COVID-19

Beijing adds new quarantine centers as COVID-19 cases rise across China

By Associated Press

Daily cases of COVID-19 across the country are hitting records, with 32,695 reported Friday. Of those, 1,860 were in Beijing, the majority of them asymptomatic.

In wake of pandemic, record 40 million kids missed measles vaccine dose last year, CDC and WHO say

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year.

Workers beaten, detained amid ‘zero-COVID’ protests at Chinese iPhone factory

By Joe McDonald, Zen Soo, Associated Press

Videos and postings on Chinese social media say workers at the world's biggest Apple iPhone factory have been beaten and detained in protests over contract disputes amid anti-virus controls.

U.S. renews push for COVID boosters as holiday season approaches

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

Americans who have gotten the updated COVID-19 boosters appear better protected against symptomatic infection than those who haven't — at least for now.

WATCH: Anthony Fauci reflects on career, pandemic in final briefing

By Mike Stobbe, Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press

After more than fifty years in government, Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, briefed reporters from the White House on Tuesday, delivering what he called his "final message" from that podium, urging Americans to get their COVID-19 booster shots.

Single COVID case prompts China to lock down Peking University

By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

Chinese authorities locked down a major university in Beijing on Wednesday after finding one COVID-19 case as they stick to a "zero-COVID" approach despite growing public discontent.

Judge orders Biden administration to halt Trump-era asylum restrictions at border

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum restrictions that have been a cornerstone of border enforcement since the beginning of COVID-19.

China tightens restrictions in Guangzhou as rise in COVID cases reported

By Joe McDonald, Associated Press

Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou was ordered to stay home for virus testing Saturday and a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported.

COVID-19 pandemic massively set back learning, especially for high-poverty areas

By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Sharon Lurye, Associated Press

The COVID-19 pandemic set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas most impacted, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores.

China begins administering inhalable COVID-19 vaccine boosters

By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated people, according to an announcement posted on an official city social media account.