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COVID-19 last week while the province saw 11 more deaths linked to the virus.The numbers, found in the province’s weekly epidemiology update covering May 1 to 7, show slightly fewer deaths but similar hospitalization rates compared with data released a week earlier. Manitoba reports 185 new COVID-19 hospitalizations, 14 more deaths From April 24 to 30, Manitoba reported 185 new hospitalizations and 14 deaths linked to COVID-19.Of the latest hospitalizations, 13 required admission to the intensive care unit, according to the data.The province’s weekly updates don’t give the total number of people currently in hospital and ICU as a result of COVID-19, reporting only how many new admissions occurred during the previous week.On average, 832 lab tests for COVID-19 were done daily during the week covered by the latest report, leaving the provincial weekly test positivity rate at 17.6 per cent, down from 20.7 per cent the previous week.

Election workers count Fulton County ballots at State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) ATLANTA - A judge has dismissed conservative cable news channel One America News Network from a defamation lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers after the two sides reached a settlement.Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss in December sued OAN, its owners and its chief White House correspondent over debunked claims that the mother-and-daughter pair introduced suitcases of illegal ballots while working as ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta in November 2020 and committed other acts of fraud to try to alter the outcome of the presidential election in Georgia.The terms of the settlement agreement were not disclosed, but both sides described it as fair.RELATED: Georgia election workers reach settlement terms with OANFreeman and Moss on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss OAN from the lawsuit, and U.S.

A former Health Secretary says she and her fellow female activists feel vindicated after calling in the police over Natalie McGarry’s embezzlement.

V. Anantha Nageswaran & Diva Jain  are, respectively, chief economic advisor to the Government of India, and director at Arrjavv.

A South Lanarkshire seniors’ group has had its first in-person meeting in more than two years.

COVID-19 as pandemic-related hospitalizations dropped by 26 on Thursday.There were 1,821 patients being treated for the disease in hospitals across the province following 117 admissions and 143 discharges.Intensive care unit cases stood at 60, a decrease of two.The province also reported 767 new novel coronavirus infections. The official count is based on PCR testing, which is only accessible to certain groups like teachers.

Even as the daily COVID tally is showing an upward trend, the Maharashtra government said that there is no scenario of a fourth wave of the pandemic anytime soon. 

WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today finalized a licensing agreement with the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of several innovative therapeutics, early-stage vaccines and diagnostic tools for COVID-19.

As many as 1,032 fresh COVID cases were reported in Delhi on Thursday and with that the overall Covid tally has increased to 18,98,173. Currently, the  positivity rate stands at 3.64%. 

Martin Roberts was rushed to hospital after problems with his breathing.At first, the 58-year-old presenter thought he may be experiencing symptoms of Long Covid, thought he soon discovered that was not the case. Doctors told him he had a "massive amount of fluid" surrounding his heart, as Martin later explained on This Morning.

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The death toll in US from covid has crossed one million, according to White House. "We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible, as we have with more testing, vaccines, and treatments than ever before," US President Joe Biden said in a statement.

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The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life and quickly transformed it.

Jagmeet Singh is calling out Canada’s major grocery chains for making record profits amid soaring inflation, which he calls “profiteering.”Speaking to Global News Radio 640 host Greg Brady Tuesday, Singh accused corporate grocers of “gouging” Canadians with marked-up food prices while still reporting higher profits, which he says doesn’t add up.“If you’re increasing prices to offset increased costs, they would have the same level of profit,” he said. “But we’re seeing a significant increase in their profits.“It shows that they’re just gouging Canadians at this difficult time.” Global food, fuel prices won’t ease until 2024 due to Ukraine war: World Bank On Wednesday, Singh called for an “excess profits tax” on major grocery chains and oil and gas companies, expanding the Liberals’ plan to place a higher 18 per cent tax on bank profits exceeding $1 billion.The NDP say the revenue collected from their proposed tax would help raise the annual GST tax credit and Canada Child Benefit by $500 each per year.“Why is it that wealthy companies get to make more, and families have to suffer, and why do governments allow that to happen?” he asked.“The whole point of government is to level that, to ensure companies aren’t gouging or exploiting a difficult time.”A look at the latest earnings reports from the three major grocery chains — Loblaw, Empire Co.

CHERRY HILL, N.J. - They say there are only two seasons – winter and construction. In South Jersey, construction season could last years through Burlington and Camden counties."It’s painful. It’s early in the morning.

