| Trump says China lying about coronavirus numbers Posted: 15 Apr 2020 06:55 PM PDT  Chinese journalists investigating the outbreak have gone missing.
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| Can you tell a coronavirus cough from a regular cold? There could be an app for that. Posted: 15 Apr 2020 01:08 PM PDT  Everyone knows that one of the main presenting symptoms of COVID-19 is cough. But what kind of cough, exactly? The data will be secure, Karlin emphasizes, and the app will not run in the background or monitor other people nearby.
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| Michigan Gov. Claims Protesters are Spreading Virus, Making It ‘More Likely’ State Will Continue Strict Lockdown Measures Posted: 16 Apr 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer suggested the "sad part" of state residents protesting her strict quarantine measures was that they would likely be exposed to and spread Wuhan coronavirus, resulting in further lockdowns.Thousands of protestors, organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition under the hashtag OperationGridlock, took to the capitol in Lansing on Wednesday to voice their disapproval of Whitmer's rules, which include the closing of businesses selling hardware supplies and gardening seeds, and the banning of travel "between residences." While Whitmer said she respected the "right" of the "small segment of the state" to protest, she warned they could be furthering the lockdowns by refusing to social distance."We have to take serious measures, and people are getting a little stir-crazy from being at home, being worried about work, worried about paying the bills, worried about their businesses, and a small segment of the state is protesting, and that's their right," she stated. "The sad part is, though, that the more likely they're out and about, the more likely they are to spread COVID-19 and the more likely we're going to have to spread this posture for a longer period of time."> Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: "A small segment of the state is protesting, and that's their right. The sad part is, though, that the more likely they're out and about, the more likely they are to spread COVID-19 and the more likely we're going to have to spread this posture." pic.twitter.com/eMo4aNxfpB> > -- The Hill (@thehill) April 16, 2020In a Wednesday interview with MSNBC's Joy Reid, Whitmer went further, saying the protest was "essentially a political rally.""This small group that came together without masks on, passing out candy with bare hands to children, who were congregating together, brandishing their weapons, having posters of being anti-choice — this was a political rally. It was a political rally that is going to endanger people's lives because this is precisely how COVID-19 spreads," she stated.As of April 16, Michigan has the fourth-most coronavirus cases in the country with 28,059 and 1,921 deaths.
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| Kim Jong Un tribute absence sparks speculation Posted: 15 Apr 2020 08:02 PM PDT  The April 15 birthday of the North's founder is the most important celebration of the nuclear-armed country's annual political calendar, known as the Day of the Sun. The state KCNA news agency did not mention him in a Thursday report on senior officials visiting the Kumsusan Palace to pay the "highest tribute" to the two late leaders.
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| Some Americans are receiving stimulus checks on behalf of their dead relatives Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:55 AM PDT  Stimulus payments were issued to anyone who filed 2019 or 2018 tax returns, and if one was filed before a person died, funds may have still been sent.
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| U.N. says mostly women and children among 32 killed as insurgents, Myanmar military clash Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:24 AM PDT |
| Fact check: Black people being targeted in Guangzhou, China, over COVID-19 fears Posted: 16 Apr 2020 07:50 AM PDT  Discrimination against blacks in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, including an incident at McDonald's, has sparked outrage.
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| Americans are losing service despite FCC pledge not to disconnect Posted: 15 Apr 2020 04:42 PM PDT  "Promises made not to cut off essential communications service during this time need to be kept," said one FCC commissioner.
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| Navy Believes Delivery Flights, Not Vietnam Port Stop, Brought Virus to Carrier Posted: 17 Apr 2020 06:32 AM PDT  Navy officials are unable to make a definitive link between coronavirus cases on the Roosevelt and a port call in Vietnam.
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| Coronavirus: Is President Trump right to criticise the WHO? Posted: 16 Apr 2020 04:34 AM PDT  The World Health Organization "failed in its basic duty" over coronavirus, Donald Trump claims.
