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New York postpones St. Patrick's Day parade amid coronavirus pandemic

New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day parade has been postponed amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday.

On Wednesday evening, after the World Health Organization officially classified the novel coronavirus as a pandemic, President Donald Trump announced that the US will ban all travel from Europe by non-US citizens.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day parade will be postponed as the US grapples with a global outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend as the number of confirmed cases in the state surged following increased testing. Meanwhile, as of Wednesday evening, at least 1,240 people in 42 states and Washington, D.C., have tested positive for coronavirus,The World Health Organization officially classified coronavirus, which leads to a disease called COVID-19, as a pandemic on Wednesday. More than 125,000 people have been infected across the globe and there have been more than 4,500 deaths.

 

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