HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages. In Cincinnati, dozens of employees from the central office ...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said today a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world over the last week, noting a 71 percent surge in the weekly count of infections amounting to a "tsunami" as the new omicron variant sweeps worldwide. However, the number of recorded deaths fell, with 41,178 recorded last week compared to 44 680 in the week before that. "Last week, the highest number of COVID-19 cases were reported so far in the pandemic," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. He said the WHO was certain that was an ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Vaccinated, masked and ready-to-revel New Orleans residents will usher in Carnival season today with a rolling party on the city's historic streetcar line, an annual march honoring Joan of Arc in the French Quarter and a collective, wary eye on coronavirus statistics. ...
Novak Djokovic spent a day confined in an immigration detention hotel waiting for a court ruling and dealing with the prospect of deportation from Australia because of an issue with his visa application relating to COVID-19 vaccination regulations. The 20-time major champion from Serbia will ...
Ohio exceeded 20,000 new daily COVID-19 cases for the third time in the past seven days and hit a record high number of those hospitalized with the virus. There were 20,411 COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday. It’s the second most for a single day during the pandemic. The only day with a ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Yet another deadline for city employees to provide their COVID-19 vaccination status has come and gone. Mayor Jamael Tito Brown said Nov. 18 he was giving city employees until Tuesday to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccinations. Brown had set a goal of at least 75 percent of city employees vaccinated by that date. If the rate was below 75 percent, the city planned to implement a policy requiring all employees who failed to provide proof of the vaccinations to undergo biweekly testing with the cost covered by the city. Because of the lack of available COVID-19 ...
