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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico raised its health emergency level following a rapid increase in coronavirus cases and amid fears the health system could collapse, the government said Tuesday. Health Undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said the country was moving to “phase three” of its response to the deadly pandemic. “We’re in a phase of rapid increase, where we’re accumulating a large number of infections (and) hospital admissions,” he said. The government has suspended all non-essential […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — The death toll from a weekend mass shooting in Canada’s Nova Scotia province has risen to 23, police said Tuesday, after remains were found in burnt out homes and vehicles. “We believe there to be 23 victims, including a 17-year-old (girl). All other victims are adults, both men and women,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. “We have recovered remains from some of the locations of the fires,” […]
by Eric THOMAS Agence France Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Investigators on Monday scoured crime scenes from the worst mass shooting in Canadian history to try to understand why a dental worker with no criminal past killed at least 18 people. The gunman, identified by police as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, began his rampage late Saturday in the seaside village of Portapique, Nova Scotia, dying 14 hours later in a hail of police gunfire outside […]
by Michael Mathes, with Catherine Triomphe in Harrisburg and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump pledged a temporary ban on immigration to the United States because of the “invisible enemy” of coronavirus, as the disease sparked angry demonstrations on American streets to demand an end to crippling lockdowns. In just four months, the virus has turned the world upside down, confining half the planet indoors and killing nearly 170,000 […]
(Eagle News) — EBC Correspondent in Canada Thomas Likness gives the latest situation in Canada amid a shooting rampage that killed 19 people and a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed at least 1,700 people and infected more than 36,000. Before the shooting victims were gunned down, their houses were reportedly sent on fire leading the police to think that there could be more victims. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his condolences to the loved […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday the death toll from an “evil” weekend shooting rampage in Nova Scotia had risen to at least 18. “Our country stands united in our effort to defeat a pandemic, to save lives and to help each other make it to a better day,” he told a news conference. “But yesterday we were jolted from that common cause by the senseless violence and tragedy in […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — US President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would welcome New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has spearheaded the response to his state’s coronavirus outbreaks, to the White House on Tuesday. “He is coming to the Oval Office tomorrow afternoon,” Trump told reporters. New York is the epicenter of the US coronavirus epidemic, and more than a third of the 41,000 deaths nationwide have come from the state. Trump has been […]
by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse The incessant clang of car horns rang out in the US state of Pennsylvania Monday as hundreds of vehicles circled the Capitol building in a protest against confinement measures aimed at combatting the coronavirus. During the rally that lasted about three hours, many drove pick-up trucks decorated with American flags or slogans like “shelter in place isn’t freedom!” The Harrisburg demonstrators, arguing that public health regulations unduly threaten […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US state of Maryland has received 500,000 coronavirus tests ordered from South Korea, a shipment Governor Larry Hogan said would be “game-changing” to efforts to implement widespread testing. “It enables us to identify those who are sick and those who have the virus and it can help us isolate them and do our contact tracing,” Hogan told a press conference in the state capital Annapolis. The $9 million purchase […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — USThe number of coronavirus deaths in the United States rose by almost 2,000 in the past 24 hours to reach 40,661 on Sunday, a tally from Johns Hopkins University showed. The rise in deaths, by 1,997, is marginally above the 1,891 which Johns Hopkins data showed a day earlier for the previous 24-hour period to Saturday. Sunday’s figure came on the same day that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in an Atlantic Canada shooting rampage, federal police said Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, was shot dead by officers after a 12-hour manhunt in Nova Scotia province ended Sunday morning. Among the victims was a veteran female constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which also handles […]
by Catherine TRIOMPHE with Mariette LE ROUX in Paris and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — 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 […]
