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Virginia Pastor Dies From COVID-19 Complications Weeks After Holding Packed Service
The pastor, Gerald O. Glenn, 66, the bishop and founder of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Va., died on Saturday night, according to Bryan Nevers, a church elder. The bishop initially did not seek medical treatment because of preexisting conditions that gave him symptoms similar to COVID-19, Crawley told WTVR. [Full Article...]
Zoo might feed animals to each other to stay afloat during lockdown
Neumünster belongs to an association and is therefore not entitled to financial relief from the state, leaving the visitor-less zoo with little recourse. Unlike many other businesses, zoos can not go into hibernation and run down costs as animals still have to be fed daily and looked after, while a tropical enclosure would need to be heated above 20 degrees celsius, Germany's national zoo associat... [Full Article...]
COVID-19 '10 times' deadlier than 2009 flu
According to World Health Organization, 18,500 people died of "swine flu", or H1N1, in 2009, but it was estimated but some other forms that the death toll due to swine flu was between 151,700 and 575,400. However, while Covid-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly. "It can not happen all at once", said Tedros. "In other words, the way down is much slower than the way up", he s... [Full Article...]
International Monetary Fund projects drop in Ukraine's GDP to -7.7% due to coronavirus
The IMF released its world economic outlook this morning, forecasting the deepest global recession since the great depression of the 1930's. "The federal budget returned to balance for the first time in 11 years and Australia's debt to GDP is about a quarter of what it is in the United States or United Kingdom, and about one seventh of what it is in Japan". [Full Article...]
Faster coronavirus payments with new IRS site
Since there's so many people out of jobs right now, and they're not getting unemployment checks, many are in desperate need. As general rules of thumb, adults making under $75,000 per year will get $1,200 each, whereas couples who together earn less than $150,000 per year will get $2,400. [Full Article...]
Senator Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden
Warren's endorsement sparked mixed reactions among Democratic supporters, with some welcoming her move as a bid towards a more " unified " party " to defeat Trump ". "Biden supports none of those". "If people want to vote for me, we'd appreciate it", Sanders told The Associated Press in an interview . "I think you're going to see significant movement on the part of the Biden campaign into a... [Full Article...]
Eastern Cape Covid-19 cases climb to 174
In total four people died at Devon's hospitals after contracting coronavirus, Public Health England has confirmed. HC-One - which has around 350 homes - has revealed that as of 8pm on Monday, there had been 311 deaths from confirmed or suspected COVID-19, with outbreaks in two-thirds of its homes, The Guardian reports. [Full Article...]
Former Biden staffer accuses him of sexual assault
Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, had sexually assaulted her in 1993". She filed a police report in Washington on Thursday. "We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false". "Of why did they cover this third woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh , who was this [Michael] Avenatti client, who then backed off a bit later". [Full Article...]