MAPLE SHA - Authorities in New Jersey are investigating an "apparent homicide" after a woman was found dead inside a motel room Wednesday morning. Officers from the Maple Shade Police Department were called to the Bel-Air Motor Lodge on the 2800 block of Route 73 for a report of an unresponsive woman. Authorities did not share the name of the victim or speculate how she died. Burlington County Medical Examiner Dr.

Today we are reporting 9,392 community cases, 398 hospitalisations and 9 deaths.

Baby formula is the latest staple to be hit by supply chain shortages in the U.S.Parents of newborns and babies under six months old have taken to social media to share their concerns after seeing barren store shelves. Behind the scenes, online inquiries on how to "increase breast milk" have become a top search term in 38 states, according to recent data on Google Trends.In particular, searchers are looking into foods and methods that increase breast milk supply.BABY FORMULA SHORTAGE: KENTUCKY FAMILY REVEALS THEIR 'STRESSFUL' DRAMAHere’s what lactation experts and health care professionals want mothers to know about breast milk production before turning to diet changes or tools.FILE - A nearly empty baby formula display shelf is seen at a Walgreens pharmacy on May 9, 2022 in New York City.  (Liao Pan/China News Service via Getty Images)Rachel Taylor, a registered nurse, postpartum and lactation advocate from Birmingham, Alabama, has over 15 years of experience working with postpartum and breastfeeding mothers.Taylor told Fox News Digital that she mainly recommends lactation cookies, teas, water and a few dietary supplements or ingredients that have demonstrated beneficial results for nursing mothers.Many baby care manufacturers make prepackaged lactation cookies and other snacks for the purpose of increasing milk supply. These functional treats usually "include oats, brewer’s yeast, and flaxseed, all of which are galactogogues – molecules that help maintain and increase milk production," said Taylor.

People walk under blooming cherry trees along the Tidal Basin on April 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Mental health has been the focal point for many since the pandemic started.

KATWIJK, NETHERLANDS - APRIL 20: A logo of Airbnb is is displayed on a computer screen on April 20, 2020 in Katwijk, Netherlands. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Airbnb said Wednesday it is overhauling the way that consumers search for rental listings, adding dozens of categories including "chef’s kitchens" and "historical homes" to its current listings, which are mostly searched by location.The company will also let people book split stays between homes and it promised new protections for renters when listings fall short of advertised promises.Airbnb said the changes will help people find listings that they didn’t know existed before and in locations that they had not considered, taking pressure off overtourism in popular destinations.CEO Brian Chesky called it the biggest change to the company’s site in a decade.RELATED: Airbnb expands anti-party restrictions to include Memorial Day weekendThe changes are being rolled out this week, in time for what Airbnb predicts will be a strong summer season for rentals.

PHILADELPHIA - Researchers are tracking the migration patterns of a half ton great white shark who has been spotted off the New Jersey coast in the last year. Measuring over 12-feet in length, Ironbound most recently pinged near the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Researchers with OCEARCH have followed Ironbound's path over the last year which spans from Canada to the Carolinas. Sharks with GPS trackers, like Ironbound, will ping whenever its fin break the surface of the water.

WILDWOOD, N.J. - With the unofficial start of summer just weeks away, officials in New Jersey shore towns say that beach erosion from recent storms has already cost millions to fix and could impact beach access on Memorial Day weekend.In North Wildwood, coastal erosion was worsened by a Mother's Day weekend storm that battered the popular summer hotspot with flooding rain and high winds.Mayor Patrick T. Rosenello told FOX 29 that North Wildwood has already used a third of its spring beach replenishment sand to make the impacted areas. "Unfortunately it’s about a million dollars, the whole project is about $3M, so we’re looking at about $1M in sand that has moved back into the surf zone." Rosenello said.Beach erosion in North Wildwood threatens to close parts of the beach this Memorial Day Weekend.

SURFSIDE, Fla. - Victims of the 2021 Surfside condo collapse in South Florida have reached a staggering $997 million settlement after the tragedy claimed the lives of 98 people.The settlement with insurers, developers and defendants was announced in a court hearing on Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.It comes six weeks before the one-year anniversary of the collapse of the 12-story condo building, which happened in the early morning hours of June 24, 2021."I’m shocked by this result — I think it’s fantastic," Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman said in court, according to a report from the New York Times. "This is a recovery that is far in excess of what I had anticipated."A general view of the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 30, 2021 in Surfside, Florida.

