Britain will extend its coronavirus lockdown for at least three more weeks as a relaxation of the measures would damage both public health and the economy, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Thursday. “Relaxing any of the measures currently in place would risk damage to both public health and the economy,” he told reporters. “Based…

Before Washington state lifts its stay-at-home order, public health workers in Seattle’s King County want to be ready to douse any new sparks of infection. That task, they say, requires at least 20 more investigators to call people who test positive for the coronavirus, track down their contacts and get them into quarantine. Without the…

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicentre of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people, and millions began travelling through the city for Lunar New Year celebrations. President Xi Jinping warned…

First came the deadly pandemic, then the economic meltdown, and now a third international crisis looms. It’s geopolitical, involving escalating tensions between the world’s existing and emerging superpowers: the United States and China. This week’s feud about the World Health Organization is just one flashpoint in a rivalry intensifying on multiple fronts. It only seems likely…

Quite uncharacteristically, the Russian state TV host did not bury the bad news as he led off the show. “We’re now following the same model as Italy,” Yevgeny Popov said in a stunning about-face from just two weeks ago, when the host of the popular Russian talk show 60 Minutes said the government was getting the coronavirus outbreak under control. Now, Russia’s…

Nations around the world reacted with alarm Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the World Health Organization. Health experts warned the move could jeopardize global efforts to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.  At a briefing in Washington, Trump said he was instructing his administration to…