Stay up to date as we cover the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects across the world. HuffPost Staff HuffPost Since Chinese officials implemented the first coronavirus lockdown in the city of Wuhan in January, there have been more than 17 million cases of COVID-19 across the planet. More than 667,000 people have died from the disease, according […]
Shilpa Jamkhandikar FILE PHOTO: A worker from Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana, a non-governmental organization, wearing a “Smart Helmet”, a portable thermoscanner that can measure the temperature of people at a distance, walks in an alley to screen the residents during a check-up campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a slum Mumbai, India, July 23, 2020. […]
Boris Johnson has warned there are signs of a “second wave” of coronavirus in Europe, as he defended a 14-day quarantine on travellers from Spain. The PM said the government had to be “swift” – and it would continue to take further action “where it is necessary”. It comes after the Spanish prime minister called […]
Coronavirus pandemic Twitter has banned the US president’s eldest son from tweeting for 12 hours. The punishment followed a post by Donald Trump Jr containing a video discussing the benefits of Hydroxychloroquine. Some, including President Trump, have suggested the drug works as a preventative measure against coronavirus, despite medical studies that indicate the contrary. Twitter […]
In a now-viral tweet thread, the former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services broke down how the country could beat the coronavirus. By Jenna Amatulli, HuffPost US The former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Barack Obama went viral with an extensive Twitter thread over […]
Spain has said outbreaks of new Covid-19 cases are isolated and under control after the UK abruptly ordered people coming from the country to quarantine. Infections have risen sharply in Spain recently as restrictions were eased. Some regions have now imposed measures including making face masks mandatory. “Spain is safe for Spaniards and for tourists,” […]
By Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi Rajesh Kumar, 45, started coughing in early June. Within days, he was running a high fever. He didn’t get tested for coronavirus. Instead he took anti-fever medication for five days. But the fever persisted, and soon he had difficulty breathing. His family asked him to get tested, but […]
A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes swab from a woman to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kolkata, India, July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri MUMBAI (Reuters) – India reported a record jump of 45,720 in coronavirus infections on Wednesday taking its total number of cases to 1.24 million, the health […]
Jane Wardell, Gayle Issa SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) – Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. In the United States, which has the highest number of cases in the world with 3.91 million infections, President […]
EU talks aimed at reaching an agreement on a huge post-coronavirus recovery fund have stretched into a fourth day. The main division is between countries hit hardest by the virus – such as Italy and Spain – and some EU members seeking to limit the size of the fund and stricter controls on its use. […]