Coronavirus

Are there COVID-19 coronaviruses lurking in your laundry? (Photo: Getty) Getty Assuming that you wear clothes, you may have been wondering how long the COVID-19 coronavirus may stay on your various garments. After all, clothing is what typically keeps many of your body parts away from everything else. The answer though is a bit like…

11.26pm EDT 23:26 The International Monetary Fund has approved a request from Ecuador for emergency financing to fight the coronavirus pandemic, granting a $643 million loan, the Andean country’s economy ministry said on Friday. Ecuador has been among the hardest-hit countries in Latin America by the coronavirus, with 24,675 confirmed cases and 883 deaths, plus…

With pressure heating up from residents, San Mateo County officials began reporting COVID-19 cases by ZIP code Thursday to provide a more granular picture of how the disease has spread throughout the community. Public health officials and politicians had previously been reluctant to show this level of data, fearing it would lead residents to underestimate…

Thursday morning.It remains unclear how many people have gotten better since initially testing positive as the state does not provide recovery data.More than 403,000 tests have been taken in Florida since early March, according to the health department. The vast majority (91 percent) of those results have come back negative. Another 561 were inconclusive and…

The Oregon Health Authority on Friday reported one new death from the novel coronavirus as confirmed cases climbed to 2,579.The agency said a 73-year-old Multnomah County man was the latest patient to succumb to the illness, bringing the statewide death toll to 104. The man had an underlying medical condition, health officials said, though they…