Virginal News: March 2020

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

करोनाचे ग्रहण; मेट्रोही 'विलगीकरणात'

वाहतूक कोंडीला पर्याय ठरू पाहणाऱ्या, तसेच वेगवान प्रवासाचे स्वप्न दाखविणाऱ्या मेट्रो प्रकल्पांना करोनाचे ग्रहण लागल्याने मुंबई महानगर प्रदेश विकास प्राधिकरणासमोर (एमएमआरडीए) मोठे आव्हान उभे राहिले आहे.

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Pink belts out moving gospel song during son's bath time: 'Faith is always a comfort'

Pink is moving her fans to tears with an impromptu gospel performance.

Over 1,000 NYPD officers have tested positive for coronavirus, police say

Over 1,000 uniformed officers in the nation’s largest police force have tested positive for coronavirus.

Brit Hume slams 'preposterous' comparison of Trump coronavirus briefings to campaign rallies

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume joined "The Story" Tuesday to address critics of President Trump's daily briefings with the coronavirus task force after CNN host Don Lemon said the televised events served as Trump's "new rallies."

Tech company keeps tabs on how people socially isolate across the country

A tech company is monitoring smartphone data and grading American counties on a “Social Distancing Scoreboard” as authorities across the United States urge residents to socially isolate and slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Larry David urges 'idiots' still out socializing to 'watch TV' in funny coronavirus PSA

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David offered a pretty, pretty, pretty good public service announcement on Tuesday, urging the "idiots" who aren't following social distancing guidelines to "watch TV."

Trump administration sending troops to border as part of coronavirus fight

The Trump administration is sending more than 500 troops to the southern border as part of the ongoing effort there to combat the coronavirus threat by preventing more infections coming into the U.S. interior.

NJ woman's Facebook post helps spark movement to feed health workers on coronavirus front lines

A New Jersey woman who began raising money to buy meals for medical workers during the coronavirus pandemic on her Facebook page has now amassed over $78,000.

Coronavirus and the bills: How to stay afloat financially

April’s bills are coming due Wednesday, regardless that the coronavirus has dealt a financial blow to millions of Americans. Here is help from Fox News navigating your biggest issues to stay afloat financially:

You do not have any symptoms of coronvairus, should you wear a mask in public?

If you’re not sick with the new coronavirus, should you wear a mask in public? Global health authorities say no. Amid a shortage of masks, the U.S. is sticking with that advice but Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested people who are worried wear a scarf.

That shortage is so severe that the Joint Commission, which accredits U.S. hospitals, said Tuesday that if facilities can’t provide proper masks, health workers are allowed to bring their own from home.

Front-line health workers have the greatest need for masks. And when people are sick, wearing a mask helps lessen the chances of infecting others. In places where relatives care for the sick at home, the World Health Organization also has recommended they wear a mask.

Wearing masks if someone is sick is a common occurrence in many Asian countries.

But “there is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit,” Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO’s epidemics chief, told reporters Monday.

“In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite,” he added, noting risks from an improperly fitted mask or touching the face while taking it off or putting it on.

For months as the COVID-19 crisis grew and masks disappeared from store shelves, U.S. health officials have agreed. The virus is believed to spread mostly through droplets from coughs or sneezes, and thus the main advice has been to keep your distance — staying two meters away — in addition to frequent hand-washing and not touching your face. Health workers who may be doing procedures that generate tinier particles are supposed to get high priority for tight-fitting filtering masks.

“Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!” Surgeon General Jerome Adams wrote in a 29 February tweet. “They are not effective in preventing the general public from catching #Coronavirus but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk.”

But mask-wearing has long been common in some countries during respiratory outbreaks, especially in parts of Asia. As questions grow about whether people sometimes can spread the virus before realizing they’re sick -- which social distancing is supposed to address — increasingly people ask what it would hurt to wear some form of mask in public.

Trump said Tuesday that his scientific advisers made clear the general public shouldn’t be competing with hospitals and health workers for scarce masks of any type.

His solution: “Use a scarf if you want,” Trump said at the daily White House briefing. “It doesn’t have to be a mask. It’s not a bad idea at least for a period of time.”

Earlier in the day, Dr Anthony Fauci, infectious disease chief at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, had told CNN that once there are enough masks, there might be “some very serious consideration” about broadening the mask recommendations.

