How to build and deploy coronavirus testing at unprecedented scale
Apr 22nd 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubSARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, is an unobtrusive piece of biological…
Tourists Found Self-Isolating in a Cave After Running Out of Money for Hotels
Near a northern Indian town, six foreign tourists self-confined in a cave after they ran out of loot to pay for hotel stays, according to officials. Police officers said two women and the four men from the United States, Turkey, Ukraine, Nepal, and France had been residing in Uttarakhand inside a cave near Rishikesh for…
Pastor Urges U.S. Citizens to Donate Stimulus Checks to His Church
A pastor, who was accused of almost running over a COVID-19 protester with a bus, is now urging people to donate their stimulus money to his church. Life Tabernacle Church’s Pastor Tony Spell said he, his wife and kids have all donated the stimulus cash they got from the federal government to the church fund…