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Coronavirus Shut-In Relief: New Jersey Reopening Parks, Golf Courses On Saturday

Although the number of new cases of coronavirus in New Jersey has dipped in the last two weeks, Murphy warned that lifting social distancing restrictions an...

Antibody testing for coronavirus offered in ME - with cautions

While the world watches and waits for a COVID-19 vaccine and, perhaps in the more immediate term, the emergence of a reliable antibody testing kit: a number of ...

Interior Health has 169 cases of COVID-19

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry mentioned that the province continues to monitor people returning to the province. Thirteen outbreaks are now declare...

Putin extends national paid leave to May 11

According to health officials, 7,099 people confirmed of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to 106,498 cases. "Battling the threat of...

Oxford University Scientists Announce Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Ready By September

A vaccine candidate for COVID-19 was identified by researchers from the Oxford Vaccine Group and Oxford's Jenner Institute. If the vaccines are able to co...

NYPD called to funeral parlor over foul odor from refrigerated truck

As of April 29 at 1:00 p.m. ET, New York City has recorded 159,865 coronavirus cases and 12,287 confirmed deaths. NYPD detectives were joined by several o...

Protesters return to Michigan Capitol to decry coronavirus order

Earlier this week, the governor extended her stay-home order until May 15, requiring that people wear a face covering when going into public enclosed spaces s...

Nigeria records 195 new cases of COVID-19, total now 1532

In a statement issued in Lokoja on Wednesday and made available to newsmen, the Commissioner for Information and Communication Strategy, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, note...

Coronavirus-related care home deaths in Suffolk and Essex up to 137

Experts have picked up on this and are warning that care home deaths specifically may not have peaked yet and could contribute to a long "tail" of deaths. "Ther...

Area Hospitals Permitted To Do Elective Surgeries

On Wednesday, Cuomo announced he would be signing an executive order allowing elective surgeries in certain counties, none of which are in the downstate region....

Costco is requiring all customers to wear a mask starting May 4

If you're headed on a Costco run, don't forget your mask . The new rule does not apply to shoppers under the age of 2 and people who are unable to wear a mas...

Pug tests positive for coronavirus; first known dog case in U.S.

Winston, a pug in Chapel Hill, N.C., was positive for COVID-19 after being tested as part of a Duke University study, according to local news station WRAL-TV. T...

Patient ombudsman collecting COVID-19 complaints on long-term care homes

Ontario has had about 16,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 1,000 deaths since the outbreak began in late January. The number of active cases in staff at long...

4 more deaths, 34 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C.

There were 39 new COVID-19 cases between Friday and Saturday, and 11 since Sunday, bringing the total to 1,998, with 1,190 of those people now recovered. They a...

Fauci touts remdesivir as coronavirus treatment after study shows success in recovery

The NIAID-sponsored trial began on February 21 and included "about 1,090 plus" participants from various sites around the world, including the U.S., Germany, De...

Possible link between virus and child syndromes

But there's always an exception to the rule, like the unexpected death of a newborn who tested COVID-19 positive, or of a teenager who had no preexisting co...

Mike Pence criticised for Mayo Clinic visit without mask

The clinic has had the policy in place since April 13 and even offered to provide one. Mayo tweeted it had informed Mr Pence of its mask policy before h...

Trump, Fauci see hope with Gilead's drug in coronavirus fight

Only 49 percent of those who received treatment after more than 10 days of symptoms were able to be released, according to Gilead Sciences, which produces remde...

Oxford University Vaccine Protects Monkeys From COVID-19, Human Trials Underway

Pune-based Serum Institute, which is credited with affordable and innovative therapies like pneumonia and dengue vaccines, plans to price the COVID-19 vaccine a...

Prominent Manhattan ER doctor on coronavirus front lines kills herself

But after the hospital sent her home, she re-located to Charlottesville to recuperate under the instructions of her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen. "She was trul...

Coronavirus: Wales care home and hospital deaths pass 1,000

The new ONS data also lays bare the catastrophe unfolding in Britain's care homes. Across England and Wales, nearly four in 10 deaths (39pc) in the week to Ap...

House reverses, will not return from recess next week

A source with knowledge of a Senate Republican call last week told Axios that "McConnell was essentially saying that, while the president will be willing to s...

Province reports 'small' COVID-19 outbreaks at two Edmonton-area hospitals

In Alberta, 1,549 cases have recovered. There are now 87 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and 20 of them are in the ICU. "Numbers may change over the comi...

Health Canada issues warning against use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

Most notably, preliminary research looking into the results of US veteran patients using hydroxychloroquine with or without the azithromycin antibiotic used t...

WHO Director-General expresses gratitude to Azerbaijani president over fight with COVID-19

The tweet was meant to warn against nations "immunity passports" to those with COVID-19 antibodies. The use of such certificates may, therefore, increase the ...

Global cases cross 3 million mark as lockdowns begin to ease

The number of recoveries now stands at 142,238. In the battle against the coronavirus , the United States death toll and number of cases - in excess of one m...

Coronavirus: Mike Pence flouts rule on masks at hospital

Mayo tweeted that it had informed the vice president of its mask policy prior to his arrival. Pence was told of the policy before he visited, the clinic sai...

North Carolina pug first dog in USA to test positive for coronavirus

On April 1, she included Winston in a molecular and epidemiological research study at Duke. Researchers went to the family home and took samples from them a...

France’s Ligue 1 season cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic

The French league (LFP) said on Tuesday its executive board will meet on Thursday to discuss the effect of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's earlier announcem...

European doctors warn rare kids' syndrome may have virus tie

Similar cases have also been reported in Spain and Italy , according to CNN . On Monday, NHS England's national medical director Professor Stephen Powis sai...

CARES Act passed by senate

That's why the CARES Act - a $2 trillion stimulus package aimed at supporting individuals and companies alike through the financial crisis that was exacerbate...

CDC Is Now Telling People To Socially Distance Their Pets

There have been reports of several dogs and housecats contracting COVID-19. At this point, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University , mo...

Not enough evidence to back Plasma therapy for COVID-19: Government

Plasma therapy is in an experimental stage in India. Till ICMR concludes its study and a robust scientific proof is available, plasma therapy should be used o...

Oxford researchers have reportedly received promising news about their coronavirus vaccine

The vaccine is now set to undergo human trials, with tests scheduled for more than 6,000 people by the end of next month. According to The New York Times , i...

A man in his 80s is 1 of 2 new cases

The Gallatin City-County Health Department is deeply saddened to announce that a Gallatin County resident has passed away today from complications due to COVID-...