Lockdowns
Coronavirus in France: Police break up ‘giant’ illegal party near Paris
Police near Paris have intervened to break up a middle-of-the-night house party attended by an estimated 300-400 people in a blatant flouting of health rules in the midst of the country’s second lockdown. The organiser of Friday night’s illegal festivities and the house owner have both been taken into custody, AFP reports on Sunday quoting …
BREAKING NEWS: Weekend lockdowns for New Providence and Abaco
Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. (File photo) By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter [email protected] PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has announced new restrictions to movement only for residents of New Providence and Abaco due to high COVID-19 case numbers, that have now forced the health care system to the edge of “collapse”. Beginning this Friday …
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With COVID-19 patients now filling about one-third of the intensive care units in the Paris area, France’s health minister threatened on Thursday to close bars and ban family gatherings, if the situation doesn’t improve. Intensive care units in other regions of France are also filling up with virus patients, as more than two months of …
Coronavirus lockdowns reduced human ‘rumble’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch the human signal fall away as the world goes into lockdown The rumble generated by humanity took a big dive during the Covid lockdowns. Everything we do – from driving our cars to operating our factories – produces ground motions that can be detected by seismometers. …
More states easing lockdowns as U.S. deaths near 55,000
7m ago Some Midwest states set to reopen some businesses, but it will be a “new normal” Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. continue to climb, but things are slowly improving. As CBS News’ Dean Reynolds reports, at least 20 states are set to bring back business in some way in the coming …
France, Italy and Spain prepare to ease coronavirus lockdowns | World news
France, Italy and Spain are preparing to loosen coronavirus restrictions, with other countries watching closely to see how some of the first and hardest-hit countries in Europe might safely emerge from their crippling lockdowns. After the US, where the number of infections is heading towards the 1m mark, with more than 53,000 deaths, the three …
Gov. Newsom coordinating plans to end lockdowns
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday said he is coordinating with governors in Oregon and Washington on a West Coast plan to end the statewide stay-at-home order he imposed nearly a month ago to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came on a day when California was forecast to see a peak …
European Coronavirus Lockdowns Expected to Last Into May: Live Coverage
Across the globe, countries weigh easing restrictions, even as new clusters emerge. As the number of people around the globe confirmed to have been infected with the coronavirus passes 1.8 million, countries are finding themselves at various stages of their own outbreaks and struggling to balance the medical benefits of keeping restrictions in place and …