EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Residents in the Texas border city of El Paso have been urged to stay home for two weeks as a spike in coronavirus cases overwhelms hospitals, prompting the state to dedicate part of the city’s civic center as a makeshift care center for the ill. El Paso County Judge Ricardo […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — In a video that quickly went viral on Monday, health inspectors were caught attempting to write a summons for a Yeshiva in Flatbush, without verifying first whether or not the building was empty. According to reports, the executive director of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah on Coney Island Ave in Flatbush noticed an inspector […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The state-run Israel Institute for Biological Research announced Sunday that researchers will begin human testing on its coronavirus vaccine next week. The institute said clinical tests on an initial group of 80 people would begin Nov. 1. The testing is to expand to a second phase of 960 people in December, with […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has decided to begin sending children back to school. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Sunday that his coronavirus cabinet voted in favor of reopening school for children in grades one through four on Nov. 1. The older children will be divided into “capsules,” and the children in younger grades will […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an unprecedented demonstration of support for President Trump, a letter carrying the signatures of a large number of prominent chareidi rabbis in the US was released Saturday night thanking President Trump for deeming houses of worship “essential” and enabling them to remain open despite the high levels of COVID-19 at […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago businesses will have to close by 10 p.m. and residents are asked to limit gatherings to six people as the number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases among residents continues to rise, the city’s mayor announced Thursday. “We are — no doubt whatsoever — in a second surge,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Tucker Carlson took some time in his opening monolugue on Wednesday to expose CNN’s Chris Cuomo as a hypocrite when it comes to his mask usage. Cuomo had always portrayed himself publicly as a strong proponent of mask wearing, but as Carlson reveals, Cuomo did not always wear one when he […]

CALIFORNIA (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat COVID-19: remdesivir, an antiviral medicine given through an IV for patients needing hospitalization. The drug, which California-based Gilead Sciences Inc. is calling Veklury, cut the time to recovery by five days — from 15 days to 10 on average […]

DAVIS, CAL. (VINnews) — A courageous police officer in Davis, California succeeded in pulling a woman out of a burning car seconds before she would have been burnt to death. The entire episode was captuered on the policeman’s body camera. Corporal Pheng Ly reached the scene after witnesses reported a crash off the I-80 highway […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As the coronavirus cases and number of sick people have dropped sharply in Israel, government ministers continue to discuss frameworks which would allow a return of different elements of the economy to normal without seeing yet another spike in COVID-19 cases. The health ministry wishes to go from stage to stage based […]