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New Mexico has added three more states to its list of what it considers places with a high coronavirus risk

A huge study of a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine is getting underway as top U.S. health officials seek to assure a skeptical public they can trust any shots the government ultimately approves

A federal judge is weighing whether pandemic-related occupancy limits for private schools in New Mexico violate constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of assembly

Doctors say a Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life

A spike in COVID-19 cases in a handful of Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations is raising alarm bells even as New York City’s overall infection rate remains low

France’s defense minister has admitted to misleading the nation about virus protections for air force personnel who evacuated French citizens from the hard-hit Chinese city of Wuhan in January

Johnson & Johnson's vaccine will be give as one shot, rather than two.

"It all starts to snowball ... suddenly you’re in real trouble," an expert says.

Authorities in Madrid want to enlist more doctors and get urgent help from Spain’s military and police to fight a second wave of coronavirus infections

The British government is defending its strategy for combating a second wave of COVID-19 cases amid criticism that its new slate of restrictions will not be enough to stop an exponential spread of the coronavirus

Some South Carolina teachers are taking a personal day to fight for safer classrooms amid the pandemic as well as an annual small raise that was frozen after the economy crashed because of the virus

Belgium's prime minister says mask requirements, some attendance limits and other public health measures will be relaxed as part of a less stringent, long-term coronavirus strategy

The Trump administration has prioritized politics over science at key moments over the past six months, refusing to follow expert advice that might have contained the spread of the novel coronavirus

At the 75th annual United Nations General Assembly, world leaders are floating solutions to combating the coronavirus while sometimes criticizing other nations and arguing the U.N. itself needs reform

Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly way to identify infected travelers

As the U.S. hits the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths, ABC News takes a look at the last six months of coronavirus -- how we got here, what went wrong and how it’s still impacting us all.

India is reporting more than 83,000 new coronavirus cases, showing some decline after reaching a record a week earlier

France’s president wants to expand paternity leave to one month — and require fathers to take time off with their newborns

"Without insights into where infection is spreading, you're flying blind."

British PM Johnson slammed the brakes on the country’s return to offices.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell says the city plans to allow some activities that were shut down last month to control the spread of the coronavirus to resume under new guidelines

Experts said it's critical to protect your family from poor air quality.

A steady drop in coronavirus cases across California cleared the way in nine counties for the wider reopening of businesses, including most of the San Francisco Bay Area

San Diego County has been spared having to close businesses under California’s revised system for reopening the economy

Saudi Arabia says Muslims will be allowed to perform the smaller, year-round pilgrimage starting Oct. 4 as the kingdom gradually begins lifting a suspension that had been in place on Islam’s holiest site for the past seven months due to the coronavirus

Immigration authorities have stopped sending detained women to a rural Georgia gynecologist accused of performing surgeries without consent

Eighteen- to 24-year-olds have five times the case rate, officials said.

A disease outbreak that wiped out large numbers of the Native inhabitants of what is now New England gave the Pilgrims a beachhead in the “New World.”

Confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths are rising again in France’s nursing homes for the first time in months

The president made the claim at a campaign rally on Monday night.

The death toll in the U.S. from the coronavirus has topped 200,000, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation

ABC News spoke to the WHO's Dr. Margaret Harris on a range of topics.

The outbreak spanning the globe began in December, in Wuhan, China.

Experts weigh in on what the future may hold amid the pandemic.

Judicial authorities in Greece have received instructions to pursue the prosecution of anti-mask activists with fast-tracked trials and penalties for convictions of up to a year in prison

Confirmed US death toll from coronavirus tops 200,000, the highest in world, by Johns Hopkins University's count

The Vatican has reaffirmed its stance that euthanasia and assisted suicide are “intrinsically evil.”

President Rodrigo Duterte says he has extended a state of calamity in the Philippines by a year to allow the government to draw emergency funds faster to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and harness the police and military to maintain order

UK leader: Britain at “perilous turning point,” scraps back-to-work drive, tightens restrictions amid virus resurgence

Mobile apps tracing new COVID cases were touted as a key part of Europe’s plan to beat the coronavirus outbreak

Poland’s health minister says the government is trying to secure more flu vaccines due to a national shortage fueled by higher demand during the coronavirus pandemic

Hollywood’s unions have announced that they have reached an agreement on pandemic protocols with major studios that will allow the broad resumption of production of films and television after six months of stagnant sets and widespread unemployment

The Red Cross has announced the opening of a new field hospital in southern Yemen specifically to treat coronavirus patients

An Indian couple are conducting free classes for underprivileged children on a sidewalk in New Delhi

Body camera footage released Monday from a police shooting that seriously injured a 13-year-old autistic boy in Utah shows that officers shot the boy after his mother asked for help getting him to a hospital and officers agreed to talk to him

The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the air

Evidence is mounting that the virus can linger in the air.

COVID-19 is the newest preexisting medical condition, and the Obama-era health law that protects Americans from insurance discrimination is more fragile following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

European countries are imposing new coronavirus restrictions as the crisis deteriorates, while the U.S. closes in on 200,000 virus deaths

A New Hampshire woman was not allowed to stay on an American Airlines flight with her 2-year-old son because he would not wear a mask as the airline requires