Author Archives: Syndicated Content
India needs at least 38 million masks to fight coronavirus-agency document
By Aditya Kalra and Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India needs at least 38 million masks and 6.2 million pieces of personal protective equipment as it confronts the spread of coronavirus, and h...
Mar 28, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak is stretching New York's ambulance service to breaking point
By Scot Paltrow The coronavirus outbreak sweeping through New York City has pushed its ambulance service close to the breaking point, with hundreds of personnel out ill and emergency calls skyrocketin...
Mar 28, 2020
As virus threatens, U.S. embraces big government, for now
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - It may, as House Majority Leader and Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer said on Friday, be out of love that the United States agreed to shut down much o...
Mar 28, 2020
What we don’t yet know about the coronavirus
By Christine Soares and Mike Dolan (Reuters) - It has been only three months since reports first emerged from China of an unknown virus causing unusual cases of pneumonia, and scientists and public he...
Mar 28, 2020
Uzbek doctor, 39, dies after coronavirus self-treatment
TASHKENT (Reuters) - A doctor in Uzbekistan died on Saturday after unsuccessfully trying to treat a coronavirus infection that he kept secret, the Central Asian nation's healthcare ministry said. The ...
Mar 28, 2020
With eye on election, Trump in high-stakes balancing act over coronavirus response
By Jarrett Renshaw and James Oliphant WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump offered a preview of his re-election campaign playbook last year when he visited the building site of a mu...
Mar 28, 2020
On Oklahoma plains, an island of near normality in a pandemic
By Andrew Hay GUYMON, Okla., March 28 (Reuters) - On red cobbled Main Street in Guymon, the biggest town in Oklahoma's panhandle, Jesus Ruiz gives "high and tight" hair cuts as a red, white and blue b...
Mar 28, 2020
Airbus plane delivers face masks from China to coronavirus-hit Spain
PARIS (Reuters) - An Airbus plane landed in Spain on Saturday carrying a cargo of more than 4 million face masks from China, the European planemaker said, as countries race to source more protective g...
Mar 28, 2020
Japan's Abe pledges 'unprecedented' stimulus to combat virus fallout
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday his government will compile an unprecedentedly big economic stimulus that will include cash payouts to households and small firms ...
Mar 28, 2020
China's Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged, begins to lift its lockdown
By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday by restarting some metro services and reo...
Mar 28, 2020