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| Australia’s Morrison Wants Pensions to Fund Company Bailouts Posted: 16 Apr 2020 06:37 AM PDT |
| IMF approves $1.4 billion in coronavirus aid to Pakistan Posted: 16 Apr 2020 04:18 PM PDT  The IMF on Thursday approved nearly $1.4 billion in emergency aid to Pakistan to help it weather the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. "While uncertainty remains high, the near-term economic impact of COVID-19 is expected to be significant, giving rise to large fiscal and external financing needs," the international lender said in a statement. Pakistan has recorded just over 100 deaths but experts have voiced fear that the country of 215 million people could see a rapid and devastating increase due to its shortage of medical infrastructure and crowded cities.
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| Nurses suspended for refusing to treat coronavirus patients unless they have N95 masks Posted: 16 Apr 2020 03:54 AM PDT  Nurses at a California hospital were suspended after they refused to enter the rooms of coronavirus patients unless they had N95 respirator masks.
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| Essential Gifts for Bakers That Go Beyond the Kitchen Posted: 17 Apr 2020 09:00 AM PDT |
| Biden Embraces Endorsement of Liberal Jewish Group J Street Posted: 17 Apr 2020 05:03 AM PDT  In a sign of how the ground has shifted domestically when it comes to Israeli politics, the progressive-minded Israel advocacy group J Street announced its first ever presidential endorsement on Friday. And its recipient, former Vice President Joe Biden, eagerly embraced it."I'm honored to have earned J Street's first-ever presidential endorsement," Biden said in a statement sent to The Daily Beast. "J Street has been a powerful voice to advance social justice here at home, and to advocate for a two-state solution that advances Middle East Peace. I share with J Street's membership an unyielding dedication to the survival and security of Israel, and an equal commitment to creating a future of peace and opportunity for Israeli and Palestinian children alike. That's what we have to keep working toward—and what I'll do as President with J Street's support."Founded in 2007 as a philosophical counterweight to more reflexively pro-Israeli government advocacy organizations like AIPAC, J Street was, for a time, treated as a creature of the liberal foreign policy diaspora—an institution that intellectuals were fine embracing but mainstream Democratic politicians kept at a safe distance. That has changed in recent years as public opinion among Democrats has turned more sour on Benjamin Netanyahu's government, particularly as it trashed Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal and cozied up to Donald Trump. Today, J Street finds itself to the ideological right of a good chunk of the current Jewish left.Biden, more a traditionalist on U.S.-Israel relations, has resisted some of those tectonic shifts. He was one of the few presidential candidates this year who declined to skip addressing AIPAC's forum. He's criticized the BDS movement and has said he would not move the U.S. Embassy back to Tel Aviv after Trump relocated it to Jerusalem. But his embrace of the J Street's endorsement is being hailed by the group as evidence of its own growth on the domestic political landscape. "The alignment in the Democratic Party and the shift of the conversation on our issues allows us to feel really great about lining up behind someone like Joe Biden," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street's president. Asked if he felt that shift had occurred even within the last four years, since J Street passed on endorsing Hillary Clinton, Ben-Ami conceded that "it probably" had. "Whether or not it is the moment or the candidates, there has been a shift," he said. "Politics is different in 2020 than it was in 2016, and this issue is no exception. The way the politics in Israel has moved so far right and the way Trump has embraced what's going on there has created a lot more space for Democratic candidates."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired his popular health minister — who backed social distancing — over disagreements about how to handle the coronavirus Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:40 PM PDT  As soon as the announcement was made people began banging their pots in protest and calling on Bolsonaro to quit instead.
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| Chinese and Malaysian ships in South China Sea standoff - sources Posted: 17 Apr 2020 05:11 AM PDT |
| Has NASA discovered another Earth? Perhaps Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:45 AM PDT  Astronomers have discovered a planet nearly the same size as Earth that orbits in its star's habitable zone, where liquid water could exist on its surface.
