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India and Pakistan sealed off centers belonging to a Muslim missionary group on Tuesday and began investigating how many coronavirus cases were linked to its activities. Tablighi Jamaat is a Deobandi Sunni Muslim missionary movement that preaches worldwide. India has so far registered 32 deaths from 1,251 confirmed infections, and Pakistan 20 from 1,914. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dIh34N via IFTTT

MOSCOW—Amid a growing uproar in newly locked-down Russia, news broke on Tuesday that a doctor President Vladimir Putin met with just a week ago during a highly publicized visit to a coronavirus treatment facility has now tested positive for the infection himself. Widely disseminated photos of the visit showed Putin donning an orange hazmat suit, but he had also talked to Dr. Denis Protsenko extensively without protection and photographs show them together with very little "social distancing."Putin's spokesman says the Russian president is tested frequently for coronavirus infection and is just fine. But the news is bound to shake a country already racked by uncertainty, fear, and not a little anger.“You should find abandoned cells used to punish prisoners, cold ones with no food in them, lock them up there,” Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov declared as the Russian Federation went into a nationwide lockdown over the weekend. He was telling his security force commanders how...

Evidence suggests the coronavirus can enter the body through the eyes, so some eye doctors say glasses are safer. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QVQfUI via IFTTT

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The Dow Jones and FTSE 100 have fallen more than 20% since the start of the year. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/39wrB3M

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that the rate of hospitalizations because of the coronavirus pandemic is slowing in the state. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3axCyTI via IFTTT

Barack Obama appeared to take a swipe at Donald Trump, saying there are steep consequences because of 'those who denied warnings of a pandemic.' from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UxIwib via IFTTT

Huawei warned on Tuesday that 2020 would be its most difficult year yet due to American trade restrictions which dealt a blow to its overseas sales in 2019, and predicted the Chinese government would retaliate against the United States. It said Beijing could hit back against U.S. measures to restrict chip sales to Huawei, by restricting sales of American products in China and by shifting to alternative suppliers in China and South Korea. "The Chinese government will not just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered on the chopping board," Chairman Eric Xu told reporters at the launch of Huawei's annual report. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UxsvZr via IFTTT

One of the motorcyclists in a crash that killed him and six fellow bikers on a north woods highway was drunk and actually was the one who hit a pickup and caused the accident, the lawyer for the truck driver charged with homicide said in a document made public Tuesday. A New Hampshire State Police account of the June 21 crash in the community of Randolph “was deeply flawed," the lawyer for truck driver Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 24, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, said in a motion filed Friday that seeks a hearing to set him free on bail. State police initially determined that the flatbed trailer he was hauling was 1 1/2 feet over the center line at the time of impact, the motion said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UOMFgl via IFTTT

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that social distancing seems to be dampening the spread of the coronavirus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2R35R9g via IFTTT

New Zealand's prime minister posted a video of masks being made in a factory and said, "I'll admit, I have watched this video more than once." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2WTAdhY via IFTTT

Israeli police with face masks and batons and backed by surveillance helicopters have stepped up patrols of ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods that have become coronavirus hotspots. This week has seen tense altercations, and some rabbis have admitted that their communities, where prayer and scripture study are traditionally communal, are not observing new social distancing regulations. A few days ago in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv with a largely ultra-Orthodox population, hundreds of faithful crowded together to attend the funeral of prominent rabbi Tzi Shenkar. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QZvGXG via IFTTT

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday it was not time to evacuate a U.S. aircraft carrier reeling from an outbreak of coronavirus, adding that he had not read in detail a letter from the commander of the ship pleading for help. Reuters reported earlier on Tuesday about a letter from Captain Brett Crozier, the commanding officer of the Theodore Roosevelt, calling for removing over 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them. In his interview with CBS News, Esper did not comment directly on Crozier's proposal, at least in the portions that aired. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UPw8ZM via IFTTT

