From Florida to Hong Kong, businesses are struggling.
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Posted inNation & World
Italy locks down 16 million people to slow virus spread
The new restrictions focus on the country’s prosperous north but are disrupting daily life around the nation.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
Viral advice: Keep your distance
Wary of the transmission of germs from everyday human interactions, businesses, churches and municipalities are taking some unusual precautions as they practice various examples of ‘social distancing.’ Welcome to the new normal.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Op-eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: For Portland nonprofit, saving the world just got a lot tougher
Partners for World Health, a lifeline for those in desperate need of medical supplies and services, now grapples with the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Opinion
The View From Here: Don’t touch your face? Impossible
If you can’t follow the most basic rules, what do you expect hundreds of millions of others to do?
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Cruise ships taken off course as anti-virus controls widen
On Saturday, they faced trouble in waters off California, Malaysia, Egypt and Malta as those aboard were tested or confined to cabins.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Thousands of cruise passengers stranded off California
State authorities are working with federal officials to bring the Grand Princess to a non-commercial port.
Posted inNation & World
Amtrak cancels nonstop Acela service between Washington and New York
The suspension will start Tuesday and run through May 26.
Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
Twenty-one aboard stranded cruise ship are infected by coronavirus
Authorities plan to bring the the Grand Princess, which is being held in waters off San Francisco, to a ‘non-commercial port’ over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence says.
Posted inNation & World
U.S. prisons, jails on alert for spread of coronavirus
Corrections officials are coming to the growing realization that it’s only a matter of time before the illness strikes inmates here.