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WASHINGTON: China’s failure to provide access to global health experts made the Covid-19 pandemic worse than it had to be, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Sunday, and it was important to “get to the bottom” of the origin of the novel coronavirus. The top US diplomat’s sharp …

JACKSONVILLE: A Florida woman whose image went viral when she coughed on a customer at a Pier 1 store last year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. A judge in Jacksonville on Thursday also ordered Debra Hunter to pay a $500 …

NEW YORK: The number of US suicides fell nearly 6 per cent last year amid the coronavirus pandemic – the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government data. Death certificates are still coming in and the count could rise. But officials expect a substantial decline …

HARTFORD: Shortly before Covid-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held town hall meetings for inmates about the vaccines and put up informational posters around the facility. Yet when vaccination time came, 212 of the nearly 550 inmates who were offered the shots refused …

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration said on Wednesday that 25 million more stimulus payments worth a total of $36 billion had been sent out to Americans from the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief legislation. The announcement of a fourth batch of checks was made by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue …

HOUSTON: Texas governor Greg Abbott has issued an executive order that bans the government mandated Covid-19 “vaccine passports”. According to the executive order issued on Tuesday, it prohibits state agencies or political subdivisions in the state from creating a “vaccine passport” requirement, or otherwise conditioning receipt of services on an …

WASHINGTON: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday more than 28 million COVID-19 vaccine doses will be available across distribution channels this week in the United States. Cumulatively over the past three weeks the administration has sent out 90 million doses of the vaccine, Psaki said. Psaki said …

PROVIDENCE: Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. No boosters, no tetanus shots. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the coronavirus arrived, they called it a hoax. The vaccine, they said, was the real threat. So when the 29-year-old Tennessee man got his Covid-19 …

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden was set to announce on Tuesday that he is shaving about two weeks off his May 1 deadline for states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines. With states gradually expanding eligibility beyond such priority groups as older people and essential, front-line workers, the president …

NEW YORK: Although Texas no longer requires people to wear masks to protect against Covid-19, customers do need them to enter De J. Lozada’s store. “We cannot afford to take chances with the lives of my staffers. They’re young people and their parents have entrusted me with their care,” says …