Some outlandish rumors about COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus SARS-CoV-2, still persist, and continue to percolate on the internet: To some, it’s a dastardly bioweapon designed to…
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Home and Garden Sees Rise in Sales Due to Coronavirus as Consumers Use Time at Home to Complete Improvement Projects
Hardware stores are seeing unprecedented demand for tools and hardware supplies as consumers in self-isolation use the time to complete home improvement projects. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic more and…
Wigtown Book Festival goes online for 2020 version due to coronavirus pandemic
One of the region’s top tourism events has a new chapter this month. Wigtown Book Festival is to go online across 10 days from September 24 to October 4 and…
Second coronavirus lockdown in Israel frustrates many religious Jews’ plans for High Holidays
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Four times a year for the past 10 years, Zohar Ginsberg has flown from Israel to Ukraine to pray at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav,…
Hunger, Protest And Pain: A Brooklyn Family’s Coronavirus Summer
NEW YORK CITY — At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic this spring, Sharawn Vinson often woke up crying. A recurring thought was making the unemployed single mother desperate: That…
The Savoy hotel’s history of celebrity extravagance, from Winston Churchill to Marilyn Monroe, has been paused by coronavirus
It was the first luxury hotel in Britain, and 131 years on “The Savoy” remains the definition of luxury accommodation. Just have a read of the listing for the Royal…
US is accused of hampering attempts to find a Coronavirus vaccine
She’s the British woman leading the race to save the world from the coronavirus. But taking on the most urgent job on the planet is unlikely to faze this 58-year-old…
Traffic light for bathroom break is new normal in coronavirus Italy
BASTIA UMBRA, Italy (Reuters) – Simone Mela never dreamed that a traffic light would determine when he could take a bathroom break in the factory where he works. But in…