a u.s. travel ban on visitors from most european countries now in effect as donald trump strikes a deal to inoculate the economy against the vo coronavirus. >> and we look at whether the lockdown in italy is worth it. you can open the windows today. >> and a daughter desperate to show her sick mother just how much she loves her, she is a patient at a nursing home, the

sig site of the deadliest outbreak. welcome to our viewer, we're live in hong kong, i'm anna coren, newsroom starts right now. the coronavirus pandemic is moving rapidly across the globe with updates coming into cnn every few minutes. here are some of the latest developments. just hours after u.s. trump declared a national emergency, the u.s. house passed emergency legislation to help americans deal with the unexpected costs. we'll have more about what that means in a moment. we've also learned a third guest the donald trump's florida resort has tested positive but still the white house physician says president trump does not need to be tested.

when the u.s. senate reconvenes next week, a coronavirus relief package will be one of its first orders of business, aimed at helping americans who are facing economic hardships because of the coronavirus. >> we thought it would be important to show the american people, assure the american people, that we are willing and able to work together to get a job done for them so we thank our republicans, those who will be supporting the bill, appreciate the president joining us with his tweet. >> what is in the bill and how were the lawmakers a able to put it together so quickly? >> after two days of intense negotiations with nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary steven mnuchin, a bipartisan deal was reached, a deal with the fallout of the coronavirus

outbreak all throughout this country, this legislation would deem wi deal with people who need to get tested, it would ensure that people would not have to pay for those tests, also help people who have beedisplaced for work including two weeks paid leave. and anybody to that certain food stamps and other measures including for children who have not -- who won't be able to get lunch from school, there will be other programs in place for them to get nutrition that they need. also this has funding from the federal medicaid programming to provide health care funding to the states for people who rely on that program. this is in the aftermath of another bill that has already been passed by congress, $8.3 billion to deal with helping to essentially ensure that the resources are there for states and localities to deal with

everything that they are experiencing from this pandemic and expect another measure to also move forward in the weeks ahead, an economic measure to deal with potentially some of the industry sectors that have been hit hard over the days and weeks and likely to suffer significantly from either employers not working, retailers not getting enough money from individuals staying at home through these quarantine, the real dramatic economic impact, that will be the focus of the next package. but this package came in the aftermath of the pelosi/mnuchin negotiations and there were questions whether president trump would sign on to the package, he criticized the democrats in the late afternoon on friday, but ultimately he got behind this measure and when i asked the speaker of the husband whether she spoke to the president at all throughout the course of the negotiations, she said no, i didn't have to.

she said she spoke to mnuchin instead and they came to this deal that passed the house and now is on to the senate. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. the crisis is taking a huge toll on the american public even if people are not actually sick. nick watt looks at how an abundance of caution is impacting day to day life. >> reporter: in new rochelle, new york, a drive-thru coronavirus te coronavirus testing center just opened. >> it can move about 200 cars per day . >> reporter: the instruction, approach with windows rolled up. this is where we are now. >> i think this could be a six, seven, eight, nine month affair, watching the taker rajectory of virus. >> reporter: more than a dozen states have closed all skal schooling, los angeles the second largest school district

in the nation, no confirmed cases, just pulled the plug. >> we reflected over and over and over again and we felt it was the right decision at the right time. these are trying times. >> reporter: everywhere authorities saying there is good reason to keep us apart. louisiana postponing its primary until the end of june. in ohio now, no public gatherings of 100 people or more, in maryland and california, the bar now set at 250. disneyland, california now shutting down for the first time since 9/11. and tamara just arrived for a ten day trip. >> very frustrating. >> reporter: are more dominos falling. disney world florida, the seattle space needle, the average pride parade postponed and it wasn't scheduled until june. and sports adding to the growing list of delayed or suspended seasons, the masters golf

tournament now postponed. the boston marathon also postponed until september. >> the metaphor writes itself. today we're on the first leg of a marathon of our own as we battle this very serious disease. >> reporter: and inside the texas medical center, they are now is an tieding rooms with a robot. >> we're the first hotel in the country to have adopted this technology. >> reporter: an american airlines pilot has tested positive and two of four tsa agents in san jose were patting town passengers. >> i certainly wouldn't get on a plane for a pleasure trip. >> reporter: and grocery stores around the country, this the new normal. >> every single supermarket is completely wiped out and i can't even keep up. >> reporter: and their shelves, long lines, growing anxiety. >> and they are not alone. and italy is bear being the

