News of the World

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Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return
https://apnews.com/fab319a90ead9aae057f7fab059c2ccb

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced at the White House that essential employees, such as health care and food supply workers, who have been within 6 feet of a confirmed or suspected case of the virus can return to work under certain circumstances if they are not experiencing symptoms.

Is it safe enough for those workers?

Taiwan protests WHO leader’s accusations of racist campaign
https://apnews.com/e59d6a8a60753ed55823541aa5631d09

Tedros said that since the emergence of the novel coronavirus, he has been personally attacked, including receiving at times, death threats and racist abuse.
“This attack came from Taiwan,” said Tedros, who is a former Ethiopian health and foreign minister and the WHO’s first African leader.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Thursday strongly protested accusations from the head of the World Health Organization that it condoned racist personal attacks on him that he alleged were coming from the self-governing island democracy.
The ministry expressed “strong dissatisfaction and a high degree of regret, and raised the most solemn protest.” Taiwan is a “mature, highly sophisticated nation and could never instigate personal attacks on the director-general of the WHO, much less express racist sentiments,” the statement said.

Now who's politicizing our not quite beloved ?

Linda Tripp, whose tapes exposed Clinton affair, dies at 70
https://apnews.com/763ef90cb64f5250268da3e75c579847
Guess what? She's a Marylander... Now I suspect she was another werewolf in disguise.

Biden vs. Trump: General election battle is now set

https://apnews.com/ff4d5bcb568f02e76af1a8945167c8b5
After Bernie Sanders, the well known communist, had quit the primaries, Biden now has to face Trump in November unless tell us otherwise.

Countries start thinking about easing up on restrictions
https://apnews.com/37fe182d4b1a68a2f1c0c8ded494d398
Let's hope their relaxation of restrictions doesn't backfire them for any possible reason.

HHS: Federal stocks of protective equipment nearly depleted
https://apnews.com/a464316e25560d393bd07a021b7e81ba

The Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, face, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect front-line medical workers treating coronavirus patients.

That's a good reason to worry about, guys.

Coronavirus in Costa Rica

502 confirmed, 3 deaths, 29 recovered, ~5500 discarded

Coronavirus in Canada

19,274 confirmed, 435 deaths, 4,548 recovered