28 Mar, 2020 22:46 Over 2,000 people succumbed to the deadly Covid-19 disease in the US, as the country has grown into the global epicenter of the pandemic with over 120,000 confirmed cases, according to the data by Johns Hopkins University. Source
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A rush of Covid-19 patients will soon swarm Los Angeles’ hospitals, the city’s mayor warned, noting that a rapid rise in cases has put LA on track to eclipse New York City in under a week. With California seeing a 26 percent spike in coronavirus patients on Friday alone, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said his city would likely be overwhelmed, with cases doubling every two days, […]
In a role reversal befitting these topsy-turvy times, Wall Street has recently seen more turbulence than the top cryptocurrency. The S&P 500’s 30-day volatility of daily returns, or historical volatility, jumped to 200 percent Wednesday, nearly 10 times the average volatility of 27 percent observed in the preceding 12 months, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Meanwhile, bitcoin’s volatility gauge stood […]
Intensive care units across Ireland could be at full capacity “within a few days,” Irish PM Leo Varadkar has warned as the country begins to see significant upticks in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. Varadkar told reporters on Friday that he was concerned about ICU capacity, saying that “As things stand, we have empty beds in our ICUs, but just the way things are heading […]
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has warned there will be “very difficult” days ahead as the number of confirmed cases of the Covid-19 virus in the country soared to nearly 30,000 on Friday. The country is experiencing an “extremely high wave” of cases as the virus is “sweeping over France” and the crisis will continue to worsen in the coming days, Agence France-Presse cited Philippe as […]
Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, New 15-minute home coronavirus tests will soon be available over the counter or via home delivery within days in the U.K., according to public health authorities, in a move that could see the country make vast strides toward tampering down fears and restoring some normalcy amid the ongoing pandemic. The Guardian reports that millions of the test kits could be available as soon […]
China reported its first locally transmitted coronavirus infection in half a week as officials continue to struggle with cases coming from abroad. Beijing has cut the number of flights allowed in and out of the country. Fifty-five new Covid-19 cases were reported across mainland China on Thursday, according to the latest figures from the country’s National Health Commission. All but one of the infections involved imported […]
Andrew Cuomo and the federal government are battling it out over 20,000 ventilators believed to be idling in a federal stockpile, ventilators that the governor – who is enjoying a moment of celebrity thanks to his swift and reassuring response to the crisis, even as New York has emerged as the epicenter, and one of the few places where hospitals are truly overwhelmed by the crisis […]
Lebanon’s Higher Defence Council has today recommended extending the state of “general mobilisation” period until 12 April, as part of nationwide measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. The recommendation was made during a meeting of the Higher Defence Council chaired by President Michel Aoun and attended by Prime Minister Hassan Diab. According to the National News Agency (NNA), discussions focused on the country’s response to […]
26 Mar, 2020 10:47 Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, is sounding the alarm that hospitals in London may collapse within days due to a “continuous tsunami” of Covid-19 patients, despite increasing critical care capacity sevenfold. “They are struggling with the explosion of demand in seriously ill patients. They are saying it’s the number arriving and the speed with which they are arriving and […]
US Senators have passed a much-delayed $2 trillion stimulus bill, aimed at bolstering the US economy as the country is rattled by coronavirus lockdowns. The mammoth package was approved after days of bitter partisan fighting. Senators moved to vote on the bill late Wednesday night after the last hurdle preventing its passage – an amendment put forward by four Republican senators to curb the legislation’s generous unemployment […]
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has put forth a stop movement order halting all travel overseas for officials, but he insists the Afghanistan withdrawal will continue as planned. Esper has told Reuters the stop movement order is in place for US troops, civilian personnel and their families, but Afghanistan movements will be an exception. The order is meant to help stop the spread of the coronavirus […]
US senators and the Trump administration have finally reached an agreement on a massive rescue plan to help stem the impact Covid-19 is having on the country’s economy. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
Santiago (21st Century Wire) — Imagine that you are in Hong Kong, in a city where “you are actually not supposed to be”, in the first place. You are ready to go home, to South America. But just two days before your departure, via Seoul and Amsterdam, your first Sky Team carrier, Korean Air, unceremoniously decides to cancel all flights from the territory. Several Korean religious freaks, […]
With New York City quickly becoming a new Covid-19 hotspot, the White House coronavirus task force is urging all New Yorkers who may have left the city for elsewhere to self-quarantine as they might have been exposed. “To everyone who has left New York City over the last few days, because of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left,” Dr. Deborah […]
Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, two of the top members on the White House coronavirus task force, directly addressed people leaving New York as cases of coronavirus rise in the state. Thousands of New Yorkers have tested positive and New York City has been hit particularly hard. Dr. Birx said, “To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate […]
Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, two of the top members on the White House coronavirus task force, directly addressed people leaving New York as cases of coronavirus rise in the state. Thousands of New Yorkers have tested positive and New York City has been hit particularly hard. Dr. Birx said, “To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate […]
Austria will massively expand coronavirus testing in coming days to locate and isolate infected people and avoid an Italian-like overload of its health system, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has said. The Alpine republic with a population of 8.8 million has tested around 28,400 people so far with nearly 4,900 cases and 28 deaths confirmed, Reuters reported. It was one of the first European countries to put severe […]
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Pippa Stevens via CNBC recently had some advice: “Panic selling not only locks in losses, but also puts investors at risk for missing the market’s best days. Looking at data going back to 1930, Bank of America found that if an investor missed the S&P 500′s 10 best days in each decade, total returns would be just 91%, significantly below the […]
The next 10-15 days will be decisive in Vietnam’s fight against the coronavirus, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Monday. In mid-February, the Southeast Asian country said all 16 reported coronavirus cases in the country had recovered from the disease. Weeks later, that number increased sharply following an influx of imported cases from Europe and the United States. There are now 122 cases, according to […]
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump, in a lengthy tweetstorm Monday morning, sent strong signals that he wants the coronavirus lockdown to end after 15 days. Late Sunday night, the president, in an all-caps dispatch, wrote: “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY […]
Authored by Keith Wareing via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin price has started to show signs of stabilization since the black Thursday selloff two weeks ago, but is this something we can expect to continue? Or is this a dead cat bounce on the way down to lower lows? In today’s analysis I’m looking not only at the charts, but also at the possibility of large Bitcoin miners being the […]
Nashville, Tennessee, is the latest US city to go on lockdown in an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19, with the mayor ordering all citizens to stay indoors. Mayor John Cooper has issued a “Safer at Home” order to citizens in response to the spread of the deadly virus, which will go into effect at midnight on Monday. We’re now taking the next important step […]
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio believes April will be ‘a lot worse’ than March when it comes to coronavirus, and wants the US military ‘mobilized’ in response to the disease. Speaking on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ De Blasio took a jab at the federal government, claiming he sees very little positive about its response to the spread of coronavirus. “It’s only getting worse,” he […]