Women players suing US Soccer say in court documents filed Tuesday that the federation has acknowledged the jobs of men and women footballers require equal skill.
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce as soon as Wednesday it will allow oil companies to lease space in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), as it tries to comply with President Trump's directive to fill the facility to capacity, two industry sources said.
NEW YORK: NBA fans starved for action amid the shut-down forced by the coronavirus pandemic will get a taste of competition in an NBA 2K Players Tournament starting on Friday. Kevin Durant may have been sidelined all season as he recovers from a torn Achilles tendon, but the Brooklyn Nets star is ...
LONDON: Losing your sense of smell and taste may be the best way to tell if you have COVID-19, according to a study of data collected via a symptom tracker app developed by British scientists to help monitor the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus. Almost 60 per cent of patients who were ...
LONDON: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is keeping in touch with his Manchester United stars as he deals with the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus. The Premier League has been postponed until at least Apr 30 because of the pandemic and it is feared the season will be delayed again when English ...
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.
LONDON: Chelsea midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek admits battling to return from a serious Achilles injury while dealing with back problems has been a draining experience. Loftus-Cheek has been sidelined since suffering a torn Achilles tendon in a Chelsea friendly against New England Revolution in ...
U.S. pension funds that delayed rebalancing their portfolios are likely to pump about US$400 billion into stocks over the next two quarters, analysts at JP Morgan said, providing a potential boost to equity markets battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
SYDNEY: Australian authorities will open a pop-up coronavirus testing clinic next to Sydney's Bondi Beach on Wednesday (Apr 1) as health workers try to contain clusters of infections across the country. While strict lock-down measures are now in place in Australia, outbreaks of the disease have ...
Macy's Inc will be removed from the benchmark S&P 500 stock index , the S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Tuesday, as coronavirus-induced store closures compound the retail sector's struggles with a shift to online shopping.
Diabetes, heart disease and long-term lung problems are the most common underlying conditions among Americans hospitalized with the illness caused by the new coronavirus, but more than one in five people requiring intensive care had no such health issues, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
NEW YORK: Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden has quietly expanded his lead over President Donald Trump among registered voters, even as the rapidly spreading coronavirus has all but sidelined the former vice president's campaign, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on ...
SAINT PAUL, Minnesota: 3M Co expects to ramp up US monthly production of N95 respirator masks to 50 million in June, the industrial giant said on Tuesday (Mar 31), as demand surges from healthcare professionals and first responders battling the coronavirus pandemic. The company is also looking to ...
REUTERS: Retired tennis player Patrick McEnroe has recovered from a mild case of coronavirus, he announced on social media on Tuesday (Mar 31). McEnroe, younger brother of seven-times Grand Slam champion John, said he had been tested after experiencing "some minor symptoms" about 10 or 11 days ago ...
REUTERS: Streaming service DAZN Group has told sports leagues it will not pay rights fees for any suspended or cancelled games amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a source familiar with the matter. The streaming service is the first media company operating in the United States that has ...
LONDON: Losing your sense of smell and taste may be the best way to tell if you have COVID-19, according to a study of data collected via a symptom tracker app developed by British scientists to help monitor the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus. Almost 60 per cent of patients who were ...
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.
SAN FRANCISCO: Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Tuesday (Mar 31) signed the first U.S. state law that sharply curbs law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology, while civil rights activists said the measure did not go far enough to protect marginalised groups. Facial recognition ...
LONDON: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is keeping in touch with his Manchester United stars as he deals with the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus. The Premier League has been postponed until at least Apr 30 because of the pandemic and it is feared the season will be delayed again when English ...
LONDON: Chelsea midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek admits battling to return from a serious Achilles injury while dealing with back problems has been a draining experience. Loftus-Cheek has been sidelined since suffering a torn Achilles tendon in a Chelsea friendly against New England Revolution in ...
REUTERS: Retired tennis player Patrick McEnroe has recovered from a mild case of coronavirus, he announced on social media on Tuesday (Mar 31). McEnroe, younger brother of seven-times Grand Slam champion John, said he had been tested after experiencing "some minor symptoms" about 10 or 11 days ago ...
LONDON: The coronavirus crisis could lead to Formula One's already postponed 2021 rules revolution being pushed back further to 2023, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said on Tuesday (Mar 31). The package has so far been delayed to 2022 to save costs at a time when the sport and teams are ...
LOS ANGELES: A resident of the western US state of Washington was arrested following a high-speed chase that left officers dumbfounded after they found the man's pit bull behind the wheel. The incident unfolded Sunday afternoon (Mar 29) after police received calls about a driver hitting two ...
BEIJING: Mainland China reported on Tuesday (Mar 31) a rise in new confirmed coronavirus cases, reversing four days of declines, due to an uptick in infections involving travellers arriving from overseas. Mainland China had 48 new cases on Monday, the National Health Commission said in a statement ...
Asian share markets managed a tentative rally on Tuesday after European and U.S. equities stabilized, though buying for month and quarter-end book balancing likely flattered the gains.
LOS ANGELES: A resident of the western US state of Washington was arrested following a high-speed chase that left officers dumbfounded after they found the man's pit bull behind the wheel. The incident unfolded Sunday afternoon (Mar 29) after police received calls about a driver hitting two ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday that one of its chip factory workers in South Korea had tested positive for coronavirus, but its output has not been affected.
