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Italy is bracing for another day of nationwide protests against virus-fighting measures that have closed restaurants and bars early and shut down gyms and swimming pools

The decision by Pope Francis to forgo wearing a mask has been noticed by a member of the Vatican’s coronavirus commission

Health officials in Thailand says it's likely that a French woman who earlier this month tested positive for the coronavirus became infected when she stayed under quarantine at a hotel near Bangkok

Poland’s prime minister has defended the tightening of the country’s abortion law and condemned massive nationwide protests led by women’s rights activists

The Baltic nation of Lithuania has sent a protest note to Belarus over a planned nuclear power plant close to their shared border that is to start operating in November

Authorities in India are reporting 36,470 newly confirmed coronavirus infections — that's the lowest one-day tally in more than three months in a continuing downward trend

Residents in the Texas border city of El Paso have been urged to stay home for two weeks as a spike in coronavirus cases overwhelms hospitals

Thieves have stolen over 6 million gloves meant for first responders at Florida hospitals

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall talks about the stress on the city’s hospitals.

Hospitals in El Paso, Texas, are using overflow tents after running out of beds

Women’s rights activists and thousands of supporters are holding a fifth day of protests across Poland after a top court tightened the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law

The American Academy of Pediatrics says pregnant women with opioid addiction should have access to medication in new guidelines released Monday aimed at improving care for women and newborns affected by drug use

A day after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said, “we’re not going to control the pandemic,” a top Trump health official says Americans have already proven they can do that

In lines of cars stretching more than half a mile, people thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic queue up with other needy people to receive some of the 1 million pounds of food distributed some days by the Houston Food Bank

An overflow of ICU patients are being airlifted to other cities.

A majority of Virginia voters responding to a recent poll think enacting restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is more important than removing restrictions to get the economy going

Belgian authorities say the country faces a pivotal week in its struggle to limit the spread of the coronavirus

Melbourne, Australia’s former coronavirus hot spot, will largely emerge from a lockdown after the nation’s second-largest city recorded its first day without a new coronavirus case in more than four months

Australia has condemned Qatar authorities’ treatment of female passengers on a flight to Sydney who were subjected to internal examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned at a Doha airport

Malaysia’s prime minister is facing calls to resign after the king rebuffed his proposal for a coronavirus emergency that critics saw as an undemocratic attempt to hold onto power

Iran's health minister recently delivered a rare speech criticizing his own government’s refusal to enforce basic health measures, as coronavirus infections and deaths surge in the Islamic Republic

Mexican health authorities acknowledge the country’s true death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is far higher than previously thought, saying there were 193,170 “excess” deaths in the year up to Sept. 26

Finland’s interior minister has summoned key Cabinet members into an emergency meeting Sunday after hundreds — and possibly thousands — of patient records at a Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by a hacker or hackers now demanding ransoms

America continues to leads the world in COVID-19 casualties.

The women protest tightening the nation’s already restrictive abortion law

Italy’s leader has imposed at least a month of new COVID-19 restrictions

Health policy specialists are questioning Vice President Mike Pence’s claim that federal rules on essential workers allow him to continue to campaign and not quarantine himself after exposure to multiple close staffers with COVID-19

These COVID-19 vaccine candidates need proper storage in order to stay safe

Pediatricians are urging the British gov't to provide meals to hungry children

Spain declared a second nationwide state of emergency to stem worsening outbreak

Spain's prime minister declares a second nationwide state of emergency amid a surge of new virus infections

A COVID-19 outbreak in the north of Melbourne has led health authorities in Australia’s Victoria state to hold off on any further easing of restrictions in the beleaguered city

A COVID-19 outbreak in the north of Melbourne has led health authorities in Australia’s Victoria state to hold off on any further easing of restrictions in the beleaguered city

Confirmed coronavirus infections continue to soar in parts of the U.S., Europe.

Church reportedly has not cooperated with efforts to stem the virus’s spread.

College is a major milestone for many U.S. teens, the first time they've been on their own

The Vatican has had a rash of COVID-19 infections confirmed in recent days.

The U.S. coronavirus caseload has reached record heights with more than 83,000 infections reported in a single day

A subsequent test of the Georgia Republican came back negative.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for the coronavirus and apologized to everyone who must quarantine because they had contact with him

A police force in England says it will try to stop people from leaving Wales, which has started a 17-day lockdown to slow a surging rate of coronavirus infections

Authorities in Sri Lanka have closed at least two fishery harbors and many stalls after a surge of 609 cases linked to the country’s main fish market

Mexico’s northern border state of Chihuahua has returned to the highest level of alert and lockdown after coronavirus cases jumped there and hospitals began to fill up

Former trauma surgeon Dr. L. Ray Matthews discusses research looking into the potential impact of vitamin D in the fight against the coronavirus.

The impact is being felt in every section of the country.

A Wisconsin appeals court has put a hold on Gov. Tony Evers’ restrictions on indoor public gatherings

A bright yellow helicopter has flown a COVID-19 patient from the Netherlands to a German intensive care unit, the first such airlift since the pandemic first threatened to swamp Dutch hospitals

Wisconsin appeals court stays Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' coronavirus limits on indoor public gatherings pending appeal

Two drugmakers say they have the go-ahead to resuming U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates

Protesters vented anger for a second day across Poland over a court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional