SAN JUAN (AP): Puerto Ricans are becoming increasingly disgruntled with how the government is handling the COVID-19 crisis as details emerge, including the death of a 29-year-old man who became the US territory’s youngest victim after his father...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Regional carrier LIAT will be extending the suspension of passenger services to May 15 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Chief Executive Officer Julie Reifer-Jones, the extension of the suspension was...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Health Minister Nicholas Steele says Grenada has contained the spread of COVID-19 in communities throughout the island and there is now need for everyone to continue living “the new normal lifestyles” so that the island can...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): The government of the Cayman Islands is prepared to sell up to half of its COVID-19 tests to other countries in the region. Speaking during a recent press briefing, Premier Alden McLaughlin said that the territory’s chief medical...
NASSAU (CMC): The Bahamas has recorded another death related to COVID-19, bringing the total number of fatalities across the territory to nine. This was revealed on Thursday by Minister of Health Dr Duane Sands, who said the latest fatality was...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients died over the past few weeks. Nineteen of the state’s...
While many Americans are filled with fear, Melissa Ackison says the coronavirus pandemic has filled her with anger. The stay-at-home orders are government overreach, the conservative Ohio state Senate candidate says, and the labelling of...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Forty-four Guatemalans deported on one flight from the United States this week have tested positive for COVID-19, a Guatemalan government official with knowledge of the situation said, amid rising rejection of deportees...
The Wuhan municipal headquarters for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic prevention and control in China on Friday issued a notification on revising the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the city. The total...
BEIJING — Chinese police have arrested 42 people for hoarding and driving up the price of the cloth material used to make face masks, as well as illegally producing shoddy and inferior material for resale. The Ministry of Public Security said...
LONDON — The United Kingdom has recorded another 847 coronavirus deaths in hospitals, raising the overall total to 14,576. The increase is slightly down on the 861 released on Thursday. Last week, a daily high reached 980 deaths. The figure,...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): More than one million coronavirus tests will be rolled out starting next week in Africa to address the “big gap” in assessing the true number of cases on the continent, the head of the African Centers for Disease Control and...
TORTOLA (CMC): A shipment of medical supplies to help the territory fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has been released by the United States (US). This was revealed by the Office of the Governor in an announcement on its official Facebook pave on...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): The president of El Salvador said Thursday he will not obey the country’s Supreme Court, after it ruled authorities cannot detain people who disobey lockdown measures. The police have been taking violators to mandatory...
The Opposition says it supports the government’s decision to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance amid the coronavirus crisis. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke today indicated that Jamaica submitted a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — New White House guidelines outline a phased approach to restoring normal commerce and services, but only for places with strong testing and seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. President Donald Trump unveiled his...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s ruling liberal party secured a resounding victory in parliamentary elections that had the highest turnout in nearly three decades, despite the coronavirus forcing social distancing at polling...
LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Thursday that a nationwide lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus will remain in place for at least three more weeks, as health officials said the UK’s outbreak —...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala has started testing all deportees arriving on flights from the United States for COVID-19 if anyone on their flight tests positive for the disease, a government spokesperson said Wednesday, a day after the...
Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the US economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported Thursday. Roughly 22 million have...
The Executive Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund has approved immediate debt relief to Haiti and 24 other countries. Haiti was the lone Caribbean country to get immediate debt relief from the Washington-based financial...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): PRIME MINISTER Dr Ralph Gonsalves says his Grenadian counterpart, Dr Keith Mitchell, was “wrongly advised or badly misinformed” when, last week, he described as irresponsible, an invitation from Kingstown for people...
GENEVA (AP): Nations around the world reacted with alarm Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the World Health Organization (WHO). Health experts warned the move could jeopardise...
ROME (AP): The scientific director of Italy’s leading infectious disease hospital says he’d like to hire Dr Anthony Fauci should President Donald Trump remove him from the White House coronavirus task force. Dr Giuseppe Ippolito of Rome’s Lazzaro...
