Grenada Distillers Limited, which produces Clark's Court Rum, is among several rum and gin companies in the Caribbean making hand sanitizers in the fight against the coronavirus. … Click to...
April 2, 2020
Some African countries will have more than 10,000 coronavirus cases by the end of April, health officials projected Thursday, as the continent least equipped to treat serious infections has an...
April 2, 2020
The worldwide race to protect people against being infected by unwitting coronavirus carriers intensified Thursday, pitting governments against each other as they buy protective gear and prompting new questions about...
April 2, 2020
President Donald Trump announced on April 1, 2020 that the United States would deploy anti-drug forces on the Caribbean coast amid the coronavirus crisis. … Click to Continue »
April 2, 2020
Daniel Larrea died Monday after a week of high fever, struggling to breathe and steadily turning blue. Then a new nightmare began for his family. No one in their city...
April 2, 2020
The tension is palpable. There is no non-essential talking. An orchestra of medical monitors marks the tempo with an endless series of soft, distinct beeps. Never have so many people...
April 2, 2020
Raquel Fernández watched as cemetery workers lowered her grandmother's casket into the grave and placed it on top of the coffin of her grandfather, buried just three days earlier. Eusebio...
April 2, 2020
Pedro Zavala, a paramedic in the Ecuadorian town of Machala, was rushing to the country's largest city on Thursday carrying precious cargo: a portable ventilator. It was the second time...
April 2, 2020
A global shortage of a key ingredient in the COVID-19 testing process could lead to a slow-down in some Caribbean nations' ability to rapidly test for the virus that causes...
April 2, 2020
Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic as an opportunity to win...
April 2, 2020
Look closely: The kettle drum player has a wooden spoon in one hand, a ladle in the other ... and doesn't even have his drums. But, hey, cutting a few...
April 2, 2020
Vietnam has banned public gatherings of more than two people. Hong Kong has closed nightclubs, karaoke bars and mah-jongg parlors, and deployed health inspectors to check that restaurants are seating...
April 2, 2020
Schoolkids in lockdown put home-made signs in their bedroom windows thanking brave doctors and nurses. Families stepped outside their front doors for a national round of applause. Public buildings lit...
April 2, 2020
The cost of the coronavirus pandemic could be as high as $4.1 trillion, or almost 5% of global gross domestic product, depending on the disease's spread through Europe, the U.S....
April 2, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – The number of coronavirus infections in South Korea passed the 10,000 mark, health authorities said Friday, with 86 new cases recorded since the previous day. The...
April 2, 2020
In a few awkward seconds, Bruce Aylward, a senior official at the World Health Organization, laid bare the flaws and pressures faced by the global health agency charged with leading...
April 2, 2020
When it comes to social distancing, some authorities are resorting to unprecedented tactics to try and slow the spread of COVID-19. In India, baton-wielding police have beaten those who flout...
April 2, 2020
As most nations adopt strict quarantine measures to protect themselves from the coronavirus, the Nicaraguan government has taken quite the contrarian approach, declaring the pandemic risks overrated and encouraging citizens...
April 2, 2020
Some are perched in trees. Some are hanging upside down. Some are baking scones. Teddy bears are popping up in the unlikeliest of places as New Zealanders embrace an international...
April 2, 2020
The U.S. is expanding its military presence in the Caribbean to fight drug cartels wanting to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis and deny funds going to the Nicolás Maduro...
April 1, 2020
In the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah paramedics and volunteers on trucks and on foot sprayed disinfectants on shops and buildings. At a hospital where it once treated its...
April 1, 2020
FDA Drug Info Rounds pharmacists discuss medication disposal options and some special disposal instructions for you to consider when throwing out expired, unwanted, or unused medicines. … Click to Continue...
April 1, 2020
Every August, the Scottish capital of Edinburgh plays host to some of the funniest and most talented — not to forget strangest — performers from the U.K. and the wider...
April 1, 2020
Every few days brings another grim milestone in the coronavirus outbreak. First Italy and Spain surpassed China in reported deaths. Then, this week, the U.S. and France did. But did...
April 1, 2020
Over 12,000 health care workers have contracted COVID-19 in Spain amid grave shortages in personal protective equipment. Nurses and doctors showed us how they make their own gowns, masks, and...
April 1, 2020
Puerto Rico's Health Secretary said it's still unclear if the 200,000 rapid tests the island ordered to confirm and trace the spread of the coronavirus can be used at all....
April 1, 2020
Facing intense surges in the need for hospital ICU beds, European nations are on a building and hiring spree, throwing together makeshift hospitals and shipping coronavirus patients out of overwhelmed...
April 1, 2020
A Haiti judge has issued more than a dozen arrest warrants for individuals accused of looting and torching a million dollar beach resort in northern Haiti owned by a Haitian-American...
April 1, 2020
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamic faction in Lebanon deemed a terrorist group by the U.S., has decades of experience fighting wars. But not the kind it launched this week. Armed with...
April 1, 2020
A major U.N. climate summit scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland, has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. "Due to this, COP26 has been postponed." The conference was set...
April 1, 2020
Italy's record death toll from the novel coronavirus grew by more than 700 on Wednesday, as a top official said social restrictions were getting harder to bear for the population....
April 1, 2020
The corpses have been overwhelming Guayaquil, a port city of 2.8 million at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Ecuador. Over the last few days, several were wrapped in...
April 1, 2020
Saudi Arabia asked Muslims to put on hold plans to perform the obligatory annual hajj pilgrimage this year as the kingdom grapples with the coronavirus. "We have asked our Muslim...
April 1, 2020
Spain reported 864 new coronavirus fatalities on Wednesday, marking its deadliest day since the crisis began as the number of confirmed cases surged past 100,000. Total deaths rose to 9,053...
April 1, 2020
Late last year — long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe — scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for...
April 1, 2020
Two weeks ago, an opposition-leaning radio station in Russia interviewed political analyst Valery Solovei, who alleged the government was lying when it said no one had died in the country...
March 31, 2020
Star Wars actor Andrew Jack has died in Britain as a result of the coronavirus, his agent said on Wednesday. He was 76. The actor, who also worked as a...
March 31, 2020
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone watching the coronavirus global pandemic from the confinement of self-isolation on their couch. But Haitian music fans, here it goes: This year's 22nd...
March 31, 2020
Almost half of all workers in Colombia are part of the informal economy, living day-by-day. As the coronavirus crisis has brought life in the country to a stand-still, many in...
March 31, 2020
Yorgelis del Carmen Beli Fonseca fled Venezuela two years ago to try to scratch out a living in neighboring Colombia, selling candy and garbage bags on the streets of the...