NEW YORK - Brooklyn-based rapper Casanova, who was one of 18 people indicted in connection with a litany of gang-related crimes including racketeering, murder, drugs, firearms, and fraud offenses has pleaded guilty to various charges.Casanova, whose real name is Caswell Senior, admitted to a shooting and a robbery and being a gang leader in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang.He is the 13th person to plead guilty in the case.As part of the racketeering conspiracy offense, Senior admitted to participating in a shooting in Florida on July 5, 2020, a robbery in New York City on August 5, 2018, and conspiring to traffic over 100 kilograms of marijuana.According to the indictment, between 2004 and 2020, Senior was part of a racketeering conspiracy with the Gorilla Stone gang.He admitted that on or about July 5, 2020, while at a party in Florida that included gang members, he shot someone during a gambling dispute.He also said that as part of an August 5, 2018 robbery in Manhattan, a victim was restrained and suffered serious bodily injury. He also admitted to helping to traffic at least 100 kilograms of marijuana.Senior, 35, of Montville, New Jersey, is scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge Philip M.

FREEHOLD, N.J. - A judge has imposed a 95-year prison sentence on a woman accused of arranging to have her girlfriend shot and later strangling her and burying her in the backyard of a New Jersey home.Monmouth County Superior Court Judge David Bauman sentenced 38-year-old Jennifer Sweeney on Friday.Authorities said 41-year-old Tyrita Julius was wounded in a shooting in November 2015.

Though COVID-19 cases continue to decline globally, they rose last week for the third week in a row in Africa and the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its latest weekly pandemic update.

A post shared by Kami and Ben Crawford (@fightfortogether)“Yesterday Child Protective Services (CPS) arrived at our home unannounced and interviewed our children, parents & grandmother,” the family’s Instagram caption read. “This is a scary process because usually children are interrogated away from parents, against their will, and their answers determine the agency’s legal right to take away the kids.”The family made headlines last week after they shared a post to Instagram showing Rainier’s completion of the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati on May 1.

(FOX TV)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Inflation may be soaring, supply chains remain snarled and the coronavirus just won't go away, but America's casinos are humming right along, recording the best month in their history in March.The American Gaming Association, the gambling industry's national trade group, said Wednesday that U.S. commercial casinos won more than $5.3 billion from gamblers in March, the best single-month total ever.

COVID-19 pandemic by almost $1 billion.Guylaine Leclerc’s new report says the provincial government was unprepared for the pandemic and rushed into purchasing equipment at high prices. Where do all the masks go? One Quebec company says it shouldn’t be the garbage She says that by the end of March 2021, the value of the equipment purchased by the province had dropped by $938 million.Leclerc says of that amount, the province lost $671 million in the value of its stockpile and another $267 million connected to contracts for equipment and prepaid orders.

The Delaware State Police say they have arrested a suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing that happened at the Hollywood Motel on Tuesday.  NEW CASTLE, Del. - The Delaware State Police say they arrested a New Castle woman in connection with a stabbing that happened on Tuesday.Police say the stabbing took place at the Hollywood Motel located in South Dupont Highway in New Castle around 9:30 p.m.According to the police, the investigation revealed a 57-year-old victim engaged in a verbal argument with the suspect over a suspected theft. The argument escalated and eventually turned physical, police say.MORE HEADLINESAfter the two were separated, the victim attempted to throw the suspect's walker into a dumpster and then police say the suspect proceeded to stab the victim.

data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2020 alone, 79% of all homicides and 53% of all suicides involved a firearm and while all population groups experienced gun-related deaths, some groups were more impacted than others, the CDC noted. Nearly 20,000 Americans were killed in gun homicides in 2020, with the rate increasing 4.6 to 6.1 per 100,000 persons. More than 24,000 Americans killed themselves with firearms in the same year, a slight increase over the 23,888 Americans who died by suicide using a firearm in 2019. "The tragic and historic increase in firearm homicide and the persistently high rates of firearm suicide underscore the urgent need for action to reduce firearm-related deaths.

