President Donald Trump announces during Friday's Task Force press briefing that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising the use of non-medical, cloth-based coverings On April 4, shortly after 5 p.m.
ET, there were 301,902 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. and 1,187,798 across the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
Johns Hopkins reported more than 8,000 deaths and 14,000 recoveries in the U.S from COVID-19. Globally, there have been over 64,000 deaths and 245,000 recoveries. RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updates As the number of infections from the new coronavirus has grown to more than 1.1 million worldwide, health care systems are