March 2020

Coronavirus Cases Jump By 2,500 In One Day In Italy

Italy: Coronavirus Cases Jump By 2,500 In One Day

March 26, 2020 1:10 pm
The number of coronavirus cases in the northern region of Lombardy, which includes Italy’s financial capital, Milan, increased by some 2,500 on Thursday, regional Governor Attilio Fontana said.

“Today’s coronavirus cases are not good, unfortunately. There has been a steeper increase compared with previous days,” Fontana told reporters. The governor went into self-isolation last month, long before Italy’s lockdown, after an aide tested positive for the virus.

Read Also: U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 1,000

 

The number of cases in the region, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s contagion, increased by some 1,643 to roughly 32,346 on

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Spain Reports 655 Deaths In A Day

Spain Reports 655 Deaths In A Day

March 26, 2020 1:08 pm

The number of declared coronavirus cases in Europe topped 250,000, more than half of which are in hard-hit Italy and Spain. But over the last 24 hours both countries reported improvements.

Spain registered 655 fatalities from the coronavirus – down from more than 700 on Wednesday, while Italy confirmed a lower rate of infections. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) European office said it saw “encouraging signs”, cautioning it was too early to say whether the worst had passed.

More than three million Americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance last week amid the coronavirus pandemic, breaking the previous record as …

Instagram's CEO Is Managing It From His Garage

Instagram’s CEO Is Managing It From His Garage

March 26, 2020 1:08 pm

“I don’t normally work from my garage,” Adam Mosseri said when asked what it’s like to run one of the biggest social media platforms in the world, Instagram from his San Francisco home.

For years, Instagram has been synonymous with travel and experiences. Its users fill their feeds with carefully filtered and cropped photos of exotic locations and colorful venues. But now, from his plywood-lined garage, Mosseri, Instagram’s CEO, is telling his users to do what he’s doing: stay at home.
Over the past week the company launched a dedicated “Stay at Home” tab featured prominently in the Stories section
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Middle East Opens first hypercar factory

Middle East Opens First Hypercar Factory

March 26, 2020 1:07 pm

In 2015, W Motors achieved global prominence when cinema audiences watched Vin Diesel drive a cherry-red sports car through the windows of a skyscraper in the seventh installment of “The Fast Saga.”

The vehicle in question, a $3.4 million Lykan Hypersport with diamond-studded headlights, was billed as “the first Arabian hypercar” — although the Dubai-based company had it manufactured abroad.
For its latest trick, W Motors will attempt to launch an entire industry.
The first bricks of “W Motors Campus” were laid in January within the Dubai Silicon Oasis free trade zone on the outskirts of the city. The site
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US: Unemployment Claims Soared To 3.3 Million Last Week

US: Unemployment Claims Soared To 3.3 Million Last Week

March 26, 2020 1:07 pm

A record number of Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, as businesses shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Initial jobless claims soared to a seasonally adjusted 3.28 million in the week ended March 21, according to the Department of Labor.
That is the highest number of initial jobless claims in history, since the Department of Labor started tracking the data in 1967. The previous high was 695,000 claims filed in the week ending October 2, 1982.
“Most historical comparisons of this scale are
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London Hospitals Experience Continuous Tsunami Of Patients

UK: Hospitals Experience Continuous Tsunami Of Patients

March 26, 2020 1:06 pm
Hospitals in London are experiencing a “continuous tsunami” of coronavirus patients, according to a group that represents Britain’s hospitals, ambulance services and community health services.

Speaking to BBC Radio today, National Health Service Providers CEO Chris Hopson said London hospitals had increased critical care capacity by between five and seven times in the past couple of weeks to cope with the extra need.

But Hopson said hospitals in London were struggling to meet the “explosion of demand” because of “the number of patients that are arriving and the speed at which they’re arriving and how ill they are.”

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UK Orders 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson

UK Orders 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson

March 26, 2020 1:06 pm

The government has ordered 10,000 ventilators from Dyson to help deal with the coronavirus crisis.

The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said it had designed a new type of ventilator in response to a call on behalf of the NHS.

The order is still subject to the devices passing stringent medical tests but that is expected to happen quickly.

Dyson has had hundreds of engineers working round the clock to design the ventilators from scratch.

Blitz spirit

It hopes to build the ventilators at scale from its UK base in Wiltshire – using aircraft hangars that were …

Mexicans Place Ban On Americans Crossing The Border

Mexicans Place Ban On Americans Crossing The Border

March 26, 2020 1:05 pm

Mexican protesters have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus.

Residents in Sonora, south of the US state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after closing a checkpoint for hours on Wednesday.

They wore face masks and held signs telling Americans to “stay at home”.

Mexico has fewer than 500 confirmed Covid-19 cases and the US over 65,000.

The border is supposed to be closed to all except “essential” business, but protesters said there has been little enforcement and no testing by authorities.

The blockade …

Man Planning To Bomb Missouri Hospital Killed By FBI

Man Planning To Bomb Missouri Hospital Killed By FBI

March 26, 2020 1:05 pm

A man suspected of planning to attack a hospital treating coronavirus cases in the US state of Missouri died after a shootout with the FBI, officials say.

The confrontation happened as agents tried to arrest the 36-year-old in the city of Belton as part of a domestic terrorism investigation, the FBI said.

Officials said the man was motivated by racist and anti-government beliefs.

He had allegedly considered a range of targets before settling on the hospital because of the current outbreak.

The suspect, identified by authorities as Timothy R Wilson, had been under surveillance for months, which revealed him to …

Christchurch Attack - Tarrant Pleads Guilty To 51 Murders

Christchurch Attack: Tarrant Pleads Guilty To 51 Murders

March 26, 2020 1:05 pm

A man accused of deadly attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch a year ago has pleaded guilty to 51 charges of murder.

Brenton Tarrant, 29, also admitted the attempted murder of another 40 people, and one terrorism charge.

He had previously denied the charges and was due to go on trial in June.

The gun attacks at two mosques sent shockwaves around the world. In the wake of the killings, New Zealand brought in stricter gun laws.

New Zealand is in a state of lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak and the plea was made at …

Mosquitoes Don’t Transmit Coronavirus – WHO

Mosquitoes Don’t Transmit Coronavirus – WHO

March 26, 2020 9:44 am

The World Health Organisation has said the novel coronavirus which has infected over 400,000 people and killed over 18,000 in 196 countries cannot be transmitted through mosquito bites.

In 2018, WHO reported that there were an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide with over 405, 000 deaths.

It commented that of the global malaria burden, “Africa carries a disproportionately high share as the region is home to 93% of malaria cases and 94% of malaria deaths”.

However, in a list of COVID-19 myth busters released recently, the UN specialized agency for global health stressed that mosquitoes, which spread plasmodium …

Do Not Cry For Abba Kyari And Co

Do Not Cry For Abba Kyari And Co

March 26, 2020 9:44 am

On Tuesday, the news broke that the Chief of Staff to the Nigerian president, Abba Kyari, tested positive for COVID-19. Three of his aides reportedly also tested positive. Same Tuesday, it was announced that the Bauchi State governor, Sen. Bala Mohammed, also tested positive. Then, there is the son of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, whose test result was announced on Saturday. Given how many people close to them they might have huddled before diagnoses, we will never know how far and wide they spread the virus.

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