Coronavirus deaths in the United States surged to their highest level in months as Muslim pilgrims began a pandemic-curtailed version of the hajj in Mecca.

The human toll of the disease has risen to a level not seen since mid-May in the United States, the world's hardest-hit country, with nearly 1,600 deaths recorded in 24 hours, Johns Hopkins University reported.

Case numbers have been rising for weeks across swathes of the nation. President Donald Trump's effort to be re-elected in November has been dogged by a crisis that has already killed nearly 150,000 Americans and wreaked havoc on the world's biggest economy.

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EastEnders' Maisie Smith reveals one piece of advice she would have given her younger self after previously opening up about mental health

EastEnders star has been getting close with her fellow co-stars, including Dragons Den star Sara Davies, Gordon Ramsay's daughter Tilly, and fellow actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, who made history last year as the show's first ever deaf contestant. Today (12 February) she shared a video of her spending time with CBBC TV presenter Rhys Stephenson in the dressing room before a show at London's 02 arena.

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CDC proposes change to opioid prescription guidelines

CDC officials said."We began to hear how the guidelines were being misused and misapplied" said the CDC's Christopher Jones, a co-author of the draft guidance.The proposed changes, contained in a 229-page draft update in the Federal Register, would roll back some suggested limits on the drugs. Their publication opens a 60-day public comment period.

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Man dies after being shot inside car in Southwest Philadelphia, police say

PHILADELPHIA - A man has lost his life after a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia. The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. Friday on the 6000 block of Woodland Avenue. Police say the 29-year-old man was shot once in the left armpit inside a Nissan Altima.

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Convoy protesters tear down fence protecting National War Memorial

Protesters from the so-called “freedom convoy” in Ottawa have torn down a fence that had been put around the National War Memorial to protect it from further desecration.

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4 hurt in shooting after Justin Bieber concert at Los Angeles restaurant

According to TMZ, rapper Kodak Black was among those who were shot. The gunfire erupted outside The Nice Guy restaurant, hitting four men ages 60, 19, 20 and 22, LAPD Officer Lizeth Lomeli said. Their names were not released.When officers arrived on the scene, they located three people who had been shot.

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Rylan Clark looks picture of health in fresh update after hospital stay

as she shares a fresh update with fans. The update from Rylan comes on social media a day after he was rushed to hospital.

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Greater Manchester's latest borough-by-borough coronavirus infection rates as cases continue to plummet

The number of coronavirus infections is continuing to plummet in all 10 boroughs in Greater Manchester, latest figures show.

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Live blog: Ottawa convoy protest enters 16th day, as police clear Ambassador Bridge

“Freedom Convoy” originally meant to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and quarantine rules for cross-border truck drivers has entered its 16th day on Saturday.Police in Windsor, Ont. say they’ve begun enforcement actions against protesters who blocked access to the Ambassador Bridge for days.They say they’ve told protesters at the scene to head home, and several have begun packing up tents.

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Injunction granted to prevent protesters from blocking Ambassador Bridge

Late Friday afternoon, a judge granted an injunction which prevents protesters from stopping the flow of traffic across the Ambassador Bridge. Sean O’Shea reports.

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Quebec reports 28 more COVID-19 deaths, logs 71 patient drop in hospitalizations

COVID-19 today as virus-related hospitalizations continue to decline across the province.The Health Department says 2,143 people are in hospital with the disease, after 144 patients were admitted in the past 24 hours and 215 were discharged.#COVID19 – En date du 11 février, voici la situation au Québec: https://t.co/pwoUoaBgaF pic.twitter.com/aR2nlnEvXO— Santé Québec (@sante_qc) February 12, 2022It says the number of overall virus-related hospitalizations are down by 71.Officials say 153 patients are listed in intensive care, a drop of 11.The province is also reporting 2,359 new cases confirmed by molecular testing, which is limited to certain higher-risk groups.They say 33,661 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered on Friday.

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Robot dogs will soon patrol the US-Mexico border

A robot dog operating alongside ATVs in the southwest U.S. Photo: Courtesy Ghost Robotics.

