Millions of countries around the world are calling on their governments to raise taxes on themselves and other wealthy people to help with responses to the coronavirus pandemic. “Today, we, the undersigned millionaires, ask our governments to increase taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently, “the millionaires said, under …
Read More »Coronavirus: Herefordshire farm outbreak causes hygiene complaints
Image copyright Johnson / Burridge Screenshot Leah Johnson and Brandon Burridge finished work on the coronavirus-affected farm on July 2, and said hygiene at the site was questionable. Vegetable pickers at a farm where 73 people tested positive for Covid-19 said they had hygiene concerns about the site. Two workers …
Read More »WHO sounds the alarm when coronavirus cases rise by a million in five days
(Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections worldwide reached 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters count, which increased by one million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six and a half months, and the head of the World …
Read More »LA Unified will not reopen campuses for the start of the school year
Los Angeles campuses will not reopen for classes on August 18, and the nation’s second-largest school system will continue online learning until further notice, due to the increasing growth of the coronavirus, Supt. Austin Beutner announced Monday. The difficult decision has become inevitable in recent weeks, Beutner said, as coronavirus …
Read More »Cases of “broken heart syndrome” have increased during the coronavirus pandemic, study suggests
Dying from a broken heart is not just an expression: people can die from the pain they feel for the loss of love. So-called broken heart syndromeAs a result of the stress one feels when someone close to them dies, it is technically called stress cardiomyopathy or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, and …
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