NEW YORK (Reuters) – It could be any one of us. In this case it was Jose Holguin. He was 50. Maria Ortiz reacts while kneeling beside the body of her partner Jose Holguin, 50, originally from the Dominican Republic and who died of complications related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a viewing service…
AstraZeneca has announced that it will be distributing 400 million doses of Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine from September. However, there are at least three reasons to suspect that the coronavirus vaccine may not work. No coronavirus vaccine has ever been produced, immunity may be short-lived, and it may actually take anything from five to ten…
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One of Canada’s top companies will have staff work from home as much as possible — even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends.A Shopify logo is seen during an event in Toronto on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The company’s CEO has announced it is now ‘digital by default.’ (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)One of Canada’s top companies…
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…
