Asian markets are mixed Monday as investors appear to be reacting with uncertainty over the resurgence of COVID-19 across Europe and the United States. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei index ended its trading session down 22 points, but unchanged percentage-wi…
WASHINGTON – With the coronavirus surging in the United States again, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows declared Sunday that the country is “not going to control the pandemic.”But Meadows told CNN, “We are going to control the fact that we get va…
The United States has set a daily record for coronavirus cases as a new surge of the virus raises fears for a further increase during the cold fall and winter months.According to Johns Hopkins University, at least 83,757 cases were reported across the …
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda has reduced the cost of a COVID-19 test from $65 to $50, a move welcomed by truck drivers in the East African region. Business had been brought to a standstill at the border between Kenya and Uganda, with trucks backed up over …
A political standoff is brewing in the Czech Republic where the health minister has refused to resign after pictures were published of him eating in a Prague restaurant closed under COVID-19 regulations. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis Friday called …
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said it was very unfortunate that the 20 major industrialized nations did not come together in March, as he suggested then, to establish a coordinated response to suppress COVID-19 worldwide.In an inter…