California shuts down businesses, schools as coronavirus outbreak grows

CORONAVIRUS | California's governor on Monday clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalisations soared, and the state's two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August.

Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered bars closed and restaurants, movie theatres, zoos and museums across the nation's most populous state to cease indoor operations. Gyms, churches and hair salons must close in the 30 hardest-hit counties...