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| Japan’s Abe Turns to More Drastic Virus Measures as Support Sags Posted: 16 Apr 2020 04:58 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to rush through more stringent measures to counter the coronavirus and its economic fallout, as the infection spreads and his support rate sags.Abe will expand an existing state of emergency in seven prefectures to cover the whole country, he told his virus task force Thursday. The period will last to May 6, Abe said, and is designed to limit people's movements during a peak travel period of several national holidays in late April and early May known as "Golden Week."Abe has also ordered changes to a planned extra budget to take into account calls for cash handouts of 100,000 yen ($930) per head, Kyodo News reported. Abe said the ruling parties were considering the idea positively, and that it would replace an existing plan to provide 300,000 yen to households whose income has fallen substantially because of the virus.The government had been expected to add only a handful of the country's 47 prefectures to the emergency declaration issued last week, according to previous local media reports.Abe's voter support has wavered in the three months since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in Japan in January, with his responses sometimes seen as slow or inadequate. Media polls have shown voters thought his initial emergency declaration should have been made earlier and covered more of the country. His decision to send two cloth masks to every household amid a shortage of such items, has met with ridicule.A poll published by the Yomiuri on April 14 showed support for his cabinet fell 6 percentage points to 42%, in one of a series of surveys that show disapproval higher than approval.Japan has seen a surge of cases in the past week, with the total surpassing 8,000 by Wednesday. Some prefectures had already asked to be added to the declaration that covered Tokyo, Osaka, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Hyogo and Fukuoka.Japan has had the fewest confirmed cases of any Group of Seven leading democracy, but the recent jump has raised worries that it could see the same type of explosive surge that hit the U.S. and several European countries.An emergency declaration enables local officials to take measures such as ordering the cancellation of events, restricting use of facilities such as schools and movie theaters and appropriating land or buildings for use as temporary medical facilities. As with many laws in Japan, there are no penalties associated with breaching instructions, except in the case of concealing supplies after the government orders them to be handed over.Abe's coalition ally, Natsuo Yamaguchi of the Komeito party, earlier asked Abe to drop the proposal for 300,000 yen cash handouts in the budget for lower income households in favor of across-the-board payments of 100,000 yen for individuals.Making the sum smaller and removing eligibility criteria are expected to make the distribution of handouts faster.The extra budget is to fund parts of the nation's record 108.2 trillion yen ($1 trillion) economic stimulus package as Japan braces for the brunt of the pandemic. Economists forecast a double-digit contraction in the current quarter before a rebound in the following quarter.(Updates throughout with confirmation from Abe)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Coronavirus: China outbreak city Wuhan raises death toll by 50% Posted: 17 Apr 2020 02:42 AM PDT  The revision of Wuhan's toll comes amid growing scepticism over the transparency of China's response.
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| McConnell Dismisses Trump’s Call to Adjourn Congress to Make Federal Appointments Posted: 16 Apr 2020 06:18 AM PDT  President Trump raised the possibility that he could invoke Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution to adjourn Congress in order to make recess federal appointments, a never-before-used presidential power that Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) suggested he would not support.Trump proposed during the White House coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday that we would use his "very strong power" to "exercise my Constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress.""As the entire US government works to combat the global pandemic, it is absolutely essential that key positions at relevant federal agencies are fully staffed, and we're not allowing that to take place through our Congress," Trump explained, saying he had 129 nominees "stuck in the Senate because of partisan obstruction."Congress, currently in recess until May 4, is still having pro-forma sessions in which any lawmaker can object to a motion — preventing the president from pushing through vacancy appointments."The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty the American people can't afford during this crisis," Trump said. "They have been warned."In a statement Wednesday night, McConnell said he shared the president's "frustration with the process," but admitted that "under Senate rules," confirmation processes "will take consent from Leader Schumer," suggesting he did not agree with the means proposed by the White House.While the Constitution says that the president "may, on extraordinary Occasions . . . in Case of Disagreement between them" adjourn Congress, it has never been invoked by a president before, and its scope is unknown relative to federal appointments during pro-forma sessions. Later in the briefing, Trump admitted that if he attempted to move forward with the plan, it would "probably be challenged in court."In addition to the courts, Trump would also have to secure McConnell's cooperation, since the Senate would have to be reconvened to vote on the adjournment.In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in a separate case against a 2012 attempt by then-President Barack Obama to make three recess appointments during pro-forma sessions, saying "that the Recess Appointment Clause does not give the President the constitutional authority to make the appointments here at issue."
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| Dr. Fauci says you can hook up with a Tinder match who doesn't have symptoms, but only if you're 'willing to take a risk' Posted: 15 Apr 2020 11:04 AM PDT  In an interview with Vanity Fair, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that singles have to weigh the pros and cons of hooking up and potentially becoming ill.
