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More than six weeks have passed since the House passed the HEROES Act, its latest version of additional stimulus as workers, businesses, and states continue to grapple with the economic consequences of the coronavirus. However, the Senate wants to wait two more before considering a bill of its own. Both …

A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 520,000 people worldwide. More than 10.8 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers …

The World Health Organization said yesterday that the number of new infections exceeded 160,000 every day during the past week, double the level seen at the peak of the European outbreak in March and April. In the Americas, the situation is out of control. Brazil yesterday surpassed another bleak milestone, …

Europe has increased the stimulus, with countries like France launching larger-than-expected packages to boost the economy. Philippe Lopez / Getty Images Text size While the state of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US and China has been largely focused, Europe has quietly progressed. Policy makers have come together and worked …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lobbied officials to remain vigilant to COVID-19, saying that a rapid relaxation of virus prevention measures could lead to an “unimaginable and unrecoverable crisis,” state media reported Friday. . In a rare comment on the coronavirus, Kim said managing the pandemic in his country …