Coronavirus

Mar. 9—In times like these, the good in people shines. Since March 2020, the MDJ has been reporting on acts of kindness, goodwill and generosity during the coronavirus pandemic. If you know of an instance of benevolence — on any scale — ...

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic in November 2020, when Vienna was shut down and people were allowed outside mainly to walk their dogs, Christian Thielemann was stopped by a police officer in the Heldenplatz. "I said that I have something...

At least 100,000 messages sent between Hancock and senior government figures during the height of the coronavirus pandemic have been made public....

Dado Ruvic/File Photo/ReutersA senior British government minister had a coronavirus test for his child couriered to his home when the pandemic was raging and national panic was being stoked by a shortage of the crucial tests, a trove of WhatsApp messages ...

Dado Ruvic/File Photo/ReutersA senior British government minister had a coronavirus test for his child couriered to his home when the pandemic was raging and national panic was being stoked by a shortage of the crucial tests, a trove of WhatsApp messages ...

Dado Ruvic/File Photo/ReutersA senior British government minister had a coronavirus test for his child couriered to his home when the pandemic was raging and national panic was being stoked by a shortage of the crucial tests, a trove of WhatsApp messages ...

California's coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths related to the...

A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies around the world since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? "There is not a consensus right now in the U.S. government about exactly h...

More than three years after the advent of the coronavirus, the most fundamental question remains: Just where did it come from?...

Feb. 21—The Gainesville City school board on Tuesday approved $3.21 million in federal coronavirus relief funding for the purchase of 8,800 student laptops....

Feb. 18—HIGH POINT — Housing advocate Bruce Rich and his associates want to keep evictions in High Point and across Guilford County from getting back to the levels before coronavirus pandemic moratoriums put a temporary hold on people ending u...

Federal prosecutors said a Rochester man tried to illegally tap into more than $1 million in coronavirus relief funds....

Starting extra innings with a runner on second base during the regular season was made a permanent rules change by Major League Baseball on Monday after three seasons of use during the coronavirus pandemic. Known by some as the "Ghost Runner" and ...

Australia will roll out a fifth dose of COVID-19 vaccine later this month to all citizens aged 18 and above who have not contracted coronavirus or been vaccinated in the past six months, Health Minister Mark Butler said on Wednesday. The decision expands ...

California public health department says state no longer pursuing coronavirus vaccine mandate for K-12 schools....

On a sunny winter morning heralding a radiant Mardi Gras, Beatrice and Karl Kersten don't have a minute to spare. After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic that brutally brought one of Europe's oldest Mardi Gras celebrations to a hal...

The move would formally restructure the federal government's response to coronavirus....

A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday. Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as Father Sergiy until his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church, u...

A former Virginia Parole Board chair violated state policy and law in her handling of cases at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and could have faced criminal charges for falsifying documents if not for the statute of limitations, the state's atto...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was praised around the world for her handling of the nation's worst mass shooting and the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, said Thursday she was leaving office. Ardern was facing mounting politic...

It is the first major death toll released since the country stopped its zero-Covid policy....

The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative coronavirus test as the Asian country grapples with a nationwide COVID-19 outbreak. The Health Ministry said it was heeding the ad...

Genomic sequencing allowed the world to track new coronavirus variants throughout the pandemic. Now British researchers plan to use it to better understand a host of other respiratory pathogens, from influenza to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The wor...

Jan. 9—SEASIDE — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden came to the Seaside Middle School gymnasium on Saturday for his first in-person town hall in two years of the coronavirus pandemic....

Three years into the pandemic, the coronavirus continues to impress virus experts with its swift evolution. A young version, known as XBB.1.5, has quickly been spreading in the United States over the past few weeks. As of Friday, the Centers for Disease C...

The PM said it would be 'wrong' to ignore the impact coronavirus has had on the NHS, which is facing record delays....