JERUSALEM (VInnews) — Israel’s fragile coalition was thrown into disarray Wednesday afternoon after a bill submitted by opposition member and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz calling for the banning of the use of conversion therapy passed in the Knesset by a majority of 42 to 36. Members of Blue and White voted against the coalition and […]

MIAMI (VINnews) – Starting today, Miami Beach Police and Code Officers will be giving out $50 civil citations for anyone not wearing a facial covering while in a public place or space.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed confidence Tuesday that Florida will soon contain its coronavirus outbreak and that hospitals can handle the current influx of patients, putting forward a positive case even as the state’s average daily death toll is now the nation’s worst. DeSantis told reporters at a state capitol news conference […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to paint a rosier picture of the coronavirus for the nation Tuesday but conceded the pandemic is likely to get worse for a time as he revived his daily briefings with an eye to halting a campaign-season erosion of support as new cases spike across the country. The […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Is it safe to go to the gym during the coronavirus pandemic? It depends on where you live and the precautions you and the gym take. If cases of COVID-19 are poorly controlled where you live, experts say it’s best to stay away. But if you live in an area where […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Defense Minister Benny Gantz together with MK Moshe Arbel, Home Command head Uri Gordin and senior defense ministry officials visited Tuesday the Prima Palace hotel in Jerusalem which has been adapted into a COVID-19 convalescence hotel for the Chareidi sector. To date 11 “corona” hotels have been adapted specifically for the Chareidi […]

Jerusalem (VINnews) – Professor Gabi Barabash, the former director-general of Israel’s health ministry and former director of Ichilov hospital, a leading figure in the battle against coronavirus, has been appointed as Israel’s coronavirus “czar.” The government confirmed the appointment Tuesday and there will be a press conference Tuesday evening in which Prime Minister Netanyahu is […]

LONDON (VINnews) —The Oxford University team which published positive results from its Phase I human trials this week hopes to begin tests later this year on volunteers who will be intentionally exposed to the virus in a controversial process known as a “human challenge trial” by which healthy volunteers are placed under extremely precautious laboratory […]

NASSAU (AP) — The Bahamas is banning travelers from the United States starting Wednesday after a surge in coronavirus infections followed the islands’ reopening to international tourism. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said Sunday that the country had seen 49 new coronavirus infections since it opened on July 1, nearly a third of the total of […]

BOSTON (AP) – Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and painful headache when her parents found her unresponsive in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors ultimately diagnosed the then-5-year-old Sudbury, Massachusetts, resident with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling. Garabedian survived the potentially fatal […]