By: Stephen Castle @ 2021 The New York Times Company Despite high and rising coronavirus case numbers, the British government on Wednesday rejected calls for the immediate reintroduction of some restrictions in England, while warning that they might be needed if the rollout of vaccine booster shots failed to contain the worsening situation. Speaking at […]
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Gates Foundation Pledges $120M to Help Get COVID Pills Quickly to Poor Countries
By: Stephanie Nolen @2021 The New York Times Company The first easy-to-use COVID-19 treatment could be available in the United States by the end of this year, but it is unlikely to reach developing countries, where hundreds of millions of people remain without access to vaccines until at least the middle of 2022, according to […]
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Hawaii Will Reopen to Vaccinated Visitors in November.
By: Isabella Grullón Paz @ 2020 The New York Times Company Hawaii Gov. David Ige announced Tuesday that the state will “safely open” to fully vaccinated residents and visitors who are traveling domestically and between islands for business or pleasure, starting Nov. 1. The governor made the announcement Tuesday afternoon during the opening of the […]
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Amid U.S.-China Chill, Harvard Moves Top Language Program to Taiwan
By: Amy Qin, @ 2021 The New York Times TAIPEI, Taiwan — Harvard University will move a popular Chinese-language program to Taipei from Beijing amid a broad chill in academic and cultural exchanges between the United States and China. The program’s director, Jennifer L. Liu, told The Harvard Crimson that the move had been driven […]
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WHO Advisory Group Will Study Pandemic’s Origins
By: Benjamin Mueller @ 2021 The New York Times The World Health Organization on Wednesday named 26 scientists to a new advisory group charged with studying the origins of the coronavirus, opening another chapter of the fraught search for how the pandemic began. The group, chosen from more than 700 applicants, includes scientists from 26 […]
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Australia to shift all offshore processing of Migrants to Island Nation of Nauru
By: Isabella Kwai @ 2021 The New York Times Company Australia said Wednesday that it would stop processing asylum-seekers at offshore detention centers in Papua New Guinea, which has been criticized by human rights groups, by the end of the year. The announcement said those seeking refuge would all now be processed on the island […]