New York, March 4 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump said he is considering tightening travel restrictions as the coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak continues to claim more American lives, taking the US death toll to nine and spreading across major urban areas including New York on Tuesday.

A resident of Berkeley, California, tested positive for the virus — the college town’s first confirmed case, local health officials said. City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley proclaimed a local emergency, giving the city access to more resources to help contain any local cases. “While the risk of infection remains low, the expanded presence of the virus in our community is a reality we should all prepare for,” City of Berkeley Health Officer Dr. Lisa Hernandez said in a statement. —Kopecki

Regeneron CEO Leonard Schleifer told CNBC the pharmaceutical company hopes to have its coronavirus treatment produced and ready for human testing possibly by August. “How quickly that can deployed will depend on some of the early data that we have, some animal data, what we will see in patients,” Schleifer said on “The Exchange.” “I think that we can get a lot done very quickly.” —Stankiewicz