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Coronavirus reaches new countries as crisis seems to ease in China

Among the dead was a member of a council that advises Iran's supreme leader, according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency. Experts worry Iran's percentage...

Here's Exactly How to Wash Your Hands, According to the CDC

Which in today's environment, is, well, a problem. So if you are even slightly in doubt as to how to give your hands a good once-over, the Centre for Disease...

Americans Should Stop Buying Masks — Surgeon General

Doctors say if there is a shortage of the masks, health care providers who do need them can't get them for sick patients. Facemasks have been in short supply ...

World Health Organization joins TikTok to fight misinformation around Coronavirus

However, the video indicates that you do not need a mask if you are not experiencing symptoms. "You have a duty to your citizens, you have a duty to the world t...

San Antonio patient released from quarantine tests positive for coronavirus — CDC

Officials in San Antonio expressed concern after CDC officials announced the release of a person they isolated after returning to the US from Wuhan, China, on a...

Trump campaign, Republicans raise $86 million in February

Trump, in an early morning tweet, said they would discuss "progress on a vaccine and cure". Trump told the rally that Indians "have a great leader, and they h...

Australia confirms first community transmissions of coronavirus

The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak an worldwide health emergency and said the global risk level remains high. "He is now being cared for ...

Super Tuesday cheat sheet: Virginia race at a glance

The donor said Buttigieg read a statement but kept it short. The crowd interrupted his speech with chants of "2024". On the campaign trail, Buttigieg presen...

Supreme Court will hear another case threatening ObamaCare

The case likely will be heard in the fall, with a decision expected by June 2021. In its December ruling, the federal appeals court concluded that without the...

Ontario confirms eighth coronavirus case; man had travelled to Egypt

January 26, 2020: The wife of the Toronto man who was Canada's first "presumptive" case of the new coronavirus becomes the second presumptive case. He did not d...

Bill Gates calls Coronavirus outbreak once-in-a-century pathogen

In a lengthy analysis published February 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine , Gates sought to drive home the point it's vital to "solve the immediate pr...

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds engaged and expecting baby

Symonds was formerly a communications director for Johnson's Conservative Party , and made headlines previous year when she and Johnson had a noisy argument ...

33 pm] Second US Resident Dead in Covid-19 Outbreak

The Seattle and King county public health department confirmed late on Sunday that a man in his 70s who was a resident of the Life Care long-term care facility...

Trump says not to panic after first coronavirus death on United States soil

They are now at Evergreen Hospital. Both were residents at LifeCare Center nursing facility in Kirkland, and died at Evergreen Hospital. Late on Sunday, Flo...

Moderna Shares Surge As Drugmaker Delivers First Coronavirus Vaccine

Institute Director Anthony Fosi in an interview with The Wall Street Journal noted that the vaccine trials will start in April 2020. Shares in the company, ...

Australia confirms first community transmissions of coronavirus, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories

Australia, one of the first countries to put restrictions on its borders in a bid to limit the spread of the virus, confirmed its first death from the disease y...

Covid-19 death toll in Mainland China rises to 2788 - health authorities

Other patients have been contained to B.C. and Ontario. Airborne transmission has not been reported for COVID-19 and it is not believed to be a major source o...

TOP STORY: Winneshiek County Public Health says it's prepared for the coronavirus

There have been two confirmed cases in IL of the disease that has affected more than 82,000 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. In...

WHO raises global risk of coronavirus spread to ‘very high’

Hopes that the epidemic that started in China late past year would be over in months, and that economic activity would quickly return to normal, have been sha...

Global coronavirus death toll surpasses 3,000

South Korea, the biggest nest of infections outside China, reported almost 500 new cases on Monday, raising its total past 4,000. A majority of the cases ha...

France closes Louvre as virus cases mount in Europe

Ireland also confirmed its first case of coronavirus on Saturday after a man who had returned from northern Italy tested positive, the government said. Ki...

Two possible coronavirus cases in Florida

Both were identified as adults, though their ages weren't released. One patient is now being monitored at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. Shortly after the an...

202 new COVID-19 cases reported on Chinese mainland

And at the moment - close to 88,000 people are infected globally. Mainland China had 202 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections yesterday, sharply down ...

Rhode Island patient tests positive for the coronavirus after traveling to Italy

Saint Raphael Academy, a Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Catholic high school located on the MA border, posted an online statement Sunday afternoon that said student...

Disha Patani has the sweetest birthday wish for her baagh Tiger Shroff

Tiger is a huge fan on Hrithik after all. "I was way too nervous and shy to dance next to you (of course I couldn't do quite an impressive job, given the right ...

NMC Health removes CEO as investigation into finances continues

Operator of the largest medical network in the United Arab Emirates, NMC had commissioned a review of potential financial discrepancies. The review revealed t...

Coronavirus: Global risk upgraded to ‘very high’

In Paris, priests stopped placing sacramental bread in worshippers' mouths. There are now four such cases in the United States, all on the Pacific seaboard,...

Bernie Sanders Meets His Biggest Threat

For Sanders, who is the frontrunner on the Democratic side, MA is an important state to win because Warren represents it in the U.S. Senate. Coming in after S...

Second man dies of coronavirus in US

Health officials in several states including Washington, California and OR warned that at least four cases occurred in patients who had never traveled outside...

Coronavirus Vaccine Ships From Mass. To National Institute

The Massachusetts' company has sent its COVID-19 vaccine to government officials for human testing. Initial clinical results could be available by July or Augus...