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04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
It’s too early to tell whether New York’s social distancing measures have significantly slowed down the coronavirus’s spread.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Gretchen Connelie wrote “thank you” in various languages near Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in Manhattan. The number of daily coronavirus hospitalizations has stabilized, according to figures released on Monday.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
The Times is providing free access on the coronavirus crisis. Start here for a guide to all our coverage.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
The sole polling location for city of Waukesha, Wis., on Monday, the day before the state’s scheduled election. Many states across the country have postponed their elections because of the coronavirus.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Members of the Connecticut National Guard unloaded supplies provided by FEMA at Southern Connecticut University last week.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Crewmen on the carrier Theodore Roosevelt in 2018. The crew of the ship applauded Captain Brett E. Crozier as he departed the warship after being relieved of command.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
The coronavirus hot spot of New York City offered a glimmer of hope Monday as the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 10,000.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Cardinal George Pell leaving the County Court in Melbourne, Australia, in February.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Customs and Border Protection, responsible for securing U.S. borders, confirmed on Monday that 160 of its employees had tested positive for COVID-19.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has blocked most abortions during the coronavirus outbreak.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. offered to speak with President Trump about the coronavirus recently. They spoke for about 15 minutes on Monday.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Staff members meeting to discuss I.C.U. patients at Brooklyn Hospital Center last week.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
The financial district in Lower Manhattan on Monday.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Fewer drivers on the road means fewer accidents. Some auto insurers are returning cash to their customers, and others may follow.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Forty-two states have stay-at-home orders in effect, covering more than 300 million Americans. Pressure is growing for the holdouts to follow suit.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
In a stirring, ragged ritual, the students took their oaths as new doctors early, volunteering in the war against Covid-19.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
A Quest Diagnostics testing sample being collected at a drive-through site in Jericho, N.Y.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
President Donald Trump said he had a "really wonderful, warm" conversation with former Vice President Joe Biden that lasted approximately 15 minutes. (April 6)
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain leaving Downing Street in mid-March, prior to announcing his coronavirus diagnosis.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
Meet a few of the millions of people in New York — a day laborer, production assistant and catering business owner — who have seen their freelance and events-based work dry up.
04/06/2020 New York Times Top News
A woman who has lupus and had to recently call at least five pharmacies before she could find a place to fill her hydroxychloroquine prescription.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Morocco made wearing face masks mandatory starting on Tuesday for anyone allowed to go out during the coronavirus outbreak, the government said.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit on Monday after his coronavirus symptoms worsened though his Downing Street office said he was still conscious.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care on Monday after his coronavirus symptoms worsened and he has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputize, Downing Street said.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Ontario, the most-populous province in Canada, complained on Monday the United States had blocked the export of more than 3 million face masks it bought to fight the coronavirus outbreak, while Ottawa said it was pressuring Washington to release the gear.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Authorities must protect nurses and other health workers from harassment and attacks compounding the already heavy toll they are paying in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) and top nursing officials said on Tuesday.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Work is almost done on the week-long effort to transform a convention center in Detroit into a 1,000-bed field hospital used to treat coronavirus patients. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was saddened to hear that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been moved to an intensive care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Coronavirus patients are arriving at the convention center in New Orleans, which has been converted into a support medical facility to ease pressure on area hospitals. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Iran to respect its nuclear obligations in a conversation with President Hassan Rohani, adding that this was the moment when the international community must come together to fight the coronavirus.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has dismissed a senior analyst who opposed rescinding environmental authorizations for wood exports, according to a notice published in the official government gazette on Monday.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
At the state line on Interstate 10, Texas state troopers now actively check drivers coming from Louisiana, where the coronavirus has hit hard. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gheybresus sent his "heartfelt good wishes" to Boris Johnson on Monday after hearing that the British prime minister had been admitted to intensive care with COVID-19.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday the state would loan 500 ventilators to the national stockpile for use by New York and other states experiencing a crush of coronavirus-related hospitalizations. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Projectiles struck the grounds of a hospital in Tripoli on Monday in an area held by the internationally recognized government near a frontline, residents said, even as Libya struggled to prepare for an outbreak of the coronavirus.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit at a London hospital on Monday after his symptoms of COVID-19 infection worsened.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Wisconsin governor moves to delay election
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Albania urged citizens on Monday to do better at social distancing after a localized rise in infections led the government to call one city a coronavirus time-bomb.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
CVS sets up mass site for drive-thru testing for COVID-19 in Atlanta. Hundreds file in during first day in operation, pressing their IDs and cellphones against closed car windows to identify themsleves. (April 6)
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
A worldwide rally gained steam on Wall Street Monday, propelling major indexes up more than 7%. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Egypt on Monday reported 149 new coronavirus cases, its highest daily toll since confirming the first infection in February.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
A total of 15 elderly people died from coronavirus at a care home in the Portuguese city of Aveiro, the worst case in a single home since the outbreak hit the southern European nation, the city's mayor Ribau Esteves said on Monday,
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Here's some good news amid the coronavirus: You'll get to see the brightest full moon of 2020 on Tuesday.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
The Associated Press spent a day on the road with a Brooklyn funeral director overwhelmed by demand due to the coronavirus outbreak. (April 6)
