WASHINGTON – White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said Americans should be able to order free, rapid COVID tests through a federal web site later this month. The White House is …
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Fully vaccinated a boosted New York City Congresswoman Sandy Cortez has tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from a vacation to Florida with her boyfriend, staffers reported on Sunday. “Representative …
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tested negative on Sunday for COVID-19 a week after contracting the illness and plans to return to the Pentagon for work on Monday, …
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Retail giants Walmart and Kroger have each raised the price of BinaxNOW rapid COVID-19 tests after a deal made with President Joe Biden expired in mid-December, FOX Business reported. The …
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WESTFIELD, NJ – Just 48 hours after announcing his wife Tammy has been infected with COVID-19, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy attended an outdoor, in-person public ceremony in Westfield on …
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TRENTON, NJ – The Vault at-home testing service offered by the state of New Jersey isn’t working as well as the state hope it would. Part of the problem is …
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Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman became the latest lawmaker to announce that he tested positive for COVID-19. Portman said that he was asymptomatic and that he had taken a test …
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By Hilary Russ NEW YORK -Starbucks Corp will require its U.S. workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing in order to comply with new federal mandates, …
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TRENTON, NJ – Can you imagine if a Republican governor or Senator left his state during the height of a record COVID-19 pandemic outbreak for a Central American country? Let’s …
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TRENTON, NJ – On Thursday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and his wife Tammy returned to America from a week-long Central American family vacation in Costa Rica. On Sunday, the …
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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration plans to announce on Wednesday a $137 million contract for Millipore Sigma, a unit of Germany’s Merck KGaA, to boost production capacity of a highly …
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– Walmart Inc said on Tuesday demand for at-home COVID-19 testing kits was “extremely high” and that it had set a limit of eight test kits per online order. (Reporting …
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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued a consumer alert to New Yorkers concerning potential price gouging of over-the-counter coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing products for …
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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration’s use of the Defense Production Act should help get 200 million to 500 million COVID-19 tests to market, Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC in an …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new actions to combat the fast spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus over the winter. These new measures build …
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Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday that he tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Hogan, who was vaccinated and boosted, said that he was asymptomatic, and he …
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NEWARK, NJ – Former Newark Mayor and U.S. Senator Cory Booker is the latest elected official on Capitol Hill to contract the COVID-19 virus. This weekend, his colleague, Senator Elizabeth …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -Southwest Chief Executive Gary Kelly tested positive for COVID-19 after appearing at a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, the airline confirmed on Friday. Kelly appeared at …
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By Rodrigo Gutierrez and Gerardo Gomez – At the Buin Zoo on the outskirts of Chilean capital Santiago, a veterinarian sporting a tiger-striped face mask administers an experimental COVID-19 vaccine …
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By Sheila Dang – Twitter Inc will begin overhauling how users report harmful tweets in an effort to make it easier for people to describe what is wrong with the …
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TRENTON, NJ – A fully vaccinated woman from Georgia who recently visited South Africa has tested positive for the omicron variant in New Jersey. So far, she has been treated …
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WASHINGTON -The Biden administration on Thursday sought to ramp up its pandemic response following U.S. detection of the Omicron coronavirus variant this week, making at-home COVID-19 tests available free of …
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-Becton Dickinson and Co said on Tuesday it was confident that its COVID-19 tests would be able to detect the new coronavirus variant Omicron. The company sells a variety of …
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By Carolyn Cohn and Huw Jones LONDON – Insurers could face European climate stress tests as soon as 2023, the head of the EU’s insurance regulator said at the Reuters …
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SANTIAGO – Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric, champion for the left and one of the top runners in pre-election polls, said on Wednesday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and …