California goes on virus lockdown as Italy death toll overtakes China

Hong Kong (AFP) March 20, 2020

California's 40 million people were under lockdown on Friday in the most drastic quarantine efforts by a US state to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus, as the global toll surged with Italy surpassing China as the country with the most deaths from the pandemic. The United States was fast-tracking antimalarial drugs for use as a virus treatment, President Donald Trump said, as he lashed o