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Ten U.S. governors on the east and west coasts banded together on Monday in two regional pacts to coordinate gradual economic reopenings as the coronavirus crisis finally appeared to be slowing down, Reuters writes. Announcements […]

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Around seventy coronavirus vaccines are in development, with three being tested in human trials, the World Health Organization said. The outbreak has stabilized across the U.S., according to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and […]

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The United States needs to ramp up testing for the coronavirus as the White House considers when and how to lift stay-at-home restrictions and lockdowns triggered by the pandemic, U.S. health experts said on Sunday, […]

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South Korea plans to send kits designed to run up to 600,000 coronavirus tests to the United States on Tuesday after an appeal from President Donald Trump, a Seoul official said, Reuters writes. Trump made […]

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Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they’d been started earlier, and when they’re eased new cases are certain to arise, said the nation’s top infectious disease […]

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised doctors for saving his life during his week-long hospitalization for Covid-19 treatment that has left him too weakened to resume immediate leadership of the government, Bloomberg reported. Looking pale […]

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it was looking into reports of some COVID-19 patients testing positive again after initially testing negative for the disease while being considered for discharge, Reuters writes. South Korean […]

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The United States surpassed Italy on Saturday as the country with the highest reported coronavirus death toll, recording more than 20,000 deaths since the outbreak began, Reuters reported. The grim milestone was reached as President […]

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President Donald Trump said on Friday he faced his biggest decision yet with regard to when to re-open the U.S. economy from its coronavirus shutdown and pledged to listen to health experts when making that […]

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Political leaders and health experts urged Americans celebrating Good Friday and the Easter weekend under threat of the coronavirus to avoid church gatherings and observe the holidays at home as the U.S. death toll from […]

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The top U.S. infectious disease expert warned on Friday that even though hard-hit spots like New York are showing positive results in the battle against coronavirus, it is too early to relax restrictions on Americans, […]

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The New York governor signed an order to bring in additional funeral directors as the number of coronavirus cases in the state outpaced all countries except the United States, CNN reported. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive […]

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China took new measures on Wednesday to try to prevent asymptomatic “silent carriers” of the new coronavirus from causing a second wave of infections, as the country reported another modest rise in confirmed cases, Reuters […]

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Earl Kerr, a 57-year-old electrical contractor in Jacksonville, Florida, says he fears for his 80-year-old mother, who entered an assisted living facility just before the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States. And he says he […]

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Many more people are dying from coronavirus infections in hospitals around the U.K. than the government is able to indicate in its closely watched daily updates, new figures show, Bloomberg informed. A total of 1,649 […]

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The warmer weather in the last few days is bringing violations of social distance guidelines in the nation’s capital, even as health officials predict the city could become one of the next U.S. hot spots […]

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The Chinese city where the new coronavirus emerged ended its more-than-two-month lockdown on Wednesday, even as a small northern city ordered restrictions on residents amid concern about a second wave of infections, Reuters writes. China […]

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The Saudi Ministry of Health has reported 147 new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Tuesday morning, Gulf News reported. The Ministry pointed out that the total number of confirmed cases in the Kingdom […]

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care on Tuesday after receiving oxygen support for serious COVID-19 complications, leaving his foreign minister to lead the government’s response to the accelerating outbreak, Reuters informs. Johnson’s […]

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The United States is entering what a senior official warned on Sunday would be the “hardest” week of the coronavirus crisis as the death toll mounted, but some saw glimmers of hope from a slight […]

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Mainland China reported 39 new coronavirus cases as of Sunday, up from 30 a day earlier, and the number of asymptomatic cases also surged, as Beijing continued to struggle to extinguish the outbreak despite drastic […]

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