As virus surges, critics say UK hasn’t learned from mistakes
LONDON — Britain bungled its response to the coronavirus the first time around. Now many scientists fear it’s about to do it again.
The virus...
‘Are people to be left to die?’ Vaccine pleas fill UN summit
JOHANNESBURG — If the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II, what will be born from the global crisis of...
World leaders criticize haphazard response to pandemic
UNITED NATIONS — World leaders gathering remotely Wednesday criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken...
US experts vow ‘no cutting corners’ as vaccine tests expand
WASHINGTON — A huge international study of a COVID-19 vaccine that aims to work with just one dose is getting underway as top U.S....
200,000 dead as Trump vilifies science, prioritizes politics
NEW YORK — With the nation’s COVID-19 death toll at 200,000, President Donald Trump is engaged in an ongoing war against his administration’s own...
UK defends its new virus strategy but experts are skeptical
LONDON — The British government on Wednesday defended its strategy for combating a second wave of COVID-19 cases amid criticism that its new slate...
‘Unfathomable’: US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold six weeks before...
UN chief warns of crisis as world powers meet remotely
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the U.N.’s first-ever virtual meeting of global leaders Tuesday that the world is facing an “epochal” health...
Closing time: UK pubs must shut early as COVID cases surge
LONDON — British pubs will have to close early and people who fail to obey quarantine rules will face stiff fines under new lockdown...
Europe scrambles to contain rise in coronavirus cases
BERLIN — Political pressure grew Monday for European governments to tackle the rising number of coronavirus case without resorting to a spring-style lockdown that...
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