MARCH 5, 2020
Trump later put the number at less than 1%. President Donald Trump at coronavirus briefing in Bethesda, Maryland, on Mar. 3, 2020. - Evan Vucci/AP
WASHINGTON – The World Health Organization reported this week that the death rate for the coronavirus increased to 3.4% and is more lethal than the flu, which kills tens of thousands of Americans each year.
But...
MARCH 5, 2020
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the government's coronavirus task force, addresses the news at 3M's company headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota on March 5.
Scientists believe there are at least two different strains of the COVID-19 virus causing illnesses.
A preliminary study conducted at Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institute Pasteur of Shanghai discovered that...
MARCH 4, 2020
Stocks surged on Wednesday as major victories from former Vice President Joe Biden during Super Tuesday sparked a massive rally within the health care sector.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 622 points higher, or 2.4%. The S&P 500 jumped 2% while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.8%.
The major averages also got a boost from strong economic data. The...
MARCH 4, 2020
Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg holds a press conference in his campaign office in the Little Havana area of Miami, Fla., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. - Toni L. Sandys/WashPost
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York who had hoped to self-fund his way to the Democratic presidential nomination but was spurned by voters in Tuesday’s balloting, has...
MARCH 4, 2020
Since Monday, new cases of confirmed coronavirus infection in Delhi, Hyderabad and Jaipur have led to a series of precautionary measures by government and school authorities, and panic particularly among residents of the National Capital Region. Much of the panic has been spread by alarmist messages via WhatsApp.
What actions are safe or unsafe, and what measures are...
MARCH 3, 2020
A wash out at the Sydney Showgrounds ensured South Africa would top group B and so play Australia in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup at the SCG on Thursday evening, after England meet group A's pace-setters India in the first semi-final.
Rain that halted Thailand's earlier clash with Pakistan did not abate into the evening,...
MARCH 3, 2020
Stocks fell in volatile trading on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency effort to stem slower economic growth from the coronavirus outbreak.
The decision came two weeks before the Fed’s scheduled meeting as the central bank felt it was necessary to act quickly to combat the effect of...
MARCH 3, 2020
Coronavirus Outbreak- Getty Images
Taking the number of coronavirus cases in India to five, two new infections have been detected — one in Delhi and the other in Hyderabad, officials said. Both the patients, who are undergoing treatment and are “stable”, recently travelled to countries affected by COVID-19, they said.
In a third suspected case, officials in Rajasthan said...
MARCH 2, 2020
Long before Donald Trump moved into the White House or the coronavirus paralyzed the city of Wuhan, Apple Inc.’s operations team began raising concerns about the technology giant’s dependency on China.
Some operations executives suggested as early as 2015 that the company relocate assembly of at least one product to Vietnam. That would allow Apple to begin the...
MARCH 2, 2020
More countries reported their first coronavirus fatalities and the toll grew in places such as China, as the number of deaths from the epidemic globally nears 3,000.
Australia announced its first death from the disease known as Covid-19 on Sunday, hours after the U.S. reported its first fatality. So did Thailand, more than a month after it became...
