Gina Raimondo announced that 33 more Rhode Islanders have tested positive for coronavirus since yesterday. National Guard troops will be collecting information from travelers coming from New York state, and Erickson Bans, of Shea High School, is the Gatorade Rhode Island Boys Basketball Player of the Year. ▲

Good afternoon and welcome to This Just In. I'm Mike McDermott, managing editor of The Providence Journal. It's a nice, sunny, early-spring day, and I've repositioned my home office desk (OK, I don't have a home office or a desk -- but I moved to a different part of the couch) to face the back yard. Remote learning is done for the day, my 13-year-old is shooting hoops, and although not all is right with the world, I'm thinking it could be worse.

Today is March 26; happy 67th birthday to former Warwick Mayor, U.S. Senator and Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee.

Here's the latest on the coronavirus crisis in Rhode Island.

-Gov. Gina Raimondo announced that 33 more Rhode Islanders have tested positive for coronavirus since yesterday, raising the total since the start of March to 165. Raimondo also announced that she will sign an executive order requiring anyone who arrives in the state from New York state to self-quarantine for 14 days. National Guard troops will be stationed at bus stops and train stations to speak to collect contact information from travelers arriving from New York, and the state police will be stopping cars with New York plates that enter the state.

-In an unprecedented, but not unexpected, move, a state "disaster emergency funding board" consisting of leading General Assembly members met and approved borrowing up to $300 million to help keep the state solvent as unemployment claims soar and state revenues shrivel. Raimondo's top budget advisor told members of the board that the state could be $196 million in the hole by May 1.

-With Rhode Island's theater community in an indefinite state of freeze -- and as some theaters have canceled their entire seasons -- Andy Smith found out how this creative community is passing the time and making ends meet.

-Catering companies are on the long list of local businesses that have been hit had by the pandemic. Gail Ciampa spoke to the head of one company that saw $80,000 in business canceled in a single day. While many are rebooking events for later in the year, that means losing chances to attract new customers down the road.

-Gun ranges have been allowed to reopen just a few days after the state moved to close them in a wider shutdown of recreation, entertainment and close-contact businesses.

-Stop & Shop plans to hire 5,000 people in five states including Rhode Island due to "skyrocketing" demand.

-A Rhode Island company is offering to have its workers perform odd jobs free of charge, asking only for a voluntary donation from those who can afford to pay.

-Author Vanessa Lillie's latest coronavirus diary entry is about planning her son's 5-year-old birthday party without the option of going somewhere special, or inviting his friends.

-You know you have a crisis, Bunky, when a Rhode Island police department is invoking Winston Churchill.

-People are trying to scam you.

-One of the biggest days of spring for some folks, opening day of the freshwater fishing season, is April 11. So how's that going to work?

-In case you missed it yesterday, Tom Mooney spoke to a Wakefield man who contracted coronavirus during a business trip to Europe, and has recovered.

-Tonight at 6 o'clock, members of the West Broadway Neighborhood Association in Providence are planning to join in a stay-at-home singalong. First song: "Lean on Me." We'll have coverage tonight on providencejournal.com.

In non-virus news, a federal judge has allowed a Rhode Island State Police lieutenant's case, alleging his superiors tried to force him to alter a job applicant's background report, to go to trial.

And congratulations to Erickson Bans of Shea High School, the Gatorade Rhode Island Boys Basketball Player of the Year.

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