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Gym. Spencer Platt, Getty Images United Gyms and Fitness Facilities is the latest organisation to haul government to court over lockdown regulations - it wants gyms reopened.It has argued that gyms are dominated by small- and medium-sized enterprises which employ around 29 000 people.According to United Gyms, about 15 000 people have lost their income and…

Peter Murphy, who recovered COVID-19 and is now donating his plasma, poses for a portrait at his home June 25, 2020 in Ottawa. Dave Chan/Dave Chan If a second wave of COVID-19 slams into Canada in the fall, doctors are planning to have freezers full of convalescent plasma ready to deploy as part of an…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump’s own ethics policy, according to a report.The lobbyists identified Monday by the watchdog group Public Citizen either worked in the Trump executive…

Live Watch CBSN Live Los Angeles county beaches are closed again this weekend as coronavirus infections continue to rise at an alarming rate. New cases are skyrocketing, shooting up 41% in three weeks. Lilia Luciano has the latest. 

Here's what's happening with the COVID-19 pandemic around the world on July 5.A health-care worker prepares to take a swab at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Sunday. (Wilfredo Lee/The Associated Press)The latest: P.E.I. now has five active cases after being free of COVID-19 since April 28. India reports another record 24-hour jump…

Uncovering what's become of Canada's deficit, implementing a bonus for workers returning to their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic and boosting funding for the auditor general are among the Official Opposition's priorities ahead of Wednesday's fiscal snapshot.Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre addressed Canada's economic standing on Sunday, days before an economic and fiscal snapshot is…

At least 121 University of Washington students, nearly all of whom are fraternity members, have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Sunday.In what the Seattle university described as the "Greek Row outbreak," at least 112 fraternity house members tested positive for the virus as of Sunday. The nine other students who tested positive were "close…

CLOSE College teachers and students discuss some of the challenges they face as their classes move online for the foreseeable future. USA TODAYSAN DIEGO — When students arrive at the University of California San Diego in August, they will find coronavirus testing stations strategically planted throughout campus.To determine if they’ve been infected, they’ll take a swab, dab it with nasal…

Democrats are increasingly concerned that the country has lost the fight against the novel coronavirus.For months, beginning in March, public health officials had promoted — and local policymakers had imposed — strict stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines that appeared to contain the spread of COVID-19.But in the last two weeks, as states threw open…