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Prisoners' advocates are ramping up calls to release lower-risk offenders after the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) confirmed COVID-19 cases in two penitentiaries — and are warning that maintaining crowded conditions behind bars during a global pandemic could have disastrous consequences.Prisoner advocates want early release for some offenders to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)Prisoners'…

Gauteng has recorded its first coronavirus casualty.The province revealed that a 79-year-old male patient, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died on Monday.The deceased was earlier admitted to a private hospital in Mogale City, west of Johannesburg, on Saturday.The man is the first Covid-19 casualty in the province, while the number of deaths in the…

Gov. Cuomo on brother Chris testing positive The coronavirus death toll in New York state climbed to 1,550 on Tuesday, up more than 300 from the day before, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced at a briefing. He said more than 75,000 cases have been confirmed in the state, which is the U.S. epicenter of the virus…

COVID-19: Kerala, Bengal Report More Deaths; Total Cases at 1,251SHARE, SAVE, COMMENT Migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh walk along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, following the coronavirus lockdown, in Palghar, Monday, 30 March.(Photo: PTI)IndiaUPDATED A FEW SECONDS AGOA 68-year-old man who had been tested positive for coronavirus passed away early morning on Tuesday, 31 March in Kerala,…

6.17am BST 06:17 10% of Australia’s cases are from Ruby Princess My colleague Naaman Zhou has this story tracking the number of coronavirus cases from the Ruby Princess cruise ship. You should read the story, but this paragraph is damning: There are now more cases of Covid-19 from the Ruby Princess outside NSW than within…

In less than a month, South Africa has ramped up its ability to test people for the novel coronavirus from a few hundred, to a few thousand every day. And, thanks to new equipment delivered in the past few days, with more expected by mid-April, testing numbers are expected to increase dramatically. By the time…

Rathdowne Place said the Department of Health and Human Services had confirmed the GP was considered infectious when he met with two residents for a short period of time last Wednesday.The granddaughter of a woman who lives in the home, who wants to remain anonymous, received an email notifying her of the doctor's positive diagnosis…

world Coronavirus “It’s better to die standing on your feet than to live on your knees,” said Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, before a hockey game last week. Posted on March 30, 2020, at 12:36 p.m. ET Sergei Gapon / Getty Images Soccer fans in Belarus The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A man dubbed as coronavirus “patient zero” in Westchester, N.Y., is home after a weekslong battle against COVID-19.Earlier this month, New York City lawyer Lawrence Garbuz, 50, was revealed to be linked to a number of cases in New Rochelle.…

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