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North Dakota: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in North Dakota and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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New Hampshire: Latest updates on coronavirus

Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in New Hampshire and the latest news on the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Mississippi: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here is the COVID-19 situation in Mississippi.




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Oklahoma: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here's information on the number of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma and the latest news on the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Pennsylvania: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Rhode Island: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Rhode Island and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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South Carolina: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in South Carolina and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Maine: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here is the COVID-19 situation in Maine.




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Maryland and Washington, DC: Latest updates on coronavirus

Here is the COVID-19 situation in Maryland and Washington, DC.




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Michigan: Latest updates on Coronavirus

Here's a look at the latest on the coronavirus in Michigan.




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Massachusetts: Latest updates on coronavirus

Here is the COVID-19 situation in Massachusetts.




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Coronavirus outbreak: Live updates

Among the top coronavirus news out today are: The FDA has given approval to biotech company Moderna to begin the next phase of testing on its coronavirus vaccine and Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive for the coronavirus.




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Postmedia seeks at least $20.3M in coronavirus-related emergency wage subsidies

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. expects to qualify for at least $20.3 million in COVID-related emergency wage subsidies from the federal government, the owner of Canada's largest newspaper chain said Friday.




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Girls prepare for Miss World finals

AUSTRALIAN critters have been a hot topic of conversation among Miss World contestants as they prepare for the final in the US on Monday.




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Waifs celebrate 25 years with Cairns concert

LONG-RUNNING Australian outfit The Waifs are coming to Cairns as part of celebrations marking 25 years as a band.




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Rare ‘Morning Glory’ cloud dazzles Virgin flyers

ONE of the world’s most spectacular clouds made a dramatic entrance for passengers on an Adelaide-bound jet.




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Airborne particle levels plummet in Northern India

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2020
On March 25, 2020, the Indian government placed its 1.3 billion citizens under a strict lockdown to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The country-wide mandate decreased activity at factories and severely reduced car, bus, truck, and airplane traffic. After just a week of reduced human activities, NASA satellite sensors observed aerosol levels at a 20-year low for this time of year i




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Airbus will support France and India to monitor climate change with TRISHNA

Paris (SPX) Apr 28, 2020
The French Space Agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES) has recently signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the development and manufacture of the thermal infrared instrument for the TRISHNA satellite. TRISHNA (Thermal infraRed Imaging Satellite for High resolution Natural resource Assessment) will be the latest satellite in the joint Franco-Indian satellite fleet d




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Air pollution drops in India following lockdown

Paris (ESA) Apr 28, 2020
Lockdowns imposed to halt the spread of the coronavirus have been recently linked with cleaner air quality over Europe and China. New images, from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, from the European Union Copernicus programme, now show some cities across India seeing levels drop by around 40-50% owing to its nationwide quarantine. On 25 March 2020, the Indian government placed its popu




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FN America, Colt's awarded $383.3M to make M16A4s for Iraq, others

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 29, 2020
FN America and Colt's Manufacturing received a $383.3 million, five-year contract to manufacture M16A4 rifles for Afghanistan, Grenada, Iraq, Lebanon and Nepal through the Pentagon's foreign military sales program. The M16A4 is the fourth generation of the M16 series of military rifles. The Marine Corps began phasing out the M16 in favor of the M4 carbine in 2015. In 2008 the Sta




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India embarks on 'massive' coronavirus repatriation

New Delhi (AFP) May 5, 2020
India has embarked on a "massive" operation calling up passenger jets and naval ships to bring back some of the hundreds of thousands of its nationals stuck abroad due to coronavirus restrictions, the government said Tuesday. India banned all incoming international flights in late March as it imposed one of the world's strictest virus lockdowns, leaving vast numbers of workers and students s




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Creepy Airbnb host reveals ulterior motive

IT WAS supposed to be a private room, but this creepy Airbnb host had other ideas when he accepted a Sydney woman’s booking.




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Despite battling COVID-19, oncologist continues treating patients virtually


As a medical oncologist in Connecticut, Dr. Justin Persico was all too aware of the people he treats, who would be at greater risk for exposure to the virus.




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Children need more screen time during coronavirus crisis, professor says


A professor of psychology at Stetson University says that additional screen time for children during this strange period in history is healthy so they may maintain their social contacts and interact with their peer groups.




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Stress eating and coronavirus: Weight Watchers rolls out Zoom virtual workshops


In mid-March, WW International, also known as Weight Watchers, decided to close its 3,000 physical locations but didn’t want to leave members to fend for themselves in these trying times.