The United States has called on Venezuela’s Juan Guaido to temporarily renounce his claim to the presidency as it recalibrates its strategy to oust leader Nicolas Maduro.The shift came after more than a year of faltering US-led efforts to oust the leftist Mr Maduro. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wRngL7 via IFTTT

Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual number is at least 40,000."Maybe the authorities are gradually releasing the real figures, intentionally or unintentionally, so that people will gradually come to accept the reality," a Wuhan resident, who gave only his surname Mao, told Radio Free Asia.A city source added that, based on the aggregation of funeral and cremation numbers, authorities likely know the real number and are keeping it under wraps."Every funeral home reports data on cremations directly to the authorities twice daily," the source said. "This means that each funeral home only knows how many cremations it has conducted, but not the situation at the other funeral homes."The city began lifting its lockdown on Saturday after two months of mandatory shutdown, with a complete lift of restrictio...

The captain of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt told the Pentagon that the coronavirus is spreading uncontrollably through his ship and called for immediate help to quarantine its huge crew. Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a four-page letter that they had not been able to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus through the 4,000 crewmembers, describing a dire situation aboard the vessel now docked at Guam. "The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating," Crozier wrote, referring to the ship's "inherent limitations of space." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xC5dsj via IFTTT

However, experts say a fever and a cough are still the main ones to look out for. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/340vDQA

More than 1,000 people volunteer to help make face shields for front-line workers. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3dFW4zH

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin was the first in a series of legal actions aimed at blocking similar steps by various Republican-led states cracking down on abortion during the pandemic. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, last week announced that abortion providers were covered by a state order that required postponement of non-urgent medical procedures to preserve hospital beds and equipment during the pandemic. Yeakel ruled that Paxton's action "prevents Texas women from exercising what the Supreme Court has declared is their fundamental constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is viable." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3axgVmu via IFTTT

The owner of a bar in New York City has been arrested for operating in contravention of the city’s coronavirus lockdown measures.New York police confirmed on Monday that 56-year-old Vasil Pando had been arrested on Saturday night at an address in Brooklyn. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39vYsW8 via IFTTT

Trump said the news media was "going CRAZY" because the TV ratings for his recent news briefings were so high. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3auUaQ6 via IFTTT

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are fleeing cities, posing a fresh risk of infection. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xDKrsb via IFTTT

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen carried out several air strikes on Monday on the capital Sanaa, witnesses and media said, killing dozens of horses at a military school. A number of sensitive sites including the presidential palace compound, the school and an air base close to Sanaa airport were hit, and loud explosions were heard across the city, residents said. The coalition said the operation was aimed at destroying "legitimate military targets including Houthi ballistic batteries which threaten civilian lives". from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QUBgKI via IFTTT

New research raises doubts about whether negative throat swabs are enough to say a patient is coronavirus-free. Doctors may have to sample their poop. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3bEH3fC via IFTTT

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Ministers say the vouchers could be available to families in England as early as Tuesday afternoon. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/33X85fl

The test could help diagnose tumours sooner, often before any symptoms, scientists hope. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3axPYzd

Aviation services companies are calling on the government for urgent assistance due to the pandemic. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39rbFzL

The UK is due to stop following EU rules by the end of 2020 but a group of MEPs say the date should be pushed back. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3dJ5ES2

The often unsanitary conditions in refugee and migrant camps, like this one on Lesbos, pose a challenge for residents trying to avoid coronavirus. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3auJAZH

The BBC’s Gavin Lee took a road trip in Europe's Schengen area to see how free movement has changed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2X1Vk1X

Stuck at home, some people have enlisted their children to help cut their hair. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UQlH7Y

There are reasons to believe the world may emerge from this upheaval enhanced, writes Matthew Syed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QWDCJc

How to avoid some of the pitfalls of teleconferencing and how it is changing the way we meet and do business. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2xx5TPR

The government has outlined plans aimed at bringing stranded Britons home. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3bHsNm3

The president says he is considering quarantining the state, but its governor expresses concern. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UoKJfs via IFTTT

