New Zealand is the only country where Parkrun events have resumed Phil Walter/Getty Images BECOMING a covid-19-free zone sounds like the ultimate goal for any nation. Several countries around the world have come pretty close and, according to a […]
The global surge in COVID-19 cases is mainly driven by intense transmission in a relatively few countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said today, with South Africa now among the five hardest-hit countries. The global total […]
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While European countries have managed to keep new infections of Covid-19 at bay, by the time most Americans had emerged from lockdown restrictions a second surge in cases was already underway. Were the requirements met to safely reopen and […]
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Anton Vaganov/Reuters WASHINGTON — Russian hackers are attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the American, British and Canadian governments said Thursday, accusing the Kremlin of opening a new front in its spy battles with the West amid the worldwide […]
The U.S. shatters its single-day record for new cases, with more than 75,600. As clashes over face-covering mandates and school reopening plans intensified throughout the United States, the country shattered its single-day record for new cases on Thursday — […]
Christopher Lee for The New York Times A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to a Texas hospital.
In Depth | Covid-19 Opens in modal lightboxi A World Health Organization trial of COVID-19 treatments has been slow to recruit patients, such as this one in Spain. PHOTO: PAU BARRENA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Viewable Image – a world health organization […]
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The United States again hits a daily record for cases, its sixth in 10 days. Officials across the United States reported more than 59,880 cases on Thursday, setting a single-day record for the sixth time in 10 days, according […]
The coronavirus took hold slowly in India, but six months after its first confirmed infection it has overtaken Russia to record the world’s third largest caseload. With the world’s second-largest population, much of which lives packed into cities, the […]
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The federal government will pay the vaccine maker Novavax $1.6 billion to expedite the development of 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the beginning of next year, the company said on […]