U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in a Dec. 14 statement to Parliament that a new strain of coronavirus has been identified in southeast England.

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization to a new at-home diagnostic COVID-19 test. The rapid antigen test, created by digital diagnostics company Ellume, delivers results in as little as 15 minutes. Such a speedy result is exactly what we need right now, says Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. “The more rapid the turnaround, the better the test,” he says.

As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, hard-hit locations like New York City are once again canceling indoor restaurant dining.

The COVID-19 vaccination process is underway in Nevada, but the return to life as we once knew it is still months away, according to health experts.

The surge in COVID-19 cases is currently impacting contact tracing investigations in Nevada.

New Mexico and Colorado put limitations in place back in the spring and summer, respectively. And Nevada recently tightened its capacity restrictions even further to 25%.

So, your wedding falls in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and you have hard choices: Postpone the event for the unforeseeable future, make sizable or costly cuts to meet health guidelines or advance to the altar, hoping for the healthiest outcome.

You can now take an all-in-one COVID-19 and flu test in the comfort of your own home. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Quest Diagnostics for the first combined at-home test on December 4.

The latest surge of COVID-19 is spurring new restrictions across the country.

I suppose this is progress: On Sunday, Trump’s vaccine “czar,” Moncef Slaoui, endorsed President-elect Biden’s plan to ask all Americans to wear masks during his first 100 days. Slaoui’s said, “I think it’s a good idea…We all need to take our precaution, have our masks…We will not all have the vaccine in our arms before May or June. So we need to be very cautious and vigilant.”

A night curfew “will do nothing,” former Health Ministry director-general Gabi Barbash told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday afternoon – the day after the coronavirus cabinet voted to implement exactly such a move.

Nevada could have its first allocation of a COVID-19 vaccine as early as mid-December, Gov. Steve Sisolak said Wednesday.