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Barbados’ top female surfer Chelsea Tuach finished fifth at the just-concluded 2025 World Surf League (WSL) North American Qualifying Series held at Jack’s Surf Pro in Huntington Beach, California. …
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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is seeing a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases and bracing for increased hospitalizations and deaths, said the country's health minister Zweli Mkhize. 'It is important for us to recognize that this now is a second wave,' said Mkhize in a statement. 'There is going to be exponential growth. This means we must expect faster-rising numbers with a higher peak, possibly, than the first wave.' South Africa's new wave is likely to spike so quickly that it could overwhelm hospital capacities in some regions, he warned. South Africa's surge highlights that […]
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A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the fall.
In a seven-page report, whose lead author was the White House science adviser for both Obama terms, the experts fault the Trump administration for failing to replenish the Strategic National Stockpile in preparation for a pandemic just like the one we’re living through now.
The EU’s coronavirus chief has also warned Europe to brace for a second wave, while another top US scientist, the groundbreaking cancer and HIV researcher William Haseltine, has said countries must work to contain the disease, not count on the possibility of a vaccine being developed, which is “not a slam-dunk by any means”.
Black Americans are dying from coronavirus at three times the rate of white people, according to figures compiled by the non-partisan APM Research Lab.
As Lois Beckett writes, the government’s pandemic response has been warped by racism, with the health secretary, Alex Azar, apparently blaming the disease’s victims for their ill health:
Nevada and Wisconsin are trying to make it easier for people to vote safely and by mail during the pandemic.
Kenya is reporting a decline in coronavirus cases, and hospital admissions for Covid-19 have fallen sharply, but some frontline health workers say infections are going undetected and could even be rising.
[Monitor] Uganda has recorded 4,765 recoveries and 244 deaths in seven days, according to Ministry of Health statistics recorded from June 28 to July 4.
One girl is on a mission to raise an army of female surfers from her home country Senegal. Khadija “Khadjou” Sambe found love for the waves at age 14 and now aspires to represent her country at the Olympics. Without any role models to fall on, she is forging her own path and moved across...
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By Deena Beasley
(Reuters) – People are hitting the beach as coronavirus restrictions start to ease and summer begins in the northern hemisphere, but access might be limited and public health officials still urge caution, including continued physical distancing.
While rules vary across the world, here is what you would find at Los Angeles County beaches like Santa Monica and Malibu:
* Check local restrictions before heading to a beach.
THE BEACH IS GENERALLY LOW RISK…
Spending time outdoors is a low-risk activity in the era of the coronavirus.
“People have been cooped up for several weeks now,” said Dr. Timothy Brewer, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“Going to visit beaches or mountains are relatively lower-risk activities compared to being around people in an enclosed indoor space like a store or a theater.”
There remains a significant risk of a second wave of Covid-19 cases and the Western Cape is not resting on its laurels.
After being tackled by his famous father Jeffrey Jordan crashed head-first into a glass table.
Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, says come November 1, the Government will be launching an end-to-end health insurance, repatriation and logistics programme for all tourists coming to Jamaica.\tBartlett said the programme is aimed at...
A virtual trip can be a great way to explore destinations you might consider for a future vacation, or it may be a chance to see remarkable sights around the world that you wouldn’t get to experience otherwise.
If you’re visiting the beach, kick up the heat and turn on a fan for some breeze.
For families who miss traveling together, you can share the joys of your virtual journey through videoconferencing and adding some extra ambiance and a change of scenery by downloading a travel wallpaper for your meeting background.
If the virtual destinations inspire you to visit in person someday, use resources like Vrbo’s Trip Boards to create a list of places to stay as soon as you can get away, and keep the dream going by sending the link to family members and asking them to vote and comment on their favorites.
Find more travel-inspired ideas to pass your time at home at vrbo.com.
With the European Union unveiling a massive recovery plan to step up its emergence from the crisis, the US figure was a sobering reminder of the devastation being wreaked around the globe by a virus that only emerged late last year.
