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(Eagle News) — EBC Washington Bureau interviews a geriatrician, a doctor especializing in senior health care, who tells the viewers how adjustments are made in the US to make sure that health services continue to be given to the elderly amid the rising cases there. In the video interview, Dr. Minerva Navarro from Palo Alto, California also explained how doctors are more worried about “asymptomatic cases” as these can be much more dangerous since […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York’s mayor said Tuesday the city’s 8.6 million inhabitants should prepare for being ordered to stay at home at any moment within the next 48 hours to help contain the coronavirus pandemic. Bill de Blasio told reporters that a decision had not been made but that New Yorkers could soon be confined to their residences, barring any essential travel. “I think that all New Yorkers should be prepared […]
by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for a unified national response to the coronavirus threat, after coming under fire for downplaying the pandemic and allowing states to go their own way. Trump’s call came as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House was presenting a massive economic stimulus plan to Congress and was looking at sending direct payments to all Americans, as well as aid […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Millions of San Francisco area residents on Monday were ordered to stay home to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus as part of a lockdown effort covering a section of California including Silicon Valley. Six counties in the region and the city of Berkeley joined the effort after data showed 258 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with four deaths in the jurisdictions with some seven million people. A “remain-in-place” […]
by Cyril JULIEN ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) — The paper lunch bags are piled outside of the doors of TC Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Like many others across the United States, the school is closed due to coronavirus. Now it is a center for the distribution of meals for needy students stuck at home. In the bags are peanut butter sandwiches, cheese, fruit and bread, and some milk — the free breakfast and […]
by Peter HUTCHISON NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A US state started restricting residents’ movements Monday in a desperate bid to contain the deadly coronavirus pandemic as American cities followed their European counterparts and shut down — closing schools, public buildings, cinemas, restaurants and bars. As the death toll in the United States from the fast-spreading outbreak neared 70 and infections soared above 3,700, New Jersey’s governor announced he was implementing a curfew, marking […]
by Nina LARSON GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization called Monday for countries to test every suspected case of COVID-19, as the rest of the world registered more cases and deaths in the pandemic than China. “You cannot fight a fire blindfolded,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in a virtual press conference from the UN agency’s headquarters in Geneva. “In the past week, we have seen a rapid escalation of cases […]
by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada is closing its borders to most foreigners — excluding Americans — in a bid to stem the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday. “All Canadians, as much as possible, should also stay home,” he told a news conference outside his home, where he and his family are self-isolating after his wife Sophie tested positive for COVID-19. The move comes as the number of confirmed cases […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Monday said he might ask the military to help build temporary hospitals to tackle the worsening coronavirus outbreak. Asked if the Army Corps of Engineers would build emergency hospitals, Trump said “we’re looking into it… we’re looking into it very strongly.” © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Monday the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands and brought life in countries across the world grinding to a halt could end by July in the United States. “So it seems to me that if we do a really good job… people are talking about July, August, something like that,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked how long the outbreak might last. “So […]
by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against the new coronavirus has begun in Seattle, US health officials said Monday, raising hopes in the global fight against the disease. But it may be another year to 18 months before it becomes available, once it has passed more trial phases to prove it works and is safe. The vaccine is called mRNA-1273 and was developed by […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Food has been quickly disappearing from US supermarket shelves in signs of panic-buying but President Donald Trump and other government and industry officials assured on Sunday that the supply chain is intact and there’s plenty of food. “You don’t have to buy so much… Relax,” Trump said at a press conference of his new-coronavirus task force, after speaking with CEOs of major US supermarkets and food companies such as Walmart […]
