A lantern hangs outside an empty restaurant Saturday, March 28, 2020, in the Shimbashi section of Tokyo. okyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has repeatedly asked the city's 13 million residents to stay home this weekend, saying the capital is on the brink of an explosion in virus infections. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020 9:35 p.m.
'Off the charts': Virus hot spots grow in middle America
DETROIT (AP) — The coronavirus continued its unrelenting spread across the United States with fatalities doubling in two days and authorities saying Saturday that an infant who tested positive had died. It pummeled big cities like New York, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago, and made its way, too, into rural America as hotspots erupted in small Midwestern towns and Rocky Mountain ski havens.