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President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19
WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency
San Diego Comic-Con is back in full swing
Top California lawmaker calls U.S. monkeypox response ‘maddeningly slow’ despite two years of COVID
Sacramento City Council meetings going back to in-person
COVID-19 By The Numbers
Thursday, July 21
12:02 p.m.: President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19
President Joe Biden says he’s “doing great” after testing positive for COVID-19.
According to the Associated Press, the White House stated the 79-year-old Biden is experiencing “very mild symptoms,” together with a stuffy nostril, fatigue and cough.
He’s taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to scale back the severity of the illness. Biden can also be absolutely vaccinated and has acquired two boosters.
When a totally vaccinated individual experiences an infection, the prospect of extreme sickness or loss of life is low. The White House says Biden is isolating on the White House however finishing up his duties by way of telephone and Zoom.
He canceled a deliberate go to to Pennsylvania on Thursday and tweeted: “I’m doing great. Thanks for your concern.”
11:58 a.m.: WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency
The World Health Organization has convened its emergency committee to contemplate for the second time inside weeks whether or not the increasing outbreak of monkeypox ought to be declared a world disaster.
According to the Associated Press, some scientists say the hanging variations between the outbreaks in Africa and in different continents will complicate any coordinated response and presumably deepen current inequities between the wealthy and poor.
While African officers say they’re already treating the continent’s epidemic as an emergency, consultants elsewhere say the delicate model of monkeypox in Europe and North America makes an emergency declaration pointless.
Yet, whereas the U.S., Britain, Canada and different nations have purchased hundreds of thousands of vaccines, none have gone to African nations.
10:29 a.m.: San Diego Comic-Con is back in full swing
The popular culture extravaganza that’s Comic-Con International is again to its previous extravagance.
Stars, cosplayers and followers are filling the San Diego Convention Center in full pressure after the pandemic pressured it to go digital for two years, as reported by the Associated Press.
The pandemic necessitated digital variations of the occasion within the summers of 2020 and 2021, together with a scaled-back in-person model in November. However, these occasions had been nothing in comparison with the large spectacle that occurred earlier than COVID-19.
It’s not clear whether or not the conference will draw the estimated 135,000 individuals who flooded San Diego earlier than the pandemic, however throughout yesterday’s preview evening, followers got here in droves, mobbing the ground.
Far greater crowds are anticipated tonight when the occasion begins in earnest.
Wednesday, July 20
5:10 p.m.: Top California lawmaker calls U.S. monkeypox response ‘maddeningly slow’ despite two years of COVID
The number of confirmed monkeypox cases continues to grow in California and the country — and with it calls for the federal government to do more.
It has been almost eight weeks since the first case of monkeypox was confirmed in California. Since, there have been more than 265 in the state, with more than 2,100 nationwide.
On Wednesday, Democratic Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said more could have been done to slow or prevent the spread.
“Despite two years of experience with COVID, our response to monkeypox has been maddeningly slow,” Rendon said.
The speaker, one of the most powerful lawmakers in the state, says he has sent a letter asking U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to declare a public emergency for monkeypox. He says such a declaration would ramp up vaccination, testing, education and outreach.
“We should always have a quick response. Had monkeypox primarily affected men identifying as heterosexual, we might have seen that rapid action,” Rendon said.
The LGBTQ-plus community has been hardest hit by the outbreak, and Rendon says opportunities were missed for treatment and messaging during Pride month celebrations in June.
1:13 p.m.: Sacramento City Council meetings going back to in-person
The Sacramento City Council is headed again to City Hall chambers after holding digital conferences all pandemic lengthy.
The metropolis has argued for months it ought to proceed with digital conferences whereas beneath a state of emergency. They stated it’s an effort to maintain probably the most susceptible protected whereas bodily distancing remains to be beneficial.
But after two years of video conferences, the council goes again to the dais on Aug. 9.
The following week, residents will be capable to attend conferences in individual, however the chambers will solely be half-full. People will even should put on a masks and sit one seat other than one another.
11:53 a.m.: Southern California man sentenced for pandemic PPP fraud
A Southern California man who tried to acquire $27 million in unemployment advantages by falsely claiming his enterprise was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to greater than 11 years in federal jail.
The Associated Press reviews that Robert Benlevi submitted 27 purposes for forgivable loans beneath the Paycheck Protection Program.
Benlevi made purposes to 4 banks on behalf of the eight firms he owned. He claimed that every firm had 100 staff when actually, they’d none.
