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Latest news and updates on the impact of a new strain of coronavirus on the United States. The virus causes the disease Covid-19 and the World Health Organisation has declared the spread of the infection a pandemic.
Making such a claim without scientific backing risks increasing resistance to further needed funding, the possible withdrawal of free testing and an end to the critical reporting of Covid cases.
After a year in office, Joe Biden is yet to move away from the destructive tariffs of his predecessor and it is the Americans who are suffering, not the Chinese.
Chinese civil aviation authority announcement follows US move to boost weekly air trip volume from 35 to 50.
Li Qiang tells delegation led by US Chamber of Commerce head that Washington’s ‘small yard, high fence’ approach to trade with China is not in either side’s interest.
A Chinese researcher submitted the genetic data on December 28, 2019, two weeks before Beijing announced details of the Wuhan coronavirus, lawmakers’ inquiry finds.
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The strain makes up an estimated 15 per cent to 29 per cent of cases in the US, and some infections have been detected in China, though the public health risk remains low.
The WHO says the spike appears to be driven by a rise in the number of children contracting pathogens they had avoided during 2 years of Covid-19 restrictions.
The charges faced by Jia Bei Zhu, 62, are for lack of permits and mislabelled test kits and have nothing to do with conspiracy theories on China engineering biological weapons in the US.
Data increasingly suggests that getting vaccinated reduces the risk of long Covid among children and adults.
Committee acquires documents, photos and video in inquiry involving site where at least 20 potentially infectious agents were said to be detected.
The FDA decision opens the newest vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they have never had a Covid vaccination.
The cybercrime group used ransomware to attack hundreds of targets worldwide, particularly hospitals amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The US president has raised eyebrows for not wearing a mask at at least two events soon after wife Jill Biden had her positive diagnosis.
US President Joe Biden, who tested negative for the virus, is due to travel to a Group of 20 summit in India.
With China’s consumer inflation at nearly zero in April, while US inflation continued to rise by 4.9 per cent, the diverging paths are evident, and it has contributed to a fragile global economic recovery.
The agency’s director expressed ‘mixed feelings’ in a letter to Biden, and did not say exactly why she was stepping down.
The Title 42 programme, introduced under Trump to use pandemic measures to expel people crossing without migration documents, will end next week.
Isolation increases the risk of premature death by nearly 30 per cent, according to a new report from US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s office.
The White House announced a May 11 end to Covid-19 vaccine requirements for travelers to the United States and for government employees across the world’s biggest economy.
In a possible preview of a 2024 presidential campaign theme, he attacked news outlets he said used “lies told for profit and power” to stir up hatred in the United States.
Community members are increasingly active politically, multilingual at home and more diverse economically than widely portrayed, study also reveals.
He faces little chance of success, but his campaign could help advance his claims that childhood Covid-19 immunisations pose health risks.
The move concludes over 3 years of lavish funding for coronavirus tests, free vaccines and other pandemic measures.
The legislation passed unanimously in the Senate and House before being sent to the White House; a recent media report reignited the debate on whether the pandemic was the result of a lab leak in China.
Illegal crossings have soared under US President Joe Biden. Many migrants turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents and are released in the US to pursue their cases in immigration court.
The requirements – put in place amid a surge in infections in China – have now been lifted as the number of cases has fallen.
Lawmakers say Americans have questions about how the pandemic began and how to prevent future outbreaks; US agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source.