
California authorities have announced that indoor activities at restaurants and museums would be closed statewide while other operations, including barbershops and hair salons, in 30 of 58 counties would be shut as well due to a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases....

The White House has urged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reinstate its emergency use authorization (EUA) for the anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), for COVID-19 treatment....

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that public schools in the state can reopen in the fall if located in phase-four reopening regions where daily infection rate remains 5 per cent or lower over a 14-day average....

America's top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci has said the US was witnessing the new surge in the number of COVID-19 cases was because the country never shut down entirely....

The US has registered another record single-day spike of nearly 60,000 COVID-19 cases, which took the total tally over 3.36 million, according to Johns Hopkins University....

Video of a Pennsylvania police officer placing his knee on a man's head and neck outside a hospital prompted protests and an investigation into the incident was underway, the media reported....

The recent surge in the number COVID-19 cases across the US has resulted in delays in processing and delivering test results, a leading American diagnostic service company said....
US Navy officials said that the fire ravaging the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard in San Diego has continued for a second day and reached temperatures as high as 1,000 degrees, the media reported. ...

Director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said "too many countries [were] headed in the wrong direction", the BBC reported....
Seventeen US states and the District of Columbia sued the administration of President Donald Trump to reject the federal government's recent rule stripping foreign students of their visas if the institution they are enrolled in only offers online teaching this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic....