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- Coronavirus live news: Trump backs anti-lockdown protests as global deaths pass 150,000
- Caught in a superpower struggle: the inside story of the WHO's response to coronavirus
- Antibody study suggests coronavirus is far more widespread than previously thought
- Test and trace: lessons from Hong Kong on avoiding a coronavirus lockdown
- Michael Cohen to be released from prison over coronavirus fears – report
- Nobel laureates condemn 'judicial harassment' of environmental lawyer
- North Korea defies sanctions with China's help, UN panel says
- Hundreds of Rohingya refugees stuck at sea, say rights groups
- Life, but not as they knew it: ISS crew return to Earth transformed by Covid-19
- Ilhan Omar unveils bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments amid pandemic
- 'Huge environmental waste' as US airlines fly near-empty planes
- US to give Palestinians $5m in coronavirus aid – 1% of what Trump cut
- I'm involved with a married man. Will our affair survive the lockdown?
- Five fishermen, a stormy night and £53m of cocaine: were the Freshwater Five wrongly convicted?
- Africans facing coronavirus must not suffer the injustices they saw with Aids | Lydia Namubiru
- White House insists US has 'sufficient' testing capacity to reopen amid widespread criticism
- Boom time for New Zealand's rats as lockdown gives them free rein in cities
- 'Relief': appeal win means Biloela family can put claim Sri Lanka is not safe, says supporter
- Archbishop of Uganda urges women to use contraception during lockdown
- Photographing poverty's pandemic: 'Afghans have learned to live with fear'
- No match for Dr Fauci – are TV Doctors like Dr Phil causing more harm than good?
- Trump's 'science based' reopening strategy is still full of unanswered questions
- 'Do your job': Andrew Cuomo gives scathing criticism of Donald Trump – video
- Lions and other wild animals relax in South Africa golf club during lockdown – video
- 'I accepted the very first patient': one nurse's first week at NHS Nightingale – video
- Duke and Duchess of Cambridge praise 'incredible' Capt Tom Moore – video
| Coronavirus live news: Trump backs anti-lockdown protests as global deaths pass 150,000 Posted: 18 Apr 2020 02:26 AM PDT China pushes 'comprehensive' economic reopening; first virus case in Syria's northeast; Germany says pandemic 'under control'. Follow latest updates
The Covid-19 death toll in Russia has risen to 313, as the country recorded a record daily jump in confirmed infections. The number of coronavirus deaths rose by 40 overnight, with authorities reporting 4,785 new cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number to 36,793.
Afghanistan's health minister, Ferozuddin Feroz, has warned that Covid-19 cases will continue to rise as the number of confirmed infections reached 933 and lockdown measures have been extended. Feroz has said that if some people continue not to take the virus seriously, more will get infected. Despite partial curfews and lockdowns in some provinces, streets are packed with vehicles and people walk around freely. Continue reading... |
| Caught in a superpower struggle: the inside story of the WHO's response to coronavirus Posted: 17 Apr 2020 10:01 PM PDT Caught between the US and China, the world health body has been unable to enforce compliance or information sharing When a pandemic strikes, the world's leading experts convene – physically or virtually – in a hi-tech chamber in the basement of the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization. It is called the "strategic health operations centre", or SHOC, an appropriately urgent acronym for a place where life and death decisions are taken, and it is where critical choices were made in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading... |
| Antibody study suggests coronavirus is far more widespread than previously thought Posted: 17 Apr 2020 06:24 PM PDT Non-peer reviewed study from Stanford found rate of virus may be 50 to 85 times higher than official figures A new study in California has found the number of people infected with coronavirus may be tens of times higher than previously thought. The study from Stanford University, which was released Friday and has yet to be peer reviewed, tested samples from 3,330 people in Santa Clara county and found the virus was 50 to 85 times more common than official figures indicated. Continue reading... |
| Test and trace: lessons from Hong Kong on avoiding a coronavirus lockdown Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:30 PM PDT Semi-autonomous city followed WHO advice and moved swiftly to stem contagion without rigid curbs on movement Governments in Europe and the US can learn from Hong Kong, which has kept infections and deaths from Covid-19 low without resorting to the socially and economically damaging lockdown that the UK and other countries have imposed, scientists say. Hong Kong, with a population of nearly 7.5 million, has had just 715 confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection, including 94 asymptomatic infections, and four deaths. Continue reading... |
| Michael Cohen to be released from prison over coronavirus fears – report Posted: 17 Apr 2020 07:58 AM PDT Trump's ex-fixer will remain under quarantine for 14 days before he is released to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement Donald Trump's former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will reportedly be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic. Cohen is currently locked up at FCI Otisville in New York after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress. Cohen began serving his sentence last May and was scheduled to be released from prison in November 2021. Continue reading... |
| Nobel laureates condemn 'judicial harassment' of environmental lawyer Posted: 18 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT Chevron's treatment of Steven Donziger branded 'an exceptionally bad case of intimidation' Twenty-nine Nobel laureates have condemned alleged "judicial harassment" by Chevron and urged the release of a US environmental lawyer who was put under house arrest for pursuing oil-spill compensation claims on behalf of indigenous tribes in the Amazon. The open letter signed by scientists, authors, environmentalists and human rights activists said the treatment of lawyer Steven Donziger, whose movements have been restricted for more than 250 days, was one of the world's most egregious cases of judicial harassment and defamation. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| North Korea defies sanctions with China's help, UN panel says Posted: 17 Apr 2020 08:04 PM PDT International report claims Pyongyang has been transferring coal exports to Chinese barges North Korea sharply stepped up trade in coal and oil products last year in defiance of UN sanctions through the apparent help of China's shipping industry, a UN panel has said. The annual report to the UN Security Council by sanctions experts went online on Friday and inexplicably disappeared later in the day, with the text itself noting China's reservations about the findings. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of Rohingya refugees stuck at sea, say rights groups Posted: 17 Apr 2020 09:10 AM PDT Malaysia and Thailand asked to urgently help people on as many as five boats Hundreds more Rohingya refugees remain stuck at sea, rights groups have warned, just one day after it emerged that dozens of people died onboard a boat that was refused entry to Malaysia and left adrift for two months. On Friday, Malaysia's air force confirmed it had denied entry to a second boat carrying about 200 Rohingya people, claiming it had done so to prevent further spread of the coronavirus within the country, which remains under lockdown. Continue reading... |
| Life, but not as they knew it: ISS crew return to Earth transformed by Covid-19 Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:52 AM PDT American and Russian crew touch down in Kazakhstan after months on International Space Station The three-person crew of the International Space Station returned to Earth on Friday morning, arriving back to a world that has been radically transformed by coronavirus in the time they were away. Space travel is often a journey into the unknown, but for Americans Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan, and Russian Oleg Skripochka, their return to Earth may bring more surprises than the time they spent in orbit. The trio's landing capsule touched down on the Kazakh steppe in the early hours of the morning. Continue reading... |
| Ilhan Omar unveils bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments amid pandemic Posted: 17 Apr 2020 09:47 AM PDT Landlords and mortgage holders would be able to have losses covered by the federal government under the legislation The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has unveiled a bill that would cancel rent and mortgage payments for millions of Americans struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the legislation announced on Friday, landlords and mortgage holders would be able to have losses covered by the federal government. The program would extend for a month beyond the end of the national emergency, which was declared on 13 March, and would be made retroactive to cover April payments. Continue reading... |
| 'Huge environmental waste' as US airlines fly near-empty planes Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:00 AM PDT A 96% drop in passenger numbers because of coronavirus restrictions has not been matched by cuts in flights The coronavirus outbreak has provoked a string of unsettling sights, such as the sudden widespread use of masks, shuttered businesses and deserted streets. Another unusual phenomenon is also playing out in the skies – near-empty airplanes flying through the air. Widespread travel restrictions around the world have slashed demand for air travel, with more than eight in 10 flights canceled. But there is a disparity in the US – while the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has reported a 96% slump in passenger volume, to a level not seen since 1954, this hasn't been matched by the number of flights being scrapped. Continue reading... |
| US to give Palestinians $5m in coronavirus aid – 1% of what Trump cut Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:33 AM PDT President accused of damaging Palestinian ability to cope with pandemic by cutting funding The United States has announced it will give $5m to the Palestinians to help them fight the coronavirus epidemic, roughly 1% of the amount Washington provided a year before Donald Trump cut almost all aid. The US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, a former Trump bankruptcy lawyer, announced the aid package on Twitter, saying he was "very pleased" the US would provide money for Palestinian hospitals and households. Continue reading... |
