California will lift its indoor masking requirement for vaccinated people next week but masks still are the rule for schoolchildren, state health officials announced Monday.
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Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can help stop the coronavirus from spreading, but drinking the products turned out to be deadly for four people in two states.
“I was deeply disheartened and dismayed to see the callous and dangerous behavior displayed last night in Las Vegas,” the governor said of the “Evangelicals for Trump” event.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday she was confident New Zealand has halted the spread of the coronavirus after the last known infected person in the country recovered.
Europe as a whole has recorded more than 175,000 since the virus emerged in China late last year.
Nearly 1,000 vehicles went through a busy highway toll booth at Wuhan’s border between midnight — when barricades were lifted — and 7 a.m.
President Donald Trump sidelined the inspector general who had been appointed to oversee CARES Act spending Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent the night in an intensive care unit but is not on a ventilator. Pressure grew on the government to release more details on his condition.
Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, imposing restrictions on the movement of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to contain a widening outbreak.
The women’s world hockey championships in Canada were canceled Saturday because of the new coronavirus.
A cruise ship that was hit by the new coronavirus is headed to the port of Oakland, California, the captain told passengers Saturday night.