More French COVID-19 patients flown to Germany and Switzerland
More French patients infected with COVID-19 have been transferred to hospitals in Germany and Switzerland, authorities have confirmed. The German Air Force confirmed on Twitter that one of its planes flew two patients from Strasbourg, in eastern France, to Ulm, in the southeastern German region...
Germany ‘increases its COVID-19 tests to 500,000 per week’
Germany has increased its number of COVID-19 tests to 500,000 per week, a German scientist said on Thursday. “The reason why Germany has so little deaths compared to its number of confirmed cases can be explained by the fact that we have a lot of...
‘Blank cheque’: Hungary expected to pass controversial COVID-19 law
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to be given sweeping new powers to manage the country’s coronavirus epidemic on Monday. A government spokesman told AP that the “extraordinary measures” – which have no limit and allow Orban’s government to bypass parliament – were needed...
Netherlands recalls hundreds of thousands of defective Chinese face masks
The Netherlands has recalled hundreds of thousands of face masks imported from China after they were found to be defective, the health ministry announced on Saturday. Dutch authorities received 1.3 million face masks from China on March 21 and distributed some of them to health...
Coronavirus: Portugal grants temporary citizenship rights to migrants
The Portuguese government is granting citizenship rights to all migrants and asylum seekers who have residency applications underway. The move is intended to ensure everybody who needs it has access to social security and health care while the country battles the spread and effects of...
Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on
Football is suspended in the UK and across most of world because of the coronavirus pandemic – but the game rolls on in Belarus. The Belarusian Premier League rarely gets a mention in normal circumstances yet it is attracting attention from foreign fans as one...
Colombia’s ELN rebels call ceasefire over coronavirus
The left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group in Colombia has declared a unilateral ceasefire for a month starting on 1 April. The rebels said the ceasefire was a “humanitarian gesture” amid the coronavirus pandemic. More than 700 people have tested positive for the virus...
Coronavirus: Brazil’s Bolsonaro in denial and out on a limb
As the world tries desperately to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil’s president is doing his best to downplay it. Jair Bolsonaro has largely struggled to take it seriously. Going against his own health ministry’s advice earlier in March, and while awaiting the results of a...
Coronavirus in F1: Red Bull’s Helmut Marko told team’s drivers to become infected
Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko said he advised his drivers to become infected with coronavirus while the season is in hiatus. The 76-year-old said he had the idea to bring his Formula 1 drivers and juniors together in a camp, which “would be the...
More French COVID-19 patients flown to Germany and Switzerland
More French patients infected with COVID-19 have been transferred to hospitals in Germany and Switzerland, authorities have confirmed. The German Air Force confirmed on Twitter that one of its planes flew two patients from Strasbourg, in eastern France, to Ulm, in the southeastern German region...
How the coronavirus shook Congress out of complacency
It was just hours before the start of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial when Sen. Tom Cotton began to panic. The Arkansas Republican had spent Martin Luther King Day weekend poring over news reports from Asia describing a new, highly infectious disease traced to a...
How 15 Days Became 45: Trump Extends Guidelines To Slow Coronavirus
Two weeks ago, President Trump entered the White House briefing room and announced an aggressive plan to slow the spread of the coronavirus. For 15 days, stay home, he told Americans. Avoid groups of more than 10 people. “If everyone makes this change, or these...
Pandemic Historian: Coronavirus ‘a Disease of Globalization’
The Chinese coronavirus “is emphatically a disease of globalization,” a pandemic historian at Yale University says. In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, Yale University’s Frank Snowden — a historian who most recently in 2006 published a book about Italy’s eradication of malaria...
98 people in NYC died from coronavirus in less than 7 hours
Nearly 100 more Big Apple residents died from the coronavirus since Sunday morning, raising the city’s death toll to 776, according to city data. From 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., the city tallied 98 more deaths and 1,166 more coronavirus cases, meaning 33,474 people in...
Mnuchin says checks from coronavirus bill coming “within 3 weeks”
Washington — Americans who are eligible to receive one-time payments from the federal government as part of a massive coronavirus economic relief package will see that money deposited into their bank accounts “within three weeks,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday. “We expect that within...
