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New Zealand Isn&#39;t Free of the Virus After All
COVID-19
Returns to
New Zealand
Aug 11, 2020 7:36 AM CDT

COVID-19 Returns to New Zealand

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern puts Auckland on lockdown

(Newser) - New Zealand put its biggest city on lockdown Tuesday after four new COVID-19 cases cropped up in the same household, Sky News reports. That means Auckland residents are being told to work at home and leave only for essential needs while nurseries, schools, bars, and restaurants are shut down for...

Putin: We Just Won the COVID-19 Vaccine Race

Russia's leader says they have a vaccine that's ready to roll

(Newser) - Vladimir Putin says Russia has registered a COVID-19 vaccine—a dramatic first among world nations—and one of his adult daughters has already been inoculated, Reuters reports. "I know that it works quite effectively, forms strong immunity, and I repeat, it has passed all the needed checks," he...

One State Cracks Down on Shoppers Angry About Masks

It'll now be a felony if anyone threatens or assaults an Illinois employee about health guidelines

(Newser) - Assault or physically threaten a retail worker over something related to the coronavirus pandemic? In Illinois, that'll be a felony. The state last week signed a new measure into law, and now any assault or battery against a retail worker over public health guidance—including mask mandates or social...

What Pandemic? Smash Mouth Performs to Packed Crowd

Band was at a South Dakota biker rally

(Newser) - Pandemic? What pandemic? Smash Mouth performed to a crowd that appeared to be hundreds, if not thousands, strong at a South Dakota biker rally on Sunday, Rolling Stone reports. Other musical acts including Buckcherry, Lit, Quiet Riot, Reverend Horton Heat, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and .38 Special are set to appear at...

For One Cruise Line, Things Are Looking ...Good?

Or better, at least, for Royal Caribbean

(Newser) - Eager to hop aboard a cruise ship amid the coronavirus pandemic? You may not be, but apparently quite a few people are. Royal Caribbean reported Monday that there have been a "remarkable" number of bookings for its cruises sailing next year, citing "pent-up demand" from people stuck at...

Worried Dad Urges Tourists to Avoid Tahoe Area

Corley Howard's son is critically ill with condition linked to virus

(Newser) - Maeson Howard, a formerly healthy 10-year-old California boy, has been critically ill for weeks with a rare syndrome that doctors believe is linked to COVID-19. Family members aren't sure how he became ill—but they are pleading for visitors to stay away from South Lake Tahoe. The boy's...

'Play College Football,' Trump Demands

He weighs in after reports Big Ten Conference has called off fall season

(Newser) - President Trump was quick to weigh in following reports Monday that the Big Ten Conference has voted to cancel the fall season . "Play College Football!" the president tweeted . He also retweeted a post from Clemson University quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who said "we all want to play football"...

Happy 60th, Antonio Banderas, the Pandemic Got You a 'Gift'

Actor confirms he has COVID-19, is confident he'll recover, going to take some time to read and rest

(Newser) - Antonio Banderas is the latest celebrity to test positive for COVID-19, the actor confirms via Instagram . The revelation comes on a big day for the Spaniard: "I wanted to make it public that today, 10 August, I am forced to celebrate my 60th birthday in quarantine, after testing positive...

Nearly 100K Children in US Test Positive in 2 Weeks

That's more than 25% of all reported cases in US kids

(Newser) - Since the coronavirus pandemic began, at least 338,982 children have been infected with COVID-19 in the US—and more than a quarter of those infections happened during a period of just two weeks, the New York Times reports. A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the...

School Captured in Viral Photo Goes Online

For 2 days, at least

(Newser) - Soon after the Georgia high school whose crowded hallway was captured in a viral photo announced nine students and staffers had tested positive for COVID-19 , a second announcement: North Paulding High is going online. Digital learning will be in place for at least two days, the superintendent announced Sunday, per...

