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Customers pick out homemade fabric face masks being sold for 20 pesos (around 85 cents) from Jorge Rodriquez, 48, on the street in central Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2020. Rodriguez was recently laid off from his construction job until further notice, and so he and his wife began making and selling the masks. "You have a family. You have to bring home money," said Rodriguez. "I'm a little afraid, but you have to find a solution for the household costs." Beginning Monday, Mexico's capital shut down museums, bars, gyms, churches, and other non-essential businesses that gather large numbers of people, in an attempt to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Customers pick out homemade fabric face masks being sold for 20 pesos (around 85 cents) from Jorge Rodriquez, 48, on the street in central Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2020. Rodriguez was recently laid off from his construction job until further notice, and so he and his wife began making and selling the masks. "You have a family. You have to bring home money," said Rodriguez. "I'm a little afraid, but you have to find a solution for the household costs.&quo…

March 23, 2020

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In global fight vs. virus, over 1.5 billion told: Stay home
March 23, 2020 11:45 p.m.

In global fight vs. virus, over 1.5 billion told: Stay home

NEW YORK (AP) — With masks, ventilators and political goodwill in desperately short supply, more than one-fifth of the world’s population was ordered or urged to stay in their homes Monday at the start of what could be a pivotal week in the battle to contain the coronavirus in the U.S. and Europe.