Health

A local public health officer announced that more than 80 infants under the age of one tested positive for coronavirus in a Texas county, as the United States set a one-day record in counting new cases. The director of public health in Nueces County, on the Texas Gulf Coast, said …

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani estimated that up to 25 million people in the country have been infected with coronavirus, almost double the official global count. Despite his estimate, as well as urging citizens to take precautions, the country will no longer impose blockade restrictions. ISRAEL IMPOSES BARRER NEW CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS …

The lawsuit, brought by a coalition of nonprofit insurers selling plans in Affordable Care Act exchanges and by patient assistance groups, focuses on administration extending the duration of the plans to short term to just under a year, rather than three months. The rule, which was issued in 2018, stems …

Hundreds of flights to and from Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, were canceled on Friday, after the region reported the first confirmed case of coronavirus in about five months. Measures to control the epidemic led to the cancellation of more than 600 scheduled flights at Urumqi Diwopu …

NEW YORK: Global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson plans to start a phase 3 clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine ahead of its original schedule, possibly in late September, a senior company executive said. Johnson & Johnson is in talks with the US National Institute of Health to begin the …