Roughly nine out of 10 of the over 18,000 cases of the new virus confirmed across the Middle East come from Iran, where authorities denied for days the risk the outbreak posed.
Cool, sunny and windy weather conditions will prevail in the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday before a small risk of overnight showers.
The U.S. implemented dramatic restrictions on Americans in public and 7 million people in the San Francisco area were put on a near-total lockdown to control the virus.
Tuesday’s 4.7% gain by early afternoon trading for the SP 500 meant it clawed back a little more than a third of its loss from a day before, its biggest in more than three decades.