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| Duke of Cambridge thanks Captain Tom Moore for NHS fundraiser - and donates to campaign Posted: 16 Apr 2020 06:18 PM PDT  The Duke of Cambridge and Duchess of Cornwall have written to Second World War veteran Captain Tom Moore, whose fundraising efforts have captured the heart of the nation. William has also made an undisclosed donation to the 99-year-old's appeal, which has raised more £14 million for the NHS, Kensington Palace has said. Captain Moore has been walking lengths of his garden and originally set himself the target of 100, reaching his goal on Thursday. But he has kept striding, at the Bedfordshire home where he lives with his family, and plans to carry on as donations continue to pour in. His actions have won him plaudits from all areas with Boris Johnson, convalescing after spending a period in intensive care with Covid-19, looking at ways to honour the former Second World War veteran.
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| Anonymous tip leads police to 17 bodies at a nursing home hit hard by coronavirus Posted: 15 Apr 2020 07:59 PM PDT  An anonymous person called the police department in Andover, New Jersey, on Monday to report that a corpse was being stored in a shed outside the largest licensed nursing home in the state. When officers arrived, they discovered the body was gone, but found 17 others inside the facility's tiny morgue.The Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center I and II has 700 beds in two buildings, The New York Times reports. There have been 68 recent deaths of residents and nurses, with at least 26 testing positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. As of Wednesday, 76 patients and 41 staffers have also tested positive for the virus. Andover Police Chief Eric Danielson told the Times the facility was "just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring." He added, "I don't know if I'm shocked by any means."Most long-term care facilities in New Jersey have reported at least one case of the coronavirus to state authorities. As of Wednesday, 6,815 patients in New Jersey have been infected by the virus, and at least 45 of the day's 351 deaths related to COVID-19 took place at a nursing home."The challenge we're having with all of these nursing homes is once it spreads, it's like a wildfire," Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D) told the Times. "It's very hard to stop it." His office has been receiving calls from worried nurses and family members of residents, and "it's scary for everybody," Gottheimer said. "What is surprising to me is how many are dying in house, versus the hospital."Local health officials were told by Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation I and II staffers that sick patients were separated from other residents, and placed on the same floors or wings. Prior to the pandemic, Medicare gave the facility a one-star rating, or "much below average," based on staffing levels, patient care, and inspections. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Why can't you go fishing during the pandemic? 4,600 U.S. coronavirus deaths were recorded Thursday, nearly double Wednesday's record high Lindsey Graham keeps breaking fundraising records. His Democratic challenger still outraised him.
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| One key figure helps countries decide when their coronavirus outbreaks are over — but scientists say it's a moving target Posted: 16 Apr 2020 06:17 AM PDT  Lifting a lockdown too soon could cause the "basic reproduction number" to spring back up, resulting in a second wave of infections.
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| Coronavirus hospitalizations in New York down for second day Posted: 15 Apr 2020 10:31 AM PDT  Cuomo disclosed an outline of his plan to reopen New York's shuttered economy, starting with the most essential businesses, and said he would order people to wear masks in public when a safe distance from others could not be maintained. Speaking at media briefings on Wednesday, Cuomo, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont talked about achieving a new normal as opposed to returning to life as it was before the coronavirus outbreak. Cuomo stressed that the crisis would not be over until a vaccine was developed some 12 to 18 months from now.
