The Positive News Thread

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- It’s looking like a good year for the world’s largest turtle, the endangered leatherback. Conservationists from Thailand and Florida, are seeing unprecedented numbers returning to breed on abandoned beaches https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-turtles-beaches-leatherback-tourists-nests-florida-thailand-a9474371.html

- The coronavirus crisis has inspired warring gangs in South Africa to lay down their weapons and redeploy their distribution skills to get food to townspeople in lockdown https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-cape-town-violent-rival-gangs-south-africa-call-truce-pandemic/

- New cases of coronavirus in Italy have fallen below the number of newly recovered patients for the first time since the outbreak began  https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-latest-update-italy-daily-recoveries-pass-new-cases-1499948

- To combat blood supply shortages, mosques across the United States have teamed up with the Red Cross to open their doors for blood donations during Ramadan https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/494605-muslims-celebrate-ramadan-by-donating-blood

- Meanwhile, a mosque in Scotland is donating the food it would normally make for worshippers to the homeless and others who need it https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-52401237?fbclid=IwAR2wocCMn5tHsuGJwCIydyKg2mzzr6B9Ib7Ldtz5fKJ7egEFekTJLJvj02A