By The Associated Press undefined In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling ...
LONDON – At 106, Connie Titchen feels lucky. The former department store sales assistant is Britain's oldest known survivor of COVID-19. Titchen was applauded by staff Tuesday at Birmingham's City Hospital, leaving after three weeks as a patient. In a statement released by the hospital, ...
By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG undefined GENEVA (AP) — Nations around the world reacted with alarm Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the World Health Organization. Health experts warned the move could jeopardize ...
By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The death toll in Iran from the coronavirus pandemic is likely nearly double the officially reported figures, due to undercounting and because not everyone with breathing problems has been tested for the virus, a parliament report ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Millions of South Koreans wore masks and disposable gloves as they voted in parliamentary elections Wednesday, the highest turnout in nearly three decades despite the coronavirus. The government resisted calls to postpone ...
By JAN M. OLSEN, NICOLE WINFIELD and MIKE CORDER Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The first tentative steps in lifting the economically crippling coronavirus restrictions in Europe and China are running into resistance, with shoppers and other customers staying away from the ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In a pre-dawn raid in food-starved Zimbabwe, police enforcing a coronavirus lockdown confiscated and destroyed 3 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables by setting fire to it. Wielding batons, they scattered a group of rural farmers ...
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China said Wednesday that he doesn't believe Beijing is deliberately blocking exports of masks and other medical supplies to fight the coronavirus, and that the shipment of 1,200 tons of such products to the U.S. could not have been possible without ...
By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and alone, locked in a dangerous web of warped scaffolding one year after a cataclysmic fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world. Some of the 40,000 metal bars — ...
By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's open to some states "reopening" before federal social distancing guidelines expire at the end of month, as he appeared to back off his claim of absolute authority to decide when the ...
By ERIC TUCKER, LORI HINNANT and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting the stage for a possible power struggle with President Donald Trump, governors around the U.S. began sketching out plans Tuesday to reopen their economies in a slow and methodical process so as to ...
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a month of draconian steps to minimize deaths and prevent hospital overload from the coronavirus pandemic, governors now face a new challenge: Deciding when and how to begin easing restrictions on businesses and social ...
By AMANDA SEITZ The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Videos and online reports claiming that millions of Americans will have to repay the relief checks they receive from the federal government under the $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic recovery bill are not true. The government began ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world is facing "a dangerous epidemic of misinformation" about COVID-19 and announced a U.N. campaign to flood the internet with facts and science to counter what he ...
By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Liberty University has profited from the COVID-19 pandemic by refusing to refund thousands of dollars in room and board and other fees owed to students after the school moved classes online last month, a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday ...
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation to compel federal health officials to post data daily that breaks down COVID-19 cases and deaths by race and ethnicity. The lawmakers say the demographic data is needed to address ...
WHEELING — It’s going to take at least $600 billion in federally-backed loans to help America’s small businesses keep their workers on the payroll during the coronavirus crisis, says U.S. Sen. Shelley Capito. Congress already has approved $350 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, ...
CADIZ — The Harrison County Health Department announced late Tuesday that one resident has tested positive for COVID-19. According to health Administrator Garen Rhome, the individual is a man in his 30s. He is self-isolating and home and recovering from symptoms. People who had been ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul has reported the third coronavirus-related death in the county. Sproul said the deceased was a man in his 70s with underlying medical conditions. During the past few weeks, a man in his 90s and a woman in her 80s with the ...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation's economy, adding a dose of ...