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COVID-19: Hospitalizations in Nova Scotia see slight decline

COVID-19 in Nova Scotia declined slightly since Friday, the province announced on Saturday.In an abbreviated weekend news release, the province said there were 79 people in hospital who were admitted due to COVID-19 and were receiving specialized care in a designated unit. That’s down by three since Friday.However, another three people were in intensive care, for a total of 14.

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Trucker protests: Windsor police begin clearing out Ambassador Bridge blockade

Police in Windsor, Ont., commenced their enforcement Saturday of an injunction granted on Friday by an Ontario judge to allow for protesters at the Ambassador Bridge to be cleared out. Sean O’Shea has more details on how the enforcement proceeded, with protesters closest to the bridge seen moving back peacefully, while others drove their vehicles away from the area.

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Wendy Williams Denies 'All Allegations' About Her Mental Health Amid Legal Battle With Bank

Wendy Williams is speaking out.

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Ukraine crisis: Putin, Biden conclude hourlong call as US evacuates embassy

MOSCOW - With the risk of war looming larger, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held a high-stakes telephone call Saturday as a tense world watched and worried that an invasion of Ukraine could begin within days.Before talking to Biden, Putin had a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. A Kremlin summary of the call suggested that little progress was made toward cooling down the tensions.The closely watched call between Biden and Putin began shortly after 11 a.m.

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Whirlwind romance follows after tornado crashes Kansas couple's wedding

HARPER, Kan. - Rain on a wedding day can be upsetting for any couple, but a tornado can be downright frightening during the vows.In some cultures, rain is viewed as good luck, symbolizing various things from fertility to unity. It can also represent that your marriage will last a lifetime. Candra and Caleb Pence would agree.It was May 19, 2012, and the 21-year-old bride was ready to marry the man of her dreams.

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Fewer crashes in Utah after state lowered drunk driving limit to .05%, study finds

SALT LAKE CITY - Traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation five years ago, new research published Friday by a U.S. government agency shows.The findings, which pertain to fatalities involving and not involving alcohol, provide initial validation for conservative lawmakers who passed the law over concerns from restaurant and tourism industry lobbyists.In the study published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, researchers wrote that, in the years after Utah changed the drunken driving threshold from .08% to .05% blood-alcohol content, the number of crashes and fatalities fell even though drivers logged more miles."Changing the law to .05% in Utah saved lives and motivated more drivers to take steps to avoid driving impaired," said Dr.

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Afghans protest US order freeing up $3.5B in assets for 9/11 victims

KABUL, Afghanistan - Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans.Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.Biden's order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N.

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Fauci says coronavirus testing is too slow while Trump calls it the ‘best ever’

coronavirus testing to deliver results within two days, said Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, hours after President Donald Trump boasted that U.S.

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Texas medical board warns physicians who claim COVID-19 cure

Houston Chronicle reported. Multiple studies have found that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help against the virus and the Food and Drug Administration has cautioned against using it to treat patients with the disease because of reports linking it with heart problems and other injuries and disorders.RELATED: Misinformation on the virus is proving highly contagiousIn a video that went viral last week and caught the attention of President Donald Trump, Immanuel said that if everyone took hydroxychloroquine, it would stop the virus in its tracks within 30 days.

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Rate of new US COVID-19 cases declines

The average daily case count for new COVID-19 cases each day in the past week has been just over 60,000 cases, which is a 9% decline from the previous week, according to a new analysis from the New York Times.

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Trump Says We Can't Look at COVID-19 Deaths in Proportion to Population - Watch the Bizarre Interview

A new interview with President Donald Trump was just released and he is making some more claims about coronavirus that have people enraged on Twitter.

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Anthony Fauci warns against opening schools in coronavirus hot spots in US

Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, spoke via video conference Monday to physicians and medical students at New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre.He said while the nation's “default principle" should be that children return to school, “to say that every child has to go back to school is not really realising the fact that we have such a diversity of viral activity." He said there may be some areas where the level of virus is so high that it would not be prudent to bring children back to school.Determined to reopen America's schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump recently threatened to hold back federal money if school districts don't bring their students back in the

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WATCH LIVE: Flagler County officials provide update ahead of Hurricane Isaias

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Officials with Flagler County’s Emergency Operation Center are expected to provide an update Friday ahead of Hurricane Isaias.A state of emergency has been declared along Florida’s east coast.[LIVE TRACK: Forecast cone, computer models, updates and more for Hurricane Isaias]Gov. Ron DeSantis made the announcement Friday morning during a brief press appearance in Tallahassee.

