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More than 1,000 people volunteer to help make face shields for front-line workers. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3dFW4zH

The New York Times reported this week that almost a dozen Liberty University students have come down with COVID-19 symptoms since the school reopened last week. But Liberty University officials have since pushed back on these claims, calling the Times story “fake news”. Now, students are choosing sides in who they believe is telling the truth. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dLYdtl

Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual number is at least 40,000."Maybe the authorities are gradually releasing the real figures, intentionally or unintentionally, so that people will gradually come to accept the reality," a Wuhan resident, who gave only his surname Mao, told Radio Free Asia.A city source added that, based on the aggregation of funeral and cremation numbers, authorities likely know the real number and are keeping it under wraps."Every funeral home reports data on cremations directly to the authorities twice daily," the source said. "This means that each funeral home only knows how many cremations it has conducted, but not the situation at the other funeral homes."The city began lifting its lockdown on Saturday after two months of mandatory shutdown, with a complete lift of restrictio...

The U.S. government raced to build hundreds of makeshift hospitals to ease the strain on overwhelmed healthcare systems as the United States marked 700 deaths in a single day from COVID-19 for the first time on Tuesday. Nearly half those deaths were in New York state, still the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for reinforcements from the Trump administration, saying the worst may still be weeks away. De Blasio, a Democrat, said he had asked the White House for an additional 1,000 nurses, 300 respiratory therapists and 150 doctors by April 5 but had yet to receive an answer from the Trump administration. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ju1W0Q

Italy's counts of new coronavirus deaths and infections are starting to fall, though the country is likely still in for an extended lockdown. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UsUj17

As March winds down, at least 250 million Americans have been told to stay home or “shelter in place” to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Problem is, many can’t help wondering if they can still afford a place to shelter in—if they ever could.Long before the coronavirus pandemic, generous swaths of the United States faced an affordable housing crisis. With millions of Americans losing their jobs and millions more facing unemployment in the near future thanks to a concerted economic shutdown geared at reining in the disease, talk of rent strikes and freezes are in the air.The Trump administration recently nodded to the problem by ordering a foreclosure moratorium on single-family home mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration or obtained through government-owned lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fannie and Freddie have also offered forbearance for borrowers experiencing hardship. And the finance giants have dangled payment relief to indebted apartment building owners who ...

Taiwan is effectively locked out of the World Health Organization - and tensions are rising. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2WTyTvw

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday she does not plan to be tested for coronavirus despite her proximity to the latest lawmaker diagnosed with the illness. U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez, a Democrat from New York, said on Monday that she had been diagnosed with a presumed case of coronavirus after developing symptoms of the ailment on Sunday, although she had not been tested. Velazquez was in the Capitol on Friday and attended a ceremony at which Pelosi signed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus response plan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/340NVS0

Louisiana's patients hospitalised for coronavirus and the number of patients on life-saving ventilators have doubled within the last five days, the state's governor has announced.The state also saw a one-day surge in more than 1,200 confirmed cases of Covid-19, a 30 per cent increase that brings the statewide total to more than 5,200. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Uy5B4j

Israeli police with face masks and batons and backed by surveillance helicopters have stepped up patrols of ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods that have become coronavirus hotspots. This week has seen tense altercations, and some rabbis have admitted that their communities, where prayer and scripture study are traditionally communal, are not observing new social distancing regulations. A few days ago in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv with a largely ultra-Orthodox population, hundreds of faithful crowded together to attend the funeral of prominent rabbi Tzi Shenkar. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QZvGXG

As of Monday, there were more than 164,000 confirmed coronavirus cases across all 50 states, including at least 3,050 deaths. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UIXz7q

The proposal would require Maduro and Guaidó to step aside and hand power to a five-member council of state. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39sllK5

The Dow Jones and FTSE 100 have fallen more than 20% since the start of the year. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/39wrB3M

A woman surprised her fiancé for his birthday by organising a mass sing-along in their apartment building. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2R0md2l

Countries are adopting movement restrictions ranging from the extreme to the relaxed to the creative. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2R0coRY

Geoff Chutter is the founder of Whitewater West, the world's largest water park design firm. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/39ysBEc

Thibault Fornier lives in an ex-French colony, but is enamoured with all things British. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2w7CGuq

Coronavirus is throwing many birth plans up in the air and leading some health trusts to increase home births. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3bFTEPt

As the outlook for Mexico's economy gets gloomier during the coronavirus crisis, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has driven home the message that his government is ready to help the poor to weather the storm - but that the rich can forget it. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wT7uiH

Australian authorities will open a pop-up coronavirus testing clinic next to Sydney's Bondi Beach on Wednesday as health workers try to contain clusters of infections across the country. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2ymlXEh

The Paris Club of creditor nations agreed on Tuesday to restructure Somalia's debt, including immediately canceling $1.4 billion owed by the impoverished Horn of Africa country. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2QXBLDN

Tokyo is considering keeping city-operated schools closed through early May, public broadcaster NHK and other local media reported on Wednesday, a day after coronavirus infections in the Japanese capital hit a daily record of 78. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2QYL8TK

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Ministers say the vouchers could be available to families in England as early as Tuesday afternoon. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/33X85fl

The test could help diagnose tumours sooner, often before any symptoms, scientists hope. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3axPYzd

The UK is due to stop following EU rules by the end of 2020 but a group of MEPs say the date should be pushed back. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3dJ5ES2

The often unsanitary conditions in refugee and migrant camps, like this one on Lesbos, pose a challenge for residents trying to avoid coronavirus. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3auJAZH

The BBC’s Gavin Lee took a road trip in Europe's Schengen area to see how free movement has changed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2X1Vk1X