brunt of coronavirus infections in europe. on friday officials said 250 people have died and more than 2500 new infections were confirmed. the strict government lockdown and the u.s. travel ban are turning the capital into a xwght town. i'm joined by melissa bell in rome. italians are abiding by the lockdown? >> reporter: yes. respecting it, understanding that it is necessary, we watched them last night in front of the supermarkets, some of the only businesses that are now open. supermarkets and pharmacies. and people are only allowed in little by little to ensure that you don't have too many people in any of the shops at any given time so that they can respect that distance that is now necessary. and we watched them queue up keeping a good six feet between one another as they waited. so a good sense of protecting

themselves and trying to get the country out of this. and these are extraordinary times the end of the first week of that nationwide lockdown, so people trying to respect what they are being told by the authorities in the hope that these extreme measures will finally help the country like china and south korea before it break the back of this outbreak and its progression. >> does it seem that the lockdown is slowing down the rate of infections? >> reporter: well, as you mentioned, those figures that we got last night from the civil protection agency, they public will i be every evening at 6:00 p.m. local and we watched to see the progression of the infection rates andpublicwill i be every t 6:00 p.m. local and we watched to see the progression of the infection rates and progression of death rates. and yes, 250 extra deaths, that was a record. and so this tells us that the outbreak is still it not under control. and yet there is a glimmer of

from the north of the country because remember it began with just under a dozen small towns and vigilantatowns villages where the outbreak had begun. some small sign of a hint of a turnaround, the figures for those localities to show signs of slowing down. that tells us that those measures that were brought into effect a couple week earlier are helping, they are working and that is a good sign for the rest of the country. >> all right. melissa bell, thanks for your reporting. china is finally getting some relief from the virus. it is in a position to step in and help italy. and steven jane is joining us to explain. firstly, does china feel like it is getting on top of the virus and more importantly, do the citizens of china believe authorities are doing that.

>> reporter: well, anna, the numbers certainly though this trend. friday wuhan reported only four new cases. that of course was in stark contrast to a few weeks ago foe where they were reporting hundreds and sometimes thousands of new cases on a daily basis. that is why now the country's new focus is trying to strengthen screening and quarantine procedures targeting international arrivals including people from italy. of course as you mentioned the chinese government has been offering assistance to italy including sending a massive aid package that includes masks, ventilators and medical personnel to italy. and the officials here in recent days have been highlighting their ramped production capacity saying now on a daily basis the country can produce half a million protective suits, 1.6 million masks and as well as a whooping 100 million ordinary

face masks. so with the situation improving here domestically, presumably they will have more spare capacity to export to other countries like italy. >> and steven, we're learning that the u.s. state department believes china is seek to deflect criticism for its role in the origin of the virus. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. the two governments have been pointing the finger at each ear abo other about whom it blame. and it took a nasty turn thursday when a prominent chinese official who is literally the government's face because he is a foreign ministry spokesman tweeted this conspiracy theory that it was the u.s. army that brought this virus to wuhan last october when athletes took part in a sporting event there. it is worth noting that this theory had been circulating on chinese social media for a while but even state media has debunked it by quoting local

officials saying the hospitals there only treated five athletes for made llaria. but that did not stop him from promoting this conspiracy theory to his more than 300,000 followers and the timing was no coincidence either because the government here appears to have launched this very concerted campaign around the world to cast doubt on the origin of the vir virus. but as you said, this didn't set well with washington, the u.s. state department has summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. on friday to protest this comment saying the u.s. will not tolerate such comments aimed at deflecting blame for china's initial mishandling or even cover of this outbreak. >> steven jiang, good to see you. and apple is temporarily closing all he rretail locatione china. ceo tim cook said that apple will be temporarily he closing all stores until march 27 and

committing $15 million to help with worldwide recovery from the virus. cook added that all sites will undergo deep cleaning and health screenings. customers can still buy apple products online. and friday u.s. stocks finished up almost 2,000 points logging their best day since october 2008, but the week as a whole was way down. we saw wild swings of more than 1,000 points on the dow in all five sessions. european markets closed the day higher friday snapping a six day losing stwreereak. and investors are looking to central banks and governments for support and looking for a return to normalcy. the u.s. says it is banning most visits to nursing homes as a way to stop the coronavirus spread. how the nursing home at the enpi center of the youtd break outbr washington state may be an illustration of things to come nationwide.

