LONDON (AP) — The British government's top medical adviser has warned that the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus could reach "quite scary" levels within weeks as cases soar as a result of the more contagious delta variant and the lifting of lockdown restrictions. Chief ...
PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower is reopening today for the first time in nine months even though the French government introduced new virus rules this week aimed at taming the fast-spreading delta variant. The "Iron Lady" of Paris was ordered shut in October as France battled its second ...
The state is experiencing a recent increase in COVID-19 cases caused by the delta variant that could be resolved if more people got vaccinated, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the Ohio Department of Health’s chief medical officer, said. “We’re seeing early indicators that cases and hospitalizations may have started rising again,” he said Wednesday. It came on the same day as 407 new COVID-19 cases were reported, the second-most since 426 were reported June 8. Only 579 on July 1 had more since then. The number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 Ohioans has risen from 17.6 on July 7 to 22.9 ...
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy today called for a national effort to fight misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, urging tech companies, health care workers, journalists and everyday Americans to do more to address an "urgent threat" to public health. In a 22-page advisory, his first ...
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said today he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus. In a ...
TOKYO (AP) — New coronavirus cases surged to 1,308 in Tokyo today, a six-month high, as fears rise of a possible dramatic increase that could flood hospitals during the Olympics that start in eight days. Tokyo is under a fourth state of emergency, which began Monday and requires ...
