An airplane comes in for its landing as the sun rises in Mexico City, Saturday, March 21, 2020. Many countries in Latin America have taken aggressive measures to deal with the new coronavirus such as closing their borders, dock and airports to foreigners. Mexico, by contrast, has so far taken a “business as usual” attitude. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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.