The US, Brazil and India: The only three countries with more than a million cases

The US, Brazil and India: The only three countries with more than a million cases

A health worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gear collects a swab sample of a boy at a government free testing centre in Hyderabad, India on July 17. Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images Earlier today, India surged past one million cases, becoming the third country in the world to do so, after the United States and Brazil. … Read more

Live updates: The latest on the coronavirus pandemic

Record number of Covid-19 cases reported to World Health Organization over the past 24 hours

A health worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gear collects a swab sample of a boy at a government free testing centre in Hyderabad, India on July 17. Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images Earlier today, India surged past one million cases, becoming the third country in the world to do so, after the United States and Brazil. … Read more

White House press secretary argues science is on the side of opening schools

White House press secretary argues science is on the side of opening schools

Drew Angerer/Getty Images The White House insists new rules for reporting Covid data from hospitals are about “getting more data out there, not less data,” made available to health experts and the public, after pushback from some researchers.  The administration ordered hospitals to send data on coronavirus patients to the Department of Health and Human Services in … Read more

US Health Department directs CDC to add hospital data back to its website

Record number of Covid-19 cases reported to World Health Organization over the past 24 hours

Lucia Abascal interviews patients from her home while working as a contract tracer in San Francisco on June 25. Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images) To combat the rise in coronavirus cases in California, there needs to be enough contact tracing staff in regions where Covid-19 infections are increasing, the principal investigator for the state’s contact … Read more

Coronavirus hospital data removed from CDC website following Trump plan to reroute information

Record number of Covid-19 cases reported to World Health Organization over the past 24 hours

Dr. Adriana Coronel attends to a COVID-19 patient at the Eurnekian Ezeiza Hospital on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on July 14. Natacha Pisarenko/AP Argentina’s death toll due to Covid-19 has reached 2,072, with 22 new deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Ministry of Health on Thursday morning.  The … Read more

Latin America and the Caribbean top 3.5 million Covid-19 cases and more than 150,000 deaths

Latin America and the Caribbean top 3.5 million Covid-19 cases and more than 150,000 deaths

Crematorium workers enter the body of a person who died from Covid-19 into the oven to be cremated at the San Isidro Crematorium in Azcapotzalco on July 15, in Mexico City. Hector Vivas/Getty Images Mexico’s health ministry recorded 6,149 newly confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus Wednesday, bringing the country’s total to 317,635. The ministry … Read more