Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
Latin America and the Caribbean have become ?a hot spot? for the COVID-19 pandemic, with several countries now having one of the highest per capita infection rates and absolute number of cases in the world, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. The U.N. chief said in a video and briefing report that a 9.1% contraction in GDP is expected this year in the region, which would be the ?largest in a century.? ?COVID-19 represents a massive health, social and economic shock with an immense human toll for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean,? the report said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
A lack of testing and a complacent attitude surrounding the virus is being blamed for the emergence of new clusters in the country. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
The number of Americans who have said that a member of their immediate family has been sick with coronavirus has also more than doubled since March. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
Louisville police officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor while serving a warrant were told she should be home alone because the main target of the narcotics investigation was elsewhere, according to an interview with one of the detectives who served the warrant. Taylor was shot eight times after officers used a battering ram to knock down her door and fired into the apartment after midnight March 13. One officer was shot by Taylor?s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who said he thought an intruder was breaking into the home. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
Florida was once hailed as the gold standard in COVID-19 data transparency and accessibility. Now its system is seen as corrupt and inaccessible. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
As parents across Miami-Dade County wonder how schools will safely bring students back next month, they can look to local summer camps for an idea of how in-person learning during a pandemic may go. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 09:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
Air conditioning units that recirculate the same air in a room should be switched off or only used with open windows, experts have urged, amid mounting concern around the role of airborne transmission to spread Covid-19. Experts told the Telegraph that air conditioning units that only used recirculated air could exacerbate the spread of virus particles if someone was infected with Covid-19. Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, a fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering, said there were two types of air conditioning units - ones that take air in from outside and expel it out again, or those that recirculate the same air. This second type, known as a ?split? unit, draws air in, passes it over cooling coils and sends it back into the room. Guidance from the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers, which Dr Fitzgerald helped draw up, warns that split air conditioning units that do not have a ?dedicated source of outside air supply into a room? could be responsible for recirculating and spreading airborne viral particles into the path of socially distanced users?. Dr Fitzgerald said that it may go against conventional wisdom and be more expensive, but opening a window while operating the unit was the best way to mitigate risk. ?The recommended strategy now, if you have one of these split units, is to throw the window open and sacrifice your desire for a cold or cooler environment. If there is a modicum of wind it will move the air around. If you can?t open a window turn the unit off.? #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 08:16 (about 2 hours ago)
A member of staff at the German government press office suspected of working for Egyptian intelligence did not have access to sensitive information, a German government spokeswoman said on Friday. The report said unspecified measures had been taken against the member of staff in December, on orders from federal prosecutors. "Direct access to data from the parliamentary visit programme or other government press office databases, in particular media accreditation and the media service, was not possible," she said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 08:16 (about 2 hours ago)
Workers with the New York Department of Transportation stenciled letters and began painting a Black Lives Matter mural on Fifth Avenue near New York’s Trump Tower in Manhattan on July 9.Reports said several other Black Lives Matter murals have been painted in New York City, including in Brooklyn and Staten Island, following anti-racism protests across the country.President Donald Trump said the mural would be “denigrating” to Fifth Avenue, describing it as a “symbol of hate.”Instagram user @m.aristyfarer shot video of the mural being painted. In the footage, a voice comments, “It’s going down. Black lives matter. This is New York’s answer. It’s right in front of Trump’s home.” Credit: @m.aristyfarer via Storyful #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 08:16 (about 2 hours ago)
Authorities will conduct coronavirus testing in Tokyo's nightlife districts, where infections have surged again, and are urging nightclub hosts and hostess to follow advice on safely interacting with customers, officials said on Friday. Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who leads Japan's pandemic response, said after meeting Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and experts in the evening, that the government would carry out tests "strategically" in the nightlife districts. #