Pawtucket, RI – “Non-essential» businesses in Rhode Island remain shut down by order of Governor Gina Raimondo even as unemployment filings shoot up and COVID-19 projections drop markedly. While much of trucking has not been directly impacted by the shutdown order, as an industry that interacts with all businesses in Rhode Island – manufacturing, farms, […]Load more...
Senator says testing is key to reopening U.S. economy and says RI should be able to quickly access $17.5 million for testing in near-term from Senate-passed COVID 3.5 bill and will also receive tens of millions of dollars in federal testing assistance going forward PROVIDENCE, RI – After holding the line and forcing Congressional Republicans to […]Load more...
VOA News China’s Foreign Ministry Wednesday rejected a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of Missouri claiming the nation is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Missouri’s attorney general, Eric Schmitt, announced the lawsuit Tuesday, alleging Chinese officials are responsible for the pandemic that has sickened around 2.5 million people worldwide, thrown tens of millions out […]Load more...
VOA News By Margaret Besheer NEW YORK – Billionaire Michael Bloomberg will help the state of New York design and fund a program to trace coronavirus infections as part of its strategy to contain the spread of the virus. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the initiative Wednesday, saying it would be done in unison with the neighboring states of New Jersey […]Load more...
VOA News By Steve Baragona The first run of a new, low-cost ventilator is coming off the assembly line in New York City. With COVID-19 raising concerns about a shortage of breathing machines for critically ill patients, the city turned to home-grown industries to try to fill in the gap. Full-featured ventilators cost tens of thousands […]Load more...
VOA News By Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE – Amid the coronavirus pandemic there will be a pause of at least 60 days in the issuance of green cards, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday — a move that will potentially close the country off to tens of thousands of people. “It would be wrong and unjust” […]Load more...
VOA News NEW YORK – After weeks on a warlike footing and suffering thousands of deaths, New York’s governor said Monday that the state appears to be on the “descent” from its apex of coronavirus cases. New York is approaching a quarter-of-a-million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 14,000 deaths. What was anticipated to be […]Load more...
VOA News Singapore said Monday it has an additional 1,426 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infections, the single biggest day increase for the city-state. The new numbers bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Singapore to 8,014, including 11 deaths, giving the financial hub the highest number of cases in Southeast Asia. Singapore had […]Load more...
VOA News The chief of the World Health Organization warned Monday that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over, even as some countries gingerly started to ease restrictions. «Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us,» WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. «Let’s prevent this tragedy. It’s a virus that many people still don’t […]Load more...
VOA News By Associated Press WASHINGTON – A flood of new research suggests that far more people have had the coronavirus without any symptoms, fueling hope that it will turn out to be much less lethal than originally feared. While that’s clearly good news, it also means it’s impossible to know who around you may be […]Load more...
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