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Sunday, April 5, 2020

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The congregation practises social distancing to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, with chairs arranged a distance apart, as they sit outside and listen to a Sunday morning mass at the Bole Medhane Alem Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, April 5, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

South Sudan has 1st virus case, is 51st country in Africa

Officials in South Sudan say the country has its first case of COVID-19, making it the 51st of Africa's 54 countries to have the disease
A view of a temporary field hospital Thursday set at Ifema convention and exhibition of in Madrid, Spain. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

China-to-New York ventilator shipment shows supply scramble

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday the Chinese government was facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state, highlighting the extreme measures leaders are taking in what has become a cutthroat scramble to independently secure enough lifesaving devices during the coronavirus pandemic.
A body wrapped in plastic is prepared to be loaded Tuesday onto a refrigerated container truck used as a temporary morgue by medical workers due to COVID-19 concerns at Brooklyn Hospital Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Where will the bodies go? Morgues plan as virus grows

There are the new dead. And then there are the bodies waiting in overcrowded mortuaries to be buried as cities struggle to meet demand and families wrestle with rules on social distancing that make the usual funeral rituals impossible.
This undated image provided by LifeBridge Health shows masks being made in Baltimore. LifeBridge converted a building completed a year ago in the Baltimore suburbs into a factory to produce masks, with some of the fabric coming from Under Armor, which is based in the state.

Hunt for medical supplies creates marketplace of desperation

Cutthroat suppliers, shady middlemen, phantom shipments, prices soaring by the hour. What sounds like an organized-crime thriller is actually the new world of government purchasing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron wrap up a joint press conference at the 2019 G-7 summit in Biarritz, France. With entire countries on lockdown, state visits canceled and key meetings postponed or moved online, the coronavirus pandemic may have significant implications for weighty matters of war and peace, arms control and human rights.
Global diplomacy under the gun in the time of coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically altered international diplomacy. While the interruptions may seem to many like trivial inconveniences for a well-heeled jet set, they may have significant implications for matters of war and peace, arms control and human rights.
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Saturday, April 4, 2020, in Washington. From left, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Trump says 'toughest' weeks ahead as coronavirus spreads
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the county could be headed into its "toughest" weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he's eager to get the country reopened and its stalled economy back on track. "There will be a lot of death, unfortunately," Trump said in a somber start to his daily briefing on the pandemic. "There will be death."
Casper ter Kuile, left, and his husband, Sean Lair, wave goodbye Sunday to their virtual community choir members from their home in Brooklyn. Created to combat social isolation in times of coronavirus, more than one hundred people from around the world joined the hour-long sing along session.
Contagious singing as Corona Community Chorus unites voices
All around the world, linked by video, more than 100 people sing "Come, Come Whoever You Are," lyrics adapted from a poem by Rumi, the 13th century Sufi mystic. Then, laughing together, "Kookaburra," the Australian nursery rhyme. And then, in Hebrew, "Hinei Matov."
A woman holds a floral bouquet Saturday as people gather outside of a park where an official memorial was held for victims of coronavirus in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province. With air raid sirens wailing and flags at half-mast, China held a three-minute nationwide moment of reflection to honor those who have died in the coronavirus outbreak.
China honors virus victims with 3 minutes of reflection
With air raid sirens wailing and flags at half-staff, China held a three-minute nationwide moment of reflection on Saturday to honor those who have died in the coronavirus outbreak, especially "martyrs" who fell while fighting what has become a global pandemic.
Home Depot customers carry their purchases as they leave the store, Friday, April 3, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Walmart joins other stores in limiting access to stores
Walmart still wants customers, just fewer of them at a time. The nation's largest retailer said it will now allow no more than five customers for each 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly about 20% of the average store's capacity.
Tony Miller, Yakima County emergency management director; Horace Ward, operations manager of Yakima Valley Office of Emergency Management; and Blake Scully, a resource supply officer, fromleft, evaluate how many ventilators arrived from the weekly supply shipment Thursday, April 2, 2020, at the Yakima County Office of Emergency Management in Union Gap, Wash. (Amanda Ray/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)
Some states receive masks with dry rot, broken ventilators
Some states and cities that have been shipped masks, gloves, ventilators and other essential equipment from the nation's medical stockpile to fight the coronavirus have gotten an unwelcome surprise: the material is unusable
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said Sunday that Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago are not obliged to receive Holy Communion this week because of restrictions in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Cupich lifts Holy Week communion obligation for Catholics
Citing the "impossibility of attendance" at Mass, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich on Sunday lifted Holy Communion obligations for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago during Holy Week, including Easter Sunday.
Wheaton Library offering online services
The Wheaton Public Library is offering a variety of online services.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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