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Small business help on the way

Small business help on the way Small businesses, desperate for cash to make payrolls without income, are closer to relief; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports.

Coronavirus origins investigation

Coronavirus origins investigation President Trump wants investigators to go to China to look into the origins of the coronavirus; Gillian Turner reports.

Fox Business Flash top headlines for April 20

Fox Business Flash top headlines for April 20 Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com.

Colombia extends coronavirus lockdown until May 11, but some sectors to reopen

Colombia will extend its coronavirus quarantine until May 11, President Ivan Duque said on Monday, but will allow construction and manufacturing to reopen. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3brA1ee

North Korea's Kim getting treatment after cardiovascular procedure: report

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is receiving treatment after undergoing a cardiovascular procedure early this month, a South Korean media report said, amid speculation over Kim's health following his absence from a key anniversary event. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/34OTlji

Panama posts nearly 200 new coronavirus cases, extends flights ban

Panama registered 191 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, bringing the country's total to 4,658 cases, the Health Ministry said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2xKnTqh

Australia edges towards reopening schools as coronavirus infections slow

Students in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, will start returning to school next month in much larger numbers amid a rapid decline in new coronavirus infections, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Tuesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2yuWVTw

Trump says he rejected sum South Korea offered for defense costs

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had rejected a sum offered by South Korea in response to his demand that Seoul pay for a larger share of the cost of U.S. military forces deployed in the country. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2VIbLOp

SFGATE: LA County releases antibody study. It's striking

LA County releases antibody study. It's striking Published on April 21, 2020 at 05:03AM by Eric Ting A few days after preliminary results from a large-scale antibody study in Santa Clara County suggested coronavirus infections in the county are underreported by a factor as large as 50 to 85, results a newly-released antibody study conducted in Los Angeles County contained similar findings.

SFGATE: SF's COVID-19 data by zip code reveals hardest-hit neighborhoods

SF's COVID-19 data by zip code reveals hardest-hit neighborhoods Published on April 21, 2020 at 02:55AM by The city of San Francisco released more detailed geographic data related to COVID-19 cases Monday, segmenting case numbers by city zip code . To date, the city has tested 11,250 people in S.F., with about 1,200 of the tests being returned positive. City-wide, the rate of positive test results is 14.07 per 10,000 people. As Mayor London Breed stated in a press conference, the data illuminates "some of the disparities we knew" — that residents in some neighborhoods who are more at risk of income and health discrepancies have disproportionately tested positive for the coronavirus. “We see in the Mission there are more cases, which is consistent with our findings,” Breed said. “About 25% of those infected are Latino, but the Latino community represents 15% of the population, so there’s a huge disparity there." The Mission District, denoted by the zip code 9411