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Medical personnel and volunteers assist people in line for free public COVID-19 testing at Judiciary Square in Washington. — Courtesy photo

July 13, 2020

Florida registers record increase as US grapples with coronavirus

TALLAHASSEE — Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in corona positive cases, the United States grappled with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world.In Florida, 15,299 people tested positive, for a total of 269,811 cases, and 45 deaths were recorded, according to state Department of Health statistics.California had the previous record of daily positive cases — 11,694, set on Wednesday.The ...

Child farmers help to level fields in Balkh Province, Afghanistan. — courtesy World Bank/Ghullam Abbas Farzami

July 12, 2020

A taxing problem: How to ensure poor, vulnerable don’t shoulder the cost of COVID-19 crisis

NEW YORK — In the wake of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, tax systems should be reformed, and tax avoidance and evasion reduced, to ensure an economic recovery in which everyone pays their share, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Taxes pay for many of the things that are fundamental to functioning societies across the world, such as schools, health care, and social services. Money raised through taxation is crucial to ensuring ...

US President Donald Trump wears a mask while visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Saturday. — Courtesy photo

July 12, 2020

Trump finally dons mask; US records over 66,000 infections

BETHESDA, United States — President Donald Trump finally yielded to pressure and wore a face mask in public for the first time on Saturday as the US posted another daily record for coronavirus cases, while Disney World reopened in a state hit hard by the pandemic.White House experts leading the national fight against the contagion have recommended wearing face coverings in public to prevent transmission of the illness.But Trump had ...

Rescued orphan elephants at David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. — courtesy UNEP/Natalia Mroz

July 11, 2020

Wildlife crime putting environment and health at risk: UN report

NEW YORK — The COVID-19 pandemic shows how wildlife crime is a threat not only to the environment but to human health, according to a new UN report issued on Friday.The World Wildlife Crime Report 2020 outlines how trafficking in some wild species, which are then butchered and sold illegally, can increase the transmission of diseases that spread from animals to humans.Zoonotic diseases represent up to 75 percent of all ...

Consequences of cyber terrorism span across borders. — courtesy UNODC

July 11, 2020

‘Strengthen multilateralism’ to combat global terrorism

NEW YORK — Although COVID-19 has tested “national resilience, international solidarity and multilateral cooperation”, we must not “pause our efforts” in the battle against terrorism, the UN counter-terrorism chief said on Friday.Although the pandemic has posed one of the greatest challenges since the UN’s founding 75 years ago, Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) closed a week of events devoted online to countering the scourge, by ...

Emergency services transport a patient during the coronavirus outbreak in Sao Paulo, Brazil. — Courtesy photo

July 11, 2020

Brazil surpasses 70,000 COVID-19 deaths

SAO PAULO — Brazil surpassed 70,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday, the health ministry said, though the number of daily fatalities appears to be stabilizing.The ministry said there had been 45,000 new infections and 1,200 deaths over the last 24 hours, taking the totals to 1.8 million cases and 70,400 deaths.Brazil, a country of 212 million, is the second worst-affected nation in the world after the United States.The number of deaths ...

A seasonal worker at a store in Buga, Colombia. — courtesy World Bank/Charlotte Kesl

July 10, 2020

Address ‘unprecedented’ impact of coronavirus on Latin America, Caribbean: Guterres

NEW YORK — As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world, Latin America and the Caribbean have become a “hotspot of the pandemic”, the UN chief said on Thursday, releasing a new policy initiative on how best to recover in a region already embroiled in poverty, hunger, unemployment and inequality.The UN brief reveals that several countries in the region are now among those with the highest per capita infection rates ...

The United States has set a new single day record in new coronavirus cases after recording over 60,000 new cases.

July 10, 2020

US sets new record with over 60,000 cases in 24 hours; 43,000 new cases in Brazil

KUWAIT/BERLIN — The United States has set a new single day record in new coronavirus cases after recording over 60,000 new cases whereas Brazil registered almost 43,000 new cases.According to Johns Hopkins University, the US recorded 60,646 new coronavirus cases and at least 895 deaths in the past 24 hours. The nation’s total coronavirus cases reached 3,115,345 and over 133,000 deaths, the tally showed.Meanwhile, the Brazil’s Health Ministry said that ...

The Supreme Court in the United States has delivered a split verdict on subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s tax returns and financial records. — Courtesy photo

July 9, 2020

Setback for Trump as US top court rules for handover of his tax returns

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the United States has delivered a split verdict on subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s tax returns and financial records, unanimously rejecting his broadest claims of “absolute” immunity in a New York state criminal investigation but rejecting parallel efforts by Democrats in the House of Representatives.As per the ruling, a New York prosecutor can obtain Trump's financial records but they cannot be handed over to ...

US officials have warned that some of the country’s hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed by the influx of COVID-19 patients. — Courtesy photo

July 7, 2020

US ‘knee-deep’ in first COVID-19 wave: Expert

WASHINGTON — The United States is still “knee-deep” in its first wave of coronavirus infections and must act immediately to tackle the recent surge, the country’s top infectious diseases expert said Monday.Anthony Fauci said the number of cases had never reached a satisfactory baseline before the current resurgence, which officials have warned risks overwhelming hospitals in the country’s south and west.“It’s a serious situation that we have to address immediately,” ...

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