These 5 principles could stop coronavirus surges, Fauci says
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US’ top infectious disease expert, said on MSNBC Wednesday that adherence to five principles could help stop coronavirus surges happening in states. The principles are: Universal wearing of masks Avoiding crowds Physical distancing of at least 6 feet Typical hand hygiene Avoiding...
Iran reports 2,636 new cases of coronavirus in one day
Iran has recorded 2,636 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 298,909. Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said Wednesday that among the cases,1,604 people have been hospitalized. Lari said there were 196 additional...
India’s coronavirus cases surpass 1.5 million
India’s total number of coronavirus cases surged past 1.5 million on Wednesday, according to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. India hit a million cases of coronavirus on July 17, six months after its first infection was discovered on January 30. Since then,...
China reports more than 100 new coronavirus cases for first time since April
China recorded 101 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the highest single-day increase since early April, according to numbers released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. Among the new cases, 98 were locally transmitted, including 89 in the far western region of Xinjiang where a...
Trump wonders why Fauci is so popular when he is so unpopular
US President Donald Trump says his relationship with Dr. Anthony Fauci is “very good” but wonders why the doctor’s approval rating is so high when his is so low. Speaking a day after he retweeted a message claiming Fauci had misled the public, Trump chalked...
Coronavirus: German officials ‘very concerned’ by rising cases
The head of Germany’s public health agency has said he is “very concerned” by rising infections in the country. “We are in the middle of a rapidly developing pandemic,” Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), told reporters. Mr Wieler said Germans had...
Trump and GOP senators again put economic openings ahead of suppressing virus
US President Donald Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill are still fighting the pandemic they wish existed, rather than a virus that unfolds at its own pace and is oblivious to their artificial political and economic timetables. Despite his supposed turn to taking the...
China reports highest number of local Covid-19 cases since early March for second day in a row
China reported 68 novel coronavirus cases on Monday, including 64 locally transmitted infections, the country’s National Health Commission said on Tuesday morning. This is the second consecutive day that China has reported the highest number of local cases since March 6. On Monday, the country reported 57 new...
Mexico nears 400,000 coronavirus cases, the second highest in Latin America
Mexico recorded 4,973 new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the country’s total to 395,489. On Friday, Mexico surpassed Peru’s total number of coronavirus cases, making it the country with the second highest number of infections in Latin America and sixth highest worldwide, according to Johns...
Britain prepares for four-way winter crisis
The UK is preparing for multiple crises this winter, with the possibility of a second coronavirus spike, a flu outbreak, winter flooding and disruptions caused by the Brexit transition threatening to overwhelm national resources, a senior military official has said. “The [Covid-19] crisis is still...
Trump administration sends another $5 billion to nursing homes to fight coronavirus
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it is sending $5 billion to nursing homes and state veterans’ homes to fight the growing coronavirus epidemic. The money can be used to hire additional staff, implement infection control, increase testing and provide additional services, such as technology...
Brazilian Health Ministry says the coronavirus situation seems “under control”
Brazil’s interim health minister said Wednesday the coronavirus situation seems “under control,” despite the country reporting a record number of new cases Wednesday. In a press conference before the country’s official daily Covid-19 numbers were released, interim Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said, “The scenario seems...
Flights resume in Iraq as cases pass 100,000
More than 100,000 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Iraq, government figures published on Thursday showed. The total number of infections reached 102,226, while 4,122 people have died so far. The news comes as the country resumed commercial flights from the cities of Baghdad,...
Brazil sees record daily cases
Brazil has registered a record number of new coronavirus cases – more than 67,000 over the course of the past day. The health ministry also reported almost 1,300 deaths for that period. With more than 2.2 million confirmed infections, Brazil has the second-worst outbreak after...
Coronavirus: Thousands of unexplained deaths in South Africa
There are concerns the death toll from the coronavirus in South Africa may be significantly higher than official figures currently show. A record 572 deaths from the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours. But researchers from South Africa’s Medical Research Council say...
