July 16, 2020 Californians turn on one another as coronavirus shuts down the state for a second time A surge of coronavirus cases in California is pitting residents of the Golden State against one another, with one side frustrated that not enough people are taking the virus seriously, while others are angered by the state’s response and its impact on small businesses.
July 16, 2020 Russian hackers behind cyberattacks on coronavirus vaccine developers: US, UK, Canada intel Russian cyber hackers are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, security officials in the U.S, United Kingdom and Canada claimed Thursday.
July 15, 2020 Hospital coronavirus data to bypass CDC for Trump administration database in Washington The data hospitals collect on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
July 15, 2020 Florida Walmart shopper brandishes gun in apparent dispute over coronavirus masks Florida authorities are looking for a man seen without a facial covering on security footage pointing a gun in another man's masked face, threatening to kill him inside a Walmart store over the weekend.
July 14, 2020 Brazil's President Bolsonaro bitten by ostrich-like bird during coronavirus quarantine: local media Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday was bitten by an ostrich-like bird he was trying to feed while entering into his second week of quarantine at the presidential palace.
July 13, 2020 Ex-Harvard Medical School faculty member warns COVID-19 herd immunity is ‘wishful thinking' A Washington D.C.-based internist and former Harvard Medical School faculty member has claimed the idea that herd immunity may slow the coronavirus pandemic is "wishful thinking" after a 50-year-old patient was infected for a second time with COVID-19.
July 13, 2020 Fort Lauderdale homeless put up in motels during pandemic refusing to leave as state's coronavirus surges Some homeless people in Fort Lauderdale who have been living in motels for three months as a part of citywide efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus are reportedly refusing to leave if the state cannot come up with the funding to extend the program that’s kept them off the streets.
July 12, 2020 South Africa reimposes liquor ban amid coronavirus surge to free up hospital space South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said the country will reimpose a liquor ban to reduce the number of trauma patients that have taken up space in hospitals, where beds are now desperately needed to accommodate a surge of coronavirus patients.
July 9, 2020 Bolivia's interim president, high-ranking Venezuelan leader test positive for coronavirus Bolivia's interim president and Venezuela's No. 2 leader announced Thursday that they have been infected with the new coronavirus, just days after Brazil's leader tested positive as the pandemic hits hard at some of Latin America's political elite.
July 9, 2020 Number of Mississippi lawmakers testing positive for coronavirus jumps to 26 A growing number of Mississippi lawmakers are testing positive for the novel coronavirus, following a month of working together in close proximity at the State Capitol building without wearing face masks.