Covid-19

COVID-19 cases surge across 20 states The number of people in Texas hospitalized from the coronavirus hit a record high of 2,287 on Sunday, an increase from the previous record of 2,242 cases on Saturday. The state has continued to move forward with its reopening plan, with restaurants being allowed to increase capacity to 75%…

The Canadian Armed Forces is deploying military trainers back to Ukraine as it looks to restart some of the many missions and exercises temporarily suspended or scaled back because of COVID-19.A Canadian flag patch is shown on the shoulder of a member of the Canadian forces in Trenton, Ont., in 2014. (Lars Hagberg/Canadian Press)The Canadian…

Sada Jones anxiously paces inside her apartment every time she catches a glimpse of her building’s maintenance workers through a damaged glass patio door half boarded up with scrap wood that she says her landlord refuses to repair.Jones, 23, a hotel cook, has been unable to make rent payments on her New Orleans-area apartment since…

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“Service with a smile” has long been a mantra for waitstaff and bartenders. But in reopened restaurants across the country, service with safety is the new directive. As restaurant owners restart dining rooms shut down during coronavirus outbreaks, they are rejiggering operations to maximize public health while still making diners feel welcomed. Much of that juggle…

Shopping centres in the Montreal and Joliette regions are reopening June 19.Liam Slater Oda, an employee with Sports Experts, disinfects a bench at the store on Ste-Catherine Street. That store has been open for a few weeks — soon, malls will reopen as well. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press )The latest: Quebec has 53,824 confirmed cases of…

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing district put itself on a “wartime” footing and the capital banned tourism and sports events on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred around a major wholesale market sparked fears of a new wave of COVID-19. People are wearing face masks inside the Jingshen seafood market which has…

Updated / Saturday, 13 Jun 2020 09:37 Protest in Longford town had been due to take place last Saturday Anti-racism protests will go ahead in Co Offaly and Co Longford today despite appeals for them to be cancelled  due to concerns over compliance with Covid-19 restrictions.  The  'Black Lives Matter' solidarity protest is to go…

Cloudy Deliveries is a bicycle delivery service that has been operating in Langa, Cape Town, since the beginning of this year.The small business was started by law student Colin Mkosi, who employs a fleet of 11 local high school boys to operate the deliveries.The young men shop for groceries, deliver takeouts and carry stock to…

With the coronavirus spreading into remote territories across the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous leaders and rights officials are pleading with the government to adopt urgent measures to head off a catastrophe. According to figures compiled by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the country’s principal indigenous federation, deaths from COVID-19 in indigenous communities have…