coronavirus pandemic

State and local agencies that distributed federal aid to renters facing eviction during the pandemic are now scrambling to claw back millions of dollars in overpayments.

What’s causing the epic wait times? U.S. officials are blaming lingering pandemic-related staffing shortages and a pause of online processing.

Some states have already stopped payments to families of severely disabled children while others have yet to make them permanent.

In seeking to quickly spend trillions in relief aid, the government conducted little oversight during the pandemic’s early stages, leading to he greatest grift in US history.

The CARES Act let investors take up to $100,000 of “coronavirus-related distributions.” Savers who repay funds within three years could claim a tax refund.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday.

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The announcement on Friday marks a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.

President Joe Biden’s administration is asking Congress to agree to pay more than $1.6 billion to help clean up the mess of fraud against the massive government coronavirus pandemic relief programs.

The state’s “Hero Pay” payments will begin going out next week. Comptroller Sean Scanlon said the payments will begin going out on Feb. 1. “Hero Pay” or the Premium Pay program is meant to provide a bonus of up to $1,000 to essential workers employed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state comptroller held a news conference…

First international travelers are arriving in China without the mandatory quarantine that had been imposed at the start of the pandemic three years ago. The easing of border restrictions comes even as the virus continues to spread in China amid what critics say is a lack of transparency from Beijing. More foreign governments are imposing testing requirements on travelers from...

With countdowns and fireworks, revelers in major city centers across the Asia-Pacific region are ushering in the first new year without COVID-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020. While COVID-19 continues to cause death and dismay, particularly in China, which is battling a nationwide surge in infections after suddenly easing anti-epidemic measures, countries had largely lifted quarantine requirements, restrictions...

U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Biden administration says it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile

As the U.S. approaches the three-year mark of the arrival of the coronavirus, the country reached a new unpleasant milestone: 100 million COVID cases.

The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all American households

In a sharp reversal, China has announced a series of measures rolling back some of its most draconian anti-COVID-19 restrictions.

China is expanding pandemic lockdowns, including in a city where factory workers clashed with police this week, as its number of COVID-19 cases hits a daily record.

Videos and postings on Chinese social media say employees at the world’s biggest Apple iPhone factory have been beaten and detained in protests over contract disputes amid anti-virus controls.

Alcohol-related deaths among middle-aged Americans rose nearly 30% in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new CDC study found.

The Biden administration says the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter.