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Canada calls Trump plan to deploy troops at border unnecessary and damaging
Global News said less than 1,000 American troops would be stationed within 30 kilometers (20 miles) of the Canadian frontier, between official border checkpoints, and use sensor technologies to detect irregular crossers. "We understand the concerns about the coronavirus, we share those concerns very much", Freeland said. The Prime Minister stressed that these text messages were not from the gov... [Full Article...]
Churches exempted from lockdown in Brazil amid virus pandemic
Put the folks to work. On Tuesday night, he played down the threat of the virus, assuring Brazilians that "90% of us will have no symptoms if contaminated" and his "history as an athlete" meant he personally would suffer at most "a little flu ". [Full Article...]
US Now Has Most Confirmed Virus Cases (82K) in World
Birx, the administration's coronavirus response coordinator, insisted that talk of ventilator and hospital bed shortages was overwrought, but she warned of new hot spots developing in and around Chicago and Detroit. Healthcare professionals in the USA are already beginning to get sick, with two emergency room doctors, one in New Jersey and one in Washington state being put in critical care last ... [Full Article...]
Hubei to ease restrictions as no new local cases reported in China
Lockdown in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, in the Corona-Virus is the cause of the Covid-19 first, it was determined, as in the a year ago, be repealed, on 8. Hubei natives are also taking the chance to return home from elsewhere in China. On Friday all transport restriction be lifted, says transportansvarlig Wang Benju on Wednesday, according to AFP news agency. [Full Article...]
Trump order makes it a crime to stockpile supplies
At the White House briefing, the public health authorities said it was particularly important for people in the hard-hit New York City metropolitan area to quarantine themselves for 14 days and for those who have recently left the city to do the same. [Full Article...]
Pompeo: China spreading misinformation of origins, scale of COVID-19 outbreak
Pompeo said that China "has been and continues to be engaged in" a social media campaign that has included conspiracy theories of USA involvement. On March 12, China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan claimed on Twitter that the Virus had arrived in China from the United States during the Military World Games in Wuhan in October 2019, alleging that the US Army athletes brought this virus wi... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus pandemic forces Putin to postpone referendum on proposed constitutional changes
On Tuesday, Russian state television showed Mr. Putin - wearing a gas mask and a yellow hazmat suit - visiting the country's main hospital for treating coronavirus patients. There was no mention of the Victory Day parade in his speech. Russian Federation has reported 840 confirmed coronavirus cases and three deaths attributed to it, according to Johns Hopkins University. [Full Article...]
Canada calls on USA to rethink deployment of troops at border
Canada and the United States implemented a mutual ban on non-essential travel across the border last week, which includes trips for recreational purposes. The number of coronavirus cases in Canada on Thursday surpassed 4,000 including 39 deaths , according to public health authorities. Trudeau said he wants to keep the borders demilitarized. [Full Article...]