Health

Yesterday marked the 29th straight day as New York State’s COVID-19 positive test rate was below 1% nationwide – but about a dozen counties, including Suffolk and Nassau, have positive rates above that benchmark. Suffolk County had a positive rate of 1.5% yesterday and 1.6% on Thursday, according to figures …

File photo: Amazon.com logo Japan on August 8, 2016 at the Amazon Japan office fee building in Tokyo, Japan. Reuters / Kim Kyung-hoon (Reuters) – The Amazon.com company says thousands of Americans have banned overseas sales of seeds in the United States after receiving unwanted packages of seeds in their …

India has become the third most infected country in the world with more than 40 million confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday. According to Johns Hopkins University, there are approximately 20,000 deaths, including 2.2 million cases and 1 more deaths in Brazil, followed by Brazil and the United States. The …

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about coronavirus. Sign up for Newsletter of our top stories, Sent to your inbox every morning. Please support journalism like this Donate Or become Customer. Utah added 433 new coronavirus cases and two new deaths on Saturday, …

Experts say a second wave of COVID-19 cases will increase this fall, with the epidemic peaking after election day on November 3. The Washington Post reports that doctors at Johns Hopkins University are focusing on what they call “Surge 2.0” where they envisage another large outbreak of the virus that …