Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) – Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours on Sunday, as the Trump administration renewed its push for schools to reopen and anti-mask protests were planned in Michigan and Missouri. If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for […]
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The allegations come as doctors in two hospitals in Mumbai have refused to use AgVa ventilators. By Samarth Bansal Aman Sethi PRAKASH SINGH VIA GETTY IMAGES In this photo taken on March 25, 2020, AgVa Healthcare employee Vaibhav Gupta demonstrates using a ventilator at the research and development (R&D) centre in Noida in Uttar Pradesh […]
Masks could be a “substitute” for some lockdown measures, researchers at Goldman Sachs say. By Daniel Tencer, HuffPost Canada NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES People wear face masks and practice physical distancing while waiting to enter a garden centre in Toronto, May 20, 2020. Face masks could be a potential partial “substitute” for lockdowns, helping to […]
Indian officials are investigating nine hospitals in the southern city of Bangalore, amid allegations that a man died after being refused treatment at all of them, writes BBC Hindi’s Imran Qureshi. Bhawarlal Sujani, 52, breathed his last at the doorstep of one of the many hospitals that had refused to admit him. His brother, Dinesh […]
Authorities in the Australian city of Melbourne have confined people living in nine housing estate tower blocks because of an outbreak of coronavirus. The 3,000 or so residents of the blocks are being told not to leave their homes for any reason for at least five days. At least 23 cases of infection were found […]
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Brazil surpasses 1.5 million coronavirus cases, with over 63,000 deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil registered 42,223 additional coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Friday, bringing the total tally to 1,539,081, the second-worst outbreak in the world behind the United States. The number of coronavirus deaths rose by 1,290 to 63,174, according to the ministry. Reporting by Pedro […]
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Global coronavirus cases rise to more than 11 million
Alistair Bell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months. The number of cases is more than double the figure for severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, […]
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‘Never Have I Ever’ Director Kabir Akhtar On What The
The Emmy-award winning director, who helmed two episodes of the Netflix hit ‘Never Have I Ever’ unpacks the show’s identity politics. By Ankur Pathak HUFFPOST INDIAA still from ‘Never Have I Ever’ Among the many things that director Kabir Akhtar did not anticipate about Never Have I Ever’s global success was the fact that it would be […]
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Kerala Student Dies By Suicide, Allegedly Because She Couldn’t Attend
The girl’s father, a daily wage labourer, has not had a job for over two months during the lockdown, according to reports. By Akshita Jain SIVARAM V / REUTERS Representative image. On Monday, as thousands of students in Kerala began attending virtual classes, a 14-year-old girl died by suicide in Malappuram district, allegedly over not having access to […]