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At long last, a new coronavirus stimulus package is finally set to be passed by the US Congress. The last one expired at the end of July. Business Insider reports the long-awaited package will reportedly contain $600 stimulus checks and an extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits. While the House has passed multiple bills that would have offered more to Americans, the GOP-controlled Senate has balked until now. However, the deal hasn't been well-received in the Twitterverse, and has produced references to class warfare and revolution. 'Let them eat cake' trended on Twitter in response to the apparently inadequate $600 stimulus check. It's a famous utterance attributed to Marie Antoinette, representing the out-of-touch monied, ruling class overthrown in the French Revolution.
Manila, May 23 (EFE/EPA).-'Here comes the astronauts!’ - Bystanders joke around while covering their mouths as a group of volunteer health workers - Mercellina Villacampa, Vannessa Morales, Fe Bacunawa and Richell Arsenio - enter an alley in the populous Village 775, Zone 84, in Manila, donning full protective gears to check the area for suspected cases of COVID-19.“It's funny, we used to get irked when we are called names but now we are used to it. Astronaut is their favorite,” the volunteers said.The volunteers have been conducting home visits twice a day since mid-March when Luzon Island was put under lockdown to contain the spread of the pandemic.(Camera: MARK CRISTINO)FOOTAGE SHOWS A GROUP OF VOLUNTEER HEALTH WORKERS - MERCELLINA VILLACAMPA, VANNESSA MORALES, FE BACUNAWA AND RICHELL ARSENIO – CONDUCTING HOME VISITS TO CHECK FOR SUSPECTED CASES OF COVID-19 IN THE POPULOUS VILLAGE 775, ZONE 84, IN MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES.
Paris, Apr 18 (EFE / EPA) .- France registered 642 additional deaths due to coronavirus in the last 24 hours, adding up to 19,323 since the start of the pandemic.The authorities however, reduced the number of seriously ill patients admitted to intensive care, which are now 5,833, compared to 6,027 the day before.According to the French health authorities, there are 111,821 confirmed cases, of which 30,639 are hospitalized. (Image: Christophe Petit-Tesson)FOOTAGE SHOWS CIVIL PROTECTION WORKERS IN THE FIELD IN PARIS, FRANCE.
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
French civil security rescue teams arrive at a NATO military base in the town of Incirlik in the southern Turkish province of Adana. The workers are here to assist the Turkish authorities in the search for survivors following a deadly earthquake that left more than 5,000 people dead in Turkey and Syria. IMAGES
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