COVID-19 - Page 59

Staying locked down can be hugely expensive for businesses. However, for one particular business in Washington State, remaining open has its costs as well.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association released an update to their Coronavirus regulations December 1, with predictable rules such as the wearing of masks while in community areas and during team travel, and temperature testing before competition. However, it also included some seemingly contradictory rules such as the elimination of athlete handshakes pre- and post-match. Officials are also no longer allowed to indicate the winner of the match by raising the wrestler’s hand.

A report released by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) demonstrates that 90 percent of Christian schools opened the 2020-2021 academic year with in-person instruction as planned, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

The teams behind Britain’s Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will join forces to see if their coronavirus prophylactics work better in combination.

NHS Charities Together has raised eyebrows with a disturbing advert showing Santa Claus in hospital struggling to breathe with Covid-like symptoms.

BERLIN (AP) — Calls grew Friday for tougher lockdown measures soon in Germany as the country’s disease control centre reported record daily increases in both coronavirus cases and deaths.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has called Wales’s left-wing first minister a “maniac” for blaming his own countrymen for the rise in coronavirus numbers, despite the Celtic country having some of the strictest lockdown laws of all of the United Kingdom’s home nations.

Tax enforcement agents have been writing to cancer patients and people left penniless by the pandemic and associated lockdowns threatening to seize their possessions and sell them, because the economic impact of coronavirus means the NHS needs more money. 

Parents and student are preparing to march Friday on the Michigan state capitol to protest the state’s coronavirus ban on school sports.

Kay Burley, a top television news anchor, has been suspended from Sky News for six months after flouting lockdown rules during her 60th birthday party. Reports claim she will continue to receive full pay.

The left-wing Italian government has spent €1.57 billion on supplies from Chinese companies during the Wuhan virus pandemic.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that his government won’t rush approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine because he wants people to have confidence in the product.

Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), were named Time magazine’s person of the year on Thursday, beating out three other contenders, including healthcare workers on the frontline of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has introduced legislation to deliver a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks to American citizens as mass unemployment continues due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

The price of men’s suits have fallen by more than 20% compared with a year ago.

The European Medicines Agency’s documents on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been hacked by cyber-attackers.

Five California legislative assembly members, the majority of whom were Democrats, dined together outside amid a surge in coronavirus cases and stay-at-home orders that have been implemented around the state.

Gov. Tom Wolf (D-PA) announced Wednesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Families in the St. Paul area received a letter from a neighbor who complained their Christmas lights are “a reminder of systemic biases.”

The UK will require “resuscitation facilities” in COVID vaccine centres after two healthcare workers suffered reactions to the virus.

A UK advisory committee has warned against people with a “significant” history of allergic reactions from taking the COVID-19 vaccine.

Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne will meet with religious leaders Wednesday to work out more equitable coronavirus restrictions, following a court ruling that found current measures “disproportionate.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden made several promises about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday that repeated policies already enacted under President Donald Trump.

Americans’ mental health is taking a much worse beating than their physical health during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Gallup poll released this week.

Joe Biden pledged his administration will distribute 100 million coronavirus vaccines to individuals most at risk during his first 100 days in office.

Hollywood celebrities are attacking and mocking Rudy Giuliani following President Donald Trump’s announcement that the former New York mayor was diagnosed with COVID-19. Among the mudslingers were the corporate comedians of late-night TV — Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Trevor Noah.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan canceled its annual rivalry game at Ohio State on Tuesday because of the COVID-19 outbreak within the Wolverines football program.

Athletic activity in the nation’s capital will come to a near-complete stop, as Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) hands down a new set of coronavirus restrictions suspending high school sports and limiting several other extracurricular activities.

The Associated Press wondered openly on Tuesday whether California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is actually up to the job for which Joe Biden has nominated him — namely, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The San Francisco Chronicle is predicting a “total restaurant apocalypse” in the San Francisco Bay Area as a result of the region’s new coronavirus shutdown orders, forcing thousands of business to close and lay off employees in the near future.

Monday on FNC’s “The Story,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned the efficacy of the measures instituted by government authorities done so in the name of COVID-19.

The State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court shortly before midnight on Monday challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the grounds that they violate the Constitution.

Jeff Zients, the man whom Joe Biden is entrusting to run his administration’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, once hosted a select group of Chinese business and political elites at the Obama-era White House after prodding from Hunter Biden’s

Video shot by a motorist appears to show LeBron James driving his $1 million Porche convertible, by himself, but still wearing a mask.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced local restrictions that close restaurants, bars, theatres and cinemas till the end of the year and switch students from the 5th grade and older to distance learning for a week before

Not playing this past weekend did not help the Carolina Panthers avoid any additional coronavirus tests. In fact, the team shut down operations at their facility on Monday and Tuesday after receiving word of two positive tests.