A bipartisan group of 19 U.S. senators urged the Trump administration to push back the planned June 1 start date for the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact, saying the short lead time would add to pressures on U.S. companies due to the spread of the coronavirus.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that there can be no more quarantine measures imposed on the country than those already in place to combat coronavirus because jobs are being destroyed and the poor are suffering disproportionately.
WELLINGTON: New Zealand is extending the state of national emergency for a further seven days to help stop the spread of COVID-19, the Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare said in a statement on Tuesday (Mar 31). The initial declaration on Mar 25 lasted seven days and can be extended as many ...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that there can be no more quarantine measures imposed on the country than those already in place to combat coronavirus because jobs are being destroyed and the poor are suffering disproportionately.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will send medical equipment for combating the coronavirus pandemic to Italy and later France and Spain.
Activist investor Starboard Value LP has built a stake in U.S. data protection and data management software company Commvault, saying in a regulatory filing that it felt the shares were undervalued when it purchased them.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday (Mar 30) that federal social distancing guidelines might be toughened and travel restrictions with China and Europe would stay in place as he urged Americans to help fight the coronavirus with tough measures through April.
SYDNEY: People in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Australia, could be heavily fined or jailed for leaving their home without a good reason from Tuesday (Mar 31) under sweeping new powers designed to slow infection rates. The public ...
A U.S. judge on Monday blocked Texas officials from banning most abortions in the state as part of their order to postpone surgeries and procedures deemed not medically necessary during the coronavirus crisis.
Major global airlines projected layoffs, furloughs and capacity cuts over the next few months, with Air New Zealand warning that it expected staffing levels to be 30per cent smaller than it is now, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
American Airlines Holdings Inc intends to apply for up to US$12 billion government aid, ensuring no involuntary layoffs or pay cuts in the next six months, executives said in a memo to employees on Monday.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will send medical equipment for combating the coronavirus pandemic to Italy and later France and Spain.
Activist investor Starboard Value LP has built a stake in U.S. data protection and data management software company Commvault, saying in a regulatory filing that it felt the shares were undervalued when it purchased them.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday (Mar 30) that federal social distancing guidelines might be toughened and travel restrictions with China and Europe would stay in place as he urged Americans to help fight the coronavirus with tough measures through April.
American Airlines Holdings Inc intends to apply for up to US$12 billion government aid, ensuring no involuntary layoffs or pay cuts in the next six months, executives said in a memo to employees on Monday.
WELLINGTON: New Zealand is extending the state of national emergency for a further seven days to help stop the spread of COVID-19, the Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare said in a statement. The initial declaration on Mar 25 lasted seven days and can be extended as many times as necessary. All ...
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will send medical equipment for combating the coronavirus pandemic to Italy and later France and Spain.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday (Mar 30) that federal social distancing guidelines might be toughened and travel restrictions with China and Europe would stay in place as he urged Americans to help fight the coronavirus with tough measures through April.
REUTERS: Beijing-based retired basketball star Stephon Marbury is arranging an urgent shipment of surgical masks from China to New York to fight the coronavirus, he said on social media on Sunday. Marbury, who was born on New York's Coney Island, said he wanted to help his home city solve its ...
Passengers on a virus-stricken cruise liner stranded off Panama in Central America were told Sunday the company was still searching for a port which will allow them to disembark, even as they pleaded for help.
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) eased monetary policy on Monday (Mar 30), in line with expectations, as the economy reels from the impact of a novel coronavirus pandemic. In its half-yearly monetary policy statement, it said with the deterioration in macroeconomic conditions ...
JINGZHOU, Hubei: Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus. Not only are funerals banned across China, in places like Jingzhou bereaved relatives who are stuck in their homes must wait even to retrieve the remains of ...
REUTERS: Beijing-based retired basketball star Stephon Marbury is arranging an urgent shipment of surgical masks from China to New York to fight the coronavirus, he said on social media on Sunday. Marbury, who was born on New York's Coney Island, said he wanted to help his home city solve its ...
REUTERS: Beijing-based retired basketball star Stephon Marbury is arranging an urgent shipment of surgical masks from China to New York to fight the coronavirus, he said on social media on Sunday. Marbury, who was born on New York's Coney Island, said he wanted to help his home city solve its ...
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday flouted his government's social distancing guidelines against the spread of the coronavirus by mixing with supporters on the streets of Brasilia and urging them to keep the economy going.
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday flouted his government's social distancing guidelines against the spread of the coronavirus by mixing with supporters on the streets of Brasilia and urging them to keep the economy going.
REUTERS: Beijing-based retired basketball star Stephon Marbury is arranging an urgent shipment of surgical masks from China to New York to fight the coronavirus, he said on social media on Sunday. Marbury, who was born on New York's Coney Island, said he wanted to help his home city solve its ...
JINGZHOU, Hubei: Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus. Not only are funerals banned across China, in places like Jingzhou bereaved relatives who are stuck in their homes must wait even to retrieve the remains of ...
Passengers on a virus-stricken cruise liner stranded off Panama in Central America were told Sunday the company was still searching for a port which will allow them to disembark, even as they pleaded for help.
