GENEVA (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called today for greater world cooperation against COVID-19 and said China would send an additional 1 billion doses of vaccine to other countries, while urging other powers to discard a "Cold-War mentality" at a time of rising geopolitical tensions ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Novak Djokovic could be barred from the French Open later this year because he's not vaccinated against COVID-19, a possibility that raised the stakes for the tennis star just hours after he was deported from Australia and prevented from defending his Australian Open ...
The state reported more than double its previous record high number of COVID-19 cases Friday because of a lag as the Ohio Department of Health admitted it hasn’t kept an accurate case count by an unprecedented amount. It’s a problem that won’t be resolved “for the next several days,” the ODH wrote in a Friday statement. The ODH reported 41,455 new cases Friday. The previous record for a single day was 20,598 on Dec. 31. Friday’s number was “artificially high” caused “by a processing lag due to the unprecedented number of cases reported,” the ODH wrote. It ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers around the U.S. that some cities have had to delay or suspend garbage or recycling pickup, angering residents shocked that governments can't perform this most basic of functions. The slowdowns have caused ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday as the White House looks to address nationwide shortages, but supplies will be limited to just four free tests per home. Starting on Jan. 19, the website COVIDTests.gov will provide tests at no cost, including no shipping fee, the White House announced today. As he faced criticism for low inventory and long lines for testing, President Joe Biden announced last month that the U.S. would purchase 500 million at-home tests to launch the program and on Thursday ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans, beset by product shortages, rising prices and the arrival of omicron, sharply cut their spending in December after a burst of early spending in the fall that helped bolster the holiday season. Retail sales fell a seasonally adjusted 1.9 percent in December ...
