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Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “John Bachman Now,” Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez (R) heaped praise on Florida Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for ruling to strike down the federal mask mandate on public transportation.

Boris Johnson offered a “wholehearted” apology for attending an illegal party during lockdown – but insisted he didn’t knowingly break rules.

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen reacted on Tuesday to a federal judge striking down the public transportation mask mandate.

Chinese censors on Monday deleted a social media post listing over 150 people who purportedly died in Shanghai because of the coronavirus lockdown – not from the virus itself, but from other medical conditions they could not obtain treatment for, or because they committed suicide.

Airlines quickly dropped mask requirements on Monday after a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida nixed the Biden administration’s federal mask requirement for public transportation, expressing great relief.

Tuesday on CBS’s “Mornings,” infectious disease expert Dr. Celine Gounder reacted to a federal judge striking down the federal travel mask mandate.

Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN’s chief NFL Draft analyst and signature presence on NFL Draft broadcasts, announced that he is unvaccinated and will cover this year’s draft remotely.

Germany’s health minister has been lambasted for fearmongering by experts after warning that a killer COVID variant could emerge this autumn.

South Korea’s government on Monday dropped nearly all pandemic-related social gathering restrictions in an effort “to move on from the COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] pandemic,” Yonhap News reported, two days after Japan’s government announced the country “no longer needs to fully stop social activities” due to the disease.

China’s ruling Communist Party strategically labeled expanding nationwide Chinese coronavirus restrictions over the weekend as “temporary controls of social activities” after some residents in certain affected cities, such as Xi’an, reportedly “panicked” after first learning of the movement restrictions, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged on Saturday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials in the coronavirus pandemic.

Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck is expected to miss Tuesday’s game in Toronto against the Blue Jays for not being vaccinated, making it clear that it is a “personal choice.”

Sina Weibo, the heavily censored Chinese alternative to banned Twitter, appears to have banned a hashtag that quotes the Chinese national anthem to criticize coronavirus lockdowns. It also appears to have blocked searches for the lyrics to the anthem.

The University of Connecticut is one of the latest entities to bring back forced masking as federal health officials refuse to lift the federal mask mandate on public transportation and tease the possibility of the return of more mask mandates in the future.

Philadelphia residents and visitors must now wear a mask in indoor public spaces, as Monday, April 18, marks the first day of the return of the rule.

The Scottish First Minister has been referred to police over an alleged breach of her own coronavirus mask rules. 

Slightly more Americans say they will attend an Easter church service this year — another sign that people are anxious to return to a state of pre-pandemic normalcy — a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.

Most Americans are in agreement that the “worst” of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “behind us,” a YouGov/TheEconomist survey found. 

Shanghai’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown, which began in full on April 5 and applies to all of the city’s roughly 26 million residents, has caused “doubt, anxiety and fatigue” among the financial hub’s populace, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged on Friday.

Reuters on Friday noted the ostensible support of the Chinese public for draconian “zero-Covid” policies “seems to be wearing thin” amid “food shortages, family separations, lost wages, and economic pain.” Disobedience is on the rise, and so are arrests.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) criticized House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for extending proxy voting in the House due to the coronavirus pandemic while Title 42 is set to expire.

Most Americans believe it is time to end mask mandates on airlines,  polling by Scott Rasmussen, detailed by America First Policy Institute, reveals.

Despite Britons largely being confined to their homes, pregnancies fell to a 17-year low during the first year of coronavirus lockdowns.

A Canadian health ministry has apologised for sharing a link to a ‘foot fetish’ porn video instead of government COVID statistics.

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday they will seek permission to deliver coronavirus booster shots to healthy elementary-age children down to the age of five.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha defended rescinding Title 42 while extending the transit mask mandate by stating that “We have always had a bit of a different standard

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said that the White House is sending a “mixed message” by extending public health orders while saying “there’s no health issue” and eliminating Title 42 and that “becomes a

Simone Biles is as famous for the Olympic events she quit than the ones she won, and now she is now saying that quitting was her biggest win.

Videos posted from Shanghai this week show Chinese police and health officials growing increasingly short-tempered and physical with the city’s 26 million desperate residents, now in the third week of a coronavirus lockdown that was only supposed to last a few days.

The mayor of one of the largest border cities in Texas sent a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to reconsider keeping the Title 42 policies set to end on May 23. The request by the Texas politician comes as the U.S. sees a rise in the coronavirus BA.2 variant.

The extension of the federal mask mandate for public transportation is based on “more COVID theater” and is “the Biden equivalent of continuing the beatings until morale improves,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in a sharp statement on Wednesday.

Barry Manilow was forced to miss the opening night of his new off-Broadway musical Harmony after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s administration is extending the federal mask mandate for Americans traveling on commercial buses and flights while carrying out plans to end Chinese coronavirus restrictions for border crossers and illegal aliens.

During an interview with CBS’ “Red and Blue” on Wednesday, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy defended the transit mask mandate even as masks are not required in other indoor settings by arguing that travel is different because “you bring a

During an interview on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that took place before the capture of the suspect in the New York subway attack, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) dodged why some children in

Job Creators Network President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz said Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company” that Republican-led states that embraced free-market policies during the pandemic were the force behind the current economic recovery.