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Extra $600 in jobless aid set to lapse as talks deadlock

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin (L) and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (R) listen prior to Trump's Marine One departure from the South Lawn of the White House July 29, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Stakes rise for virus talks as jobless aid lapses, GDP drops

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As coronavirus aid talks stalemate, President Trump scorns help for cities

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed Democratic demands for aid to cash-strapped cities in a new coronavirus relief package and lashed out at Republican allies as talks stalemated over assistance for millions of Americans. Republicans, beset by delays and infighting, signaled a willingness to swiftly approve a modest package to revamp a $600 weekly unemployment benefit that runs out.

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Pandemic advice ignored by Donald Trump helps Vietnam fight coronavirus

coronavirus infections by embracing U.S.-supported pandemic strategies that the Trump administration largely ignored.Now the Southeast Asian country is using the plan to combat its first cases in more than three months, seeking to keep its record as one of the few places in the world that hasn’t reported a single Covid-19 death as of this week.Even before Vietnam confirmed its first cases in late January, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered officials to break out the blueprint developed in 2014 during a global health security project, funded in part by US-AID and created with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations.

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Misinformation on the virus is proving highly contagious

FILE - People wearing face masks shop at a Chinese supermarket amid the coronavirus outbreak on April 20, 2020 in New York City. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - As the world races to find a vaccine and a treatment for COVID-19, there is seemingly no antidote in sight to the burgeoning outbreak of coronavirus conspiracy theories, hoaxes, anti-mask myths and sham cures.The phenomenon, unfolding largely on social media, escalated this week when President Donald Trump retweeted a false video about an anti-malaria drug being a cure for the virus and it was revealed that Russian intelligence is spreading disinformation about the crisis through English-language websites.RELATED: Doctor demonstrates how face mask blocks respiratory droplets from spreadingE

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Trump backs doctor who believes in COVID-19 cure and ‘demon sperm’

Donald Trump‘s disproven theory about hydroxychloroquine, also believes that dream sex with demons will make you sick.Immanuel was one of the main speakers in a misinformation-filled viral video from America’s Frontline Doctors, a coronavirus skeptic group that caught the president’s eye earlier this week. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube banned the video under their misinformation policies after it racked up millions of views, in part thanks to a retweet from Trump on Monday.The video shows Immanuel and other doctors pushing misinformation about the virus, including false claims that masks do nothing and that hydroxychloroquine can cure COVID-19.

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Madonna Covid-19 conspiracy post from 'demon sperm' theorist deleted for fake info

Madonna posted a controversial coronavirus conspiracy video on Instagram, but the posts has since been removed from the social media site after fans reportedly flagged the questionable clip.

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Madonna's bizarre Covid conspiracy post from 'demon sperm' theorist deleted for fake info

Madonna's social media post about a false coronavirus story appears to have been removed from Instagram, after fans flagged it down.

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Man denies Covid-19 exists then feels 'guilty' after 14 relatives get bug at his dinner

coronavirus conspiracy theorist who hosted a family reunion has admitted his shame after 14 of his relatives caught Covid-19, one of whom has now died. Tony Green, a Texas political consultant and lobbyist, has opened up about his change of heart in a deeply personal column in local LGBT outlet Dallas Voice.

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Latinos hit hardest by U.S. coronavirus surge as 5 states report record deaths

coronavirus deaths on Tuesday and cases in Texas passed the 400,000 mark as California health officials said Latinos made up more than half its cases.Arkansas, Florida, Montana and Oregon each reported record spikes in fatalities. In California deaths rose by 171, the state’s largest increase of the pandemic.The United States confirmed that nationwide more than 1,200 lives were lost on Tuesday, the biggest one-day increase since May, according to a Reuters tally.

