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A New York judge blocked President Donald Trump’s “Public Charge” rule for would-be legal immigrants, saying it hinders national efforts to contain China’s coronavirus.

A new report by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) released this week suggested that thousands of South Africans have died from ailments other than coronavirus in recent months because they went untreated due to pandemic constraints.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) directive to light up One World Trade Center in New York City, NY, with pink brilliance in 2019 was a celebration of the “murder of innocent children,” said Bevelyn Beatty of At Well Ministries, offering her remarks on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Chinese authorities have declared “wartime mode” in the northeastern port city of Dalian after detecting a new coronavirus cluster linked to a local seafood processing plant, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times reported on Friday.

Lower income children whose families can’t afford private tutors this fall may encounter greater loss of learning if schools remain closed.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday urged police to arrest people who fail to wear sanitary masks in public during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, calling the refusal to wear a mask a “serious crime,” the Philippine Star reported on Tuesday.

Joe Biden tweeted it’s “just plain dangerous” for schools to reopen, a statement that goes against the “science” as explained by a number of doctors.

TEL AVIV, Israel — As restaurants worldwide struggle to stay open in the coronavirus era, a new Tel Aviv noodle chain offers a pandemic-friendly approach: meals on the go with no human contact.

DICKINSON, N.D. — Metal band Great White has apologized for performing at an outdoor North Dakota concert where the crowd didn’t wear masks despite the ongoing threat of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday admitted his government was too hasty in reopening the economy and as a result, Israel is now facing a “second wave of corona.”

In the Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “Unity” platform, Democrats are vowing to provide free, American taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens who are able to enroll in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Thousands of Serbians in Belgrade protested new coronavirus lockdown measures announced by the government following a spike in new virus cases on Tuesday, Euronews reported.

TEL AVIV — Israel’s public health director quit on Tuesday amid an unprecedented surge in new infections, blasting the Health Ministry’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic which she said involved frivolous decision making motivated by self-serving interests.

Donald Trump’s reelection strategy should bind Joe Biden to recent lawlessness, including riots and vandalsim of monuments, said Charles Hurt.

Joe Biden told members of the National Education Association’s (NEA) representative assembly that the longer schools remain closed due to the coronavirus, the more low-income “students of color” will suffer learning losses.

Health authorities in Inner Mongolia, China, diagnosed two cases of the bubonic plague, the medieval disease sometimes known as “the black death,” state media confirmed on Sunday.

Nearly two million babies are expected to be born next year in the Philippines due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study by the University of the Philippines (UP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), local news site Coconuts Manila reported on Thursday.

Officials in the South Korean city of Daegu have filed an $83 million lawsuit against the Shincheonji religious sect, accusing it of causing “massive damages” to the city’s public health after coronavirus cluster infections emerged among its congregants “triggering an uncontrollable spread” throughout Daegu, South Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo reported on Wednesday.

A federal judge in Brazil ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a sanitary mask in public or face a fine of 2,000 reais ($390) after the leader repeatedly defied a decree in the federal capital, Brasilia, requiring people to wear a mask in public to curb the spread of coronavirus, Deutsche Welle reported on Tuesday.

NEW YORK — New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high infection rates to quarantine for 14 days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.

Tehran — Iran on Tuesday reported 121 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily toll in over two months, as it battles to contain the Middle East’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak.

Policy responses to the coronavirus outbreak were a “game changer” in border security, explained Customs and Border Protection’s Mark Morgan.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he will stop further easing of the coronavirus restrictions — and may even revert to lockdowns – until the upward trend in cases reverses itself.

TEHRAN, Iran — Months into Iran’s fight against the coronavirus, doctors and nurses at Tehran’s Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital still don a mask, a disposable hazmat suit and a double layer of latex gloves every day to attempt to contain a pandemic that shows no signs of slowing.

TEHRAN — Iran said on Tuesday a third straight day of more than 100 coronavirus deaths took its overall toll past 9,000, attributing the spike to increased travel by its citizens.

India’s Supreme Court lambasted the Delhi government on Friday for the “deplorable” conditions at local hospitals, where recent reports indicate coronavirus patients have been severely mistreated and victims’ bodies mismanaged, the Indian Express reported.

TEL AVIV – Israeli telecom giant Bezeq announced Wednesday it was joining forces with the country’s ambulance service to convert thousands of public phone booths into defibrillator stations.

Since the Chinese coronavirus first emerged last year in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, residents of Hubei have faced discrimination from authorities and fellow countrymen alike as “virus carriers.”

TEHRAN — More than 180,000 people have been infected in Iran’s coronavirus outbreak since it first emerged nearly four months ago, an official said on Thursday.

Cameroon’s health ministry revealed this weekend that hundreds of hospital patients have fled medical facilities in the country fearing they may contract coronavirus while undergoing treatment for other ailments.

Jihadists in Indonesia are calling for violent attacks on Chinese-run businesses amid surging anti-Chinese sentiment in the Muslim-majority nation.

Zimbabwe police arrested 1,312 people nationwide on Tuesday for violating coronavirus quarantine measures as authorities reinforce lockdown restrictions, Zimbabwe’s state-owned newspaper The Herald reported on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Eighty-seven schools around Israel have closed over coronavirus cases and nearly 10,000 students and staff members are in quarantine. 

Beijing may punish people who discredit Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) according to a new draft regulation proposed on Friday, Shanghai-based state-controlled news site Sixth Tone reported on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe’s ruling leftist party, Zanu-PF, will stage anti-U.S. demonstrations on Thursday at the United States Embassy and the European Union Ambassador’s office in direct violation of the country’s ban on large gatherings to contain its worsening coronavirus outbreak, New Zimbabwe reported on Tuesday.

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the country’s northwest, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Monday.