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The United States borders are closing to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump on Friday announced all nonessential travel will be barred between the US and Mexico, following a similar policy announced for Canada earlier in the week. The restrictions, which exclude trade, will take effect on Saturday.

The measures come as New York joined California in issuing a statewide lockdown, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordering all nonessential businesses to close by Sunday night.

“I want to be able to say to the people of New York — I did everything we could do,” Cuomo said. “And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.”

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Here’s what else we learned today:

Get comfortable

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the fight against COVID-19 will likely keep Americans home for at least several weeks.

Fauci also was at odds with Trump over whether an anti-malarial drug would be effective in treating the coronavirus.

Men at risk

Dr. Deborah Birx, a top doctor on President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, warned Friday that preliminary data from Italy suggests men are more than twice as likely to die from the virus than women.

Stocks fall

US stocks took a tumble Friday afternoon after Trump announced fresh travel restrictions and Cuomo ordered his statewide lockdown.

Four US Senators, meanwhile, have come under fire for dumping their stocks in the days and weeks following a private meeting on the Coronavirus.

Tax break

The White House treasury secretary has pushed back the deadline for filing federal income taxes, from April 15 to July 15.

Mask making

With a critical nationwide shortage of face masks, the Minnesota-based company 3M says it has doubled its production of coronavirus-protecting N95 respirators over the last two months.

More locally, an upstate New York couple is 3D-printing hundreds of protective face masks for a new testing site in their county.

Testing, testing

A drive-thru coronavirus testing center in one of New Jersey’s hardest-hit areas had to turn people away just hours after opening.

The desire for testing was not as strong on the now-docked Grand Princess cruise ship, where most passengers refused to be tested.

A ritzy Manhattan medical service is offering sought-after coronavirus tests to wealthy members.

On Day 1 of a daily video diary, a Long Island mom who tested positive for the virus details the symptoms, struggle to get tested.

Cuffed in quarantine

A British woman was caught on camera being arrested in her bikini for breaking a mandatory coronavirus-related quarantine while vacationing in Spain.

And another Brit faces three months behind bars after his arrest in the Isle of Man for failing to follow self-isolation orders.

Eerie similarities

Did Disney’s ‘Tangled’ predict the coronavirus pandemic?

And in New York