TOKYO (AP) — Japan approved new restrictions today to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the three most affected southwestern regions of Okinawa, Yamaguchi and Hiroshima. "Given the sudden surge in infections, the medical system runs the risk of suffering a heavy burden in the near ...
Regardless of who made an error on the visa or the vaccination waiver or whatever, the reality today for tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic was spending one of his important religious holidays in an Australian detention hotel working on his challenge against deportation. Djokovic has been receiving ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The theatrical magic keeping Broadway going during the latest coronavirus surge has been the unheralded performers ready to step into any role in an emergency. Then there's Carla Stickler, who had actually left show business but returned to rescue "Wicked." Sticker, who had ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages. In Cincinnati, dozens of employees from the central office ...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said today a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world over the last week, noting a 71 percent surge in the weekly count of infections amounting to a "tsunami" as the new omicron variant sweeps worldwide. However, the number of recorded deaths fell, with 41,178 recorded last week compared to 44 680 in the week before that. "Last week, the highest number of COVID-19 cases were reported so far in the pandemic," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. He said the WHO was certain that was an ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Vaccinated, masked and ready-to-revel New Orleans residents will usher in Carnival season today with a rolling party on the city's historic streetcar line, an annual march honoring Joan of Arc in the French Quarter and a collective, wary eye on coronavirus statistics. ...
