CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from Feb. 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced today. Australia imposed some of the world's toughest travel restrictions on its citizens and permanent ...
COVID-19 cases per 100,000 Ohioans dropped under 1,000 for the first time in seven weeks. It also was the second straight week with a decline after 11 consecutive weeks of increases. The 949.5 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Jan. 20 and Wednesday is down 40 percent from last week’s 1,582 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, according to data provided Thursday by the Ohio Department of Health. It’s also less than half of what the number was two weeks ago when the state set a record high. The last time cases were reported below 1,000 was Dec. 16, ...
The number of COVID-19 cases dropped to low numbers at area nursing homes and prisons after they peaked three weeks ago. COVID-19 infections at local and Ohio prisons likewise dropped this week. On Jan. 13, 15 Mahoning County nursing homes and assisting-living facilities had at least four active cases of the virus. This week there are seven, with the highest number being eight cases at the Crandall Nursing Home in Sebring with one patient case and six staff cases. By comparison, on Jan. 13, one Mahoning County nursing home had 39 cases — 20 among patients and 19 among staff. ...
(AP) - With the brutal omicron wave rapidly loosening its grip, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,000. The number of lives lost to the pandemic in the U.S. stood at over 897,000 as of ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden today joined other European nations in saying it will remove coronavirus restrictions. "It is time to open Sweden again," said Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, announcing the restrictions would be removed from Feb. 9. Among the measures and recommendations that ...
BEIJING (AP) — Long before the global pandemic upended sports and the world in general, the 2022 Winter Olympics faced unsettling problems. It started with the fact that hardly anybody wanted to host them. Beijing ended up solving that problem, but only after four European cities ...
