Covid-19

Here's what's happening with COVID-19 around the world on Saturday.Medical technicians wearing personal protective equipment get ready to collect samples at a COVID-19 testing centre in Chennai, India, on Friday. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)The latest: India coronavirus cases now total more than 500,000. Russia's daily number of new COVID-19 cases stays below 7,000. Texas and…

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(CNN)At least five states reported their highest single day record of Covid-19 cases Friday, adding to the growing concern of case increases that has sent many states back-peddling on their reopening…

Nurses have been on the frontline since the pandemic hit South Africa. Chris McGrath/Getty Images A Groote Schuur Hospital nursing assistant has described dealing with Covid-19 as "a war". Judith Parenzee has already lost colleagues to the virus.She says her days are spent rushing from one patient to the next.Groote Schuur Hospital nursing assistant Judith…

Remember in the past, how you would turn the oil heating system off for the summer months and then when you turned it back on, it did not work? So you needed a visit from a heating engineer for help? It's easy to switch things off but often much harder to turn them back on…

On Friday, the White House coronavirus task force held its first public briefing in two months -- but health experts expressed concern afterward, saying Vice President Mike Pence offered little guida…

MEDICALLY, THEY WERE SPARED THE WORST EFFECTS OF COVID-19. ECONOMICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY, IRELAND’S YOUNG WILL SUFFER HUGE CONSEQUENCES FROM CORONAVIRUS Though not generally as physically susceptible to coronavirus as older people, young people may well suffer most psychologically and economically as a consequence of the pandemic. The economic evidence is stark. “The job losses that…

June 26 (UPI) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top health expert, warned Friday that some parts of the country are facing “a serious problem” as COVID-19 infection rates spiral in several U.S. states across the South and West. Fauci, appearing Friday at the first briefing held by the White House coronavirus task force in…

The governors of Texas and Florida both ordered bars closed across their states Friday as confirmed COVID-19 cases there continue to hit record highs.The sweeping action marks a reversal of what critics worried was a rush to reopen following coronavirus shutdowns earlier this year. Bars are especially dangerous environments for the spread of the disease.…

The events of the past few months have shaken the lives of everyone, but especially Black people in the U.S. COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted members of the Black community while police violence has recently claimed the lives of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and others.  Two weeks ago, two Black transgender women,…