Health

An uptick in coronavirus cases in Borough Park has been linked in part to a grand wedding attended by members of Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox community, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday. Health officials have registered 16 new COVID-19 cases in the area in recent days, Blasio said. As a result, the …

Communist Party leaders are overseeing an authoritarian system that prevents local officials from freely sharing information with officials at the national level, they said, and this has had fatal consequences for the world. It is a version of the so-called Chernobyl effect, in which local officials do not tell central …

New Delhi – India reported more than 64,500 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of people in the South Asian country that has tested positive for the disease to more than 2.76 million. India remains the third least affected nation, behind the US and Brazil, in terms …

Federal Reserve staff told central bank officials in late July that they would lower their estimate for economic growth in the second half of the year, according to minutes released by the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday. Fed staff always present their own forecasts at the Central Bank’s eight …

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against classified prioritization for administering COVID-19 faxes. The world could emerge from the coronavirus pandemic “or better or worse,” the pontiff said in improvised remarks during a weekly public address in the Vatican. “We need to get out better.” Even with the devastating pandemic, the pope …