LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has decided not to spend Christmas at the royal Sandringham estate in eastern England amid concerns about the fast-spreading omicron variant. The palace said today that the 95-year-old queen will spend the holidays at Windsor Castle, west of London, where ...
BOSTON (AP) — The nation's second-largest city called off its New Year's Eve celebration today, and its smallest state re-imposed an indoor mask mandate as fears of a potentially devastating winter COVID-19 surge triggered more cancellations and restrictions ahead of the ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament today approved a record extra budget of nearly 36 trillion yen ($317 billion) for the fiscal year through March to help out pandemic-hit households and businesses. The budget largely is to fund COVID-19 measures, including booster shot vaccines and oral ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli ministers today agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office announced the decision following a Cabinet vote. The rare move to red-list ...
Moderna said this morning that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine should offer protection against the rapidly spreading omicron variant. Moderna said lab tests showed the half-dose booster shot increased by 37 times the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies able to fight omicron. ...
With COVID-19 cases hitting levels not seen since its peak a year ago, Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying 1,050 Ohio National Guard members, starting Monday, to hospitals, particularly those in areas hardest hit by the pandemic. DeWine also said Friday the state was in discussions with an unnamed Ohio-based staffing agency to help bring nurses and other medical personnel from other parts of the country not as heavily impacted by COVID-19 here to provide assistance. After about 22 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, DeWine said: “It’s very understandable why people are burned out. It’s ...
