Author of the article:Jason HerringPublishing date:3 hours ago • 3 minute readPictured is the downtown Calgary skyline view from Rotary Park on Monday, June 8, 2020. Azin Ghaffari/PostmediaArticle contentAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Alberta, the spread of the virus is vastly different across the province.Even within Calgary, where there were 202 active novel coronavirus cases…
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Four months ago, the northern Italian region of Lombardy became the global epicentre of coronavirus as it saw the first major outbreak in Europe. As key mistakes were made, the virus engulfed one of the continent’s wealthiest corners and sparked cases around the world. The BBC's Rome correspondent, Mark Lowen, who has reported on the…
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A Republican sheriff in Arizona who in April said he would refuse to continue enforcing the state’s coronavirus lockdown order has tested positive for the contagion during a visit to the White House. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb announced his positive diagnosis on Facebook Wednesday. Lamb said he likely contracted the virus at a campaign event Saturday. He…
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The Western Cape has reduced its Covid-19 testing backlog to zero.The province had the fourth highest backlog of tests near the end of May.The Western Cape health department has made public a breakdown of the comorbidities associated with the province's Covid-19 deaths.The Western Cape government has announced that it has cleared the province's Covid-19 testing…
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The parliamentary budget officer says in a new report that this year's federal deficit could hit $256 billion due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The parliamentary budget officer estimates the Canadian economy could shrink by 6.8 per cent in 2020, the weakest showing since 1981. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)The parliamentary budget officer says in a new report that…
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to give an update this morning on the progress his government has made in the past few weeks on a contact tracing app to help clamp down on novel coronavirus outbreaks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will update Canadians on the latest measures the federal government is taking to slow the…
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A mother-of-two from Douglas in Cork has been discharged from intensive care after spending a record 79 days on life support being treated for Covid-19. Doctors believe Mary Sullivan spent longer on a ventilator than any other coronavirus patient in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and enquiries are on-going to establish if she holds the…
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Several U.S. states including Oklahoma reported a surge in new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, just days before a planned campaign rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa that will rank as the nation’s largest social gathering by far in three months. An uptick in coronavirus cases in many states over the past…
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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, is undergoing treatment in hospital for pneumonia after he tested positive for COVID-19 this week, the government said. His spokesman said, "his general health status is good." Hernandez's wife, Ana Garcia, also tested positive for COVID-19. Peru topped 240,000 total cases of coronavirus, surpassing hard-hit Italy, government data showed, even as the…
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