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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.China's extraordinary, five decades-long run of global growth and financial dominance is being put to the test following its very public bungling of the coronavirus crisis.The country, which has the world's second-largest economy following the United States, has become increasingly…

The governor accused various world and federal health groups, as well as the news media, of not sufficiently warning the world of the coronavirus outbreak.Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the “whole alphabet soup” of health agencies should have warned of the coronavirus threat late last year.Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York TimesApril 28, 2020ALBANY, N.Y.…

There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 are protected from a second infection, the World Health Organization warned Saturday as the worldwide death toll topped 200,000.The health body tweeted that it was continuing to review the evidence on antibody responses to COVID-19, adding that most studies suggest that people who…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Global coronavirus deaths surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.There are now at least 201,502 COVID-related deaths reported in the world. CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGEThere are currently more than 2.8 million confirmed COVID cases around the…

Many countries have declared restrictive measures, such as lockdown, shelter in place, or stay at home orders, to contain the pandemic at a local level. However, the wildly differing responses and response timelines have left people wondering if authorities failed to take the situation seriously early on when they could have done more to slow…