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) eased monetary policy on Monday (Mar 30), in line with expectations, as the economy reels from the impact of a novel coronavirus pandemic. In its half-yearly monetary policy statement, it said with the deterioration in macroeconomic conditions ...
Passengers on a virus-stricken cruise liner stranded off Panama in Central America were told Sunday the company was still searching for a port which will allow them to disembark, even as they pleaded for help.
Pyongyang has confirmed it conducted yet another test of a new “super-large multiple rocket launcher” a day after Seoul reported North Korea fired two short-range missiles towards the Sea of Japan amid ongoing drills.
The launch, carried out early Sunday morning, went without a hitch, North Korean state media reported, saying that it was conducted to “verify strategic and technical characteristics” of the novel launcher, which has featured in a series of recent tests by the reclusive country.
It’s unclear if North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the drill to oversee the launch in person.
Two short-range missiles blasted off a launch site in the city of Wonsan, on the country’s eastern coast, at 6.10am local time, according to the South Korean military.
The missiles flew some 230km (143 miles), reaching an altitude of 30km (18,6 miles) before splashing into the Sea of Japan outside of Tokyo’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
While still abiding by the self-imposed moratorium on long-range ballistic missile and nuclear tests, Pyongyang has recently taken its missile activity up a notch, with Sunday's test becoming the country’s fourth in a month.
North Korea took a 3-month respite from testing - from late November to early March - before eventually resuming the launches. It came after Washington refused to change its approach to the stalled de-nuclearization talks as demanded by Pyongyang, seeking a partial lifting of the economic sanctions in return for a nuclear disarmament. Washington insists North Korea should first dismantle its nuclear capacities completely before any relief could be considered.
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SINGAPORE: The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board's Bishan service centre has been temporarily closed for disinfection, the CPF Board said on Monday (Mar 30). The board was informed on Sunday night that a CPF member who visited the centre on Mar 23 at around noon had tested positive for the novel ...
JINGZHOU, China: Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus. Not only are funerals banned across China, in places like Jingzhou bereaved relatives who are stuck in their homes must wait even to retrieve the remains of ...
BRUSSELS: Air pollution has decreased in urban areas across Europe during lockdowns to combat the coronavirus, new satellite images showed on Monday (Mar 30), but campaigners warned city-dwellers were still more vulnerable to the epidemic. Cities including Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Milan and ...
Australia's two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, will restrict public gatherings to two people from midnight, state leaders said on Monday, as part of a wave of new measures designed to slow the spread of coronavirus which has infected more than 4,000 across the country.
SYDNEY: Asian share markets looked set for a rocky start on Monday (Mar 30) as US stock futures took an early spill amid fears the global shutdown for the coronavirus could last for months, doing untold harm to economies. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 skidded 1.7 per cent right from the bell ...
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic was likely to hit in two weeks and extended "social distancing" guidelines until April 30.
SINGAPORE: The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board's Bishan service centre has been temporarily closed for disinfection, the CPF Board said on Monday (Mar 30). The board was informed on Sunday night that a CPF member who visited the centre on Mar 23 at around noon had tested positive for the novel ...
British world champion boxer Billy Joe Saunders was forced to apologise Saturday after a video emerged of him handing out advice to men on how to attack women if domestic arguments occur during tense coronavirus lockdowns.
Vice President Mike Pence, heading the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak, said on Saturday that he would deliver a recommendation to the president on whether to re-open the U.S. economy in the coming week.
British world champion boxer Billy Joe Saunders was forced to apologise Saturday after a video emerged of him handing out advice to men on how to attack women if domestic arguments occur during tense coronavirus lockdowns.
Vice President Mike Pence, heading the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak, said on Saturday that he would deliver a recommendation to the president on whether to re-open the U.S. economy in the coming week.
BEIJING: China reported 45 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Mar 28, down from 54 on the previous day, with all but one involving travellers from overseas, the country's health authority said on Sunday (Mar 29). The number of so-called "imported" cases also fell from 54 on the previous day ...
British world champion boxer Billy Joe Saunders was forced to apologise Saturday after a video emerged of him handing out advice to men on how to attack women if domestic arguments occur during tense coronavirus lockdowns.
British world champion boxer Billy Joe Saunders was forced to apologise Saturday after a video emerged of him handing out advice to men on how to attack women if domestic arguments occur during tense coronavirus lockdowns.
BEIJING: China reported 45 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Mar 28, down from 54 on the previous day, with all but one involving travellers from overseas, the country's health authority said on Sunday (Mar 29). The number of so-called "imported" cases also fell from 54 on the previous day ...
BEIJING: China reported 45 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Mar 28, down from 54 on the previous day, with all but one involving travellers from overseas, the country's health authority said on Sunday (Mar 29). The number of so-called "imported" cases also fell from 54 on the previous day ...
WASHINGTON: Deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States surged past 2,000 on Saturday (Mar 28), doubling in just three days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths late Saturday was 2,010, about a quarter of them in New York City, the country's hardest-hit ...
