Health

The UK government has said it fired 6,000 people from its test and trace coronavirus contact detection program. Tracers are hired to call people and alert them if they have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. But in recent weeks, tracers have told the British …

Watch Now: Big TEN And PAC-12 Voting Today On Whether To Cancel The College Football Season (3:13) As the 2020 college football season hangs in the balance, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has been steadfast that the conference is doing everything it can to safely play football in the fall. Sankey …

A 107-year-old grandmother from New Jersey who survived the Spanish flu a century ago is now a two-time pandemic survivor after hitting COVID-19. Brooklyn resident Anna Del Priore, who turns 108 next month, was diagnosed with the coronavirus in May and her granddaughter, Darlene Jasmine, had adopted the worst, the …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached 20 million on Tuesday – more than half of them in the US, Brazil and India – and the death toll is more than 737,000, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. It took about six months to reach 10 million cases, …

News EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Public Health Department data shows an increase of 540 new cases Tuesday morning, a new daily record for El Paso County. Health officials also announced seven new deaths, bringing the death toll to 307. A city press release states that there were 215 new …