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Thu. 9:04 a.m.: German lawmakers back new COVID measures after dire warnings

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers approved new measures today to rein in record coronavirus infections after the head of Germany's disease control agency warned the country could face a "really terrible Christmas." The measures passed in the Bundestag with votes from the center-left Social ...

Wed. 9:38 a.m.: US offering investment to boost COVID-19 vaccine capacity

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is making billions of dollars available to drugmakers to scale up domestic production of COVID-19 vaccines in the hopes of building capacity to produce an additional 1 billion shots per year to share with the world. Under the new initiative, the ...

Wed. 9:02 a.m.: WHO: Europe is only region with increasing COVID deaths

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus deaths in Europe rose by 5 percent in the last week, making it the only region in the world where COVID-19 mortality increased. The U.N. health agency said confirmed cases jumped 6 percent jump globally, driven by increases in the ...

Nov. is on pace for small decline in Ohio COVID-19 cases

Ohio is on pace through the first half of November to see a small decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases for the entire month as compared to October. But after 15 days, November is averaging enough daily COVID-19 cases for it to have the sixth-highest amount for a month since the start of the pandemic. Ohio had 63,088 reported COVID-19 cases through the first half of the month. At that rate of nearly 4,206 per day, the state will end November with 126,176 cases. That would be about 5,000 fewer reported cases than the 131,355 cases reported in Ohio in October. October had ...

Mon. 9:21 a.m.: India opens to vaccinated foreign tourists after 18 months

NEW DELHI (AP) — India began today allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular commercial flights, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions as infections fall and vaccinations rise. Tourists entering India must be fully vaccinated, follow all COVID-19 ...

Mon. 8:34 a.m.: Austrian unvaccinated lockdown starts amid COVID resurgence

BERLIN (AP) — Austria took what its leader called the "dramatic" step today of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven't recently had COVID-19, perhaps the most drastic of a string of measures being taken by European governments to get a massive regional ...