The health minister of Tamil Nadu, India, inaugurated a virus-shaped robot to disinfect the streets of Chennai. The robot is a creation from Chennai-based artist B Gautham, who earlier in the year also created "coronavirus helmets" for local police officers.

The US Department of Health pledged $1.2 billion to accelerate AstraZeneca’s vaccine development in partnership with the University of Oxford and secure 300 million doses for the United States.

According to court papers from the Justice Department, actor Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli will plead guilty in the US college admissions scandal. Loughlin has agreed to a two-month prison sentence while Giannulli has agreed to five months.

According to the police, one person is in critical condition among the three wounded at an outdoor mall outside of Phoenix on Wednesday night. The suspect is in custody.

An additional 2.4 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, bringing the nine-week unemployment claims total to over 38 million since the COVID-19 crisis gripped the economy in March.

In a positive signal for vaccine development, two peer-reviewed studies published in @ScienceMagazine on Wednesday showed that rhesus macaque monkeys who recovered from COVID-19 were later immune when they were re-exposed to the virus. More research is needed to determine if immunity also applies to humans. Lead author of the studies, Dr Dan Barouch, said: “These data increase our optimism that natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity can be achieved in humans.”

About 11,000 residents were evacuated in the US state of Michigan after two dams, Edenville and Sanford, collapsed following days of heavy rain. Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer has requested federal aid to help respond to the historic flood crisis, while President Trump has promised to visit the state to inspect the damage caused.

Many reentry services offered to those leaving incarceration — like help with housing and employment — have moved online or been halted since the new coronavirus hit the state.

The cyclone, which made landfall on Wednesday, wrecked parts of West Bengal in India and destroyed homes in Bangladesh. New visuals of the scenes of destruction from overnight emerged online the next morning.

Trump's former personal attorney was released on Thursday due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. He will serve the rest of his three-year sentence from his home in New York.

McDonald's is reopening 39 drive-through stations across England and Dublin, testing its "plans for reopening."

#TheMaskedSinger judge was scheduled for a return to his alma mater to deliver this year's commencement speech, but since COVID-19 had other plans he gave his speech on 'The Late Late Show' featuring his Goldendoodle.

Caribou Coffee instructed staffers to get rid of coffee sleeves that told customers to "fight the urge to remain indoors" to be "on point with the heroic efforts that are being made to contain the Coronavirus."

The notion of the federal government handing out free money used to be a liberal dream and a conservative nightmare. No more.

The super storm left a trail of destruction as it battered the coastal areas of the two countries, flooding many areas and destroying homes and infrastructure. Millions of people were evacuated in India and Bangladesh before the cyclone made landfall.

On Wednesday, President Trump falsely claimed that Michigan officials “illegally” sent out absentee ballots, suggesting that he will consider withholding funding from the state, according to NPR, CNN and The Guardian. Michigan officials are mailing absentee ballot applications to voters in accordance with an amendment to the state constitution approved by voters in 2018.

Three months into California's battle with the coronavirus, there are growing signs that the outbreak is ebbing even as the state death toll continues to climb past 3,400.