Authorities say Benlevi sought $27 million and obtained $3 million.
11:40 a.m.: FDA approves Novavax, a ‘traditional’ vaccine option for COVID-19
Health officers say U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 pictures but ought to take into account a brand new possibility from Novavax.
According to the Associated Press, the protein-based shot is a extra conventional form of vaccine than the three mRNA manufacturers accessible within the U.S.
Federal regulators approved the two-dose vaccine final week for adults. Recently advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously beneficial the choice on Tuesday and the company agreed.
The firm hopes to additionally clear booster doses and teenage use pretty quickly.
Tuesday, July 19
11:55 a.m.: Dr. Fauci plans to retire by 2025
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s high infectious illness professional, says he plans to retire by the tip of President Joe Biden’s time period in January 2025, as reported by the Associated Press.
Fauci, 81, turned director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and has suggested seven presidents.
Fauci stated on CNN Monday that he doesn’t have a selected retirement date in thoughts and hasn’t began the method.
He was thrust into the nationwide highlight on the top of the coronavirus pandemic beneath then-President Donald Trump, who advised the pandemic would “fade away,” promoted unproven therapy strategies and vilified scientists who countered him.
11:24 a.m.: Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, their families
While greater than 1 million individuals within the United States died of COVID-19, many extra survived ICU stays which have left them with nervousness, PTSD, and a number of well being points, the Associated Press reports.
Research has proven that intensive remedy beginning within the ICU can assist, however it was typically exhausting to supply as hospitals teemed with sufferers.
Families discover themselves in a troublesome place because the world strikes on and masks mandates disappear. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t gone for them and it could by no means be. Those that survived are left coping with long-term penalties.
Monday, July 18
11:32 a.m.: Ballot boxes used during COVID-19 pandemic for 2020 election are safe, survey says
An Associated Press survey of state election officers throughout the U.S. discovered that the expanded use of drop packing containers for mailed allots through the 2020 election didn’t result in any widespread issues.
The survey revealed no circumstances of fraud, vandalism, or theft that might have affected the outcomes — opposite to false claims made by former President Donald Trump and his allies, who’ve intensely criticized their use and falsely claimed they opened the door to fraud.
Drop packing containers are thought-about by election officers to be protected and safe. They turned a mainstay in states with intensive mail voting for years and had not beforehand rained any alarms.
They had been used extensively in 2020 as election officers sought to supply alternative routes to solid ballots with the COVID-19 outbreak, creating issues about in-person voting and U.S. Postal Service delays.
Despite mail-in poll packing containers being practically universally agreed to be a protected voting technique, conspiracy theories and efforts by some Republicans to remove or limit them persist.
11 a.m.: The UK to offer a fourth booster dose to residents 50 and older
Everyone in Britain who’s 50 or older will likely be supplied a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine within the fall, reducing the age threshold from the beforehand introduced 65.
According to the Associated Press, the U.Ok.’s Department of Health stated it had accepted recommendation from the Union’s impartial vaccines adviser concerning the autumn booster program.
Fourth doses will even be given to well being care employees, nursing house workers and residents, and everybody 5 and older with well being situations that make them extra susceptible to extreme sickness from COVID-19.
Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated the booster marketing campaign would “keep our defenses strong over autumn and winter.”
The U.Ok. has one in all Europe’s highest official loss of life tolls within the pandemic, with nearly 178,000 confirmed deaths.
Friday, July 15
11:41 a.m.: 25 million kids worldwide missed their immunizations due to misinformation surrounding COVID-19
About 25 million kids worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations towards ailments like diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, largely as a result of the coronavirus pandemic disrupted common well being companies or triggered misinformation about vaccines.
According to the Associated Press, a brand new report revealed Friday by the World Health Organization and UNICEF stated their figures present that 25 million kids final 12 months did not get vaccinated towards these three ailments, a marker for childhood immunization protection.
That continues a downward development in childhood immunizations that started in 2019.
UNICEF known as it “a red alert” for baby well being, warning that the dearth of vaccinations and the present rise in international malnutrition would lead to many lives misplaced.
11:35 a.m.: Canada approves Moderna vaccine for preschoolers
Canadian regulators have approved Moderna’s COVID-19 pictures for infants and preschoolers, in keeping with the Associated Press.
Health Canada stated the Moderna vaccine may be given to kids between the ages of 6 months and 5 years in doses one-quarter the dimensions of that permitted for adults.
