Infection

MUMBAI- India's wealthiest state Maharashtra, home to the country's financial capital Mumbai, will impose a weekend lockdown and night curfew on its 110 million people as it battles a spike in COVID-19 cases, authorities said Sunday (4).…
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By Apoorva Mandavilli WASHINGTON - After weeks of decline followed by a steady plateau, coronavirus cases are rising again in the United States. Deaths are still decreasing, but the country averaged 61,545 cases last week, 11% more than…
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By Catherine Triomphe NEW YORK - Three days after testing positive for COVID-19, "everything tasted like cardboard," recalls 38-year-old Elizabeth Medina, who lost her sense of taste and smell at the start of the pandemic. A year later,…
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By Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — The patients began arriving at hospitals in Porto Alegre far sicker and younger than before. Funeral homes were experiencing a steady uptick in business, while exhausted doctors…
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BERLIN - Germany's seven-day incidence of new coronavirus infections has passed a critical benchmark, a factor in the government determining whether tougher lockdown measures are to be re-imposed. The number of new infections per 100,000…
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By Emily Schmall MUMBAI — India is racing to contain a second wave of the coronavirus, but its vaccination campaign is running into doubters like Akbar Mohamed Patel. A resident of Mumbai’s densely populated slum area of Dharavi, Patel…
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By Stephen Castle LONDON — Thirteen days after he was first hospitalized, Prince Philip was transferred Monday (March 1)  to a second London hospital, increasing concerns over the health of the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth.…
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GENEVA - It is unrealistic to think that the world will be done with the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday (March 1). The WHO’s emergencies director Michael Ryan said it might be…
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By Adam Rasgon JERUSALEM — The Israeli government approved a measure Sunday (28) to vaccinate tens of thousands of Palestinian labourers, after facing fierce criticism over the small number of inoculations it had provided to Palestinians…
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By Noah Weiland and Sharon Lafraniere WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday (27) authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, beginning the rollout of millions of doses of a…
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