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How to access virtual therapy while in-person appointments are out of the question


In this time of social isolation, mental health is top of mind. Here’s a guide to video chat, phone and even text therapy in Canada




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Take a beginner’s dance class taught by National Ballet’s of Canada First Soloist Tina Pereira


Tina Pereira’s dance repertoire with the company includes The Sugar Plum Fairy in “The Nutcracker,” Katerina in “The Taming of the Shrew,” and the title role in “Carmen” to name a few.




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It’s OK to slow down: Why you don’t have to optimize your coronavirus quarantine


The pandemic has not given us time to self-actualize. It has robbed us of time and exhausted us. And it’s OK to feel that way, experts say.




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Gogglebox star June Bernicoff dies aged 82 after short illness, her family confirms

Gogglebox star June Bernicoff has died at the age of 82, according to Channel 4. A...




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Charley Webb has the most indulgent picnic for her children in their back garden - see photo

Actress Charley Webb revealed how she and her sons had spent the bank holiday on Friday,...




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Prince William and Kate Middleton just made a big change to their social media accounts

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a sweet update to their social media accounts on...




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Strictly's Oti Mabuse and Marius Iepure: their relationship in photos

Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse and her husband Marius Iepure have been happily...




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Emma Willis shows off daughter's purple hair as she pays tribute to husband Matt

Matt Willis turned 37 on Friday and wife Emma paid him the sweetest of tributes to mark his...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: Scott Morrison announces restrictions easing in Australia

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced what will be first to reopen under the national cabinet's three-step plan to lift coronavirus restrictions.Morrison announced the plan agreed upon by state leaders in today's...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: UN chief says pandemic unleashing a 'tsunami of hate'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing "a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering" and appealed for "an all-out effort to end hate speech globally".The UN chief...




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Coronavirus US: Andrew Cuomo's sad announcement about child infections

At first, it was believed children were not susceptible to the symptoms of coronavirus, and acted only as carriers.But disturbing new evidence shows that is unlikely to be true.In his daily press briefing New York's governor Andrew...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: US unemployment surges to Depression-era level of 14.7 per cent

The coronavirus crisis has sent the US unemployment rate surging to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans the only thing to...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive

US Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said today, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.President Donald Trump,...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: Swedish expert says NZ faces years of quarantine for arrivals

Sweden's former top virus expert says lockdowns are just a way of delaying the inevitable and warns that New Zealand could face years of quarantining foreigners entering the country, even after wiping out Covid-19.Johan Giesecke...




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Coronavirus Covid 19: World Health Organisation advocates reform of wet markets over shutting them down

The World Health Organisation said yesterday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant role in the emergence of the new coronavirus, it does not recommend that such markets...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: How it spreads, and why some are spared – and others not

Almost every day a new study is published that shines light on the way in which the new coronavirus is spread. It will be years before the precise dynamics of transmission are nailed down, but the broad outline of how the disease...




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Coronavirus Covid 19: South African brewer says it may dump 400m bottles of beer

South African Breweries, one of the world's largest brewers, says it may have to destroy 400 million bottles of beer as a result of the country's ban on alcohol sales that is part of its lockdown measures to combat the spread of the...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: All the mistakes the United States has made in its response

The United States has suffered the largest coronavirus outbreak in the world by far, with five times as many reported cases as any other country and more than twice as many deaths.The numbers are astonishing. America has 1.3 million...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: Why are Australians not catching virus at hairdressers or supermarket?

It's one of the great mysteries of Australia's Covid-19 experiment: despite fears supermarkets and hairdressers could prove high risk for the spread of the virus, there have been no major outbreaks detected.When pubs, clubs, and...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: Colombian-made hospital bed doubles as a coffin

A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them.ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers...




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Covid 19 coronavirus: White House officials ignored experts' advice, documents show

The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails...




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Editorial: Challenges and opportunities ahead for virus response

New Zealand's careful climb out of Covid-19 restrictions has been a tale of two journeys.To envious overseas eyes, we have been a smooth success story and a source of hope to others. At home, the reaction has been a lot more mixed.We...




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Les voyages du virus

Les régions veulent rester fermées pour se protéger des gens de la zone rouge montréalaise. Ont-ils raison?




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Il séduit les multinationales avec sa machine qui tue les virus

Un fabricant québécois de présentoirs réfrigérés séduit les multinationales avec son nouvel appareil pour désinfecter.




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COVID-19: pas de vacances pour le virus

Le virus de la COVID-19 ne semble pas vouloir prendre de vacances, selon une étude qui vient atténuer l’espoir qu’il disparaisse avec le beau temps.