Customer Orders 'Priciest Facemask in the World'

3.6K white and black diamonds add to the glitz

(Newser) - An Israeli jewelry company is working on what it says will be the world's most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million, the AP reports. The 18-karat white gold mask will be decorated with 3,600 white and black diamonds...

Nancy Pelosi: This Is &#39;Absurdly Unconstitutional&#39;
Nancy Pelosi: This Is
'Absurdly Unconstitutional'
the rundown
Aug 9, 2020 2:45 PM CDT

Nancy Pelosi: This Is 'Absurdly Unconstitutional'

The fight is on over Trump's executive orders

(Newser) - Trump's executive actions are a done deal, right? Well, maybe not. Democrats and White House officials say they're still open to negotiating as questions swirl around the constitutionality of Trump's dramatic move Saturday—signing four actions to provide coronavirus relief amid stalled congressional talks, the Hill reports....

America Smashes Coronavirus Record
America Smashes
Coronavirus Record
Aug 9, 2020 12:45 PM CDT

America Smashes Coronavirus Record

Yet the official tally is perhaps 10% of the real caseload, health officials say

(Newser) - Confirmed coronavirus cases in the US hit 5 million Sunday—by far the highest of any country—more than four months into a sustained outbreak, the AP reports. That's the number from Johns Hopkins University, but health officials believe the actual number is perhaps 10 times higher, or closer...

Family: Dad's Goodbye to Dying Wife Cost Him His Life

Sam Reck died of COVID-19 weeks after his wife did

(Newser) - It was a goodbye that likely cost him his life, and it was worth it. So says the family of Sam Reck, a 90-year-old Florida man who died Aug. 1 of COVID-19—which he likely contracted when saying a final good-bye to his wife JoAnn three weeks prior. Both died...

Europe Doesn't Quite Get US Response to Virus

Italy reconsiders its envy of the American model

(Newser) - The US failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the world's most powerful country edges closer to a global record of 5 million confirmed infections. Perhaps nowhere outside the US is America's bungled virus response viewed with...

9 COVID Cases at Georgia School Captured in Photo

The parents were told as much in a Saturday letter

(Newser) - More coronavirus-related press for North Paulding High School, which burst onto the public stage on Tuesday by way of a photo that showed a hallway crammed with students, many without masks on. ABC News reports nine people at the Dallas, Georgia, school have tested positive for COVID-19. Its report comes...

A &#39;Professor&#39; Dies of COVID, but Maybe She Never Existed
After 'Professor' Dies of COVID,
Bizarre Hoax Theory Emerges
in case you missed it
Aug 8, 2020 2:30 PM CDT

After 'Professor' Dies of COVID, Bizarre Hoax Theory Emerges

It appears the professor never existed and the related Twitter feed was bogus

(Newser) - It's a convoluted tale without a lot of answers at the moment. It revolves around an apparently fictitious professor at Arizona State University, the announcement of that professor's death on Twitter of COVID-19, and a prominent crusader against sexual harassment in the sciences. Digging in:
  • The death: Last
...

250K Bikers in One Place. What Could Go Wrong?

The virus doesn't seem to bother motorcycle enthusiasts in Sturgis, South Dakota

(Newser) - Thousands of people are pouring into a small South Dakota city for an event that normally attracts 500,000—this time, during a pandemic. "I think it's pretty selfish that the powers that be didn't stop this," a Sturgis resident tells NBC News . But the Sturgis...

First Top-Tier NCAA League Calls It Quits

'I'm heartbroken we are in this place'

(Newser) - The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league competing at college football's highest level to cancel its fall season because of COVID-19 concerns, the AP reports. "I'm heartbroken we are in this place," MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said. With the MAC's 12 schools facing...

Trump: I'll Act on My Own on 4 Issues

He's preparing executive orders on jobless benefits, student loan relief, others

(Newser) - The workweek came and went without a deal in Congress for pandemic relief, and that's despite a two-hour meeting Friday with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Treasury's Steven Mnuchin, and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Afterward, the latter two said they would recommend that Trump issue executive...

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