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Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told a press conference Friday that his government wanted to give the "green light" to such measures by Sunday. The least-vaccinated province of Upper Austria, where 1,193 in 100,000 people tested positive over the last week, has already announced plans to impose a lockdown on unvaccinated people from Monday. Austria is expected […]
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Hundreds of people, including Los Angeles municipal employees, protested against Covid vaccination mandates outside City Hall today in a demonstration organized by a group that calls itself Firefighters4Freedom. Many people among in crowd were wearing clothes designating their employment with city and county fire departments, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Los […]
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“It’s troubling to continue to see a slight uptick in cases and now, obviously, no decline in our hospitalizations,” said Los Angeles County Department of Public health Director Barbara Ferrer today. “I think it’s too soon to say whether we’re in a fifth wave or not. We’re hoping at best it’s a small bump up […]
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Three days after local authorities locked the gates of Shanghai Disneyland, trapping 30,000 guests inside and refusing to let them leave before they submitted to Covid testing, China’s state-run Xinhua News agency posted a sunny video about the park’s reopening on Wednesday. Set to a tune that might be described as “upbeat corporate background music,” […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for October 14 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Among the most foolish utterances of the COVID pandemic, and it’s a very competitive category, was that it was the chance to create a bold and beautiful new normal. Well, the results are in. […]
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"I've never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate. I'm not in favor of that," Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly told CNBC on Tuesday. However, Kelly said, the Dallas-based carrier is complying with federal rules put in place by the Biden administration. "The objective here, obviously, is to improve health and […]
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It has now been 39 weeks since the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine were sent out to states, kicking off the largest vaccination campaign in human history. As of September 12, 456,755,755 doses of the vaccine have been sent out across the country — equivalent to 139.2% of the U.S. population. While the initial […]
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For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Early last month at a sprawling factory on the highway connecting Hanoi to the port city of Haiphong, a single worker tested positive for COVID-19. The Delta variant was spreading swiftly through the Southeast Asian nation at the time, and on August 4, provincial officials suspended […]
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More than 5,200 Covid cases have been detected among K-12 students in Los Angeles County over the past two weeks, a number the public health director called “sobering” today. According to figures released by the county Wednesday, 5,207 infections were identified among students in the county between Aug. 15-29 — along with 729 cases among […]
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The market's biggest bull predicts the S&P 500 will rally another 7%, but he warns a popular trade won't be along for the ride. Wells Fargo Securities' Chris Harvey recently cut software to underweight from neutral and declared it a crowded trade. He based the decision on technicals and earnings fundamentals and high valuations. "From […]
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