It's Friday, April 3, 2020, and Friday should still count for something.

I'm Sean Rommesverm, and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

There are now more than a million cases of this novel coronavirus in the world.

Nearly four billion people, half of this thing we call humanity, are in some form of lockdown.

These are getting real in Vietnam.

They banned gatherings of more than two people.

Singapore has warned that anyone standing within three feet of someone else could spend

six months in jail.

Meanwhile, in the United States, several states are still lagging to get with the program

at all.

They don't have any state homewriters in place statewide Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, the

Dakotas.

We're looking at you.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases specialist, says the whole country

should be staying inside, but apparently vice president Pence says that president Trump

doesn't want to tell the states what to do.

Fauci is also now saying that all Americans should be covering their faces when they go

out, not necessarily with a mask, but with something.

A cloth, a scarf, your old-day Matthews band t-shirt, what do you got?

Fauci told Fox and friends today that this recommendation is based on new data that says

that the virus can spread just when people are speaking to each other in close range.

According to President Trump, the CDC is now officially changing its guidelines to say

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