Helicopters, Airplanes Available For Meron Flights On Lag Ba’Omer After Site Closed To Public
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With the ban on getting anywhere near Meron this week for Lag B'Omer, in addition to the ban all over the country on any bonfires, some enterprising helicopte...
Column: Will The New Coronavirus Kill Spitting In Sports?
NEW YORK (AP) - We come not to praise the loogie, but to bury it.
Already banned on sidewalks, outlawed indoors and pooh-poohed by polite society, that gob of saliva and Lord-kn...
US Virus Patients And Businesses Sue China Over Outbreak
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Before the coronavirus outbreak, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old mother of six who never smoked or drank alcohol. Then she became serio...
Amid Coronavirus News, Many Need To Step Away
NEW YORK (AP) — Heidi Van Roekel makes instructional art videos for YouTube when coronavirus news overwhelms her. Bill Webb takes his boat out. Stacy Mitchell searches her TV for s...
Cuomo: Hospitals Can’t Discharge Coronavirus Patients To Nursing Homes, Require Virus Testing For Staffers
NEW YORK (AP) - New York nursing homes must start twice-weekly coronavirus testing for all staffers and will no longer be sent COVID-19 patients leaving hospitals, Gov. Andrew Cuom...
Coronavirus Complicates Safety For Families Living Together
CHICAGO (AP) — At the age of 24, Francy Sandoval has unwittingly become the sole breadwinner for her family, after her mom, dad and brother — a nanny, a painter and a server — all ...
Public Health Expert Warns Virus Not Going Away
WASHINGTON — A public health expert says the new coronavirus still “has a long way to run” despite President Donald Trump’s claim last week that it will go away without a vaccine.
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Pandemic Shows Contrasts Between US, European Safety Nets
LONDON (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic is straining social safety nets across the globe — and underlining sharp differences in approach between wealthy societies such as the United...
Schumer Calls On VA To Explain Use Of Unproven Drug ‘Hydroxychloroquine’ On Vets
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat on Sunday called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to explain why it allowed the use of an unproven drug on veterans for the coronav...
Becoming ‘King Of Ventilators’ May Result In Unexpected Glut
WASHINGTON (AP) — As requests for ventilators from the national stockpile reached a crescendo in late March, President Donald Trump made what seemed like a bold claim: His administ...
As Trump Pulls Back From Virus, Congress Races To Fill Void
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump tries to moves on from the coronavirus, Congress is rushing to fill the void and prepare the country for the long fight ahead.
Jolted...
New York Serves Cease-And-Desist Order To Tolaas Yaakov Shul After Repeated Social Distancing Violations
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Congregation Kahal Tolaas Yaakov in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, whose leader Rabbi Chaim Mertz passed away from COVID-19 two weeks ago, was serv...
Minister Aryeh Deri: 70% Of Those Infected Were Chareidi, We Need To Do Soul-Searching
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Interior Minister and Shas leader Aryeh Deri spoke very candidly in an interview with the Kikar Hashabat Chareidi news site, noting that the present coronavir...
Tens Of Thousands Belorussians Hold Victory Day Parade, Disregarding Coronavirus
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The eastern European nation of Belarus held a full-fledged military parade Saturday to mark Victory Day, shrugging off safety concerns during the coronavirus ...
US Approves New Coronavirus Antigen Test With Fast Results
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up the country.
The Food and Drug ...
Dr Fauci, 2 Other Members Of White House Virus Task Force In Quarantine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positi...
Reopenings Bring New Cases In S. Korea, Virus Fears In Italy
ROME (AP) — South Korea's capital closed down more than 2,100 bars and other nightspots Saturday because of a new cluster of coronavirus infections, Germany scrambled to contain fr...
Agudath Israel Issues Roadmap for Rabbonim and Community Leaders to Safely Reopen Our Kehillos
NEW YORK (VINnews/Agudath Israel of America) - We are all encouraged to see several states ease, or begin talks of easing, the long and difficult quarantine which has successfully ...
NY’s Cuomo Criticized Over Highest Nursing Home Death Toll
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has won bipartisan praise for rallying supplies for his ravaged hospitals and helping slow the coronavirus, is coming under increasi...
Cuomo: 3 NY Youths Die From Syndrome Possibly Linked To Covid-19
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two young children and a teenager have now died in New York state from a possible complication from the coronavirus involving swollen blood vessels and heart pr...