GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Doug Collins entered self-quarantine after learning they had contact with a man with the coronavirus at the CPAC conference, and after they had contact with President Donald Trump.
The Capitol will be closed to the public for the rest of the month, and White House tours will stop indefinitely as officials try to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry could lose at least $24 billion in foreign spending this year because of the rapidly spreading coronavirus, according to data produced by Tourism Economics and first seen by CNBC.
Biden and Sanders, because of their age and frequent travel, could be particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that older people are more at risk. Biden is 77 and Sanders is 78.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday unveiled more than a dozen "critical measures" intended to provide relief to local communities amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The sentence was less than the maximum 29 years sought by prosecutors but could amount to an effective life sentence for the 67-year-old Weinstein, who has been in apparently frail health.
The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government's response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials.
The news comes as President Trump and his economic team work to assemble an economic response to the deadly coronavirus' spread and its impact on markets and the economy.