Countries in sub-Saharan Africa could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organization officials said Thursday. “During the last four days, we can see that the numbers have already doubled,” Michel Yao, WHO’s Africa program manager for emergency response, said at a media…

A sailor from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in Guam after testing positive for the coronavirus last month, the U.S. navy said on Thursday, as the number of coronavirus cases on the ship jumped to over 400. The case comes after Thomas Modly resigned as acting navy secretary…

Dr. Jahan Fahimi unzips the plastic inner entrance to a mobile isolated care unit set up in a hospital parking lot. If you live in San Francisco and come down with COVID-19, this is where you might end up. But look around the mobile unit, even the University of California San Francisco Health hospital itself, says the emergency care physician.…

The latest:  Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his “patience is running thin” when it comes to the low rate of testing for COVID-19 in his province. “No more excuses. It is unacceptable. We have the capacity now,” a visibly angry Ford told reporters Wednesday afternoon. “We need to start doing 13,000 every single day.” Ontario is conducting far…

Britain’s prime minister lay sequestered in a room for days, struggling to survive the deadliest pandemic of the century, while scant details trickled out to the public. Boris Johnson in 2020? No, David Lloyd George in 1918. The Spanish flu left a staggering trail of consequences on politics around the world, with Lloyd George one of numerous…

U.S. health officials are planning ways for the country to return to normal activities if distancing and other steps to mitigate COVID-19 this month prove successful in curbing the outbreak, the top U.S. infectious disease official said on Wednesday. The Trump administration has called for 30 days of measures, including staying at least two metres…