Calls grow for Sydney to go into a city-wide lockdown as NSW government causes outrage by refusing to make masks mandatory NSW Opposition leader has said she would back a Sydney-wide lockdown So far only the Northern Beaches has been shut down due to cluster of 68 Labor leader Jodi McKay also called for masks to … Read more
An intensive care doctor working in Birmingham has said that putting the entire city under lockdown would be ‘risk averse’ because new cases are being driven by clusters in separate parts of the city. Dr Ron Daniels, who works for University Hospitals Birmingham, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the increase in coronavirus cases is … Read more
Homeless New Yorkers have been dying from the novel coronavirus at more than double the rate of the citywide population, a new report finds. The homeless mortality rate for those sleeping in shelters was 321 deaths per 100,000 people compared to the New York City average of 200 per 100,000. That’s a rate 61 percent … Read more