U.S. regulators approved the primary COVID-19 pictures from Moderna and Pfizer for infants and preschoolers final month.
Pfizer’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 6 months to five years was submitted to Health Canada final month and remains to be beneath overview.
Thursday, July 14
3:38 p.m.: Los Angeles County may soon require masks
The nation’s most populous county is dealing with a return to a broad indoor masks mandate as new omicron variants are once more driving hospital admissions and deaths larger.
Health officers say Los Angeles County, house to 10 million residents, may reinstate the mandate on July 29, the Associated Press reviews. In current weeks, states and cities started to rethink their responses to COVID-19. And the White House is stepping up efforts to alert the general public.
Some consultants say the warnings are too little, too late. The extremely transmissible variants have proven a outstanding capability to get across the safety supplied by vaccination.
The extremely transmissible variants have proven a outstanding capability to get across the safety supplied by an infection and vaccination — particularly as safety from vaccinations are warning for Americans overdue for booster pictures.
Less than half of all eligible U.S. adults have gotten a single booster shot, and solely about 1 in 4 Americans age 50 and older who’re eligible for a second booster have acquired one.
1:23 p.m.: You can reduce the time you wait between COVID-19 infection and a booster shot, Yolo County health officer says
With new, extremely contagious variants like BA.5 and the even newer BA.2.75, COVID-19 circumstances are growing. Hospitalizations in California are rising, however deaths stay low due to vaccines, remedies and therapeutics.
Dr. Aimee Sisson, the general public well being officer for Yolo County, stated she’s now encouraging individuals to not wait as lengthy after an an infection to rise up up to now on their vaccination or booster pictures if they should.
“I used to encourage people to wait about 90 days after an infection before getting boosted because the infection itself can serve as a booster dose,” Sisson stated. “But I think, you know, now with the variants that we have that are escaping immunity, any additional boost that you can get from a vaccine in addition to the booster that you get from infection is important.”
Sisson stated you continue to want to attend at the least 10 days after an infection and never present signs reminiscent of a fever earlier than getting a vaccine or booster shot.
11:04 a.m.: Food banks are seeing long lines again
Long traces are again at meals banks across the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation more and more search out charity to feed their households.
As reported by the Associated Press, meals banks battle to assist at the same time as federal packages present much less meals, grocery retailer donations wane and money gits don’t go practically as far whereas U.S. inflation hits a 40-year excessive.
Charitable meals distribution has remained far above quantities given away earlier than the coronavirus pandemic, although demand tapered off considerably late final 12 months.
Wednesday, July 13
11 a.m.: Officials look to expand monkeypox vaccine access as outbreak continues
While COVID-19 continues to unfold, one other virus outbreak is on the rise in California: Monkeypox.
There are over 140 attainable and confirmed circumstances of the virus within the state California as of this week. At least 10 attainable circumstances have been reported in Sacramento County, according to KCRA.
The Biden administration introduced final week that nearly 300,000 doses of the vaccine would change into accessible nationwide all through the nation within the upcoming weeks to handle an ongoing vaccine scarcity.
Currently, the vaccine is barely accessible now for those that have had suspected or confirmed publicity to monkeypox.
In Sacramento County, it’s additionally being supplied to males who’ve intercourse with different males and trans individuals in the event that they match particular standards. County well being officers stated these fascinated about getting the vaccine ought to examine with their healthcare supplier or contact the Sacramento County Public Health Immunization Assistance Program at (916) 875-7468 to schedule an appointment.
Tuesday, July 12
11:34 a.m.: White House urges caution on latest COVID-19 variants and is pushing for more booster shots
The Biden Administration is looking on individuals to train renewed warning about COVID-19, emphasizing the significance of getting booster pictures for those that are eligible and carrying masks indoors.
According to the Associated Press, the warning comes as two new extremely transmissible variants are spreading quickly throughout the nation.
The new variants, labeled BA.4 and BA.5, are offshoots of the omicron pressure that has been accountable for practically all the virus unfold within the U.S. and are much more contagious than their predecessors.
White House docs pressed the significance of getting booster doses and stated individuals shouldn’t wait till the autumn when vaccines focused on the variants along with the unique strains.
11:06 a.m.: European Union urges another booster for people ages 60 to 79
The European Union says it’s “critical” that authorities within the 27-nation bloc take into account giving second coronavirus booster pictures to individuals between the ages of 60 to 79 years and different susceptible individuals.
