coronavirus

Naomi Watts is having a case of the Mondays on a quarantine Tuesday. Taking to Instagram, the 51-year-old actress documented her indoor meltdown as multiple appliances bit the dust in the same 24-hour period. “Quarantine Day #756: When your printer, vacuum cleaner and dishwasher all break in the same day…. #ffs,” Watts captioned the Instagram …

General Motors will make 30,000 ventilators within five months to support the US’s fight against the coronavirus, the feds said Wednesday. The automaker will deliver the life-saving machines to the Strategic National Stockpile by the end of August through a $489.4 million contract with the federal Department of Health and Human Services, officials said. It’s …

Tesla plans to furlough non-essential workers and cut employees’ salaries now that the coronavirus crisis has halted production at some of its factories. The electric-car maker will furlough staff who cannot work from home and are not performing crucial work at its plants, a company official told US employees Tuesday. Tesla expects to restart normal …

Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour has revealed that her physician son, who works at a Manhattan hospital on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, is quite ill and under quarantine. “My son is a doctor,” Wintour said on Instagram. “He is currently quite ill and self-quarantining at home, but when he is able, he will …

A community worker measures the body temperature of a man as police officers inspect his documents at a checkpoint set up at an entrance to a street in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China February 20, 2020. China Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian held his first press conference in several weeks on Tuesday, attempting to walk back …

President Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would temporarily freeze funding to the World Health Organization. “They seem to be very China-centric. And we have to look into that, so we’ll look into it; we pay for a majority of the money that they get,” Trump said at a White House press conference. “And …

Grammy-winning folk and country singer-songwriter John Prine died Tuesday from complications related to coronavirus, his family confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 73. He had been hospitalized March 26 and placed on a ventilator two days later. His family tweeted news about his critical condition the following Sunday: “This is hard news for us to …

Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor agency is launching a new podcast, “Making the Call,” co-hosted by Emanuel’s top-doctor brother. Dr. Zeke Emanuel and Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D., aim to tackle tough questions on the coronavirus crisis. The architect of the Affordable Care Act, Zeke is an oncologist, bioethicist and a University of Pennsylvania vice provost. Moreno’s …

“That’s hell” is how one Met described what could be ahead for players if a plan MLB has mulled to play all of its games in Arizona is enacted. “I mean we’re talking 120 degrees every day and playing weekly doubleheaders and 20 days straight,” the Met said on the condition of anonymity, making reference …

The coronavirus has created a weird divide among the Big Apple’s grocery stores — and the supermarkets that cater to the rich have been caught on the wrong side. Initial waves of citywide binge-shopping in mid-March spurred social media posts of wiped-out shelves and empty freezer bins at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. But since …