TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Most access to a major city adjacent to Beijing was suspended today as the government tried to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus's easily transmitted omicron variant ahead of next month's Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital. Tianjin, a port and manufacturing ...
More COVID-19 cases have been reported in just the first 11 days of January in Ohio than any full month, except two, since the start of the pandemic. There’s been 210,786 COVID-19 cases reported for January as of Tuesday. The only entire months with more cases than the first 11 days of January are 279,317 in December 2020 and 324,878 last month. This month currently is on pace to have nearly 600,000 COVID-19 cases. Ohio has exceeded 18,000 new cases per day since Dec. 29. Before then, no day had posted that level of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic in March ...
NILES — City officials have earmarked $1.6 million in American Rescue Plan funds for various water and sewer infrastructure projects. Mayor Steve Mientkiewicz said the city’s allocation is expected to be around $1.9 million with funds earmarked in the 2022 budget and approved by city council last month. He said around $300,000 are earmarked for safety, personnel and mitigating the effects of COVID-19. “Projects will be done around the city and commence this year through 2024,” he said. Mientkiewicz said scheduled projects include upgrading waterlines, water loops and ...
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19's alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is increasing federal support for COVID-19 testing for schools in a bid to keep them open amid the omicron surge. The White House announced this morning that the administration is making a dedicated stream of 5 million rapid tests and 5 million ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic knew he'd tested positive for COVID-19 when he attended a newspaper interview and photo shoot in Serbia last month, saying today he made an "error of judgment" and should have immediately gone into isolation. In a statement posted to his social ...
