Новости за 13.04.2020

Wet markets in China — like the one where the coronavirus outbreak is believed to have originated — are back in business, despite calls from US officials to keep them shuttered. Since Beijing last week lifted the lockdown on the city of Wuhan, its markets — which sell freshly slaughtered animals, fish and a variety...

About 90 residents have died amid the coronavirus crisis at just two Brooklyn nursing homes — and the situation is so dire at one that victims’ bodies are being left in their beds, The Post has learned. “These places don’t have morgues,” a nurse at the Chateau at Brooklyn Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Sheepshead...

A “mermaid” decked out in a sparkly green tail, white gloves and a black face mask perched herself on a rock near the East River over the weekend to remind New Yorkers to be careful amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Happy Easter everyone from under the sea!” the “mermaid,” Cathie Boruch, bellowed from a mossy rock...

The "Botched" doctors may not be able to perform any surgeries, but they're keeping themselves busy in quarantine.

Metro-North has lost its first employee to the coronavirus, the MTA said Monday. John Oles, a 28-year veteran of the commuter rail road, passed away from complications related to COVID-19, the agency said. “He was beloved by his colleagues and will be deeply missed,” Metro-North President Cathy Rinaldi said in a statement. “His dedication to...

“I know now, though, that Dad was pretty unhappy in that house and felt like he wasn’t treated well.”

NASA’s Perseverance rover and Mars 2020 mission are rapidly taking shape as we speed toward the expected launch window which begins in mid-July. The robot is the most advanced piece of technology NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, and it’s packed with instruments that will teach scientists all kinds of interesting things about...

Anthony Scaramucci is not in the mood to sue anybody right now. Reports surfaced on Monday that his Skybridge Capital’s flagship fund suffered a 22.5 percent loss last month as markets cratered, and that Scaramucci was considering filing lawsuits against other funds responsible for his losses. The COVID-19-driven carnage left the flagship fund with $3.9...

"The world IS changing," one person commented.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday he’d urged stepped up mitigation efforts in New York and other stricken states in early March, weeks before the White House implemented social distancing to stop the spread of coronavirus. “As February 28 — as we got into March — we recognized the...

Fifty city school employees have died from the coronavirus, the Department of Education said Monday. The DOE released the grim tally after weeks of pressure from the United Federation of Teachers and others to publicly release the number of COVID-19 fatalities in the school system. The current total includes 21 teachers, 22 para-professionals, two administrators,...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo teamed up with the leaders of five other Northeastern states on Monday to form a regional task force aimed at a gradual but thoughtful reopening of the economy beyond the coronavirus. “Everyone is very anxious to get out of the house, get back to work, get the economy moving,” said Cuomo in...

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is ready to move forward from longtime quarterback Tom Brady. To open up a conference call Monday, Belichick referred to the statement he made on Brady at the start of NFL free agency and added that he’s sure “we’ll be talking about him for years and decades to come.” But...

A Big Apple pharmacist allegedly hoarded and hawked personal protective equipment at a massive mark-up as health care workers dealt with a shortage of supplies amid the coronavirus outbreak, The Post has learned.  Richard Schirripa is accused of buying hundreds of thousands of dollars in masks and other types of PPE earlier this year and...

Jacqueline Cruz, the mother of Timberwolves star forward and New Jersey native Karl-Anthony Towns, passed away on Monday afternoon due to complications from the novel coronavirus, the team announced on Twitter. “The family is devastated by their tremendous loss, and respectfully requests privacy in this time of great mourning,” the Timberwolves said in a statement....

This makes it official. Three days after closing operations, the XFL has filed for bankruptcy. The fledgling professional football league called off its season five weeks in due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and on Friday laid off almost its entire staff. On Monday, it filed for Chapter 11, listing assets and liabilities from $10...

Homeless New Yorkers with no place to go during the COVID-19 pandemic are finding refuge in city’s subways, video from Sunday shows. The clip of an underground 2 train shows four seemingly homeless people strewn out across the train, which is filled with trash. Three other riders on the train are all wearing masks. MTA...

Normally host to 750,000 visitors each day and a symbol of the city’s bustling pace, the marble Grand Central Terminal has become a ghostly corridor, haunted by only a handful of train conductors, a hazmat-masked selfie seeker and a few nonchalant pigeons (it’s still NYC, after all). With subway ridership down more than 90% during...

The state-of-the-art emergency treatment could save the New Jersey man from death.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way people live, but it has also started to change the way officials handle a crisis. The changes that Americans face are the most sweeping and wide-scale since WWII. While most states have embraced more obvious tactics such as state-wide lockdowns, some have gone a step further. Here are...

A California man was nabbed after he police say he stole a coronavirus test sample from a hospital, according to a report. Shaun Lamar Moore, 40, allegedly went to Sutter Davis Hospital in south Davis on Saturday, and stole a specimen being tested for the virus, news station KCRA reported. Several hours later, the sample...

A Detroit hospital is so overwhelmed with dead coronavirus patients that it is stashing the bodies on top of each other in a closet — and even sitting one upright in a chair in a hotel-like room usually reserved for sleep studies, jarring photos show. “All I know is we ran out of beds to...

A coronavirus-stricken pregnant woman came out of a week-long medically induced coma — to the “extremely mind-blowing” discovery that she had given birth, she said Monday. Angela Primachenko, 27, told the “Today” show that she was 33-weeks pregnant when she fell sick with a fever and tested positive for COVID-19 in her hometown of Vancouver...

Aurora Cannabis Inc.’s US-listed shares fell more than 15 percent in afternoon trading on Monday after the Canadian pot producer renewed an at-the-market offering under which it can raise as much as $350 million in equity capital. The company said its board also approved a reverse stock split of 1:12 to boost its share price...