Nevertheless, most US states moved toward reopening restaurants and businesses, cheered on by President Donald Trump, who is eager to see the economic pain of the crisis mitigated as he seeks re-election.
The United States remains the hardest-hit nation, with President Donald Trump weathering heavy criticism for his handling of the crisis -- and for not wearing a mask in public despite his administration's recommendations.
Trump's principal preoccupation has been for a quick turnaround of the badly battered US economy, and he has pressured local and state leaders to ease lockdowns.
Even as many economies emerge from the drastic lockdowns, a joint study by Save the Children and UNICEF warned Wednesday that the pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020.
Deaths from Covid-19 in Africa surged by 40 percent over the last month, the World Health Organisation said, as the continent's toll approaches 100 000.
One of Barbados most gifted sportswomen, Amanda Haywood, is fulfilling her dreams as a student-athlete and is doing so at a time when the world battles the Coronavirus pandemic and with a philosophy that giving up is not an option.Currently based at the University of Virginia (UVA) since 2018 and is about to graduate this Summer of 2022, the 21-year-old Haywood since taking up the squash scholarship enrolled in the McIntire School of Commerce and doing a concentration in finance and accounting.Determined to achieve all that she sets out to accomplish, Haywood who has represented Barbados in squash and badminton at the highest levels, has plans of a career in wealth management.
[Vanguard] As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, BUA has donated three ambulances and 100,000 face masks to Yobe State government as part of its social support and humanitarian commitment to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the latest news in South Africa on Thursday 10 December, the country is officially in the second wave of Covid-19 infections, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced last night.
After the second wave of the the Saharan dust blanketed Jamaica over the weekend, sections of the island experienced heavy rain yesterday, the last day of June, which is part of the secondary rainy season.The rain caused flooding in sections of the Corporate Area and Jamaica Observer photographer Naphtali Junior captured some of the scenes in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew.
KwaZulu-Natal beaches will remain open this holiday season, despite the growing number of infections in the province, Premier Sihle Zikalala says.
Clemson University, known for its storied football program, has reported that 23 people in connection to the team have tested positive for coronavirus.
This isn’t the first we heard of the school’s connection to the deadly virus, just last week when the school conducted 169 tests it was revealed that two other football players, as well as a men’s basketball player, had the virus.
Just a few days ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci proposed that the only way to truly have a safe NFL season would be to it in a bubble away from everyone else.
“Unless players are essentially in a bubble — insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day — it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall,” Fauci said.
Dr. Fauci even recommends that if the bubble theory isn’t an option, then a 2020-21 NFL season shouldn’t even be considered.
Working From Home With Distractions
Friday, May 22, 2020 0:01
By PURITY WANJOHI
Twidley Ithiga a director and principal at Jawabu School.
Brenda Nyawara, an architect at Arcscene Architects admits that it is not easy to be productive at home.
Communication with workmates is mostly done through Slack, e-mail, and virtual cloud workspaces such as BIMCloud, which allows real-time collaboration between colleagues working remotely.
While working from home is an option Brenda would consider post-Covid-19, it would be a hard sell for Twidley Ithiga, a director and principal of Jawabu School.
“This is essentially identifying times of the day when you’re most productive, removing distractions and focusing on work,” he says.
The major thrust of new coronavirus cases in the United States is in the South and West, where officials say more young people are ignoring social distancing measures and testing positive.
In Mississippi, where one health officer called adherence to social distancing over the past weeks “overwhelmingly disappointing,” officials attributed clusters of new cases to fraternity rush parties.
In Texas, the governor said last week people under 30 made up a majority of new coronavirus cases in several counties.
There are 23 states seeing a rise in new reported cases compared to the previous week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.
The state also reported the most new cases in a single day — 4,515 — since the pandemic’s start, according to data from the state’s health department.
KwaZulu-Natal has recorded more than 157 000 infections of COVID-19 and premier Sihle Zikalala has called on the province to embrace ‘the new normal’
As the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in SA reach 866 127, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced further restrictions, including the closure of some beaches over the festive season.
[Premium Times] Since independence, Nigeria has witnessed three great periods of mass migration.