As reported by the Associated Press, a brand new wave of the pandemic is sweeping throughout Europe.
European Commissioner Stella Kyriakides stated in a press release that with circumstances rising in many countries, “there is no time to lose.”
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and European Medicines Agency stated that the second booster may be given at the least 4 months after the primary booster.
The current recommendation comes after the companies in April beneficial that individuals over 80 years of age be thought-about for a second booster.
10:48 a.m.: London’s Heathrow will limit daily passengers amid travel boom
London’s Heathrow Airport is capping day by day passenger numbers for the summer season and telling airways to cease promoting tickets because it steps up efforts to quell journey chaos brought on by hovering journey demand and workers shortages.
According to the Associated Press, Britain’s busiest airport stated that it’s setting a restrict of 100,000 passengers that it might probably deal with every day via Sept. 11.
The restriction is more likely to lead to extra canceled flights even after airways have already slashed hundreds of flights from their summer season schedules.
Booming demand for summer season journey after two years of COVID-19 journey restrictions have overwhelmed European airways and airports that had laid off tens of hundreds of workers amid the depths of the pandemic.
Monday, July 11
11:02 a.m.: New coronavirus mutation is causing concerns among scientists
The shortly altering coronavirus has spawned one more tremendous contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists because it good points floor in India and pops up in quite a few different nations, together with the U.S.
Scientists say the variant, which is known as BA.2.75, might be able to unfold quickly and get round immunity from vaccines and former an infection, in keeping with the Associated Press.
It’s nonetheless unclear whether or not it may trigger extra critical illness than the globally dominate omicron variant BA.5.
Scientists are involved about the truth that this new variant is geographically widespread — it’s already been detected in India in addition to about 10 different nations.
10:32 a.m.: Weddings derailed by pandemic got to celebrate their union at a ‘re-wedding’ event in New York
Hundreds of {couples} whose weddings had been derailed or scaled again as a result of COVD-19 pandemic acquired a do-over due to a New York City landmark.
According to the Associated Press, the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City hosted “Celebrate Love: A (Re)Wedding” on Sunday within the pavilion outdoors the middle.
Lincoln Center’s web site known as it “a special day for newlyweds, those whose weddings were canceled or diminished and people who want to recommit their love to their partners and the city we love.”
The occasion featured a multicultural ceremony, music, dancing and extra. The web site notes that the ceremony isn’t legally binding.
10:05 a.m.: Baby formula production once again resumes at the troubled Abbott Nutrition factory
Abbott Nutrition says child system manufacturing has resumed on the Michigan plant, whose February shutdown over contamination contributed to a nationwide scarcity.
As reported by the Associated Press, injury from extreme thunderstorms had halted the Sturgis plant operations in mid-June after simply two weeks of renewed manufacturing. Abbott says EleCare, a specialty system, is being made at Sturgis following a July 1 reboot and that Similac manufacturing will resume as quickly as attainable.
Abbott is only one of 4 firms that produce 90% of U.S. child system.
Its recall in February of a number of main rands squeezed provides already strained by provide chain disruptions and stockpiling throughout COVID-19 shutdowns.
Friday, July 8
10:38 a.m.: Biden awards Medal of Freedom to first nurse in the US to receive coronavirus vaccine
President Joe Biden has introduced the nation’s highest civilian honor to 17 individuals, together with gymnast Simone Biles and the late Arizona Republican Sen. Jon McCain.
The president who took workplace through the coronavirus pandemic additionally honored Sandra Lindsay, the New York nurse who acquired the primary dose of COVID-19 vaccine that was administered within the U.S. outdoors of medical trials.
Others receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom embrace gun security advocate Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer crew participant Megan Rapinoe and late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
10:30 a.m.: Uruguay pauses vaccinations for children under 13
Uruguay has stopped administering coronavirus vaccines to kids beneath age 13, the Associated Press reviews.
The halt started after a choose ordered on Thursday that each one inoculations in that age group halt till officers current paperwork regarding contracts signed with vaccine producers.
The authorities says it’ll attire the ruling, characterizing the stoppage as a menace to public well being.
Vaccination for kids beneath 13 in Uruguay has been on a voluntary foundation. The Health Ministry says vaccinations for these older than 13 will proceed.
10:16 a.m.: Beijing residents push back against vaccine mandate
Beijing, China’s capital, seems to be backing off a vaccine mandate it introduced simply two days in the past.
