SERIATE, Italy — If there is anything the Rev. Mario Carminati and the traumatized residents of Italy’s Bergamo province remember about the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s the wail of ambulance sirens piercing the silence of lockdown. Around the clock for weeks on end, ambulances screamed through Bergamo’s valleys and towns in a […]

South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID-19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that officials fear would possibly worsen transmissions By The Associated Press September 30, 2020, 9:44 AM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article SEOUL, South Korea […]

LONDON — Planned surgeries are being suspended at a hospital in Wales following a coronavirus outbreak there. The Royal Glamorgan Hospital, which is near the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and subject to local virus-related restrictions, says it has identified 82 cases of the virus, some linked to transmission within the hospital. As a result […]

Almost 500 days after Belgian parliamentary elections, seven parties from both sides of the linguistic aisle on forming a fully functioning majority government under new Prime Minister Alexander De Croo By RAF CASERT Associated Press September 30, 2020, 11:06 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BRUSSELS — Almost 500 […]

LEIDEN, Netherlands — This is not the student life Iris Raats had hoped for when she was accepted at Leiden University to study law. With the coronavirus pandemic casting its long shadow over education in the Netherlands and around the world, most of her lectures are online and the vibrant social life in the country’s […]

BRUSSELS — Brussels authorities have decided to ban prostitution until further notice in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus in Belgium’s capital city. In addition, authorities have shut down three hotels hosting sex workers because social distancing measures were not respected, Wafaa Hammich, a spokeswoman at Brussels city hall told The Associated Press […]

NEW DELHI — Joginder Chaudhary was his parents’ greatest pride, raised with the little they earned farming a half-acre plot in central India to become the first doctor from their village. For the coronavirus, though, he was just one more in a million. After the virus killed the 27-year-old Chaudhary in late July, his mother […]

The World Health Organization and partners have agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus to help lower- and middle-income countries make up ground in a testing gap with richer countries By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press September 29, 2020, 9:30 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to […]