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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Another 6.65 million US workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the most ever recorded, as the coronavirus forces businesses to shut down nationwide, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The number of first-time applications for jobless benefits for the week ended March 28 was double the number registered in the previous week, which was revised up by 24,000 to 3.3 million — the previous record, according to the data. “Nearly […]
by Cyril JULIEN WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Volunteers are staying home and donations have dried up. The coronavirus pandemic is pressuring US food banks, just as the number of people in need increases. With Americans told to stay home to help slow the virus’s spread, the number of volunteers to sort, package and distribute food for the needy has fallen from 100 to around 40 each day at Washington’s Capital Area Food Bank. Rob […]
(Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus cases in the United States hits more than 216,000 on Thursday as the death toll continued to rise and breach 5,000, according to the virus dashboard of the Johns Hopkins University tracking global COVID-19 cases. As of Thursday noon, April 2 (PST), the US remains as the country with the most number of COVID-19 cases at 216,721, with reported coronavirus-related deaths at 5,137. The biggest number came […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to COVID-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said Wednesday, in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus. Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was “brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived.” “Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive,” Lamont said. “This is absolutely heartbreaking. We believe […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has accused China of lying about the extent of its deadly coronavirus outbreak, according to American lawmakers who on Wednesday cited an intelligence report presented to the White House. Republicans in Congress, pointing to a report by Bloomberg citing US intelligence officials, expressed outrage that Beijing apparently misled the international community on China’s infections and deaths that began in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan. China’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Wednesday has surpassed 200,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The pandemic has claimed the lives of at least 4,476 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections with 203,608, by the Johns Hopkins count. New York state is the epicenter of the US fight against the deadly virus, with […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A Russian military plane carrying medical equipment has departed for the United States, the defense ministry in Moscow said Wednesday, as the Kremlin flexes its soft power amid the coronavirus pandemic. Antonov-124, “with medical masks and medical equipment onboard”, left for the US overnight, a statement said, without providing further details. Video released by the ministry showed the cargo plane loaded with boxes preparing to take off from a military airbase […]
by Luc OLINGA and Juliette MICHEL NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The coronavirus pandemic took Brittany Brook’s job on March 16, two days after it took her husband Matthew Whitfield’s, leaving the New York couple scrambling as end-of-the-month bills come due. On April 1, Brook, an artist who until recently taught music at a preschool school, and Whitfield, a now-former waiter and actor, have to pay the rent and other bills, as do millions […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The total US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 4,000 early Wednesday, more than double the number from three days earlier, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths was 4,076 — more than twice the 2,010 recorded late Saturday. More than 40 percent of recorded deaths nationally were in New York state, the Johns Hopkins data showed. On Tuesday the United States exceeded the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan underlined Tuesday the need for ceasefires in Syria and Libya during the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said. The two spoke by phone on efforts to “defeat the virus and bolster the global economy,” the White House said in a statement. And they “agreed it is more important now than ever for countries in conflict, particularly Syria and Libya, […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — A parking lot in Las Vegas has been turned into a temporary emergency zone for homeless people after a man staying at a local charity tested positive for coronavirus, prompting the facility to close. City officials said they were forced at the weekend to transform the upper parking lot of the Cashman Center as a refuge after the closure of the Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada left 500 people […]
by Leila MACOR FORT LAUDERDALE, United States (AFP) — US authorities were finalizing a plan on Tuesday to allow a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship, the Zaandam, to dock in Florida after its operator warned that more passengers may die if it is left out at sea. “Already four guests have passed away and I fear other lives are at risk,” Orlando Ashford, president of Holland America Line, said in a column published in the South Florida […]
