Moscow’s real coronavirus infection toll is more than 250,000 says the city’s mayor despite official figures saying the figure is 57,300 Moscow mayor says the infection rate is far higher than officials have recorded If he’s right, 2 per cent of Moscow’s population would be infected with Covid-10 Before the mayor’s revelation Russia had reported … Read more
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has admitted that bars, restaurants and social spaces in the capital could remain closed for the foreseeable future, even if lockdown restrictions are eased, while warning that Londoners will have to face a bleak ‘new normal’. The mayor added that people living in the city will only be able to have … Read more
A spike in heart attacks in mid-February could have been an early sign that the coronavirus was starting to spread in New York City before it became the epicenter for the illness in mid-March. Data from New York shows that there was an uptick in 911 calls for cardiac arrest in Brooklyn and Queens in … Read more
Coronavirus dead across New York could be temporarily buried on Hart Island as morgues across the city start to overflow. America’s coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead as the disease has brought the city to its knees. Undertakers are so overcrowded that a city official raised the … Read more
Olé! It’s Spain’s Flamenco secret: Discovering the tiny Seville bar named after one of the city’s most notable dancers Casa Anselma is deep in the heart of the working-class neighbourhood of Triana It is named after the proprietor who was once a well-known flamenco dancer Rows of chairs are in front of the dancefloor, with … Read more
The soul of New York City is on the ropes. The statewide mandate shutting down all nonessential businesses and ordering residents to stay indoors turned the ‘City That Never Sleeps’ into an overnight ghost town. New York based photographer Phil Penman took to the desolate streets to capture a portrait of the city on lockdown. … Read more
New York City’s streets continue to be an eerie and disturbing sight, empty of tourists and residents as locals shutter themselves indoors to avoid the coronavirus outbreak. The Big Apple’s subway system that usually shuttles millions of commuters a day is now desolate, with the few passengers who brave the journey wearing protective face masks … Read more
Growing fruit and vegetables on roadside verges and in urban parks could feed thousands of city dwellers and help to reduce the UK’s reliance on foreign exports Growing fruit and veg on unused green land could help improve UK food security Green urban spaces could give 15 per cent of a city’s population with ‘five … Read more
NYPD transit chief has coronavirus: Cop who protects city’s 5.6m daily subway riders falls ill with a fever as De Blasio warns that city’s 326 cases will dramatically increase NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Edward Delatorre tested positive for coronavirus toward the end of last week Late Sunday, Delatorre’s fever had subsided and he was resting … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more