Coronavirus

Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic upset the fragile child care industry, about a third of the state’s child care providers remain closed.

Dr. Adelita Cantu was the first person in Bexar County to get the first COVID-19 shot in Bexar County in December 2020. Since then, she's joined a community-wide coalition to educate and vaccinate the community to reduce COVID deaths.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said asylum-seekers are camping out on the sidewalks and staying at shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, under the false notion that they will be allowed to enter the U.S. once Title 42 expires.

Japan will lift most of its coronavirus border controls, including a requirement that entrants show proof of three vaccinations or a pre-departure negative test, beginning Saturday as the country’s Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists is expected.

Data from the San Antonio COVID-19 Dashboard shows us that only 15.1 percent of people in Bexar County have the updated booster.

COVID-19 cases continue to drop in the San Antonio area, but as the city prepares for bigger events like Fiesta, local health officials say people must stay vigilant.

Services are still being offered to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the community.

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

The Texas Rent Relief Program is closing its portal for applications after being swarmed with requests just 24 hours into its launch.

The Texas Rent Relief Program has $98 million available to help people with rent and utility bills, and people will soon be able to apply for those funds.

Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year.

For a few weeks in late January and early February, the U.S. economy seemed to have reached a rare sweet spot.

COVID-19 has shot back into the headlines in Britain through the leak of more than 100,000 private messages sent or received by the health minister as the government scrambled to respond to the new respiratory virus.

Britain’s former health minister is denying wrongdoing after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

More Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate policy intended to cool the economy and bring down inflation.

Abbott doubles down on his long-standing call to lawmakers to prohibit local governments from enacting mask and vaccine mandates.

The World Health Organization chief says the coronavirus remains a global health emergency.

A second consecutive quarter of economic growth underscored Thursday that the nation isn’t in a recession despite high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fastest pace of interest rate hikes in four decades.

All 15 seats of the State Board of Education are up for grabs in November, and there were more than 50 candidates vying for their parties’ nominations.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

Could trawler cams help save the world’s fish.

China has rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places.

The supply backlogs of the past two years — and the delays, shortages and outrageous prices that came with them — have improved dramatically since summer.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend meetings with oil-rich Gulf Arab nations crucial to his country’s energy supplies as Beijing tries to revive an economy battered by strict coronavirus measures.

Wall Street futures edged lower Wednesday ahead of new employment and wholesale price data with the Federal Reserve gauging its next step in its fight to cool inflation.

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities’ strict COVID-19 policy.

A New Zealand court has temporarily taken away medical custody of a baby from his parents after they refused blood transfusions for him unless the blood comes from donors who are unvaccinated against COVID-19.

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress.