WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, as it seeks to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus. Paxlovid, ...
BEIJING (AP) — Workers put up fencing and police restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing today as authorities in the Chinese capital stepped up efforts to prevent a major COVID-19 outbreak like the one that has all but shut down the city of Shanghai. People lined up for ...
BEIJING (AP) — China's capital, Beijing, began mass testing of more than 3 million people today and restricted residents in one part of the city to their compounds, sparking worries of a wider Shanghai-style lockdown. While only 70 cases have been found so far in the city of more than 21 ...
The number of COVID-19 cases in Ohio went up for the third consecutive week the rise of the stealth omicron variant being the reason. The state saw a 44 percent increase this week in cases per 100,000 residents from last week. After 10 consecutive weeks of declines, this was the third week in a row to see an increase in COVID-19 case numbers in the state. Before those declines, there were 11 straight weeks of increases. The state and country are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases recently because of BA.2 omicron, also known as stealth omicron. There were 81.5 COVID-19 cases ...
BEIJING (AP) — Officials in Shanghai promised today to ease anti-virus controls on truck drivers that are hampering food supplies and trade, while Hong Kong's government announced the end of a 2-year-old ban on non-residents flying into the city as its outbreak fades. Streets in Shanghai ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians placed three players on the COVID-19 injured list today, including major league batting leader Owen Miller. Right-handed starter Cal Quantrill and righty reliever Anthony Castro also tested positive for the virus and were moved to the IL prior to ...
