As some of the last statewide school mask mandates near an end, responsibility is shifting back to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of one of the most divisive issues of the pandemic. In the hours after Connecticut's governor announced its mandate would end later this month, the ...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus case counts fell 17 percent worldwide over the last week compared to the previous week, including a 50 percent drop in the United States, while deaths globally declined 7 percent. The weekly epidemiological report from the U.N. ...
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Snowboarders Patrizia Kummer and Zan Kosir had something in common today in the Olympic parallel giant slalom race — an early exit. Something else, too: Both spent time in isolation leading into their races because of virus protocols. For Kummer, it was 21 ...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from Feb. 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced today. Australia imposed some of the world's toughest travel restrictions on its citizens and permanent ...
COVID-19 cases per 100,000 Ohioans dropped under 1,000 for the first time in seven weeks. It also was the second straight week with a decline after 11 consecutive weeks of increases. The 949.5 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Jan. 20 and Wednesday is down 40 percent from last week’s 1,582 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, according to data provided Thursday by the Ohio Department of Health. It’s also less than half of what the number was two weeks ago when the state set a record high. The last time cases were reported below 1,000 was Dec. 16, ...
(AP) - With the brutal omicron wave rapidly loosening its grip, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,000. The number of lives lost to the pandemic in the U.S. stood at over 897,000 as of ...
