VOA News By Margaret Besheer NEW YORK – New York’s governor fired back Friday at criticism from President Donald Trump over whether the state had requested too much federal help to fight the coronavirus. During his daily press briefing, a reporter asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his reaction to two tweets the president sent out during the briefing, which Trump appeared to be watching. […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to protect public safety, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline today announced that Rhode Island will receive an additional $941,560 in federal emergency management funding to help combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The federal funds will help the Rhode Island Emergency Management […]readmore
Governor Gina M. Raimondo and Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH, the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), made several announcements today about the state’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Face coverings: The Governor signed an executive order clarifying the state’s directives around cloth face coverings. Beginning Saturday: All employees of customer-facing businesses, office-based businesses, manufacturers and […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – The top U.S. infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned Sunday there is an “extraordinary risk” of the further spread of the ravaging coronavirus if the United States is reopened to business and returned to a sense of normalcy too quickly on May 1, as President Donald Trump is […]readmore
VOA News By Eunjung Cho WASHINGTON – In less than a month, more than 5,000 Americans have joined a class-action lawsuit in Florida seeking reparations from the Chinese government for COVID-19 damages. The plaintiffs claim to have suffered huge losses due to Beijing’s negligence in containing the virus. Similar class-action lawsuits also were filed in Nevada […]readmore
VOA News By Kane Farabaugh WALNUT, ILLINOIS – In mid-March, Illinois high school math teacher David Lind wasn’t feeling well and knew he needed a medical opinion. An eventual diagnosis began with a few mouse clicks. “I was sleeping a lot; my wife could tell that I was really run down,” he told VOA by phone, […]readmore
VOA News By Carla Babb PENTAGON – The head of the Army Corps of Engineers is warning that his team is “beginning to run out of time” to build new temporary hospitals to expand capacity to combat the coronavirus across the country. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite told reporters Wednesday that the military needed to start construction of temporary hospital […]readmore
VOA News By Katherine Gypson Less than two weeks after U.S. lawmakers passed the largest economic relief package in the country’s history, Congress is set to advance even more funding Thursday to help struggling American workers. The measure would provide additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a $350 billion program that is part of […]readmore
Photo: Police officers check motorist on a road access point to Tandarei, eastern Romania after authorities impose a severe quarantine status on the city VOA News By Jamie Dettmer Outside wartime nothing like it as ever been seen before in modern Western history. The lockdowns by democratic states with their draconian constraints on civil liberties and […]readmore
By Associated Press SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – Puerto Rico’s governor on Wednesday asked federal officials to ban all flights from U.S. cities with a high number of coronavirus cases to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. territory. The petition by Gov. Wanda Vázquez to the Federal Aviation Administration came after officials accused […]readmore