April 19, 2020

coronavirus Hundreds Protest Against US Virus Rules

Hundreds Protest Against US Coronavirus Rules

April 19, 2020 6:12 pm

Hundreds protested Saturday in cities across America against coronavirus-related lockdowns — with encouragement from President Donald Trump — as resentment grows against the crippling economic cost of confinement.

An estimated 400 people gathered under a cold rain in Concord, New Hampshire — many on foot while others remained in their cars — to send a message that extended quarantines were not necessary in a state with relatively few confirmed cases of COVID-19.

The crowd included several armed men wearing military-style uniforms, with their faces covered.

 

In Texas, more than 250 people rallied outside the State Capitol in Austin, including

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Director Of Wuhan Lab Denies Virus Link

Director Of Wuhan Lab Denies Virus Link

April 19, 2020 6:11 pm

The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the source of the outbreak, calling it “impossible”.

Beijing has come under increasing pressure over transparency in its handling of the pandemic, with the US probing whether the virus actually originated in a virology institute with a high-security biosafety laboratory.

Chinese scientists have said the virus likely jumped from an animal to humans in a market that sold wildlife.

But the existence of the facility has fuelled conspiracy theories that the germ spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically …

Orthodox Easter Services Hit By Virus As Many Stay Home

Orthodox Easter Services Hit By Virus As Many Stay Home

April 19, 2020 6:10 pm

More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, with church leaders urging worshippers to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.

Yet while many watched services online or on television, some sidestepped virus fears to attend churches on the most important date in the Orthodox calendar.

In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, who has cast doubt on the seriousness of the pandemic and allowed events such as football matches to go ahead, visited a church without a face mask.

“I don’t approve of those who closed people’s way to church,” he said, quoted by Belta state news agency, …

Europe, New York See Progress In Coronavirus Battle

Europe, New York See Progress In Coronavirus Battle

April 19, 2020 6:09 pm

Hard-hit European nations and the US epicenter New York reported headway Sunday in their battle against the deadly pandemic.

Governments across the world are now debating how and when to ease lockdowns that have kept more than half of humanity — 4.5 billion people — confined to their homes and crippled the global economy.

Europe saw encouraging signs Sunday, with Italy, Spain, France and Britain seeing drops in daily death tolls and slowing infection rates.

The continent accounts for almost two-thirds of the nearly 165,000 fatalities reported across the globe out of more than 2.3 million declared infections, according to …

Extreme Piercing - A Festival Of self-Inflicted Pain

Extreme Piercing: A Festival Of Self-Inflicted Pain

April 19, 2020 2:54 pm

An ancient pre-harvest festival in India’s state of West Bengal, in which men pierce themselves with iron rods and hooks, was cancelled this year due to coronavirus. But Sahar Zand – who attended the event last April – reports that many local people believe that without this show of devotion to the Hindu deity, Shiva, crops are bound to fail.

It is early morning one day in mid-April, almost exactly a year ago. On the bank of the river Ganges, a handful of young men are sitting in a circle under the shade of a big tree. They are wearing …

COVID-19 - Will Trump Delay The Presidential Election

COVID-19: Will Trump Delay The Presidential Election?

April 19, 2020 2:30 pm

As the coronavirus pandemic grinds much of the US economy to a halt, it is also playing havoc with the American democratic process during a national election year.

Primary contests have been delayed or disrupted, with in-person polling places closed and absentee balloting processes thrown into doubt. Politicians have engaged in contentious fights over the electoral process in legislatures and the courts.

In November voters are scheduled to head to the polls to select the next president, much of Congress and thousands of state-government candidates. But what could Election Day look like – or if it will even be held …

Will COVID-19 The Use Of Robots To Replace Humans

Will COVID-19 Aid The Use Of Robots To Replace Humans?

April 19, 2020 2:29 pm

As a pandemic grips the world, a person could be forgiven if they had forgotten about another threat to humanity’s way of life – the rise of robots.

For better or worse the robots are going to replace many humans in their jobs, analysts say, and the coronavirus outbreak is speeding up the process.

“People usually say they want a human element to their interactions but Covid-19 has changed that,” says Martin Ford, a futurist who has written about the ways robots will be integrated into the economy in the coming decades.

“[Covid-19] is going to change consumer preference and …

68-Yr-Old Woman Delivered Of Twins, Africa’s First

68-Yr-Old Woman Delivered Of Twins, Africa’s First

April 19, 2020 2:28 pm
In what was called Nigeria and Africa’s first, a 68-year-old woman has delivered a set of twins.

The delivery on 14 April, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), followed an IVF conception.

The woman was pregnant for the first time, said Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chairman, LUTH Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC).

Adeyemo said that she was delivered at 37 weeks, through an elective Caesarean section.

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Both the IVF and embryo transfer were done at a facility outside LUTH.

Adeyemo further said that the woman was, thereafter, referred to LUTH at …

Do Masks Really Protect Us Coronavirus

Do Masks Really Protect Us From Coronavirus?

April 19, 2020 2:28 pm
We have reached a strange point in time when it is rare to go on a trip to the supermarket or walk through the park without seeing people wearing surgical-style face masks.

The official advice about whether you should wear these mask varies from country to country, with the British government, for example, not advising the use of face masks for the general public, but the authorities in certain provinces of China making it compulsory.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that, provided you are healthy, you do not need to wear a mask. People should, however, wear masks if

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Malaysia Records Increase In Coronavirus Infections

Malaysia Records Increase In Coronavirus Infections

April 19, 2020 2:26 pm

An additional 84 coronavirus cases was reported in Malaysia on Sunday, bringing the tally  to 5,389.

Health Ministry Director-General, Noor Hisham Abdullah said  95 among  those infected have been released.

This brought the total discharged to 3,197 or 59.3 percent.

He said  46 cases  are  in intensive care,  with 26 of those cases requiring  assisted breathing.

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Fatalities increased  to 89, with  one more death recorded.

He said the dead person already suffered from other health problems before being infected by the virus.

 

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Thousands Of Hungry, Jobless Americans Beg For Food

Thousands Of Hungry, Jobless Americans Beg For Food

April 19, 2020 2:26 pm

Jobless Americans squeezed by the coronavirus pandemic are turning more and more to food banks to get by, waiting hours for donations in lines of cars stretching as far as the eye can see.

And with 22 million people out of work seemingly overnight as business after business closes under the Great Lockdown, these charities feeding hungry and scared people fear the day will come when they cannot cope with the tsunami of demand.

On Tuesday, for instance, some 1,000 cars lined up at a distribution centre set up in Pennsylvania by the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

Demand for …

Out Of School, Forced To Fight - Kids Pay For Sahel War

Out Of School, Forced To Fight: Kids Pay For Sahel War

April 19, 2020 2:23 pm

Mopti, Mali – Djan Diagahate was 12 years old last year when he watched a group of gunmen storm his village in central Mali and burn it to the ground. His home and his school – everything he knew – were destroyed.

Since then, he has been living in a small tent made of tarp and twigs at a camp for displaced people in Sevare, some 100km (62 miles) from his home in Ballanguine. Instead of going to school, he spends his days sitting around the Chirifila site with his family and other children displaced by the violence that has

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