SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: its initial testing, contact-detection and quarantine efforts paid off quickly when the lockout erupted without economic pain. But a fatal resurgence during Christmas week has reached new heights, exploring the soul of how the …
Read More »Trump is planting golfs in Florida as COVID hangs in the balance of relief
Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) – President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as the government shutdown is looming and the COVID relief is stuck in balance. Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for the holidays, had no event on his public schedule after questioning a huge …
Read More »The British military helps clear a backlog of drivers trapped by the virus
LONDON (AP) – As France briefly closed its border with the UK, about 1,000 British troops were trying to clear a huge backlog of truck drivers stuck in southeastern England on Christmas Day, amid a new, apparently more dangerous, coronavirus test. Infectious, virus variant sought Although an estimated 1,000,000 or …
Read More »The virus increases solitude for the elderly at Christmas time
Rosa ter Toro prepares her dinner for a second dinner in solitude. This epidemic should be an invaluable rare moment to spend time with her family on the eve of Christmas, the second daily installment of her life as a widow living alone. The 83-year-old Ter Toro usually travels from …
Read More »Trump is planting golfs in Florida as COVID hangs in the balance of relief
PALM BEACH (AP) – President Donald Trump spent Christmas Eve golfing in Florida after throwing a grenade threatening to blow up a massive relief and government funding bill and force the government to shut down amid an epidemic. Failure to agree to the bill could result in the rejection of …
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