A child who has a high temperature has her details recorded by a health worker at a public hospital, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, March 21, 2020. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a national disaster even before his country confirmed its first virus case on Friday. On Saturday, his country announced the first case in the capital, Harare. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
March 21, 2020
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March 21, 2020 9:24 p.m.
As virus spreads, growing need for hospital beds, supplies
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds as the disease notched another grim advance.