Australia reported only a handful of new coronavirus cases in early June, while Hong Kong went three weeks without a single locally transmitted infection that month. Japan had already lifted a state of emergency in May after the number of new cases dropped to a few dozen nationwide.All three reported new high-water marks in daily…

Image copyright Getty Images As coronavirus infections surge, at ferocious speed, across South Africa, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks driving through this huge country trying to understand where and why things are going both right and wrong.Here, in seven points, are some early conclusions and, perhaps, some more lessons for the rest of…

Image copyright Mark Bauwens My Money is a series looking at how people spend their money – and the sometimes tough decisions they have to make. Here, Mark Bauwens from Gaillac in France takes us through a week in his life during the coronavirus pandemic.Mark, 64, is retired, “sadly single” and lives in south-west France.…

Australia’s second-biggest city, Melbourne, entered its first day of tougher restrictions to contain the spread of a resurgent coronavirus on Monday.Australia’s Victoria state, which includes Melbourne, is under a state of emergency. The premier announced stricter lockdown measures and a nightly curfew to try and curb rising coronavirus infections rates. 2:15Melbourne, Australia’s second-biggest city, entered its first day of tougher restrictions to contain the…

President Trump’s words and actions have shaped Republicans’ perceptions and behavior on everything from wearing face masks to worrying about economic collapse, in an analysis of our Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index since the pandemic began.Why it matters: When Trump talks, his base listens. That carries profound implications for efforts to limit the spread in the U.S.,…

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro talks to Kasie Hunt about coronavirus cases surging in Texas, the state’s “half baked” handling of the virus, and his own personal experience with it.July 20, 2020

The coronavirus hit Kati Finn and six girlfriends after they went to a winery in northwestern Ohio last month where they played a game called “Name That Tune” with about 90 other people. Within days, 71 people from the event tested positive for Covid-19. The event helped give rural Henry County, with 28,000 residents, the…

U.S. stocks rose Friday as a slate of technology giants buoyed the S&P 500 and offset disappointing earnings from some industrials and weak economic data. The S&P 500 climbed 25 points, or 0.8%, to 3,271.12, closing out July with a 5.5% gain for the month. The bellwether index has now rallied for four straight months,…

Venerable U.S. retailer Lord & Taylor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, becoming the latest in a growing list of storied names to do so amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has crippled the retail sector.Lord & Taylor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the weekend, and estimated both assets and liabilities in the…

Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired.An emergency federal jobless benefit program that paid out $600 US a week has now expired, so states are seeing more people filing…

A cluster of states in the Midwest are seeing more of their coronavirus tests coming back positive — potentially an early indicator of a growing outbreak. The state of play: A high positive rate means that a higher share of those getting tested are sick. That could be because there are more sick people, or…

If you don’t know how broken something is, you’re not going to be able to fix it.That’s the crisis facing policymakers trying to repair a devastated economy without knowing the true degree to which the pandemic has hurt the country.Why it matters: Some parts of what ails America, like the nascent mental-health crisis, are by…

Despite evidence to the contrary, the president is saying the country is coming close to the end of the coronavirus. Mika Brzezinski shares the latest statistics on where the U.S. stands in August on infection and deaths.Aug. 12, 2020

Judge Barbara Canales of Nueces County, Texas, talks about the need for medical supplies and testing supplies as medical workers are being overwhelmed by the growth in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the coronavirus.July 18, 2020