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Democrats, GOP far apart as coronavirus aid talks intensify

coronavirus aid package are vast: Democrats propose $3 trillion in relief and Republicans have a $1 trillion counteroffer. At stake are millions of Americans' jobless benefits, school reopenings and eviction protections.As top White House negotiators return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the leverage is apparent.

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National teacher union supports striking if it’s unsafe to return to school

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Fourteen members of same family catch coronavirus and one dies after reunion

A family who held a reunion after months of lockdown are devastated after 14 were diagnosed with coronavirus and one died.

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China’s ‘bat woman’ rebukes Donald Trump, denies coronavirus link to Wuhan lab

Wuhan Institute of Virology, said in an interview published in Science magazine that she and her colleagues encountered the virus in December last year, when reports of the disease first emerged in the city. She said the lab hadn’t seen or studied the virus before that.“U.S.

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Global coronavirus cases are on the rise. But not everywhere.

coronavirus cases.So far, 16.3 million people have been infected with the virus across the globe while 650,918 people have died, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.Reuters said it took five months to get to one million cases, 23 more days to get to three million and 87 more to get to 10 million. But which countries are still spiking?Let’s start with the United States — the epicentre of the virus.There are a variety of components that factor into why some countries are more heavily impacted by COVID-19 than others, experts previously interviewed by Global News said, including a country’s population’s median age, whether or not the country is a destination tourism zone, and government policies.

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Trump touts COVID-19 vaccine progress in NC as coronavirus cases rise in Southern states

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic put his political fate in grave jeopardy. Now he’s hoping to get credit for his administration’s aggressive push for a vaccine — and crossing his fingers that one gets approved before Election Day.Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were both visiting vaccine development sites on Monday, marking the beginning of the largest vaccine research trial yet.

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First lady Melania Trump announces plan to revamp White House Rose Garden with 'renewal' project

First Lady Melania Trump arrives to attend a ceremony for US golfer Tiger Woods in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2019. (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Melania Trump has announced plans to redo the White House Rose Garden to make it more in line with the original design implemented during the 1960s Kennedy administration.The first lady says Monday in a statement that decades of use and changes made to support a modern presidency have taken a toll on the outdoor space just off the Oval Office.President Donald Trump has been using the Rose Garden a lot more lately to make statements and hold news conferences in the age of the coronavirus.

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Melania Trump Called Out For Rose Garden Renovations During Pandemic: How ‘Marie Antoinette’ Of You

The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States is about to reach 150,000 and counting. Millions of Americans have filed for unemployment and are unable to pay their rent. Parents are struggling to decide if it’s safe to send their kids to school. Hundreds of thousands are protesting an unjust system and fighting against police violence. And Melania Trump is redecorating the White House. Twitter lashed out at the first lady’s tone deaf announcement that she would be renovating the White House’s Rose Garden, where her husband, President Donald Trump, often holds his rambling coronavirus press briefings.

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No virus bill yet: White House, GOP at odds over jobless aid

WASHINGTON - Negotiations over a new COVID-19 rescue bill were in flux Friday after the White House floated cutting an unemployment benefits boost to as little as $100 and President Donald Trump turned to a new priority, adding money to build a new FBI headquarters.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent senators home, promising a Republican proposal would be ready on Monday.

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‘Trump owes us an apology.’ Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out

Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.The coronavirus pandemic has thrust virologist Shi Zhengli into a fierce spotlight. Shi, who’s been nicknamed “Bat Woman,” heads a group that studies bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in the city in China where the pandemic began, and many have speculated that the virus that causes COVID-19 accidentally escaped from her lab—a theory promoted by U.S.

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Trump Calls Off Florida Segment of GOP National Convention Due to Coronavirus "Flare-Up"

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has canceled the bulk of the Republican National Convention scheduled for Florida next month, citing a “flare-up” of the coronavirus. Trump's formal renomination will still go forward in North Carolina, where a small subset of GOP delegates will still gather in Charlotte, North Carolina, for just four hours on Aug.

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Rosie O'Donnell joins celebrities who blame Donald Trump for COVID-19-related deaths of Americans

Rosie O’Donnell has joined the myriad celebrities placing blame for the deaths of Americans on President Donald Trump. The former talk show host is a vocal critic of Trump, having previously feuded with him prior to his presidential run in the 2016 election.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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