Covid-19

B.C. reported just 12 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care dropped below 10 for the first time in two months.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said B.C. has now confirmed a total of 2,479 COVID-19 cases, more than 81 per cent of which have recovered.The province…

Shea Weber doesn't hold grudges, just ask Quebec Premier Francois Legault.Legault sported a Montreal Canadiens face mask to his daily COVID-19 press briefing on Thursday, which was held in Montreal instead of Quebec City as usual. The mask was a gift sent to him by the Montreal Canadiens captain, even though Legault joked that he…

When I saw the data showing people of color disproportionately dying of COVID-19 in Chicago, I wasn’t surprised—I was furious. As of May 21, more than 1,800 Chicagoans have lost their lives to the coronavirus. Nearly half are African American, who make up 29 percent of the city’s population. South Shore, a historically African American…

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) futures turned negative on Thursday morning. Coronavirus cases hit 5 million worldwide with a record 100,000 new daily cases. Focus shifts to Thursday’s jobless claims data which is expected to hit 39 million total claims since the crisis began. The Dow Jones continues its volatile week with a heavy slide…

Sheltering-in-place and working from home curing COVID-19 has driven many of us to reorganize and de-clutter our living environments, and today one of the startups that is capitalizing on that trend is announcing a large round of funding to continue its growth. MakeSpace, an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store and…

The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.7:24 a.m. Republican political operatives are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety…

First light has yet to break in New York City, but at a bus depot in the South Bronx, Wayne Lizardi has already been behind the wheel for hours. “Transit runs 24/7,” Lizardi told “Nightline.” “We can’t stay home. Buses don’t drive themselves.” Lizardi has shouldered a heavier workload since COVID-19 hit the city. “There’s…

Updated / Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:59 This represents a new phase in the virus's spread Global coronavirus cases surpassed five million today, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally. It represents a new phase in the virus's spread,…

FILE PHOTO: A Ford Motor assembly worker works on a 2018 Ford F150 pick-up truck at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant during the 100-year celebration of the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan U.S. September 27, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File PhotoDETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co on Wednesday closed two U.S. assembly plants as the coronavirus…

Canada's cyber spy agency says authorities are investigating possible security breaches at Canadian organizations doing COVID-19-related research — less than a week after it warned that Canadian intellectual property linked to the pandemic is a "valuable target" for state-sponsored actors.The CSE has warned that sophisticated threat actors could target Canadian medical research labs working on…