MARCH 28, 2020
President Trump leaving the White House this month to travel to Nashville. - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump said Saturday night that he would not impose a quarantine on New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but would instead issue a “strong” travel advisory for the region to be...
MARCH 28, 2020
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly. - Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) along with the affiliated state associations on Saturday pledged to donate Rs 51 crores to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES Fund) to contribute towards strengthening the nation’s disaster management capacities and...
MARCH 28, 2020
Wuhan market shrimp seller may be COVID-19 patient zero: Report - IANS
A shrimp seller at the wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan believed to be the centre of the coronavirus pandemic, may be the first person to have tested positive for the disease, a media report said on Saturday.
The report by the London-based Metro...
MARCH 28, 2020
A daily labourer wearing a facemask waits for trucks to come for food commodities at a wholesale market during a 21 day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kolkata, India on March 26.
India on Saturday reported 179 fresh Covid-19 cases, the highest in a single day, taking the total count to 918....
MARCH 28, 2020
Joe Biden during a CNN town hall Friday night detailed how he'd respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
From a remote feed in his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said he starts his mornings with back-to-back briefings on the health and economic fallout of the pandemic -- and that he is regularly speaking with governors who are...
MARCH 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US Government officials across the U.S. are using location data from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may be affecting the spread of the disease.
The federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state and local governments...
MARCH 26, 2020
(Pictured) A woman wearing a protective face mask walks in Parliament Square in London, England on March 25.
LONDON, ENGLAND - London hospitals are facing a “continuous tsunami” of coronavirus patients and some are likely to be overwhelmed in a few days, according to Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers – which represents hospital bosses.
Hopson said...
MARCH 26, 2020
Gerrity's Supermarket, a small Pennsylvania chain, said that more than $35,000 worth of food went to waste because one woman deliberately coughed on it.
PENNSYLVANIA - The past few weeks have been tough for Gerrity’s Supermarket, a small family-owned chain in northeastern Pennsylvania. Like grocers nationwide, it has been deluged with orders and has struggled to keep basics...
MARCH 25, 2020
Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Manhattan borough of New York City
GENEVA/NEW DELHI - The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as India announced a full 24-hour, nationwide lockdown in the world's second-most populous country.
India joined the ranks of Britain and other countries...
MARCH 25, 2020
How Indians Stayed in their 'Lakshman Rekha' While Buying Groceries after PM Modi's Lockdown Mov. - News18
India spent day 1 of the 21 days lockdown scrambling for groceries, vegetables and milk even as the government issued several assurances that essential services and commodities will not be hampered by the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of...
