Birds of Mexico, 88 species. Filmed mainly in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas during two trips in October 2017 and 2019. Guide of both trips the amazing Eric Antonio Martínez -Mexico Birding. Photo of thumbnail: Eric Antonio.
A second McDonalds restaurant has closed and all staff are in isolation after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19. It is believed that the two McDonalds cases may be linked.
South Asian countries ease COVID-19 lockdowns despite sharp rise in infections. By our correspondents, 25 May 2020. The absence of health care infrastructure across the region means that huge numbers of cases are going undetected, and many are dying due to a lack of basic medical care.
I travelled 100 miles east yesterday to see the pied flycatchers of Yarner Wood in Devon. The pied flycatcher is a migratory bird species, spending the winters in sub-Saharan Africa, and coming here to breed in the spring. It prefers Western oak woodlands where it nests in tree holes, but it also readily takes up breeding in nestboxes.
President Donald Trump was seen golfing at his Virginia club on Saturday and Sunday, marking his first visit to one of his golf properties since March amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump takes time out from presiding over Covid-19 disaster to play golf as US death toll closes in on 100,000: here.
COVID-19 spreads, deaths rise in US following return to work. By Marcus Day, 25 May 2020. Tens of thousands of workers have been infected with the coronavirus at grocery stores, meatpacking plants, Amazon warehouses, and in other industries.
Minnesota buys a warehouse to store bodies of expected COVID-19 victims. By Gary Joad, 25 May 2020. The 75,000-square foot refrigerated produce warehouse has the capacity to store 5,100 bodies of persons expected to succumb to the COVID-19 surge in the coming weeks.
Minnesota nurses oppose retaliation over demands for protective equipment. By Anthony Bertolt, 25 May 2020. The determined demands by nurses and health care workers for the necessary protections, equipment and staffing levels has thrust them into a political struggle.: here.
US juvenile detention centers record 474 COVID-19 cases. By Sam Dalton, 25 May 2020. As more information about COVID-19’s effects on minors emerges, the virus’s unchecked spread in the juvenile prison population is leading to deadly consequences.
More US grocery workers die from COVID-19. By Bill Frost, 25 May 2020. An employee of Kings Soopers in Denver, Colorado, one of hundreds of supermarket workers who have been infected across the country, died last week.
White House coronavirus task force labels Washington, D.C. area a hot spot as region begins reopening. By Nick Barrickman, 25 May 2020. On Friday, Dr. Deborah Birx noted the “ongoing cases” throughout the region even as state and local officials have begun reopening their economies.
Democratic governor extends Michigan stay-at-home order to June 12 while relaxing social distancing restrictions. By Stephen Fuller, 25 May 2020. With COVID-19 still spreading throughout the state, Governor Whitmer extended the stay-at-home order even as automotive production ramps up and businesses are allowed to reopen.
This 25 May 2020 video from the USA says about itself:
Connecticut Attorney General Speaks Out on Anti-Asian Racism Amid COVID-19 | NowThis
In US news and current events today, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is speaking out against anti-Asian racism in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. AG Tong specifically calls out President Donald Trump for his inflammatory remarks that helped perpetuate anti-Asian discrimination during this COVID-19 crisis.
“The company is covering up the situation to keep the plant from closing, while they are killing us”. Maquiladora workers expose deadly COVID-19 outbreak in Matamoros, Mexico. By Andrea Lobo, 25 May 2020. A worker from a US-owned battery charger factory told the WSWS that management is forcing them to work despite a contagion outbreak at the facility.
Canadian medical experts warn COVID-19 will spike due to back-to-work push. By Roger Jordan, 25 May 2020. All Canada’s provinces—including those where widespread community transmission of COVID-19 continues—are now lifting lockdown measures that slowed the pandemic’s spread.
Prior to the eruption of Mount St. Helens, few people realized there were mountain goats living in the area. While that population was likely wiped out by the blast, anecdotal sightings of these high-climbing, sure-footed mammals began to crop up in the 1990s. By 2014, Gifford Pinchot National Forest biologist Mitch Wainwright had launched the first official mountain goat survey and Cowlitz tribal members looked forward to a time when they could collect and weave tufts of goat hair into ceremonial blankets. Originally broadcast in 2016.
OPB is revisiting decades of stories our reporters and producers captured while working with scientists, photographers, adventurers and explorers on the volcano since its eruption on May 18, 1980.
Fourteen infected people attended a private party at the restaurant on May 15. Four others have been infected through them. They all come from the area of Leer, which is just across the border of Dutch Groningen. The restaurant also received guests on May 16, 17 and 20.
Some of the people who have to be quarantined already show coronavirus symptoms. Part of the management of the nearby big shipyard Meyer must also be kept in isolation, because the personnel chief was present at the party.
Shake hands
Visitors to the party say that in the restaurant anti-coronavirus rules were broken. Eg, guests or staff are said to have shaken hands, kept insufficient distance and did not wear a mask, even though the rules said they had to.
According to German media, the restaurant boss may also have made mistakes with the guest list, so it is not clear who has been inside. Eg, candidates coming for job interviews interviewed in the restaurant are said to not have been registered.
Fine
The local authorities are investigating the reports. The restaurant may be fined € 25,000. …
On 1 May, anti-coronavirus rules for religious services had been relaxed.
High COVID-19 infection rates among doctors and nurses in Germany. By Markus Salzmann, 25 May 2020. According to the public health body Robert Koch Institute, more than 20,000 workers in German hospitals, doctors’ practices, nursing homes and care services are now infected.
Coronavirus suspected of causing rare childhood disease | COVID-19 Special
How vulnerable are children to Covid-19? Signs are mounting the risks are bigger than originally thought. Doctors around the world are working to understand an illness with possible links to the coronavirus, found in children. It shares symptoms with the rare, potentially life-threatening blood condition, Kawasaki disease, which can cause toxic shock. Cases were first reported in the UK, Italy and Spain, and now the United States is seeing clusters of the disorder. The more we live with coronavirus, the more we learn about who it affects and how.
Dutch hospitals have treated twenty children in recent weeks for a rare inflammatory disease. They had symptoms of Kawasaki disease. Eleven of them were also found to have antibodies to the new coronavirus in their blood, meaning they had that disease recently.
In New York alone, there are 102 patients, according to Governor Cuomo. Three children have died. Fourteen other U.S. states also report cases, according to The New York Times.
In France, the total number of cases last week had risen to 135. One little patient has died.
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