Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery.

A city in northern China has killed three housecats after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Right now, 7,000 pending evictions’ cases are filed in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. We found Antoya Ferrell, a Lauderdale Lakes resident, outside of the Broward County Courthouse looking for a solution before she and her four children become homeless. In Hollywood alone, more than a million CARES Act dollars have been given to 863 residents for rent, mortgage payments and utilities since October. In Broward County, the application period will close soon to get funding from the federal CARES Act. Find out more about Miami-Dade County programs.

China has stirred controversy with claims it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING – China says it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food, but how valid are its claims and how serious is the threat to public health? Frozen shrimp imported from an Ecuadorian company was banned for one week on Tuesday in a continuing series of such temporary bans. Experts say they generally don’t consider the presence of the virus on packaging to be a significant health risk. “I’ve seen no convincing data that SARS-CoV-2 on food packaging poses a significant risk for infection,” he said.

Nurses and other healthcare workers clapped to celebrate they had survived COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, also known as SARS-CoV-2. Pedro Jimenez, 42, also survived COVID-19 after being temporarily misdiagnosed at Mercy Hospital. Epidemiologists’ estimates vary from country to country depending on the availability of testing, quality of healthcare and the mitigation strategies each country is implementing. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention first estimated 2 to 3% of patients were dying of the disease. The United Kingdom’s Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre estimated 76% of patients ages 16 to 49 years old survived, 60% of patients ages 50 to 69 survived and 27% of patients ages 70 and older also survived.

Susan Forbes, a spokeswoman for OneBlood, said he was referring to convalescent plasma, which involves collecting blood from recovered COVID-19 patients. The Food and Drug Administration is facilitating access to the plasma for use in patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections. “We are not using a virus to induce immune response,” said Strbo, a microbiology professor. On March 20, the FDA granted expanded access to Bellerophon Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company that owns INOpulse, an inhaled nitric oxide delivery system. On Twitter, he refers to himself as a “Nitric Oxide Aficionado.” He is also on the front lines at Jackson Health’s intensive care units.

A spokesperson for WHO told Science using the name SARS could create "unnecessary fear,” so the organization was going to refer to the disease as COVID-19 and to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which scientists are using, as the COVID-19 virus. Data shows, people aged 80 or older had a fatality rate of nearly 15 percent. People aged 70 to 79 had a fatality rate of about 8 percent. People aged 60 to 69 had a fatality rate of 3.6 percent. Researchers found the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved to become more aggressive and spread more quickly.

Parodi, 35, then found himself confined for days on board the Asara, where 12 Egyptian crew members had just contracted the virus. The Nile cruiser has become the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Egypt’s crown jewel of tourism. When passengers learned about the cases reported from their ship, Parodi said confusion quickly struck. “Some of the worst thoughts go through your head,” said Parodi, who is traveling with his cousin and mother from Miami. A 60-year-old German tourist from another Nile cruise died late Sunday, marking the country's first and only fatality so far.