WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program to catapult the U.S. economy into a quick recovery from the coronavirus pandemic by helping small businesses stay open and their employees working. President Joe Biden tweaked it to try to direct more of the ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said today that reducing the skyrocketing number of deaths in the latest coronavirus surge is the city's priority, putting a plan to test the entire population on hold in the latest flip-flop in the government's pandemic response. Lam said there ...
GENEVA (AP) — An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said today it "strongly supports urgent and broad access" to booster doses, in a reversal of the U.N. agency's previous insistence that boosters weren't necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity. In a statement, ...
BEIJING (AP) — China is seeing a new surge in COVID-19 cases across the vast country, despite its draconian "zero tolerance" approach to dealing with outbreaks. The mainland today reported 214 new cases of infection over the previous 24 hours, with the most, 69, in the southern province of Guangdong bordering on Hong Kong, which has been recording tens of thousands of cases per day. Another 54 cases were reported in the Jilin province, more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) to the north, and 46 in the eastern province Shandong. In his annual report to the national legislature ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The official global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 6 million today — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over. The milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the ...
The rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 Ohioans continues to decline sharply, hitting its lowest point in more than seven months. There were 104.7 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Feb. 17 and Wednesday compared to 160.7 cases per 100,000 last week, according to data provided Thursday by the Ohio Department of Health. The state’s case number is barely higher than what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers to be high-transmission areas for COVID-19. The CDC number for high transmission is 100 cases per 100,000. It hasn’t been ...
