(Natural News) As the number of coronavirus patients around the world blows past 600,000, governments around the world are turning to invasive surveillance methods to track whether or not their citizens are abiding by lockdown rules. The U.K.’s privacy watchdog has given the government the green light to use persona data from people’s mobile phones to track […]

(Natural News) Almost one out of every four American adults say that they’ve either been laid off or furloughed because of the coronavirus outbreak, a recent poll says. However, the same poll also shows that most Americans are fine with keeping businesses closed down to help fight the coronavirus outbreak. The Reuters/Ipsos March 26-27 opinion poll, released […]

(Natural News) The global coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of over 24,000 people as of Thursday, but that number could have been much, much worse. A new study points out that the outbreak could have caused 40 million deaths had it not been kept in check. The study comes from Imperial College London,  where researchers estimated the potential scale […]

(Natural News) The ongoing coronavirus outbreak could be nature’s way of sending us a message warns Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Andersen stated that humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world and that the coronavirus was one of the consequences of doing so. Andersen, along with other […]

(Natural News) President Donald Trump has set a goal of April 12 — Easter Sunday — for restarting the economy, stating that he’d like to see “packed churches all over our country.” In a briefing on Tuesday, the president said that he was already looking towards easing the advisories that have sidelined workers and led to an […]

(Natural News) As the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese city of Wuhan has been locked down since January 23. Now, it seems like the city is finally ready to open up again as officials have stated that the lockdown on Wuhan will be lifted on April 8. In addition to Wuhan, travel […]

(Natural News) Gas prices are expected to slide down further this month, according to fuel price analysts. This is after oil prices plunged by as much as 26 percent on Wednesday? — an 18-year low. Patrick De Haan, Head of Petroleum Analysis at Gas Buddy, said the worldwide decline in crude oil prices can be linked to […]

(Natural News) World Health Organization (WHO) officials have a warning to young people: they can still get infected with the coronavirus. “You’re not invincible,” WHO director-general  Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on COVID-19. “One of the things that we are learning is that although older people are the hardest-hit, younger people are not spared. Data […]

(Natural News) Following assurances to the public that the U.S. government was ready to hand the coronavirus, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) unloaded a significant portion of his stocks back in February. In the report, which first appeared on the online news site ProPublica, Burr sold off between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings in 33 separate transactions […]

(Natural News) As it turns out, the United States government is looking at a new potential tool to be used in the fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: Big Data. In a report published Tuesday, The Seattle Times said that the federal government is currently in talks with tech conglomerates Facebook and Google, as well as […]