MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The Prime Minister of the Australian State of Australia says more than 2,700 active cases have no source known and remain the primary concern of health authorities. Victoria on Sunday saw a welcome drop in her new COVID-19 cases with 394 but a record 17 deaths, …
Read More »US response to the virus has been met with disbelief abroad
ROME (AP) – The failure of the United States to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the most powerful country in the world is approaching a world record of 5 million confirmed infections. Perhaps nowhere outside the US is America’s …
Read More »A group of viruses in France divides generations, increases fears
PARIS (AP) – As the sun went down, their party got underway, with an unwanted guest: the coronavirus. An outbreak among 18 to 25-year-olds at a seaside resort on the Brittany coast is crystallizing fears that the virus will reignite in France, behind the backs of tourists throwing the COVID-19 …
Read More »Vietnam closes its third largest city as virus cases grow
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Vietnam closed its third-largest city on Tuesday for two weeks after 22 hospital-linked COVID-19 cases were found, the government said. The new cases in the central city of Da Nang are the first confirmed local transmission of the virus in the country in more than three …
Read More »China’s CDC chief receives an injection of experimental vaccine
BEIJING (AP) – The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he was injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to do the same when approved. “I am going to reveal something undercover: I was injected with one of the …
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