worldUpdated: Mar 29, 2020 12:05 ISTThe Trump administration issued a travel advisory urging people of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, states hit the hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, to refrain from non-essential domestic travel for 14 days as death toll from the coronavirus crossed 2,000, doubling in just two days. The US president had signalled the advisory with a tweet earlier in the evening saying, “I have asked the @CDCgov to issue a strong Travel Advisory, to be administered by the Governors, in consultation with the Federal Government. A quarantine will not be necessary.”Also on Friday, Illinois reported the first death of an infant caused by the virus. New York state remained the worst hit with the total number of cases going up to 53,448 from and death to 832; 672 of them in New York city alone. In a possible move to bring the outbreak in control in New York and in the adjoining states of New Jersey and Connecticut, President Trump had said earlier Saturday he was considering imposing quarantine on them.

Source: Hindustan Times March 29, 2020 05:55 UTC