WASHINGTON: A US infant has died from the COVID-19 illness, officials in the state of Illinois said on Saturday (Mar 28), marking an extremely rare case of juvenile death in the global pandemic. At a news conference, Governor JB Pritzker said "an infant" was among the fatalities linked to the new ...
WASHINGTON: Deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States surged past 2,000 on Saturday (Mar 28), doubling in just three days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths late Saturday was 2,010, about a quarter of them in New York City, the country's hardest-hit ...
WASHINGTON: A US infant has died from the COVID-19 illness, officials in the state of Illinois said on Saturday (Mar 28), marking an extremely rare case of juvenile death in the global pandemic. At a news conference, Governor JB Pritzker said "an infant" was among the fatalities linked to the new ...
US President Donald Trump has apparently abandoned the idea to impose federal quarantine on the three US states, hardest-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, including New York, saying a “strong” travel warning to be issued instead.
WASHINGTON: Deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States surged past 2,000 on Saturday, doubling in just three days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths late Saturday was 2,010, about a quarter of them in New York City, the country's hardest-hit region ...
WASHINGTON: A US infant has died from the COVID-19 illness, officials in the state of Illinois said on Saturday, marking an extremely rare case of juvenile death in the global pandemic. At a news conference, Governor JB Pritzker said "an infant" was among the fatalities linked to the new ...
Saudi forces intercepted a missile over Riyadh late Saturday, state media said, after at least three explosions were heard in the curfew-locked capital amid efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
Saudi forces intercepted a missile over Riyadh late Saturday, state media said, after at least three explosions were heard in the curfew-locked capital amid efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
Saudi forces intercepted a missile over Riyadh late Saturday, state media said, after at least three explosions were heard in the curfew-locked capital amid efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei reported its first coronavirus death on Saturday (Mar 28), that of a 64-year-old man. Brunei has reported 115 cases of the virus so far, some of which were linked to a religious gathering in Malaysia that authorities said had been attended by about 16,000 people. The ...
NEW YORK: Doctors and nurses on the front lines of the U.S. coronavirus crisis pleaded on Friday (Mar 27) for more protective gear and equipment to treat waves of patients expected to overwhelm hospitals as the number of known U.S. infections surpassed 100,000, with more than 1,600 dead ...
The chief surgeon and director at one of Haiti’s major hospitals was kidnapped on his way into work, triggering protests from the facility’s staff, who have refused to take any new patients until the doctor is freed.
The surgeon, Dr. Jerry Bitar, was abducted soon after leaving his home for the Bernard Mevs hospital in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday, an administrator at the facility told Reuters. Crowds gathered outside the hospital to demand for Bitar’s release, chanting slogans and declining treatment for any new arrivals.
“Hospital staff decided not to take any new cases for the time being,” said the administrator, Carla Puzo, adding “We will continue to look after those already here.”
Hospital workers protest the kidnapping of Dr. Jerry Bitar who was kidnapped today while on the way to work.
"We will not continue to work without the release of Dr. Bitar."
The kidnapping of Bitar, who runs the hospital alongside his twin brother, comes as such abductions are on a steep rise in the country – the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, according to the World bank – with bandits taking residents hostage and demanding ransom payments.
Haitian President Jovenel Moise pleaded for Bitar’s release in a national address on Friday, dubbing the surgeon a “general” in the war against the pandemic and calling on police and judicial authorities to do all in their power to find the kidnappers.
Though health officials in Haiti have confirmed fewer than 10 cases of the illness, the rapid spread of Covid-19 elsewhere prompted Moise to declare a national emergency, telling reporters on Thursday that the country's borders, ports and airports would be closed starting at midnight, with exceptions made for cargo. Haitian authorities last week also ordered schools, factories and places of worship to close their doors, as well as imposing a curfew in hopes of preempting further spread of the virus.
The Caribbean nation currently has only around 64 ventilators, according to a 2019 study by the Research and Education consortium for Acute Care in Haiti (REACH), making a major outbreak of coronavirus – which can cause severe pneumonia-like symptoms – a particular risk to its population of 11 million.
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PANAMA CITY: Four passengers have died on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of Panama with more than 130 others aboard suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday (Mar 27). Holland America Line said in a statement the MS ...
PANAMA CITY: Four passengers have died on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of Panama with more than 130 others aboard suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday (Mar 27). Holland America Line said in a statement the MS ...
SHANGHAI: China's National Health Commission said on Saturday that 54 new coronavirus cases were reported on the mainland on Friday, all involving so-called imported cases. There were 55 new cases a day earlier. The total number of infections for mainland China now stands at 81,394, with the death ...
Governments and scientists alike agree that ‘tracking’ is a key strategy for containing the coronavirus. It is now clear they intend to do so using technology like smartphones, a move that raises concerns about privacy, however.
Both US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence made sure to mention the ‘COVID-19 Screening Tool’ app developed by Apple at their daily press briefing on Friday. According to the White House, the app “guides users through questions about symptoms and exposure,” using guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “to help determine steps they should take, including testing.”
Huge thanks to @Apple! Together with the White House, @CDCgov & @fema, Apple launched a COVID19 screening tool that guides users through questions about symptoms and exposure, using CDC guidance to help determine steps they should take, including testing.https://t.co/CN7gO3svKG
Considering how many Americans use Apple devices – almost 200 million, according to some of the most recent estimates – the app certainly seems like the ideal way for the authorities to identify and track everyone who might be displaying symptoms of the coronavirus.
