WITH Britain fighting to contain the spread of COVID-19, many places of social gathering have been forced to shut as the government urge people to avoid mass gatherings. This comes as the UK's death toll hit 71 with 1,950 cases of coronavirus recorded, as of Wednesday, March 18, 2020. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & […]

Florida closes bars and bans large beach gatherings in coronavirus crackdown after hordes of Spring Break millennials flouted public health recommendations   Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday shut down bars and limited beach gatherings to 10 people Miami Beach institutes curfew, closes beaches, and floods South Beach with cops to enforce bans All weekend, hordes of young Spring Breakers had flouted […]

FTSE 100 drops 4% to 5,077 as emergency government moves to support companies fail to calm investors’ fears over coronavirus FTSE 100 index of Britain’s biggest firms falls 218 points or 4.1% to 5,077 today Panic overshadows sweeping measures revealed by US and UK governments  Politicians are trying to support businesses and contain the economic damage  Investor sentiment in Europe […]

Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue, atop the Corcovado mountain, has withstood the worst of what the elements could muster for nearly nine decades. Now it, too, is succumbing to the outbreak of the new coronavirus. The 38-metre-tall statue, which last year saw almost 2 million visitors, closed at day-end on Tuesday, local time, and won't […]

With the coronavirus crisis hammering the aviation industry, it is going to do all it can get to get back on its feet when the emergency is finally over. One modest proposal snaking its way through the UK government’s legislative agenda is to revive the art of skywriting – in which planes pen messages in the air with smoke. Flight […]

The World Health Organization is considering new “airborne precautions” for medical professionals after a new study suggested that the coronavirus can survive in the air for hours. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, emphasized Monday the importance of health care workers taking additional steps to protect themselves when performing some procedures on infected patients. […]

MORE than 100 doctors and dentists are stranded on board a cruise ship stuck off the coast of Chile. The Roald Amundsen, owned by cruise firm Hurtigruten, was stopped from docking amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news and updates Passengers were on a 10-night cruise taking in Antarctica, the Falkland Islands […]

Authorities in Georgia have arrested a 25-year-old former prison guard, alleging he killed his mother and stepfather with a large kitchen knife last week. A statement from the Perry Police Department indicates Anthony Douglas Shoffner was charged Wednesday with two counts of murder for allegedly killing his mother, Rebecca Griffin, 46, and his 42-year-old stepfather, Kenneth Griffin. Both victims were […]

The coronavirus outbreak in the US may be on track to reach the same levels as Italy if people are not serious about social-distancing, the U.S. surgeon general warned Monday. Dr. Jerome Adams told Fox News that the current number of cases in the nation are comparable to what disease-stricken Italy notched two weeks ago — a sign that infections […]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday delivered a grim statement, mixing resolve and regret. Offering himself as a kind of regional leader in the — supposed — absence of federal direction, he announced, somewhat lugubriously, that he would close bars, restaurants, gyms and casinos around New York state in order to retard the spread of the coronavirus. Call it his Rudy-at-9/11 […]