Coronavirus

Sept. 16, 2020Updated 12:29 p.m. ETAfter months of complaints about testing delays, New York City officials on Thursday are set to announce that they have opened a lab in Manhattan that should significantly cut down on wait times as the city prepares for its most ambitious period of reopenings, with public school classes and indoor…

Health 16 September 2020 By Adam Vaughan A burial taking place in a cemetery in Manaus, BrazilMichael Dantas/AFP Via Getty Images IT BEGAN on 9 January. In a hospital in Wuhan, China, a 61-year-old man became the first person on the planet confirmed to have died from a new coronavirus. At the time, scientists didn’t…

The coronavirus death toll linked to an indoor August wedding in Maine has reached at least seven, state officials said Tuesday.The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the wedding and its reception in Millinocket are now connected to 176 confirmed cases of COVID-19, agency spokesman Robert Long said in a statement. Maine public health…

The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak linked to an indoor wedding and reception in Maine has risen to seven, with the number of cases connected to the event up to 176.The latest death was reported at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation Center in Madison, where five prior deaths were also deemed connected to the Aug. 7…

Health 14 September 2020 By Graham Lawton A family tree of the new coronavirus reveals it is mutating very slowlyKiyoshi Takahase Segundo / Alamy Like any other biological entity, Sars-CoV-2 has a family tree. It is not a very old one – the virus has only been recognised since December – but it still has…