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A new analysis published Monday found COVID-19 deaths varied dramatically across the U.S. with Arizona having the highest rates and Hawaii having the lowest.

Move poses political risk for US president, who has a difficult relationship with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping A bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between... the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been signed into law by US president Joe Biden. "We need to get to the bottom of Covid-19's origins ... including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Biden said in a statement. "In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible.

The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday

The House Intelligence Committee passed its version of a Senate-approved bill that would force the Biden administration to declassify information about the coronavirus' origins.

New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

World Health Organization's director general says the politicisation of research into Covid's origins was making the scientific work harder The World Health Organization has urged all countries to... reveal what they know about the origins of Covid-19, after claims from several US government agencies that a Chinese lab leak was behind the disease were furiously denied by Beijing. "If any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it's essential for that information to be shared with WHO and the international scientific community," the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Friday.

President Biden grew flustered and abruptly ended a press gaggle before it began Friday when asked about the origins of COVID-19.

British spy chiefs faced calls yesterday to release intelligence on the origins of Covid-19 and end a 'conspiracy of silence' on the matter in the UK.

China's Foreign Ministry accused the FBI of "discrediting" the country by talking up the lab-leak theory.

As of Wednesday, residents will no longer be required to wear masks indoors, outdoors or on public transportation.

Japan is easing its coronavirus border measures for tourists from China beginning Wednesday by testing only random passengers

From March 2020 to December 2021, 622 more physicians died than expected, according to a recently released study.

The seven-day average of positive test results continues to drop from 9.35% to 8.31%. The post Mass. reports 5,160 COVID-19 cases and 112 deaths from the past week appeared first on Boston.com.

Ending the COVID-19 health emergencies marks a return to normalcy nearly three years after the pandemic was first declared.      

Covid-19 remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Monday, but it acknowledged the pandemic is at a "transition point."

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

Long COVID sufferers who had a mild bout of the virus should expect their symptoms to resolve within a year, researchers have suggested.

At least three killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine despite Moscow's self-declared ceasefire; UK says fighting continued at 'routine level' into Orthodox Christmas See all our Russia-Ukraine war... coverage Russian attacks were reported in at least seven regions in Ukraine's east and south, despite Moscow's declaration of a 36-hour ceasefire from midday on Friday to midnight on Saturday for Orthodox Christmas. At least three people were killed. Russian troops shelled the Kherson region 39 times on Friday, according to governor Yaroslav Yanushevych. Residential buildings and a fire station building came under fire in the liberated city of Kherson, where a first responder was killed. Seven civilians were also wounded in the reigon. Ukraine's military said two were killed and 13 injured in...

Bloc's tougher entry requirements come despite warnings from Beijing of retaliation The European Union is expected to require all travellers from China to take pre-departure Covid tests in response to... surging levels of the virus, after Beijing hastily abandoned strict controls. France, Italy and Spain already require pre-departure tests on travellers from China and have been urging other EU member states to follow suit. EU officials meeting later on Wednesday in the "integrated political crisis response" format are expected to issue a recommendation of mandatory testing, despite warnings from Beijing of retaliation.

A wave of Covid outbreaks in mainland China are leading to increased testing of travelers from the country.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said the self-ruled democratic island is willing to provide assistance to help China deal with its Covid surge after Beijing eased its hardline approach last month.

A new Omicron variant is taking over the US just in time for the new year, data shows.

Autopsy tissue samples of 44 people who died of COVID-19 showed SAR-CoV-2, the virus responsible for coronavirus, spread throughout the body and to the brain, with traces of the virus lingering for 8... months.

Infectious disease experts believe strategy more effective in slowing virus spread than new travel restrictions, as health data firm says thousands are likely dying daily in China The United States is... considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new Covid-19 variants as infections surge in China, as UK-based health experts estimate about 9,000 people a days are now dying of the disease in China. The proposed of testing wastewater by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would provide a better solution to tracking the virus and slowing its entry into the US than new travel restrictions announced this week, three infectious disease experts said.

There are no plans to introduce mandatory COVID-19 tests for arrivals from China, a UK government spokesperson has said.