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| Royal Caribbean, Celebrity halt cruises through June 11; Carnival, Princess cancel through June Posted: 16 Apr 2020 08:51 PM PDT  Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises have extended their sailing suspension through June 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Spain’s New Virus Cases Rise by Most in More Than a Week Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:28 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Spain reported the biggest increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in more than a week, pushing the total in Europe's most extensive outbreak close to 190,000.There were 5,252 new infections in the 24 hours through Friday, the most since April 9, taking the total to 188,068, according to Fernando Simon, the government's top scientific adviser on the pandemic. Data on the latest daily death toll were not immediately made available.Spain's health minister said this week that the peak of the virus had been reached and the focus is turning to "bending" the infection curve. Spain has suffered more deaths per million inhabitants than any other nation, with a toll of more than 19,000 as of Thursday.Despite the latest rise, the most recent figures are still roughly half the number compared with the turn of the month, suggesting that the outbreak is losing intensity. There were more than 9,000 new cases on March 31 and 950 new deaths on April 2, the biggest daily increases to date.The government is coming under increasing pressure to ease the restrictions on public life that have plunged the economy into deep recession.For the time being, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his ministers have said that the current measures will be extended beyond an April 25 expiry date, that rules are likely to be eased on a sector-to-sector basis and that schools will probably remain closed until September.In recent days, Spain has been ramping up testing. Simon, the government adviser, said Thursday that daily tests have doubled to around 40,000. He acknowledged that gauging the real number of fatalities is "difficult."There is growing scrutiny of the health ministry's virus statistics. One focus is on a dramatic surge in deaths in nursing homes in Madrid and other regions. Spanish rules don't require a coronavirus test be performed post-mortem even when the person had Covid-19 symptoms.The actual number of deaths in Madrid is 71% more, or 4,801, than official statistics, news website El Confidencial estimated on Thursday, based on data from Madrid's Council of Social Issues.Government Spokeswoman Maria Jesus Montero has defended the criteria used, saying they follow World Health Organization guidelines. In a press briefing Thursday, she suggested that questioning official data might be an attempt to "confuse the public."The government on Friday ordered a wider range of reporting. Each region now must disclose what kind of test was used to determine an infection, the number of deaths of patients that weren't hospitalized, and give a weekly tally of their stock of masks, goggles and ventilators.(Updates with government reporting requirements in final paragraph)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 'No blacks': Evicted, harassed and targeted in China for their race amid coronavirus Posted: 16 Apr 2020 12:09 PM PDT  After five Nigerians living in Guangzhou, China, test positive for the coronavirus, a campaign targets all Africans in the city.
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| Postal Workers Were Already Worried About Getting Sick — Now Their Jobs Could Be on the Line, Too Posted: 16 Apr 2020 01:22 PM PDT  They were already worried about getting sick — now their jobs could be on the line, too
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| Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than anyone else. Why, and can anything be done? Posted: 16 Apr 2020 01:41 PM PDT  The story of the coronavirus in the U.S. shows discrepancies by geography, age, sex and other factors, but one stands out above all: Black Americans are infected with the virus and die from it at disproportionately higher rates than any other group in the country. But it's not enough to admit the problem. There are short-term and long-term solutions to level the field.
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| Philippines' Duterte threatens martial law-like virus crackdown Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:19 PM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened a martial law-like crackdown to stop people flouting a virus lockdown in the nation's capital. Duterte spoke a day after authorities reported an upsurge of cars on Manila's roads, which have been nearly deserted since a sweeping lockdown was imposed a month ago on about half the country's 110 million people. Duterte has repeatedly threatened to impose nationwide military rule over the Philippines, where the mere words evoke the worst rights abuses of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship.
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| A New York City ER doctor who served in Iraq says the coronavirus has turned his hospital into 'a war zone' Posted: 15 Apr 2020 12:43 PM PDT  "This is a lot harder than being in Iraq," Dr. Gilman said. "It's really hard to be that person who gives that bad news over and over and over again."
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| Africa may see millions of coronavirus cases, tentative WHO forecast shows Posted: 16 Apr 2020 08:46 AM PDT  Coronavirus cases in Africa could shoot up from thousands now to 10 million within three to six months according to very provisional modelling, a regional World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday. The world's poorest continent has seen more than 17,000 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease and about 900 deaths so far - relatively little compared to some other regions. "We are concerned that the virus continues to spread geographically, within countries," said Matshidiso Moeti, director for WHO's Africa region, which comprises 46 sub-Saharan nations and Algeria.
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| Air pollution has dropped by 30% in the Northeast, NASA says. Are coronavirus stay-at-home orders responsible? Posted: 15 Apr 2020 12:55 PM PDT  Cities such as Washington, Philadelphia and New York are seeing significant improvement in air quality as people stay home because of the coronavirus.
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| Mexico to restrict mobility to areas less affected by virus Posted: 16 Apr 2020 08:34 AM PDT  Mexico will begin to restrict movement between places most affected by the COVID-19 virus — mostly large cities — and places with few infections, the president said Thursday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked authorities Thursday in towns so far unaffected by the pandemic to "help us establish sanitary cordons" to slow the spread. Health undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell said the recommendation from advisory groups is to divide the country into areas with lots of cases and those that have had few or none.