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Here's the latest for Monday April 6th: NY Governor says steep rise in coronavirus deaths leveling off; European countries continue to grapple with outbreak; UK outbreak worsening, PM Boris Johnson in hospital; Zoo-cams surge in popularity.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Mainland China reported 39 new coronavirus cases as of Sunday, up from 30 a day earlier, and the number of asymptomatic cases also surged as the government vowed tighter controls at land borders.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Israelis celebrating the Jewish Passover holiday this week will hold the "seder", the traditional meal celebrating freedom from biblical slavery, confined to their homes under a national coronavirus lockdown.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
The United States was preparing on Monday for what one official called the "peak death week" of the coronavirus, while across the Atlantic British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the most prominent person with COVID-19, was taken to intensive care.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
The British government will continue to make sure Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plans for defeating the coronavirus outbreak are carried out while he receives treatment in intensive care, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
U.S. stocks rocketed higher on Monday, with each of the major indexes rallying at least 7%, after a fall in the daily death toll in New York, the country's biggest coronavirus hot spot, fueled optimism a leveling off of the pandemic was on the horizon.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
The United States was preparing on Monday for what one official called the "peak death week" of the coronavirus, while across the Atlantic British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the most prominent person with COVID-19, was taken to intensive care.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Denmark plans to reopen day care centres and schools on April 15 as a first step to gradually relax a three-week lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the country's prime minister said on Monday.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
The governors of New York and New Jersey said on Monday their states were showing tentative signs of a "flattening" of the coronavirus outbreak, but they warned against complacency as the nationwide death toll topped 10,000 and the number of cases reached 350,000.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
The U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 on Monday, according to a Reuters tally.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
The acting head of the U.S. Navy, in a surprise speech to the crew of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, castigated their former commander for writing a leaked letter that demanded the Navy take stronger action to halt the spread of the illness.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
The tiger that tested positive for the new coronavirus is the "first well-documented example of a person infecting an animal and an animal getting sick", said Dr. Paul Calle of the Bronx Zoo in New York. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit on Monday after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, but his Downing Street office said he was still conscious.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care on Monday after his coronavirus symptoms worsened and he has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputize, Downing Street said.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
World stock markets jumped on Monday, encouraged by a slowdown in coronavirus-related deaths and new cases in some global hot spots, oil prices tumbled again due to a delay in talks between Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut supply.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
New York City is looking into ways to temporarily bury the dead because of the mounting coronavirus death toll, a spokesperson for the mayor said.
04/06/2020 Reuters World News
Poland's ruling nationalists edged closer on Monday to a green light for holding a May presidential election as a postal ballot due to the coronavirus pandemic after overcoming initial resistance in parliament.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday acknowledged that members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus crisis clashed over the efficacy of the malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, for use against the disease.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
CVS Health Corp , called on by the Trump administration last month to help test Americans for infections from the new coronavirus, said it was launching two offsite testing locations with Abbott Laboratories' faster diagnostic kit and would be able to handle 1,000 tests per day.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken into intensive care in hospital after his COVID-19 worsened, his office said on Monday.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the first known case of a human infecting an animal and making it sick, the zoo's chief veterinarian said on Sunday.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
Japan is to impose a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday to contain the coronavirus, while the government prepares a $990 billion stimulus package to soften the economic blow.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
Democratic Governor Tony Evers issued an executive order on Monday postponing Wisconsin's primary election from Tuesday until June 9, citing health risks from the coronavirus pandemic, but Republicans said they would challenge it in the state Supreme Court.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended stay-at-home restrictions through the month and increased fines on violators to up to $1,000, citing fresh evidence Monday that the outbreak-fighting rules could be helping fight a worst-case catastrophe. (April 6)
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state's heavily criticized unemployment system should now be able to handle the crush of applicants it is receiving as workers lose their jobs during the coronavirus outbreak. (April 6)
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Officials are turning to hotels, sports arenas and public spaces to house first responders, patients and homeless people.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a religious rights dispute brought by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington against the Washington area transit authority over its policy barring advertisements in its stations and on buses and trains on divisive issues including religion.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
Mandatory coronavirus quarantines of seasonal foreign workers in Canada could hurt that country's fruit and vegetable output this year, and travel problems related to the pandemic could also leave U.S. farmers with fewer workers than usual.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
Early data from U.S. states shows African Americans are more likely to die from COVID-19, highlighting longstanding disparities in health and inequalities in access to medical care, experts said.
04/06/2020 USA Today - Nation
Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow says he would give the Trump administration's relief program an "A" amid glitches that have slowed Americans getting money financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic. (April 6)
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
Britain is confident of developing antibody tests for immunity to the coronavirus and health officials are not discouraged by the ineffectiveness of early tests that have been assessed, England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Monday.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic hit home for Americans last month, as consumers braced for job losses, anticipated spending cuts and grew more pessimistic about their ability to cover their bills, according to data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday.
04/06/2020 Reuters Top News
India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, but in few places would the odds of containing the disease appear so bleak should domestic transmission start to multiply.