According to the Associated Press, the mandate would require vaccinations for entry into sure public areas, together with gyms, museums and libraries, beginning subsequent week. It drew intense dialogue as metropolis residents fearful how the sudden coverage announcement would disrupt their lives.
While not explicitly saying the federal government had dropped the plan, a metropolis official was quoted in state media late Thursday saying that individuals may enter venues with a detrimental virus take a look at end result and a temperature examine, as has been the norm.
They additionally stated vaccinations would proceed on the precept of knowledgeable, voluntary consent.
Thursday, July 7
10:41 a.m.: Pharmacists can now prescribe COVID-19 pill to patients
U.S. pharmacists can now prescribe the main COVID-19 capsule on to shoppers, in keeping with the Associated Press.
The Food and Drug Administration stated Wednesday that pharmacists can start screening sufferers to see if they’re eligible after which prescribe Pfizer’s drug Paxlovid.
Previously solely docs may prescribe it. Paxlovid has been proven to curb the worst results of COVID-19, however it needs to be began inside 5 days of signs.
Paxlovid is meant for individuals with COVID-19 who usually tend to change into severely sick, together with older individuals and people with well being situations.
10:19 a.m.: The Sacramento Food Bank’s two Oak Park locations are closing
The Sacramento Food Bank is closing its two Oak Park amenities to consolidate companies at its North Sacramento Location.
The closures got here with little warning to the group it’s served for 50 years. Residents had been outraged on social media and had been left confused by the choice.
The group’s Family Services constructing had grownup schooling, clothes packages and offered authorized help for immigrants.
In response, the meals financial institution’s president and CEO, Blake Young, answered a number of questions concerning the closure at a current public assembly.
“We’re lucky in that we can provide some of those other family services,” they stated. “But with the pandemic, with inflation, with where we saw the demand for food resources in our own county going, we needed to focus on that.”
He stated various companies supplied at Oak Park areas had been suspended due to the pandemic. Since then, the meals financial institution has leaned on different group organizations to assist.
9:52 a.m.: Canada is throwing out 13.6 AstraZeneca vaccine doses
Canada goes to throw out about 13.6 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines as a result of it couldn’t discover any takers for it both at house or overseas.
According to the Associated Press, Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20 million doses, and a pair of.3 million Canadians acquired at the least one dose of it, largely between March and June 2021.
Following issues within the spring of 2021 about uncommon however probably deadly blood clots from AstraZeneca, Canada as an alternative targeted on utilizing its ample provides of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
In July 2021, the nation promised to donate the remainder of its procured provide, about 17.7 million doses, however in a press release on Tuesday, Health Canada stated that regardless of efforts to fulfill the pledge, 13.6 million doses have expired and can should be thrown out.
Wednesday, July 6
10:56 a.m.: COVID-19 vaccine requirement dropped for Nevada university employees
The Nevada Board of Regents will now not require workers on the state’s public universities and faculties to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
According to the Associated Press, a majority of the regents for the Nevada System of Higher Education voted Thursday to rescind an worker vaccine mandate after it was first permitted final 12 months.
Regents met on the problem in December however couldn’t come to a majority vote.
Hundreds of staff statewide ended up quitting or shedding their job as a result of they might not get vaccinated. It was not instantly clear if these staff can be supplied their jobs again.
According to the regents, roughly 97% of twenty-two,000 present system staff have gotten vaccinated.
10:40 a.m.: CDC urges counties in high-risk areas to start masking again. Sacramento County is on this list.
People in 24 Oregon counties, 15 counties in Washington and over 30 counties in California ought to resume mask-wearing indoors in public and on public transportation, in keeping with suggestions from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Data from the CDC reveals that these aforementioned counties are thought-about at excessive danger for COVID-19 an infection as of June 30, the Associated Press reports.
California counties labeled as excessive danger embrace: Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado and the remainder of the encompassing space.
High danger means the counties have had 200 or extra new COVID-19 circumstances per 100,000 individuals within the final seven days or greater than 20 new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 inside a seven-day interval.
Emerging analysis suggests reinfections may put individuals at larger danger for well being issues.
Unvaccinated individuals have a six instances larger danger of dying from COVID-19 in contrast with individuals with at the least a major sequence of pictures, the CDC estimated primarily based on accessible information from April.
10:36 a.m.: Shanghai and Beijing are forced to undergo more COVID-19 testing
Residents in components of Shanghai and Beijing have been ordered to endure additional rounds of COVID-19 testing following the invention of recent circumstances within the two cities.
According to the Associated Press, eating places have additionally been restricted to takeout solely within the northern metropolis of Xi’an, which endured one in all China’s most sweeping lockdowns beneath the hardline zero-COVID coverage.
The playing hub of Macao has additionally shut down one in all its most well-known lodge casinos after circumstances had been found there.
The strict measures have been retained regardless of comparatively low numbers of circumstances, with mainland China reporting 353 circumstances of home transmission on Wednesday, 241 of them asymptomatic.
Tuesday, July 5
12:17 p.m.: US warily treads forward through another pandemic summer
The fast-changing coronavirus has kicked off summer season within the U.S. with plenty of infections however comparatively few deaths in comparison with its prior incarnations.
Keep in thoughts that COVID-19 remains to be killing a whole bunch of Americans every day although many individuals really feel it’s not as harmful because it as soon as was.
It’s straightforward to really feel confused by the combined image — repeat infections are more and more doubtless and a sizeable share of these contaminated will face the lingering signs of lengthy COVID-19.
According to the Associated Press, how lengthy this interlude will final is unattainable to know since extra harmful variants could possibly be across the nook.
10:03 a.m.: About half of US adults would continue using virtual services
A brand new ballot reveals that about half of Americans would suppose it’s a “good thing” if digital choices proceed, as reported by the Associated Press.
Digital companies like train lessons, telehealth and so forth are all examples of companies that moved remotely through the pandemic.
However, a ballot from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reveals that near half of U.S. adults say they received’t return to digital actions like having groceries delivered or use curbside pickup as soon as the pandemic ends.
9:56 a.m.: Monkeypox cases triple, worrying health officials
The World Health group’s European chief has warned that monkeypox circumstances throughout the area have tripled within the final two weeks and known as on nations to take stronger measures to make sure the beforehand uncommon illness doesn’t change into entrenched within the continent.
According to the Associated Press, in a press release on Friday, Dr. Hans Kluge stated elevated efforts had been wanted regardless of the U.N. well being company’s resolution to not declare the escalating outbreak a world well being emergency final week.
To date, greater than 5,000 monkeypox circumstances have been reported from 51 nations worldwide, in keeping with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention.
Kluge stated the variety of infections in Europe represents about 90% of the worldwide complete.
Friday, July 1
9:32 a.m.: Two people accused of $5 million in fraud from CARES Act loans
Two males have been indicted by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire on a number of fraud prices alleging that they falsely utilized for $5 million in federal CARES Act loans for firms and misused a number of the proceeds, together with one man’s buy of a Rolls Royce.
According to the Associated Press, courtroom paperwork say each males had been primarily based in New Hampshire, however one later moved to Irvine, Calif.
Prosecutors allege that the 2 utilized for over two dozen loans in 2020 and in 2021, submitting fabricated tax paperwork.
The California man was arrested in Hawaii on Thursday.
It wasn’t instantly recognized if he had an legal professional. The New Hampshire man was arrested, launched and faces a listening to.
9:16 a.m.: When can you stop isolating after a COVID-19 infection? Here’s what you need to know
With inections on the rise in some locations, some Americans are questioning — when are you able to cease isolating after a COVID-19 an infection?
It can really feel additional disturbing and complicated for those who’re feeling good however nonetheless testing positive on a speedy take a look at.
NPR reviews that even with the brand new subvariants, the fundamental guidelines haven’t modified since omicron first developed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says somebody can cease isolating after 5 days in the event that they’re fever-free for 24 hours and are beginning to get higher.
Just preserve carrying your masks for one other 5 days.
Some researchers don’t agree and level out that some persons are nonetheless infectious after day 5. But for those who’re feeling alright and are uninterested in ready, right here’s what you’ll want to know.
8:32 a.m.: Summer travel numbers are all over the place due to pandemic recovery
Summer journey is underway throughout the globe, however a full restoration from two years of coronavirus may final so long as the pandemic itself.
Interviews by the Associated Press in 11 nations in June present that the majority passionate vacationers are thronging to locales just like the French Riviera, Amsterdam and the American Midwest.
But at the same time as security restrictions fall, locations like Israel, India and Rome are reporting solely fractions of the record-setting tourism of 2019.
For them, a full restoration isn’t forecasted till at the least 2024. China, as soon as the world’s greatest supply of vacationers, stays closed per its “zero-COVID” coverage, which is holding down the rebound in lots of nations.
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