For now, the advice posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website: “If you are NOT sick: You do not need to wear a face mask unless you are caring for someone who is sick (and they are not able to wear a face mask).”

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Math teacher shows up at student's front porch to give her a one-on-one lesson while social distancing

For 12-year-old Rylee Anderson, the algebra concept of graphing a function just didn't make sense.

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Major retailers have opened only 5 drive-thru testing locations, none available to the general public

As he was facing intense criticism for a lack of adequate testing, President Donald Trump announced in the Rose Garden in mid-March that the federal government would partner with private companies to set up drive-thru coronavirus testing sites.

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When you order from this restaurant, you won't pay a dime

It's no secret that the coronavirus has many people out of work, so a small mom and pop restaurant decided money was no object when it comes to receiving a hot meal.

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He killed five tigers and tried to hire a hit man on a rival. Now he's going to prison for 22 years

He called himself Joe Exotic and once lorded over a popular exotic animal park in Oklahoma. Now, Joseph Maldonado-Passage is going to prison for 22 years.

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Trump says he's open to joining Russian-Saudi oil talks amid price war

With global oil prices plummeting during the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump said Tuesday that he is open to joining the leaders of Russia and Saudi Arabia in talks as the two countries try to resolve a price war.

Judd Apatow: McConnell should be prosecuted for coronavirus 'lies'

Filmmaker Judd Apatow called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his colleagues "murderers" on Tuesday, saying they should be held criminally responsible for the coronavirus pandemic.

'Bachelor' star Colton Underwood on coronavirus symptoms: 'It got scary'

Colton Underwood is feeling better while fighting coronavirus.

California emergency manager admits sunbathing on empty beach: 'I own this'

A California emergency management official basked in the sun during a family beach trip despite the state’s shelter-in-place order, he admitted this week.

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry acting like 'defiant teenagers,' author claims

Prince Harry's biographer has something to say about his "choice of priorities."

Mexico’s coronavirus measures blasted by critics as too little, too late

Mexico has started taking more proactive measures against stemming the COVID-19 pandemic, but critics have warned that the nation of some 129 million has waited too long to prevent crisis now unfolding in the United States.

CNN faces backlash for skipping Trump's initial remarks at White House coronavirus briefing

CNN raised eyebrows Tuesday after it chose not to air President Trump's initial prepared remarks at the daily White House coronavirus briefing.

DOJ's FISA report contradicts claims by Dems, media figures that surveillance rules were strictly observed

New findings by the Justice Department inspector general that the FBI has repeatedly violated surveillance rules stood in stark contrast to the years of assurances from top Democrats and media experts that bureau scrupulously handled Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants -- and prompted Republican lawmakers to caution that the FBI seemingly believes it has "carte blanche to routinely erode the liberties of Americans without proper justification."

NJ National Guardsman who died from coronavirus started showing symptoms only days earlier, family says

A member of the New Jersey National Guard who died Saturday from the coronavirus began displaying symptoms just days before, his daughter said in an interview with Fox News.

Monday, March 30, 2020

Coronavirus Outbreak: Nineteen new cases of infection in MMR brings the case count to 47

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region's COVID-19 count reached 170 on Monday with 47 people testing positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said.

While 29 of the new infections are in Mumbai, the rest 18 are from other parts of MMR, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials said.

Also, an 80-year-old man, who suffered from acute respiratory distress, succumbed to COVID-19 at a private hospital here, taking the death toll in MMR to eight, including six in Mumbai, said the civic body's release.

New cases of infection from a Chatt puja. PTI

He was a known case of hypertension and ischemic heart disease, and had tested positive for COVID-19 on March 29, the release added.

The sprawling region consists of Mumbai city and parts of adjoining districts of Thane, Raigad and Palghar.

The release said on Monday, 206 people were checked at OPDs in the metropolis and 61 people admitted for suspected exposure.

One COVID-19 patient was discharged after recovery, taking the number of such persons in MMR to 15, the BMC release said.

"There were 18 new cases detected during tests conducted between 24-28 March. As these 18 cases are included in the list today, there appears to be a rise in cases. It is mainly due to vigorous contact tracing by the health teams and enhanced testing in public and private labs," the release said.

The civic body said, as a containment measure, its teams and police had surveyed areas where COVID-19 patients reside, including 1 lakh houses and 3.87 lakh people.

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