BROOKLYN, NY (JTA) – With cases of COVID-19 rising over the last several weeks in Orthodox communities in the New York City area, a synagogue in Brooklyn and a Jewish ambulance group issued warnings for people to continue taking precautions against the virus. Hatzoloh of Rockland County, which serves a number of large Orthodox communities […]

GENEVA (AP) — Just as millions of children are heading back to school, the World Health Organization says those aged 6 to 11 should wear masks in some cases to help fight the spread of coronavirus. The recommendations presented Monday follow the widespread belief that children under 12 are not considered as likely to propagate […]

HONG KONG (AP) – University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously […]

Yuli Edelstein and Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais agree to appoint representatives to lead ties on medical matters, set up delegations on joint business ventures

EIN GEDI (VINnews) — American bochurim studying in Mir in Israel have waited half a year to return to their studies in Israel, but when arriving in the country they must maintain a two-week period of isolation in which they stay in six-person capsules. The yeshiva hired special accommodations in the Ein Gedi hotel and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — 19-year-old Dina Rozenzweig of Cedarhurst, NY, passed away from injuries sustained in a road accident in upstate New York on Motzaei Shabbos. Dina and a friend of hers were critically injured in the accident which took place near Buffalo, NY. She was rushed to emergency surgery in Buffalo. The name Chaya […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A young child died due to complications from coronavirus in June, the first confirmed death of a minor in Iowa during the pandemic, the state health department belatedly announced Sunday evening. The Iowa Department of Public Health said the state medical examiner’s office concluded its case investigation Aug. 6 into the […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers’ advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated. “I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma — a move he called “a breakthrough,” one of his top health officials called “promising” and other health experts said needs more study before it’s celebrated. The announcement came after White House officials complained there were politically motivated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing for breakthroughs in treatments for the coronavirus, White House officials suggested Sunday there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease. The accusations, the latest assault from President Donald Trump’s team on the so-called “deep state” bureaucracy, were presented without […]