Health workers screening patients for coronavirus were “manhandled” by a mob of 40-50 Muslim minority group members in southern India on Wednesday, authorities confirmed. The reportedly incident occurred in East Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state.
Taiwan this week announced it will donate two million more masks to the United States during the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell is streamlining the “bloated bureaucracy” that is the intelligence community in a bid to make it more efficient in tackling the threats confronting America, a former CIA station chief told Breitbart News on Saturday.
Trump said he backed the Navy’s decision to fire the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt “one hundred percent.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that China is facilitating the donation of 1,000 ventilators to the hard-hit state, with the shipment slated to arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport later today.
Panic-buying has erupted across China amid fears of a food shortage due to the Wuhan coronavirus, reports stated on Thursday, indicating that Chinese citizens are ignoring the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) statements urging people not to stockpile food.
Mexico’s top health officials said there is no scientifically proven benefit for the general public wearing face covers or masks in curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The statement contradicts new recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that encourage the use of cloth overs. The dismissing of covers by Mexican officials also comes at a time when cases of the virus have climbed to 1,688 — up 178 new confirmed patients from the day before.
The vast majority of Americans, 304 million, reportedly reside in U.S. states and localities that had implemented some variation of the “stay at home” order for non-essential workers as of Friday evening in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.
A Vietnamese fishing boat with eight crew members on board was sunk after being hit by a Chinese ship near Vietnam’s Paracel Islands, local authorities said on Friday.
Three doctors “closely involved in the testing process” told Reuters on Thursday that Iraq has “thousands” of confirmed coronavirus cases, far more than the 772 infections reported by the government.
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An Indian couple from the city of Raipur has decided to call their twin children “Corona” and “Covid,” arguing that to them the names symbolize triumph over hardship.
A brutal assault by Hong Kong police against protesters and bystanders at the Prince Edward station of Hong Kong’s MTR rail system on August 31, 2019, was one of the milestone events of the protest movement.
Milley said the Navy had reason to believe that ex-USS Theodore Roosevelt commander Captain Brett Crozier went outside his chain of command.
Mistrusting the state to provide adequate healthcare services amid the rising threat of the Chinese coronavirus, a Brazilian slum has hired private doctors to treat residents.
Statistical models attempting to predict the impact of the Chinese coronavirus – used by governments to make critical policy decisions – rely on dubious data from the Chinese Communist Party, Breitbart News confirmed on Friday.
Cuban dissidents reported on Friday that José Daniel Ferrer, the head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), had been released after spending six months in prison without evidence of having committed a crime.
Former Vice President Joe Biden backed ousted Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, who was relieved of his command of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after his letter complaining about a coronavirus outbreak was leaked.
Salvador Panelo, spokesman for President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, defended his boss on Friday, asserting that it was “not a crime” and is constitutional for Duterte to order national police to respond to people violating Chinese coronavirus quarantines by “shoot[ing] them dead.”
San Francisco, the city that has been at the forefront of a left-wing movement to ban plastic bags for more than a decade, announced this week that residents would no longer be allowed to use reusable bags at the grocery store, because of the threat of transmitting coronavirus.
The debate over how long America’s economy should be kept in a medically-induced coma while we “socially distance” to fight the Wuhan coronavirus is usually phrased as a choice between saving lives and mitigating economic damage.
Videos from sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt showed the crew cheering their commander as he walked off his ship.
Modly said other ships in the Pacific may now be on higher alert due to the ex-commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s leaked memo.
A Venezuelan Navy patrol boat deliberately rammed into a German cruise ship in international waters on Thursday in an unprovoked act of aggression, before sinking as a result of the damage.
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“The National Guard are going to be deployed to pick them up across the state, and deploy them to places that we need them,” Cuomo said during a press conference on Friday.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman insulted anyone questioning the Communist Party’s suspect data on the number of Wuhan coronavirus cases in the country on Thursday, disparaging them as “morally repulsive.”
The Taliban announced a ceasefire on Thursday in areas of Afghanistan affected by the Chinese coronavirus, allowing medical teams access to provide health services and aid.
The Navy fired USS Theodore Roosevelt commander Capt. Brett Crozier, after his memo pleading leaders to get sailors off the ship leaked.
Saudia Arabia urged over one million Muslims to halt preparations for the mandatory pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) on Tuesday. The request has caused some to speculate that the pilgrimage may be canceled this year.
Multiple reports published on Wednesday quoting residents of Wuhan, China, the city where the coronavirus pandemic originated, found extreme skepticism among locals that the Communist Party’s official coronavirus death toll truly reflects the disease’s impact on the community.
Residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak originated, have been forced to queue up for hours this week to organize proper burials for their loved ones who died as a result of the pandemic.
