As Mexico faces rising numbers of coronavirus cases, Tijuana's Clinica 20 is just one more public hospital fighting on the front lines. The five-story facility in central Tijuana is struggling...
April 20, 2020
After nine years of war, Syria is broken into three rival parts unable to work together and ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus, an enemy that knows no conflict lines....
April 20, 2020
As a doctor in North Korea during the SARS outbreak and flu pandemic, Choi Jung Hun didn't have much more than a thermometer to decide who should be quarantined. Barely...
April 19, 2020
A suspect in an active shooter investigation was arrested Sunday at a gas station in Nova Scotia after a shooting rampage in the Canadian province left “multiple victims," police said....
April 19, 2020
North Korea on Sunday dismissed as “ungrounded” President Donald Trump's comment that he recently received “a nice note” from the North's leader, Kim Jong Un. Trump said during a press...
April 19, 2020
The holiest day of the year for Orthodox Christians was reserved and glum in many countries where churches were closed to worshipers for Easter services because of restrictions aimed at...
April 19, 2020
At his darkest moment with the coronavirus, Dr. Poorna Gunasekera glimpsed three rays of light. Following a severe deterioration in his COVID-19 symptoms, Gunasekera was rushed to Derriford Hospital in...
April 19, 2020
BERLIN – The head of the Institute of Virology in the Chinese city of Wuhan has rejected allegations in the United States that the novel coronavirus could have originated in...
April 19, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – Despite the significant decline in the number of new cases of infection with the coronavirus, South Korea wants to stick to its policy of restricting social...
April 19, 2020
Hospitals in Mexico City are nearing saturation point after they received 100 more Covid-19 patients requiring intubation in just two days, newspaper El Norte reported, citing Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. Of...
April 19, 2020
Criticized for refusing to lock down, Sweden's top health official says herd immunity is inevitable and took credit for the slowing of coronavirus numbers. "According to our modelers, we are...
April 19, 2020
Some were born in this warren of small rooms in what used to be a hospital, dating to the 17th century. Many are likely to die here. And all are...
April 19, 2020
The United States condemned the arrests of at least 14 veteran pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on charges of joining massive anti-government protests last year, saying the police action jeopardizes...
April 18, 2020
Seated in a wheelchair at one of Peru's oldest hospitals, 84-year-old Emma Salvador struggled for each breath, aided by an oxygen mask pinching her face. Her son fanned her with...
April 18, 2020
Orthodox priests in much of Europe held Easter services in churches empty of parishoners because of restrictions imposed to block the spread of coronavirus. In Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv,...
April 18, 2020
Elisheva Stern wasn't ready to say goodbye to her ailing father, who was succumbing to the coronavirus in an Israeli hospital. But knowing countless others around the world are not...
April 18, 2020
A small group of Christian clerics celebrated the Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Saturday as the coronavirus pandemic prevented worshippers from taking...
April 18, 2020
Hong Kong police arrested at least 14 veteran pro-democracy lawmakers, activists and a media tycoon on Saturday on charges of joining unlawful protests last year calling for reforms. Among those...
April 18, 2020
The medical supplies had been shipped. The planning began a year in advance. Then the coronavirus arrived, and Dr. Charmaine Emelife's heart sank. The annual trip to Nigeria to provide...
April 18, 2020
The phone rang in the prayer room at the hospital. Another patient had died. A young woman left the room to rush to intensive care. She entered wearing a mask,...
April 18, 2020
The first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan is particularly significant to Egyptian Muslim Sayed Mahmoud. Each year, he usually celebrates the start of the lunar month with...
April 18, 2020
Hong Kong police arrested at least 14 opposition activists on Saturday for allegedly holding unlawful protests last year, the South China Morning Post reported. Former lawmakers Martin Lee, Albert Ho...
April 18, 2020
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that Canada and the United States had agreed to keep their border closed for all nonessential travel for another 30 days. "Canada...
April 18, 2020
The world's seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead. Parts of the...
April 18, 2020
A laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, located just miles away from the wet market where officials said the novel coronavirus first emerged, has denied accusations the disease originated...
April 18, 2020
Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new coronavirus, work in foreign-owned factories in northern...
April 18, 2020
South Korea posted the fewest number of new coronavirus cases since an outbreak at a religious sect in late February spiked daily infections to nearly 1,000 and set off a...
April 18, 2020
The coronavirus brings with it forced isolation: Family members cannot visit hospitalized patients. Nursing homes bar their doors to outsiders. People with mild cases or who have been in contact...
April 18, 2020
Muhimman proudly writes his name slowly, carefully, one letter at a time, grinning broadly as he finishes. He's just 11 years old and was a good student who had dreams...
April 17, 2020
The Trump administration's failure to test all but a small percentage of detained immigrants for the novel coronavirus may be helping it spread through the United States' sprawling system of...
April 17, 2020
Venezuelan officials have taken to state TV in recent weeks to crow that the socialist government is conducting more coronavirus tests than any other country in Latin America. But instead...
April 17, 2020
The French navy is investigating how the coronavirus infected more than 1,000 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, amid growing pressure on government leaders to explain how it...
April 17, 2020
On the rooftop terrace of her Tehran apartment building, 28-year-old Mojgan Hosseini's fingers pluck the strings of her qanun, an ancient stringed instrument, bringing life to an Iranian capital stilled...
April 17, 2020
A nationwide lockdown didn't stop Britain's National Youth Orchestra from making music — alone but together. With the country in its fourth week of isolation to slow the spread of...
April 17, 2020
A U.S.-Russian crew landed safely Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan following a stint on the International Space Station and was greeted with extra precautions due to the coronavirus. NASA...
April 17, 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said coronavirus social distancing efforts are still insufficient a day after he expanded a state of emergency to the entire country. Abe asked Japanese in...
April 17, 2020
As some wealthier Western nations begin easing coronavirus restrictions, many developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, want to do it too, but they cannot afford the luxury...
April 17, 2020
China's official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic jumped sharply Friday as the hardest-hit city of Wuhan announced a major revision that added nearly 1,300 fatalities. The new figures resulted...
April 17, 2020
Africa could see 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus this year even under the best-case scenario, according to a new report released Friday that cites modeling from Imperial College London. Under...
April 17, 2020
The hearse van carrying the woman's body zoomed past the gate and stationed itself near the far end of the graveyard, a space reserved for Muslims who died of COVID-19...
