VOA News By Associated Press UNITED NATIONS – How should the U.N. General Assembly and its 193 member states respond to the coronavirus pandemic? Members have been sent two rival resolutions for consideration — and under new voting rules instituted because the global body isn’t holding meetings, if a single country objects a resolution is defeated. […]Load more...
VOA News By Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE – The United States should be prepared to endure 100,000 to 240,000 deaths from the #COVID-19 coronavirus over the next two months even if Americans continue to keep their distance from each other. The peak number of deaths will come over the next two to three weeks, according to the White […]Load more...
VOA News By Masood Farivar WASHINGTON – Just days after Congress approved a record $2.2 trillion in emergency economic aid to offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is racing to get the money out to hundreds of millions of Americans and millions of businesses reeling from the crisis. The mega relief package […]Load more...
VOA News By Margaret Besheer NEW YORK – New York City’s mayor appealed to Washington on Tuesday to send him nearly 1,500 more medical personnel by Sunday, as coronavirus cases surpass 43,000 and more city landmarks are converted into field hospitals. “This coming Sunday, April 5, is the demarcation line,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters. […]Load more...
VOA News by Antoni Belchi Una iglesia de Miami ofrece a sus feligreses la posibilidad de confesarse desde el auto, una fórmula para evitar los contagios del coronavirus ante la grave crisis de salud en Estados Unidos.MIAMI, FLORIDA — La crisis sanitaria a raíz del brote del coronavirus ha despertado el ingenio de muchos para […]Load more...
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – The top U.S. government infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, predicted Sunday that 100,000 or more Americans could die from the coronavirus pandemic, 50 times the current death toll. Fauci told CNN that the U.S. could have “millions of cases” of COVID-19, a vast spread of the pandemic in the country, where […]Load more...
By VOA News New York City’s strained health system is about to get some help with the arrival of a Navy hospital ship to care for general patients and a new field hospital to handle those infected with the novel coronavirus. The 68-bed field hospital is going up in the city’s iconic Central Park. Governor Andrew Cuomo […]Load more...
VOA News By Associated Press NEW YORK – Country singer Joe Diffie, who had a string of hits in the 1990s with chart-topping ballads and honky-tonk singles like «Home» and «Pickup Man,» has died after testing positive for COVID-19. He was 61. Diffie on Friday announced he had contracted the coronavirus, becoming the first country […]Load more...
VOA News By Ken Schwartz WASHINGTON – U.S President Donald Trump has extended social distancing and other coronavirus-fighting guidelines through April 30, saying what has been done so far is saving lives. “The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end,” Trump said Sunday moving the daily coronavirus briefing from the White House […]Load more...
VOA News By Patsy Widakuswara Almost all American presidents have faced a crisis while in office, whether it’s a political scandal, natural disaster, economic calamity or terrorism. But not all have the misfortune of having to deal with epidemics and pandemics. Here are some of them and how historians view their performance. Woodrow Wilson – Spanish […]Load more...
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