 The two conventions offered very divergent views for a nation still struggling with a pandemic.
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 Researchers in Hong Kong confirmed the first known case of coronavirus reinfection, but many doctors and public health officials say it isn't that surprising given what we know about waning immunity from other coronaviruses.
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 Florida's surgeon general lost all influence after an April 13 briefing, leading to "craziness" within the health department, an official said.
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 Comments by Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge summed up many Democrats’ concerns about Republican resistance to mail-in voting.
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 President Trump closed out the Republican National Convention with a speech filled with fierce attacks against Joe Biden. Did the controversial event help him gain ground with voters?
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 Out of 1,022 people who attended or worked at several summer camps in Maine that implemented measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, only three tested positive for it, a new study says. And those three cases did not result in secondary infections because proper measures were taken.
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 A top Trump administration official defended new guidelines that say that people without symptoms do not need a coronavirus test, a development that has been widely criticized as unproductive since it was issued on Tuesday.
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 Students at colleges across the country are demanding tuition be reduced because classes are being held online. Schools say any discount would cripple them financially.
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 “Donald Trump truly moved mountains to save lives,” said one RNC speaker, an assertion at odds with what many have called President Trump’s inattentive and even self-sabotaging response to the pandemic, which has killed nearly 180,000 people in the U.S.
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 The theme of the first night of the Republican National Convention was “America, Land of Promise,” a hopeful message belied by speeches that warned of impending national collapse if Donald Trump isn’t reelected in November.
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 When a big storm or other natural disaster knocks out the power or makes it hard to leave your house for a few days, what to feed your family becomes a major concern. The food experts at Consumer...
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 The extract from a highly toxic plant is being promoted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, despite no scientific evidence that it is effective in treating or preventing COVID-19. Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Dara Kass explains why that's dangerous.
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 The reopening of childcare centers in Rhode Island in June and July did not lead to a spread of the coronavirus, says a new CDC study. The results are bound to intensify the debate over how to safely reopen schools, even though childcare centers and schools are not the same.
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 President Trump gave a preview of the themes his campaign will highlight at his party’s convention next week: that America is great, except for the parts of it governed by Democrats, which are “totally out of control.”
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 In analyzing 79 counties in 22 states that met hot spot status between June 5 and 18, the CDC found that 96.2 percent of those counties saw Black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American people infected with the coronavirus at rates above their proportion of the population.
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 Though it might be too soon to say whether a fall wave has begun, it’s not too soon to see the recent rise in U.S. cases for what it is: a warning.
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 Dr. Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention cautioned on Wednesday that mass vaccination of the American public is still many months away.
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 The White House is objecting to a new report that concludes that the U.S. continues to struggle with supply chain logistics that have led to shortages of PPE and diagnostic tests.
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 The United States on Tuesday passed another grim COVID-19 milestone.
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 “Due to Donald Trump’s lies and incompetence over the last six months we have seen one of the greatest losses in American history,” Joe Biden said in Wisconsin on Monday.
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 Lockdowns and protective measures like the widespread wearing of face masks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have driven influenza infections to record lows, according to a new CDC study.
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 President Trump said CDC Director Robert Redfield "made a mistake" about when a COVID-19 vaccine would be ready.
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 Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, Dr. Robert Redfield strongly disputed that the CDC’s scientific research has been influenced by political appointees attempting to bring those findings in line with President Trump’s views.
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 “This face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine,” Dr. Robert Redfield said. “If I don't get an immune response, the vaccine's not going to protect me. This face mask will."
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 A large number of Americans say they won't feel safe taking a vaccine for coronavirus once one is available. Can their lack of trust be fixed or will vaccine skepticism make herd immunity impossible?
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 A Black seventh grader from Colorado had the police called to his house because he was playing with a toy gun during virtual art class. His mom, Dani Elliott, believes that if anyone did anything wrong, it was the school.
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 A disciple of Nixonian “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, Caputo has worked for Oliver North, Russian energy giant Gazprom and, most recently, Trump, joining his presidential campaign back when few were taking that campaign seriously.
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 The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals that less than a third of Americans (32 percent) say they plan to get vaccinated, a stunning 23-point decline that reflects rising concern about the politicization of the vaccine process.
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 President Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he was deliberately downplaying the risks of the coronavirus in the early months of the pandemic. What impact will these statements have?
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 The new findings could help shape the debate about how to reopen schools safely as the coronavirus continues to sicken thousands and kill hundreds daily.
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 As the revelations by journalist Bob Woodward of how President Trump misled the American people about the severity of the coronavirus reverberated this week, the Biden campaign did its best to keep the story alive with scathing digital advertising.
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 A new CDC study found that people infected with the coronavirus were twice as likely to have been at a restaurant than those who had not. Even with social distancing mandates in place, restaurants could become coronavirus hot spots.
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 Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins from Louisiana and Jaime Harrison from South Carolina envision a “new South” to address issues they say have been largely ignored by their longtime incumbent opponents.