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national 347bemergency and what effect will it all have? joining me is a global health expert at oxford university business school. thank you for joining us. and let start with the u.s. response to the virus, obviously travel bans are in place and quarn teenk quarantining of americans. but there is still not a coordinated nationwide reaction. that must concern you. >> absolutely. you know, china pout us time with t bought us time over the last couple months and the u.s. should have been using that time to really prepare and unfortunately was caught flat footed. the travel bans that have been instituted over the last several days are a little too little too late because we already know that there is widespread community transmission in many parts of the u.s. so it is really time for a very aggressive and multifaceted

response to try to get this under control. >> and there are also reports of lack of screening of americans who have left europe and this mass exodus having arrived in the united states and have not been screened. with what does that say? >> obviously that is a concern, at the same time the utility of airport screenings is not as great as one might expect. and as i said earlier, we know that there are thousands of cases already in the u.s. and widespread community transmission, you know, that screenings are a piece of the puzzle, but a lot of attention needs to be paid now on ramping up testing and contact tracing across the u.s. of people already in the u.s. and better coordinated social distancing measures while preparing hospitals and the rest of the health system for the surge to come. >> peter, what needs to be done? because it looks like it is happening at a local level. decisions are being made to cancel schools, corporations are

deciding whether to cancel sporting or entertainment events. but it seems quite ad hoc at the moment to stop the spread of the virus. so what does need to be done? >> the u.s. obviously is a large and m and heterogenous country. and so what it will really require is close coordination between the federal authorities providing guide answer and local authorities who have more of and on the ground picture. you know, obviously this is not an even spread across the u.s., so in places that are hot spots like washington state and in new york, there needs to be more aggressive social distancing measures right now whereas in other places, that might be able to be phased in. so the on the ground local intelligence is really important in coordination with hopefully more robust federal response. >> peter, what could the federal

government do in the extreme and what would it take to get to that point? >> i suppose the extreme case would be a situation like italy where the spread had really lost containment and risked overwhelming the health system. a month ago a lot of people were saying china lock down much of the country, but you couldn't do that in europe or in america because these are free societies and italy of course showed us that in the extreme that it is possible and perhaps even necessary to do that. so i suppose that is what the u.s. could be looking at a couple weeks from now if we don't act quickly. >> do you envision lockdowns taking place in the united states? >> i sure hope not and i think that there is definitely time to avert that and reasons for optimism. some of the measures that we've seen over the last couple days, the declaration of the national emergency that will unlock really important resources it at

the state and local level. hopefully opening up the bottleneck of testing so that we can really get better intelligence and surveillance of where the disease is spreading. and begin contact tracing will help us be much more smarter and more targeted to our approach. >> and i want to get yyou your opinion on donald trump's decision not to be tested despite the fact that he came into contact with three people from the brazilian delegation at mar-a-lago last weekend. they have the coronavirus but the president says he doesn't need to be tested. is that responsible and what message does it send? >> well, as i understand there are multiple reports of potential contacts that the president may have had with people who are either infected or at risk of being infected through their own contacts. i think that it would be important for the president to follow the advice of the cdc giving to all americans and really set an example of what we

should all be doing. >> peter, we thank you for your time. >> thank you. in the united states, visits to nursing homes nationwide will now be restricted. part of the effort to stop the coronavirus from spreading. group activities at centers and certain daily events like communal dining may also end. sara sidner shows us how the nursing home at the epicenter in washington state is trying to cope with the virus and what visits to homes like this may look like in the coming weeks. >> why didn't you cover his legs up? >> reporter: one after another -- >> you can open the windows today. >> reporter: daughters and sons desperately trying to show their sick parents how much they love them without being able to touch them. their parents are living in a nursing home that is the epicenter of the deadliest outbreak of coronavirus in the

united states to date. sisters carmen and bridget sat outside their mother's window with a picnic trying to sooth her on the phone. in reality, the sisters are filled with dread. does she understand what is happening? >> sometimes. today and yesterday are both not good days for her. she is rather confused. >> she said she woke up crying this morning. >> reporter: do you feel that your can mother is deteriorating at this center? >> absolutely, without question he. >> reporter: they say their mother came to life care center in kirkland, washington to rehab from a knee replacement and ended up getting coronavirus. >> what has this process been like for you? >> it has been horrible, like a nightmare that i can't wake up from. i just want to talk to her face-to-face and laugh with her and joke with her and play back gam on and all the stuff we used to do together. >> reporter: they are acutely aware coronavirus has killed 22 people associated with this facility. 18 of them were patients. families are worried, their