| I'm involved with a married man. Will our affair survive the lockdown? Posted: 17 Apr 2020 11:00 PM PDT We were planning a new life together. Now our only contact is a snatched phone call during his daily run It's 5.41pm, and I am worried. My boyfriend usually calls me on the dot of 5.30, and during these unusual times, I crave this daily check-in. The thing is, I can't call him. Leo is married and in lockdown with his wife and two children. It was hard enough being a mistress (a terrible 17th-century word, but nothing else quite fits) in "peace time", but Covid-19 has given our relationship a whole new dimension. Leo and I are both writers. We met at a literary festival last June. I am 51, a newly divorced Londoner, with a daughter at university. Leo is 49 and lives near Manchester. I knew from the outset that he was married: he wasn't wearing a ring, but one of our first conversations was about family holidays. I wouldn't say it was love at first sight, but he was funny and clever. Nice-looking, yes, but it was more his personality that attracted me; he radiated humorous warmth. Continue reading... |
| Five fishermen, a stormy night and £53m of cocaine: were the Freshwater Five wrongly convicted? Posted: 18 Apr 2020 01:00 AM PDT A decade ago, the fishermen were sentenced to a total of 104 years in prison. Now, new evidence suggests they are innocent The first arrests took place on the harbour at Yarmouth, the cobbled, picture-book port that lies on the Isle of Wight's quieter western side. It was a Sunday evening, 30 May 2010, almost a decade ago, but Nicky Green still sees it in Technicolor. She was working in Salty's, the family's restaurant just yards from the marina. "It was the bank holiday weekend and we were absolutely stacked," she says. Her parents were serving behind the bar, her daughter was waiting tables and her younger brother, Jamie, a 42-year-old fisherman, was out on the quay, just back from sea. "I'd called and asked him to bring in some lobsters," Nicky recalls. "I was expecting him to walk through the door when someone told me he'd been arrested." In the moment, she was too busy to follow it up. "I was juggling the food, the crowds, the tables, and I knew Jamie was having an issue with some other fishermen – they were accusing each other of pinching lobster pots, and he was dodging the CID guy trying to deal with it. I thought this was fishermen bickering. I never on this Earth thought it was serious. How would I have ever imagined the gravity?" Continue reading... |
| Africans facing coronavirus must not suffer the injustices they saw with Aids | Lydia Namubiru Posted: 18 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT Patients were used as guinea pigs but denied access to resulting therapies. This time, Big Pharma must be held to account The year I turned 11, my uncle Josiah Ssesanga was admitted to a hospital in Uganda with meningitis. It was 1994, and he was HIV positive. Between him and death stood a tattered post-civil war health system. Treatments for HIV and Aids existed in other parts of the world, but in Uganda they were mostly limited to those used in clinical trials. For my uncle's particular infection – cryptococcal meningitis – there was a drug called Fluconazole. But he didn't know it existed; regardless, he wouldn't have been able to afford it. and even among patients who took it, only 12% survived beyond six months. Continue reading... |
| White House insists US has 'sufficient' testing capacity to reopen amid widespread criticism Posted: 17 Apr 2020 07:45 PM PDT Mike Pence says US has enough tests for 'phase one' of process but taskforce experts acknowledge uncertainty The White House coronavirus taskforce has pushed back at widespread criticism that the US lacks the testing capacity to end lockdowns and reopen its economy. Mike Pence, the vice-president, insisted on Friday that there were enough tests to enable states to follow the first phase of federal guidelines released 24 hours earlier. But the coronavirus response coordinator, Dr Deborah Birx, admitted that phase two remained uncertain because of the difficulty of testing people who carry the virus but do not show symptoms. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Boom time for New Zealand's rats as lockdown gives them free rein in cities Posted: 17 Apr 2020 10:30 PM PDT With pest controllers in lockdown and a population surge last year, the vermin are free to wreak havoc in populated areas, and on native wildlife Surrounded by ancient rimu trees and the sound of chirping pīwakawaka, Tame Malcolm brings in his second rat of the day from the dense undergrowth of his Auckland backyard. That's four pests for his tally today – with only a few hundred thousand or so to go. "It's the first time my whānau [family] have got to see me doing pest control. I've been teaching the whānau that we do this to protect the birds," says Malcolm, director of Māori-oriented biosecurity business Puna Consultants. Continue reading... |
