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COVID-19 lockdowns in China’s financial capital continue despite promises that residents would be let out after two weeks of quarantine. Three New Englanders who spoke to NBC 10 Boston say they remain trapped in their homes indefinitely. Confined to their apartment building in Shanghai for over a month, people are growing desperate as they endure one of the world’s...

People from New England who were in China’s largest city amid its COVID-19 surge have been confined to their apartment buildings for over a month.

Top Boston doctors talked about a new “Deltacron” variant, rising cases in Europe and Asia and whether a fourth vaccine dose is really necessary on NBC10 Boston’s weekly “COVID Q&A” series.

The societal and lifestyle disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may have triggered inflammation in the brain that can affect mental health, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study.

COVID-19 lockdowns may have triggered brain inflammation even in people who didn’t get infecting with the virus, research from Massachusetts General Hospital shows. The societal and lifestyle disruptions caused by the pandemic may have triggered inflammation in the brain that can affect mental health, according to the study. The impacts manifest as symptoms including fatigue, brain fog and mental distress....

Tonga will enter a lockdown Wednesday evening after finding coronavirus infections in two port workers helping distribute aid arriving in the Pacific nation after a volcanic eruption and tsunami

Austria implemented a nationwide lockdown on Monday for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19.

Austria has taken what its leader called the “dramatic” step of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19

The lockdown at Washington, D.C.’s Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling was lifted after an armed man was taken into custody.

The Texas base said there was an active shooter warning Wednesday and ordered all personnel to go under lockdown procedures.

Japan’s state of emergency took effect Sunday in an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

As Maine allows all residents ages 16 and up to receive the vaccine, Bates College is extending its lockdown due to a surge in cases.

A driver struck two officers, killing one. The suspect has been identified as a 25-year-old male from Indiana.

As coronavirus cases have surged across the country, other viruses, like the flu, are in decline because of the widespread shutdowns. It’s good news, but experts fear a rebound when lockdowns are lifted.

Even as the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine arrive in Massachusetts, the number of cases continues to skyrocket. And with widespread vaccination still months away, health experts and doctors say it may not be long before a total shutdown of the state’s economy becomes necessary. Gov. Charlie Baker has said all along that he will let the public...

Many Californians are preparing for a new stay-at-home order that bars restaurant dining, shutters salons and limits retail in an effort to curb spiraling coronavirus infections and hospitalizations.

The DCU Center in Worcester will reopen as a field hospital Sunday, with another field hospital planned in Lowell.

The coronavirus surge is here. Cases are spiking, Massachusetts reported 16 more high-risk cities and towns on Thursday and a new field hospital is set to open in Worcester this weekend. And Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is warning that another shutdown might be necessary if hospitalizations continue to rise. Here’s everything we know about the latest coronavirus developments in Massachusetts…

The Worcester field hospital being readied amid a second surge of COVID-19 will have “a lot more capacity” than it did when it was active in the spring, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday morning, and it will be ready to take patients Sunday. Baker also announced he will have more to say soon about plans to establish a field...

Coronavirus cases spiked above 100,000 for the second day in a row on Thursday with no signs of a reversal. Dr. Gregory Demuri is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Wisconsin. He joins LX News to explain why severe measures may have to be taken to get the “out of control” virus reined in.