Around 120,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and there are worrisome recent increases in reported cases in the South and West.

Experts say that with relaunching plans rolling out in Alberta, people need to be vigilant with social distancing to prevent an extensive second wave.

Even as countries moved forward Wednesday with easing their coronavirus restrictions and restarting their economies, a large cluster of infections linked to a market in India and the first lockdown of a major Brazilian city highlighted that the battle against the pandemic was far from won.