| 'Relief': appeal win means Biloela family can put claim Sri Lanka is not safe, says supporter Posted: 17 Apr 2020 09:02 PM PDT 'We are moving in the right direction,' friend says after verdict that asylum seeker family was denied procedural fairness The Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela say a reprieve from the federal court on Friday has given them their first "real win" in two years in their fight to stay in Australia. The federal court ruled that the family was denied procedural fairness in the decision on whether to process their visa claim in 2019 and their deportation must remain on hold. Continue reading... |
| Archbishop of Uganda urges women to use contraception during lockdown Posted: 18 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT Family planning group hails Stephen Kazimba Mugalu's break with Anglican tradition, but Catholic officials brand advice immoral The new archbishop of Uganda has become the first primate of the country's Anglican church to embrace the use of modern contraceptives after urging women to be "very careful" to avoid getting pregnant during the Covid-19 lockdown. The ninth archbishop of the church of Uganda, Stephen Kazimba Mugalu, said in a televised Sunday sermon he is "really concerned" that many women will get pregnant during the nationwide shutdown. On Tuesday, President Yoweri Museveni extended the initial 14-day lockdown for a further three weeks. Continue reading... |
| Photographing poverty's pandemic: 'Afghans have learned to live with fear' Posted: 18 Apr 2020 01:00 AM PDT In the second of our series, Stefanie Glinski looks at how life in the normally bustling city of Kabul has been reshaped by lockdown, with roads and playgrounds empty as people try to keep their distance Driving up one of Kabul's many steep hills, dotted with colourfully painted houses and surrounded by the snow-capped Hindu Kush mountains, the Afghan capital looks just like any other day. Children fly kites in the mild spring breeze, families take to their roofs to watch the sunset, bakers light their ovens to make fresh bread. Continue reading... |
| No match for Dr Fauci – are TV Doctors like Dr Phil causing more harm than good? Posted: 17 Apr 2020 11:27 AM PDT Dr Phil, Dr Oz and others appearing on cable news now exist in a bizarre realm halfway between fiction and authenticity Last week, a group of actors known for their roles as fictional medical professionals on television released a video on Instagram thanking the real doctors on the frontlines fighting against the pandemic, raising money on their behalf. Olivia Wilde of House, Scrubs stars Zach Braff and Donald Faisona, Nurse Jackie's Edie Falco, Julianna Margulies and Maura Tierney of ER, and others, came together to share a message of support for doctors and nurses, and joked in a way best summed up by Neil Patrick Harris: "I'm not a doctor, but I was paid to be one on TV." Continue reading... |
| Trump's 'science based' reopening strategy is still full of unanswered questions Posted: 16 Apr 2020 07:10 PM PDT Despite the restraint, the plan neglects to mention a firm target date or give an explicit strategy for national testing "Make America great again" was an election winning slogan with a bold and simple message. "Opening up America again" proved to be less clear cut and left questions in the air. On Thursday Donald Trump unveiled federal staggered guidelines for getting America back to business after the shutdown forced by the coronavirus pandemic. He had previously billed it as the most important decision of his presidency, but what he called "a science-based reopening" was messier and more ill-defined. Continue reading... |
| 'Do your job': Andrew Cuomo gives scathing criticism of Donald Trump – video Posted: 17 Apr 2020 11:29 AM PDT New York governor criticises Donald Trump during a briefing on the spread of coronavirus in the state after the US president lashed out against Cuomo in a tweet. Trump's tweet suggested Cuomo should spend more time 'doing' and less time 'complaining'. The governor said: 'If he's sitting at home watching TV, maybe he should get up and go to work'
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| Lions and other wild animals relax in South Africa golf club during lockdown – video Posted: 17 Apr 2020 09:01 AM PDT Lions and wild dogs have been filmed relaxing in the the greens of Skukuza golf club in Kruger National Park in South Africa as visitors stay away during the coronavirus outbreak. Jean Rossouw, captain of the golf club, located within the park, captured videos and images of lions and hyenas on the green in the early morning
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| 'I accepted the very first patient': one nurse's first week at NHS Nightingale – video Posted: 17 Apr 2020 04:56 AM PDT Jo, a nurse practitioner, documents her first week at one of the largest field hospitals in the world: the Nightingale at the London ExCeL centre. The hospital was built in nine days with a capacity for up to 4,000 patients in reaction to the global coronavirus outbreak
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| Duke and Duchess of Cambridge praise 'incredible' Capt Tom Moore – video Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:03 AM PDT The Duke of Cambridge has hailed second world war veteran, Capt Tom Moore, as 'incredible' and a 'one-man fundraising machine'. Moore, 99, has raised more than £18m for the NHS after walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday |
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