Coronavirus Outbreak

Rise in cases only 0.1% in past 10 days, far below what's necessary for the pandemic to spin out of control, despite the major easing of lockdown four weeks ago.

Phase I trials of adenovirus vaccine from China's CanSino Biologics Inc. "represent an important milestone," Professor Wei Shen of the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology says.

A New York author is overwhelmed with information.

A pandemic leads to new discoveries on how a New York author writes.

A Berlin author is worried about the bizarre theories that have spread as the crisis continues.

A Jerusalem authors returns a favor to the small-business owners.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University estimate that more than 80% of infections originate in just 10% of patients or less. This means that most infections in Israel are from "super-spreaders."

So far, COVID-19 has infected 5,090,107 people worldwide, killing 329,735. The number of people to have recovered from the respiratory disease stands at 2,024,286.

Israeli researchers find that samples of the virus taken from mobile phones owned by coronavirus patients cannot reproduce in laboratory conditions. Meanwhile, for the first time since the pandemic hit Israel, no new corona cases have been reported. Death toll steady at 272.