"The group and its business have been adversely affected by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused an unprecedented near-shutdown of the global passenger aviation industry," according to the court papers. "Global aviation was one of the first industries to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and is likely to be one of the last to fully recover." … [Read more...] about Virgin Atlantic files for bankruptcy in U.S.
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Coronavirus live updates: Unemployment eases, but data glitch clouds state infection counts
11:05 a.m. San Mateo County resists watch-list designation: San Mateo County health chief Louise Rogers said Tuesday she will continue pressing California officials to lift the latest restrictions on businesses. The state put the county on the state monitoring list Saturday, forcing closure of barbershops and salons, gyms, malls, nonessential offices and places of worship. Rogers reemphasized to the Board of Supervisors that local officials don’t see those as transmission sources.“We are going to ... keep that dialogue going and make the point that the mitigations that have been enacted are not going to impact our spread,” Rogers said. “We’re going to continue to advocate that we get off the list as soon as possible.” … [Read more...] about Coronavirus live updates: Unemployment eases, but data glitch clouds state infection counts
Coronavirus live updates: Jobless claims fall, 16 million still collecting unemployment
6:05 p.m. Twitter blocked new tweets from ‘Team Trump’ account: Twitter officials said Wednesday they banned Trump’s campaign account, “Team Trump,” until it removed a post containing misinformation on the coronavirus, according to the Washington Post. The account tweeted a video from a clip of an interview Trump conducted with Fox News on Wednesday morning. Trump said, without evidence, that, “If you look at children, children are almost — and I would almost say, definitely, but almost —immune from this disease.” Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley told the Post that the tweet violated the company’s “Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation. The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again.” The post was removed and the account was active Wednesday night. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus live updates: Jobless claims fall, 16 million still collecting unemployment