There is no question that cell phone data can be, and is being, tracked. The video clip showing the dispersion of Spring Break-goers from Florida back across the US, that went viral on Thursday, is proof of that.
This shows the location data of phones that were on a Florida beach during Spring Break. It then shows where those phones traveled.
First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off. pic.twitter.com/iokUX3qjeB
The question that some American are now beginning to ask is, “where does the information people put into the new Apple Covid-19 app go and what happens to it?”
To that, there is no clear answer. On the page promoting the app, Apple says it is “not collecting your answers from the screening tool,” but does collect “some information about how you use it,” ostensibly to improve the site, in standard tech-speak. “The information collected will not personally identify you,” Apple says – but that’s a moot point, since the phone ID does that.
“As always, the data is yours and your privacy is protected,” Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted. That’s a strong pledge, especially considering that the FBI had to hire Israeli hackers to access iPhones of terrorist suspects because Apple refused to hand over the keys to their encryption.
How are you feeling? Help build a national database of people who do, and do not, have CoVid-19 symptoms. Volunteers from Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet worked nonstop for a week to create the site. Data will be shared only with public-health officials. https://t.co/GLlsOzIyKIpic.twitter.com/w9FMLpwa0w
Keep in mind, however, that volunteers from “Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet” – Google’s parent company – have recently built a “national database of people” who do or do not have Covid-19 symptoms, according to a New York Times columnist. Its data “will be shared only with public-health officials,” he said.
Meanwhile, Amazon has rolled out some expanded capabilities for its digital assistant Alexa, enabling it to chat with customers and “provide CDC guidance given your risk level and symptoms.”
Earlier this month, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the country’s intelligence to track everyone’s cell phone in order to find and contain coronavirus patients. When the Knesset balked at authorizing the measure, Netanyahu enforced it citing emergency powers.
While the US is not Israel, the precedent is tempting – especially given the time of crisis and the “invisible enemy” that has already crippled the economy and threatens to overwhelm hospitals, if doomsday models are to be believed. After all, following 9/11 the NSA began to spy on Americans and the TSA began body-searching them at airports, under laws that created new categories of search and surveillance to bypass constitutional protections.
PANAMA CITY: Four passengers have died on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of Panama with more than 130 others aboard suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday (Mar 27). Holland America Line said in a statement the MS ...
SHANGHAI: China's National Health Commission said on Saturday that 54 new coronavirus cases were reported on the mainland on Friday, all involving so-called imported cases. There were 55 new cases a day earlier. The total number of infections for mainland China now stands at 81,394, with the death ...
SHANGHAI: China's National Health Commission said on Saturday that 54 new coronavirus cases were reported on the mainland on Friday, all involving so-called imported cases. There were 55 new cases a day earlier. The total number of infections for mainland China now stands at 81,394, with the death ...
Wall Street stocks sank on Friday (Mar 27), plunging after three positive sessions despite the House of Representatives approving a US$2 trillion package to address the coronavirus crisis.
The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation.
The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation.
The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation.
US President Donald Trump swiftly shut down the suggestion that Washington would suspend import tariffs for a quarter of a year amid the Covid-19 crisis, dubbing recent source-based reporting on the question as “fake news.”
Asked about a new 'scoop' in the Wall Street Journal blaring from its headline: “US plans to stop collecting import tariffs for three months,” the president dismissed the idea immediately, insisting it was not even on the table, and chastising Fox News correspondent John Roberts for the question.“Just more fake news, John. They've not even talked to me,” Trump said at Friday’s coronavirus briefing at the White House.
“Everyone keeps saying ‘Are you going to suspend the tariffs?’ The answer is no. President Xi never even brought it up last night,it wasn’t even discussed.”
It’s fake news. Tell the Wall Street Journal. You know, the Wall Street Journal does a lot of fake news, too, it’s pretty amazing.
Based on the word of anonymous “administration officials,” the Journal reported that the Trump administration would soon stop collecting import tariffs for three months, with companies liable for the fees at a later time. While the story acknowledged it “wasn’t immediately known” when the move would be announced, and noted the president could still “overrule” the plans, it appears that happened faster than expected, with Trump rejecting the idea out of hand at Friday’s briefing.
Despite reaching a ‘Phase One’ trade deal with Beijing late last year, Washington still maintains a number of tariffs on exchange with China, including medical supplies such as masks and gloves, deepening existing shortages for urgently needed gear.
On Thursday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to order the Customs and Border Protection agency to defer tariff collections for three months to ease pressure on businesses. The United Nations, meanwhile, has also urged for a worldwide ban on tariffs and other trade restrictions, as well as sanctions which might obstruct the flow of food and equipment, warning that the pandemic puts the “whole of humanity” in danger.
The focus on trade comes on the heels of a massive $2 trillion stimulus bill signed into law earlier on Friday, which will distribute cash payments to American workers, expand unemployment benefits and provide low-interest loans to small businesses, among other measures intended to offset the economic impact of Covid-19. The administration also invoked the Defense Production Act, ordering some companies to fast track medical supplies, including some 40,000 ventilators from General Motors.
