AMERICA'S National Cathedral - the site of many famous ceremonies, not to mention mysterious treasure hunts - has discovered some very useful artefacts this week.
Apparently during a previous health scare about a decade ago - think SARS, MERS, swine flu, bird flu - officials stocked up on more than 5,000 face masks, which were then forgotten about in the ensuing years.
The respirator masks, found during a clean-up of the cathedral's crypt, have now been donated to two Washington DC hospitals to help during the COVID-19 crisis, after confirmation with the manufacturer and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they were still OK to use.
A handful were saved for clergy to use while visiting the ill.
Well this is somewhat ironic, in view of US President Trump's repeated attempts to build a wall between America and its southern neighbour.
A group of protestors in the Mexican state of Sonora have been carrying out demonstrations in an attempt to watch Americans crossing the border from nearby Arizona.
The face mask wearing activists, carrying signs telling US citizens to "stay at home," are calling for medical testing to be done on anyone who crosses from America, which currently has more than 65,000 cases of coronavirus illness.
Mexico has less than 500.
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