President Trump on Sunday asked why a White House reporter does not act “a little more positive” in covering the administration’s coronavirus response. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UJKHOp via IFTTT

Instead of "complaining," California Governor Gavin Newsom said "broken" ventilators were sent to a local company to be repaired. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3auPZUq via IFTTT

North Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea and Japan said, continuing a streak of weapons launches that suggests leader Kim Jong Un is trying to strengthen domestic support amid worries about a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the projectiles flying from the North Korean eastern coastal city of Wonsan into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan on Sunday morning. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wAtTBy via IFTTT

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- As recently as a few weeks ago, it seemed as though U.K. politics could not possibly talk about anything besides Brexit, even after the country’s formal departure from the EU. Business as usual was expected to return at some unspecified point in the future.As elsewhere, the coronavirus has turned British politics on its head. Unlike Brexit, which continues to divide opinion fairly evenly, the coronavirus crisis has prompted an outbreak of recently unfamiliar unity. Number Cruncher polling (excusive to Bloomberg) finds personal ratings for Boris Johnson -- himself now diagnosed with coronavirus -- that have not been seen for a British Prime Minister since the early days of Tony Blair’s premiership in 1997.Fully 72% of eligible voters are satisfied with Johnson’s performance as Prime Minister, with 25% dissatisfied. Ninety-one per cent of those currently supporting the Conservatives count themselves as satisfied, along with about half of Labour voters and those vot...

France on Sunday staged its largest evacuation of coronavirus patients to date from hospitals in the hard-hit east, increasing efforts to free up intensive care units as officials warned of an influx of serious cases in the coming days. Two specially equipped high-speed trains carried 36 patients from Mulhouse and Nancy toward hospitals along France's western coast, where the outbreak has been limited so far. Dozens of hospital workers, flanked by police and soldiers standing guard, spent hours installing four patients in each wagon in an operation that began before dawn. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2WRjgVB via IFTTT

The New York area has been the hardest-hit region in the United States during the novel coronavirus pandemic, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) doesn't want his state singled out.After President Trump said he was considering quarantining New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut on Saturday, Cuomo pushed back, calling the idea "preposterous" and a "federal declaration of war," while noting he didn't think it was even legal. Eventually, Trump said it wasn't necessary, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory, urging tri-state residents to refrain from non-essential travel for the next 14 days.But Cuomo isn't completely satisfied — he said he still may sue Rhode Island if the state doesn't halt its new policy of stopping vehicles with New York license plates and collecting information about people who have traveled between the two states. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) issued an order Friday empowering law enforcement to...

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The UK faces reviews of measures every three weeks for six months or more, says deputy chief medical officer. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Joxci0

Thousands of the devices, which deliver oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, could be made. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2WTS74q

A rapid response unit is working with social media firms to take down misleading or harmful content. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2WQvePe

The head of Loganair, the UK's biggest regional airline, says he will ask the government for help. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UsJ2xS

Irish artist Will Sliney is keeping thousands of kids entertained with daily drawing challenges. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UK7REr

The UK government is advising us to stay two metres apart - but what does that look like? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2y4LxgS

Rob thought he was helping a refugee girl and her father as they struggled to get to the UK. But he found out it was all a lie. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ygtKDz

Have you ever seen the streets of the capital so empty? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2xxityx

Dr John Wright explains how Bradford Royal Infirmary is preparing for a "tsunami" of Covid-19 cases. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2WTHrTa

All your questions about sex in the time of coronavirus, answered. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3dJM88n

The BBC's Justin Rowlatt found a visit to Antarctica made him emotional, and ultimately hopeful. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UH2wO2

With the first made-in-India kits, the country could hugely scale up testing for the coronavirus. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39lFNMJ

Victoria Repa has created an app to help people lose weight, an issue she struggled with growing up. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Upk3LM

Have you seen the kitchen 'remix' of the BBC News theme tune yet? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3bK1doD

Some people face months of coronavirus isolation because of medical conditions. How will they cope? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UrbvUC

