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People overlooking Hudson River and New York City. | AP Photo NEW YORK — The number of potential coronavirus-related deaths in New York City has jumped to 5,293 — up from roughly 3,000 in mid-April — according to health department data published Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last month, the…

Can you be arrested for not wearing a face mask? The dangers of vague regulationsHe explained that the reasons were twofold. "There are people who are doing sign language interpretation, they also need to read our lips so that the message we are communicating is loud and clear to the public," Mbhele said. Mbhele added…

By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Prime minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London on 6 May. Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 6 May UK coronavirus official death toll passes 30,000 – the second highest in the world The UK…

A top health official said Friday that the U.S. was too slow in banning travel from Europe and that the delay in closing the nation’s borders to travel from the continent helped accelerate the coronavirus’s spread.“The extensive travel from Europe, once Europe was having outbreaks, really accelerated our importations and the rapid spread,” Anne Schuchat,…

On Thursday, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s chair of emergency medicine Dr. Donald Yealy claimed the fatality rate of the novel coronavirus is far lower than initially suspected, closer to .25%, based off Allegheny County data and extrapolations from New York and California randomized antibody testing.Initial modeling that crafted policy across the globe, including in…