The NHS has asked people to stop posting rainbow pictures to the new Nightingale hospital in London after a social media request went viral. The BBC was contacted by a nurse who said she had started the campaign because she wanted to create “a sign of hope” for patients and staff. However, in a Facebook […]
Researchers have been warning since at least February, if not earlier, that people infected with the novel coronavirus could spread the illness to others even if they weren’t showing symptoms; but Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he only learned of this phenomenon in the “last 24 hours.” Georgia had been one of the minority of states […]
Testing is the solution to “unlock the puzzle” of coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. Mr Johnson was speaking after it was revealed only 2,000 out of some half a million frontline NHS workers in England had been tested. The PM said the government needed to “massively ramp up” testing so that NHS staff […]
Should more of us wear face masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus? This question is to be assessed by a panel of advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO). The group will weigh up research on whether the virus can be projected further than previously thought; a study in the US suggests coughs […]
CNN’s Chris Cuomo described his battle with COVID-19 on the air on Wednesday night, saying he’s feeling “way worse” than he did on Tuesday, when he revealed his coronavirus diagnosis. Cuomo, broadcasting from his basement and in quarantine from the rest of his family, described rigors ― or shivering from fever that reached 103 ― […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to more than 1,900 and the wail of ambulances in the otherwise eerily quiet streets of the city became the heartbreaking soundtrack of the crisis. As […]
The star of the Netflix series “Tiger King” is now in isolation due to concerns about the coronavirus, according to his husband. Joe Maldonado-Passage, aka “Joe Exotic,” is currently being housed at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that was the focus of the popular crime documentary. “We […]
A group of drone experts is calling on the UK government to relax regulations on chemical spraying from the air during the coronavirus pandemic. It wants to train drone pilots from the emergency services to spray public areas with disinfectant. It has been done in China and India – but aerial spraying is largely banned […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is calling on the governors of states that have not yet issued stay-at-home orders to do so now to help stem the spread of the coronavirus. In an interview on Wednesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Newsom if he had a message for those governors who have not taken such “strong […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The husband of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler recently acquired as much as $ 415,000 in stock in DuPont de Nemours, a chemical company that manufactures protective equipment in exceedingly high demand because of the coronavirus pandemic. The transaction, detailed in a mandatory disclosure the Republican filed late Tuesday, comes as senators in […]
WASHINGTON ― In the end, tribes got about $ 10 billion in the emergency $ 2 trillion stimulus bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last Friday. But if the White House had its way, tribes wouldn’t have gotten a penny in direct relief, according to three Senate Democratic aides familiar with negotiations on […]
The United Nations on Wednesday postponed its annual climate summit from November to mid-2021 over fears that the global coronavirus pandemic won’t be safely contained by the end of the year. The U.N.’s climate body and the British government ― which was slated to host the 26th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, in Glasgow, […]
Medical professionals across the country got a special treat this week, courtesy of Lizzo. The three-time Grammy winner donated lunches to a number of hospitals across the country to thank staff members for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. The Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit shared a short video on its Twitter account Monday in which Lizzo […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has directed all cruise ships to prepare to treat any sick passengers and crew on board while being sequestered “indefinitely” offshore during the coronavirus pandemic. The new rules require daily updates on each ship’s coronavirus caseload for vessels in U.S. waters, and come with a stiff […]
LONDON, April 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Organizations running LGBT+ Pride marches around the world have joined forces to hold the first online Global Pride event in June after hundreds of real-life gatherings were shelved due to the coronavirus pandemic. Global Pride will be livestreamed on June 27, starting with East Asia, Australia and New […]