PARIS — French authorities say they observe no signs of increase in the numbers of people infected with the coronavirus 10 days after the country ended its lockdown.
French Health minister Olivier Veran says the number of COVID-19 patients arriving each day at hospitals is decreasing, along with people treated in intensive care units.
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ROME (AP) — As nations around the world loosen coronavirus restrictions, people are discovering that “the new normal” is anything but.
Yet some realities have emerged: schools, offices, public transport, bars and restaurants are now on the front lines of post-lockdown life.
How each of those key sectors manages social distancing and tamps down on expected new outbreaks will determine the shape of daily life for millions as researchers race to develop a vaccine that is still likely months, if not years, away from being available to all.
Continue reading “The Struggle To Define ‘New Normal’ In Countries That Are Easing Lockdowns”
Let me run through a few miscellaneous news items and updates from the COVID19 Crisis.
LONDON (AP) — Cambridge has become the first university in Britain to cancel all face-to-face lectures for the 2020-21 academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, after 800 years of welcoming students to its cloisters, quadrangles and classrooms.
It likely won’t be the last, as the virus threatens the foundations of the traditional student experience, and the finances of universities around the world.
Continue reading “Cambridge University Will Hold Lectures Virtually During Upcoming Term”
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean students began returning to school on Wednesday, but not without some hitches, in a possible template for other countries struggling to reopen educational facilities.
Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors across South Korea entered their schools after having their temperatures checked and rubbing their hands with sanitizer — familiar measures amid the coronavirus pandemic. Students and teachers are required to wear masks, and some schools have installed plastic partitions at each student’s desk, according to the Education Ministry.
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President Donald Trump had a conniption on Wednesday upon learning that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson had begun sending all registered voters applications in the swing state that would make it easier to vote in the November elections by mail.
Continue reading “Trump Enraged By States’ Mail-In Voting Initiatives, Threatens To Hold Up Funding”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly turned down now-former State department Inspector General Steve Linick’s request for an interview in his investigation into the Trump administration’s billion-dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
Everything is bigger in Texas — including the lengths to which the state will go to limit absentee voting in the pandemic.
Continue reading “How Texas Has Taken Its Fight Against Pandemic Absentee Voting To The Next Level”
Mike Flynn is trying to get the judge removed from his case, among other new developments in what is shaping up as a major test of the judiciary’s ability not to get coopted in Trump’s politicization of the Barr Justice Department.
The 2020 election is six months away, and foreign interference in it has begun.
Continue reading “A New Round Of Biden Smears Launched From The Ukraine Fever Swamps”
