Last Thursday my family doctor was talking with me on the phone and going over my prescription renewals, when I told him about not feeling well for the past ten days. Then he said the words I really did not want to hear: “You should go to the Covid-19 pandemic testing center.
US President Donald Trump announced his plans to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States due to the current novel coronavirus pandemic, reports TASS.
Born in 1949 in Colombia, Pablo Escobar (Full name: Pablo Emillio Escobar Gaviria) grew up in Medellin to become one of the wealthiest criminals in history, earning the title of “The King of Cocaine.” Perhaps, he was the most powerful mafia king in history, and a phenomenon of the past century.
Please accept my congratulations on your being elected as President of the Artsakh Republic, as well as on the formation of the largest parliamentary faction – the Free Homeland Alliance – in the National Assembly of Artsakh.
People kindly ask if we are doing OK amidst this novel pandemic of 2020. Actually as seniors in our seventies, we are quite used to being at home, mostly reading and resting. At my age, several colleagues have recently died from the normal old-age related causes, so I have an increased sense of both my mentors and some of my peers passing on.
As we start week three of the COVID-19 self-quarantine, I think back about the defining moments of historic crises that I have experienced. Each has left a profound impact on me. The first was the assassination of JFK in 1963. President Kennedy had been a refreshing voice of the new and hopeful era. With his death, the world paused and mourned. The setback to idealism was etched forever.
Patrick Devedjian, the President of the Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine, a department of France located in the region of Île-de-France, has died from COVID-19 at the age of 75, the administrative division’s government tweeted.
So far the responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic have been for the nation-states of the world to mobilize resources and close their borders with other countries, even long-time neighbours. The intended goal is to isolate from outsiders who are perceived to be more sickly and thus a threat. Even in large, affluent countries, such as Canada and the United States, we are struggling with the magnitude of the overlapping medical, financial and economic crises.
The specialists of Russia’s Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza have managed to decode the first full genome of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Russian Health Ministry said on March 19, reports TASS.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus on March 12, reports Reuters.
