Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Mother-of-four diving into an Olympic comeback
By Steve Keating (Reuters) - If you are Laura Wilkinson, a 42-year-old mother making your return to competitive diving after under-going spinal fusion surgery, a year delay in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics ...
Apr 13, 2020
Kiev authorities seal off Orthodox monastery that became coronavirus hotspot
By Ilya Zhegulev KIEV (Reuters) - Authorities in Kiev sealed off a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery on Monday after reporting that two of its members had died and more than 90 had contracte...
Apr 13, 2020
Bogota metro work start could be delayed six months over coronavirus restrictions
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The start of work on Colombian capital Bogota's first metro line could be delayed by at least six months because companies involved in its construction are affected by quarantine or...
Apr 13, 2020
New ventilator-sharing device eases treatment of two COVID-19 patients at once
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - A hospital in Connecticut has successfully employed a new 3D-printed device that makes it possible to modify one ventilator for use in two critically ill patients with COVI...
Apr 13, 2020
Number of mortgage loans in forbearance jumps, industry survey shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people with mortgages seeking to have their payments paused or reduced jumped between March 30 and April 5 as the economic effects of the novel coronavirus outbrea...
Apr 13, 2020
Your Money: Get aid or go bust? Small businesses face dilemma
By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sara Pauly is not one of those small business owners scrambling to fill out paperwork for part of the more than $350 billion in government aid available through th...
Apr 13, 2020
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY COVID-19 NUMBERS EDGE UP, RECOVERIES SURGE
by Kevin Zimmermann SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, WI (WHBL) - Monday’s COVID-19 report from the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health contained a surge of the “right kind”; recoverie...
Apr 13, 2020
Reasons for hope: the drugs, tests and tactics that may conquer coronavirus
By Christine Soares (Reuters) - With much of the world living in lockdown, the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first detected in China late last year is beginning to slow in some p...
Apr 13, 2020
Governors of California, Oregon and Washington make deal to reopen economies
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The governors of three U.S. West Coast states, California, Oregon and Washington, said on Monday they had reached an agreement to work together to reopen their economies and li...
Apr 13, 2020
Congo records third new Ebola case from same infection chain: WHO
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a third new Ebola case on Monday, a seven-year-old girl who had started showing symptoms after visiting the same health center as the two...
Apr 13, 2020
