Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 200,000 Wednesday morning and more than 8,200 have lost their lives since a novel virus appeared in the Hubei province of China late last year.
According to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, more than 82,000 people have recovered from the virus.
As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, China tops the list with 81,102 cases, Italy has the second-highest number of cases with 31,506 and Iran comes next with 17,361.
All 50 states in the U.S. are now linked to the virus, with nearly 6,500 confirmed cases around the nation. West Virginia was the last state to report a coronavirus case Tuesday afternoon.
At least 100 people have died in the U.S., linked to the virus’s outbreak. Thirty of those individuals are linked to the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., one of the first hotspots of community spread in the nation.
As test production ramps up around the nation, those numbers are expected to rise.
Thousands of New York City nurses are back at work after a strike ended at two of the city's biggest hospitals.
More than a dozen states have now banned substances known as "forever chemicals."
A new study by Columbia University Irving Medical Center said evidence suggests that prolonged sitting has detrimental effects on one's well-being but there is a fix.
Russia is planning a rescue mission to bring home three crewmembers in orbit.
A study says a five-minute light walk can alleviate the effects of sitting at a desk all day.
Swedish mining company LKAB has discovered what CEO Jan Moström called "the largest known deposit of rare earth elements in our part of the world."
Damar Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital and will continue to recover at home, just 10 days after the Bills player collapsed on the field and suffered a cardiac arrest.
Crews in California are scrambling to clean up widespread damage as a new storm is expected to hit the northern part of the state.
The Pentagon has dropped Covid-19 vaccine requirements for U.S. troops.
Nurses in New York continue to be on strike for three days as negotiations drag on.
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