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One day last year, $13 million arrived in the bank account of Bethel’s tribe, Orutsararmiut Native Council.
“I was sitting at my desk and my then-chief accountant came to the door,” recalled ONC Executive Director Mark Springer. “And he had a piece of paper in one hand, and he was clutching his chest in his other.”
The money, which would soon grow to $14 million, was ONC’s distribution from a fund for tribes that Congress passed in the CARES Act.
Amid pandemic anxiety, it was a godsend for remote communities struggling to keep COVID-19 at bay. In Alaska, 225 tribal governments split more than $300 million, with amounts ranging from less than $100,000 to more than $20 million.
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Bangladesh Enforces Weeklong Virus Lockdown
Bangladesh began enforcing a weeklong nationwide lockdown Monday, shutting shopping malls and transportation as authorities try to stop a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.
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Bangladesh began enforcing a weeklong nationwide lockdown Monday, shutting shopping malls and transportation as authorities try to stop a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.
The decision came after health authorities said that they were facing overwhelming pressure in intensive care units in recent weeks because of severe infections. This is the second time the South Asian nation has enforced a virus lockdown after the first last March.
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MANILA, Philippines â The Philippine government extended a lockdown by another week Monday after an alarming spike in coronavirus infections continued to surge and started to overwhelm many hospitals in the capital and outlying regions.
President Rodrigo Duterte placed Metropolitan Manila and four outlying provinces, a region of more than 25 million people, back under lockdown last week as daily infections breached the 10,000-mark. Leaders of the dominant Roman Catholic church shifted its Holy Week and Easter events online after all public gatherings, including in places of worship, were temporarily banned.
The government-run Lung Center of the Philippines became the latest hospital in the capital region to announce over the weekend that it can no longer accept walk-in patients after its COVID-19 ward reached full capacity while its emergency room was now handling twice its capacity.