18110 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/nassau-suffolk-covid-19-emergency-spending-1.43630271Nassau is seeking to buy more ventilators, "but the prices have been really skyrocketing," Chiara said. "The federal government is really going to all the suppliers, so you're sort of left with the second and third levels of distribution, which just becomes much more expensive," said Chiara.Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:15:00 +0200newsday-USA-9776bb932abd5830fe5e23608e3ff28120200405141500https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/a-nation-built-to-withstand-a-pandemic/article31258663.ece‘Rows of masked commuters line the train compartment, eyes trained on their phones, bodies held slightly away from each other In Japan, this kind of a scene was par for the course on the metro long before coronavirus became a standard part of everyone’s lexicon.Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:18:00 +0200thehindu-9599bea0b361a2c5d2d341b2bc2d86ba20200404191800https://missoulian.com/news/world/pandemic-hurts-ability-of-nations-to-face-natural-disasters/article_9a3d477a-815b-54b1-8d82-2bbdfcd6165e.htmlFILE - In this March 22, 2020, file photo, firefighters carry a person on a stretcher after a strong earthquake in Zagreb, Croatia. The virus outbreak is compromising the ability of nations to prepare for natural disasters and deal with the aftermath. Every year, the world contends with devastating typhoons, wildfires, tsunamis and earthquakes.Sat, 04 Apr 2020 07:20:00 +0200missoulian-a4cc74b332eb2f7b2f8948cf6d82195e20200404072000https://muscatinejournal.com/news/world/pandemic-hurts-ability-of-nations-to-face-natural-disasters/article_999e8cf8-b825-5f85-bc66-bdb78dbbc6b4.htmlFILE - In this March 22, 2020, file photo, firefighters carry a person on a stretcher after a strong earthquake in Zagreb, Croatia. The virus outbreak is compromising the ability of nations to prepare for natural disasters and deal with the aftermath. Every year, the world contends with devastating typhoons, wildfires, tsunamis and earthquakes.Sat, 04 Apr 2020 06:44:00 +0200muscatinejournal-a4cc74b332eb2f7b2f8948cf6d82195e20200404064400