Wawa provided a 53-foot refrigerated truck to the state of New Jersey to store the bodies of people who have died of COVID-19.New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said that Wawa sent the truck to “help take the pressure off our morgues and funeral homes in protecting the bodies of those we have lost.””Deathcare” workers in…
Local residents protest the plans to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-hit China at a local hospital, in the settlement of Novi Sanzhary, Ukraine, on Thursday. Maksym Mykhailyk/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Maksym Mykhailyk/AFP via Getty Images Local residents protest the plans to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-hit China at a local hospital, in the…
A Victorian teacher has tested positive to COVID-19, with the Melbourne school to be closed for three days for deep cleaning and to enable contact tracing.Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said the school needed to be shut down and cleaned urgently because the infected teacher had been on site in recent days. Parents and staff at Meadow Glen…
Author of the article:Stephanie BabychPublishing date:2 hours ago • 3 minute readAlberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw gives her daily COVID-19 briefing at the Alberta Legislature’s Federal Building in Edmonton, on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Ian Kucerak/PostmediaArticle contentTwo private family gatherings in Edmonton resulted in an uptick of new COVID-19 cases, as restrictions…
Over the weekend, a man in North Dakota was arrested for coughing at a local Walmart. The store, like all Walmart stores, was limiting the number of people allowed in at once. The man apparently wasn’t happy to hear that, and intentionally coughed on store employees, the police chief said. He joins a growing list…
It’s now clearer just how YouTube’s streaming services stack up against rivals. Alphabet chief Sundar Pichai revealed during the company’s latest earnings call that YouTube Premium and Music have a combined 20 million subscribers as of the fourth quarter of 2019. That’s a far cry from Spotify’s 113 million paying users (as of September 2019)…
Research shows that people are eating much more fruit and vegetables, but that the worldwide obesity epidemic continues to worsen. So that puts the theory that we need to eat more fruit and veg in the can… or does it? Maybe not. Rather it seems that while people have cottoned on to the need to…
Mayor Bill De Blasio has endorsed a rental relief plan that would provide immediate aid to those struggling to pay their April rent.The plan, which still needs to be approved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, would allow tenants to use already-paid security deposits in place of their April rent payments.Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. New…
When it was announced that pubs could reopen, a small but significant caveat within the detail got lost amid the national euphoria. For musicians, though, it was a thunderbolt. The three key words that stood out for us were: “No live music.” Translation: your existence is banned. Back in March, when no one knew how…
More than 1 million Victorians have been advised not to leave their suburbs by a national health committee and the state government is considering making the advice a legally enforceable restriction. On Sunday the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee advised against travel to and from the Hume, Brimbank, Moreland, Darebin, Cardinia and Casey local government…
