New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appealed to the U.S. Government to rush aid to the state as the number of COVID-19 cases has failed to slow down.
This is despite a statewide stay-at-home order.
He said on Tuesday that the rate of cases is doubling every three days. New York has over 23,000 cases, half of the national total.
“We haven’t flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasing,” Cuomo said.
He said the anticipated need for the height of the curve is 140,000 hospital beds and approximately 40,000 ICU beds.
“Those are troubling and astronomical numbers,” he …
Anxiety ratcheted up Monday across an eerily deserted New York, America’s coronavirus epicenter, but President Donald Trump said he’d soon call for lifting the lockdown in some parts of the country.
Trump — who faces reelection in November and is keen to avoid extended economic damage — told reporters he would be “opening up our country to business because our country was meant to be open.”
The relaxation could be announced early next week when a 15-day period recommending tight restrictions on social distancing expires, he said, stressing that governors would make final decisions in their own states.
Health officials …
Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.
The army has been charged with helping to disinfect retirement homes in Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic. Dozens of deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded at facilities across the country.
“We are going to be strict and inflexible when dealing with the way old people are treated in these residences,” Defence …
From a jaguar on the loose to an elaborate hoax involving burning underwear, the Olympic torch relay has had its fair share of mishaps.
As Japan postpones the 2020 relay after the Games were delayed over the new coronavirus, AFP looks back at some of the trials and tribulations of the event, first run ahead of the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
– Flaming underpants –
Probably the most memorable stunt surrounding the torch relay came in 1956 when an Australian student named Barry Larkin fooled crowds with a homemade torch topped by burning underpants.
Larkin managed to get his torch …
Albert Uderzo, the playful French illustrator behind the magic potion-swigging comic book hero Asterix the Gaul whose adventures fighting the Roman legions have enthralled readers of all ages around the world, died overnight aged 92, his family said Tuesday.
“Albert Uderzo died in his sleep at his home in Neuilly, after a heart attack that was not linked to the coronavirus. He had been extremely tired for the past several weeks,” his son-in-law Bernard de Choisy told AFP.
News of his death prompted an emotional outpouring from the generations of fans who have followed the adventures of Asterix and his …
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he wants to loosen the coronavirus lockdown in the United States and restart the economy within three weeks, calling social distancing measures too disruptive.
“A lot of people agree with me. Our country — it’s not built to shut down,” he said on Fox News. “You can destroy a country this way by closing it down.”
“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” said Trump. Easter is on April 12, 19 days away.
Social distancing and quarantine measures have been instituted across much of the United …
During the Cold War, this plane could fly higher and faster than any other — and 55 years after its first flight, it still does.
Imagine finding this Burmese python on your front porch. Australia is famously home to all sorts of exotic animals, including snakes.
A Phoenix-area man is dead and his wife is under critical care after the two took chloroquine phosphate in an apparent attempt to self-medicate for the novel coronavirus, according to hospital system Banner Health.
Ali Baba on his Instagram page warned that prayers cannot cure coronavirus
He advised people to stay at home to protect themselves from being exposed to the deadly virus.
According to him, Pope Francis and senior pastors have all given the same advice.
Alibaba wrote: “Don’t let pastors deceive you, prayer cannot cure coronavirus or any Imam… stay safe. Don’t test God. You can
Professor Akin Abayomi, Commissioner for Health, made the revelation Tuesday afternoon.
“COVID-19 Lagos Alert! I hereby notify you that all participants at the African Magic viewers’ Choice Award (AMVCA) held on 14th March at Eko Hotels may have come in contact with one of the confirmed cases in Lagos and are most likely to have been exposed to COVID-19 Infection”, he tweeted.
He said the outbreak is spiralling out of control, reports Daily Mail.
He told the House of Commons Britain currently has around 300,000 cases, based on a scientific estimate: 1,000 cases for every death.
There had been 335 deaths.
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He said it may be ‘too late to avoid Italy’, which has seen more than 60,000 cases and 6,000 deaths.
He questioned the UK policy of testing patients …
