(Natural News) Four passengers have died on a cruise ship anchored off the coast of Panama and at least two other people aboard the ship have tested positive for the coronavirus, a report said on Friday. Holland America Line – the company that owns the aforementioned cruise ship – said on its Facebook page that over […]

(Natural News) More than 100,000 people now have the coronavirus in the U.S., according to the latest data compiled by John Hopkins University on Friday. The cases – which mainly come from continued upswings in New York, as well as new hotspots across the country – is the latest in a week that saw numbers rise […]

(Natural News) As part of the efforts to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, a number of large events and gatherings has been canceled. Now, a new study shows just how important this step is in the battle to stop the global pandemic. Eighty percent of travelers who sought medical help after returning home from a public […]

(Natural News) As the number of coronavirus patients around the world blows past 600,000, governments around the world are turning to invasive surveillance methods to track whether or not their citizens are abiding by lockdown rules. The U.K.’s privacy watchdog has given the government the green light to use persona data from people’s mobile phones to track […]

(Natural News) Almost one out of every four American adults say that they’ve either been laid off or furloughed because of the coronavirus outbreak, a recent poll says. However, the same poll also shows that most Americans are fine with keeping businesses closed down to help fight the coronavirus outbreak. The Reuters/Ipsos March 26-27 opinion poll, released […]

(Natural News) The global coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of over 24,000 people as of Thursday, but that number could have been much, much worse. A new study points out that the outbreak could have caused 40 million deaths had it not been kept in check. The study comes from Imperial College London,  where researchers estimated the potential scale […]

(Natural News) A total of 3.2 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week as the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak forced layoffs around the U.S. last week. The seasonally adjusted total reported by the Department of Labor (DOL) shattered records, surpassing the previous one of 695,000 initial jobless claims in a single week set […]

(Natural News) The U.S. is now the leading country in the world in coronavirus caseloads – a grim milestone in the fight against the global pandemic. The novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which was first detected in the country on Jan. 20 from a person who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, has since spread to at least 85,996 […]

(Natural News) To better enforce their national lockdown, Italy may begin imposing bigger fines for violating quarantine. The new fines may go as high as 3,000 euros ($3,245) per violation. Police officers will also have the power to seize the vehicles of the offenders. The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, is expected […]

(Natural News) The ongoing coronavirus outbreak could be nature’s way of sending us a message warns Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Andersen stated that humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world and that the coronavirus was one of the consequences of doing so. Andersen, along with other […]