COVID-19

The British government is facing a Thursday deadline to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry.

Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry while he was U.K. prime minister into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pom Moongauklang, the owner of Pom Pom's Teahouse and Sandwicheria, is pleading with the community to support her businesses.

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.

U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia.

A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief is trying to avoid spending any time in prison.

Pandemic-era rules on COVID-19 testing for White House journalists are being loosened as the public health emergency declaration expires Thursday.

Top U.N. officials and health industry leaders are trying to tackle an alarming surge in tuberculosis, which is now killing more people worldwide than COVID-19 or AIDS.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to throw out certain at-home COVID tests over concerns of bacterial contamination.

The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay.

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Mexican officials are crowing about the country finally developing its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out.

A friend of former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg will plead guilty to federal charges related to prostitution and COVID-19 relief loan fraud, according to a plea agreement signed Monday.

Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled a hospital couldn't be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19, saying a county judge did not cite a legal basis for ordering the facility to administer ivermectin.

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex.

One million Florida residents face the possibility of being dropped from Medicaid coverage after a COVID-era federal policy expired at the end of last month.

Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic and other information earlier.

The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it.

President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.

A change of plea hearing has been set for next week in the case of Joseph Harding, a former Florida representative who faces charges related to COVID-19 loan fraud.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women dropped significantly in 2022.

China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday as it tries to revive tourism and its economy following a three-year halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The mother of four said she was healthy and active, but at 51, she's dealing with heart and lung issues and sporadic inflammation throughout her body due to COVID-19

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members have filed a lawsuit against the company.

Online speculation about the origins of COVID-19 is soaring after a new report from the Energy Department concluding the coronavirus that caused the disease leaked from a China lab.

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease.

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

China says more than 200 million of its citizens have been diagnosed and treated for COVID-19 since it lifted strict containment measures beginning in November.

In a story published February 13, 2023, about a congressional investigation into COVID-19 origins, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Rep. James Comer is from Tennessee.

California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools.

After a COVID-imposed hiatus, artisans are again crafting elaborate costumes and floats for the famed Carnival in the Belgian town of Binche.

The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests.

President Joe Biden has informed Congress that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared.

The World Health Organization chief says the coronavirus remains a global health emergency.

Russia’s embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the spread of respiratory illnesses.

A potential class-action lawsuit has gone to the Florida Supreme Court in a dispute about whether the University of Florida should return fees to students because of a campus shutdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot.

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect against a still rapidly mutating virus.

Nearly three years into the pandemic, AdventHealth is working to better understand the long-term effects of COVID-19.

Hong Kong's leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 starting Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return to normalcy.

China has reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data about the status of the pandemic.

An appeals court next week will take up a Biden administration challenge to a ruling by a Florida federal judge that blocked requirements that airplane passengers and other travelers wore masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

China will not include Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment drug in a national reimbursement list that would have allowed patients to get it at a cheaper price, saying it was too expensive.

As COVID-19 surges in China, the U.S. is expanding its traveler surveillance program, an early warning system for detecting new variants.

Misinformation about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has flared up once again, this time following the on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during a game Monday.

The European Union and China are moving closer to a political standoff over the COVID-19 crisis.

France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China.

A pastor accused of fraudulently collecting more than $8 million in COVID-19 relief aid back in 2020 made a court appearance Wednesday — from his hospital bed.

Hong Kong is scrapping some of its COVID-19 restrictions, including PCR tests for inbound travelers and vaccination requirements to enter certain venues.

Japan will require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there after Beijing largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy.

Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people who are older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

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

India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19 after an increase in cases in neighboring China.

The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero COVID” policy.

A Chinese health official says the country only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a narrow definition that limits the numbers of deaths being reported as the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions.

Chinese health authorities have reported the nation's first COVID-19 deaths in more than two weeks.

The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States.

China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as it rolls back anti-virus controls that confined millions of people to their homes, crushed economic growth and set off protests.

A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military has passed the House.

A perfect storm of respiratory diseases is increasing cases and hospitalizations across the U.S. and in Florida and could make for a terrible holiday season if more people don’t take precautions, according to the nation’s health experts.

The World Health Organization’s Africa director said that the continent is preparing for the next health crisis by strengthening gaps in health systems found in the continent's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. regulators have cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines to children younger than 5.

A day after China announced the rollback of some of its most stringent COVID-19 restrictions, people across the country are greeting the news with a measure of relief but also caution, as many wait to see how the new approach will be implemented.

Congress’ move to eliminate the Pentagon mandate that all U.S. service members get the COVID-19 vaccine delivers a victory for lawmakers and troops who oppose getting the shot.

China has rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places.

Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5.

New Zealand is launching a wide-ranging inquiry into whether it made the right decisions in battling COVID-19 and how it can better prepare for future pandemics.

China has reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions following increasingly vocal public frustrations.

A top official at the World Health Organization said the U_N_ agency was “pleased” to see China loosening some of its coronavirus restrictions, saying “it’s really important that governments listen to their people when the people are in pain.”.

Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, are joining the small list of U.S. localities that are looking for signs of polio infections in sewage.

Twitter is no longer enforcing its policy against misinformation about COVID-19.

The head of the International Monetary Fund says it’s time for China to move away from mass lockdowns under its “zero-COVID” approach.

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China set out its “zero-COVID” measures that were harsh, but not out of line with what many other countries were doing to try and contain the virus.

House Republicans are promising aggressive oversight of the Biden administration once they assume the majority next year.

Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures have called for China’s powerful leader to resign.

The omicron variant is driving U.S. COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just in time for the holiday season.

The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has locked down its largest district as it tries to tamp down a major COVID-19 outbreak, suspending public transit and requiring residents to present a negative test if they want to leave their homes.

After previously sailing this year out of Fort Lauderdale and Europe, Royal Caribbean says its fifth ship in its Oasis class will now call Port Canaveral home for at least the next two years.

China has announced its first new death from COVID-19 in nearly half a year.

The Indian Health Service says all tribal members covered by the federal agency will be offered a vaccine at every appointment, when appropriate.

The head of Africa’s top public health institute is urging authorities across the continent to step up COVID-19 testing amid a concerning rise in new cases in some countries.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has COVID-19 and is leaving the Group of 20 meetings in Bali, just days after hosting President Joe Biden and other world leaders for a summit in his country’s capital.

Sri Lanka’s president has proposed to more than double the country’s tax revenue as the island nation struggles to come out from its worst economic crisis.

A new accounting of carbon dioxide emissions finds that heat-trapping gas pollution from fossil fuels went up about 1% more than last year.

Publix is modifying some of its stores’ hours in Florida ahead of Tropical Storm Nicole.

Orange County residents voting in the November election will be deciding whether or not to approve a transportation sales tax measure. Here's what it is.

Thousands of runners have taken to the streets of China’s capital for the return of the Beijing marathon after a two-year COVID-19 hiatus, even as another death blamed on China’s strict pandemic controls generated more public anger.

Disney Cruise Line is eliminating its COVID-19 testing requirements for guests.

President Joe Biden’s education secretary has tested positive for COVID-19.

Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment helped the pharmaceutical giant balance tumbling international sales for its coronavirus vaccine and top third-quarter expectations.

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tested positive again for COVID-19.

Workers in a manufacturing facility in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou appear to have left to avoid COVID-19 curbs.

As Florida enters the winter season, doctors are seeing a trio of respiratory illnesses on the rise: COVID-19, influenza and RSV.