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 While more studies are needed, researchers and doctors throughout the country are warning of a likely connection between COVID-19 and a serious heart condition.
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 Experts have long feared that colder weather and other factors could create a fall wave of the coronavirus with the potential to dwarf previous peaks — and America’s most prominent COVID-19 modelers are projecting just that. So is it time to freak out about the fall? Maybe not just yet.
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 The screening operations have been held at select airports since January.
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 Hundreds of colleges have made the SAT and ACT optional for applicants because of the pandemic. Should they ditch the standardized tests for good?
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 A month after 460,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, S.D., researchers have found that thousands have been sickened across the nation, leading them to brand the rally a “superspreader” event that will involve more than $12 billion in health care costs.
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 In recent days, experts have become increasingly convinced — and alarmed — that President Trump is pushing to cut corners and rush the release of a COVID-19 vaccine before Nov. 3 to improve his chances in the election.
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 In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump’s most visible, and presumably trusted, coronavirus adviser.
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 Public officials shy away from using the term “second wave,” but with new cases surging toward 9,000 a day, the highest numbers in Europe, Spain is becoming a cautionary tale for the rest of the world.
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 Most people throughout the country followed lockdown orders to avoid contracting — or spreading — the coronavirus, a new CDC study found.
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 Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has embraced a false online conspiracy theory that seeks to minimize the danger of COVID-19 by claiming only a few thousand Americans have died from the virus — not the 185,000 reported by health agencies and hospitals.
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 Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he would like his three upcoming debates with Donald Trump to include a real-time fact-check of both candidates’ statements, although he admitted it wasn’t likely to happen.
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 “It’s a lesser review, it’s a lower-quality review, and when you’re talking about vaccinating a large chunk of the American population, that’s not acceptable,” said one vaccine expert.
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 Even as President Trump spurred states to lift lockdown measures and resume normal economic activity in the early summer, reports from his White House coronavirus task force were presenting evidence that infections were rising in many parts of the country.
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 Shaquille O’Neal is on a mission to help student-athletes across the country return to the competitive sports they love as soon as possible amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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 Many Americans are questioning the safety and effectiveness of a planned coronavirus vaccine and are wary of a trial and approval process that seems to be moving very quickly. Doctors and public health experts explain how to feel confident about the safety of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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 The findings confirm a growing body of research that suggests the coronavirus is more likely to afflict people of color and low-income communities than it is wealthier white people.
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Growing up with "Sesame Street" in the early 1980s, I found pieces of myself in Cookie Monster's sweet tooth, Big Bird's gentleness and in Grover, who was outgoing and always willing to help others, even though he made a lot of hilarious mistakes. 
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After time off from exercising, it's understandable if you're having a hard time getting motivated. You may even feel a bit bad, but I'm here to say it's important to go easy on yourself. 
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Wildfires have broken out across the United States on an unprecedented scale, with 77 large complexes of fires engulfing 3 million acres in a matter of weeks. 
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said it could be the end of 2021 before life gets back to how it was before Covid-19. 
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A wedding in Maine is linked to 176 Covid-19 cases and the deaths of seven people who didn't attend the celebration, demonstrating just how easily and quickly the virus can spread at social gatherings, public health experts say. 
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President Donald Trump knew back in the spring that it would probably take a year to develop a coronavirus vaccine, according to interviews with journalist Bob Woodward. 
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More than half a million children in the United States have been diagnosed with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association. 
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Dealing with the first wave was like a sprint, the second will be more like a marathon. 
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Overcrowded parties have forced several high schools to go back to online learning in hopes of staving off Covid-19 outbreaks. 
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The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case. 
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Children and teens from minority groups are disproportionately hit by coronavirus, just as older adults are, according to the findings of a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
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Eli Lipman, 9, and his father have been battling the impact of Covid-19 since March, and he said life as a "long hauler" isn't easy. 
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Sibling rivalry is often taken as an unexamined fact of family life -- as much a part of parenting as potty training or bedtime stories. 
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Dr. Umair Shah remembers the last mass vaccination campaign the US waged. 
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Many of us hope to escape who we were in high school -- particularly if you were last in line to be picked in gym class -- but a growing body of research suggests that how popular you are in adolescence has a link with psychological and physical health decades later. 
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At first, Cameron Lynch thought she would need prepared questions for the group to discuss in their first Zoom call. 
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Travelers eager to fly again may want to consider Italy as their next destination. 
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A mother's depression and anxiety from conception through the first year of the baby's life is associated with negative developmental outcomes through adolescence, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. 
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Like many moms, Sofia Axelrod found the lack of sleep really hard after giving birth. But unlike many moms, she refused to accept that the exhaustion was inevitable. 
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Nearly 30 US states are reporting downward trends in Covid-19 cases, but the pandemic will likely worsen again, according to the country's leading infectious disease expert. 
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When the pandemic hit, couples found themselves worrying about getting sick, losing income, teaching their children at home while working full time (or worrying full time about sending them to school). 
