U.S. President Donald Trump said his press briefings are “not worth the time and effort” as his administration prepares to adjust his public presence amid the COVID-19 pandemic toward addressing the nation’s economic woes. Tweeting on Saturday, one of the few days in which he has not held a daily briefing since the start of…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be back at work on Monday, a Downing Street spokesperson confirmed on Saturday. Johnson has been recovering from COVID-19 at Chequers, his official country residence, after spending three nights in intensive care earlier this month. Johnson, 55, was discharged from St Thomas’ Hospital in central London last week. In his first comments since…

China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to three people familiar with the situation. The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean leader. Reuters was unable to immediately determine what the trip by the Chinese team signaled…

There are signs the political bounce U.S. President Donald Trump’s received in the polls earlier in the coronavirus crisis has, at least for now, deflated. Election polls in key states show him trailing Joe Biden, the presumed Democratic nominee for president in the November election, and the Gallup polling firm registered his biggest drop in popularity since taking…

When New York’s first cases of COVID-19 were announced at the beginning of March, attention was focused on China as the source of the threat. But preliminary research now suggests dozens of patients with genetic markers of the virus that can be traced to Europe may have been spreading it across the city as early as late January — a key factor that…

Warning: Speculating about medical cures on live television during a global pandemic may carry multiple unwanted side-effects. Just ask U.S. President Donald Trump. On Friday, institutions in different countries were issuing health warnings about different medical ideas the president of United States had shared with millions of television viewers. The most attention-grabbing alert came from the British…