It’s been a month of harrowing milestones set across the country, with the US beating its own daily record of total new coronavirus cases at least nine times.
How seasonal viruses interact with the coronavirus is unknown – it may lessen or sharpen the pandemic – so flu vaccinations are vital Optimists had hoped Covid-19 might not withstand the blistering heat of a British summer. However those hopes have faded: the virus staged a recent resurgence in Iran amid actual blistering temperatures, and has had no trouble […]
The WHO has registered almost 260,000 global COVID-19 cases, a record single-day spike since the start of the pandemic in December. More than 600,000 people have died. Follow DW for the latest.
Victoria state, which includes Melbourne, now has nearly 3,000 active cases of Covid-19 after a further 363 infections were reported Sunday despite a 10-day lockdown. Mask-wearing is not common in Australia and has not been part of the country’s COVID-19 response until now.
Judge Barbara Canales of Nueces County, Texas, talks about the need for medical supplies and testing supplies as medical workers are being overwhelmed by the growth in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the coronavirus.
A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed thousands of people.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said he has recovered from Covid-19 and resumed official activities, two weeks after testing positive for the deadly disease. “Thank you all for your good wishes and support. I am fortunate to be back in the office today (Friday) post #COVID,” he tweeted. Qureshi praised Pakistan’s healthcare […]
U.S., U.K., and Canadian government officials claim Russian intelligence is carrying out cyberattacks in an effort to steal coronavirus vaccine research.
In their first face-to-face meeting since the pandemic began, European Union leaders hope to hammer out a 1.85 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and COVID-19 recovery plan.
U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in June, but the budding economic recovery is being threatened by a resurgence in new Covid-19 infections and high unemployment.
A state-owned Chinese company is boasting that its employees received doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine even before the government approved testing in people
The fall semester has yet to begin, but student athletes training for the season can already be found on college campuses across the U.S. And so can COVID-19. Since the start of July there have been at least two outbreaks among student athletes, coaches, and staff—with 37 infected at the University of North Carolina (UNC)…
[RFI] Imagine you’re in a country standing on the brink of coronavirus. More than 1,000 confirmed cases. Twenty deaths. You know the full force of the pandemic is coming — because it’s already hit the country next door. Your hospitals are marginally better prepared than they were in March. But only marginally: still less than 100 ventilators for a […]
Washington was the initial epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus outbreak, and an early lockdown helped contain it. Six months later, cases are spiking again, and the future looks uncertain.
Shares in AstraZeneca (AZN) spiked almost 5% in after-market trading amid a report that early-stage human trial data on the drugmaker’s coronavirus vaccine candidate will be disclosed on July 20.The stock rose to $60.60 in Wednesday’s extended trading after earlier jumping 7%. Data results from the Phase 1 trial of the potential coronavirus vaccine, also kno […]
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