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Cakes, cookies, pie. 
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Not sleeping enough or getting a bad night's sleep over and over makes it hard to control your appetite. And that sets you up for all sorts of health problems, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. 
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With talk of the possible availability of a vaccine candidate heating up, you might have heard the term Emergency Use Authorization -- or EUA -- all over the news lately. But what is it exactly, and how does it apply to vaccines? 
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While many colleges and universities are offering classes online, that hasn't necessarily stopped students from gathering. And now some college towns are grappling with outbreaks of Covid-19 as the start of the fall semester complicates local responses to the pandemic. 
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The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial, halted last week after an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers, will resume, the University of Oxford announced Saturday. 
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Primary school students in China experienced more depressive symptoms and made more suicide attempts after schools closed for the pandemic, a new study found. 
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Vaccine clinical trials are notoriously difficult to conduct. 
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Will Covid-19 make handshakes a relic of the past? If so, what might that mean about the future of human touch and interaction?
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There's still plenty of dangerous and untested medical advice circulating online.
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Why do fewer people seem to be having heart attacks and strokes? One theory is that the lockdown lifestyle is healthy.
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Recovery from Covid-19 can be a lengthy process, depending on how seriously people get the virus.
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Children are at low risk from the disease, but concerns have been raised for teachers.
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President Trump has been critical - but what do others think of the "global guardian of public health"?
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A woman describes her pain at not being able to see her husband regularly at his care home.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the UK will give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme.
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Ros Atkins looks at why vaccine nationalism is a growing concern in the global effort to tackle Covid-19.
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This guide explains how to install the NHS Covid-19 app on Android smartphones and iPhones.
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Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world yet to eliminate wild polio.
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What happens when you're forced to self-isolate, or into lockdown, in a cramped refugee camp?
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A round-up of false and misleading claims circulating on American social media this week.
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Around 15,000 new cases of the disease have been reported in Spain in the past week.
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Why cities in the US and Canada are eyeing removing police from front-line mental-health response.
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Sammy Awami writes that his relatives are divided over the Tanzanian leader's policy on Covid-19.
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John and Mary Boxer died within 16 days of each other, weeks before their 60th wedding anniversary.
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San Quentin is battling a devastating coronavirus outbreak that critics say could have been avoided.
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Teams around the world are looking into medicines for Covid-19 and scientists are starting to discover what works.
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An NHS contact tracing app has finally been launched in England and Wales. We answer some of your questions.
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Research suggests most countries' populations will have shrunk by the end of the century.
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Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a reports of a suspected case.
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Far more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than official Covid-19 data can account for
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A cheap steroid is hailed a big breakthrough in the treatment of seriously ill Covid-19 patients.
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Iran is battling a resurgence of the coronavirus, and a rising death rate.
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The government has said it will be possible to relax the 2m social distancing from 4 July - but is it safe to do so?
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Identifying superspreading events could be crucial in the fight against the virus, scientists say.
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Positive stories from people considered at high risk who have made a full recovery from coronavirus.
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The BBC has been given unprecedented access to a hospital in the heart of London, for one week.
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A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found links to assaults, arson and deaths - and the potential for even greater indirect harm.
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Swedish healthcare is under scrutiny over the high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes.
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Some tourist towns had barely survived fires when the virus hit, and locals say they are struggling.
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Why the people on the only continent without a recorded case of coronavirus are in lockdown.
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Restrictions ease in some countries but the World Health Organization warns infections could rise.
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Almost 200 health workers have died of Covid-19 in Venezuela since the pandemic began in March.
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Anyone in England who tests positive has a legal duty to self-isolate or face a fine of up to £10,000.
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'Human challenge trials' to test the effectiveness of possible Covid vaccines may be held in London.
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The US is the worst hit country in the world and cases are still continuing to rise, data shows.
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The 54-year-old construction worker ate a bag-and-a-half of black liquorice every day, doctors say.
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Some scientists say they don't go "anywhere near far enough", while others say they need time to work.
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More than 240 migrants test positive at the new Lesbos camp built after the old one burnt down.
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People can catch flu and coronavirus at the same time with serious or deadly consequences, experts warn.
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A health charity wants to know how well England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.
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With similar symptoms, deciding whether or not you need to get tested for coronavirus can be tricky.
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Key charts and maps explaining how the respiratory virus has spread around the world.
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Online and in real-life demonstrations, two viral conspiracy theories are increasingly coming together.
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Travellers arriving from places like France and Spain must follow certain rules on entry to the UK.
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Since March, Canada has rushed to contain the virus. But some life-saving measures are killing Canadians.
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Some people might want to consider it during the pandemic. Here's why.
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Meet the ward boys, or hospital assistants, who are the unsung heroes in India's Covid-19 fight.
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Three business owners explain how they are weathering the economic fallout.
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Mekala Osborne, 22, wasn't expected to live. Now she’s learning to walk again.
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Experts say India needs more post-Covid care centres as many patients are reporting lasting symptoms.
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