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Medical student Catherine Waldron talks with epidemiologist Elizabeth Goff at the Georgia Department of Public Health&#039;s district office in Savannah, Ga.,, on Wednesday Waldron is among about 30 medical students helping with contact tracing.

Many states fall short of mandate to track virus exposure

Medical student Catherine Waldron talks with epidemiologist Elizabeth Goff at the Georgia Department of Public Health&#039;s district office in Savannah, Ga.,, on Wednesday Waldron is among about 30 medical students helping with contact tracing.

April 25, 2020, 9:14pm Nation & World

As more states push to reopen their economies, many are falling short on one of the federal government’s essential criteria for doing so — having an efficient system to track people who have been physically near a person infected with the coronavirus. Read story

Fishers on Saturday morning protested Washington&#039;s ban on recreational fishing amid the stay-at-home order.

Fishers protest Washington’s recreational ban

Fishers on Saturday morning protested Washington&#039;s ban on recreational fishing amid the stay-at-home order.

April 25, 2020, 9:03pm Clark County News

Fishers in about a dozen boats gathered on the Columbia River near the Interstate 5 Bridge Saturday morning to protest the state's recreational fishing ban. Read story

Demonstrators caravan for #canceltherent

April 25, 2020, 9:00pm Clark County News

Supporters of the #canceltherent campaign Saturday afternoon caravanned to the homes of Vancouver and Clark County councilors to solicit support. Read story

President Donald Trump signs a coronavirus aid package to direct funds to small businesses, hospitals, and testing, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Washington. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., left, and Jovita Carranza, administrator of the Small Business Administration look on.

Virus relief pushing U.S. deficits to new heights

President Donald Trump signs a coronavirus aid package to direct funds to small businesses, hospitals, and testing, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Washington. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., left, and Jovita Carranza, administrator of the Small Business Administration look on.

April 25, 2020, 8:23pm Nation & World

Spend what it takes, Washington said as it confronted the coronavirus. Well over $2 trillion later, it’s unclear where that spending will end. Read story

FILE - This Monday, April 6, 2020, file photo shows an arrangement of Hydroxychloroquine pills in Las Vegas. At least 13 states have obtained a total of more than 10 million doses of malaria drugs to treat COVID-19 patients despite warnings from doctors that more tests are needed before the medications that President Trump once fiercely promoted should be used to help people with the coronavirus.

States build stockpiles of malaria drug touted by Trump

FILE - This Monday, April 6, 2020, file photo shows an arrangement of Hydroxychloroquine pills in Las Vegas. At least 13 states have obtained a total of more than 10 million doses of malaria drugs to treat COVID-19 patients despite warnings from doctors that more tests are needed before the medications that President Trump once fiercely promoted should be used to help people with the coronavirus.

April 25, 2020, 8:21pm Nation & World

State and local governments across the United States have obtained about 30 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Trump to treat patients with the coronavirus, despite warnings from doctors that more research is needed. Read story

Nations back U.N. plan on pandemic response

April 25, 2020, 8:14pm Nation & World

World leaders rallied around the United Nations on Friday for an initiative to help the most vulnerable countries gain access to vaccines, diagnostics and treatment tools for the coronavirus as soon as they emerge. Read story

FILE - In this March 20, 2020, file photo, a boda-boda, or motorcycle taxi, driver wears a makeshift mask made from a local fabric known as Kitenge as he looks for customers in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. As Africa braces for a surge in coronavirus cases, its countries are far behind in the global race for medical equipment. Outbid or outmaneuvered by richer nations, jolting African officials to scramble for solutions and join forces, creating a pooled purchasing platform under the African Union to improve their negotiating power.

Africa dangerously behind in global race for virus gear

FILE - In this March 20, 2020, file photo, a boda-boda, or motorcycle taxi, driver wears a makeshift mask made from a local fabric known as Kitenge as he looks for customers in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. As Africa braces for a surge in coronavirus cases, its countries are far behind in the global race for medical equipment. Outbid or outmaneuvered by richer nations, jolting African officials to scramble for solutions and join forces, creating a pooled purchasing platform under the African Union to improve their negotiating power.

April 25, 2020, 8:00pm Nation & World

Africa’s coronavirus cases have surged 43 percent in the past week but its countries are dangerously behind in the global race for scarce medical equipment. Ten nations have no ventilators at all. Read story

Members of the pro-government Belarussian Patriotic Union of Youth clean monuments Saturday during a subbotnik, a Soviet-style Clean-up Day, in Minsk, Belarus.

Belarus holds national day of civic labor

Members of the pro-government Belarussian Patriotic Union of Youth clean monuments Saturday during a subbotnik, a Soviet-style Clean-up Day, in Minsk, Belarus.

April 25, 2020, 7:45pm Nation & World

More than 2 million Belarusians, including doctors and nurses, took part in a government-decreed national day of civic labor Saturday despite worries about the country’s sharply rising coronavirus infections. Read story

FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo, Indian paramedics note down the names of Muslims after screening them before they board a bus, after a government raid discovered the largest viral cluster in India at the Nizamuddin area of New Delhi, India.

Indian Muslims face stigma, blame for surge in infections

FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo, Indian paramedics note down the names of Muslims after screening them before they board a bus, after a government raid discovered the largest viral cluster in India at the Nizamuddin area of New Delhi, India.

April 25, 2020, 7:43pm Nation & World

India’s government is blaming an Islamic missionary meeting for a surge in coronavirus cases, triggering a wave of violence, business boycotts and hate speech toward Muslims that experts warn could worsen the pandemic in the world’s second-most populous country. Read story

A bicyclist wears face protection against the new coronavirus while pedaling through Larimer Square early Saturday, April 25, 2020, in downtown Denver.

Global death toll from coronavirus surpasses 200,000

A bicyclist wears face protection against the new coronavirus while pedaling through Larimer Square early Saturday, April 25, 2020, in downtown Denver.

April 25, 2020, 2:13pm Nation & World

As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing lockdowns imposed amid the pandemic, but fears of a surge in infections made even some outbreak-wounded businesses reluctant to reopen. Read story