Coronavirus

In his first official press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic since April, President Trump on Tuesday admitted that the public health crisis is likely to worsen as cases surge across the country and asked all Americans to wear masks in public.While Trump hailed his administration’s response to the pandemic and the work toward developing a…

Latest coronavirus data released from South Carolina health officials The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced Tuesday 1,870 new confirmed cases and one new probable case of the coronavirus, 56 additional confirmed deaths and one new probable death.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 73,101, probable cases to 236,…

LATEST July 21, 1:10 p.m. California’s top health official Dr. Mark Ghaly said at a Tuesday press briefing California is “just in the beginning” of the pandemic and the situation has worsened as some viewed reopening as a "green light to resume a normal life."Ghaly expressed the need for people to wear face masks, wash their…

Data from antibody tests in 10 different cities and states indicate that many people with no symptoms may be spreading the virus.Foot traffic in Manhattan last week. Even the hardest hit areas of the U.S., like New York City, are far from numbers approaching herd immunity.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesJuly 21, 2020Updated 11:41 a.m. ETThe…

The spread of the coronavirus in Spain has tripled in the last three weeks following the easing of lockdown measures, health officials say.The virus, which infected residents there at a rate of eight per every 100,000 at the end of June, is now infecting 27 per 100,000, Reuters quoted Deputy Health Emergency Chief Maria Sierra as saying Monday.“Where measures have been relaxed is where these…