The latest: The Chinese city of Wuhan — where the novel coronavirus outbreak first emerged late last year — began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday, as the number of cases of the infection worldwide approached 600,000. Wuhan restarted some subway services and reopened borders, allowing some semblance of normality to return and families to reunite. Authorities had taken strict measures…

A deadly pandemic is about to force a reckoning upon a nation whose cherished founding creed is that all people are created equal. It’s becoming clearer which Americans will shoulder an unequal share of the suffering from start to finish of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the United States becomes the new epicentre of it. Poorer people are less likely…

The latest: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it’s not yet clear how long measures to combat COVID-19 will need to stay in place, as he offered the latest details on a plan meant to help small businesses get through the financial fallout generated by the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in China and has since…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating but will still lead the government’s response to the outbreak. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,” Johnson said. “But be in no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stood defiant in the face of a $15 million US bounty by the United States to face drug trafficking charges, calling Donald Trump a “racist cowboy” and warning that he is ready to fight by whatever means necessary should the U.S. and neighboring Colombia dare to invade. Maduro’s bellicose remarks Thursday night…

The first wave hit last week. The ER at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn was flooded with people all showing the same symptoms: cough, fever, lungs filled with pus. A week later came the second wave. Many of those same patients were getting worse, said Dr. Tanzib Hossain, a pulmonary and critical care physician dealing with the COVID-19 crisis at the…