The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached 10 million on Sunday while the global death toll climbed to nearly 500,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.The number of global cases marks a major milestone in the spread of the virus, believed to have originated in China late last year. However, with testing…
Nearly 37,000 infections were reported as the virus surged in the South and West. Pregnant women who contract the illness wind up in hospitals and I.C.U.’s at higher rates, a federal study suggested.Right NowEconomists expect 1.3 million new state unemployment claims in the U.S.ImageMiami Beach this week. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has given no…
(Reuters) - Global cases of the novel coronavirus surpassed 9 million on Monday, as Brazil and India grappled with a surge in infections, and the United States, China and other hard-hit countries reported new outbreaks, according to a Reuters tally. A medical worker collects a sample from a woman at a school turned into a…
Donald Trump told thousands of supporters on Saturday that he had asked US officials to slow down testing for Covid-19 because case numbers in the country were rising so rapidly.Speaking at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the US president used racist language, referring to Covid-19 as “kung flu”, and described testing for the virus…
Beijing officials are scrambling to track cases linked to a sprawling food market. The Oscars will be delayed. In New York and elsewhere, frustration is growing as people flout restrictions.ImageAn ambulance in New York in April, at the height of the pandemic. Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesThe F.D.A. withdrew emergency approval for malaria drugs promoted by…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…