Gov Gavin Newsom said California is facing its ‘most intense and urgent’ stage of the pandemic on Tuesday California has ordered 5,000 more body bags and put dozens of mobile morgues on standby as the state faces its ‘most intense’ coronavirus surge yet. Governor Gavin Newsom warned of the possibility of thousands of deaths in … Read more
Haunting photographs show an aerial view of freezer trucks parked along the Brooklyn waterfront that have been converted into makeshift morgues that hold the unclaimed bodies of 650 COVID-19 patients. The sad images show some 50 trucks lined up neatly in the parking lot of the 39th Street Pier in the Sunset Park section of … Read more
This was the dramatic moment six migrants were saved from suffocation or an icy tomb by the quick thinking of a lorry driver. Barely a year after the tragic deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants also trapped inside a refrigerated lorry, driver Ghulam Parvaz feared he was about to witness an horrific repeat. The trucker heard … Read more
New Zealand has recorded 14 new coronavirus cases as the nation braces for a second wave of infections. Of the new cases, 13 have been linked to the Auckland cluster which plunged the nation back into lockdown. Just one is a returned traveller in hotel quarantine. There are now 36 active cases in the country – … Read more