Trump’s CDC Visit Back on After Cancellation Over Suspected Coronavirus Case
President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta is back on after being temporarily cancelled due to a suspected coronavirus case there, according to the White House. Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday night that Trump was visiting the CDC the next day and would sign the bill providing funding for the response to the virus while on the trip. The trip wasn’t on a schedule released by the White House around midnight. Trump told reporters at the bill signing in Washington early Friday that the trip to the CDC was scrapped because of a suspected case of the new virus, which has spread to roughly a dozen U.S. states as of Friday. “They thought there was a problem at CDC…
OTTAWA—The Inuit Circumpolar Council says if the novel coronavirus spreads to the North, communities in Canada, Alaska and Greenland are at a much higher risk of exposure because of a chronic lack of basic infrastructure and resources.
The group says the Inuit must be considered in government responses because of the potential compounding threat to basic health and well-being in those communities.
The ICC says many communities lack sewers and running water, putting people at greater risk of contracting the virus and its accompanying respiratory disease, COVID−19.
They have also called on governments to close those infrastructure gaps to protect against future health threats.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday, urging him to make sure Indigenous and Inuit communities are not disproportionately affected if a widespread outbreak of the virus hits Canada.
The NDP says Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller should be on the new COVID-19 cabinet committee struck earlier this week to provide an all-government approach to combating the virus.
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Three Biogen Workers Test Positive for New Coronavirus After Boston Meeting
Three workers at the U.S.-based Biogen Inc. tested positive for the new coronavirus after attending a meeting in Boston, the company said. The Massachusetts-based drugmaker said in a statement that some of its employees reported flu-like symptoms after the meeting in Boston last week. Three of the patients tested positive for the new virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19, while others were diagnosed with the flu. COVID-19 has symptoms similar to the flu, including shortness of breath, fever, and coughing, health officials have said. “At the present time, these individuals are doing well, improving and under the care of their healthcare providers,” Biogen said. Two of the patients traveled to Boston from a state outside Massachusetts while the other two are from Europe, the company said. Biogen has asked…
