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Countries Are Pulling Out of the Olympics

It's looking increasingly likely the Tokyo games will be delayed a year

(Newser) - The Tokyo Olympics are going to happen—but almost surely in 2021 rather than in four months as planned, the AP reports. This became clear after the IOC on Sunday announced it was considering a postponement. Major Olympic nations like Canada and Australia have added pressure by saying they will...

Here Are the Latest Celebs to Test Positive

Placido Domingo, Debi Mazar announce diagnoses

(Newser) - Placido Domingo announced Sunday he has tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the same day Rand Paul revealed his own diagnosis. But the Spanish opera singer is not the only person who has recently been added to the list of celebrities who've tested positive. Actress Debi Mazar...

Idris Elba&#39;s Wife Tests Positive
Idris Elba's Wife
Tests Positive 
Mar 23, 2020 12:00 AM CDT

Idris Elba's Wife Tests Positive

Sabrina Dhowre Elba has coronavirus

(Newser) - Idris Elba did not socially distance himself from his wife, and she has now tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, NBC News reports. The couple was criticized by some for posting a video about Elba's positive test results in which his wife, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, sat right...

Trump Orders National Guard to Help in 3 Hard-Hit States

New York, California and Washington will get medical stations

(Newser) - The National Guard has been activated in the three states with the biggest coronavirus outbreaks, President Trump said Sunday, promising that more help will follow. The Guard will help build medical facilities in New York, California and Washington, the Hill reports. Eight medical stations with 2,000 hospital beds will...

Harvey Weinstein Tests Positive for Coronavirus

New York prison puts former producer in isolation

(Newser) - Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, New York prison officials said. He's in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility, the Niagara Gazette reports. Another inmate at Wende also has tested positive. Weinstein was transferred there Thursday from Rikers Island; new state prisoners are sent to...

Relief Checks Remain Hung Up in Senate

Democrats and Republicans can't agree on details of $1.8 trillion plan

(Newser) - Negotiations between Congress and the White House teetered Sunday over a nearly $2 trillion economic rescue package as the coronavirus crisis deepened, per the AP . As President Trump took to the podium in the White House briefing room and promised to help Americans who feel afraid and isolated as the...

'Imbecile' Rebels Flout Coronavirus Lockdowns

From Germany to France to Florida, people are still out and about

(Newser) - Young German adults hold "corona parties" and cough toward older people. A Spanish man leashes a goat to go for a walk to skirt confinement orders. From France to Florida to Australia, kitesurfers, college students and others crowd the beaches. Their defiance of lockdown mandates and scientific advice to...

Woman, 39, Dies Waiting for Coronavirus Test Result

Natasha Ott took a test Monday when her symptoms wouldn't go away

(Newser) - Natasha Ott was planning to watch Netflix with her boyfriend Friday night. Instead, he found her dead on the floor. The 39-year-old was suffering from possible COVID-19 symptoms at the time and still awaiting her coronavirus test results, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. "For those of you not fortunate...

Spring Breakers Get the Coronavirus
Spring Breakers
Get the Coronavirus
Mar 22, 2020 4:00 PM CDT

Spring Breakers Get the Coronavirus

15 Florida students test positive for COVID-19

(Newser) - Spring breakers partied hard in Florida last week despite the coronavirus pandemic and now, well, some bad news: Five from the University of Tampa have tested positive for COVID-19, WKBN reports. The school says they were "traveling together with other UT students during spring break" and "are self-isolating,...

Buying 2 Carts of Meat Was 'Stupid'—But Death Threats?

Dan Marcotte talks about his oversized purchase in British Columbia

(Newser) - A British Columbia man is calling his mega-meat purchase a "stupid mistake" after video of the buy went viral and inspired death threats, the Terrace Standard reports. "All I get are death threats," says Dan Marcotte. "It was a stupid mistake, now I'm being prosecuted....

Scenic Flight Ends With Tourists Taken Right to Police

New Zealand requires arrivals to self-quarantine for 14 days

(Newser) - A couple taking a scenic helicopter flight Thursday over New Zealand's Fox Glacier was routed to a new destination after mentioning to a guide that they'd arrived in the country Monday from Hong Kong. A second helicopter was dispatched to take the couple off the glacier, Stuff reports,...

Abortion Clinics Are Given a Strict Pandemic Order

But it's unclear whether the Ohio clinics will comply

(Newser) - Seeking an abortion amid the coronavirus pandemic? Better hope you're not in Ohio. The state's attorney general has told two abortion facilities to stop providing services that require personal protective equipment—which includes abortion, CBS News reports. "You and your facility are ordered to immediately stop performing...

Sen. Loeffler Responds to Critics of $18M Stock Purge

Lawmakers sold a lot of stock in the pandemic's early days

(Newser) - Sen. Kelly Loeffler is taking a stand against critics of her recent stock purge—one of several by lawmakers as the coronavirus began to spread. "It's absolutely false," Loeffler said Friday on Fox News . "And, it could not be true." CNBC notes that Loeffler and...

Sen. Rand Paul: I've Got the Coronavirus

The Kentucky Republican says he's 'asymptomatic' and in quarantine

(Newser) - Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday he's got the coronavirus, making him the third member of Congress to test positive. But the Republican from Kentucky says he's feeling fine under quarantine, USA Today reports. "He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to...

Rescue Deal Teeters as Crisis Gets Worse

Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are putting forward their own draft bill

(Newser) - Top-level negotiations between Congress and the White House teetered Sunday on a ballooning nearly $1.4 trillion economic rescue package, as President Trump called for a deal to steady a nation shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, the AP reports. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin indicated an agreement was within reach, but congressional...

Doctor in Italy: Patients Over 60 Are Out of Luck

And other news from world's worst coronavirus hotspot

(Newser) - An Israeli doctor in Italy revealed a bit of scary news Sunday—that at his hospital doctors are no longer offering artificial respiratory machines to coronavirus patients over 60, the Jerusalem Post reports. The doctor, Gai Peleg, said the machines are in too short supply at the Parma facility. His...

After a Warning, UK Marks Mother's Day Creatively

Call or meet online, Johnson advises

(Newser) - Sunday was Mother's Day in Britain, prompting the government to issue a stark warning: Visiting your mom could kill her. Prime Minister Boris Johnson implored Britons to forego the day's traditional family visits, parties and lunches, saying he could not "disguise or sugarcoat the threat" poised by...

Airline to Suspend Passenger Flights
Airline to Slash
Passenger Flights
updated
Mar 22, 2020 11:00 AM CDT

Airline to Slash Passenger Flights

Emirates will keep hauling cargo while cutting pay but not jobs

(Newser) - One of the world's biggest long-haul airlines announced Sunday that it will fly passengers to only 13 destinations instead of its usual 145. Emirates Airline had said earlier in the day that it would ground all passenger flights by Wednesday, the AP reports, but reversed itself after governments and...

As Cases Rise, a Shift in Thinking on Tests

Emphasis shifts to workers and equipment for next stage

(Newser) - With the coronavirus spreading despite efforts to contain it, health officials in the parts of the US hit hardest are moving on to prepare for the next stage of the battle. Tests for the virus are being reserved for medical care workers and patients most at risk from COVID-19, the...

Hospital Worker Gives Scary First-Person Account

Respiratory therapist in Louisiana talks to ProPublica

(Newser) - Fair warning: It makes for disturbing reading. An ICU staffer at a hospital in Louisiana has provided a first-person account to ProPublica of what some COVID-19 patients are going through. The worker is a respiratory therapist, and neither he nor his hospital are identified. He estimates dozens of coronavirus patients...

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