Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK expands virus testing; anyone over five with symptoms now eligible
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain expanded its testing scheme on Monday to allow anyone aged over five with COVID-19 symptoms to book a test to see if they have the virus, health minister Matt Hancock announ...
May 18, 2020
Russian prosecutors intervene after some virus bonuses to medics go awry
By Polina Nikolskaya and Maria Vasilyeva MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Russia said on Monday that they had intervened to force hospitals to pay out coronavirus bonus payments promised by President...
May 18, 2020
Morocco extends coronavirus lockdown to June 10
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco is to extend its national lockdown to contain the spread of the new coronavirus until June 10, Prime Minister Saad Dine El Otmani said on Monday.Morocco had confirmed 6,930 c...
May 18, 2020
Nigeria to impose 'precision lockdown' in coronavirus hotspots: task force head
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will impose "precision" lockdown measures in areas that report rapid increases in cases of the new coronavirus but it will slow the phased reopening of the economy, the head ...
May 18, 2020
Over 2 million UK self-employed claim COVID grants: Sunak
LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak said more than 2 million claims for one-off grants, worth 6 billion pounds ($7.3 billion), had been made under a scheme to provide income suppor...
May 18, 2020
UK to set out quarantine details soon, consider exemptions
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will set out the final details of its coronavirus quarantine plan early next month and will consider different measures for travellers arriving from countries with low infec...
May 18, 2020
IMF chief warns full global economic recovery unlikely in 2021
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global economy will take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the new coronavirus than initially expected, the head of the International Mo...
May 18, 2020
Virus has NFL prospects pondering threat of a lost season
By: Mitch Stacy COLUMBUS, Ohio - Joe Burrow was a competent if unspectacular quarterback as a backup at Ohio State and during his first post-transfer season at LSU. In 2019, he transformed into Super ...
May 18, 2020
Column: NASCAR gives all sports fans a reason to celebrate
By: Paul Newberry Finally, a reason to cheer. We'll take it. Even from afar. No doubt, it was downright eerie when Fox came on the air Sunday afternoon for NASCAR's return to racing, a camera hovering...
May 18, 2020
Mask in a restaurant? This one can gobble like Pac-Man
By Eli Berlzon OR YEHUDA, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli inventors have developed a coronavirus mask with a remote control mouth that lets diners eat food without taking it off, a device they say could ma...
May 18, 2020
