New Covid-19 outbreaks in South Korea , Germany and China have highlighted the challenge faced by governments seeking to loosen social restrictions, as millions of Europeans prepare for the tentative Continue Reading
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been self-isolating but will be back at the White House on Monday, while three members of the Trump administration’s task force are in quarantine. Russia Continue Reading
Iran is quarantining part of the oil-rich southwest of the country for the next week, with all main routes into the area closed, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. All banks, Continue Reading
Wuhan, the Chinese city where the global coronavirus pandemic began, on Monday reported its first cluster of new infections since a strict quarantine was relaxed in early April. The setback occurred Continue Reading
North Korea’s government maintains has not reported a single case of Covid-19 there China’s president has expressed concern about the threat of the coronavirus to North Korea and offered help. Continue Reading
The coronavirus pandemic triggered the steepest monthly loss of U.S. jobs since the Great Depression, government data showed on Friday, while Michigan and California prepared to put people back to Continue Reading
An early study from Harvard University linking dirty air to the worst coronavirus outcomes has quickly become a political football in Washington. Presidential candidates, agency regulators, oil lobbyists and members of Congress Continue Reading
The U.N. needs billions more to handle virus fallout. The United Nations more than tripled the size of its humanitarian aid appeal on Thursday to help the most vulnerable countries Continue Reading
A fund-raising conference on Monday organized by the European Union brought pledges from countries around the world — including Japan, Canada, Australia and Norway — to fund laboratories that have Continue Reading
A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly Continue Reading
