Health & Science

Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:45 UTC
Europe's largest coffin maker plant in France working overtime

At a factory belonging to Europe's largest coffin maker, OGF, in eastern France, workers are doing overtime to meet demand from families parting with their loved ones. “Due to the epidemic, we decided to manufacture just four models of coffins that are top sellers with families” compared to the 15 types usually on offer, said factory director Emmanuel Garret.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:22 UTC
Latam Brazil CEO: “We expect demand to return to pre-crisis levels in two to three years”

In a general sense, airlines around the world have already realized the short-term effects and the best way to survive the coronavirus crisis. Now, another vital question faces the industry: how demand for air travel will behave after the pandemic is under control?
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:22 UTC
“Bolsonaro's government is over; the question is how it makes it to 2022”, Senate president

The chief of the Brazilian Lower House, Rodrigo Maia has held a round of political talks and contacts to discuss the current course of the government and attitude of president Jair Bolsonaro regarding the current Covid 19 pandemics.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:18 UTC
Foreigners in India made to write 500 times “I did not follow the rules of lockdown so I am sorry”

Foreigners who broke a coronavirus lockdown in an Indian town made famous by the Beatles, were forced to repent by writing “I am so sorry” - 500 times, officials said on Sunday. The nationwide lockdown was imposed near the end of March, with residents permitted to leave their homes only for essential services such as buying groceries and medicine.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:30 UTC
EU agrees massive emergency Euros 500bn fund; Germany says “nein” to mutual guaranteed coronabonds

European Union finance ministers have agreed on a massive emergency package designed to ensure that member-states hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic will have the necessary resources to rebuild their economies.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:05 UTC
On Easter Sunday, US death toll surpasses 22.000; May first, tentative date for relaxing stay at home restrictions

Americans spent Sunday on lockdown as the US toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 20,000 deaths and more than half a million confirmed cases. With almost all the country under stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the disease, many turned to online church services to mark the holiest day in the Christian calendar.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:54 UTC
Brazilian 97-old great grandmother survives COVID-19 and is discharged from hospital

When 97-year-old Brazilian Gina Dal Colleto was hospitalized on Apr first with coronavirus symptoms, few could have thought she would survive the deadly virus. But on Sunday, Dal Colleto was pushed in a wheelchair out of Sao Paulo's Vila Nova Star hospital to applause from doctors and nurses, becoming the oldest known survivor of COVID-19 in Brazil, the Latin American country worst-hit by the outbreak.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:49 UTC
US pork supply “on the edge”: Smithfield Foods shutters South Dakota major plant indefinitely

The world's biggest pork producer is shuttering a major United States plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak among employees, with the company warning that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 08:49 UTC
Peruvian police arrest Chinese citizen illegally conducting COVID-19 tests with stolen kits

Police in Lima on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru's health ministry. Zhang Tianxing, 36, was arrested in the Brena district of Lima as he was about to take samples from two women at the door of their house, police said.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 07:27 UTC
Boris Johnson leaves hospital, thanks nurses, praises NHS, but ministers under fire as UK death toll is over 10.000

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson left the hospital on Sunday and thanked the staff for saving his life from COVID-19, but his government was forced to defend its response to the coronavirus outbreak as the national death toll passed 10,000.