COVID-19

The United States House of Representatives has made a unanimous decision to declassify intelligence information regarding the origin of COVID-19. This information includes potential links between the virus and the Wuhan Institute of Virology located in China. The bill...

Austria's Response to Covid-19, From Lockdown to Successful Vaccination Campaign and complete Covid-19 Timeline in Australia. Austria, like many other countries, has faced significant challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic. The country was among the first in Europe to be hit...

A civil trial opened over the government’s handling of a coronavirus outbreak at an Alpine ski resort during the early stages of the pandemic that relatives say resulted in unnecessary infections and deaths. Sieglinde and Ullrich Schopf, the widow and...

Coronavirus cases hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. announced plans Tuesday to expand virus testing as European countries battled rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. Nations reintroduced restrictions to get ahead of a...

Austria on Saturday announced a partial shutdown that will see restaurants and bars closed for four weeks, cultural, sports and leisure activities canceled, and residents asked to stay home after 8 p.m. as the government tries to stem a...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks. On the day the U.K. passed 1 million confirmed COVID-19...

The number of passengers on a Norwegian cruise ship who have tested positive for the coronavirus has reached 43, authorities said Tuesday. The outbreak on the MS Roald Amundsen raised new questions about safety on cruise ships during the pandemic...

The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government -- one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race. There’s...

President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the “nasty horrible’” coronavirus will get worse in the U.S. before it gets better, but he also tried to paint a rosy picture of efforts to conquer the disease that has claimed...

July 21, 2020 The total number of Covid-19 cases in Austria rose to 19,827, of the total cases, 1,401 are the active cases 17,716 people have recovered, and 710 people have died from the fatal disease. 84 new Coronavirus cases and...