coronavirus pandemic

First international travelers are arriving in China without the mandatory quarantine that had been imposed at the start of the pandemic three years ago. The easing of border restrictions comes even as the virus continues to spread in China amid what critics say is a lack of transparency from Beijing. More foreign governments are imposing testing requirements on travelers from...

With countdowns and fireworks, revelers in major city centers across the Asia-Pacific region are ushering in the first new year without COVID-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020. While COVID-19 continues to cause death and dismay, particularly in China, which is battling a nationwide surge in infections after suddenly easing anti-epidemic measures, countries had largely lifted quarantine requirements, restrictions...

U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Biden administration says it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile

As the U.S. approaches the three-year mark of the arrival of the coronavirus, the country reached a new unpleasant milestone: 100 million COVID cases.

The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all American households

In a sharp reversal, China has announced a series of measures rolling back some of its most draconian anti-COVID-19 restrictions.

China is expanding pandemic lockdowns, including in a city where factory workers clashed with police this week, as its number of COVID-19 cases hits a daily record.

Videos and postings on Chinese social media say employees at the world’s biggest Apple iPhone factory have been beaten and detained in protests over contract disputes amid anti-virus controls.

Alcohol-related deaths among middle-aged Americans rose nearly 30% in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new CDC study found.

The Biden administration says the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter.

Republicans in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than Democrats when accounting for the additional deaths that occurred during the coronavirus pandemic and after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, according to new research. ...

What is known as the excess death rate was 76% higher for Republicans than for Democrats, according to from the National Bureau of Economic Research published...

“This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger said in a statement.

The head of the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths last week was the lowest reported number in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global outbreak.

Two House Democrats asked the Treasury Department watchdog to review airlines’ use of the more than $50 billion in aid for staff buyouts.

Covid vaccinations will likely become an annual affair, White House officials said Tuesday, with a schedule resembling that of flu shots. “In the absence of a dramatically different variants, we likely are moving towards a path with a vaccination cadence similar to that of the annual influenza vaccine, with annual updated Covid-19 shots matched to the currently circulating strains for…

Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, a new study shows. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new federal study — offering an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation’s children.

For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big box office. But after the tumult of the pandemic, can the fall movie season just...

First lady Jill Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and plans to return to Washington on Tuesday. The president’s wife came down with a “rebound” case of the coronavirus nearly a week ago. Jill Biden’s communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, announced the negative test Monday night in a statement. Jill Biden has been isolating at her family’s house in Rehoboth Beach,...