parents and grandparents aren't getting the care that they need, especially after hearing this -- >> we've lost a third of our active employees. >> reporter: are you absolutely sure that the patients who are there are getting the care they needed considering you don't have the staff that you normally have? >> i'm absolutely sure that our staff is doing all they can with the resources that they have. >> nonanswer. >> reporter: that did not satisfy the families. >> you're saying they. who is they so we can follow up with it? >> reporter: there are too many lingering questions to count how is it possible that some of the staff is still not been tested three week after the deadly outbreak. and why is there ifis facility' entire staff not quarantined when a third of the staff has reported coronavirus symptoms? at the beginning of the outbreak in wuhan, china, the u.s. governmeflew americans out of would you than and put them on a mandatory quarantine. in this facility where nearly

two dozen people have died and yet staff can come and go. >> we have been in discussion with the cdc and department of health, and they have not told us to completely quarantine in place. >> reporter: he says no one else will take the patients unless they show life threatening symptoms. do you find that odd since they were quarantining people flown out of wuhan for 14 days even though they didn't test positive? >> i can't speak to the cdc's own decisions and the directions they are giving. i can only tell you what they have or have not told us. >> dad, i love you. you look good. >> reporter: still, the families of patients here keep showing up trying to boost their parents' spirits. >> you need to rub your legs, get that blood flowing. >> reporter: cath written kim's father has tested positive though he is not showing major symptoms. >> for him to say to me on the phone it is rough in here, that is a huge statement from my dad. so to walk in there and just like --

>> reporter: she has been bringing him herbal medicine. and he has indicated how bad things are. now he is losing friends to an enemy no one can see. >> he is dealing with it stoically and, you know, he is just doing this kind of thing, you know. but the reality is his friends have died. >> reporter: the scenario that happened at a nursing home here in washington, in kirkland, could play out in nursing homes across the country in some form. and that is why the governor of this state has taken some action saying that he is limiting visitation to nursing homes across the state. sara sidner, cnn, seattle, washington. traveling from european countries to the united states just got tougher. the u.s. travel ban is now in effect as fears of the coronavirus soar. a look at who can still enter the country, that is next. want to brain better?

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get a plan that's right for you. td ameritrade. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the headlines this hour. the u.s. house of representatives has approved emergency legislation to offset some of the financial hardships caused by the coronavirus. it would provide free testing to anyone who needs it and up to three months of paid leave for affected workers. the bill goes to the u.s. senate next week. president trump says that he will sign it as soon as possible. the world health organization says coronavirus has now infected nearly 1. 000 people since the outbreak began in december. it has killed more than 5,000 people, about 20% of those

fatalities are in italy which has the largest cluster of cases outside of china. to combat the outbreak, a 30 day u.s. travel ban for people traveling from dozens of european countries is now in effect. the restrictions do not apply to americans and green card holders. however travelers returning to the u.s. will be screened and asked to serve quarantine for the next two weeks. the days leading up to the travel ban, mixed messages and confusion left many travellers in europe scrambling to get home before the restrictions kicked in. cnn's jim bittermann has a look at the impact in paris. >> reporter: at paris' charles de gaulle airport, let's say ticket change desks were very popular among the rapidly changes messages. they were confused with what the new travel restrictions

president trump was imposing would mean to them, many were taking no chances and getting on planes as quickly as possible. for most that meant changing to earlier flights and cutting short imagined vacations or business travel like this doctor and his family. >> i started getting a bunch of texts and calls back from the states saying president trump just made an announcement and it kind of woke me up and i started checking the news. initially it was unclear as to being a u.s. citizen if we would be able to get back if we didn't come back before. >> reporter: but while nonamericans who have been in the 26 european group will be temporarily banned from entering the u.s., americans should have no problem returning. even so the picture again was confused when president trump man a impromptu remark in the oval office thus. >> we have a they heavily tested -- if an american or anybody is coming back, we're testing. we have a tremendous testing set up where people coming in have to be tested. >> reporter: but there was no sign of any testing going on in paris. the administration also said

that americans coming in from european destinations need to self quarantine for two week when they hit american soil. >> i'm getting worried. i've been told that we could get tested and possibly quarantined. but i'm praying that we get off and i can get home. >> reporter: and the u.s. centers for disease control says incoming travelers from europe will face noninvasive screening unless they show signs of symptoms in which case they will be taken to the hospital for testing. for many all the confusion and messaging meant cutting short business trips or dream vacations to paris like for this 14-year-old from atlanta. >> sad, but i really just want to get home to my family and friends. >> reporter: passengers said a lot of worries came from the confused messaging from the united states. but even with that cleared up, anxieties have not gone away. since the last few days somewhere demonstrated very clearly how quickly the

