Matt Hancock: “Getting through this is going to be a national effort” Every Briton over the age of 70 will be told “within the coming weeks” to stay at home for an extended period to protect themselves from coronavirus.When it happens, they will be asked to stay…
The news these days is dominated by the one big story: the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first reports of infection surfaced in China sometime in late 2019, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease, bloodlessly dubbed SARS-CoV-19, has swept around the globe destroying lives, livelihoods, and economies. Getting a handle on the disease has required…
More than 1.92 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 120,670 have died, according to a Reuters tally.DEATHS AND INFECTIONS* For an interactive graphic tracking the global spread, open https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 in an external browser.* For a U.S.-focused tracker with state-by-state and county map, open https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T in…
The United States’ caseload of coronavirus infections surged to the most in the world and its capital reported more infections, as Italy shut most of its industry and masses of Indian day labourers received food rations after a lockdown put them out of work. Increases in the number of cases have been expected…
Mainland China reported 31 new novel coronavirus cases as of the end of day Sunday, bringing the national total to 81,470, according to the National Health Commission. All but one of the new cases are from inbound travelers. One case was transmitted domes…
Illinois, California, New York and Nevada strengthened emergency measures in response to the growing coronavirus crisis, tightening restrictions on residents and businesses, as a new surge in deaths in Italy helped push the world-wide toll to more than 11,000. Italy reported 627 fatalities on Friday, the world’s highest number of deaths in a day from…
