Coronavirus live updates: California issues stay home order, China reports 39 imported cases

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• Global cases: At least 207,855, according to the latest figures from the Exultant Health Organization
• Global deaths: At least 8,648, according to the latest figures from the WHO

All times below are in Beijing pro tempore:

U.S. space agency NASA said it is temporarily closing two rocket production facilities starting Friday after an hand working at one of the sites tested positive for the new coronavirus.

The two facilities are the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, NASA’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a communication. He added that there’s been a rising number of COVID-19 cases in the local areas where the facilities are located. 

The wage-earner that tested positive was from the team at Stennis, the statement read.

The closure could affect the agency’s map outs to send Americans to the moon again by 2024, reported Reuters. — Yen Nee Lee

Brazil announced it will bar citizens from some countries affected by the outbreak, from filing its country. These include the European Union, China, Japan, Australia, Malaysia and South Korea, according to a Reuters narrate. The United States is exempted from the ban.

The number of infections in Brazil crossed 600 on Thursday, more than doubling in two hours, the report said. — Weizhen Tan

India Prime Care for Narendra Modi told residents to observe a one-day curfew on March 22, in a video address on Thursday incessantly. He urged people to stay indoors from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m.

“The success of a people’s curfew on 22nd March, and the experience gained from it, order also prepare us for our upcoming challenges,” Modi said, according to an official English translation of his remarks.

India has at least 173 recognized cases, out of which 19 have been cured and four people have died. Though worries possess grown about an epidemic, given how densely populated India is, officials have said there has not been any documentation yet of community transmission. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued a statewide request for all residents to ‘stay at home’ amid a coronavirus outbreak.

The stay home order is in place till further spot.

All dine-in restaurants, bars and clubs, gyms and fitness studios will be closed, according to the order. Public anyway in the realities and gatherings are also not allowed. Essential services will stay open, however, such as pharmacies, grocery cooperative stores, takeout and delivery restaurants, and banks. 

California estimates that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — inclination get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks. — Weizhen Tan

South Korea reported 87 new confirmed cases and three more deaths as of Friday morning.

That fetches the country’s total to 8,652 cases and 94 deaths, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Everyday new infections in the country have generally been on a downward trajectory over the past week.

Los Angeles issued a “Safer at Home” emergency order, meaning residents must “at once limit all movement outside of their homes beyond what is absolutely essential,” Mayor Eric Garcetti explained.

The order will take effect from 11:59 p.m. PT Thursday until April 19. Garcetti also clouted workers of “impacted businesses” have an additional 24 hours. — Weizhen Tan

Many of Mexico’s top banking and finance people have been put in quarantine or told to develop from home, after attending a convention attended by hundreds where at least one later tested positive, according to a Reuters relate.

Those who attended included Mexico’s president, finance minister and hundreds of senior bankers, the report said.

Banks whose staff members attended the conference and were told to work from home after included Citigroup’s Mexican operations Citibanamex and HSBC, according to the recount. Cases in Mexico leaped by 27% in the past day to 118. — Weizhen Tan

China’s National Robustness Commission reported 39 new confirmed cases and three additional deaths as of Mar. 19. China said all of the new cases were bring ined, meaning people who traveled from overseas. The NHC said that brings China’s total number of imported crates to 228.

China also said that there were no new cases in Hubei, the epicenter of the country’s outbreak. The country has promulgated a total of 80,967 confirmed cases and 3,248 deaths, while 71,150 people have been discharged. — Weizhen Tan

All times below are in Eastern time.

California estimates that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — whim get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks, according to a letter sent by Gov. Gavin Newsom to U.S. President Donald Trump.

“In the in the end 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case toll is doubling every four days,” Newsom wrote in a letter dated Wednesday. Newsom asked Trump to quickness the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through Sept. 1 to help with the influx of look for cases.

The state reported nearly 699 confirmed cases as of 9 p.m. ET Wednesday night, according to the California health dependent. Newsom said the virus is spreading in the community in 23 counties across the state. It is the third hardest-hit state in the U.S., behind Washington have which has 1,376 cases as of 6 p.m. EDT Thursday and New York which has at least 5,000 cases.—Dawn Kopecki

Apple is limiting bulk purchases of iPhones and other products as it faces supply constraints. 

Apple’s online preserve began limiting U.S. customers to two units of each iPhone model per person this week. Customers can still buy sundry than two iPhones in one order, but they would have to be different models — for instance, two iPhone 11s and two iPhone 11 Pros.

The qualification applies to the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone XR, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Max.

Other yields, including iPad Pro models announced on Wednesday, also have purchase limits. —Kif Leswing

Read CNBC’s coverage from the U.S. overnight: US now has numerous than 13,000 cases, California governor estimates 25.5 million residents will get virus