LONDON (Reuters) - Global shares fell on Friday, hit by delays to an agreement on divisive details of the European Union’s stimulus package and doubts about progress in the development of drugs to treat COVID-19. FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, April 23,…
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12.01pm BST 12:01 Friday's Covid-19 news roundup We’re closing our live coronavirus coverage for the day. Thanks from me, Graham Readfearn, and from my colleagues Josh Taylor and Amy Remeikis. You can still follow events elsewhere on the Guardian’s global live blog. We’ll be back tomorrow with more live coverage. Here’s a summary of the…
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The first link John Gregory saw pushing a connection between 5G and the coronavirus pandemic was on a French conspiracy website called Les moutons enragés, which loosely translates as “The rabid sheep.” A January 20 post floated that the millimeter wave spectrum used by 5G technology and Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus,…
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General practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists have been warned against prescribing certain antibiotics which had been touted by US president Donald Trump for the treatment of Covid-19. Letters have been issued to GPs stating that there is “insufficient evidence to recommend” systematic use of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin for the illness, and that this should…
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As national and state governments deal with the containment of the novel coronavirus, the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana hopes to do its part in making life a little easier. Five years after ending a seven-season run, Parks and Recreation will return to TV next Thursday for an all-new episode. Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz…
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Some prisoners awaiting tests for coronavirus are being kept in 24-hour lock-up with no access to showers as prison authorities try to prevent an outbreak of the disease in the system. There are no confirmed cases in Irish prisons but some inmates who have displayed symptoms have been moved to a central isolation unit in…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID-19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization, warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to set up an alternative to the U.N. body instead. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a…
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WASHINGTON ― Whether you live or die because of this pandemic could very well depend on how afraid your governor is of President Donald Trump.Across the country, how readily the coronavirus is spreading in your state roughly correlates with how early your governor issued a stay-at-home order – which in turn tracks how willing your governor…
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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize was forced to take dramatic steps on Tuesday to bolster Nelson Mandela Bay's fight against Covid-19, after it emerged in a damning report that the Eastern Cape government failed to provide adequate resources for the municipality to tackle the pandemic. Two of the metro's leaders told News24 that Mkhize lambasted Health…
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In today's Morning Brief, we look at the video and audio recordings that captured the chaos and confusion of the 13-hour manhunt police manhunt during the weekend shooting rampage in Nova Scotia. We also look at how the push to research COVID-19 has come at the cost of developing treatments for other ailments.Good morning! This…
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