The coronavirus is infecting New Yorkers of all stripes. A 4-year-old Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the COVID-19 bug after developing a dry cough, the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a statement Sunday. “Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo, has tested positive for COVID-19. She, her...
Even Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and his dog Captain — have the coronavirus isolation blues, the pol said Sunday. “There’s no medical definition for cabin fever, but I believe it exists,” said Cuomo in his now-daily Albany press briefing. “The dog is also experiencing cabin fever,” he said in reference to his shepherd-Siberian-malamute mix. “The...
The coronavirus could break the house for Atlantic City’s casinos, industry experts and officials say. The gambling mecca on the Jersey Shore is now virtually a wasteland that is losing $540 million a month while its casinos remain locked down amid the deadly pandemic, according to the American Gaming Association Meanwhile, more than 26,000 workers...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for COVID-19, was admitted to the hospital due to “persistent symptoms of coronavirus,” the BBC reported Sunday. A government spokeswoman described the move as a “precautionary step” that was “on the advice of his doctor.” Johnson, 55, has been isolating after being diagnosed with coronavirus 10 days...
President Trump said he was meeting with the White House coronavirus task force Sunday and warned Americans that “a rough two weeks are coming up!” “I will be having a White House CoronaVirus Task Force meeting in a short while. May or may not do a News Conference after the meeting, depending on new information....
Queen Elizabeth II made a historic televised address on Sunday — invoking her nation’s war-time spirit in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. “I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time,’’ the 93-year-old UK monarch said in only the fifth time she has addressed her subjects outside of her...
New York City has amassed enough ventilators to stay ahead of the coronavirus — but only for a few more days, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Sunday. “We have bought a few more days here,” Hizzoner said during a City Hall press briefing. “We believe now we can get to Tuesday or Wednesday with the...
A Columbia University surgeon has described in a heart-wrenching letter how he and other doctors are now being forced to choose which non-coronavirus patients, including infants, deserve medical procedures. “We have had to make decisions that I personally have never had to contemplate before,” Manhattan Dr. Emile Bacha wrote to friends and coworkers, according to...
A Berlin official who accused the Trump administration of “modern day piracy” after 200,000 masks for Germany went missing has backpedaled and acknowledged that the supplies were ordered from a local company — prompting a “Corrected Fake News” tweet from President Trump. Andreas Geisel, the interior minister of Berlin’s regional government, said in a statement...
New York City rabbis are turning to Zoom video calls ahead of Passover to help housebound Jews prepare for their Seders — and feel less alone during the traditionally family-oriented holiday. “We have, in a general sense, reached out to everybody, to make sure that everybody is OK in our community,” said Rabbi Moshe Hecht,...
Nearly 3,000 phone chargers are expected to be delivered to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — because coronavirus patients are being rushed there without theirs and have no way to contact loved ones during extended stays, officials said Sunday. A registered nurse who works at NewYork-Presbyterian’s Columbia University Medical Center tweeted Sunday morning asking the public to donate their...
In mid-March, as more Americans were ordered to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a sense of foreboding started to creep up on British rocker Yungblud. His US tour — set to kick off in April at the Coachella music concert in Indio, Calif. — had just been canceled, and his Asia...
A family dispute turned tragic when a Bronx man died after being stabbed by his teenage cousin, according to police sources. Lloyd Hill, 23, was arguing with his 17-year-old cousin just before 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning when the boy pulled a knife and stabbed him multiple times in the neck and torso, sources said. It’s...
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday defended the removal of a Navy captain who blew the whistle about a coronavirus outbreak aboard his aircraft carrier, saying that’s “how we hold leaders accountable. “I think Acting [Navy] Secretary [Thomas] Modly made a very tough decision, a decision that I support,” Esper said Sunday on CNN’s...
An Uber driver was viciously attacked and spit on after he refused to take a handful of phony bills as payment for a fare, cops said Sunday. A 41-year-old driver was completing a ride near the intersection of Third Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan around 2 a.m. Saturday when his passenger tried to pay...
Now that I’m working from home, my boss keeps calling constantly, even out of office hours. What do I say to get her to stop? You could say “I quit” — then you won’t have to deal with it anymore. But I wouldn’t recommend it. These are unusual times. I have no idea what line...
The New England Patriots have shown no known interest in free agent Cam Newton as a potential replacement for Tom Brady, and at least one former team executive believes he knows why. Scott Pioli, who worked in the Pats’ front office for seven years before becoming GM of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009, doesn’t...
Welcome to the new world of working from home. Sure, there’s no commute, but there’s also no barista, no going out for lunch, no reason to get dressed up. What we’re discovering is that it can be awkward, but also full of heart and, sometimes, even funny. Lesson 1: Juggling kids and work has never...
The Navy captain who was removed after he sounded the alarm about a coronavirus outbreak aboard an aircraft carrier he commanded has tested positive for the virus, according to a report Sunday. Capt. Brett Crozier began showing symptoms of coronavirus before he was removed from the USS Theodore Roosevelt last Thursday, the New York Times...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert on the White House coronavirus task force, said Sunday it is likely that the virus will become a seasonal illness. “Unless we get this globally under control there is a very good chance that it’ll assume a seasonal nature,” Fauci told CBS’s “Face The Nation.” Fauci said that...
There’s paying a pair of prostitutes to come over for a sex party and being photographed in your underwear handing out the cash. Then there’s hosting that late-night rendezvous amid a coronavirus lockdown, in flagrant violation of social distancing guidelines. And then there’s doing that mere hours after going on social media to remind your...
The Big Apple tallied two coronavirus fatalities overnight Saturday into Sunday, according to city statistics — a relative respite as the overall death toll rose to 2,256. The number of diagnoses in the five boroughs still rose to 63,767 in the 9:45 a.m. report, a jump of 2,917 from the previous audit released 5 p.m....
Cops broke up a Pink Floyd cover band’s concert — with 30 middle-aged partiers defying lockdown orders — on the front lawn of a New Jersey home over the weekend, authorities said. Rumson Police said they received a complaint Saturday night about an impromptu concert, which was being broadcast on Facebook Live outside of a...
Dick Morris, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, says he doesn’t believe Democrtic frontrunner Joe Biden has a lock on the 2020 nomination — because Gov. Andrew Cuomo could be the recipient of a “write-in movement.” “Biden thinks he has the nomination sewn up, but I’m not so sure. Cuomo has been doing very...
