This year it’s a big one: The 75th anniversary of Soviet Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Now officials are trying to work out how to hold celebrations in the age of coronavirus. Anton Kobyakov, man in charge of organizing this year’s parade, has appealed to the government to ask them not to invite people older than 65. That, of course, means no surviving veterans will be […]
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The death toll from the coronavirus in the UK jumped by 20 percent to 4,313 on Saturday as 708 new deaths were confirmed by health officials. The health ministry said that 41,903 people have tested positive for the virus in the UK and a total of 183,190 people have been tested. The surge in deaths comes after a top epidemiologist warned on Saturday that the infection […]
For many people staying at home, it can be hard to keep track of time. One news station in Cleveland has found a hilariously blunt way to remind viewers what day it is, in a new segment literally called “What Day Is It?” Starting this past Tuesday, Fox 8 Cleveland anchor Todd Meany has been doing daily “What Day Is It?” check-ins, first spotlighted by a […]
3 Apr, 2020 16:36 Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country is ready to work with the Trump administration to halt the freefall of oil prices. His comments come after a phone call with President Trump earlier this week. Source
The UK death toll from the coronavirus rose by 684 to 3,605 as of 1600 GMT on April 2, up 23 percent on the previous day. As of 9am 3 April, a total of 173,784 people have been tested of which 38,168 were positive. Stephen Powis, the national medical director of National Health Service England, said at a Downing Street briefing on Thursday that a high […]
The 21-day complete shutdown across India which was triggered by the rapid spread of the coronavirus outbreak will result in a gross domestic product (GDP) loss of almost $98 billion, according to Acuite Ratings & Research. “While the countrywide shutdown is scheduled to be lifted from April 15, 2020, the risks of prolonged disruption in economic activities exist depending on the intensity of the outbreak,” the […]
The Pentagon is looking to hand out 100,000 body bags as hospitals and morgues are overrun with coronavirus fatalities, with the US breaking its daily death toll record yet again, surpassing 5,000 in total. The Defense Department will first distribute military-style “Human Remains Pouches” from a stockpile of 50,000 units to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and will later seek to purchase more, Pentagon officials […]
#UPDATE US records 1,169 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the Johns Hopkins University tracker shows.It is the highest one-day death toll recorded in any country since the pandemic began📸 Medical staff move bodies to a refrigerated truck in Brooklyn, New York pic.twitter.com/KmrZpNH6sU — AFP news agency (@AFP) April 3, 2020 Source
Spain has recorded another record breaking day for Covid-19 deaths as 832 people died from the disease in 24 hours and the number of cases surged by over 8,000. Spanish health officials announced on Saturday morning that 5,690 people have now died from the coronavirus in the Mediterranean country and a total of 72,248 people have contracted the illness. The figure represents an increase of 8,189 […]
The number of coronavirus cases in germany has dramatically surged by 6,294 in one day to 48,582, while the death toll jumped by 72 to 325. The Robert Koch Institute announced a fresh round of alarming statistics on Saturday morning, showing that nearly 50,000 people in Germany are confirmed carriers of the virus. The federal agency, which is responsible for disease control and prevention in Germany, […]
27 Mar, 2020 14:30 The latest British government figures on coronavirus show the country’s sharpest increase to date in the number of deaths, up 181 in one day to a new total of 759. UPDATE on coronavirus (#COVID19) testing in the UK:As of 9am 27 March, a total of 113,777 have been tested:99,198 negative.14,579 positive.As of 5pm on 26 March, of those hospitalised in the UK, […]
Italy has yet to see the worst of the coronavirus pandemic spreading through the country, a senior health official has warned, a day after more than 700 people died in a single 24-hour period. “We haven’t reached the peak and we haven’t passed it,” the chief of the Superior Health Institute Silvio Brusaferro told a press conference on Friday. He noted, however, that there were “signs […]
The Covid-19 death toll in Spain jumped to 4,858 on Friday as 769 people fell victim to the disease in just one day. The number of confirmed infections in the country rose from 56,188 to 64,059. Over 2,000 deaths have been confirmed in the capital Madrid, while Catalonia and the Basque country have recorded 880 and 180 deaths respectively. The Spanish government has extended its lockdown […]
One would think that on the day the US reported 3.3 million (!) initial jobless claims, more than 5 times the weekly peak hit during the financial crisis, and a 30-sigma event… weekly jobless claims, a 30σ event pic.twitter.com/LEO7s5TXsH — 📈 𝙻𝚎𝚗 𝙺𝚒𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛 📊 (@lenkiefer) March 26, 2020 … one which presages not a recession but an economic depression, stocks would be lower. One would be […]
France’s director general of health confirmed on Thursday that the country’s coronavirus cases have risen to 29,155, while 1,696 people have died there from the disease. The latest tally marks an increase of 3,922 confirmed cases. Almost 14,000 people are currently hospitalized with the disease in France, of whom 3,375 are in serious condition. The latest figures from France come after the number of coronavirus cases […]
Italy’s coronavirus death toll DIPS to 683 in one day, rising above 7,500 in total — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign […]
Business 08:35 GMT 25.03.2020Get short URL These days, COVID-19 and the government’s response to it are the primary drivers of the stock market. With the pandemic inflicting both economic and political damage on the Trump administration, a compromise on a mammoth relief package appears to have calmed distressed investors. Tuesday marked a historic rebound for the American stock market, which has been gripped for weeks by […]
The city of Wuhan is coming back online, with no new cases of Covid-19 reported in the virus’ first epicenter and residents resuming business as usual. But as China recovers, the US has seen its worst day yet, tallying 163 deaths. For the first time since the coronavirus epidemic spiraled out of control in the metropolis of 11 million, Wuhan reported zero new infections on Tuesday, […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged by more than 11 percent on Tuesday as Donald Trump proposed an end to the shutdown, and Senators came close to reaching an agreement on the coronavirus stimulus bill. The rise marked the Dow’s biggest percentage gain since 1933. It was a strong day for all major averages, as the Dow closed at 2,112.98 points higher while the S&P 500 surged […]
Authored by Nouriel Roubini via Project Syndicate, The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock markets collapsed by 50% or more, credit markets froze up, massive bankruptcies followed, unemployment rates soared above 10%, and GDP contracted at an annualized rate of […]
The day ended with still no Stimulus Bill (the 1100-page plus pork-fest is ‘close’ reportedly), with Italy’s virus-death-count resurgent (dashing optimism that they peaked), no clear indication of when the economy will reopen (despite Trump and Kudlow pushing the narrative), and a total and utter collapse in global PMIs. So it all makes perfect sense that stocks soared massively today – Dow +11.3% (biggest absolute point […]
Dow futures have fallen back below 20,000, although still up dramatically on the day, as yesterday’s hopes that Italy had turned a corner in its virus-death-count are dashed after they reported 743 deaths overnight – the second worst count since the outbreak began. New Cases re-accelerated… And deaths re-surge to their second worst day of the outbreak… Stocks faded (as Italy dashed the optimism of a […]
The number of COVID-19 cases in Russia has grown by 57 to 495 over the past day, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday. A total of 22 patients have recovered, health authorities said. “Over the past day, 57 novel coronavirus cases have been registered in 14 regions in Russia,” according to the crisis center. The number of coronavirus cases in the capital, Moscow, has […]