This is the 96-year-old OAP who spends her days making masks for healthcare workers after being 'adopted' by family friends when she had a fall. Telma, who lives in the eastern Argentine capital Buenos Aires, has known 40-year-old Roxana Grimaldi and her family since the latter was eight years old…
A Tanzanian man who refused to self quarantine and walked around without a mask has sparked outrage in Beijing prompting demands that officials “deport him”. On Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform, a hashtag reading ‘Tanzanian man returns to Beijing and refuses quarantine’ has been seen more than 10 million times…
At least 22 people have now died from an outbreak of coronavirus at a retirement home in Germany amid claims that staff did not wear masks to avoid scaring residents. Officials tackling the crisis at the Hanns-Lilje nursing home in the northern German city of Wolfsburg said that the death…
Decathlon France has blocked online sales of its "Easybreath" snorkelling masks so it can offer 30,000 of them to hospitals that want to turn them into makeshift ventilators. The Easybreath is a full face facial mask from the Decathlon brand, usually used for snorkelling. This model is of interest to…
French media are accusing the United States of having "diverted" masks from China destined for France by buying them up "in cash" right off the runway. French media quote French politician and former MEP Renaud Muselier, 60, who in charge of securing some medical supplies for the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region…
