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For every coronavirus case reported, 10 likely went unannounced — CDC

The University of Washington predicts 180,000 United States deaths by October - or 146,000 if 95% of Americans wear masks. Now, the CDC says it has removed the ...

Family's surprise party photo before 18 people diagnosed with virus

Rob Barbosa said that only seven of his family members who attended the May 30 bash for his daughter-in-law's 30th contracted the bug, but then took it home and...

COVID-19 Fatalities In Single Digits For 5th Day In A Row

Meanwhile, Ehresmann said preliminary results from the last two weeks of community testing in the Twin Cities indicated a positivity rate of 0.2% among the whit...

Ontario Nail Salon Gets COVID-19 Outbreak Just Weeks Into Stage 2

A sign on the door at the Binh's Nails and Spa Salon says the salon is closed due to "a customer having COVID-19". In a statement, the health unit says all cl...

Texas slams brakes on its reopening process as coronavirus cases soar

During his interview with KFDA-TV, Abbott said the state is also working to ensure businesses that have opened remain in compliance with safety measures. Texa...

Asymptomatic Coronavirus Carriers Can Shed Virus on Surfaces

The antibody test is used to determine if someone previously had COVID-19 and not to diagnose an active infection. However, at present, it is not clear what a p...

1 new case of COVID-19 in Manitoba's Southern health region

An investigation into how he contracted the virus is ongoing, the province said in a news release. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 19 tes...

Ontario reports 189 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths

Several states set single-day COVID-19 case records this week, including Arizona, California, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. Of the province's 34 pu...

Delayed election results may be new normal during pandemic

Booker also had a lopsided advantage so far in Lexington, the state's second-largest city. McGrath now trails Booker, a progressive state representative, by a...

Governor Abbott announces temporary pause of additional reopening phases

At the time, the governor said that "closing down Texas again will always be the last option", but added that if the spike continues, "further action will b...

COVID-19: Health officials announce 20 new cases, 2 new deaths

As for the rest of the cases, Henry said that broken down by health regions in the province, equates to 970 cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, 1,504 in Fraser H...

One new case of COVID-19 identified in Manitoba on Thursday

Henry said one of the new cases was a public school teacher in the Fraser Health region, adding that "none of the students are exposed from that case". This bri...

Governor Announces Mandatory Face Coverings, Extension Of "Safer At Home" Order

There are exceptions that include situations when a medical condition will not allow for a face covering and children under 11-years-old. What they're saying...

CDC expands list of who's most at risk for the coronavirus

Redfield estimates that between 5% to 8% of the USA population has been exposed. He points to results from community-wide antibody tests and other surveillance ...

Fewer people dying in COVID-19 surge than March, April — CDC

The estimate for infections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is based on nationally representative antibody test surveys, which suggest that th...

Victoria calls in military to assist amid soaring cases

The uptick in new infections has seen thousands of people seek COVID-19 tests. "The first three days are exclusively focused on Keilor Downs and Broadmeadows,...

Melinda Gates: These people deserve to get coronavirus vaccine first

There are 16 candidate vaccines in clinical evaluation and a further 125 in preclinical evaluation according to the World Health Organization. "The aim of the...

Prince William Visited Oxford Scientists Developing a Vaccine Against COVID-19

The vaccine is made from a virus called ChAdOx1 - a weakened and non-replicating version of a common cold virus (adenovirus). Units of CNBG, an affiliate of...

Coronavirus surge causes Apple Stores to re-close seven Houston locations

The seven stores closing for a second time in Houston are Baybrook, Highland Village, Houston Galleria, Memorial City, Willowbrook Mall, First Colony Mall and T...

Gov. Gavin Newsom warns counties to enforce coronavirus precautions

California is trying to balance the need to reopen businesses and sustain the livelihood of its almost 40 million people while simultaneously protecting them f...

Florida reports 5,511 new cases of COVID-19, smashing record again

The Orlando Sentinel reported that Florida had reached a record level of new cases with Tuesday's numbers - 1,400 more than the previous record. A Livings...

Texas pauses coronavirus reopening as cases spike

Texas reported more than 5,000 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, as hospitals in some parts of the state begin to show signs of straining to keep up with the...

Fauci Says Trump Did Not Order Less COVID-19 Testing

In a hearing before Congress on Tuesday about the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci said in his testimony that he is "ca...

Dr. Cathy Slemp resigns from W.Va. Bureau for Public Health

Jim Justice earlier. Justice said he expressed a "lack of confidence" in Slemp to the secretary West Virginia's health department, who subsequently asked for ...

Australian Qantas to cut at least 6,000 jobs due to coronavirus pandemic

Projected deaths decreased approximately 20,000 from its previous estimate in mid-June, which the IHME attributed to an increasing number of cases detected in y...

India reports 16,922 cases in 24 hours, highest spike till date

With 418 deaths in 24 hours, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 stands at 14,894. However, according to the data, the recovery rate has improved to 57.43 pe...

Gilead's Remdesivir Endorsed as First Covid-19 Treatment in Europe

What Gilead could charge for remdesivir in the United States after its pledged donations are used up has been a topic of intense debate, with experts suggesti...

Red Deer back to no active cases of COVID-19

Outbreaks at Carewest Colonel Belcher, Intercare Chinook Care Centre, Calgary Drop-In Rehab Centre Society, Cascades Recovery+, Fibrebuilt Manufacturing, Harmon...

Human Trial Of Imperial College London's Candidate COVID-19 Vaccine Begins

The prince also visited the laboratory where researchers are analyzing samples from clinical trials that began on April 23 in the UK. The first candidate vaccin...

COVID-19 cases in Douglas County increase to 105; 23 remain active

Hospitals have also seen a steady increase in the number of patients admitted with COVID-19. One group of friends in Jacksonville told the local NBC affiliate...