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A day after the U.S. set a daily record for new confirmed coronavirus infections, it came very close to doing it again

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

Spain's prime minister has called a Cabinet meeting to prepare a new state of emergency to stem surging coronavirus infections, a move that could impose curfews and other restrictions across the country

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

Many rural communities lost their hospital in recent years.

With the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization rising at alarming levels, Missouri and perhaps a handful of other states are unable to post accurate data on COVID-19 dashboards because of a flaw in the federal reporting system

Walmart is suing the U.S. government in a pre-emptive strike in the battle over its responsibility in the opioid abuse crisis

The shift from in-person to remote learning is giving some teachers unprecedented video access into their students’ homes

French health authorities say France has recorded over 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, becoming the second country in Western Europe after Spain to reach that number of known infections

French health authorities say France has reached over 1 million confirmed virus cases amid pandemic's second wave

The U.S. suicide rate fell slightly last year, the first annual decline in more than a decade

Spanish Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez is appealing for Spaniards to pull together and defeat the new coronavirus, warning: “The situation is serious.”

The school year in Schenectady, New York, started with a whack of a budget ax

The Czech Republic’s prime minister has called on his health minister to resign or be fired after he broke strict government restrictions to slow a record surge of coronavirus infections and visited a Prague restaurant

A promise of free COVID-19 vaccination has become an issue in key state elections in India

Health officials in Thailand say a French woman on the resort island of Samui has tested positive for the coronavirus and probably acquired it after arriving in Thailand in what could be one of few cases of local transmission

Calls to join vaccine trials have been met with criticism.

Members of an Idaho health department board have voted to repeal a local mask mandate despite hearing a hospital was overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients

The U.N. chief says it’s “very frustrating” that leaders of the 20 major industrialized nations didn’t come together in March and establish a coordinated response to the coronavirus as he proposed

Members of an Idaho health department board have voted to repeal a local mask mandate despite hearing a hospital was overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients

Poland’s top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, toughening the predominantly Catholic country’s abortion laws that are among Europe's strictest

U.S. regulators have approved the first drug to treat COVID-19

90% ICU beds are full in some areas of the state.

FDA approves remdesivir, the first drug for treating COVID-19.

Kansas’ coronavirus case count continued to climb, even as one GOP lawmaker pushed back against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s call for a statewide mask mandate

France's prime minister has announced a vast extension of the nightly curfew that is intended to curb the spiraling spread of the coronavirus

Iowa plans to use millions of dollars in federal pandemic funds on a long-term plan to improve data management across state agencies, a second information technology project that may not fit the purpose of the aid

Curfews have been vastly expanded in France, which has added 41,600 new coronavirus infections in one day, and similar nighttime crackdowns loomed in Italy, including for Rome, Naples and Milan

"Breast cancer loves the woman who is too busy," survivor Jennifer Grannis said.

A scientist newly appointed as an advisor to the British government has expressed skepticism about focusing on the role of structural racism in the disproportionate effect that the coronavirus has on ethnic minority groups

The shift from in-person to remote learning is giving some teachers unprecedented video access into their students’ homes

Health officials in Africa say the rollout of rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 could be a “game changer” for their fight against the coronavirus

Poland’s top court rules that law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional