Business Fallout: Walmart limits hours, airlines cut flying
By The Associated Press undefined
WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing list of retailers are closing stores or limiting their operating hours as customers remain home amid the virus outbreak. Walmart is limiting store hours to ensure they can keep sought-after items such as hand sanitizer in stock. Other retailers are closing their stores including Urban Outfitters, Everlane and Patagonia. Meanwhile, the travel industry continues to reel from the outbreak. American Airlines said it’s sharply cutting back on international travel. The cruise industry has already agreed to halt outbound trips from the U.S. for 30 days. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin indicated the Trump administration is planning financial assistance for travel-related businesses.

US gas prices down 15 cents over past 3 weeks, to $2.39
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline dropped 15 cents per gallon, to $2.39, over the past three weeks. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that gas prices could continue to fall as demand shrinks amid the coronavirus pandemic. The price at the pump averages 12 cents lower than it was a year ago. The highest average price in the nation for regular-grade gas is $3.45 per gallon in Honolulu. The lowest average is $1.82 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The average price of diesel is $2.88, down a dime.

Pittsburgh, PA (March 15, 2020) – Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has confirmed that Jefferson Hospital is currently treating an adult patient with confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19.)  The Network’s caregivers at Jefferson are following comprehensive safety protocols established by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in caring for the patient and in taking every step necessary to prevent illness exposure to others, including patients, visitors and caregivers.  Those precautions have been followed though every step of the patient’s care in the hospital.  A limited number of clinical staff are caring for the patient, and those caregivers are wearing advanced protective equipment at all times.  The hospital is currently limiting visitation with the patient, and all visitors are required to follow CDC-recommended precautions, including wearing protective face masks and gowns, and washing hands before and after the visitation.\

The Allegheny County Health Department is taking the lead in assessing who in the community the patient may have come in contact with.

There will be no further information provided on the patient at Jefferson at this time.

(Beaver Falls, PA) Breaking News  into the Beaver County Radio News Room!!

All Beaver County  Early Intervention Services, including transportation, for ages 3-5 years old in Beaver County have been suspended until further notice. If you need more information you can contact the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit at 724-774-7800 .

Large King of Prussia mall closes amid coronavirus concerns
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — One of the nation’s largest malls, in suburban Philadelphia, has closed amid a call from the governor for nonessential businesses to close to help stem the spread of the coronavirus as the number of cases in the state increased to at least 66. The security office of the King of Prussia mall said Sunday that the mall was closed until further notice. A notice on the owner’s site said nonessential tenants were expected to comply “effective immediately” with the governor’s recommendation. Suburban Delaware County officials said 11 jail inmates had been quarantined and 23 employees advised to self-quarantine after an employee tested positive.

6 new presumptive positive coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — State health officials have announced six additional presumptive positive cases of the coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 47 cases, and the governor urged non-essential businesses in two more Philadelphia-area counties to shut down to help stem the spread of the virus. They included two cases in western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County — the first reported there. Gov. Tom Wolf also extended to Chester and Bucks counties an earlier call to Montgomery and Delaware counties for non-essential businesses to to close. Essential businesses such as pharmacies, grocery stores and gas stores are to remain open. A “phased closure” of wine and spirit stores in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties was announced.

Americans brace for new life of no school and growing dread
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press
Millions of Americans braced for the week ahead with no school for their children for weeks to come, no clue how to effectively work without child care, and a growing sense of dread about how to stay safe and sane amid the relentless spread of the coronavirus. The wave of school and business closures across the country has injected huge amounts of chaos into the lives of millions of Americans. There are more questions than answers: Are play dates for kids OK? How do you plan for the future with no idea what it holds? Health officials say one thing is certain: It is going to get worse before it gets better.

Doctor says Trump tests negative for coronavirus
By AAMER MADHANI and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s doctor says the president has tested negative for the new coronavirus. The White House released the test results Saturday night, hours after Trump told reporters that he had taken the coronavirus test. For days Trump resisted being screened despite the fact that he had been in recent contact with three people who have tested positive for the virus.

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump has tested negative for the new coronavirus, according to the president’s personal physician.
The White House released the test results Saturday night after Trump told reporters hours earlier that he had taken the coronavirus test, following days of resisting being screened despite the fact that he had been in recent contact with three people who have tested positive for the virus.
Trump told reporters at a White House briefing on Saturday that he had his temperature taken and it was “totally normal,” shortly before stepping into the room to discuss the government’s efforts to halt the spread of the virus. The pandemic has now infected more than 2,200 people in the U.S. and caused at least 50 deaths.
The president had multiple direct and indirect contacts with people who have since tested positive for the virus, including three people he spent time with last weekend at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
The Brazilian Embassy in Washington said late Friday that the country’s chargé d’affaires, Nestor Forster, tested positive after sitting at Trump’s dinner table. So, too, have a top aide to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who took a photo with Trump and attended a party with him, and another person who attended a campaign fundraiser with the president that Sunday, according to two Republican officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss private health matters.
Trump, after days of insisting that he was not exhibiting symptoms of the virus, relented after being pressed by reporters about his resistance to testing when multiple lawmakers and countless citizens across the country who have had the same degree of exposure have not only tried to get tested, but also chosen to try to avoid potentially infecting others.

(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Beaver Falls City Manager Charles Jones informed Beaver County Radio that the Beaver Falls City Building will be closed to the public starting Monday March 16, 2020 to help reduce the impact of the Coronavirus.

You can contact the the city through their Facebook Page @ https://www.facebook.com/beaverfallspennsylvania/

By calling them at (724) 847-2800  or by using the drop box in front of the city building.

The closure to the public will continue until further notice.