Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Pres. Trump's decision to halt WHO funding: 'This is another case, as I have said, of the President’s ineffective response, that ‘a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A weak person blames others.’'
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts and the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division are conducting a joint investigation to determine whether the facility"violated the rights of residents by failing to provide them adequate medical care generally, and during the coronavirus pandemic," according to a statement from the agencies.
Staff of Odyssey House Louisiana, which runs a drive-through testing site for the coronavirus disease, work at the site in New Orleans, March 27, 2020.Customers practice social distancing while waiting to buy seafood at Schaefer Seafood in New Orleans, April 11, 2020. FDNY firefighters gather to applaud medical workers at 7pm outside Brooklyn Hospital Center, April 14, 2020, in New York.But about 2,000 people are still being diagnosed each day and the state is still"in the woods," Cuomo said.
Yonkers Fire Department EMTs in full PPE and an Empress EMT watch as medics treat a patient in his home on April 14, 2020, in Yonkers, N.Y. "We have been very aggressive here. But in all this time we have only done 500,000 tests," Cuomo said, stressing the need for federal support.Timeline: Government's evolving guidance on when Americans can return to workReopening will be based on how essential the business or product is, and what its risk is of spreading the infection, Cuomo said.Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that she’s extending the stay-at-home order through May 15th.
A person wearing a mask is seen outside the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund as the IMF and World Bank hold their Spring Meetings virtually due to the outbreak of COVID-19, in Washington, April 15, 2020. "Every store has the right to put up that guidance and make it a requirement for entry into the store," the mayor said, calling a face-covering requirement in grocery stores no different than"no shirt, no shoes, no service" signs.
De Blasio on Wednesday also announced a $170 million investment to make sure no New Yorker goes hungry.Before the pandemic, 1.2 million New Yorkers were food insecure, including 1 in 5 children, the mayor said. Now, an estimated half-million New Yorkers have lost or will lose their jobs in the immediate future, he said.
A view of empty TSA control checkpoint at Washington National Airport on April 11, 2020, in Arlington, Va.The TSA says 403 of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Out of those, three have died and 45 employees have recovered.China urged the U.S. not to halt its funding to the World Health Organization on Wednesday, saying it would undermine the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
"At present, the global pandemic situation is grim and is at a critical moment," Zhao told reporters."We urge the U.S. to fulfill its responsibilities and obligations, and support WHO to lead the international combat against the pandemic."Cycling's biggest race, the Tour de France, has been postponed until late August due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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