partnering with banks to help small businesses pay their employees through a loan program called the Paycheck Protection Program.
The Indiana High School Athletic Association announces on Thursday afternoon that all spring sports have been canceled for the remainder of the school year.
The bleak news Thursday — 6.6 million new unemployment claims on top of 3.3 million last week — came as the competition for scarce ventilators, masks and other protective gear seemed to grow more desperate and deaths mounted.
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MICHAEL R. SISAK, LORI HINNANT and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
The stunning report Thursday from the Labor Department showed that job cuts are mounting against the backdrop of economies in the United States and abroad that have almost certainly sunk into a severe recession as businesses have shut down across the world.
