Dick Pound, Canada's longtime International Olympic Committee member, doesn't foresee being able to delay the Tokyo Games another year. Still, the delay could provide a positive outcome if everything goes as planned, he says.
The governors of Michigan, Florida and other states outlined tentative steps on Friday to reopen their economies, a day after President Donald Trump unveiled guidelines for a phased lifting of restrictions for stopping the coronavirus pandemic. But New York's governor said that it was vital for testing to be ramped up before any discussion of reopening the economy could occur.
A million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists are already being manufactured and will be available by September, even before trials prove whether the shot is effective, the team said on Friday.
The stay-at-home orders are government overreach, says one conservative Ohio state Senate candidate.
Cinematographer Allen Daviau, who shot three of Steven Spielberg's films including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, has died of complications from COVID-19, according to a representative from the American Society of Cinematographers.
The coronavirus outbreak in Germany has become manageable again as the number of patients who have recovered has been higher than the number of new infections every day this week, the health minister said on Friday.
Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star "dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted more than a century ago.
Africa could see 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus this year even under the best-case scenario, according to a new report that cites modelling from Imperial College London.
Health officials in Canada said Thursday that more than 90 per cent of COVID-19-related deaths have been people over 60 — but they also highlighted the needs of another vulnerable group, saying the homeless and people with unstable housing situations are at increased risk. Read more about what's happening in Canada, the U.S. and around the world.
China faces a drawn-out struggle to revive its economy after it suffered its biggest contraction since at least the 1970s after ordering hundreds of millions of people to stay home to fight the coronavirus.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired his health minister on Thursday after clashing with him over how to fight the novel coronavirus, and again called for states to end stay-at-home orders that he said were hurting the economy.
At least 50 per cent more people died in China's virus epicentre of Wuhan than previously counted, with state media on Friday attributing the initial undercount to how overwhelmed the health system was coping with thousands of sick patients.
Just days after saying he had total authority to reopen states, U.S. President Donald Trump sounded more deferential as he released a set of guidelines and said governors could "call their own shots." But with legal authority and public support already on their side, Trump's reversal changes little.
As emergency and intensive care doctors around the globe work frantically to save the lives of people gravely ill with COVID-19, one of the world's foremost critical care experts is warning against what he calls the misuse and overuse of mechanical ventilators.
