Coronavirus

Airbnb customers who don’t have a positive review history will be subject to restrictions

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.

U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.

U.S. health officials cannot predict how much longer the pandemic will last, but some scientists are taking a look back on how far the world has come and what’s possibly in store for the future.

A COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all private employers is now in effect in New York City. Also, New Yorkers aged 12 and older are now required to show proof of two vaccine doses to enter most indoor venues.

With $587.1 million from 61 overseas markets, in just 12 days of release, “Spider-Man” has grossed $1.05 billion globally.

The federal program reimburses families up to $9,000 for funeral costs for loved ones who died of COVID-19.

Even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the holiday shopping season, sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years.

A scaled-down celebration in New York City is still happening, but other cities around the world are canceling celebrations altogether.

President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home.

All three had taken their second COVID-19 vaccine doses over the summer, the group's management said.

The second COVID-19 Christmas is marked by surging infections in many countries, overwhelmed hospitals, canceled flights and curbed religious observances.

An Army veteran in Arizona has passed away following a battle with COVID-19, as he waited for a potentially life-saving treatment. In our initial report on Brian Yazzie, family members say he had only a few more days left before a window of opportunity for treatment with an ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) machine would have run out.

Pope Francis has celebrated Christmas Eve Mass before an estimated 2,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Florida had 31,758 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, breaking a record for the most cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic in the U.S. in March 2020, according to data from the CDC.

COVID-19 safety measures like contact tracing and quarantining are, for the most part, coming to an end in South Africa.