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Trump hammers Cuba while Cuba cures the sick
Jun 21, 2020 14:49A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of the sanctions screws.
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'This is mass murder': Covid-19 deaths in US prisons have risen by 73% the past month
Jun 21, 2020 14:45The New York Times reported on Tuesday that deaths related to Covid-19 in prisons across the US have soared by 73% since mid-May.
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Pence urges governors to parrot Trump's lie that spikes in Covid-19 cases largely caused by increase in testing
Jun 21, 2020 14:44US Vice President Mike Pence has urged governors during a conference call to parrot President Donald Trump's lie that the spikes in Covid-19 cases reported by more than a dozen states across the US in recent days are largely the result of an increase in testing, and do not necessarily amount to evidence that reopenings are causing the virus to spread.
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Trump claimed coronavirus will “fade away” on a day that saw 26,000 new cases
Jun 21, 2020 05:41The US president, Donald Trump’s latest comments on the number of coronavirus cases in the US run counter to what the latest official numbers on COVID-19 show. The U.S. continues to see approximately 20,000 new coronavirus cases on a daily basis. On the day Trump gave his interview to Fox News, there were more than 26,000 new cases reported in the US, a number that’s similar to what was seen on April 1.
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It's an American pandemic, but millionaire Trump adviser complains $600-per-week boost in unemployment benefits is too generous
Jun 19, 2020 14:42With the U.S. jobless rate still at levels not seen since the Great Depression and coronavirus-induced mass layoffs continuing across the nation, millionaire White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow complained on Sunday that the $600-per-week increase in unemployment insurance authorized by the CARES Act is too generous and said the benefits should expire at the end of July.
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MPs say more than a million left out of coronavirus income support in UK
Jun 18, 2020 06:16The UK’s all-party Treasury select committee said the Chancellor of Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, needed to make good on his promise to “do whatever it takes” to protect individuals and businesses from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The MPs called on Sunak to address the gaps in his coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) and self-employment income support scheme (SEISS).
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Covid-19 deaths soar in Yemen – what now?
Jun 17, 2020 03:20As for the UN, Yemen cannot contain the coronavirus pandemic unless the world body stops supporting Saudi Arabia with tacit consent. Yemen needs more than joint statements and emergency food aid appeals. UN statements need to follow with actions and medical aid has to reach the Yemenis now.
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How some Southeast Asian countries kept COVID 19 at bay?
Jun 17, 2020 02:48The coronavirus has caused deaths and misery across Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines, Indonesia and workers’ dorms in Singapore, where officials are struggling to control outbreaks. But elsewhere in the region, the worst fears have so far been mostly avoided.
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New study shows millions at high risk of covid-19 in US lack adequate health insurance
Jun 16, 2020 04:55More than 18 million U.S. adults at severe risk of Covid-19 infection due to age and existing medical conditions either lacked adequate health insurance or were completely uninsured when the pandemic hit, spotlighting the extent to which America's fragmented for-profit healthcare system may have exacerbated the deadliness of the virus.
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Tourism deals lingering blow to global economy
Jun 15, 2020 10:49Economists warn the blow that coronavirus has dealt to the global travel and tourism industry is set to do lingering damage to the world’s growth, as areas that are dependent on visitors for their income struggle to reposition their local economies.