COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s education minister is urging parents and schools to cancel “all social events,” including camps but also private gatherings like birthday parties to which classmates are invited.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that the British government is acting like an “elected dictatorship” as it continues to pass coronavirus laws without parliamentary scrutiny.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top Treasury official is preparing to announce new plans to help workers hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As coronavirus cases in Israel soar — and with them, tensions in the Knesset over whether to tighten restrictions on ongoing anti-government protests — a former Israeli director-general of the Health Ministry on Wednesday warned against the demonstrations, citing a U.S. report that showed a significant spike in infections following the George Floyd protests.
ROME — Pope Francis declared Wednesday that everyone’s voice is important to beat the coronavirus, not just those of experts, the wealthy, and the powerful.
The CDC said Monday it erroneously published new guidance acknowledging that the coronavirus spreads through the air.
The media and the Democrats are making much of reports that the U.S. reached an estimated 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday. However, in March, experts said 200,000 deaths was considered the low-end estimate with “full mitigation.”
Washington, DC, again changed the criteria for lifting additional coronavirus-related restrictions, making it difficult to reopen.
A poll finds that more than half of respondents feel that the Big 10’s return to play is due to President Donald Trump’s urging a college football return.
NFL coaches thumbed their collective — and exposed — noses at the NFL’s mask mandate in Week 2.
Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green said the Labour Party should not “let a good crisis go to waste”, saying that her party should use the China virus to push through more government spending in areas like education.
Former Vice President Joe Biden wore a mask for a remote interview with a local Wisconsin ABC affiliate on Monday, for reasons that remain unclear.
Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel has suggested a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in Britain until a coronavirus vaccine is produced.
Anyone who wants to protest against this assault on liberty ought to be ready for the worst: the police are now a political instrument.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a set of draconian coronavirus restrictions, including fines of up to £10,000 for breaching self-isolation, as the Mayor of London floated the idea of a second lockdown and curfews in the British capital.
ROME (AP) — Italians in seven regions headed to the polls Sunday for two days of voting shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joe Biden and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta are catching a lot of flak for saying Donald Trump could have prevented nearly all coronavirus deaths.
LONDON (AP) — Police in London have clashed with protesters at a rally organized by opponents of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.
TORONTO (AP) – The new leader of Canada’s main opposition party has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Saturday’s Baylor-Houston game has become a victim of COVID-19 only 24 hours before kickoff, after contact tracing found someone connected to the team who tested positive for the virus.
Hostile foreign actors, violent extremists, and domestic criminals are taking advantage of the “unique and unprecedented” impact the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is having on the FBI workforce to wreak havoc in the U.S. on several fronts, the bureau’s director Christopher Wary warned Thursday.
Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee, inaccurately suggested on Friday that President Donald Trump had failed to mention the novel coronavirus pandemic during his State of the Union address earlier this year.
On Wednesday in Delaware, Joe Biden declared that he would impose a national mask mandate by executive order, enforce “uniform national guidelines” for dealing with the pandemic, establish “national criteria for opening schools,” and by implication take authority from the states in to address the pandemic.
Van Morrison has released three new protest songs accusing the UK government of being ‘fascist bullies disturbing our peace.’
Public health officials in Los Angeles County are facing criticism for singling out Jews in a message reminding people to avoid large family gatherings as the region continues to battle the coronavirus.
FBI Director Christopher Wray indicated that Russian and Chinese hackers are trying to steal U.S. coronavirus vaccine research.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper (D) hid coronavirus infections emerging from bars and restaurants from the public because they were too low.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was quick to spike the ball in celebration when the Big Ten announced the return of fall football at colleges clustered in some of the Midwest battleground states critical to his reelection effort, declaring, “I’m the one who got football back.”
The most senior cleric in the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, criticised Boris Johnson’s centralised approach to the China virus, calling for a return to local control rather than the national government “determining the daily details of our lives”.
CDC Director Robert Redfield said face masks are better at protecting against the coronavirus disease than a potential vaccine.
