The bringing forward of millions of Pfizer vaccine doses last week followed a back channels intervention eight days earlier by a high-powered network which included a senior business figure despairing of the government’s failure to secure enough vaccine supplies, and a former prime minister. Key points: Australia contracted Pfizer for 40 million doses of the
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The onset of coronavirus in 2020 accelerated digitisation and redefined the way we live and work. By Raj Kumar, While 2021 began on a positive note with a quick rebound of the Indian economy, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic derailed the progress while resulting in massive loss of human lives. A daily average
6,173 people tested positive, 52 are active patients, 6,053have recovered and 63 have died; the county’s 7-day positive rate is 2.3%. As a public service, the BenitoLink team provides a frequent roundup of recent COVID-19 related data, resources and articles about San Benito County. As of 3:07 p.m. on July 9, 6,173 people in San
The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontière is temporarily closing one of its health facilities in Haiti after doctors and patients were the target of an armed gang attack over the weekend. Gang members fired several bursts in the direction of the emergency center in the Martissant neighborhood on the southern outskirts of
1.53am EDT 01:53 Spurrier says that modelling shows that, if the Delta variant entered South Australia, it would have a reproductive rate (R0 value) of 3.5. The R0 value in the first wave was 2.5. “That’s because we have very few restrictions in place but also we’re dealing with this Delta variant,” she says. “Our
Suelaine Poling has held a lot of different roles at the Keene Day Care Center since starting there in 1977. She’s been a teacher, program coordinator, program director and even the cook. As executive director, a job she’s had since 2005, sometimes she still steps into all of these positions, and more. “There’s always something,”
Emily Wolfgang, manager at Little Anthony’s Diner, talks with a customer during the first day of Little Anthony’s Diner Carhop at Little Anthony’s Diner, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd., in Tucson, Ariz., on April 28, 2020. Little Anthony’s Diner, in response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), started an old fashioned 1950’s carhop. “It’s been a long
Having to choose between going to work and paying for quality child care has been a reality for many Indiana parents during the past year, as remote learning kept children at home and increased families’ need for aid. The pandemic is easing, but on the heels of job layoffs and furloughs, money is still tight for
In the state’s last regularly scheduled COVID-19 pandemic press briefing Thursday, Gov. Chris Sununu and state health officials announced relaxed mask guidelines as cases continued to fall in New Hampshire.Dr. Benjamin Chan, the state epidemiologist, said the state is now recommending that asymptomatic people — not just fully vaccinated people — can go without facemasks
Hotels across the country are struggling to bring back all their staff and hire enough housekeepers amid a hospitality worker shortage as travel is picking back up this summer. To compensate for the labor shortage, hotels are considering reducing daily room cleanings to cut labor costs, Business Insider reports. Others services on the cutting board
BALTIMORE — Top officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration detail a series of mistakes and costly human errors that rendered millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine unusable in a memo posted over the weekend. The memo also elaborates on federal regulators’ decision to authorize use of two batches of the
A sign pleading for help hangs in a window at the Cook County jail complex on April 9, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) “Coronavirus Lockdowns in Prisons Test Limits of Colorado’s Rules on Solitary Confinement” was first published by The Colorado Trust. Last summer, Matthew Harter, a 50-year-old from Lakewood, was incarcerated at
In 2019, the World Health Organization classified “burnout” as a disease and an occupational phenomenon. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept through hospitals and care facilities like a Category 5 hurricane, exacerbating a longstanding industry problem that often gets overlooked. Profound exposure to the trauma of the pandemic has left providers and care teams at
At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China’s most populous city, workers collect and pack tomatoes and cucumbers at a glass greenhouse operated by Dutch company FoodVentures, which harvested their first batch of produce at the site in May. The facility is one of dozens sprouting up on the outskirts of China’s megacities that utilise high-end
ANN ARBOR – The Washtenaw County Park and Recreation Commission announced on Tuesday the opening dates for several of its parks and attractions. Due to a “significant seasonal staff shortage” as a result of the pandemic, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission director Coy Vaughn said the opening of both the water park and spray
This article was originally published by Ian Max Stevenson in the Idaho Statesman. Idaho added only 149 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, continuing a recent trend, but state health experts said the number of variant cases is increasing. At a press conference on Tuesday, Christopher Ball, bureau chief and laboratory director of the Idaho Bureau
Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect that the sudden increase in the infection could further complicate
Technology firm Honeywell on Friday said it will be setting up COVID-19 care centres and critical care facilities across five states. The company has partnered with the governments of Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka and Uttarakhand to help tackle the ongoing pandemic. As part of this initiative, Honeywell said it is also donating 1,000 oxygen concentrators,