African Americans have been hit disproportionately by COVID-19, a trend likely to continue or even rise as states begin to reopen for business.Black Americans are more likely than their white counterparts to work in the service industries that have been shuttered for the past several weeks, and they are also more likely to suffer from…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government scientist was ousted after the Trump administration ignored his dire warnings about COVID-19 and a malaria drug President Donald Trump was pushing for the coronavirus despite scant evidence it helped, according to a whistleblower complaint Tuesday.Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed the complaint…
Kerala’s steps on the virus are easy to follow, but its success rate is difficult to repeat With containment strategies in place even before the first case of novel coronavirus was detected on January 30, Kerala appears to have finally hammered the curve flat. On May 1, for the first time, the State reported zero…
Home / India News / Nearly 15,000 stranded Indians to be evacuated from abroad in first week Around 15,000 Indians stranded across the world are expected to be flown back to India in the first week from May 7 following the government’s nod, according to the civil aviation ministry. The government had on Monday said…
Updated / Tuesday, 5 May 2020 07:51 The golden statues of the Trocadero esplanade, in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris The first patient with Covid-19 in France appeared at the end of December, a month before the first case was confirmed, according to an intensive care chief. The novel coronavirus first appeared in…
Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong had just begun letting its guard down in late February when it was hit by a second wave of the novel coronavirus. After a brief period of low case numbers, new infections spiked dramatically, prompting a series of additional stringen…
Following confirmation that nine mothers, two babies, four doctors and one nurse had tested positive for Covid-19, KwaZulu-Natal health officials have decided to close the doors of the General Justice Gizenga Mpanzi Memorial Hospital (formerly Stanger Hospital).LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesThe KwaZulu-Natal health department said in a statement on Tuesday it’s…
Thousands of lives have been saved by Australia’s swift efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus, Scott Morrison has said, but the focus must now shift to flattening a new curve.And it’s one that impacts virtually everybody in the country and will be much tougher to tackle — the curve of unemployment.Speaking in Canberra today,…
The search for alternative lockdown entertainment and spiritual support on the airwaves during the Covid-19 emergency has left Ireland with dozens of new radio stations and daily broadcasts. A Lions Club charity group in the west created a new daily community radio show that bans the use of the words ‘Covid-19’ in a bid to…
Dave Greenfield, the keyboard player with British punk band The Stranglers who penned the music to their biggest hit, Golden Brown, has died after testing positive for coronavirusMay 4, 2020, 6:45 PM2 min readLONDON — Dave Greenfield, the keyboard player with British punk band The Stranglers and who penned the music to their biggest hit,…
