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...
MARCH 25, 2020
NEW DELHI - As India along with the rest of the world struggles to combat the COVID-19 threat, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi called External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
The call came at a time when China and the US are engaged in a raging diplomatic tussle over who is responsible for the Coronavirus pandemic. China asked...
MARCH 25, 2020
FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, in the background, leave after attending the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Monday, March 9, 2020.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus but...
MARCH 24, 2020
One of the last bastions of normal American life could not escape the outbreak.
For a couple of weeks now, grocery stores have been one of the only respites from cabin fever. Despite all the lockdowns and social-distancing measures across America, people still need food. In the most restrictive states, the grocery store has become about the last...
MARCH 24, 2020
Security personnel wearing facemasks patrol on the streets in Shaheen Bagh area after removing demonstrators continuously protesting against a new citizenship law, while the government imposed a lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in New Delhi on March 24.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a "complete" lockdown for India's 1.3 billion people on Tuesday,...
MARCH 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic will cause a global recession in 2020 that could be worse than the one triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008-09 but world economic output should recover in 2021, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva welcomed extraordinary fiscal actions already taken by many countries to boost health...