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| Coronavirus hits China's economy harder than anything since 1970s Posted: 16 Apr 2020 08:15 PM PDT  Consumer spending and factory activity hint that recovery will be longer, harder than many initially believed.
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| Wuhan abruptly increased its coronavirus death toll to 50% higher than previously reported Posted: 17 Apr 2020 12:36 AM PDT  Local officials in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus began, blamed the discrepancy on past underreporting from an overwhelmed medical system.
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| Coronavirus: Japan declares nationwide state of emergency Posted: 16 Apr 2020 06:55 AM PDT  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been facing criticism for his response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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| Sanders says Biden's sexual assault accuser 'has the right to make her claims and get a public hearing' Posted: 16 Apr 2020 07:53 AM PDT  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has responded to a sexual assault allegation against former Vice President Joe Biden.Last month, Tara Reade, a former assistant to Biden when he was in the Senate, accused Biden of sexual assault during that time. Sanders responded to them for the first time on Thursday, saying Reade "has a right to make her claims and get a public hearing."Sanders was asked about the claims in a Thursday interview with CBS This Morning, partly because Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a prominent Sanders supporter, had recently said the allegations are relevant when it comes to deciding whether to vote for Biden. "I think it's relevant to talk about anything. And I think every woman who feels she has been assaulted has every right in the world to stand up and make her claims," Sanders said. "The public will make their own conclusions about it," Sanders continued, before saying "I just don't know enough about it to comment further."> "I think it's relevant [...] And I think any woman who feels that she was assaulted has every right in the world to stand up and make her claims."> > -Sen. @BernieSanders on sexual assault allegations against VP Biden, via @CBSThisMorning pic.twitter.com/8NM3S7lqUC> > — Cara Korte (@CaraKorte) April 16, 2020Sanders was Biden's top rival in the presidential primary until he suspended his 2020 run last week and endorsed Biden. Biden "firmly believes that women have a right to be heard — and heard respectfully," his campaign said, but maintained Reade's claim is untrue.More stories from theweek.com The new mysteries of coronavirus 5 scathing cartoons about Trump's rush to reopen the economy Why can't you go fishing during the pandemic?
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| Swarm of Iranian Boats Harassed US Ships in Persian Gulf, Navy Says Posted: 16 Apr 2020 08:07 AM PDT  The 11 vessels carried out the aggressive moves in the Persian Gulf, Naval Forces Central Command said.
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| China says nearly 1,300 virus deaths not counted in Wuhan, cites early lapses Posted: 16 Apr 2020 06:22 PM PDT  Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media said on Friday, but Beijing dismissed claims that there had been any kind of cover-up. The central city where the outbreak emerged late last year added 1,290 more fatalities to the 2,579 previously counted as of Thursday, reflecting incorrect reporting, delays and omissions, according to a local government task force in charge of controlling the coronavirus. Reflecting the additional deaths in Wuhan, China revised its national death toll later on Friday up to 4,632.
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| Alarms ring as Greenland ice loss causes 40% of 2019 sea level rise Posted: 16 Apr 2020 11:20 AM PDT  The kilometres-thick icesheet that covers Greenland saw a near-record imbalance last year between new snowfall and the discharge of meltwater and ice into the ocean, scientists have reported. A net loss of 600 billion tonnes was enough to raise the global watermark 1.5 millimetres, about 40 percent of total sea level rise in 2019. The Greenland icesheet -- which, until the end of the 20th century accumulated as much mass as it shed -- holds enough frozen water to lift the world's oceans by seven metres.
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| Receiving Government Benefits? Here’s What to Know About Your Stimulus Payment Posted: 16 Apr 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Most people receiving Social Security or disability will get their payments automatically
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| Europe Is Taking a Harder Look at China After Virus Suspicions Posted: 17 Apr 2020 04:42 AM PDT |
| There is a wide misconception of what a 'mild' case of COVID-19 looks like. It can be ugly and brutal. Posted: 16 Apr 2020 11:34 AM PDT  Eighty percent of COVID-19 cases are "mild," according to one study, but it's still a difficult and serious infection.
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| 'Commander' of New Mexico group that detained migrants near border is sentenced Posted: 16 Apr 2020 02:16 PM PDT  Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 70, was arrested in 2019. He was a "commander" of a group accused of detaining migrants at the New Mexico-Mexico border.
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