APRIL 5, 2020
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2012, file photo shows an entrance to the Bronx Zoo in New York. A tiger at the zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. It's believed to be the first infection in an animal in the U.S. and the first known in a tiger anywhere, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said...
APRIL 5, 2020
LONDON, ENGLAND — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized on Sunday evening after 10 days of battling the coronavirus, unnerving a country that had gathered to watch Queen Elizabeth II rally fellow Britons to confront the pandemic and reassure them that when the crisis finally ebbed, “we will meet again.”
The British government said that Mr. Johnson...
APRIL 5, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Sunday that the coming week is going to be "bad" as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continues to rise in the U.S., even as the number of new cases is beginning to stabilize in...
APRIL 5, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Sunday that the dismissal of the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who raised the alarm about a coronavirus outbreak on the aircraft carrier, is "close to criminal."
The former vice president said on ABC's "This Week" that Capt. Brett Crozier "stood up and said what had to be said" with...
APRIL 5, 2020
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. - JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday warned the people of his country that they are not immune to the threat posed by the coronavirus. He, however, exuded confidence that Pakistan would emerge stronger from the challenge.
"Nobody should have the false notion that they...
APRIL 5, 2020
Police officials walk through a disinfection tunnel during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in Chennai, India on April 5.
NEW DELHI - India banned all exports of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug that President Donald Trump has touted as a “game changer” in the fight against Covid-19.
Exports of the drug and its formulations are prohibited “without any exceptions” and with...
APRIL 4, 2020
As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks to places like China to buy medical supplies, he says Canadian officials are urging the Trump administration at many levels to keep critical goods and services flowing across the border. - Leon Neal/Getty Images
OTTAWA, CANADA — Parallel efforts to combat the coronavirus are fraying an already tense alliance as...
APRIL 4, 2020
New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Saturday agreed to deploy the full strength of the India-US partnership to resolutely and effectively combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Modi on Saturday spoke to the US President over phone about mounting a joint effort in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.
The two leaders exchanged...
APRIL 4, 2020
The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in South Asia neared 6,000 on Saturday, even as authorities in some cities tightened restrictions on movement and warned lockdowns could be extended in a bid to rein in the pandemic.
"If people don't obey the rules seriously and cases continue to rise, then there may be no option but...
APRIL 4, 2020
Cori Bush, running for a congressional seat in Missouri, is one of several Democratic candidates who gave up their employer-sponsored insurance to run. - Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images For Sxsw
In the past week and a half, Cori Bush has been hospitalized twice with shortness of breath, sore throat, fatigue, loss of taste and a headache.
Told at first that...
