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A New Jerseyan charged with using a janitorial business to steal intended COVID-19 pandemic relief funds will spend over a year in prison, becoming one of 20 defendants sentenced for a role in the scheme, a judge ruled this week. The U.S. Justice Department last October charged Toni A. Smith with applying for financial assistance through the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Security (CARES) Act,

The White House is not selling commemorative coronavirus coins A website called the White House Gift Shop has caused anger by selling coins "commemorating" the Covid-19 outbreak for $100 (£80) each.

US Senator Bernie Sanders was one of those infuriated by the coins.

“While schools closed and dead bodies filled morgues, Donald Trump downplayed the virus. He told us to inject bleach into our bodies. He peddled conspiracy theories across the country. We lost hundreds of thousands of Americans, and our economy collapsed.” Mr. Trump’s comments, in April 2020, about the efficacy of disinfectants and light as treatments for the coronavirus elicited uproar and

The Chinese government has implemented tighter health screening for travelers from Africa, where an outbreak of monkeypox or “mpox” was recently declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.). China is also stepping up pandemic preparedness drills, which is causing post-traumatic stress among a population that fears the return of the terrible “Big White Men