BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — After the Israeli government decided to impose a total lockdown on Bnei Brak and declared it a “restricted zone” in order both to prevent the spreading of coronavirus outside the city and to remove existing patients and elderly people from the town, thousands of soldiers came to the town to implement […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police forces entered Meah Shearim Friday night in order to enforce the health ministry’s regulations and found tens of residents violating the regulations and endangering public health. A number of residents hurled stones at police who were forced to use methods to disperse demonstrations. On Shabbat morning police continued to disperse residents […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The coronavirus has spread to over 200 countries worldwide, causing untold suffering and chaos, but there are still some places where it has failed to make any impact. One of these places is Yemen which has yet to report any cases of the virus. This could be due to the bloody […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The  wife םf Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam of Tzanz-Klausenberg and mother of the present Tzanzer Rebbe, Rebbetzin Chaya Nechama Unger, passed away from coronavirus in Union City, New Jersey, on Shabbos. The Rebbetzin, who was 96, had been sick in the past few years but her situation deteriorated after she contracted […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Home testing for the new coronavirus may sound like a good idea, but U.S. regulators say it’s still too risky. They’ve stopped companies that quickly launched home-testing kits until they can show their products can accurately detect the virus. For now, the only way Americans can get tested is at hospitals, clinics […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surgeon General Jerome Adams offered some of the starkest warnings yet Sunday as he braced Americans for the worsening fallout from the new coronavirus, warning “this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.” The number of people infected in the U.S. has exceeded […]

CORDOBA, SPAIN (VINnews) — On a hilltop in Southern Spain overlooking a pretty lake lies the ancient fortress town of Zahara de la Sierra. The Moors and Christians fought over it in medieval times, and it was sacked by the French in 1812. Now its formidable position high above the Andalusian countryside has suddenly become […]

NEW YORK – (THE CONVERSATION/AP) With the coronavirus pandemic quickly spreading, U.S. health officials have changed their advice on face masks and now recommend people wear cloth masks in public areas where social distancing can be difficult, such as grocery stores. But can these masks be effective? President Donald Trump, in announcing the change in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is he a wartime president or a backup point man? President Donald Trump seems to go back and forth on that, or both ways at once, in responding to the coronavirus pandemic that takes more lives by the hour. In his recent rhetoric, the president who declared “It’s a war” and invoked […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the county could be headed into its “toughest” weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he’s eager to get the country reopened and its stalled economy back on track. “There […]