Coronavirus live updates: Americans are warned coronavirus spread is not a matter of if, but when

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lambasted the funding plan as "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency."As the Trump administration grapples with the growing coronavirus outbreak, Democrats vying for their party's presidential nomination at the tenth Democratic debate laid out their roadmaps for how they would respond if they were in the White House.Senator Amy Klobuchar, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders advocated for increasing federal dollars for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), saying a boost in their funding is crucial to ensuring the U.S. is prepared to deal with an outbreak.Biden positioned himself as the only candidate on stage who has experience working to fight and contain the spread of a deadly illness, as he was vice president when the Obama administration dealt with the Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 and ravaged West Africa.Klobuchar urged Americans to visit the CDC's website to ensure they are educated on what to do if they experience symptoms.A soldier with the United States Forces Korea has tested positive for the coronavirus, the USFK said in a Tuesday statement. What's on second?"Wolf repeatedly deferred to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Human and Health Services, and Kennedy appeared to become angered by Wolf's lack of direct knowledge."You're supposed to keep us safe and the Americans deserve some straight answers on the coronavirus, and I'm not getting them from you," Kennedy told Wolf.White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said on CNBC Tuesday that the coronavirus is contained in the United States. The decision came at an emergency meeting in Rome over the outbreak of the virus in Italy between Health Minister Roberto Speranza and his counterparts from Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Slovenia and Switzerland.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday hit out at China and Iran for their response to the outbreak of coronavirus, accusing the two governments of censorship and of trying to cover up the severity of the spread of the deadly illness.Pompeo assailed Beijing for expelling three Wall Street Journal reporters and said a free press was needed to ensure accurate information about the virus is available to the public and medical personnel. It can have deadly consequences," Pompeo said of China."Had China permitted its own and foreign journalists and medical personnel to speak and investigate freely, Chinese officials and other nations would have been far better prepared to address the challenge," he told reporters at a State Department news conference.On Iran, which now has the second highest number of infections after China and where officials said earlier Tuesday that the head of the country's counter-coronavirus task force tested positive for the virus, Pompeo said the U.S. is "deeply concerned" that the government "may have suppressed vital details about the outbreak.""All nations, including Iran, should tell the truth about the coronavirus and cooperate with international aid organizations," he said.-- APPresident Trump tried to reassure Americans on Tuesday that U.S. health officials were "very close to a vaccine" for the deadly coronavirus. A year and a half would be the quickest that a vaccine has ever been developed for something like this."The White House on Monday asked Congress for $2.5 billion more funding to battle the spread of the coronavirus, but Democratic leaders have already said that is insufficient given the scope of the health emergency.Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee, estimates there's a three-month window to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, which are being threatened by the fast-spreading virus from China.Pound, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, did not sound alarmist. Global health officials believe the overall mortality rate of the new disease is about 2%, and the much higher ratio of deaths to confirmed cases in Iran was fueling concerns that the Islamic clerics who run the country could either be greatly under-reporting the true severity of the outbreak there, or or greatly underestimating it themselves.Iraqi health authorities announced four new cases of coronavirus in the city of Kirkuk on Tuesday and one in Baghdad, bringing the total number in the country to six.The first case was only confirmed on Monday, in an Iranian student studying in the northern city of Najaf.A Wall Street Journal reporter will remain in the locked-down Chinese city at the center of the new coronavirus outbreak despite being ordered to leave the country, authorities said Tuesday. Iran's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi has been infected with the new coronavirus, a ministry official said on Tuesday, amid a major outbreak in the Islamic Republic."The coronavirus test for Mr Harirchi, the deputy health minister who was on the front lines combating the coronavirus, was positive," Alireza Vahabzadeh, a media adviser to the health minister, said in a tweet.Harirchi coughed occasionally and appeared to be sweating during a press conference on Monday with government spokesman Ali Rabiei. The deputy health chief was among central government figures who last week disputed claims from regional officials in the outbreak epicenter city of Qom who suggested Tehran was trying to cover up the severity of the outbreak in the country.- CBS/AFPItalian police have cordoned off areas near Milan and Venice where about 50,000 people live, but CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips said the big question on Tuesday was whether all of Italy's coronavirus cases could be traced to that northern region.Luigi d'Angello is coordinating the Italian government's emergency response, and he told CBS News that the seven people confirmed to have died in the country with the new disease had underlying health problems, but the coronavirus "amplified their sickness."Phillips noted that while the World Health Organization hasn't yet labeled the new virus a global pandemic - meaning it is not considered to be spreading uncontrolled around the world, it still has the potential to become one, and fast-growing new clusters like the one in Italy are a worrying sign. So too are cases popping up elsewhere with links to northern Italy.An Italian doctor from the north of his country tested positive for the virus while visiting the Spanish island of Tenerife, prompting all guests at his hotel to be confined to their rooms on Tuesday.Italy's coronavirus outbreak, the first major one in Europe, continued to grow on Tuesday as officials confirmed dozens of new cases. Dozens more were sick with the virus in nearby Veneto.Britain's government on Tuesday urged anyone returning to the U.K. from those regions to self-isolate for two weeks, and anyone returning from other parts of Italy to do the same if they felt any flu-like symptoms.- Anna Matranga and Tucker RealsHundreds of people were confined to their rooms at a hotel in Tenerife, a Spanish island off the west coast of northern Africa, on Tuesday after an Italian tourist was hospitalized with a suspected case of coronavirus, health officials in Spain's Canary Islands said. "Hundreds of hotel clients are being monitored for health reasons and the degree of supervision will be assessed during the day, but so far, we're not talking about quarantine," health authority spokeswoman Veronica Martin told AFP, confirming that the Italian tourist "was staying at this hotel while on holiday in Tenerife." - CBS/AFPSpeaking to reporters during a visit to India on Tuesday, President Donald Trump voiced confidence that U.S. health care officials were ready and able to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.