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  • UK ‘Anxious’ India COVID Variant Will Derail Plans To Ease Restrictions Late June
    Prime Minister Boris Johnson
    Experts are taking particular interest in a sub-variant that might be more transmissible.
  • COVID-19: Sydney Still On Alert, NZ-Australia Travel Bubble Halted
    COVID-19 Outbreak
    New Zealand's COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said flights from New South Wales would be on hold for 48 hours.
  • New Zealand Frees Auckland From COVID-19 Restrictions
    New Zealand COVID-19
    New Zealand’s largest city hasn't reported any locally transmitted cases for two weeks.
  • NZ, Australia Cautious Ahead Of Lifting Lockdown Midnight Wednesday
    Australia COVID restrictions
    South Australia will lift border restrictions but others remain in place.
  • Gilead Sciences’ Remdesivir Is First FDA-Approved COVID-19 Treatment
    Gilead Sciences
    One expert says the drug shows “modest" benefits but isn’t “a remarkable improvement."
  • COVID-19: How Super-Spreaders Swept Hard-Hit India
    Medical staff treat a patient inside the emergency ward
    A super-spreader has been placed at the center of a new cluster at Swansea University in Wales.
  • COVID-19: Four New International Clusters Over Past Week
    COVID-19 Outbreak
    Coronavirus clusters are spreading all the time but new ones have been linked to religious gatherings and schools.
  • Coronavirus: Latest COVID-19 Updates In Latin America
    CASES UP
    Colombia is leading the way in Latin America in preventing further COVID-19 infections through a lockdown extension.
  • Coronavirus In The US Prompts Billion-Dollar Package And A Warning
    California coronavirus
    The coronavirus situation in the United States has pushed the House to pass a response package of over $8 billion as well as the state of emergency declaration of California.
  • Chinese Doctor Who First Outed Coronavirus Dies
    A makeshift memorial for Li Wenliang, a doctor who issued an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak before it was officially recognized
    China’s coronavirus whistleblower doctor has died in Wuhan after contracting the disease last month.