US

About 25 people a day buried on Hart Island, which has served as a poor man's grave since the nineteenth century.   In this way, the city tries to make the situation feasible for morgues. They must store more bodies than is achievable since the outbreak of the corona crisis. Those who have no relatives who come to claim them within fourteen days will rest on Hart Island. At least temporarily, because the victims can still be excavated. Mayor Bill DeBlasio said earlier this week that it was possible that temporary funerals would take place on Hart Island. Two new trenches have already been dug at the poor old grave, located in The Bronx district, "just in case they are needed," said Jason Kersten, spokesman for the department in charge. On Thursday morning a refrigerator truck wi...

New York State extends the lockdown by two weeks until April 29. The maximum fines for violations of the measures promulgated to stem the spread of the coronavirus will be doubled.   According to Governor Andrew Cuomo, it will be up to to $ 1,000. The schools are closed, and everyone has to stay at home. Residents may only go outside for very urgent matters. In the state, more than 4,000 corona patients have succumbed to the virus. New York is therefore considered to be the epicentre of the Chinese-origin condition in the United States. Approximately 340,000 infections have been registered in the US, and around 9,600 corona patients have died from the effects of the virus.

The US authorities have approved a new rapid test for the coronavirus for emergencies. The test shows whether someone is infected within a few minutes.   The agency that checks drugs, including FDA, authorized the use of the test that can detect the coronavirus in almost two minutes, according to producer Bodysphere. The FDA already approved the Abbott Laboratories test last week, which also indicates the result within minutes. Bodysphere now wants to bring the test to the "front lines" as soon as possible. The test is performed as a glucose (blood sugar) test, but it is intended for professionals only.

US President Trump has signed his bill under a law sent to him by Congress to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.   It was announced on Thursday that both the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed to make 8.3 billion dollars of government money available. Approximately 2.6 billion euros will be spent on research into vaccines, aids to diagnose the virus and treatment of patients. Almost 2 billion is invested in activities to prevent the spread, for example, by paying more attention to prevention. A billion goes to international efforts to ward off the coronavirus. Trump has received a lot of criticism for having reacted too loosely to the arrival of the virus in America.

The leader of the Republican majority in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, would now trust that he has enough senators behind him to quickly put an end to the deposition process against President Trump.   The broadcaster ABC reported that, according to sources from the Republican Party McConnell, a proposal by the Democrats to call witnesses is being voted down. A vote can then follow on Friday as to whether Trump would have been guilty of abuse of power. A majority of senators are predictable to vote for acquittal. A few days ago, McConnell thought aloud that he would not have enough votes to stop witness hearings. Many Republican senators allegedly began to feel interrogated, mainly because of claims made by a former Trump adviser, John Bolton, in a partially leaked manuscript. B...

Will John Bolton, the former security adviser to US President Donald Trump, still testify to the settlement process against the president? The Democrats insist on this now that The New York Times newspaper unpacked excerpts from the manuscript of Bolton's forthcoming book.   According to the newspaper, Bolton writes that Trump personally told him that he would withhold US aid to Ukraine as long as Ukraine did not start a corruption investigation into Trump's political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. "The room where it happened" is the name of the book by John Bolton, the US President's security adviser who was fired in September last year. The book is due mid-March. The manuscript still needs to be approved by the National Security Council in the White House. But even before t...

The US has conducted another rocket test. The projectile was fired Thursday from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the US Department of Defense confirmed.   The test feeds the fear that a new arms race between the great powers America and Russia will start. Washington cancelled the INF treaty at the beginning of August in which a ban on testing with (nuclear) medium-range missiles with a range between 500 and 5500 kilometres was agreed. That agreement was signed in 1987 by American and Soviet leaders Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. According to the US, Russia had not complied with that prohibition for some time by testing with the SSC-8 system with projectiles that could travel more than 2000 kilometres. It was the second time since the treaty was cancelled that t...

House of Representative's Democratic President, Nancy Pelosi, considers that there is enough ground to formally begin the settlement procedure against President Trump.   She has therefore questioned the Chairman of the House of Representatives' Justice Committee to prepare formal charges that could lead to the President becoming deposed. It could most likely be voted on around Christmas. Pelosi quoted extensively from your US constitution inside a six-moment debate and said that two months of investigation on Trump's contacts with Ukraine got made it really clear that Trump had acted in infringement of the constitution. The president had been guilty of abuse of energy for his governmental gain. By purchase of Trump, Ukraine needs to have accumulated incriminating evidence against ...