The Latest: Louisiana expands vaccine delivery to elderly
The state on Monday increased the number of doses available to people aged 70 and older this week and expanded the locations where they can get the shots to include every parish of the state.
The Department of Health’s list of pharmacies offering the vaccine to the elderly numbered 107 last week. It has grown to 209 pharmacies and health clinics this week.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’s administration also is steering thousands more doses to the facilities for vaccinations of people 70 and older.
Demand remains certain to exceed supply. People need to make an appointment to get vaccinated.
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It appears the infection came from a member of the park’s wildlife care team that also tested positive for the virus but has been asymptomatic. Veterinarians are closely monitoring the gorillas
Police officers and bus drivers can start to get vaccinated at a downtown convention center at the end of the week.
“We do not have the capacity to answer questions from people under 75 or non-Detroiters about vaccinations in general,” chief operating officer
The doses arrived at the country’s
Officials have not said exactly how many doses arrived Monday and more shipments are expected in the coming weeks. Jordan’s health minister has said that the kingdom expects to secure enough vaccine to inoculate 20% of its 10.5 million people and that additional doses would be obtained as needed.
The kingdom has recorded more than 4,000 virus-related deaths and 308,600 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.
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Those numbers are significantly above what the state now considered a hotspot experienced during its last surge in July.
Health officials say there are nearly 9,000 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and six additional deaths. This now brings Arizona’s coronavirus totals to 627,541 cases and 10,147 deaths.
She said its discovery means that “it’s more important than ever” for residents to continue wearing masks and taking other precautions.
Dr.
Dr.
He said the
Health minister
The university hospital was fined roughly
The mostly elderly celebrities say they believed they were taking part in a promotion of the national inoculation program when they were vaccinated in late December — a vaccination window designated for health care employees and their families.
Niedzielski said some 30 university employees were not vaccinated thanks to the celebrities.
The celebrities whose names have been revealed by local media are strong critics of the right-wing government.
Lansingerland municipality’s decision to test nearly all of its 62,000 residents marks the first time such a mass test has happened in
The local health authority said last week that a cluster of some 75 virus cases linked to a school in the town of Bergschenhoek included 30 positive tests of the new variant.
The mass test aims to study the spread of the new variant and quell its spread in the municipality close to the port city of
All elementary schools in
Fernando Simón,
“In our case, the evolution we are seeing,” he said “is a problem of the behavior that we’ve had in the past few days.”
Spain’s 14-day cumulative incidence, considered a good thermometer by experts of the contagion, shot up to 435 cases per 100,000 residents with Monday’s data.
Coronavirus patients are keeping busy 14% of the country’s hospital beds, a share that almost doubles to 26% in intensive care wards.
The country has recorded 2.1 million infections and at least 52,000 deaths for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
The third-largest school district in the
Students in kindergarten through 8th grade will have the option to return
“God willing, our (vaccination) campaign will begin on Thursday or Friday,” Erdogan told reporters following a
The first shipment of 3 million doses of the SinoVac vaccine reached
Erdogan also said that talks were continuing with Germany’s
Earlier,
In a press briefing Monday, WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19,
“We lost the battle because we changed our mixing patterns over the summer, into the fall and especially around Christmas and the New Year,” she said. “That has had a direct impact on the exponential growth that you have seen in many countries,” she said.
Dr.
Health Minister
Niedzielski said the health care system has substantial reserves for treating coronavirus patients, with 16,000 specialized beds still available, while the nationwide vaccination program is underway.
Education Minister
Other pandemic-related restrictions that have shuttered shopping malls, restaurants, fitness clubs, schools and universities will remain in place. People are still required to wear masks at all times outdoors and keep a safe distance.
Virus deaths were down slightly from weekday trends, as fewer tests are carried out on the weekends. The second surge in COVID-19 cases has proven resilient despite months of varying restrictions aimed at quelling the contagion.
The government is considering new restrictions set to start this weekend, with the two regions where the virus was first detected in
Nationwide, both the number of patients in intensive care and regular wards is rising, with 2,642 in intensive care and 23,603 hospitalized in other wards.
So far, 12,500 health care workers in
About 60 sites have been set up around the state to vaccinate an estimated 45,000 people over several weeks, state officials said.
The city of
To make sure there are enough qualified people to administer the vaccines, UMass Medical School’s
The state so far has limited vaccinations to medical professionals and nursing home residents.
Germany’s
Company CEO and co-founder
The company said in a presentation Monday to the annual
As of
The company’s vaccine currently has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, making delivery to remote areas difficult. But the company says it’s working on a more stable version.
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