Amy Coney Barrett: Trump Supreme Court nominee faces questions
US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faces a grilling by Democrats opposing her nomination, in day two of her Senate confirmation hearing. They are likely to cast her as a threat to healthcare reforms passed under former President Barack Obama. The conservative judge said...
NYC schools in COVID hotspots to shut down Tuesday: Cuomo
Gov. Cuomo gave the green light Monday for the city to shut down schools in nine Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods that have seen a troubling surge in COVID-19 infections, though bars, restaurants and other nonessential businesses will remain open for now. Mayor de Blasio asked...
Trump’s allies defend drive-by as doctors consider hospital discharge
President Donald Trump was up and tweeting Monday morning as his doctors prepare to evaluate him and weigh whether he should be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The president’s allies, meanwhile, defended his drive-by outside the hospital late Sunday afternoon. Trump briefly...
He may have survived Covid-19 twice. His symptoms were different
Covid-19 first struck Jordan Josey around St. Patrick’s Day, right as social distancing guidelines were rolling out across the country. The 29-year-old lawyer from Macon, Georgia, was sick through Easter, before eventually clearing the coronavirus, developing antibodies and gradually building up his stamina again by...
White House press secretary tests positive for coronavirus
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for Covid-19, she tweeted in a statement Monday morning. McEnany emphasized that she had previously tested negatively “consistently” and is experiencing no symptoms. McEnany is the latest White House staffer to test positive for the virus,...
Covid: Donald Trump and Melania test positive
US President Donald Trump has said he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus and are now self-isolating. Mr Trump, aged 74 and therefore in a high-risk group, wrote on Twitter: “We will get through this together.” It comes after Hope Hicks,...
Coronavirus: Israel passes law to ban mass protests during lockdown
Israel’s parliament has handed the government the power to ban mass protests during the country’s second nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Demonstrators will be confined to groups of up to 20 people and must stay within 1km (0.6 miles) of their homes. The law should have been...
Coronavirus: Paris poised for maximum Covid alert
French authorities could place Paris under maximum Covid alert from Monday, the country’s health minister warned. Olivier Véran said infection rates in the capital and its suburbs are rising and a decision on imposing new restrictions will be made on Sunday. He added that a...
Covid-19: What drove India close to 100,000 coronavirus deaths
India is on the verge of reporting 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus – a grim toll that ranks it third in the world behind only the US and Brazil. September was the nation’s worst month on record: on average 1,100 Indians died every day from...
Coronavirus: Global Covid-19 death toll passes one million
The number of people worldwide who have died with Covid-19 has passed one million, researchers say, with many regions still reporting surging numbers of new infections. The tally by Johns Hopkins University shows that deaths in the US, Brazil and India make up nearly half...
Coronavirus: Rio 2021 carnival parade postponed indefinitely
Rio de Janeiro’s carnival parade, due to be held next February, has been postponed indefinitely, organisers say. The samba schools involved in the parade had previously warned it would be difficult to organise without a vaccine. Rio’s carnival attracts millions of visitors every year. Brazil...
Six months after pandemic was declared, a look inside the vaccine race
March 16: Seattle, Washington Worldwide: 183,677 confirmed cases, 7,153 deaths US: 4,354 confirmed cases, 97 deaths SOURCE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY The patient’s shoulder was exposed. A syringe quickly injected the candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, developed by Moderna and the federal government. The vaccine, like others, takes...
Minorities lacking in vaccine trials, despite being hit hardest
A new study released on COVID-19 research and clinical trials found in all cases that African Americans are underrepresented, despite being disproportionately affected by the virus. While some blame it on mistrust in the health care system, the doctor who performed the study said outreach...
Trump is finding it all but impossible to change the subject away from coronavirus
(CNN)President Donald Trump is now not just downplaying the coronavirus — he’s resorting to absurd historical allusions about great World War II leaders to try to disguise his culpability in 190,000 American deaths. Trump ridiculously invoked the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the...
Why experts are concerned about India’s low death toll
The country of 1.3 billion people has the second-highest number of cases globally (more than 4.4 million), and the third highest number of deaths (over 75,000), according to Johns Hopkins University — and the outbreak shows no sign of abating. But India’s reported mortality rate...
