A holiday-shortened trading day on Wall Street couldn’t keep bears from rampaging, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 905.04 points in its worst single outing of 2021. The major index closed the day at 34,899.34, off 2.5%, its biggest decline since October 28, 2020, with news of a new variant of Covid … Read entire story.
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UPDATED: The U.S. has restricted travel from eight African countries on Friday amid growing concern about a new variant of Covid-19, suspected of being more transmissible. The countries include South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mazambique and Malawi, according to the Washington Post. The new variant was first … Read entire story.
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UPDATED with WHO news: The U.K. added six African countries to its travel quarantine list on Thursday after a new, potentially more-transmissible variant of Covid-19 was identified there. The BBC said the countries are South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini. Twenty-two positive cases of the … Read entire story.
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On Tuesday, the United States passed the latest grim milestone of the pandemic. According to figures from the CDC, there have now been more deaths related to Covid in 2021 than there were in 2020. That may be a difficult notion for many Americans to get their heads around given just how … Read entire story.
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On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 11 new deaths from Covid-19, as well as 1,054 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s tallies bring the County to a total of 27,010 fatalities and 1,519,781 cases. … Read entire story.
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