Crime in NYC had been on a sharp rise in 2020 compared to last year, but the past week has seen a crash in the number of incidents, according to new NYPD statistics.
Workers disinfect the Giza pyramids necropolis on the outskirts of Cairo on Wednesday as protective a measure against the spread of the coronavirus.Employee at FEMA operations center tests positive A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee, who works in the agency's operations center at its headquarters in Washington, D.
C., has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an internal email obtained by NBC News. The third floor of the headquarters, where the employee worked, was shut down for cleaning and everyone else was temporarily told to work remotely, according to the email sent Tuesday night. The floor is part of the operations center for the agency's national emergency response to coronavirus. This morning employees were back at work, spacing out their desks. Employees who are required to continue working in the office are undergoing temperature screening and implementing social distancing. In a statement, the agency noted the positive test, saying that"at no time did this individual or any others known to have contact with them, come within six feet of the Vice President or any other Task Force principal for any period of time" during the White House group's visit to the agency headquarters two days ago.A 42-year-old hospital worker in Georgia who had coronavirus was found dead in her home with her 4-year-old child by her body. Diedre Wilkes' body was discovered Thursday in the living room of her home in Newnan, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, after a family member called the Coweta County Sheriff's Office requesting a welfare check, the coroner, Richard Hawk, told NBC News on Wednesday.
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