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News coverage and resources related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

The Twins' games against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night and Sunday have been postponed due to Minnesota's COVID-19 problems, including at least four positive tests in the past week.

Coordinated events held Saturday in the Twin Cities aimed to support people traumatized by the recent killing of Daunte Wright, and the police response to subsequent protests.

The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday, amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.

With vaccinations raising hopes that the end of the pandemic is approaching, some young adults in the U.S. are getting ready to make up for lost time, much like their great-grandparents did a century ago.

"We have all the problems of Indian Country, but no means of dealing with it," Chinook Indian Nation chair Tony Johnson says. Without federal recognition, they get no reservation, no housing allowance, no clinics, no vaccine allocations.

More than half of Minnesota adults have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But as the state reached that encouraging milestone Saturday, it also saw its pandemic death toll surpass 7,000.

With a more contagious variant now dominant in the U.S., the country's genomic surveillance capacity is getting a major boost.

Mobile home owners right now are twice as likely as other homeowners to be behind on housing payments. And some are losing their homes over small amounts of rent they owe for land the home sits on.

Enticed by what young adults had to share about the pandemic, historian Alexandra Zapruder set out to document history through an online gallery called Dispatches from Quarantine.