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A Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds is scheduled to arrive Monday morning in New York Harbor to help relieve the coronavirus crisis gripping the city’s hospitals. The USNS Comfort,…
New York State’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak climbed Sunday above 1,000, less than a month after the first known infection in the state. Most of those deaths have…
Governor Cuomo also announced that New York State’s Wadsworth Lab has developed a new, less intrusive test for COVID-19. The new test is done through a saliva sample and a…
Al eileh ani bochiyah. As the plague of COVID-19 sweeps across the world, there are many in our community who have fallen in its path. As we join the families…
Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as five minutes and is so small and portable it can be used…
The Israeli Cabinet was scheduled to meet via teleconference on Sunday night starting at 11 p.m. to discuss the next phase of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis. Approval…
With gold-standard N95 respirators in critically short supply at hospitals, underwear and T-shirt factories in the U.S. retooled this week to make cotton face masks so doctors and nurses will…
The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s effort to help Israeli citizens abroad to return home while some travel windows remain open yielded a rescue flight carrying 206 travelers, employees of Israeli companies…
Minister of the Interior Rabbi Aryeh Deri has been appointed coordinator of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis in the chareidi and Arab sectors, which have been the hardest-hit…
New York state’s coronavirus death toll is nearing 1,000. The state accounts for more than 40% of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. The number of disease-related deaths in the state…
Fatalities from the coronavirus in Israel reached 15 on Sunday as Rosa Sherman, 84, passed away at Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center in Yerushalayim. The hospital said she was she was…
As President Donald Trump looks for ways to restore normalcy in parts of the U.S., his foremost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and…
On Sunday, Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, received a series of halachic sheilos dealing with the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, notably in the chareidi community. Harav Kanievsky wrote teshuvos…
The growing number of imported coronavirus cases in China risked fanning a second wave of infections at a time when “domestic transmission has basically been stopped,” a spokesman for the…
President Donald Trump said he was considering a quarantine as early as Saturday for coronavirus hotspots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to stop the spread from reaching states…
Acting with exceptional resolve in an extraordinary time, the House rushed President Donald Trump a $2.2-trillion rescue package Friday, tossing a life preserver to a U.S. economy and health-care system…
President Donald Trump and elected leaders in New York are clashing again over the depth of the state’s coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile, the outbreak is taking its toll on the state’s…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, while the number of infections in the United States surged to the most in the world…
Maimonides Medical Center in Boro Park has set up a tent outside its emergency room on Fort Hamilton Parkway between 48th and 49th Streets, for emergency room triage. All triage…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he would have China’s support in fighting the coronavirus, as the United States faces the…