The global financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus outbreak has affected thousands of New Zealanders. To show their solidarity with Kiwis who’ve endured an economic hit amid this pandemic, the country’s top leaders have elected to take a 20% pay cut over the next six months. In a news conference Wednesday, Jacinda Ardern announced …
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In the age of coronavirus, extraordinary steps have to be taken to ensure that vulnerable members of the population are kept safe from infection. These include people with underlying conditions such as heart disease, respiratory illness, and diabetes. Taking this to heart, a FedEx driver considerately sanitized a package for a family with a young …
Matthew and Camila McConaughey are providing aid to first responders amid the coronavirus pandemic. The outbreak has brought upon a financial crisis, and local governments are having difficulty acquiring supplies of personal protective equipment gear such as surgical masks and medical gloves. The couple teamed up with Bethenny Frankel’s disaster relief initiative BStrong to ensure …
This small-batch distillery’s storage room is packed not with stocks of bourbon or whiskey, but with hundreds of boxes containing gallons filled with hand sanitizer. These two Texas brothers have turned their company, Whitmeyer’s Distilling, into a massive hand sanitizer operation. While most small business owners have closed their doors due to the coronavirus outbreak, …
The billionaire owner of Brookly Nets Joe Tsai recently donated masks and ventilators to New York, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. Hospitals in the country, especially in New York, have been struggling to find enough masks and ventilators for the patients as well as protective gear for the healthcare workers. As …
Amid these challenging times, Rose Medical Center in Denver is very fortunate to have a service dog in training ready to give medical workers comfort and support when they need it. Wynn, a yellow Labrador retriever, weighs only 41 pounds. Yet, her small frame doesn’t stop her from fulfilling a big job: comforting and bringing …
The coronavirus outbreak has depleted stocks of personal protective equipment across the world, risking the health of our front liners: doctors, nurses, and other medical workers. One item that remains desperately needed are surgical masks, and this former NICU baby is doing his part in solving this problem by helping create a DIY solution. When …
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the country, many hospitals and healthcare workers are in desperate need of personal protective gear like masks, gloves, and gowns. Thankfully, nail salons and spas in the US are stepping up to provide this need by donating their supplies of gloves and masks to those who need …
The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic has brought out the best and, unfortunately, also the worst in humanity. While we see valiant efforts being performed by groups of individuals across the world, we also witness a lot of people displaying their most selfish behavior, like some grocery shoppers. To address the problem of greedy buyers, …
A COVID-19 positive Italian priest who gave up a respirator for the benefit of a younger patient has died from the lethal virus. Reverend Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, refused to use the life-saving device his parishioners bought him after learning that a younger patient – whom he didn’t know – also needed it, a health care …
Cuba, regarded as one of the nations with the best healthcare systems in the world, sent a brigade of medical workers to Lombardy, Italy, this week. Upon the government’s request, the Caribbean country dispatched 36 doctors and 15 nurses to the city to help in the fight against the deadly COVID-19. The emergence of the …
The whole world is in the middle of a crisis due to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a disease that has infected thousands of people and is claiming the lives of many every single day. Whenever we turn on our televisions and scroll through our social media feeds, it seems like everything we …