Mexico has the world’s 4th highest coronavirus death toll
Mexico has the world’s fourth highest coronavirus death toll, but remains No. 8 on the list of most-infected countries globally. Mexico announced 232 new deaths on Sunday, taking the total death toll to 67,558, the world’s fourth highest count of coronavirus deaths, following the US,...
South Korea wants to check citizens for coronavirus and seasonal flu in one test
South Korea is developing a testing kit that can detect seasonal flu and Covid-19 at the same time, according to the country’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) As symptoms of Covid-19 and seasonal flu are similar it’s important to detect the difference for...
India overtakes Brazil as country with second-highest number of Covid-19 cases
India has surpassed Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases after reporting a fresh daily high of 90,802 new infections on Monday. India’s total number of cases now stands at 4,204,613, according to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family...
UK records its highest Covid-19 daily case number since May
The United Kingdom has recorded 2,988 new Covid-19 cases in a 24-hour period — the highest daily number since May, according to government figures published on Sunday. The UK’s total number of recorded cases now stands at 347,152. In addition, two Covid-19 patients have died,...
Coronavirus: India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases
India has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Brazil. The country now has the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 4,204,613. It has reported 71,642 deaths, the third-highest in the...
India reports almost 79,000 new Covid-19 cases, more than 1,000 new deaths in a day
India’s health ministry recorded another 78,903 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, bringing the country’s total number of cases to 3,770,069. The ministry also reported 1,045 new deaths from the virus, bringing India’s death toll to 66,333. On Wednesday, India also recorded 801,282 active Covid-19 cases as...
There’s a legitimate way to end coronavirus vaccine trials early, Fauci says
A Covid-19 vaccine could be available earlier than expected if ongoing clinical trials produce overwhelmingly positive results, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, in an interview Tuesday with KHN. Although two ongoing clinical trials of 30,000 volunteers are expected to conclude...
More than 25,000 coronavirus cases in 37 states reported at colleges and universities
Schools are reopening — and the virus is spreading across US college campuses. At least 37 states are reporting positive Covid-19 cases at colleges or universities, making a total of more than 25,000 cases among students and campus staff. The states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,...
While Covid-19 surge may be slowing in US, officials warn of troubling signs
New Covid-19 cases in the US may be on the decline but some officials across the country’s heartland reported worrisome news this week. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday the state had reached an “unfortunate milestone” by reporting at least one case of the virus...
Georgia, Texas, Florida lead US in Covid-19 cases per capita
(CNN)After adjusting for population, US states in the South and West continue to report the most daily coronavirus cases even after declines over the past few weeks. Per capita, Georgia has reported the most cases per day over a seven-day average of any state, followed...
Overcrowded, overpriced and overwhelmed. The UK’s Covid-19 staycation nightmare
Beaches strewn with waste, wild campers destroying fragile habitats, warnings from an increasingly overstretched Coastguard, unaffordable accommodations. What was supposed to have been a Great British summer has, for many, become a staycation nightmare. Cut off by quarantine regulations from cheap trips to popular overseas...
Are you immune to Covid-19 for three months after recovering? It’s unclear
It’s the question everyone wants answered: How long are we protected from catching Covid-19 after we’ve recovered from the novel coronavirus — and what does that really mean? Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its quarantine guidelines online to say...
New Zealand records seven new locally transmitted cases as latest outbreak continues
Seven new locally transmitted coronavirus cases have been recorded in New Zealand, as the country attempts to contain a new outbreak after weeks of being virus free. According to Ashley Bloomfield, the country’s Director-General of Health, six of the new cases were related to a...
Coronavirus: South Africa crime rate plummets during lockdown
Crime in South Africa dropped by up to 40% during the first three months of its lockdown, official figures show. The police minister said most types of crimes went down between April and June – including sexual assault and arson. He added that a controversial...
India reports more than 64,500 coronavirus cases
India recorded 64,553 new coronavirus cases and 1,007 deaths in the past 24 hours, the country’s Health Ministry announced Friday. The country has reported 2,461,190 Covid-19 cases since the outbreak began, according to the ministry, the third highest in the world after the United States and Brazil. The confirmed...