Wall Street stocks sank on Friday (Mar 27), plunging after three positive sessions despite the House of Representatives approving a US$2 trillion package to address the coronavirus crisis.
This year’s Shangri-La Dialogue will not be convened due to convened due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, organisers said early on Saturday (Mar 28).
The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation.
MELBOURNE: Australia's soccer federation has laid off 70per cent of its staff as it battles to remain solvent during a national shutdown to contain the coronavirus. "This has been an extremely difficult decision to make, but necessary to stabilise the organisation so that it can continue to ...
Increased demand for eggs in the United States has sent egg prices soaring in recent weeks as consumers scramble to stock up on staples due to coronavirus shutdowns.
BEIJING: Mainland China reported its first locally transmitted coronavirus infection in three days, although cases involving travellers from overseas continued to dominate the total number of new cases. China's National Health Commission said on Friday (Mar 27) that 55 new coronavirus cases were ...
MELBOURNE: Australia's soccer federation has laid off 70per cent of its staff as it battles to remain solvent during a national shutdown to contain the coronavirus. "This has been an extremely difficult decision to make, but necessary to stabilise the organisation so that it can continue to ...
At least one rocket was fired in the vicinity of the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, where the American Embassy is located, according to local reports. Military aircraft were spotted hovering in the area shortly after.
The explosion rocked the Iraqi capital early on Friday morning local time, according to Al-Arabiya, with some reports stating a “massive” number of armed American helicopters were spotted circling over the area afterward.
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The incident comes just a day after another rocket shelling targeting the Green Zone triggered an evacuation of American personnel from the US Embassy, with two projectiles landing near the Baghdad Operations Command, which coordinates the country’s security forces.
The rapidly growing coronavirus pandemic has prompted an exodus of foreign troops stationed in Iraq as part of the US-led coalition, with the United Kingdom announcing last week that only “key military personnel” would remain in the country. The UK was followed by France, that removed 100 soldiers on Wednesday. While the US has yet to withdraw any of its troops, the virus has prompted a “repositioning” of American forces, who were consolidated in safer areas.
Iraqi forces, meanwhile, have also suspended training operations due to the illness.
Washington has pinned similar attacks on the Green Zone and US bases elsewhere in Iraq on Kataib Hezbollah, a militia group, which the US considers a proxy of Tehran, though it has produced little evidence to support the accusations. A rocket attack on the base housing US troops near Kirkuk late last year culminated in a US assassination strike on the militia’s commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, as well as Iranian Quds Force general Qassem Soleimani. The general's murder has provoked a huge backlash in both Iran and Iraq, since Baghdad was unaware of the raid, with the Iraqi parliament voting to expell the US troops out of the country in the wake of the strike.
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Germany has offered to take in a handful of coronavirus patients from pandemic-stricken Italy, weeks after the country’s overloaded healthcare system most needed help. Is this belated remorse or just adding insult to injury?
German hospitals “with spare capacity” will open their doors to “at least 47” of Italy’s 80,589 coronavirus patients in a sign of European solidarity, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced on Thursday in a statement that appeared to be entirely devoid of self-awareness or irony.
We stand by our Italian friends. We can only manage this together.
Not to be outdone, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia announced it would be reaching out a (presumably gloved) hand to 10 Italian patients “in coming days.” Wouldn’t want to take them in all at once…
It’s not that Italy can’t use the help - more coronavirus patients have died there (8,215 as of Thursday) than in any other country, including China, and its healthcare system was quickly overwhelmed as diagnoses surged early this month. Germany, on the other hand, has had just 267 deaths, and has diagnosed just over half the number of confirmed cases of its southern neighbor.
But Germany wasn’t much of a “friend” when its assistance was most desperately needed. Had Berlin sought to make a difference in the outcome of the Italian epidemic, it would have stepped in weeks ago, sharing its medical equipment with Italy’s woefully-undersupplied hospitals instead of banning the export of masks to other European countries.
Meanwhile, instead of stepping in to rescue splintering European Solidarity, the EU dragged its feet while mouthing platitudes, refusing to close its doors to travelers from coronavirus hotspots lest it be accused of racism - even as member nations began pivoting on a dime from spouting open-borders rhetoric to sealing their borders with Italy. An increasingly panicked Rome was forced to reach further afield, finally receiving nine cargo planes’ worth of direly-needed emergency aid from none other than Russia. Its so-called allies had proven to be little more than fair-weather friends, and the shock of being abandoned in a crisis is not something a nation forgets easily.
In fact, with Italy reporting lower numbers of coronavirus deaths for four straight days as of Thursday and Germany’s own infected count accelerating, a cynical observer might suggest Berlin is trying to rack up some last-minute karma in case it finds itself in a position where it needs Italy’s help managing its own epidemic.
If that’s the case, perhaps Italy will remember those 60-something patients Berlin took off its hands during the closing seconds of its hour of need, and not the crushing indifference with which its early cries for help were met. Perhaps Italy will also forget that it was Germany that blocked a proposed EU aid agreement to provide financial stimulus to member countries hit the hardest by the epidemic. But with the myth of European Solidarity shattered into a thousand pieces, it’s doubtful.