NEW YORK - It's just a simulation, but it feels real, as the employee carrying out the demonstration inside Actuate offices in Midtown Manhattan walks in carrying a mock AR-15 rifle.In a matter of seconds, after the employee is visible in the office space, a surveillance camera in the room goes into action.A green flash pulsates across the monitor set up in another corner of the room after the video management system recognizes a potential threat in the room."As you can see it's pulsing green within about a second or two. That means an alert has been registered," says Actuate CEO and co-Founder Sonny Tai.

COVID-19 infection tally jumped to 18,97,141 in Delhi, while the death toll increased to 26,184.

COVID-19 health crisis as hospital numbers continued to fall Wednesday.Pandemic-related hospitalizations stood at 1,847, a net drop of 54. In the last day, there were 111 admissions and 165 discharges across the province.There were 62 patients being treated for the disease in intensive care units, a decrease of four.Quebec also reported 1,101 new novel coronavirus cases.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be participating in the second global Covid summit on 12 May at the invitation of US President Joe Biden. The summit will be held virtually, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Wednesday .

New Zealand will fully reopen to the world in August, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said, ending one of the toughest anti-Covid-19 border restrictions.

Today we are reporting 7,970 community cases, 381 hospitalisations and 28 deaths.

new Covid variant could be "even more transmissive and even more fatal" than the Delta and Omicron variants. To tackle the situation in advance, he stressed the need for increased global surveillance

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 03: Bill Gates discusses his new book 'How To Prevent The Next Pandemic' onstage at 92Y on May 03, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates tested positive for COVID-19, he announced Tuesday on Twitter. Gates wrote in a series of tweets: "I've tested positive for COVID.

PHILADELPHIA - Pleasant spring conditions will stick around for the next two days before another round of rain washes over the area during the weekend. Forecasters expect temperatures to dip into the 40s and 50s across the region overnight Tuesday. More sunshine on Wednesday will help temperatures stretch back into the uppers 60s and 70s across the region. FOX 29's Kathy Orr says high temperatures in Philadelphia and its suburbs will exceed 70 degrees on Wednesday.

BROWNS MILLS, N.J. - Authorities say a young man was killed and another driver was seriously hurt in a multi-vehicle accident Tuesday morning in Burlington County.Emergency responders were called to the area of State Route 70 and Spring Lake Boulevard in Browns Mills just before 7 a.m. for reports of a serious crash. Authorities say five cars were involved in the crash, including a Chevy Trail Blazer driven by 28-year-old William Benner Jr.

FOX NEWS - A massive great white shark stalking the East Coast was spotted near the Carolinas on Monday after earlier being tracked off the coast of New Jersey, according to researchers.Ironbound, the 12-foot, 4-inch shark weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, made headlines after migrating from the Carolinas up the coast to New Jersey late last month.As of Monday, it appears the great white returned to the Carolinas, according to OCEARCH shark researchers who keep track of sharks’ migratory patterns via a tag tracking system.Researchers believe a white shark mating site is located off the Carolinas, the Boston Herald reported.OCEARCH Chief Scientist Robert Hueter told the outlet last week that Ironbound may have left the site early ahead of the other sharks, adding that is unclear what sparked the migration.Despite Ironbound’s apparent return to southern waters, New Jersey may not have seen the last of the great white. Hueter said that the sharks will usually start migrating to northern waters in mid-to-late May and arrive in those areas beginning in June.Ironbound is considered the "leader of the pack," according to Hueter, who described the apex predator as "formidable" and "not the prettiest animal."Ironbound was first tagged in October 2019 near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Halsey is sharing an update about their health. The «Bad at Love» singer took to their Instagram Stories on Tuesday to fill fans in on what's been going on after being hospitalized for anaphylaxis -- or a severe allergic reaction.Tuesday's Instagram update was a follow-up to their TikTok video about being allergic to coffee and a long list of foods, which Halsey said on Instagram was «literally everything.»Halsey, who was wearing a heart monitor in their video, revealed that they've been diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Sjogren's syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Ehlers-Danlos syndrome affects connective tissue, primarily the skin, joints, and blood vessel walls, Sjogren's is an immune disorder characterized by dry eyes and dry mouth, mast cell activation syndrome is marked by repeated episodes of anaphylaxis and POTS is a blood circulation disorder.«My health has changed a lot since I got pregnant and gave birth.

American Indian/Alaska Native and Black Americans died of murder, suicide, vehicle crashes, and drug overdoses at higher rates than their White and Asian/Pacific Islander peers amid the twin threats of the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.