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Microsoft to invest $1 billion in Poland: statement
In addition to the Microsoft Azure cloud services, Poland's digital economy also stands to gain from Microsoft's Office 365 applications that can be hosted in the cloud for software-as-a-service (SaaS) workloads as well as its Dynamics 365 business applications. [Full Article...]
UK's Covid-19 death toll surpasses both Spain and Italy
Italy revised its death count up to 29,315 on Tuesday. The 32,000 figure reflects the situation as it was towards the end of April, meaning Britain has probably had the highest official death toll in Europe for days. "In this country, we have - in my opinion, and let me be clear I would say this, wouldn't I - but I think we have the best reporting, the most transparent reporting, and the most... [Full Article...]
Gold's Gym files for bankruptcy weeks after closing Colorado Springs locations
Crew filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus. Gold's blamed the bankruptcy on the pandemic, which forced its fitness studios to shut. The company's CEO, Adam Zeitsiff, says the bankruptcy filing will help it shed those leases. TRT Holdings Inc., the majority shareholder of Gold's Gym, is in discussions with the company over the terms of a debtor... [Full Article...]
COVID-19 in France since December, hospital test suggests
Out of the 14 swabs reanalyzed using a polymerize chain reaction (PCR) test , they identified one positive Covid-19 result from a 42-year-old man who came to the emergency room on December 27 with a dry cough, headache, blood in his mucus, and a fever. [Full Article...]
15 kids hospitalized in NYC with rare disease possibly linked to coronavirus
There are concerns, not yet substantiated, that it could be linked to the novel coronavirus. "More than half of the reported patients required blood pressure support and five required mechanical ventilation". Kawasaki syndrome was poorly understood even before the coronavirus pandemic, but seems to be triggered by viruses or infections, as Business Insider's Mia Jankowicz previously reported . [Full Article...]
California county opens bars and churches against state order
In Huntington Beach, the city voted Thursday to sue over the closure. With zero coronavirus cases, officials in Modoc County have chose to violate Gov. California has had one of the strictest stay-at-home orders in the country in order to fight the spread of the coronavirus, and Newsom has been one of the most watched governors in the country as he has made the case for a cautious and delibera... [Full Article...]
Pfizer to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine in Kalamazoo
On Monday, Pfizer Inc. conducted a dozen human trials of their first BNT162 vaccine program to prevent COVID-19 infection. Dosing is also underway at four USA sites. There are no FDA-approved therapies to treat Covid-19, and drugmakers are racing to produce a vaccine, which USA health officials say is expected to take at least 12 to 18 months. [Full Article...]
Over 32,300 Covid-19 deaths registered across UK
Only the United States , with a population almost five times greater, has suffered more confirmed fatalities from the virus than Britain, according to the data so far. Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, chairman of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, said: "The one thing we can be certain of is that all these numbers are substantial underestimates... [Full Article...]