Stuck at home, some people have enlisted their children to help cut their hair. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UQlH7Y

There are reasons to believe the world may emerge from this upheaval enhanced, writes Matthew Syed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QWDCJc

How to avoid some of the pitfalls of teleconferencing and how it is changing the way we meet and do business. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2xx5TPR

Churches continuing to hold in-person worship services came under fire from elected officials and other critics Sunday who fear the gatherings put parishioners at risk for catching the coronavirus. Now new research, obtained exclusively by CBN News, shows how churches across the nation are managing their ministries, including plans to celebrate Easter, during the pandemic. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3dHrzt2

The government has outlined plans aimed at bringing stranded Britons home. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3bHsNm3

Speaking at a makeshift hospital in Manhattan preparing to receive its first patients on Monday, Cuomo sought to divert attention from any tension with Trump, with whom he has tussled in recent days over the distribution of ventilators in storage. "I am not engaging the president in politics," said Cuomo, who has emerged as a leading national voice on the coronavirus pandemic. New York is at the epicenter of the crisis. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QXE2yT

The FBI has reportedly reached out to Republican Sen. Richard Burr as part of the investigation, which is in its early stages. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UvAJkV

(Bloomberg) -- The Kremlin’s sudden shift of ownership of multi-billion-dollar oil projects in Venezuela shields oil giant Rosneft PJSC from further U.S. sanctions but keeps Moscow firmly behind embattled President Nicolas Maduro amid a wider stand-off with Washington.“Russia is not walking away from Maduro and will seek to thwart U.S. efforts to depose him,” said Vladimir Frolov, a former diplomat and foreign policy analyst in Moscow. “Moscow is just shielding Rosneft from sanctions which could result in a blanket embargo on all Rosneft exports.”Fears of broader sanctions have grown after the U.S. in recent months slapped restrictions on Rosneft trading companies for handling business with Venezuela. More recently, the U.S. has hinted that it might step up pressure on the Russian oil sector to reduce production. That followed Moscow’s decision early this month not to deepen output cuts agreed with OPEC led Saudi Arabia to boost output, flooding the market and pushing prices to the low...

New research raises doubts about whether negative throat swabs are enough to say a patient is coronavirus-free. Doctors may have to sample their poop. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3bEH3fC

A surge of coronavirus cases in California has arrived and will worsen, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday, while the mayor of Los Angeles warned that by early next week his city could see the kind of crush that has crippled New York. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39rIY5x

Prisoners in southern Iran broke cameras and caused other damage during a riot, state media reported Monday, the latest in a series of violent prison disturbances in the country, which is battling the most severe coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East. Israel meanwhile announced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will enter self-quarantine after an aide tested positive for the virus. Speaking from confinement at home, Netanyahu called on Israelis to remain at home and avoid family gatherings during the upcoming spring holiday season. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33U10MI

Trump ignored multiple warnings about an impending pandemic and gutted the US agencies responsible for responding to such an outbreak. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2X1VCpz

Researchers in the US and China reported Monday they have developed an artificial intelligence tool that is able to accurately predict which newly infected patients with the novel coronavirus go on to develop severe lung disease. Once deployed, the algorithm could assist doctors in making choices about where to prioritize care in resource-stretched health care systems, said Megan Coffee, a physician and professor at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine who co-authored a paper on the finding in the journal Computers, Materials & Continua. The tool discovered several surprising indicators that were most strongly predictive of who went on to develop so-called acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS), a severe complication of the COVID-19 illness that fills the lungs with fluid and kills around 50 percent of coronavirus patients who get it. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wNFNbb

The often unsanitary conditions in refugee and migrant camps, like this one on Lesbos, pose a challenge for residents trying to avoid coronavirus. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3auJAZH

When casino owner Kang Qiang looks out the window of his 20th floor office in this city on the remote Cambodian coast, he sees construction cranes sitting idle. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2xDSZ2d

Dr John Wright explains how Bradford Royal Infirmary is preparing for a "tsunami" of Covid-19 cases. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2WTHrTa

The death of Patrick Jones marks the first COVID-19 related death of an inmate in the federal prison system, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yiTEXp

A cruise ship stuck off Panama's Pacific coast after four passengers died and more than 130 others developed influenza-like symptoms, including at least two with the coronavirus, will be allowed to proceed through the Panama Canal, the government said on Saturday. Holland America Line's 238-meter (781-foot) MS Zaandam vessel can now continue its trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but Panama's government underscored that no passengers or crew members would be allowed to set foot on Panamanian soil. "Panama will guarantee biosecurity measures to protect the personnel who will participate in this maneuver and thus safeguard the health of Panamanians," the government said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39rqiD7

"If we need to push the date forward, we will push the date forward," Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN Sunday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UriBIH

President Hassan Rouhani warned Sunday that "the new way of life" in Iran was likely to be prolonged, as its declared death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 2,640. The Islamic republic is one of the countries worst-hit by the virus, which first originated in China. Iran announced its first infection cases on February 19, but a senior health official has acknowledged that the virus was likely to have already reached Iran in January. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dESIfZ

"If everything goes according to plan, I am talking months, not years," for completion of three clinical trials, a researcher said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UWZKob

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President Trump on Sunday asked why a White House reporter does not act “a little more positive” in covering the administration’s coronavirus response. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UJKHOp

Passengers on a virus-stricken cruise liner stranded off Central America were transferred to another ship Saturday, after the US-bound vessel was given permission to pass through the Panama Canal. The Zaandam had been stuck in the Pacific Ocean since March 14 after dozens of the 1,800 people on board reported flu-like symptoms and several South American ports refused to let it dock. The ship's Dutch owner Holland America said Friday four passengers had died and two more had tested positive for COVID-19. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Uuy4YN