Air travel in and out of the Cayman Islands will be shut down for three weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The European Commission has proposed a travel ban into the bloc for non-EU citizens for at least 30 days, in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
A recent CDC projection estimated that the U.S. coronavirus epidemic could infect between 160 million and 214 million people over a period of more than a year and kill anywhere from 200,000 to 1.7 million people in the country.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday declared the island a disaster area because of the threat of coronavirus infection and said his country is seeking 100 Cuban nurses to help it to cope.
President Donald Trump has just declared a national emergency, in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak the US is facing, according to the Voice of America.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, four days after the mayor attended a Miami event with a Brazilian government official who later tested positive for the virus.