United Airlines will require employees in the U.S. to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by late October, perhaps sooner, joining a growing number of big corporations that are responding to a surge in virus cases. Company leaders called it a matter of safety and cited "incredibly compelling" ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Musto can't bring himself to ask his regulars at his Staten Island restaurant, Cargo Cafe, to prove they've been vaccinated against the coronavirus. So if New York City presses on with its plans to require eateries, bars, gyms and many other public gathering places ...
BEIJING (AP) — The delta variant is challenging China's costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the coronavirus out of the country need a less disruptive approach. As the highly contagious variant pushes leaders in the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week by 14,000 to 385,000, more evidence that the economy and the job market are rebounding briskly from the coronavirus recession. The Labor Department reported this morning that unemployment claims — ...
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo reported 5,042 new coronavirus cases today, its most since the pandemic began as infections surge in the Japanese capital hosting the Olympics. Tokyo has been under a state of emergency since mid-July, and four other areas of the country have since been added. But the ...
Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana, like a majority of Ohio’s counties, are among areas with substantial COVID-19 transmission, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mahoning and Trumbull were in that category. Columbiana was at high transmission late last week, largely because of a backlog of cases from previous months being counted in one day, and then were lowered a day later. But the three counties were considered substantial transmission areas Monday by the CDC without the backlog. The CDC counted new cases reported between July 26 and ...
