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Canada’s public safety minister says border restrictions on nonessential travel with the United States will be extended until July 21

Uganda is tightening its lockdown measures to try and stem a surge in coronavirus infections in the East African country that is seeing an array of variants

The Palestinian Authority is calling off an agreement whereby Israel would transfer 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to it in exchange for a similar number later this year

The date for legalizing marijuana possession is drawing near in Virginia, and people have questions

Mississippi dad Rhett Shaffette says he’s already had the best Father’s Day gift: His daughter is thriving, eight months after getting part of his liver

The official COVID-19 death toll in Brazil is about to hit 500,000, the second-highest in the world

An Indian health official says the country, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, wants to resume exports of coronavirus doses but can’t do so until its domestic needs are met

Indian COVID-19 official says the country wants to resume coronavirus vaccine exports but can't until its needs are met.

Germany has now given at least one coronavirus vaccine shot to more than half of its population, a milestone in what is now a fast-moving vaccination campaign

Italy is requiring persons who arrive from Britain to do five days of quarantine as well as take a COVID-19 swab test

"I anticipate that is going to be what happens with the delta strain here."

Starting Monday, every adult in India will be eligible for a free vaccine paid for by the federal government

Many Americans are relaxing precautions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic and resuming everyday activities, even as some worry that coronavirus-related restrictions were hastily lifted

The Supreme Court’s latest rejection of a Republican effort to dismantle “Obamacare” is another sign that the GOP must look beyond repealing that law if it wants to hone the nation’s health care problems into a winning political issue

Nevada is distributing $5 million in cash prizes to residents who have been vaccinated as part of an effort to encourage more people to get shots

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan is locking down because of a massive spike in coronavirus cases among employees

The United States is devoting more than $3 billion to speed development of treatments for COVID-19 and other dangerous viruses

The Supreme Court has dismissed a third major challenge to “Obamacare," preserving health insurance coverage for millions of Americans

A push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation.

Authorities in four Russian regions have made coronavirus vaccines mandatory for people working in retail, education and other service sectors

"It can overburden the health system and fill beds very quickly," expert warned.

The U.K.’s latest surge in coronavirus infections is gathering pace

Some of the most desperately poor countries in the world are seeing a two-headed crisis: a surge in COVID-19 cases and a critical shortage of vaccine

Travel in and out of the Lisbon metropolitan area is to be banned over coming weekends as Portuguese authorities respond to a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the region around the capital

Official: US to invest more than $3 billion in COVID-19 antiviral pill, could arrive by year’s end

Nepal's health minister says the country has significantly reduced coronavirus infections after its worst outbreak but is in desperate need of vaccines

Nepal's health minister tells AP the country has significantly reduced virus cases but is in desperate need of vaccines.

Members of Black communities across the U.S. have disproportionately fallen sick or died from the virus, so some church leaders are using their influence and trusted reputations to fight back

The chief executive of CureVac says interim results from late-stage testing of its coronavirus shot are “sobering.”

Indonesia’s president has ordered authorities to speed up the country’s vaccination campaign, while World Health Organization is warning of the need to increase social restrictions in the country

Vaccine incentives offered by Hong Kong companies include a condo raffle.

Dr. Kedar Toraskar hasn't been able to sleep much over the last few months. His mind would constantly turn to the young COVID-19 patients fighting for their lives in the ICU ward he oversees at Wockhardt Hospital in the western Indian city of Mumbai. The recent coronavirus surge in India affected young people on a scale his team of critical care doctors hadn’t previously seen, Toraskar said. “We saw a lot of deaths, a lot of young people who succumbed to the disease,” he said. “It was really, truly very depressing.” India is slowly emerging from the darkest days of the pandemic. After declining last year, cases began surging in March, surpassing 400,000 new infections per day in May. The impact was immediate -- hospitals were overwhelmed with patients struggling to breathe. Demand for oxygen outran supply. Television news ran stories of patients dying on stretchers waiting outside hospital gates and dying at home before test results could even confirm they had caught the virus....

The Texan is hoping to inspire others to get the shot now.

Thailand plans to fully reopen to vaccinated foreign visitors by mid-October as the government seeks to restart the crucial coronavirus-devastated tourism industry

As the country reopens, health care workers on the front lines and family members who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 provide a reminder of the pain still being caused by the pandemic.

German vaccine maker CureVac says interim data from late-stage testing of its coronavirus shot show a comparatively low effectiveness in protecting people against COVID-19

Joshua Garza, 43, said he passed up opportunities to get vaccinated thinking he did not really need it.

California is giving away more goodies and plans to make it easier to show who has been vaccinated against the coronavirus as officials and businesses encourage people to get their shots while the state tries to reopen its economy

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order that prohibits public universities and community colleges from requiring students to get vaccinated.

A federal appeals court has ruled North Carolina’s ban on most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy must remain unenforceable

A swath of southern Missouri is seeing a big rise in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations at just the wrong time

Royal Caribbean International is postponing for nearly a month one of the highly anticipated first sailings from the U.S. since the pandemic began because eight crew members tested positive for COVID-19

Britain’s government says it will require COVID-19 vaccinations for  nursing home workers in England, arguing that the need to protect vulnerable residents outweighed employees' right to choose whether to get the jab

A North Carolina appeals court says a judge should have relied on Virginia’s paternity laws when ruling whether a man must pay child support to a woman who had a baby with his sperm donation, not North Carolina law

France is easing mandatory mask-wearing outdoors and will halt an 8-month nightly coronavirus curfew on June 20

The European Union is recommending that member countries start lifting restrictions on tourists from the United States

France's prime minister halts mandatory mask wearing outdoors; will end an 8-month nightly coronavirus curfew on June 20

A scientist who has played a key role in New Zealand’s lauded coronavirus response says the nation used it’s luck well to stamp out the disease and is now eyeing other countries to determine when it can reopen its borders

California's reopening after 15 months of coronavirus restrictions has been met with exuberance but also caution

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that 70% of adults in New York have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, a threshold he said the state would celebrate by easing many of its remaining social distancing rules and shooting off fireworks