Nigeria is restricting entry into the country for travelers from 13 countries including the US and UK, as it announced five new cases Wednesday. The restriction will apply to travelers from countries with more than 1,000 cases. They include China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, the United States, Norway, UK, Netherlands and
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Volkswagen is preparing to suspend production across Europe as the continent struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The German carmaking giant said Tuesday that production at its plants in Spain, Setubal in Portugal and Bratislava in Slovakia will be halted before the end of the week. Factories in Italy that make Lamborghini super cars and
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect nearly every area of life, law enforcement agencies around the country are changing the ways they respond to service calls to reduce officers’ contact with possible carriers of the virus. Police officers and other law enforcement personnel come into contact with countless people in their communities on any
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Hong Kong (CNN) — Las fábricas fueron cerradas y las calles quedaron despejadas en la provincia china de Hubei cuando las autoridades ordenaron a los residentes quedarse en sus hogares para detener la propagación del coronavirus. Parece que el confinamiento tuvo un beneficio involuntario: cielos azules. El número promedio de “días de aire de buena
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Dissent is growing among leading athletes as they voice concerns about preparing for the Olympics amid the novel coronavirus outbreak after organizers encouraged them to continue preparation as planned. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Tuesday that no “drastic decisions” will be made about the Games, which get underway in Tokyo in July, and that
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Lawmakers and the White House are putting aside any concerns about blowing up the deficit as they consider a trillion-dollar stimulus package to boost the economy in response to coronavirus. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin emerged from a meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday saying the Trump administration’s proposal would “inject a trillion dollars into the economy.”
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Continue Reading (CNN) — Cada vez más empleados trabajan desde casa en un esfuerzo por frenar la propagación de la pandemia de coronavirus. Y cada vez está más claro que muchos de nosotros no estamos equipados adecuadamente para hacerlo. Algunos han montado su oficina en sus camas. Otros han migrado a las mesas de la cocina o
Continue Reading Growing demand for 5G devices won’t save the global smartphone market from the novel coronavirus pandemic, Samsung said on Wednesday. Before the outbreak, the world’s biggest smartphone maker was expecting demand to grow this year. But with the pandemic showing signs of “being prolonged, the smartphone market is contracting,” DJ Koh, head of Samsung’s mobile
Continue Reading Lots of coronavirus news to get to today, but first, mark your calendars: This year’s tax payment deadline has been delayed by 90 days. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
Continue Reading Cómo educar en casa a los niños mientras se afronta la pandemia. Las respuestas a tus preguntas del coronavirus: hechos, mitos e información. El futuro de Tom Brady. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 ¿Cheques en el correo? Trump busca un estímulo de US$ 850.000 millones para frenar
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As the United States struggled to launch testing for the novel coronavirus using kits developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization shipped hundreds of thousands of tests to countries around the world. No discussions occurred between WHO and the CDC about providing tests to the United States, WHO
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Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois became the first House incumbent to lose their primary election in 2020, CNN projects, in a victory for progressives and abortion-rights advocates who have long seen the eight-term congressman as being out of touch with the Democratic Party. After coming close to unseating him in the 2018 primary, Marie
Continue Reading A bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent a letter to congressional leadership Wednesday morning requesting a rule change that would allow for remote voting during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The letter, addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, states, “We write to ask that the
Continue Reading After months on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong increasingly looks like a model for how to handle it. Despite having numerous transport links with mainland China, where the first cases were detected, and a mobile population working on either side of the border, Hong Kong has kept its number of cases comparatively
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Neal Browning and Jennifer Haller are stepping up in a big way to help researchers find a vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The two are in a group of 45 healthy individuals who have volunteered for a coronavirus vaccine trial in Washington state. They each spoke to CNN Tuesday about why they chose to
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Neal Browning and Jennifer Haller are stepping up in a big way to help researchers find a vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The two are in a group of 45 healthy individuals who have volunteered for a coronavirus vaccine trial in Washington state. They each spoke to CNN Tuesday about why they chose to
Continue Reading Coronavirus cases have now surpassed more than 6,130 across 50 states, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, and some officials say the US could end up with a count as high as hard-hit Italy if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to the way Americans live, work and play. Governors and
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Coronavirus cases have now surpassed more than 6,130 across 50 states, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, and some officials say the US could end up with a count as high as hard-hit Italy if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to the way Americans live, work and play. Governors and
Continue Reading As students across the country adjust to learning outside of their classrooms, some states are preparing for the disruption to last the rest of the school year as the coronavirus outbreak continues. Florida has canceled all tests for the year, Kansas has decided to keep schools closed, Arizona plans to announce the suspension of makeup
Continue Reading As the nation shuts down and loved ones huddle to weather what may well be weeks of coronavirus-induced isolation, family tensions are rising. Like a canary in a coal mine, children are often the first to respond negatively to any strain on the family unit — so parents, don’t be surprised if your children are
Continue Reading (CNN) — Neal Browning y Jennifer Haller están dando un gran paso al frente para ayudar a los investigadores a encontrar una vacuna para combatir la pandemia de coronavirus. Los dos están en un grupo de 45 individuos sanos que se han ofrecido como voluntarios para un ensayo de vacuna contra el coronavirus en el
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic has opened the door for Medicare patients to have access to telehealth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said Tuesday. But what is that, exactly? Telehealth connects patients to healthcare providers through videoconferencing, electronic consultations and virtual communications, in lieu of in-person consultations, according to the American Hospital Association. In
Continue Reading (CNN) — A medida que naciones de todo el mundo cierran sus fronteras en un esfuerzo por combatir la pandemia de coronavirus, multitud de viajeros, muchos de ellos estadounidenses, se han quedado varados. En Perú, donde el presidente Martin Vizcarra decretó el domingo estado de emergencia nacional durante 15 días y el cierre de fronteras,
Continue Reading Jenny, a 29-year-old woman in Seattle, nursed a latte on her date with a man she’d met on the dating app Bumble. With coronavirus cases trending in the city, he’d invited her out that Saturday for what they both knew these days might be a risky rendezvous. Jenny, who asked that CNN leave out her
Continue Reading Londres (CNN) — El hermano del atacante de Manchester, Salman Abedi, fue declarado culpable del asesinato de 22 personas en la explosión de una bomba suicida en un concierto de Ariana Grande en la ciudad. Hashem Abedi fue declarado culpable de 22 cargos de asesinato, uno de intento de asesinato y uno de conspiración para
Continue Reading West Virginia became the 50th state to report a case of the deadly novel coronavirus when Gov. Jim Justice announced the first positive test result Tuesday. Justice said the case was in the eastern panhandle of the state, but he gave no other details. The announcement comes just after the death toll from the virus
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El PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spent over an hour Tuesday speaking with top hospital administrators and CEO’s from El Paso and beyond on Tuesday during a video conference. Ryan Mielke, a spokesman for University Medical Center, said the conversation covered a wide range of important topics, including the transfer of more money, ventilators,
Continue Reading Former Vice President Joe Biden will sweep Tuesday’s races and win the Arizona, Illinois and Florida Democratic primaries, CNN projects, victories that will allow him to substantially expand his delegate lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as they vie for the Democratic nomination. Voters in Florida, Illinois and Arizona cast ballots Tuesday as the number
Continue Reading The danger and extent of the COVID-19 outbreak is now universally accepted. But how to deal with it remains the subject of much debate — among heads of state, governors, mayors and at every kitchen table in much of the world. While France and other countries in Europe have gone fully on lockdown, the US
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