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Coronavirus may have infected 10 times more Americans than reported, CDC says

Robert Redfield said on a call with reporters Thursday, NBC News reported . Twenty million infections means that only about 6% of the nation's 331 million pe...

MDHHS reports 389 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths linked to the virus

The state says there have been 5,888 coronavirus deaths in MI. According to the state, there are now 63,009 total cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak began a...

Birthday party leaves 18 in Texas family with coronavirus

COVID-19 infected 18 members of a family in Texas after they went to a birthday party of one relative. Mr Barbosa said his father, Frank, who didn't attend th...

Obamacare Must 'Fall,' Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court

Repeal of the ACA, which is sometimes called "Obamacare", could cause significant harm to the American people, particularly those who depend on the program to a...

8 states contributed 85pc COVID-19 caseload, 87pc deaths: Health Ministry

External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, Civil Aviation Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey were also present in th...

64 new cases, 1 death in Douglas County

The first case was reported in Marshall County on March 23. Iowa had a 9.9 percent increase in cases of people recovering from COVID-19. Only slightly more ...

Forty-one new coronavirus cases in Victoria

Victoria has recorded 41 more cases of coronavirus overnight, including 15 more cases of community transmission. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said it was impor...

As Covid-19 cases surge, Pence touts progress made from earlier peaks

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to ABC News Friday night that the agency is pushing the idea of "pooling" tests, which is when offici...

South Africa Takes Part in Human Trial for Potential COVID-19 Vaccine

Tackling COVID-19 requires the whole world to unite behind the urgent and critical need to develop and distribute tests, treatments, and vaccines against COVID-...

US coronavirus cases hit new single-day record

While Arizona did not set a new record on Wednesday, it did see a record for hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. European nations appear on trac...

Nine out of 10 people are still vulnerable to coronavirus, World Health Organization warns

She also noted, "We do know that Moderna's vaccine is also going to go into phase three clinical trials, probably from the middle of July", referring to the US-...

Covid-19 Patients Show Changes in Behaviour, Other Brain Issues

Strokes were reported in more than 60% of 125 patients in a United Kingdom -wide study who suffered brain problems along with Covid-19, according to research pu...

Two new COVID-19 cases confirmed in West Lethbridge

Of those, 509 cases are still active and 7,225 people have recovered. Of those cases, 223 are within the city of Edmonton and 178 in Calgary. There are also s...

Masks now mandatory in indoor public settings in KFL&A

Public health declared an outbreak at the salon on Thursday and closed it until further notice. As of Friday afternoon, there were 16 confirmed COVID-19 cases...

Coronavirus Cases In US Are Undercounted, CDC Says

That means the CDC estimates more than 20 million people could have been infected with Covid-19. The new CDC statement also updated the list of underlying he...

Confirmed new virus cases hit a new high in US

Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi state health officer, told WAPT 16 ABC. 'Only go to places that are needed, such as doctor's appointments, work, stuff of that nature'...

MMR Vaccine May Be Reason Children Are Less Affected by COVID-19

Jon Deeks, Professor of Biostatistics and head of the Test Evaluation Research Group at the University of Birmingham, said: "We have to ask the question, is th...

U.S. sees daily record of 40,000 new coronavirus cases

Abbott had pursued up to now one of the most aggressive reopening schedules of any state and had not only resisted calls to order the wearing of masks but had a...

Texas is 'pausing' reopening efforts as COVID-19 cases spike

Florida banned alcohol consumption at bars as new coronavirus cases neared 9,000, nearly double the previous record set two days ago. Since June 1, Florida h...

Seventh confirmed COVID-19 case in Marshall County

The county does not report daily hospitalization numbers. All other ZIP codes in the county have five or fewer cases. Now there is one active case in Bureau...

Who will be the first to get a Covid-19 vaccine?

Usually, traditional vaccines are made from a weakened or modified form of the virus, or in some cases, parts of it. It instructs the body's own cells to make...

Wide study shows child virus deaths 'extremely rare'

The study was carried out over a three-and-a-half-week period from April 1 to April 24, during the initial peak of the European pandemic. While a majority of ...

The US May Shift Its Strategy on COVID Testing

The White House coronavirus task force will hold a news briefing on Friday - its first in almost two months - after the United States set a new record for new C...

Covid-19 Friday: 3 deaths, 11 more cases

As of midnight, Thursday June 25, the HPSC has been notified of 11 confirmed cases of Covid-19. It also noted a number of European Union countries reported an i...

Who's at Highest Risk From COVID-19? CDC Updates Its List

Jay Butler, CDC COVID-19 response incident manager. COVID-19 infections in the USA might have been a lot higher than previously thought, according to official...

Covid-19 Thursday: 1 death, 11 new cases

The council area has the second lowest number of cases of all eleven districts with 212 positive cases. It was confirmed this afternoon that another person di...

New York City Marathon, set for November 1, canceled because of coronavirus

Large-scale events like New York City Marathon - with more than 50,000 runners and 10,000 volunteers - present too much risk, organizers from New York Road ...

Coronavirus infections in Victoria continue to rise with 30 new cases identified

A Victorian man in his 80s became Australia's first coronavirus-related death in more than a month, bringing the state's death toll to 20 and the national toll ...

Congo announces end to 2nd-deadliest Ebola outbreak ever

Even as health officials celebrated the end of one Ebola epidemic, they face another, unrelated one more than 1,000 kilometres away in the western city of Mband...

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overturn ACA

The mandate, the Trump administration is arguing, is not severable from the rest of the act, also known as the ACA, or Obamacare. Why it matters: almost 2...