Coronavirus live updates: FDA gives drugs emergency approval to treat COVID-19
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 34,000 people across the globe. The new respiratory virus, which causes an illness known officially as COVID-19, has rapidly spread to every continent except Antartica since first emerging in China back in...
President Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Until April 30
President Donald Trump said during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference Sunday evening from the White House that he is extending social distancing guidelines to April 30. He also said that he expects the death toll to peak in two weeks and America to be...
Wuhan COVID-19 Deaths May Be in Tens of Thousands, Data on Cremations Show
stack of urns at a funeral home in Wuhan, the city’s official cremation rates, and reports of an overwhelmed health care system have prompted speculation that Wuhan’s real COVID-19 death toll could be in the tens of thousands—despite the Chinese government reporting 2,535 deaths from...
Survivalists say they were ready for COVID-19
The virus was far away then, barely registering in the minds of most Kentuckians. People still ate at restaurants and watched basketball and talked about politics and planned for that first Saturday in May. That all changed, of course. And Sutton was ready for it....
How 3D-printing is playing a role in coronavirus testing
The coronavirus pandemic which has infected more than half a million people and killed at least 25,000 has been an obstacle for the global supply chain following the shutdown in China. Though China has begun to restart its factories, in other countries closed borders and...
Trump Issues Travel Advisory, Not Quarantine, For New York, New Jersey, Connecticut
Updated at 10:32 p.m. ET After broaching the possibility of quarantining New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, President Trump backtracked late Saturday, saying a “quarantine will not be necessary.” Earlier in the day, the president said he was “looking at” quarantining New York, New Jersey...
CDC issues domestic travel advisory as coronavirus deaths double to over 2,000 people
The United States is advising residents of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut not to travel domestically after the number of reported coronavirus deaths doubled to over 2,000 nationwide within two days. It took about a month from the first report of a coronavirus death...
Here’s How COVID-19 Compares to Past Outbreaks
SARS, the 1918 flu pandemic, and Ebola have all helped public health officials prepare for major outbreaks. Each major outbreak is different though, and experts have a hard time predicting how they will end. The fallout of each disease largely depends on other circumstances —...
Detainee COVID-19 cases at Cook County Jail surge to 89; 12 employees test positive
CHICAGO — The Cook County Department of Corrections has announced that 51 more detainees have tested positive for COVID-19. 89 detainees have now tested positive after 38 were reported to have the virus on Friday. There are now 12 employees who have tested positive, up...
Knicks owner James Dolan tests positive for the coronavirus
Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan has tested positive for the coronavirus “with little to no symptoms,” the Knicks announced on their Twitter account Saturday night. According to a source, Dolan is self-isolating with his family in the Hamptons and his test came back earlier...
Pope Francis praying to an empty St. Peter’s Square amid the coronavirus
As Easter approaches, images from an empty St. Peter’s Square during a prayer Friday paint a stark portrait of the Vatican, which, along with surrounding Italy, has been afflicted by coronavirus. During the Urbi and Orbi prayer, Pope Francis stood underneath a canopy as he...
Coronavirus outbreak is stretching New York’s ambulance service to breaking point
New York (Reuters) – The coronavirus outbreak sweeping through New York City has pushed its ambulance service close to the breaking point, with hundreds of personnel out ill and emergency calls skyrocketing, supervisors and rank-and-file emergency medical technicians said on Friday. Some 20% of the...
Coronavirus updates: Travel advisory for 3 states; US cases top 120K
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a domestic travel advisory for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut on Saturday night, the FDA approved a fast new coronavirus test and a naval hospital ship left Norfolk, Virginia, for New York City. President Donald...
Democrats fret as Joe Biden becomes ‘irrelevant’ in coronavirus crisis
Just days after his commanding primary victories in Florida, Arizona and Illinois, the coronavirus has turned former Vice President Joe Biden into a virtual prisoner of his Delaware home, where he’s reduced to sniping at President Trump from the family rec room. “He’s making himself...
Twitter Deletes Fake COVID-19 Drug Information Tweet By Rudy Giuliani
Twitter removed a false tweet by Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani touting one of the president’s favorite, untested, drugs to battle COVID-19. Giuliani quoted parts of another tweet from a right-wing conspiracy theorist falsely claiming that the drug hydroxychloroquine proved to have a “100%...