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Train stations and airports in Japan were filled with people over this “Silver Week” holiday weekend running through Tuesday, in a sign of recovering local travel amid the coronavirus pandemic

Demonstrators around the world fed up with virus-related restrictions.

With the pandemic still in force, world leaders are skipping the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering in New York

The goal of the committees and task force panels is aimed at racial healing

Several hundred Romanians, including many families with young children, have protested in the Bucharest against measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, especially social distancing and the mandatory use of masks in schools

President Trump escalates promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day.

The group opposes restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus

India has maintained its surge in coronavirus cases, adding 93,337 new confirmed infections in the past 24 hours

New York City’s mayor says he is confident the city will meet a revised timeline to bring public school students back to classrooms within the next two weeks

The University of Colorado has forced some students to move out of their dorms to create more isolation housing for students with coronavirus infections as case numbers continue to increase at the Boulder campus

Bus and subway riders in New York are facing a $50 fine if they refuse to wear a mask while on board, though even transit officials have implied it’s unlikely many will end up getting dinged

Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19

Infections are now being driven by people between the ages of 18 and 24.

California's unemployment rate fell to 11.4% in August

The coronavirus pandemic has led Europe’s largest security organization to drastically scale back plans to send as many as 500 observers to the U.S. to monitor the Nov. 3 presidential election

Officials say a school counselor at a central Kentucky Army post that started in-person classes in August has died after being diagnosed with the coronavirus

U.S. health officials are dropping a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and telling all those who have been in close contact with infected people to get tested

Many residents in Madrid will need a reason to leave their neighborhoods and will face limitations on group gatherings even stricter than the ones in place

Fresh restrictions on social gatherings in England, potentially involving limits on pub opening hours, appear to be on the cards soon as the British government seeks to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections

Companies are struggling to recruit diverse volunteers in final U.S. tests of possible COVID-19 vaccines

Cyprus is trying to salvage a dismal tourist season by touting that only five of the roughly 200,000 tourists that have spent their holidays on east Mediterranean island nation so far this summer have exhibited any COVID-19 symptoms

A drug company says that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the first large study that primarily enrolled Hispanics and Blacks

Hungary's prime minister says that the government has drawn up a “war plan” to defend against the new wave of the coronavirus pandemic and that the country's health care system is prepared to handle to rising number of new virus cases

A Florida county commissioner is firing back at an anti-mask critic's social media response to her announcement that her 19-year-old daughter was treated for COVID-19

India’s coronavirus cases have jumped by more than 96,000 in the past 24 hours, showing little sign of leveling

When we do have a vaccine, it likely won't be 100% effective, doctors say.

South Africa's chief medical adviser says the country should know its true toll from the coronavirus pandemic within a few weeks, as it prepares to almost fully reopen its economy

The World Food Program chief warns that millions of people are closer to starvation because of the deadly combination of conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

The iconic Key West bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented during the 1930s has reopened after closing because of the coronavirus pandemic

New Zealand has reported no new confirmed cases of the coronavirus for the first time in more than five weeks as hopes rise that an outbreak discovered in Auckland last month has been stamped out

Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks with Linsey Davis about the contradicting vaccine predictions and the politicization of science.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law that lets more people than almost anywhere else in the country take time off from work to care for a family member without fear of losing their job

A former doctor at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he molested three male patients and violated their civil rights

The Trump administration is claiming “resounding vindication” from an independent commission’s report on the coronavirus crisis in nursing homes

Some advocates say report does little to set higher standards for nursing homes.

The drug has shown promise as a treatment for novel coronavirus.

New York City has again delayed the start of in-person learning for most of the more than 1 million students in its public school system

College towns across the U.S. have emerged as virus hot spots in recent weeks as schools struggle to contain the virus

The University of Georgia has reversed itself and says it wants to host an early voting precinct on campus

Poll workers signed up to work the November election in a county near St. Louis have been urged in an email to “act surprised” if voters ask why they aren’t wearing masks given the coronavirus threat

The World Health Organization’s European director has warned countries against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus

Britain has imposed tougher restrictions on people and businesses in parts of northeastern England as the nation attempts to stem the spread of COVID-19 before the colder winter months

Toilet paper is back on store shelves

Experts insist there is evidence the virus was not man-made.

Sputnik V will soon be distributed, but has not reached Phase 3 clinical trials.

India is now second in the world with the number of reported coronavirus infections with over 5.1 million cases, behind only the United States

Hawaii's governor says that starting Oct. 15, travelers arriving from out of state may bypass a 14-day quarantine requirement if they test negative for the coronavirus

Hawaii's governor says that starting Oct. 15, travelers arriving from out of state may bypass a 14-day quarantine requirement if they test negative for COVID-19

With mixed messages in Washington about the race for a vaccine, ABC News’ Bob Woodruff sat down with NIH's director, Francis Collins, to discuss when Americans should expect an available vaccine.

Gen. Eduardo Pazuello has become Brazil’s third health minister during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, after nearly four months holding the position on an interim basis and almost 120,000 COVID-19 deaths during that time