Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Why U.S. hospitals see promise in plasma from new coronavirus patients
(Reuters) - U.S. hospitals desperate to help very sick patients with COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, are trying a treatment first used in the 18...
Apr 04, 2020
OPEC+ meeting delayed as Saudi Arabia and Russia row over price collapse
By Rania El Gamal and Vladimir Soldatkin DUBAI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - OPEC and Russia have postponed a meeting planned for Monday until later next week, OPEC sources said on Saturday, as a row intensified...
Apr 04, 2020
How the coronavirus job cuts played out by sector and demographics
By Dan Burns (Reuters) - The job losses suffered in March as the U.S. economy shut down in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic were widespread but still were disproportionately felt in a handfu...
Apr 04, 2020
Exclusive: Amazon in contact with coronavirus test makers as it plans pandemic response
By Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has been in contact with the CEOs of two coronavirus test makers as it considers how to screen its staff and reduce the risk of infection at...
Apr 04, 2020
Explainer: Why U.S. hospitals see promise in plasma from new coronavirus patients
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - U.S. hospitals desperate to help very sick patients with COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, are trying a treatment first us...
Apr 04, 2020
Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll falls for second day in row
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's death toll from the coronavirus rose to 11,744 on Saturday from 10,935 the previous day, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, though it was the second straight second day i...
Apr 04, 2020
Britain’s Labour Party names Keir Starmer as new leader
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main opposition Labour Party named Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions who opposed Brexit, as its leader on Saturday. Starmer, who has tried to carry th...
Apr 04, 2020
Trump fires intelligence official involved in his impeachment probe
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump notified Congress on Friday that he is firing the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community who was involved in triggerin...
Apr 03, 2020
U.S. Attorney General orders release of more federal inmates due to coronavirus pandemic
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr declared on Friday that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is facing emergency conditions due to the fast-spreading coronav...
Apr 03, 2020
Mainland China reports 19 new confirmed coronavirus cases
BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported on Saturday 19 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, down from 31 a day earlier, including one new infection in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the o...
Apr 03, 2020