Meet the people who have made it their mission to feed the National Health Service for free. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UoGTmA

While swathes of Europe are under lockdown, Sweden is allowing life to go on much as normal. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2UtNg8x

Amid the virus, some retailers are seeing trade collapse, but others are overwhelmed by demand. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2xwoI5H

How one of pop’s brightest new voices found confidence by taking control of a plane. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QTz0Dy

Fox News Breaking News Alert Trump announces quarantine on New York, parts of New Jersey and Conn. 'will not be necessary;' CDC to issue 'travel advisory' 03/28/20 5:34 PM

Even with a massive economic stimulus bill on the horizon, House members had recently returned home to wait out the new coronavirus outbreak upon reassurance the bill would pass unanimously.But on Thursday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) disrupted that plan by suggesting he might oppose a unanimous voice vote. His waffling now has much of the House rushing back to Washington, scrambling to find uncancelled flights and worried about spreading COVID-19 even further, Politico reports.Beyond just allowing congressmembers to get home, the voice vote would've prevented all House members from having to come together in the Capitol in a clear violation of the CDC's social distancing guidelines. The House only needs 216 members for a quorum, but others are worried about the optics of not showing up if it comes down to a roll call vote. So even Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), who represents the swamped Elmhurst hospital in Queens, New York, boarded a near-empty flight back to D.C.House Speaker Nan...

Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged last year, partly reopened on Saturday after more than two months of near total isolation for its population of 11 million. A top Asian security conference that gathers defence ministers -- including from the US and China -- and senior military officials was cancelled due to the pandemic. Thousands of migrant workers in India, left jobless and penniless by the full shutdown of the country, are walking long distances back to their home villages after all transport was stopped except for essential services. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yfqE2M via IFTTT

"It's never 100%, but I'd be willing to bet anything that people who recover are really protected against reinfection," Fauci said in an interview. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wCh9KG via IFTTT

(Bloomberg) -- For Boris Johnson, as for others, it started with a cough and a fever.The British prime minister did what he was told by the most senior medic in the land and took a test. Johnson was in his Downing Street apartment at midnight on Thursday when the result came through: he’d tested positive for coronavirus. It was the moment the pandemic literally hit home. Johnson, 55, is the first world leader to reveal he has Covid-19. His illness graphically illustrates the indiscriminate nature of a disease that has now infected almost 650,000 people around the world and killed 30,000. But as Johnson isolates himself, picking up meals and official papers left outside his door, the infection raises more questions about his attitude to a crisis many medical experts felt he failed to take seriously for too long.For one thing, Johnson is not the only member of the British government to be hit. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Friday that he too had tested positive for the v...

The fourth FCA death comes as some plants among the Detroit Big Three, whose workers are unionized with the UAW, prepare to come back online. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39mIJst via IFTTT

Pope Francis stood alone in vast Saint Peter's Square Friday to bless Catholics around the world suffering under the coronavirus pandemic, urging people to ease their fears through faith. In a historic first, the Argentine performed the rarely recited "Urbi et Orbi" blessing from the steps of the basilica to an empty square, addressing those in lockdown across the globe via television, radio and social media. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33QL6CD via IFTTT

(Bloomberg) -- The long lines and stacks of ash urns greeting family members of the dead at funeral homes in Wuhan are spurring questions about the true scale of coronavirus casualties at the epicenter of the outbreak, renewing pressure on a Chinese government struggling to control its containment narrative.The families of those who succumbed to the virus in the central Chinese city, where the disease first emerged in December, were allowed to pick up their cremated ashes at eight local funeral homes starting this week. As they did, photos circulated on Chinese social media of thousands of urns being ferried in.Outside one funeral home, trucks shipped in about 2,500 urns on both Wednesday and Thursday, according to Chinese media outlet Caixin. Another picture published by Caixin showed 3,500 urns stacked on the ground inside. It’s unclear how many of the urns had been filled.People who answered the phone at six of the eight funeral homes in Wuhan said they either did not have data on h...