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Children attending DC Public Schools were required to produce a negative coronavirus test result before returning to school on the Monday after the Thanksgiving break.

The White House blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress on Tuesday for shortages of COVID-19 testing and personal protective equipment (PPE) ahead of an anticipated surge in coronavirus cases this winter.

Shanghai’s government announced a snap lockdown Tuesday across 9 of its 16 residential districts to allow officials to conduct mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus, Xinhua News Agency reported, adding that the movement restrictions will last through Thursday.

The White House announced Tuesday President Joe Biden’s website for Americans to request free coronavirus tests was now live.

President Joe Biden left Monday for his beach vacation in Delaware after admitting in a video call with U.S. governors that there was no federal solution to the coronavirus pandemic.

The president acknowledged there were long lines across the country in front of testing locations ahead of the Christmas holiday, especially after the swift spread of the omicron variant.

SYDNEY (AP) – Australia’s most populous state reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases on Sunday and a sharp jump in hospitalizations while thousands of people were isolating at home after contracting the virus or coming into contact with someone who has.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy if he believed that everyone should be tested when coming into the United States. “The answer is yes,” Fauci replied.

Ellume has recalled its at-home coronavirus test due to potential false positive results, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Shanghai Disneyland shut down on short notice on Sunday and refused to allow any of the theme park’s 34,000 visitors to leave the facility until they were tested for the Chinese coronavirus after allegedly detecting just one new case of the disease in a woman who visited the site one day earlier, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday.

A DNA test on hair from the Native American leader, Sitting Bull, recently confirmed his great-grandson is a 73-year-old man living in South Dakota.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” author and linguist John McWhorter commented on New York City phasing out its gifted and talented programs by arguing that if you decide “it’s racist to submit a black kid to a test

President Joe Biden on Friday is reportedly waiving coronavirus test requirements from potentially infected evacuees in Afghanistan, a “hotspot” for the Chinese coronavirus.

National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the United States, announced on Thursday, the union will support the Chinese coronavirus vaccine and testing mandates to “ensure that students and educators are able to enjoy safe, uninterrupted, in-person education.”

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. colleges have nixed testing for student admission amid claims the tests give an advantage to applicants who are white and wealthier than other potential students because they have access to test preparation.

The Indian army claimed Tuesday that it is using specially trained dogs to detect positive cases of the Chinese coronavirus among soldiers, alleging the method is faster than widely-used rapid tests for the virus.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) criticized President Biden on Tuesday, questioning why the U.S. is requiring international travelers to undergo a coronavirus test and wield negative results but allowing illegal aliens at the U.S.-Mexico border to enter the country without testing.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), on the day President Joe Biden took office, released a notice to laboratories worldwide to clarify information previously provided by the W.H.O. about coronavirus testing.

Bunking off work because you are ‘ill’ is no longer feckless or irresponsible. In fact it’s your sacred duty.

The former owner of a testing lab in Alabama received a prison sentence last week for falsifying records, actions prosecutors say caused several families great pain.

Thousands of President Donald Trump supporters who believe voting irregularities could prevent his second term are gathering in Washington, DC, at noon on Saturday at Freedom Plaza for a #StoptheSteal election rally.

Joe Biden distorted a quote by Trump to refer specifically to initial problems in testing by the CDC, which even Dr. Fauci agreed were not Trump’s fault.

W.H.O. officials did an about-face Thursday on the agency’s coronavirus testing guidelines, proclaiming that broad-based population tests are “not really that useful.”

Connecticut’s Department of Public Health announced on Monday the discovery of dozens of false-positive coronavirus tests, attributing the error to a “flaw” in a testing system.

Donald Trump never ordered slowing of coronavirus testing, said Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, during Tuesday’s congressional hearing on coronavirus oversight, denied claims that they had been asked to scale back testing, clarifying that they will actually be “doing more.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” White House adviser Peter Navarro downplayed the hubbub over President Donald Trump’s remarks a night earlier about testing.

Harvard Global Health Institute director Dr. Ashish Jha keeps changing the number of tests he thinks the United States needs to do per week to battle the coronavirus pandemic, the latest example of a public health professional moving the goalposts as the disease recedes nationwide.

After months of insisting they had the coronavirus pandemic completely under control, Chinese authorities on Tuesday admitted the outbreak in Beijing is “very grim.” Orders were given to lock down at least 29 communities and restrict travel from the city.

The massive protests over the death of George Floyd across the United States, which have devolved into rioting and looting mostly at night, cast doubt on the partial reopening of several non-essential businesses in cities plagued by the unrest as of Tuesday.

Hundreds of American physicians have signed a letter addressed to Vice President Pence and the Coronavirus Task Force that urges the total reopening of the nation’s businesses and schools.

Safety protocols for returning to the workforce are more important than ubiquitous coronavirus testing to resume economic normalcy, explained Dr. Anthony Harris, associate medical director and vice president of onsite clinical operations for WorkCare, an occupational health services company.

Just when you think the corrupt media cannot possibly move the coronavirus goalposts any further, ABC’s Jonathan Karl launches those posts into the outer reaches of space with the stupidest, most anti-science goal ever conceived. Get this… America’s testing infrastructure will not be acceptable to the fake news media until everyone is tested every freakin’ day they go to work.

Residents of Wuhan, China, the city where the worldwide coronavirus pandemic began, are worried that the virus is back despite constant assurances from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that it was all but eradicated.

Health officials from the Trump administration told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the U.S. will be able to meet its coronavirus (COVID-19) testing goals for the next two months and that there may be an effective vaccine to combat the disease by the end of this year.

The White House confirmed plans to distribute $11 billion to states to help fund testing. “We’ve done a tremendous number, and that number is accelerating even quicker,” the official said.