Amid virus, world's Christians mark an Easter like no other
Sunday, 12 April 2020, 16:39
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
Christians around the world celebrated Easter at a distance on Sunday, with most churches closed and family gatherings canceled amid wide-ranging coronavirus shutdowns. British Prime Minister Boris...
Pope celebrates joy of Easter amid sorrow of virus pandemic
Sunday, 12 April 2020, 12:46
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
Pope Francis and Christians around the world marked a solitary Easter Sunday, forced to celebrate the most joyful day in the liturgical calendar amid the sorrowful reminders of the devastation wrought...
Doctor gambles on clot-busting drug to save virus patients
Sunday, 12 April 2020, 07:01
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
The woman was dying. New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital was about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr. Hooman Poor took a gamble. With...
20,000: US Coronavirus death toll overtakes Italy's
Sunday, 12 April 2020, 06:57
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday, surpassing 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in...
More than 19,000 Coronavirus deaths, 150,000 cases in Italy
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 18:25
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
Italy has topped 19,000 deaths and 150,000 cases of the coronavirus. The milestones were hit Saturday, even as the country continued to see a slight decrease in numbers of people hospitalized and in...
Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 09:28
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
With warmer weather beckoning, Italians are straining against a strict lockdown to halt the coronavirus that is just now showing signs of ebbing at the end of five weeks of mass isolation. Italy...
Experimental Coronavirus drug seems to work, but more study needed
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 07:25
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients improved after receiving an experimental antiviral drug, although there’s no way to know the odds of that happening without the...
Doctors, nurses in Good Friday procession at Vatican
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 07:22
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
A pair of white-coated doctors who care for coronavirus patients participated in a torch-lit Good Friday procession, watched over by Pope Francis and held in a hauntingly nearly empty St. Peter's...
New York area walloped as global virus deaths pass 100,000
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 07:20
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of...