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US: Coronavirus outbreak in Major League Baseball casts doubt over reopeni
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 30 (ANI): Days after the reopening experiment began, Major league baseball has been facing a challenge to quell an outbreak which has left over a dozen Miami Marlins players and coaches infected with the coronavirus.
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Trump administration blocks top US health official from testifying at Hous
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [USA], July 18 (ANI): The Trump administration has blocked the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield from testifying at a hearing before a US House Education and Labour Committee to discuss steps to reopen schools amid the novel coronavirus dise
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US records 62,000 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, tally surge past 3.41 mi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 15 (ANI): The United States recorded over 62,000 new infections within the past 24 hours on Tuesday, pushing the total count since the pandemic began past 3.41 million.
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US cities mandate masks, return to restrictions as Covid-19 infections soa
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 8 (ANI): The pandemic graph of coronavirus outbreak in the United States, particularly during the post-Independence Day weekend that attracted large crowds of Americans drinking and partying without masks, led to a drastic surge in the number of new infections. Due
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Mississippi house speaker tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 6 (ANI): Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn said on Sunday (local time) that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, as he contracted the infection from a person who had tested positive earlier, Xinhua reported.
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Youngsters in Alabama host COVID parties, whoever catches infection first
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 3 (ANI): In a disturbing scenario amid a growing number of coronavirus cases in the United States, some young people in Alabama are intentionally inviting guests with COVID-19 to the parties and gamble on who comes down with the illness first receives a payout.
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Majority of Americans in favour of controlling pandemic outbreak rather th
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Despite the coronavirus ripping through US economy and upending everything- from junk bonds to prices for orange juice- a majority of Americans are still in favour of controlling the pandemic outbreak first, rather than restarting economy, a survey found.
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Officials concerned that crowded protests may spark a surge in Covid infec
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [USA], June 2 (ANI): US health officials are concerned that the angry protests which have gripped the entire nation against the injustices by law enforcement agencies and police crackdown may lead to a surge in the rate of coronavirus infections.
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COVID-19: Experts say face mask shortage led to significant loss of life i
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 19 (ANI): A number of health experts have opined that the millions of face masks donated by the Trump administration to China earlier this year when coronavirus was raging in that country created a shortage of the protective gear, which probably contributed to a si
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US overtakes Italy with highest COVID-19 deaths
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 12 (ANI): The total number of deaths related to the novel coronavirus in the United States surpassed that of Italy on Saturday, with at least 20,506 lives succumbing to the outbreak, and as many as 527,111 people getting infected by the contagion so far, accor
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