Cuba will send medical team to Honduras to fight the coronavirus: health minister
Honduran Health Minister Alba Consuelo Flores said on Thursday that a Cuban medical brigade would join local medics in the fight against the novel coronavirus as it spreads in the poor Central American country.
Bolsonaro fires Brazil’s health minister, calls to reopen economy
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired his health minister on Thursday after clashing with him over how to fight the new coronavirus, and again called for states to end stay-at-home orders that he said were hurting the economy.
Mexico could have nearly 56,000 coronavirus cases: health ministry
Mexican Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Thursday that the country might have as many as 55,951 people infected with the fast-spreading novel coronavirus, twice the estimated number reported last week.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro accuses house speaker of trying to remove him from office
Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday accused the speaker of the lower house of Congress Rodrigo Maia of turning state governors against him in the coronavirus crisis and seeking to remove him from the presidency.
Mexico registers 450 new cases of coronavirus and 37 deaths – health ministry
Mexican health officials reported on Thursday 450 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 37 new deaths, bringing the country’s total to 6,297 cases and 486 deaths.
El Chapo’s daughter, Mexican cartels hand out coronavirus aid
A daughter of famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and several Mexican cartels have been doling out aid packages to help cash-strapped residents ride out the coronavirus pandemic.
Canada to keep border restrictions with U.S. for a ‘significant’ time, Trudeau says
Canada’s border restrictions with the United States will remain in place “for a significant amount of time” as the two countries fight the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday.
Foreign state hackers target U.S. coronavirus treatment research: FBI official
A senior FBI cybersecurity official said on Thursday that foreign government hackers have broken into institutions conducting research into treatments for COVID-19, the sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
COVID impasse: Bolivian and Peruvian migrants trapped at Chilean border
More than a thousand mainly Bolivian migrants are stranded near Chile’s northern border after informal labor sources in their host country dried up but they were unable to return home because of shutdowns to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, r…
Britain’s Princess Beatrice cancels wedding amid coronavirus: media reports
Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Princess Beatrice and her fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have canceled their royal wedding due to the lockdown in the United Kingdom amid the coronavirus pandemic, media reports said on Thursday.
