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This briefing has ended. Click here for the latest updates. Here’s what you need to know: Trump appointees at the Health and Human Services Department have meddled in the C.D.C.’s weekly disease reports. Michigan State students are asked to quarantine for two weeks as more campuses confront virus complications. AstraZeneca’s …

This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ‘Be smart’: New Yorkers get good news on virus numbers, but also a warning. Skyrocketing cases push India to No. 2 on the pandemic list. Britain is stunned by a spike in daily cases. Kamala …

This briefing has ended. Click here for the latest updates. Here’s what you need to know: Northeastern ousts 11 students for violating safety protocols, and keeps their $ 36,500 tuition. The first famines of the coronavirus era are at the world’s doorstep, the U.N. warns. The lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, …

WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic remained a distant threat to many Americans on Jan. 24 when Douglas C. Bryant, the president and chief executive officer of Quidel Corporation, got a call from an official at the Food and Drug Administration. If the government helped, the official asked, would Quidel make …

Several state governments may soon send residents an alert asking them to turn on “exposure notifications.” On Tuesday, Apple and Google said they would make it easier for states to use their new technology that detects phones that come close to one another and can notify people who may have …

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration tied billions of dollars in badly needed coronavirus medical funding this spring to hospitals’ cooperation with a private vendor collecting data for a new Covid-19 database that bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The highly unusual demand, aimed at hospitals in coronavirus hot …

This briefing has ended. Click here for the latest updates. Here’s what you need to know: Global virus deaths surpass 800,000, with South and Central American countries seeing large tallies. The filming of a movie starring Ben Affleck shifts to Canada because of the virus outbreak in the U.S. The …

Here’s what you need to know: ‘Be adults’: Universities in the U.S. are warning students about gatherings as they return to campus. As he accepts the Democratic nomination, Biden knocks Trump’s pandemic response. South Korea threatens to detain people who obstruct virus-control efforts. Hong Kong to roll out testing services …

The New York Times asked Radhika Kumar, a contact tracer for California Connected, an ambitious effort by the state to track people who have been infected with or exposed to the coronavirus, to keep a log of her interactions over the course of a day’s work. “Some days are good, …