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Trying to fend off the need for a third nationwide lockdown that would further dent Europe’s second-largest economy and endanger more jobs, France has opted for creeping curfews

A global team of researchers has arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries

Like others across the state, businesses in Hartford have struggled to maintain through the pandemic. Max Kothari – the owner of Star Hardware which has been in operation for over 100 – described the feeling of navigating the business through uncharted territory. “A business’s lifeline is customers coming in and placing orders. Customers coming in which customers are coming in…

With most of Hartford workforce working from home, businesses downtown are finding it difficult to draw in any customers during the pandemic.

We’ve all spent nearly a year without movie theaters, and it sure hasn’t been easy. With COVID-19 quarantine restrictions in space, there’s been nowhere to go to watch some of Hollywood’s greatest productions.

Every January, huge crowds descend on Las Vegas for the CES gadget show, an extravaganza of tech and glitz intended to set the tone for the coming year in consumer technology.

China says a group of experts from the World Health Organization is due to arrive Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new national lockdown for England until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading new version of the coronavirus

The countdown clock for the postponed Tokyo Olympics has hit 200 days to go.

Nearly 200 years after the first freight cars carried goods over railroads, the country is in the middle of a new revolution in transportation and commerce fueled by the pandemic — online shopping delivery, NBC News reports. Millions of people have relied on e-commerce to get everything from toilet paper to groceries to puzzles to sweatpants during the pandemic. Online retail sales were up by...

Americans fled big cities in droves to escape the coronavirus pandemic — and many of them are staying, permanently or indefinitely.

While vaccinations are reason to hope, epidemiologists and public health experts say that the pandemic will continue to be a major factor in 2021. TODAY Health spoke to seven experts to get their thoughts on what the next year will look like.

Monica Ruiz doesn’t mind being the butt of a joke, even after she went viral for her terrified facial expression in a now-infamous Peloton commercial released in late 2019.

New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget

Countries close to the international date line, including Australia, China and Taiwan, began to ring in 2021 with fireworks shows.

Has the governor gone too far to curb the spread of the coronavirus? That’s what Connecticut’s highest court had to decide and in this case, they said the answer was no. Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive powers were again put to the test in front of the state supreme court and on Thursday, a decision was made. At issue: whether...

Sometime in 2021, for many in the United States more than a year after pandemic restrictions began, most American workers and students will return to campuses, offices and other workplaces. Left behind will be pets who have become accustomed to humans staying home with them.

Top Chinese officials quietly ordered strict controls on all COVID-19 research in the country, internal documents obtained by The AP show, cloaking the search for the origins of the virus in secrecy.

New York City is closing the books on its bloodiest year after a long time of being known as the safest big city in America

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the state is heavily relying on COVID-19 contact tracing centers to make connections. But what is it like working in an operation centered around contact tracing? Carly Matasavage leads a team of more than 50 in the Waterbury COVID-19 contact tracing call center. A seven-day operation, the staff works to find and contact those…