Just one month after California’s reopening, the county Public Health Department said on Thursday that masks will again be required indoors, effective on Saturday. New Covid-19 cases in the most populous US county last week rose above 1,000 daily for the first time since March and topped 1,500 on Thursday. …
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A poll by the market research firm Ipsos MORI, published by the Economist on Thursday, shows overwhelming majorities of Britons supporting most of the current restrictions past the July 19 deadline and even “until Covid-19 is under control globally.” Moreover, a significant minority said they would like some measures to …
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US District Court Judge Lynn Hughes dismissed the lawsuit on Saturday, ruling that Houston Methodist had the legal right to force employees to be vaccinated – even though the jabs have only received emergency-use authorization, not full approval, from the FDA. He said the claim by the 117 employees who …
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Marc Boom, the CEO of Houston Methodist, a firm that runs eight hospitals with more than 26,000 employees, gave personnel a June 7 deadline to get vaccinated. The consequences of not getting the shot include “suspension and eventually termination,” he wrote in an April letter to doctors and nurses, which …
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Lapid, the chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid party will have a 28-day mandate to form a government. He has so far received 56 recommendations from lawmakers from across Israel’s 120-seat Knesset. The politician has pledged to rotate as prime minister with Naftali Bennett, the chairman of the right-wing Yamina …
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Michael Wood, the administrator of the state’s department of Occupational Safety and Health, said rules requiring masks and social distancing in all businesses in Oregon may be extended indefinitely. The restrictions, which are set to expire on May 4, could be maintained until they are “no longer necessary to address …
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A mostly maskless Kerry was photographed by a fellow passenger while on a flight from Boston to DC on Wednesday, with the image first obtained by the Tennessee Star. At the time, he was reportedly not eating or drinking, thereby violating President Joe Biden’s federal mask mandate, which applies to …
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Abbott delivered the “exciting news” during a speech to the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, informing the assembled small business and community leaders that the mask mandate – in place since July – was no more. “We must now do more to restore livelihoods and normalcy for Texans by opening Texas …
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Starting from February 1, people in the US must wear masks on planes, trains, subways, buses, taxis, ships, and ferries. They must do the same in transportation hubs, including airports, train stations, and bus terminals. Transportation companies and personnel were instructed to deny service to maskless passengers and to otherwise …
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The state Senate voted 18-13 to pass the joint resolution on Tuesday, deeming the Democratic governor’s emergency health orders “unlawful.” The bill applies not only to Evers’ most recent declaration last week, but to “all actions of the governor and all emergency orders” issued throughout the pandemic, including the statewide …
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