Staring down defeat, Trump attempts a coronavirus reset
A month ago, he insisted the novel coronavirus was “dying out” in the U.S. As the pandemic overwhelmed huge swaths of the nation, he maintained the threat was “fading away.” Health officials across the nation begged him for more attention on the widening health crisis...
Tension, infighting roil Trump White House as coronavirus strategy sputters
Physicians on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, particularly its coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, are frustrated that warnings about rising cases are being ignored, and dismayed that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the renowned U.S. infectious disease expert, has been demeaned and disparaged, officials said. Trump, who...
NYC is now the worst place to do business, retailers say
New York City’s progress fighting the coronavirus is doing little to help retailers, who say business in the city that never sleeps has become worse than anywhere else in the country. National retailers — from Shake Shack, Applebees, and cap seller Lids — say their...
Federal agents, Portland protesters standoff as chaos envelops portions of city
PORTLAND, Ore. — Even after tear gas choked downtown Portland in the early hours of Tuesday, Riots Ribs kept the food coming. A volunteer, who has been camped outside the Multnomah County Justice Center since demonstrations against police brutality began more than 50 days ago,...
Trump says coronavirus crisis will probably ‘get worse before it gets better,’ repeats it will ‘disappear’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered a newly sober projection for the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, warning Americans that the country had not yet seen the worst of it. “It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. Something I don’t like saying about things,...
Coronavirus updates: Fauci says he wasn’t invited to White House briefing
The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 613,000 people worldwide. Over 14.8 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at...
Probably will ‘get worse before it gets better’: A solo Trump at pandemic briefing
President Donald Trump held his first press briefing focused on the coronavirus crisis in nearly three months on Tuesday — by himself — without any experts from the White House task force. “Today, I want to provide an update on our response to the China...
French President Macron “slammed his fist on the table” during tense EU talks on virus recovery fund
French President Emanuel Macron “slammed his fist on the table” in anger during crunch overnight talks on the EU coronavirus recovery fund, French officials said. The officials said there had been a “tough moment last night” as European leaders struggle to reach an agreement on...
EU leaders still haven’t agreed on coronavirus recovery deal
After three days of marathon talks, European leaders have been unable to reach an agreement on a landmark initiative to fund Europe’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Leaders will reconvene in Brussels on Monday afternoon. After all-night discussions, talks stalled early Monday after leaders couldn’t find...
India records more than 40,000 new Covid-19 cases in largest 24-hour increase yet
India has recorded 40,425 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily increase since the outbreak began, the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced today. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India has now reached 1,118,043, the third-highest...
Mexico reports almost 300 dead from coronavirus in a single day
Mexico’s coronavirus epidemic is continuing to grow, with the country’s death toll now nearing 40,000 people. The Health Ministry reported 296 people died of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours on Sunday. To date, a total of 39,184 people have died of the...
Japan records 510 new Covid-19 cases, including Osaka’s highest number since April 9
Osaka, the second largest prefecture in Japan, announced its highest daily total of new coronavirus cases yet, half of which it said were still untraceable. Japan recorded 510 coronavirus cases on Sunday, the Health Ministry said in a statement released today. Osaka confirmed 89 infections...
EU coronavirus recovery deal: Wrangling over huge plan enters fourth day
EU talks aimed at reaching an agreement on a huge post-coronavirus recovery fund have stretched into a fourth day. The main division is between countries hit hardest by the virus – such as Italy and Spain – and some EU members seeking to limit the...
Nigerian foreign minister tests positive for Covid-19
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has tested positive for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. He is a member of a presidential task force on Covid-19 that is coordinating the country’s response to the pandemic. Mr Onyeama announced in a tweet on Sunday...
Iran reports 2,379 new cases of coronavirus in 24 hours
Iran has recorded 2,379 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 269,440. Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said Friday that 852 people with the disease have been hospitalized. Lari said there were 183...