Global Affairs Canada says it has received more than 1,300 loan applications through its COVID-19 Emergency Loan Program for Canadians Abroad. It says it has already paid out $1.8 million to 500 recipients who either need money to get home or to cover their living expenses where they are stuck.
The U.S. government and Florida officials were working on a plan on Wednesday to allow thousands of cruise ship passengers exposed to an on-board coronavirus outbreak to disembark, a day after President Donald Trump said the state needed to "do what's right."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government was under fire Wednesday for failing to keep its promise to increase the amount of testing being done for COVID-19, even as the country saw its biggest rise yet in deaths among people with the virus, to 2,352.
Ranitidine will not be available for use in the U.S. after FDA pulls all remaining prescription and over-the-counter products containing the ingredient found in the heartburn medication Zantac.
Wimbledon was cancelled on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, the first time since World War II that the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament won't be played.
