Experts are saying that countries with a higher coronavirus caseload, including India, need to prepare to deal with the long-term effects of the illness. This phenomenon is being termed as 'Long Covid'.
IN the streets surrounding Hennepin County Court in Minneapolis there were as many sighs of relief as there were cheers as the guilty verdicts came in. At first you wondered how there could possibly be any room for doubt. The heinous act had been captured on camera, after all. Police officer Derek Chauvin placing his knee on George Floyd’s neck and keeping it there for the nine minutes and 29 seconds it took for the last breath to leave the father-of-five’s body. This was murder in plain sight. Dozens of witnesses on the scene. It was unthinkable that Chauvin could walk free from court.
Funding was ‘unnecessarily delayed’ by bureaucratic obstacles, after hurricane killed thousands of people in 2017
Buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 2017. The hurricane killed thousands of people. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 2017. The hurricane killed thousands of people. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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The efforts to deliver recovery funding to the island were “unnecessarily delayed by bureaucratic obstacles”, according to the 46-page report. The hurricane, which hit the island in 2017, killed thousands of people and left thousands more without electricity or water for months.
Emily Anthes, Madeleine Ngo and Eileen Sullivan, The New York Times
Published: 20 Apr 2021 06:55 PM BdST
Updated: 20 Apr 2021 06:55 PM BdST A woman waits in her car to receive a dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a clinic run by Skippack Pharmacy as cases rise in the state in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, US, Apr 18, 2021. REUTERS
All adults in every US state, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, meeting the April 19 deadline that President Joe Biden set two weeks ago. );
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“For months I’ve been telling Americans to get vaccinated when it’s your turn. Well, it’s your turn, now,” Biden said Sunday on a programme called “Roll Up Your Sleeves” on NBC. “It’s free. It’s convenient and it’s the most important thing you can do to protect yourself from COVID-19.”
Covid variants are blamed for spike in cases in states like Tennessee and Michigan while fully-open Texas sees a fall - as nationwide deaths drop by a QUARTER in a week to 737
The seven-day rolling average of US fatalities has fallen by a quarter compared to 14 days ago to 737
But cases are rising in states like Tennessee and Michigan where more than 50% of infections are caused by the UK variant
Texas is fully reopened, but cases continue to decline there. Only 42% of its infections are caused by the B117 variant
Nationwide an average of more than 68,000 new infections are being recorded a day, up about six percent compared to last week