There are 25 newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,268, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
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Based on recent revisions to requirements by the Oregon Department of Education*, as of Monday, wearing masks while outdoors for Bend-La Pine Schools’ students and staff is recommended but not required.
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Cooper, Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN Business All private sector employers in New York City will now be required to implement a Covid-19 vaccine mandate by December 27, the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. This new move, which de Blasio announced Monday on MSNBC, means everyone who works in the
Continue ReadingReuters Canada’s tight labor market is forcing many companies to offer regular Covid-19 testing over vaccine mandates, while others are reversing previously announced inoculation requirements even as Omicron variant cases rise. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government adopted one of the strictest vaccine policies in the world for civil servants and has already put more
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Lemos, CNN Ten cases of Covid-19 were identified on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship that disembarked in New Orleans on Sunday, the city said. All crew members and passengers are fully vaccinated and all 10 cases are asymptomatic, the cruise line said in a statement. “Governor John Bel Edwards, the Louisiana Department of
Continue ReadingCNN By Rob Picheta, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic will not last forever. It will likely continue to fizzle and fade as it heads towards its third year, resurging with new variants and then waning in the face of vaccines, mitigation measures and human behavior. But even if the virus is never stamped out, immunity will
Continue ReadingCNN By Aya Elamroussi, CNN For the first time in two months, the US is averaging more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases each day, shortly after millions of Americans traveled for the Thanksgiving holiday. The seven-day moving average of new cases was 121,437 as of Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Prior
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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington health officials say the first three cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been confirmed in the state. The Department of Health said Saturday the cases were identified in three counties: Thurston, Pierce and King. The patients are two men and a woman, and they range from 20 to 39 years
Continue ReadingCNN By Zaina Adamu and Stephanie Busari, CNN African leaders are hitting back against travel bans imposed over the Omicron variant, accusing wealthy countries of being hypocrites for delivering new restrictions instead of the vaccine doses the continent desperately needs. Omicron, initially detected in Botswana, has reignited debate over the effectiveness of strict border closures
Continue ReadingBy Duarte Mendonça, CNN South Africa’s Covid-19 cases have nearly quadrupled in the last four days, underscoring concerns around how contagious the new coronavirus Omicron variant might be as the country enters its fourth wave of the pandemic. On Friday, South Africa reported on 16,055 new Covid-19 cases, up from 4,373 new cases on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal and Chris Boyette, CNN A nurse in Columbia, South Carolina has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making fraudulent Covid-19 vaccination cards, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina. Tammy McDonald, 53, is charged with making fake vaccine cards on June 20 and
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…Or it might not. The current temporary mandate expires in February, but some health officials want to make it permanent.
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There are 16 newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including one from Crook County, raising the state’s death toll to 5,243, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
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There are 42 newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,228, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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Volunteers at St Vincent de Paul of Bend are back inside for roughly the first time since the pandemic started, stocking groceries to help serve those in need in Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingCNN By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN Just when we thought US travel rules were starting to stabilize, along comes Omicron. The dominoes fell quickly after South African health authorities informed the world of their discovery of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in late November. The Biden administration rolled out controversial travel bans
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden announced a new strategy Thursday aimed at fighting a potential winter surge of Covid-19 without enacting unpopular lockdowns as the pandemic approaches its two-year mark. Biden’s multi-pronged approach puts a heavy emphasis on expanding vaccinations to the remaining Americans who have resisted getting shots, and
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control said Thursday it is working with the Minnesota Department of Health and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to investigate a confirmed case of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant, the second in the U.S.
Continue ReadingCNN By Arnaud Siad, CNN Germany hasn’t ordered enough vaccines nor stocked enough to keep its vaccination campaign going through the first quarter of the year, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Tuesday, amid fears that the country’s fourth wave of the pandemic might continue to spiral out of control. “I have been working for
Continue ReadingCNN By Kaitlan Collins, CNN The Biden administration will extend existing requirements for travelers to wear masks on airplanes, buses, trains and boats, as well as in airports and other transportation hubs, through March to address concerns over the Omicron coronavirus variant. In August, the Transportation Security Administration extended its US federal transportation mask mandate
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