coronavirus crisis can change lives. jim bittermann, cnn, charles de gaulle airport. and in a televised speech, the prime minister of spain says his country is facing difficult week ahead. but the people of spain would stop the virus together. al goodman is joining us from madrid. we learned that spain had more than 1200 new cases bringing the total to more than 4200. and that is an alarming spike. >> reporter: that's right, and in his speech to the nation, the prime minister warned spaniards that next week in the space of the few days, the number of cases could more than double to 10,000. this is dramatic change from just last week when spain only had hundreds of cases. just a week ago spain was behind germany and france in the number of people infected with the coronavirus. and now that has shot up

dramatically which prompted the government to take this emergency action. of those 4200 cases across spain, more than half of them are right here in the capital city of madrid. of the 120 deaths so far, more than half are right here in the city. and so the government is now trying to get a handle on will, it is co just a week ago it allowed a huge march for international women's day, more than 100,000 people in the streets were marching including two cabinet ministers, women who have now tested positive for the coronavirus. >> so with these emergency measures now declared, what does it mean for spain, how will life now be? >> reporter: well, the impact in madrid in particular, schools are out, but as of today, this day, bars and restaurants are closed. we're in the emblematic 17th century plaza that is ground zero for tourism in this

country. at this hour normally on a beautiful saturday morning, these outdoor terraces would be filled with locals and visitors having coffees, having breakfast. as you can see, there is really nothing going on here. so this is the situation with the prada museum, close heed for the first time since the spanish civil war.heed for the first time since the spanish civil war. they are not playing football in the first or second division. in fact there are no sporting events. the hospitals are worried that they don't have enough masks and protective gear and basically the government now is trying to get people to stay at home, they say everybody needs to stay at home, they are trying to cut the speed of the infections because they fear that if there is a mass stampede toward the hospital, it will overwhelm the health system. >> al goodman, many things.

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many of you have questions about the rapidly spreading coronavirus and what it means for you and your loved ones. dr. sanjay gupta is here to provide some answers. >> all week long we've been getting all sorts of questions about the coronavirus, they keep coming in, they are different questions from last week and different from the week before. so we wanted to try to answer as many of them as possible. the first one, when it comes to taking precautions against covid-19 or the novel coronavirus in the office, what can employees do. i think basics definitely afternoon apply obviously. if you are sick, didn't don't

work. that is true with or without a coronavirus infection spreading. if you see somebody sick, obviously don't be near that person. the distance that those respiratory droplets is around three to six feet. so that is a safe sort of distance in terms of a social distance within an office space, within any kind of space really. and by the way, that is why a lot of these big mass gatherings are increasingly getting canceled because it is hard to find the social distance of people sitting right next to each or standing right next to each other. so keep the distance, stay home if you are sick. clean surfaces as much as possible. you know, be that crazy person with the wipes for a while. i've been that crazy person for a long time. i think it can be a benefit. what are some of the common ways people sbred gepread germs in t

offices? same thing. typically through the respiratory droplets and by touch. touching things, moving your hand, touching something else, moving the virus from one place to another place and then someone touches it and they get infected. so try not to touch things. it is hard. and when i say touch things, i mean touch objects, touch surfaces, touching your face. try not do that as much as possible. what would you recommend to keep our mental health in check as we increase social distancing and working remotely? that is a great question and i'm thinking about it a lot personally with my own family, my own friends. first of all, social distancing does not need to mean social isolation. there are many ways that we can still stay connected and maybe we can even stay more connected than we typically do. one thing about this virus as i've been rotting on it for so long now and talked to so many people here in the united states and in other places around the world is that there is this

realization i think that we are -- we're all in this together. this is a pathogen that affects everyone and doesn't discriminate against anyone. we're all in this together. and we're in a position now where our individual behaviors have such an impact on the people around us. your health is so dependent on how i behave and my health is so dependent on how you behave. so if you are practicing good hygiene and making sure you are not a source of spread, you are doing it not just for yourself, but all the people around you as well. and i think there is something that is in a way -- it brings us together in a way that i have not seen before and i think that hopefully maybe that relieves a little bit of anxiety and brings us together and we'll keep answering questions, please keep sending them in. and we'll do our best to get to as many of them as possible.

