NYCDOH: Update On Areas Of Concern In New York City
NEW YORK (VINnews) - Today, the Health Department issued a new Commissioner’s Order giving city agencies the power to issue closure orders to ...
High Demand For Flu Shots? Experts Hope To Avoid ‘Twindemic’
LONDON (AP) — October is prime time for flu vaccinations, and the U.S. and Europe are gearing up for what experts hope is high demand as countries seek to avoid a “twindemic” with ...
White House Ups Bid In Last-Ditch COVID Talks With Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is backing a $400 per week pandemic jobless benefit and is dangling the possibility of a COVID-19 relief bill above $1.5 trillion as last-ditch, p...
Rabbi Kanievski And Rabbi Edelstein: Organize Minyanim Outdoors, Wear Masks, No Sukkos Visits
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Chaim Kanievski and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein signed a manifest calling on the Chareidi public to maintain health guidelines in the wake of the increase i...
Coronavirus Outbreak In House Of Rabbi Kanievski
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — After Rabbi Chaim Kanievski's driver tested positive on Erev Yom Kippur for coronavirus, it was reported by Haaretz's Aharon Rabinowitz that a number of the r...
Push To Bring Coronavirus Vaccines To The Poor Faces Trouble
LONDON (AP) — An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration an...
Hadassah Hospital’s Plasma Treatment Cures Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hadassah hospital reported this week that its experimental treatment based on plasma taken from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients has proved success...
In NYC And LA, Returning Pupils Face Battery Of Virus Tests
NEW YORK (AP) — The two largest school districts in the U.S. are rolling out ambitious and costly plans to test students and staff for the coronavirus, bidding to help keep school ...
Program Head Admits City Has “Between 0 and 5” Yiddish Speaking Contact Tracers
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - Amid assurances by Mayor Bill de Blasio that the city is working closely with community leaders to stem the spread of coronavirus in hard hit Ortho...
Fans To Be Allowed At World Series, NLCS In Arlington, Texas
NEW YORK (AP) — Fans can take themselves out to the ball game for the first time this season during the NL Championship Series and World Series at new Globe Life Field in Arlington...
Major Satmar Hasidic Leader Critically Ill With COVID-19
NEW YORK (JTA) – As COVID-19 test positivity rates continue to climb in Orthodox communities in New York, a major leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect was put on a ventilator Wednesda...
Shut Down Synagogues And Move All Prayers Outside, Israeli Orthodox Party’s Rabbinical Council Orders
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbinic leadership of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party called for prayer services to be held outdoors only to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
It m...
Chareidi Approach To COVID-19 Changes: ‘After The Gerer Capsules Failed, People Gave Up’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi analyst and PR rep Berele Kromby offered an interesting explanation for the behavior of the Chareidi community in the wake of the second wave of COVI...
North Korea On Virus Threat: ‘Under Safe And Stable Control’
NORTH KOREA (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday called on the world's governments to “display effective leadership” in the fight against COVID-19 and said its own measures against the pa...
Agudah Of Park Heights Closes Building Due To COVID Uptick
BALTIMORE (VINnews) — The Agudah of Park Heights, a prominent Shul in the Baltimore community, has announced that they are closing their building to the recent uptick in COVID case...
COVID-19 Cases Rising Among US Children As Schools Reopen
WASHINGTON (AP) - After preying heavily on the elderly in the spring, the coronavirus is increasingly infecting American children and teens in a trend authorities say appears drive...
Lines And Crowds At Chareidi Neighborhood Testing Centers Could Spread More COVID-19
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In many cities in Israel there are drive-thru coronavirus checking centers where people can stay in their cars until they reach the checkpoint where they are ...
NYC Mayor Announces Fines For People Who Refuse To Wear Masks In Certain Neighborhoods
NEW YORK CITY (VINnews) - NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced, that the city will fine people who refuse to wear a face mask starting Tuesday, following an uptick in Coronavirus cas...
Florida Pharmacist May Have Found How To Successfully Treat COVID-19
OCALA, FLA. (VINnews) — Scientists at the AdventHealth facility in Ocala, Florida, announced that they have discovered a treatment for coronavirus which has produced an almost 100 ...
A Viral March Across The Planet, Tracked By A Map In Motion
CHINA (AP) - On a Thursday night in early January, the disease that would become known as COVID-19 claimed its first victim, a 61-year-old man who succumbed to the newly identified...