The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a victim succumbing in California - the nation's first reported fatality outside Washington state - as officials, schools and businesses came under pressure to respond more aggressively to the outbreak.
Officials in Placer County, near Sacramento, said an elderly person who tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday after returning from a San Francisco-to-Mexico cruise had died. The victim had underlying health problems, authorities said.