LONDON (Reuters) - The true extent of Britain’s COVID-19 death toll was more than 40% higher than the government’s daily figures indicated as of April 10, according to data that put the country on track to become among the worst-hit in Europe. The Office for National Statistics said it recorded 13,121 deaths by April 10…
PORTAPIQUE, Nova Scotia/OTTAWA, April 20 (Reuters) - The death toll from the worst mass shooting in Canadian history rose to 19, including a police officer and the gunman, Canadian police said on Monday, adding that they expected to uncover more fatalities from the weekend massacre in Nova Scotia. The gunman, who at one point masqueraded…
As the deadly coronavirus continues its rampage through Minnesota nursing homes, public health officials are facing a fresh dilemma: Where to care for surging numbers of sickened patients without spreading the virus. Over the past 10 days, authorities have scrambled to evacuate dozens of residents from three long-term care facilities in separate parts of the…
At least 55 residents of a New York City nursing home have died after a coronavirus outbreak crippled the facility as the death toll at care facilities in the US hits 8,000.Experts have repeatedly said that the virus is the most deadliest to the elderly population. Across the nation, nursing homes have been significantly impacted…
The death toll from coronavirus in the U.S. surpassed 40,000 on Sunday.A nationwide tally conducted by Johns Hopkins University indicated that the total number of dead in the U.S. sat at 40,461 as of Sunday evening, while more than 755,000 cases of the virus have been confirmed across the country. So far, over 67,100 recoveries have been…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…