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Even as the US overtook China in the official number of Covid-19 cases, the top physician leading the White House effort urged Americans not to panic, as models predicting the death of millions keep being proven wrong everywhere.
“The predictions of the models don’t match the reality on the ground in neither China, South Korea nor Italy,” Dr. Deborah Birx told reporters on Thursday. She noted that the alarmist statistics about the spread of the virus said Italy would reach 400,000 deaths by now, but the actual death toll was nowhere near that.
Italy, which has been the hardest-hit in terms of deaths from Covid-19, has reported over 80,000 cases with 8,215 fatalities and counting, just as the US surged to first place in the number of confirmed cases (over 83,000), but with far lower mortality of at least 1,200 deaths attributed to the virus so far.
There is “no reality on the ground where we can see that 60-70 percent of Americans are going to get infected in the next 8-12 weeks,” Birx said.
Nineteen out of 50 US states have had a “persistently low” level of infection, with fewer than 200 registered cases, according to Birx, with 55 percent of new cases coming from the New York City metropolitan area. Several other urban centers – Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois – are also a matter of concern to the health officials.
However, of the 550,000 tests run in the US so far, only 14 percent came back positive – and 86 percent of those tested, who had to have symptoms in the first place, did not have Covid-19.
Birx pointed out that either there is a significant number of people out there not showing symptoms but carrying the virus – which the authorities are now trying to find, using new antibody tests – “or we have the transmission completely wrong.”
Video: Dr. Deborah Birx calmly but brutally tears apart the liberal media hysteria about a future in which hospitals will be faced with such a shortage at ventilators that they'll have to decide who gets resuscitated and who is left to die #coronaviruspandemicpic.twitter.com/jXqXMpsdml
Birx is a retired US Army immunologist who was appointed response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force a month ago by Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to that, she was the US Global AIDS Coordinator, appointed in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama.
Entire US states have put much of their population under house arrest over the past two weeks based on doomsday models of Covid-19 spread and mortality rates amplified by alarmist activist groups. The shutdown has effectively collapsed the US economy, spiking unemployment claims to 3.3 million this week, while more than $2 trillion in government funds intended to salvage the harm is still waiting to be approved by Congress.
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Even if the US and other nations battling Covid-19 succeed in beating it back, the illness may return in yearly cycles, warned Anthony Fauci, a top expert on the US coronavirus task force, urging for the fast rollout of a vaccine.
“This could become a seasonal, cyclic thing, and I’ve always indicated to you that I think it very well might,” Dr. Fauci told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “We're starting to see now in the southern hemisphere and southern Africa … that we’re having cases that are appearing as they go into their winter season.”
If, in fact, they have a substantial outbreak, it will be inevitable that we need to be prepared that we’ll get a cycle around the second time.
That’s what the Kansas department of health spokes doc hypothesized - this may be cyclical and seasonal. https://t.co/hCHnVdQO4d
Fauci, who also heads up the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and holds some 45 honorary doctoral degrees, emphasized the need to develop a vaccine, test it quickly and try to “get it ready so we’ll have a vaccine available for that next cycle.” A “menu” of various treatments must also be fast tracked through clinical trials, he said.
Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, also raised the possibility that the virus could be seasonal at a press briefing last Friday, but said it was too soon to tell.
The US has confirmed some 65,000 cases of Covid-19 to date, seeing more than 900 deaths, and is fast becoming one of the world’s hardest-hit countries, surpassed by only Italy and China.
Asked about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) praise for China’s response to the outbreak at Wednesday’s briefing, Fauci became frustrated, telling the reporter “I don’t even know what the question is,” with President Donald Trump cutting in: “Welcome to the group.”
DR. FAUCI: “I don't have any viewpoint into that ... I don't even know what your question is...” pic.twitter.com/M4mI0ekuSn
Trump was more willing to weigh in on the question, stating the WHO had “very much sided with China,” and that the organization was “biased” toward the People’s Republic, but nonetheless added “there are a lot of good people there.”
Worldwide, the virus has infected in excess of 466,000 people and killed more than 21,000, with cases now climbing by the tens of thousands each day.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he is willing to stall the already much-delayed coronavirus stimulus plan if more restrictions are not placed on the “$500 million corporate welfare fund.”
Sanders says the “anti-worker objections” from several Republicans over proposed unemployment benefits in the bill have him ready to delay the whole process.
“Unless these Republican Senators drop their objections, I am prepared to put a hold on this bill until stronger conditions are imposed on the $500 billion corporate welfare fund,” Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday, responding to several GOP lawmakers who said the generous unemployment provisions might incentivize Americans not to work.
Stocks tumble into the close after Bernie Sanders threatens to put a hold on the coronavirus stimulus bill; Nasdaq turns negative and Dow up only 480 points after surging 1,300 earlier https://t.co/kumM5Z3mLDpic.twitter.com/tw7O9qsyCw
He added he will make sure corporations are not allowed to “lay off workers, cut wages or benefits, ship jobs overseas, or pay workers poverty wages.”
