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The Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot. -
Households in the U.S. will receive eight test kits via the U.S. Postal Service. The release comes as cases have risen over 60% in the U.S. over the past two weeks. -
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak. -
A total of 4,996 cases were reported during the past week compared to 4,110 cases identified the previous week. -
North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and high numbers of fevers as it mobilizes more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country's first COVID-19 outbreak. -
The emergency bail modification enacted in early 2020 allowed people arrested for certain minor crimes such as drug possession or petty theft to avoid custody, while those already in jail for those offenses and with no other pending cases were released on their own recognizance. -
The second Global COVID-19 Summit aimed to refocus the world's attention on the pandemic. Here's what governments and members of the private and public sector pledged to do. -
Johns Hopkins University says the virus has killed more than 999,000 people in the U.S. -
North Korea's official news agency says nearly 190,000 people are being isolated for treatment across the country. -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his country to raise its COVID-19 preventive measures to maximum levels as the country announced its first coronavirus infection more than two years into the pandemic.
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