BEIJING (AP) — People across Asia prepared today for muted Lunar New Year celebrations amid concerns over the coronavirus and virulent omicron variant, even as increasing vaccination rates raised hopes that the Year of the Tiger might bring life back closer to normal. The Lunar New Year is ...
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian capital today has started offering a domestically developed coronavirus vaccine to children in the 12-17 age group amid the country's biggest infection surge yet due to the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is less likely to cause severe ...
After 11 straight weeks of increases in COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, the state finally had a decline — and it was significant. “There is light at the end of the tunnel for us in Ohio,” Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health, said Thursday. “We are continuing to see many signs of improvement in some of Ohio’s first and hardest hit areas during the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases.” The 1,582 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Jan. 6 and Wednesday is down 26.6 percent from last week’s record high of 2,154.8 ...
COVID-19 numbers dropped significantly this week at area nursing homes and prisons, but the numbers were mixed at nursing homes across Ohio. Two Mahoning County nursing homes had more than 10 COVID-19 cases this week — the Windsor House at Omni Manor nursing home in Youngstown with nine patient and eight staff cases this week and the Oasis Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Youngstown with 10 patient and two staff cases, according to Ohio Department of Health data. Also four facilities had more than four cases — the Austinwoods Rehabilitation Healthcare Center nursing home ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai health authorities approved new guidelines today outlining the parameters for declaring the coronavirus pandemic an endemic disease. Official figures show that the country already meets the three criteria, but Ministry of Public Health spokesman Rungrueng Kitphati said ...
BEIJING (AP) — China is demanding the U.S. end "interference" in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin next week, in an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott imposed by Washington and some of its allies. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the demand today in a phone call with U.S. ...