Unless Republican Senators drop their objections to the coronavirus legislation, I am prepared to put a hold on this bill until stronger conditions are imposed on the $500 billion corporate welfare fund. pic.twitter.com/7X0o9C4BoO
Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) is one of a handful of Republicans objecting to $600 million earmarked for Americans put out of work by the coronavirus shutdowns, on top of regular unemployment insurance payments.
"We cannot encourage people to make more money in unemployment than they do in employment,” Scott said of the provision. His colleagues Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) have expressed similar concerns.
"Very few people are going to turn down a $24/hour deal not to work than work for $15/hour," Graham said. "We have incentivized people not to go back to work."
The brewing fight between these Republicans and Sanders could lead to yet another major delay for the bill, which was blocked by Democrats on Sunday and then again on Monday, as the party sought to include some of its policy priorities unrelated to the pandemic.
The unemployment provision was among the things Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) celebrated as a victory for the Democrats. The White House also shrugged off the GOP lawmakers’ concerns, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying the generous plan was included for speed and efficiency of relief, adding that he hoped there would be few abuses since most Americans prefer to keep their jobs.
G-7 leaders reportedly balked at US insistence that Covid-19 be called the ‘Wuhan virus’ and blaming China for a “disinformation campaign” about it, letting the group’s conference call end without a joint statement.
Following the hours-long teleconference with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK – since the physical meeting of the group has been canceled due to the pandemic – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured reporters that everyone was on board with his view of things.
“Every one of the nations that were at that meeting this morning was deeply aware of the disinformation campaign that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in to try and deflect from what has really taken place,” Pompeo told the sparse crowd at the State Department briefing room on Wednesday.
Wow. German media reports the G7 haven’t been able to agree on a joint statement on COVID-19 because of Pompeo’s insistence that it refer to it as the “Wuhan virus.”
The other countries “reject a label that suggests the pandemic is a Chinese problem” https://t.co/8QY83DZpFP
According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, however, the other G-7 leaders did not see eye to eye with Pompeo on naming the virus after Wuhan – the Chinese city where it was first detected – insisting on the more diplomatic term “Covid-19” adopted by the World Health Organization.
Der Spiegel lamented that the coronavirus is “destroying the last remnants of the existing world order,” noting the “great frustration” in Berlin and Paris over Washington’s unilateralism.
The draft of the joint statement proposed by the US also blamed China, Russia and Iran for “the deliberate propagation of false narratives” about the coronavirus, according to BuzzFeed, which said it saw the document.
Pompeo specifically went after a recent tweet by a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Beijing, describing as “crazy talk” his claim that there was no proof the virus originated in China and that it could have been brought to Wuhan by a US military delegation. The State Department had even summoned China’s ambassador to Washington over the tweet, which remains up and has not been officially disavowed.
During the press conference Wednesday, the top US diplomat also sought to diminish China’s aid to other countries stricken by the outbreak, saying it amounted to “small sales of product around the world and claiming that they are now the white hat.”
The US, he added, was “finalizing plans” to send excess military equipment to Italy, which has been the hardest-hit by Covid-19 in Europe, and has already received help in medical personnel and supplies from China, Russia and Cuba.
Pompeo has been pressuring Washington’s European allies to line up against China long before the coronavirus outbreak, declaring last November that the new enemy of NATO was the Chinese Communist Party, and denouncing China, Russia and Iran as countries whose “value systems are simply very different from ours.”
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Residents of the French department of Aisne are heading for a truly harsh coronavirus lockdown, as local authorities have imposed a blanket ban on alcohol sales. The move is for their own good, officials argue.
Announcing the decision on Tuesday, Prefect of the department Ziad Khoury pointed out that alcohol abuse often goes hand in hand with domestic violence - which, many fear, is bound to surge under the lockdown.
“Excessive consumption of alcohol is likely to create increased disturbances and violence, especially within the family"
Khoury also banned shops from working past 8pm – indeed, if you cannot fetch a cold one, why bother going for groceries at night? While the decision affects only take-out sales of the booze, all the bars and restaurants have been already shut down which effectively makes Aisne a dry department.
Despite the prefect’s efforts to portray the ban as beneficial for the residents, some have made it clear they were not looking forward to the weeks of abstinence. Netizens flocked to the official's Twitter en mass, arguing that the ban will cause more harm, than good - all while giving rise to black markets.
“Incompetence or dictatorial will? The measure will only have negative effects: black market, withdrawal effects, bottlenecks in hospitals, etc. A curfew would prevent gatherings. You deprive people of their liberties and endanger the population,” one wrote.
Making the lockdown intolerable for alcohol addicts, who will effectively be forced into a sudden withdrawl that can entail serious health complications is incomppasionate at best, and dangerous, some noted.
"You can't suddenly deprive an alcohol addict of alcohol, it's dangerous!" a commenter wrote.
“It's a shame you put people in danger and will add more trouble for caregivers! Reverse this decision as soon as possible!” another chimed in.
Some went as far as to suggest that the prefect, who is of Lebanese origin, mulls imposing the “sharia law” in the department, with the ban on the booze being just the first of many steps.
“Sharia law on the move!” a witty netizen wrote, poking fun at the name of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! (“Forward!”) ruling party.
The ban will be in force at least until March 31, when the 15-day nationwide lockdown is set to expire. However, the French government has already hinted that the measure is likely to be extended beyond this date.
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