New York State’s cases alone grew to more than 15,000, roughly 5 percent of the global total of 314,700, and leaders across the country pleaded with the federal government to use its powers to step up dwindling medical supplies.

Parts of Europe are staggering. In Spain, thousands of health workers have tested positive.

Italy has become a lesson in what not to do: The people who have died in staggering numbers recently were mostly infected a week or two ago when there were mixed messages by scientists and politicians, and when containment measures lagged behind the trajectory of the virus. There were more than 59,000 confirmed cases in the country and over 5,450 deaths as of Sunday.

The chaos there, our reporters write, showed that measures to isolate clusters and restrict people’s movements needed to be taken early, put in place with absolute clarity and then strictly enforced.

New cases and new deaths in the country were lower on Sunday than those reported a day earlier, offering a ray of hope.

Here are the latest updates and maps of where the virus has spread.

In other developments:

India observed its first curfew on Sunday, with millions staying indoors and emerging only for a few minutes at 5 p.m. to ring bells and bang on steel plates. Metro lines and interstate passenger trains were shut down.

Britain announced the shutdown of pubs, restaurants and theaters after refusing to do so for weeks, and the country was preparing to ask its most vulnerable populations, including older populations and those with cancer or respiratory diseases, to stay home.

The International Olympic Committee said it would decide within four weeks whether to delay or to scale down the Games.

Germany banned gatherings of more than two people, except for families, while also pivoting to a much looser budget plan, offering up more than $160 billion to help with the outbreak’s economic fallout. Chancellor Angela Merkel is self-isolating after being treated by a doctor who was confirmed to have the virus.

Ford, General Motors and Tesla were being approved to make ventilators, amid a nationwide shortage in the U.S. Experts in the country are pivoting to identifying those who are the most sick.

Rand Paul became the first U.S. senator (and the third member of Congress) to be diagnosed with the virus.

Gaza’s first two confirmed cases heightened worries that the virus’s spread on the densely populated and impoverished coastal enclave could lead to a public health disaster.

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