The U.S. may have fewer coronavirus cases than in recent weeks, but the situation is still grim: The country is expected to hit 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths today, just a month after it counted 400,000. As of this writing, there have been 499,902 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., according to data from the Johns […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the sluggish vaccine distribution was due to a supply crunch worsened by inventory confusion inherited from the Trump administration. Health
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The country’s first case of the infection was diagnosed almost exactly a year ago. Health
VATICAN CITY ― A man living in the same Vatican residence as Pope Francis has tested positive for COVID-19 and gone into isolation, the Vatican said on Saturday. The man, who was not identified and did not have symptoms of the illness, left the Santa Marta residence and went into isolation along with others with […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device A further 2,988 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, government data showed. It is the highest number reported on a single day since 22 May and a rise of 1,175 on Saturday, according to the UK government’s coronavirus dashboard. Health […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] That’s a million new COVID-19 cases in a matter of weeks. Health
[unable to retrieve full-text content] California, Arizona, Texas and Florida together reported about 36,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. Health
ROME (AP) — Worldwide confirmed coronavirus infections hit the 10 million mark Sunday as voters in Poland and France went to the polls for virus-delayed elections. New clusters of cases at a Swiss nightclub and in the central English city of Leicester showed that the virus was still circulating widely in Europe, though not with […]
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States surpassed 1 million on Tuesday, more than doubling in less than three weeks, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S., home to about 4% of the global population, has reported about one-third of the world’s more than 3 million known […]
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 soared past 2 million Wednesday, data collected by Johns Hopkins University shows. The figure represents a doubling of confirmed global cases in less than two weeks. Worldwide confirmed cases passed the 1 million threshold on April 2. For perspective, it took roughly four and a half months for the new coronavirus to hit […]
Twelve more people in England and one in Scotland have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of UK cases to 36. Scotland confirmed that its first patient was a Tayside resident who recently returned from Italy. Three of the new cases in England were linked to a man from Surrey, who was the […]
Two more patients have tested positive for coronavirus in England, bringing the total number of UK cases to 15. They have been transferred to specialist NHS infection centres in Liverpool and London, the Department of Health said. The virus was passed on while they were in Italy and Tenerife, said England’s chief medical officer Prof […]
Two people from the same family have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, the chief medical officer for England has announced. It is understood the patients were staying in a hotel in Yorkshire, before being taken overnight to a specialist centre in Newcastle. At least 213 people in China have died from the virus, […]
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Nearly 300 people are being quarantined on a cruise ship at the St. Lucia port in the Caribbean after a crew member was confirmed to have measles. Dr. Merlene Fredericks-James, St. Lucia’s chief medical officer, confirmed the quarantine on Monday in a filmed statement but did not reveal the name of the cruise ship. Neither […]