BERLIN (AP) — Germany reported a record level of coronavirus deaths as it entered a harder lockdown Wednesday, closing shops and schools to try to bring down stubbornly high new daily infections. The country recorded 179.8 virus infections per 100,000 residents over the last seven days, a new high and significantly more than the 149…
Doc says an already ‘difficult situation’ means it can’t ‘be business as usual this Christmas’ Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week that he and his wife will not be seeing his three adult children for Christmas or for his birthday on Christmas Eve amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and urged…
Getty Images A World Health Organization research mission to China is expected to arrive in Wuhan next month to investigate how the novel coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, and whether it emerged earlier or in a different place than originally thought. Fabian Leendertz, a biologist at Germany’s Robert Koch Institute and a member of the WHO’s 10-person…
The woman had an allergic reaction within 10 minutes of receiving the shot. A health care worker in Alaska is doing “well” after suffering an adverse reaction minutes after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, officials said. The health care worker, who was identified as a middle-aged woman, had an allergic reaction that included flushing and shortness of breath within 10…
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Treasury building is seen in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury labeled Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators on Wednesday and added three new names to a watch list of countries it suspects of taking measures to devalue their currencies against the dollar. In what may be one of the…
LOS ANGELES/MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoros, Israel Martinez abandoned his hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Beaten down by the cold and unsanitary conditions in the encampment, Martinez accepted a free flight back to his…
FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two-year-old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children’s Hospital in the capital Juba, South Sudan. Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back two decades of progress…
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said stores, schools, and daycare centers will close in the run-up to Christmas. The new rules agreed with Germany’s 16 state leaders, will come into effect from Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that most stores in Germany will shut from Wednesday, along with schools and daycare centers. The new restrictions…
Greetings from Tyler, The news/talk station played an interesting ad this morning. A friendly guy was talking about how he was always doing his best to “be safe” and keep everybody around him safe. And how nice it was to have others remind him if he was not fulfilling some protocol or other. Have a…
With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm. HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF THE SAN JOSÉ HOSPITAL MOBILE UNIT TREAT VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS AT A CLOSED SCHOOL IN MAICAO, LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA. | BLOOMBERG/NICOLO FILIPPO ROSSO One afternoon a couple months…