Written by P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: March 27, 2020 8:21:55 am A migrant worker cries after she missed out on receiving free food outside Howrah railway station, in Kolkata, March 25, 2020. (Reuters Photo: Rupak De Chowdhuri)The Rs 1.7 lakh crore economic package announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the…
The number of NSW coronavirus cases jumped on Thursday to 1219, a rise of 190 on the previous day. Some 16 patients are in intensive care, with 10 requiring ventilators. Two more children in NSW on Thursday – girls aged one and two – were confirmed to have COVID-19, taking the number of child cases…
Open science platform and publisher Frontiers wants to make sure that efforts by researchers to pursue science-based solutions to the global coronavirus pandemic, and learn more about the virus and the COVID-19 disease it causes, find the funding they need. They launched a new portal to do just that, which is updated daily, and lists…
Earlier this week, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, were told an employee in the facility tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Then they went back to work. “After they told us, the building was just running as it has been,” said Terrell Worm, an Amazon worker…
CBSN New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is holding a press conference Thursday. He is expected to give updates on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo announced Wednesday that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in New York now tops 30,000 and said “we’re still on the way up the mountain.”How to watch Cuomo’s press…
2.25am GMT 02:25 The Greens have also called for a freeze on tenant evictions. From Adam Bandt: The Greens have also written to the National Cabinet urging a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures as well as rent and mortgage holidays, after the NSW and Tasmanian Parliaments over the last 2 days passed Greens amendments to…
Just weeks ago, Joe Biden was riding high on stunning primary wins, starting to fill rallies with thousands, dominating headlines, and quickly coalescing the Democratic Party around his candidacy. Now he is hunkered down in his Wilmington basement, forced to communicate through live stream technology that he says took four days to install. Joe Biden…
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More than half of Canada’s COVID-19 deaths have been residents of seniors’ homes. Families worry about how homes are responding to the crisis. Marketplace takes a look at the challenges facing a residence north of Toronto.Margaret Calver recently celebrated her husband Wayne’s birthday at Markhaven Home for Seniors in Markham, Ont. Wayne is quarantined along…
The department led by Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne, seen here on Jan. 11, 2020, announced that since Feb. 4, ‘Canada has deployed approximately 16 tonnes of personal protective equipment, such as clothing, face shields, masks, goggles and gloves’ to China. DAVE CHAN/AFP/Getty Images Canada’s department of Global Affairs shipped 16 tonnes of personal…
