Health Ministry puts total tally at 15,443, just 145 more cases than 24 hours earlier; death toll up to 201, with 133 in serious condition

Country has highest death toll apart from US; demographics, health care failings, and various political and business interests left Lombardy’s 10 million people terribly vulnerable

Education Ministry plan would see students gradually return to studies but would be conditioned on continued improvement in public health picture

After spikes in coronavirus in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of the cities, police set up roadblocks to prevent further outbreaks

Independence Day survey shows rate of those expressing shared fate with the State of Israel surging, especially among ultra-Orthodox and Arab Israelis

Middle East's hardest-hit country from pandemic registers 1,153 new infections, just 60 new fatalities, although regime is accused of downplaying outbreak's scope

Owners Shulem Fisher and Matthew Bronfman reported to have given millions of shekels to Yaakov Litzman's Gur Hasidic sect in recent years

Opposition politicans say coronavirus death toll could have been lower if government had imposed lockdown earlier; questions asked over when and how restrictions will be eased

Security agency said allowed to continue program 'until the end of the crisis' as government unable to come up with alternative system

US doctors say newly discovered trend shows how much remains unknown about the novel pathogen, which has killed more than 200,000 people worldwide