WASH­ING­TON (AP) — White House COVID-19 co­or­di­na­tor Dr. Ashish Jha has is­sued a dire warn­ing that the U.S. will be in­creas­ing­ly vul­ner­a­ble to the coro­n­avirus this fall and win­ter if Con­gress doesn’t swift­ly ap­prove new fund­ing for more vac­cines and treat­ments. 

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will ap­peal for a re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al com­mit­ment to at­tack­ing COVID-19 as he con­venes a sec­ond vir­tu­al sum­mit on the pan­dem­ic and marks “a trag­ic mile­stone” as the U.S. ap­proach­es 1 mil­lion deaths.

Some 47 new pos­i­tive cas­es have been re­port­ed over the past 24 hours.  There are now 603 cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land.

GENE­VA (AP) — The num­ber of new coro­n­avirus cas­es re­port­ed world­wide has con­tin­ued to fall ex­cept in the Amer­i­c­as and Africa, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion said in its lat­est as­sess­ment of the pan­dem­ic. 

There are now 622 COVID-19 cas­es emerg­ing among staff and stu­dents in schools na­tion­wide since the start of the third aca­d­e­m­ic term.

COVID-19 in­fec­tions in To­ba­go con­tin­ue to climb, even as pre­vi­ous­ly in­fect­ed peo­ple re­cov­er from the dis­ease.  Some 55 new pos­i­tive cas­es have been re­port­ed over the past 24 hours.  There are now 574 cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land.

GENE­VA (AP) — The head of the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion called on Pfiz­er to make its COVID-19 treat­ment more wide­ly avail­able in poor­er coun­tries, say­ing Tues­day that the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny’s deal al­low­ing gener­ic pro­duc­ers to make the drug was in­suf­fi­cient.

GENE­VA (AP) — The head of the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion called on Pfiz­er to make its COVID-19 treat­ment more wide­ly avail­able in poor­er coun­tries, say­ing Tues­day that the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny’s deal al­low­ing gener­ic pro­duc­ers to make the drug was in­suf­fi­cient.

Some 45 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es have been re­port­ed in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, which has moved up the num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land to 588.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — As more doc­tors pre­scribe Pfiz­er’s pow­er­ful COVID-19 pill, new ques­tions are emerg­ing about its per­for­mance, in­clud­ing why a small num­ber of pa­tients ap­pear to re­lapse af­ter tak­ing the drug. 

Twen­ty-nine new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es have been re­port­ed in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours.  The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land now stands at 570.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — U.S. reg­u­la­tors on Thurs­day strict­ly lim­it­ed who can re­ceive John­son & John­son’s COVID-19 vac­cine due to the on­go­ing risk of rare but se­ri­ous blood clots.