>> dr. sanjay gupta there. many officials urging americans to stock up for at least two weeks in case they have to hunker down during the coronavirus outbreak. but with everything from food to toilet paper to cleaning supplies flying off the shelves, brian a todd shares tips on how best to prepare and how not to. >> reporter: shopping in the age of coronavirus. sarah wears a mask and gloves when hitting her local grocery store in washington because she doesn't want to transfer germs to her mother who has an autoimmune condition. are you scared about this whole thing? >> yes, i am. i've been following it pretty closely now and it is just i don't want us to be in a situation like italy. >> reporter: across the u.s., stockpiling seems to be everywhere. a prominent analytics firm says online sales of, quote, protection items like hand sanitizer, gloves and

antibacterial sbplays shot up. >> whenever we do get new rations in, we absolutely put them out by the registers and they go within minutes. >> reporter: and there are runs on many other items. were you trying to buy anything that you couldn't get? >> yeah, actually. all the toilet paper is gone, a lot of the frozen foods and breads. >> it is pretty hectic, a lot of the frozen vegetables, cleaning supplies, even to a certain extent meats and dairy are hard to come by. >> reporter: it is exhausting people on the other side of the grocery industry. and a supermarket in new york, this bread discontributor is racing to restock. >> every single supermarket is completely wiped out. and i can't even keep up. >> reporter: but some public health experts say let's slow down a bit. >> they don't need a year's word of toilet tissue, they don't need cartons of paper napkins.

they don't need to buy, you know, food for six weeks. >> reporter: experts say it is important for consumers to realize this situation is temporary. focus on simple nonperishables that can sustain us. >> figure out what your family likes and it maybe cans of tuna fish, it may be peanut butter and jelly, whatever it is that you feel like you can plan for a couple weeks of not being able to go outside. >> have medications in your home so you don't have to go out and repifill a prescription. >> reporter: health experts say crowding into the local grocery store are is not the healthiest move, standing in those long lines within a few inches of people 1 not tis not the kind ol distancing that is recommended. and wherever you shop, do it kaumgl l calmly. >> no reason to rush out and buy every item on the shelves. that just increases people's sense of doom and gloom here which will not be necessary.

>> reporter: public health and consumer experts have a couple other tips for people who want to stock up during the outbreak. they say if your favorite store is open 24/7, try going after midnight after they have restocked. or if it is available in your area, try a food delivery service to maybe reduce some of the overall stress. brian todd, cnn, washington. potential pathogens in your pocket? scientists say your cellphone is loaded with germs. when we return, we'll show you what you can do about it.

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missing, our phones. few of us can live without our smartphones. but they are often the forgotten link between public sush fasrfad our face. >> be mindful of what you touch and the most common thing that you touch is the phone and you might want to clean the surface of your phone as well. it is sub conscience, but these are important things. >> reporter: let's take a look at may daily commute. if i'm taking the bus, there are the hand rails and stop button. of course all while i'm checking my emails and tweets. calling into the office, where i've got two sets of doors to open with my pass that i touch dozens of times a day and a stairway to climb. straight off, i need some caffeine. with a dash of milk before my workday has even begun. i text public certain visits a total of 11 times and my phone a total of four times just on my commute in. our phones can be hot beds of

bacteria. effectively a petri dish in our pockets. >> probably quite a lot of micro organisms on there because you are holding them against your skin, you are handling them all the time and also you are speaking into them and speaking does release droplets of water just in normal speech. so there is a i think are a s r organisms could end up on your phone. >> reporter: so how do we clean them without damaging them? apple says that you can wipe your phone down with either disinfectant wipes or alcohol. others recommend mixture of soap and water and a micro fiber cloth. they say take one of the wipes, wipe down the hard surfaces of your phone while trying to avoid any sort of open ports like the charging port or head phone jack. or if you want to be a little bit high tech, you can try one

of these ultraviolet sterilizers, you pop the phone in for about ten minutes and let it zap the germs. but it is not clear yet how effective these are on coronavirus. considering my iphone tells me i pick up may phone an average of 205 times a day, the latest front in battling the coronavirus may be in your hands right now. for cnn, i'm ines gold in london. >> thanks so much for watching. "cnn newsroom" continues after this short break. want to brain better?

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i am officially declaring a national emergency. >> a week ago donald trump wasn't concerned at all. now, he's declared a national emergency. health officials say there are more cases being reported in europe than the rest of the world combined. we're live from the epicenter. and you've got questions we've got answers, how to protect your family from the virus. live from hong kong, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i am anna coren, "cnn newsroom" starts right now.